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A96271	Præcognita astrologica: or, Astrological judgments, and monthly observations, shewing, what material or grand changes or revolutions are like to happen in the world, but more especially Europe, in the so long and much talked of year, 1688. : To which is added an account of the so much admired and amazing prodigy / By Joh. Whalley student in physick and astrology.	Whalley, John, 1653-1724.	1688 (1688)	Wing W1531; ESTC R186411	6,625	8

PRAECOGNITA ASTROLOGICA OR ASTROLOGICAL JUDGMENTS And MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS SHEWING What Material or Grand Changes or Revolutions are like to happen in the World But more especially EUROPE in the so long and much talked of Year 1688 To which is added An Account of the so much Admired and Amazing PRODIGY By Joh. Whalley Student in Physick and Astrology Aug. 13. 1688. This may be Printed LONDON Printed for F. E. in the Year 1688. To all the Legitimate Sons of the Divine Vrania in the Kingdom of Ireland Gentlemen NOtwithstanding former Discouragements mentioned in the Dedication of my last years Observations I did at some of your Importunities compose an Ephemeris or Almanack for this Year 1688 like that of 1686. And being under some misunderstanding with the Assigns of His Majesties Printer about the Price of my last years Copy I met with one T. M. a Bookseller lately famous is London who as I since tho' not then understood having stept to one side and stragling in Dublin just as I had got my Copy licensed for a certain Sum agreed upon and part received in hand he by Bond under his Hand and Seal oblig'd himself to deliver it at Chester printed on the last of October when for Honesty having retired himself from the reach of Justice and it was too late to get them printed elsewhere he instead thereof complemented me with a Lie of their being seized in the Press which upon examination I found as false as himself and good grounds to believe he was procured by the abovesaid Printers not to print it all lest it should hinder the Sale of their Trash published in the Names of Plunket and others not in being but have been forged from Ritchisons or my Copy So that I had not published any thing so late but to remove the Fears about the late PRODIGY and Year 1688. and Trouble and Danger of transcribing these Observations frequently pressed upon Globe Cook-street Dublin March 12. 1688. Urania's Votary John Whalley Observations on the Prodigy seen at Dublin Jan. 27. 1688. PRODIGIES are things seldom seen and coming to pass unexpectedly beyond imagination beget miraculous Contemplation Horrour and Amazement And therefore that seen at Dublin on Sunday Jan. 27. 1688. may well receive that Name for that it amazed not only its Beholders but also most that then heard of it just as if they expected it a sign of nothing but of utter Ruine and Destruction to be immediately shower'd down upon these Nations but more especially Ireland I did not see this Prodigy my self but for the aforesaid Reasons and the many Enquiries frequently made of me about it I endeavoured to obtain the most absolute Relation that could be procured which was from the Watch of several parts of the City who agree That at midnight a Crack like that of a Cannon was heard and immediately a great siery Blaze seen flying from the South-west over the City towards the North-east at one end like a half Ball and thereout a great long Stream which by this Description I conclude to be of that sort of Prodigies call'd Meteors and of them such as Naturalists call Beams and Judge to be generated of Exhalations hot and dry like the Lightening or flash of Thunder of a vicious clammy nature resembling Pitch by being of thin and light parts are by the Sun drawn and forced into the upper Region and there by excessive heat and nearness to the Fire kindled and by the Wind and Clouds carried through the Air as this was in form of a Beam to the terror of all its Beholders The Ingenious Mr. Gadbury in his Treatise of Prodigies pag. 57. gives an account of a Meteor Anno 1384. the most like this of any I can read of since but neither he nor any other of any extrordinary consequences that attended that or any other but what might rather be signified by the Stars and therefore I conclude this so admired and amazing Prodigy in no wise so threatening or evil as terrible and feared especially to England and Ireland and that the rather because in it self 't is but an effect of other natural Causes viz. the Stars who only are the grand Signs or Natural Causes of Terrestrial Mutations Tho I cannot shew any Prodigy like this of late in respect to its noise there have been several of the same nature seen in and about Dublin as in June 1682 July 13. 1685 and the 6th of March following all about 11 at night the likeness of Armies were seen fighting in the Air and last Summer a Prodigy or Meteor like this in form and all things but its noise was seen several times to fly over this City of Dublin and yet God be praised no such bloody effects as are now feared have hitherto succeeded or indeed are thereby threatened General Observations on the Year 1688. IN my Almanack for this Year I had Observations on the Winter Ingress and three past Months January February and March which being before the publishing this expir'd I omit together with the Scheam of the Vernal Ingress the better to contract this into the narrow room of one Sheet to make the Price easie and for satisfaction therein refer the curious to Mr. Mac-Combs Almanack being the only one this Year publick in Ireland that is worth buying where the time of this Vernal Ingress is taken from the Rudolphine Tables and agrees within twelve minutes of time with that taken from Mr. Gadburies Ephemeris March 9th 1 hour 12 min. P. M. when in the Meridian of Dublin we have 10 deg of Leo ascending and about twenty of Aries culminating Mars Lord of the 10th in the 10 th week in Taurus his detriment among the Pleiades a turbulent Sign and Constellation and in square to Venus his Dispositor in the seventh which according to the ancient Rules of Astrology signifys a Necessity in Princes and persons in Authority to borrow Monies or impose more than usual Taxes on the Subjects and will animate them to Choler Cruelty and Rashness one King Prince Nobleman and chief Commander will be subject to contend and quarrel with another upon slight occasion or for what they have little right to Some eminent Prince or Princes in forreign Parts will even in this year be subjected to the Contempt and Reproach of his or their pretended Subjects or Neighbours great Treachery c. from all which I hope and pray God will for ever deliver His Most Gracious Majesty of Great Britain his Dominions If any shall dare to forget their Allegiance justly due to him the Lords Anointed as I fear too many do let them cast an eye back to and remember in the Tragedy of England and Scotland 1685. how graciously he extended Mercy even to those that would have shewn little to him if their Malice had prevailed And Dear Countrymen and Neighbours consider the Blessing of Peace and Plenty and that the best of Natures cannot for ever brook of Abuse Wrong and Ingratitude

but when provoked beyond measure justly become the most severe Punishers and no longer the Vessels of Mercy but Justice in so doing And therefore let us who call our selves Christians shew our selves so in obeying the Lord and his Anointed and no longer fool our selves with seditious Spirits and Fancies of what can only work the ruine of our selves and Posterity For Kings have long Arms and when thereto extended strike severely What People in Christendom enjoy the Blessings and Mercies we do under the best of Princes Who studys not so much his own as the good of his People and Glory of God how to give every man by Law Liberty to worship their heavenly Father in their own way and that is so far from using the Severity of his Predecessors that he studies to relieve all those oppressed and persecuted for Conscience sake even those of Foreign Nations that fly to him for Succour and are of different Persuasion from his own even forty thousand poor distressed French Protestants that justly owe their Lives and Liberties to his Gracious Goodness and Favour What can his own Subjects expect or crave more than he so bountifully vouchsafeth Strangers both to his Country and Religion Is it reasonable for a dutiful Child to expect less from his Father than he freely bestows to Strangers If not why should men study to heap coals of Confusion upon their own heads when they may with more ease avoid it Let all men vouchsafe their due Allegiance to their lawful Sovereign the only means to prevent the Ruine which otherwise may attend them and the Wo Sorrow and Affliction which is threatened to several parts of the World even in this year by the last and this Ingress I know some Authors are of opinion that Venus in the 7th as here is for reconciling Kingdoms and Persons at variance and as now in Trine to and Reception with Saturn and Sextile of Mercury conduceth much thereunto to some and to the Grandeur of the Nobility of Ireland in particular But as she is there in Square to Mars the clear contrary to others viz. the promotion of Wars Bloodshed Differences and Discord unusual Law-Suits and Controversies and shews that some one ominent Female will be subjected to the Frowns of Fate if not the Malice of Death or Comtempt of her Lord. And with this that Square and those of Jupiter to Mercury Saturn and Luna threatens abundance of Cold Rain Snow Storms Losses and Damage at Sea both by that and Pyrates more than usual Engagements or Sea Fights Disputes about Religion and Church Affairs and the broach or growing great of some new Sect or Sectaries many Removals among those of the Gown and Bench and some of the more aged of them into the other World but more particularly one of the most eminent Ruling Clergymen in Christendom Luna just separated from the body of Saturn and void of Course promiseth but little Satisfaction to the Vulgar but rather Disappointments Wo Grief Sorrow and Affliction wherever Providence shall dispose of the Effects and that partly by their own Folly and Stiffneckedness Yet the Lord of the second and Part of Fortune free from the malignant Beams of the Infortunes with the Position of Jupiter and Venus in the second in the preventional Lunation promiseth much less cause of Complaint for want of Trade than last year However I advise the Husbandman to provide well against a bad Harvest and hard Winter But that which is most observable in this Revolution is the Partile Square of Saturn and Jupiter from Cardinal Signs which will in earnest usher in and that speedily too the Effects of their Conjunction in the years 1682 1683. and make the World sensible that such Congresses have influence upon the state of Laws Customs Constitutions and Prviledges of Nations Persons Places and things Ecclesiastical and to change them too And therefore it is not to be expected Astrologers should under them preach Peace and Tranquillity when the contrary is so severely threatned as now and I dare aver will be felt by most States and Degrees of Peoplein Europe While some that have been long wallowing in Blood are preparing and contriving to ease themselves of those burdens others are as fast running into like extreams Great Overtures are made by the Turks the Poles and Venetians seem inclinable to embrace them the Christian Emperour more slack but not so backward as of late France and Spain seem indifferently friendly the Swede and Dane to jurr the Poles and Muscovites as of late the Algerines pay for the Roast Scotland in Wisdom may be happy and Ireland not inferior the Dutch are imperious and will meet Correction from those whom I beseech God ever to enable to correct the Insolencies of their Enemies and bless with Health Peace and Plenty Amen Observations on the last 9 Months of the Year 1688. APril Besides being so at the Vernal Ingress Jupiter continues still in Square to Saturn and great part of the last and this Month in Square to Sol which with the Opposition of Sol and Saturn and other Configurations of this Month seem to threaten ten much Sickness about this time Dissatisfaction Grief Trouble and Vexation if not Death to some eminent Grandee or Grandees of Europe And indeed to persons of meaner quality frowns of Superiors loss of Honour Office and Imploy the downfall of some one or more eminent Gown-man Disputes about Religion or matters of Faith and great mischiefs at Sea both by Storms and Pyrates Engagements or Sea Fights may succeed but not this month I fear the London Merchants will share in the woful effects of the cross Configurations May. Matters seem now rather tending to Counsel than Actions however all are not idle but rather contriving or preparing for the Actions of the following months some endeavouring to create and others to destroy the Peace not only of particular Persons and Families but also Nations and Kingdoms the first seems to take most place now and may all just endeavours so succeed Great Britain is much concern'd in this months Proceedings and Holland is not idle but rather preparing for Action I wish it may prove for good but fear the contrary however that Nation is about this time making more than usual preparation for fitting out Shipping or some considerable Naval Action June Now the Actions of the year begin to shew themselves in their colours those concern'd hasting to oppose and engage each other and will not be wanting to furnish us with the news of some considerable Fight yea and perhaps at Sea too if not there will arise more than ordinary Disputes about matters relating thereunto if not about Religion also But if not this month we shall certainly hear plentifully of such matters before the Summer be over wherein Holland will be more than a little concern'd July Of all earthly blessings certainly there 's none so precious as health and peace and yet there are an Israel-like pamper'd People