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A56512	Nebulo Anglicanus, or, The first part of the black life of John Gadbury it is the same John Gadbury that was in the Popish Plot to murther Charles II in the year 1678 : it is the same John Gadbury that was accused of being in another plot, to dethrone and destroy King William, in the year 1690 : it is the same John Gadbury that at this time is so strait-lac'd in conscience that he cannot take the oaths to their majesties : together with an answer to a late pamphlet of his / by J. Partridge.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing P622; ESTC R6007	27,139	36

he told me in some Anger That I had spoil'd my Fortune by writing against Popery in my Prodromus a little thing that was published about the time he was in Goal these things might broil in his Stomach all this while as indeed I know they did and tho I have heard by others of his scurrilous Reflections on me I always spoke of him with respect and gave him a good Report and however these might be the occasion of difference on his side I did not take notice of any thing t ll he printed in 1687. and that was the cause I contend with him but what cause and reason he had to write that I know not and desire him to tell me for the cause of that Book must be the cause of our difference But at last he quarrels with Merlin's Black-Thumb Alas poor John set Merlin's Black Thumb against Jack Thimble's Black Life What! meddle with my Trade when you know what a Broad-side I have at you indeed John I thought you had been better furnished with Sense than I find you are remember from whence you came you are indeed hot and heavy like a Taylor 's Goose and therefore have at you in your own Way and your old Trade 'T is a Champion great My M●se doth relate With St. George and the rest of the Fighters How with Finger in Neck He did boldly attack His Bosom Friends and his Backbiters Cross-Legg'd on his Throne He govern'd alone Notwithstanding his Hell was so near He call'd for his Bodkin And Thimble that odd thing And obediently both did appear And because he shall not think I am grown dull and barren in Anagrams I 'll give him one in answer to his tho not so Gallows high John Gadbury Bury'd in a Hog As Hell of old did to the Swine retire So the old Sow did the young Boar inspire She got the Swine Hell form'd this vicious Bog And all her Pains was bury'd in a Hog Pag. 20. As to the Book he here rails at and reviles there are more A●trological Truths in that contemptible Treatise than ever he knew or was able to inform the World of and for his calling it a railing beastly Treatise I shall only say this That I have a Nasty beast-like Fellow to deal with and let him if he thinks fit answer the Astrologick part and let that which he calls railing alone and I do assure him I shall kiss his hand in Print again very speedily At last he asketh me if J.G. is so bad a man as I represent him to be how doth he keeps clear of the Law c. Why John were not you indicted by Mr. Godden for debauching his Wife Were not you taken up in Charles the Second's Time and kept in Prison 8 or 10 Weeks Were you not taken up in the Summer 1690. and in custody 8 or 9 Weeks and both these for Crimes against the Government and do you call this escaping the Law all this while take your self by the Memory again and consider And whosoever will but consider the number of men destroyed in 1685. Blood being then spilt in Pastime and the Blood-hunting then and in some Years before he will soon be able to tell whether they were Bloody Reigns or not I find in the Conclusion that Mr. J. G. is going to publish a Book called the Ungrateful Daemon dispossess'd I believe it will be a mighty ingenious thing because it is founded upon Conjuring for whoever goeth to dispossess a Daemon in English a Devil must do it by Prayers or by Conjuring by Prayer he cannot his Life and Conversation is too wicked to effect such a thing but by Conjuring I cannot tell what to say to it because it is a new Trade he hath taken up and that he learn'd it of his Priests with their Hoc est Corpus But methinks if he could do it by Conjuring he might have cast the Devil ●ut of his Wife by this time she being mad and he having had her about six years long enough to have done that which to this day he hath not done I am afraid he is a meer Juggler and cannot conjure However I will at the End of my Book give him a Copy of Verses to put at the beginning of his And they are as followeth In Commendation of J. Gad. and his New Conjuring Book CALL good Assistance in the Men of Note Go fetch the Tapers Rod and Conjuring-Coat Now draw a Circle draw it plain and fair And in the middle place our Conjurer Make all the horrid Signs and Characters To raise in the Spectators dreadful Fears Write all the Thundring Frightful Names thereo n Of Anael Raphael Zadkiel Metroton Pauiel Cassiel Tetragrammaton With Rod and Book in hand let him appear Arm'd with the Cross that makes his Devils fear Now is he safe now let the Work begin Now let him call his Captain Devil in With all his Rake-hell Tribe Old Satan by And bring with them Hell's Grand Artillery His Joyful Fiends thus met with fury hurl'd We 'll leave them now to dispossess the World Go call Queen Mab and Great King Oberon And ask them what the Devil they have done To send a Fool a Fool that prides himself Of being Chief nay the Chief Sovereign Elf Satan's Successive Heir the Errant Fairie That pinch'd by Night the Thighs of Joan and Mary This Prince of Daemons that commands each Elf What! cast them out of others not thy self The Reason's plain he to himself is civil He is a Compound and the most part Devil Then who can think the Elf from 's self will run That Satan e're will dispossess his own What! cast out Daemons now is Trade grown slack True Juggler still here 's honest Conjuring Jack Your Wife is mad pray let your Skill appear Begin at home cast out the Devil there But hold to give Advice in that I 'm loth You Two being one one Devil serves you both Nay 't is a frugal way can you agree One Single Devil serves a whole Family But what 's one Devil to the mighty Host When Jack himself can of his Legions boast Well by these Titles now may'st thou prefer Thy Prince's Slave and Hell-born Conjurer Go Curse and Conjure with your Popish Crew Your Cross your Dagon-Deity and You. FINIS

to be that by Amorous Letters Copies of Verses and Vocal Perswasions enticeth away his Neighbour's Wife takes her to his House gets her with Child and then kicks her out of Doors again to the mercy of the wide world and the fury of her Husband not to speak a word of the Murther of Mr. G. and these are so well known that there are many in Town acquainted with each Particular and indeed I know something of the matter my self having had the Honour to see her at his House at that time What will you think of him that hunts for a New Faith sometimes once a Year but for the most part once every Seven Years What will you think of him that was in a Plot to murther the King he always pretented to support what think you of him that was in another Plot to murther and dethrone that King that had before pardoned him and forgave all his Villanies and Treasons against him What will you think of him that railed and raved at the Royal Party in 1657. that railed at the Fanaticks from 1660. forwards that railed at the Church of England in defence of Popery in the Year 1687. and now curseth his own Stars that he wants power to be a greater than he is What think you of him that would have suborned a man to h●ve sworn Crimes against a Gentleman even to Life Liberty and Estate This is such a Villany that none but such who are perjured themselves would ever attempt Suborners of Perjury why they are worse than Highway-men and H●use-breakers for we may be safe from one sort by strong Doors and Walls and from the other by staying at home But who can be safe against false Oaths who can be safe when two or three conspire together and are willing to take a False Oath at the price of their own Damnation and Eternal Ruin What shall we say when a Man hath his Life snatched from him by the False Oaths of two perjured Villains and dies an Ignominious Death for a Base and Scandalous Crime that he was never guilty of The Lord remember the sufferings of the people in the Late Bloody Reigns Perjury is such a Crime that next to Murther our Lawgivers have thought fit to make a severe Act for the punishment of such Offenders and yet you see when Malice rides abroad Rampant and Conscience stays at home it is no hard thing to find a certain Saint that used to go with abundance of Devotion to the Abby who is willing to undergo not only the Drudgery of Swearing but Swearing falsly or at leastwise to perswade others to do it which if there is any difference is the worst Crime of the two and I doubt not but every one who is willing to perswade others to such Offences are ready to do it themselves or else have been guilty of the same Crimes formerly Who can have the impudence to look God or Man in the Face without blushing or a dejected Countenance when he knows his Soul is loaded with such a horrid Villany and his Conscience tells him every moment that he deserves the punishment due to so heinous a thing or else on his Knees he ought to confess it and beg the Gentleman's Pardon if he is not past Grace and Repentance And so I come to consider a Pamphlet lately sent forth into the World without a Name as if the Author of it was either afraid or asham'd to own what he had done or else by reason of other Crimes he thought his Name instead of making his Book sell might have damn'd it to a perpetual oblivion and have saved us the labour of reading it Ex pede Hercules by the Man you may know the Matter and you may be certain that J. G. can as soon eat that Paper as write a Treatise without his Two Martyrs in it just like Roger wedded to Forty One And tho it comes without the Author's Name in the Title Page yet I can without the help of the Stars tell it came out of Brick-Court and that John Gadbury is the Author of it which he calls Merlini Liberati Errata which I will consider and give an Answer to his material Objections therein alledged against me and do assure him that as I have already made him appear a Knave so I will shew the World he is also a Fool especially in that Profession he pretends to which is the Art of Astrology and likewise how silly as well as false the most part of his Objections are passing by his wittyc●sms as well as his Reflections being sensible that the best of Authors nay the Word of God too hath been defamed and abused by the Witty Jests c. of Debauched Men and by some in particular of J. G.'s Acquaintance that I could name AN ANSWER TO HIS Idle PAMPHLET IN his Title Page I perceive he is an earnest Honourer of his King c. I am glad to hear of such a Reformation for it is not three years since he was accus'd of being in a Plot to dethrone and murther the King and to this day he cannot in conscience take the Oaths to Their Majesties and yet an earnest Honourer of the King c. It would be convenient I think to ask him What King for I am sure our King is not his if he cannot take an Oath to be true to Him In his Epistle to the Reader he complains of my Bruitish Bawling and Beastly Language which is needless if true seeing he pretends to be my Master having taught me one by his Bouncing Empty Writings and the other by his Debauched and Beast-like Life and Conversation In the very next Words he takes care of the Church and State meaning I judge that of France for a Papist can never intend the Church of England if he doth and designs what he says he is damn'd by his own Principles but you may see he hath undertaken to patch up the Cause and therefore let it be so and for his two Martyrs I refer my Reader to M. G. Ludlow's Letter for the one and to the Cruelties of the Star-Chamber especially Dr. Layton's Case for the other for I have something else to do than to spend my precious Time about such things as are not to my present Purpose And at last of all he calls out to the Church of England for help one would think he might call to his own Church if he knew which it was which I doubt he doth not after all this choping and changing of his Religions for he always serves his God in the newest Fashion and so I come to the Matter it self Pag. 6. The first thing he falls foul on shews the Fellow to be top-full of Malice and what little things must serve him to make a noise with in my Epistle I said This little Book will run the Nation thorough but that way did not please him it seems to express it and therefore after a great deal of noisey stuff he puts me as

You the Top-man and Bell-weather of the whole Society of Astrologers Are not you a fine Reputation to your Profession you shall have the Chair but it shall be to sh in not to read Astrology unless it is a Nonsensical one Pag. 12th On the Winter-Quarter Here he shews himself in his True Colours and to any one that understands what a Mundane Parallel is he will soon appear to be what he really is a Malicious silly Fellow and therefore I will not spend time about this for it answers it self and doth not want mine Pag. 12. On the Spring-Quarter Here my Thimbletenian doth charge a notorious●ie upon me for he says that 24 of ♐ ascends c. when I say 19 of VS doth pray you that understand how to set a Figure enter the Column of Time from Noon with 15h 25m and see if the 24th Degree of ♏ will not be on the Tenth House and 19 of Capricorn ascending if so What doth the Fellow make a noise about you see he sticks a Feather in his own Cap and laughs at his own Folly for he says himself that I give the Ingress at 15 h. 25 m. PM and for my saying there may be a mistake of a Sign two or three in the Ascendant when Signs of short Ascention rise in the East is no strange thing for Operations of that nature being wrought by divers Tables will differ one or two Hours in time perhaps more and it is well known to all Pretenders to Astrology that ♒ ♓ ♈ and ♉ are but 4 hours ascending and two of those Signs but 50 Minutes a piece which proves what I say and so he goes on to ridicule me for Mundane Aspects and Parallels which I am sure he does not understand And now pray do but observe the Ignorance and Impudence of this Fellow that pretends to correct me that am more true and exact than himself In his own Popish Almanack pag. 4th He says that the ☉ enters ♈ no March the 9th at 6 Hours 42 Min. after-noon 1693. and how he will prove this seems strange to me without some Popish Miracle for in his Almanack the Sun at Noon wants 16 Min. to enter Aries which gives in time 6 Hours and 30 Min. which falls short of 6. 42. and therefore if you examine Shakerly's Tables the Sun by them enters ♈ at 7 hours 10m PM and these are the Tables which he pretends to go by Hence it is plain he hath impudently impos'd a time upon us not agreeable to his own Almanack nor the Tables he pretends to which shews him both ignorant and confident He understand the Stars he knows better how to cuck-cold his Wife and lie with his Maid as he call'd her than to work any Mathematical Operation The Fellow is certainly mad and how it came to pass I am not certain unless his Priests made him so when he was a Papist or that he hath taken a Frenzy by Contaction in lying by his Mad Wife for in 1686. or 87. for the lucre of a little Money he married a Woman that was really mad and so she is still and a Papist Pag. 14. On the Summer Quarter he here carries on the Rattle as before and the principal thing is to prove my Figure false and wittily objects at my Saying where Armies are in the Field and asks me If ever I knew Armies in a House a very wise Question but I shall answer my Popish Laplander with an Examen of his most erronious Calculation for the Summer Ingress 1693. which he tells us Is at 8 hours 48 Min. PM June 10th Now if you will but work that Ingress by Shakerly's Tables you shall find that it is at 43 Min. past 9. differing almost an hour in time from his and this from them Tables that he pretends to work by and I hope his Worship will allow that an hour in time makes a great alteration in a Figure of the Twelve Houses What think you now of my Corrector is he ignorant or impudent I judge it was from such Rules and Grounds he promised the Papists That Popery should continue in England for ever Pag. 14. In the Autumn Quarter that is to say in his Dialect Cucumber-Time here he is upon the old Rumble again and as true as the former But prithee John Why shall I not be true to my Wife if I marry Here you might have forborn that especially when you consider how you used your first Wife Take one into the House and get her with Child under her Nose What do you mean by being just it is not in your Nature you were never just to God nor man Ergo not to your Wife And for my coining of false Books that charge lieth at your Door not mine And let me tell you I have begun to publish a Doctrine that shall stand when you and I are gone but I will take care to give the World an account of what you have writ and that very speedily too But you Mr. John would do well to have your Calculations done better next year for at the Winter Ingress by the Suns place it is at three quarters past 12 at Night and Shakerly at half an hour past one but an hour is a small matter in John's Calculations Pag. 15. Of the Eclipses I will answer the first in your own Almanack for 1693. pag. 4. You say the ☽ will be eclipsed near out 4 in the Morning and yet in January you say the full Moon is at 3 in the Morning in the same page you say the Sun will be eclipsed the 16th of December at our Midnight and yet in Dec. you say it is at one in the Morning what is there the difference of an hour between the Full Moon and her Eclipse and between the New Moon and the Sun's Eclipse for shame do not be guilty of these fulsome Contradictions prithee forbear correcting others till you mend your own Faults and understand better or else you and your Family must go to the Colledge in Moor-fields With these fulsome Errors remember you tell us in your lying Ephemerides That the Sun's Eclipse in June will be almost total And in your Popish Almanack for 1693. you say it will be but half a Digit What Stuff this is to come from John Gadbury fie John fie are not you asham'd of this I am sure you may only I think you are past shame And for the Quotation Jack carps at I do assure him he is mistaken and whosoever will look into Ptolomy Lib. 6. Quadripar they will find the same Words only in another Language but for that Book I am sure John understands it not nor never will and therefore Proclus and Ptolomy are indeed all one to him And as to the Second Eclipse I mentioned I did not take it from the patch'd up 20 years Ephemeridies that he falsly calls his but from Mezzavachis who doth assure me it was almost 7 Digits and a half and said almost three Parts of the Moon