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A96283	Merlini Anglici errata. Or, The errors, mistakes, and mis-applications of Master Lilly's new ephemeris for the yeare 1647. Discovered, refuted, and corrected. By C. George Wharton, student in astronomy.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1553; Thomason E1180_4; Thomason C.54.aa.1(4); ESTC R207525	23,266	63

in this present yeare 1647. For though we find Mars our English Astrologicall Planet in his Fall yet we have him very potently placed in the Heavens in Conjunction withIupiter and Caput Draconis in the 11. house and what Authors deliver upon such a Position as this you shall be your owne Judges that read the discourse Si Iupiter fuerit in undecima significat lucra et merces in omnibus rebus Haly 378. When Iupiter is in the 11. House he intimates much trade and merchandizing and great wealth obtained thereby Si quidem Iupiter fuerit in undecima significat laudem et bonam famam ex parte amicorum et quod gaudebant homines et erunt in alacritate et bonus effectus et profectus in rebus de quibus habebunt homines fiduciam et de quibus sperant bonum Bonat 567. Iupiter as new posited portends great comfort from friends and that they shall merit honour and a good name that men shall rejoice and be cheerfull and have good effect and encouragement in the actions they seeke after and of which matters they themselves expected good If wee would dilate or exemplify why from hence may we not expect all faithfullnesse and honourable correspondency from the Scottish Nation contrary to the expectation of some and those not a few that divine otherwaies Wharton If William Lilly run out quite from his Witts I shall here make him understand if not acknowledge an other very grosse Error of his notwithstanding the Angells Samael and Malchidael doe both of them take his part for though I grant him that Mars is more powerfull then he speakes of yet is the Signe Ascending of this Kingdome sufficiently afflicted by the Platique Square of Mars unto it who is also within 3. degrees of Conjunction with the Lord of the eight House which is the House of death labour sadnesse and heavinesse heritage of dead men and the end of life and the Ascendent of the revolution is no lesse afflicted by the Quartile of Saturne unto it and the Moone who is Lady of the Houre although he hath here forgot to mention her is separate from the Sextile of Mars and in a partill Sextile with Jupiter but comes immediately to a Diametricall configuration with Aries Englands Horoscopicall Signe whereby you might have seene if you had not beene worse then purblind cause too much to mistrust some generall misfortune to befall the Inhabitants of this Kingdome I doe not love to create new jealousies and feares but I presume Will Lilly will not upon second thoughts deny what I have said nor that hee hath plaid the foole in giving judgement of Jupiters positure in the eleventh only withour mixing the nature of Mars with him who is there likewise so powerfull and neare unto Conjunction with him But I have elsewhere told you what their Accidentall Scite there doth signifie and therefore shall not need to give him any further answer in this particular since what hee here reiterares is only to clear his Brethren the Scots lest they become unruly kick out that small proportion of his idle brains Lilly And surely were not Mars overswayed by the presence of Jupiter in that Nations ascending Signe I should somewhat doubt of them my selfe but I doe not for the truth is Religion and Faith overmasters their naturall Policy Really Mars in undecima inimicitias amicorum praenotat Mars in the 11. destroyes the Leagues and friendships of People c. Wharton And surely William Lilly a Horne-book-blade hee would not divulge so much of his ignorance at one clap as to say that Mars is overswayed by the presence of Jupiter cujus contrarium verum est for as before I have proved Mars is the strongest save only the Moone and Jupitar the weakest but Mercury in all the Figure as will appeare to any man that will take the paines to collect the Dignities and Debilities of the Planets respectively in the Figure And therefore hee hath good reason to doubt of himselfe and to suspect the Scottish Nation will become Converts which if they did not wee Malignants should have questioned whether they had any Religion or Faith at all But to the matter Mars in the 11. House presages something else then amicorum inimicitias if you had not abused Guido Bonatus Colum. 571. and in him the whole Kingdome whose words if he had not beene interrupted by this unmannerly clowne had been thus Mars in 11● domo significat paucitatem lucri seu profectus in rebus de quibus spaeratur utilitas quod cadent in inimicitias amicorum significat diminutionem substantiae desperabant homines derebus in quibus habebatur siducia quibus spaerebatur That is Mars in the eleventh House foretells but little profit or gaine in those things by which profit was expected and that they shall fall at enmitie with their friends Also the diminution of their substance and that men shall utterly despaire of ever obtaining what they most trusted to and expected This Aphorisme carryes a great deale of matter in sit in relation it hath to the differences depending and impending betwixt the Scots and the Parliament and therefore it was not held fitting to be published or communicated by our misterious Merline without a Fee The plaine English of it is that according to naturall causes it is most evident that the Parliament c. shall be frustrated in their expectation that they shall be mvch deceived and deprived of the profit and commoditie which might have accrued unto them by having the King at their owne disposall and that for this cause they shall fale fall at difference with and incurre the dislike and enmity of those that were formerly their friends and confederates who shall account them no otherwise then such as have forgot and neglected their Covenant with God and man c. And hereupon they dispaire of the Scottish Religion because it is come nearer the Kings and of their Faith because they have not so much credulity as to interest them alone in the disposall of his Majesties Person and hence arise new discords and contentions and greater taxes are imposed then ever upon the poore Kingdome whereby mens Estates are exhausted and consumed and fresh miseries daily approaching if not timously prevented What he cites out of Haly concerning Jupiters positure in the 11 House I have sufficiently answered and explained before upon the words which he quoted from Bonatus for the same thing And thus farre hath Mr. Lilly made his progresse in preaching Peace and Tranquilitie to the People to what purpose I have sufficiently declared and now he comes to the Qualitie of the yeare wherein I scorne to detract the least scruple from him of what 's his due but shall agree with him in every thing which he performs but any thing like an Artist though he stumble of it against his will his quotation of Bonatus Pag. 55. by great fortune is very

so unsanctified a Societie and shall therefore wish for and most justly indeavour a change of Government in the Church So likewise may his Majesties Revenue so long detained from him be in a better possibility of regaining or in some part restored to him or at least great means used to perswade those that have usurped the Possession and profits thereof to resigne and accompt And that many Ordinances Orders and Votes that have passed and been formerly enjoyn'd and observed as Lawes must admit of alteration and abolishment but as I have formerly noted these things will not be done effectually this yeare in regard of the smalness of the Defect so that we shall be scarce sensible of its operation Yet without all doubt the Dragons head in the tenth House in the intercepted signe Cancer bodes very much good to his Majestie to be begun and wrought by the Scottish Nation who shal partake of that influence And whereas Lilly addes that C●lerem Regis Principis vel nobilissimi viri alicujus infirmitatem vel praeclari viri cujuspiam mortem adducit That this small Eclipse portends some sudden infirmity or casualty to a King Prince or worthy man perhaps some eminent and famous Man's death c. he had done well to have cyted his Author or given his Reasons for what he sayes here for I cannot pick out any such signification from this Eclipse as Mercury is truly and really Lord thereof nor as he hath made Mars and Saturne to be sharers with him Indeed Mars stirrs up Wars intestine Seditions tumultuous uprores the wrath of Princes and by that meanes some unexpected slaughter And Saturne premonstrates perturbation of the Humours Fluxes and Quarten Feavours Poverty and Banishment Dearth Penury c. but I find no such sudden infirmity or casualty to befall any King or Prince c. as he chattles of yet I le undertake for him that if prince Griffith should but this yeare fall asunder of the Pocks the next yeare after Lilly will tell you that this Prediction was verified in him Nor know I any reason why Scotland should be at all concern'd in it seeing the Eclipse happeneth in the Fiery Trigon and that the Ascendent of Scotland which is Cancer is of another viz. the Watery triplicity nor at all aspected by the Signe wherein the Eclipse happeneth nor afflicted by either of the Malevolents but rather fortified by the presence of the Dragons Head in it as before I noted in the Mid-heaven and although the Eclipsed Body be Dispositrix of the signe Cancer yet for the reasons formerly given the effects of the Eclipse cannot be at all discerned in Scotland or scarce in any part of England and therefore it is but a foolery in William Lilly to make such a fluttering and a noise about nothing But I am well pleased to heare him scatter that one truth if so it prove that the Scots will stand like Okes unshaken to their first Principles c. It behoves some body else to remember their Covenant c. And truly the Scots do owe William Lilly a great many thankes for his confiding Epithites but I feare I feare I shall heare him ere long lash out of his open Sepulchre as much and as vildly as ever he did against the King and the Cavaliers though now he Court them with the Titles of Prudent and Wise People I hope they 'le be wise enough for those they are to deale with What he sayes against the Irish is not materiall the more the Fox is curs'd the better he thrives But I suspect Lilly to be one of those London Adventurers who were dividing the Beares skin before hee was taken as his Majestie once told them If he were I presume a man might purchase Lilly's share of the Land in Ireland at an easie rate And although out of his Malice he tell them their Ruines approaching and threaten them with Cupps and even brimmers of vengeance I believe he may drink them their off himselfe before they once pledge him And although Booker in his bloody Irish Almanack hath disgorg'd a filthy and confused heap and masse of misery ruine and vengeance to befall that Kingdome yet you have not heard of any considerable losse that they have sustained since first that malicious lying Pamphlet peep'd out into the world which beares date on Tuesday the 17th of March 1645 6. But on the contrary have beene exceeding victorious and successefull beyond expectation and at this present have all or the most part of the Garrisons and strong Holds in that Kingdome under their subjection But I shall not at present take any more notice of that notorious peece of Non-sense of John Bookers because I have reserved the Examination and confutation thereof to a particular discourse comming out shortly wherein I discover his grosse Errors and mistakes in point of Art and plainly prove that his Pamphlet to be stuft with nothing but inveterate malice and unparalell'd ignorance Lilly J will adde no distempered conceptions to this Discourse ensuing lest J bee thought an Incendiary J can breake out at what time J shall see my Pen may be usefull and profitable for the cause J so much honour c. Wharton No Sir you must first have your Inke tempered before you can counterfeit without suspition those things you call your conceptions so naturall Rough must be first Polish'd before they can advantage the Cause and run smoother and with more shew of truth ere they shall deceive me You dare not you will not candidly and impartially relate what you find recorded in the Register of Heaven lest you should bee taken for an Incendiary that is one that moves not by the wyre of the great Engine one that speaks the truth without feare or flattery and 't were your utter undoing should the least scruple of ingenuousnesse be observed in your Lines Therefore say you I can breake out at what time I shall see my Pen may bee usefull and profitable for the cause That is to say when I perceive the Scots and the Parliament fall asunder and dis-joynted in their opinions and affections then will I make the Starres every minute pick quarrels with the Scots I shall then breake out of a sudden and prophesie nothing but losse ruine and destruction and beggery to that perfidious Nation And that the States of England shall be victorious over them I shall encourage our Souldiers and disanimate the Enemy c. whereby I hope to be usefull and profitable for the Cause I so much honour and bee rewarded well for my paines Lilly The English wearied with the sad attendents of Warre seeme at this present Suns ingresse into Aries to bee desirous of Peace yet not willing to be baffled or curb'd by any neighbour Nation Kingdome or People or to have Lawes imposed on them contrary to their native humours and Customes c. Wharton Great cause have the English and especially the poore Inhabitants of the North to grone under and to

Conjunction in the eleventh House of the Figure in Leo and she is also hastening to a Quartile with Saturne in the ninth And I thinke sir you 'le not deny but that Mercury and the Moon are your Senators significators so that how faire soever you imagine these positions to promise you I am assured they will performe but slowly you had done well to have shewn us some testimony of the Peace you mention but as you have denyed us that favour let mee instance you one testimony to crosse your conceit You may see sir that Jupiter and Mars are there also in Conjunction and that in Leo a Signe of the Fiery Triplicitie which is farre worse then their Conjunction in Cancer for Mars in Leone significat bella contentiones paucitatem annonae in partibus orientalibus erit Mars in hominibus maxime in juvenibus 40. Annorum usque ad 50. in pueris tamen erit hoc fortius It signifies Wars and wranglings and scarcity of Corne in the Easterne parts and Mortality amongst men but especially to such as are betwixt 40. and 50. yeares old Notwithstanding this shall be most operative amongst children And thus faire and no fairer are you promised by the Annuall returne of the Sun to his place at the Parliaments Commencement if you will credit bonat. Colum. 365. so that you see what ever our Merline hath indeavoured to gull the people with yet the Heavens speake no such Language they tell us of nothing but Warre and strife c. What the Position of Saturne in the 10. signifies in the Vernall Ingresse I have publish'd in my Prognostication And if I should grant him what so much he desires and urgeth viz. that Saturn's being in the Midd-heaven should portend some sorrow and affliction to the King yet Albumazar a man of better credit affords us this comfort Si fuerit dominae decimae domus Venus as she is in this Revolution significat quod sequetur ex hac tribulatione prosperitatem atque sublimitatem gaudium atque profectum If Venus be Lady of the tenth House it sheweth that his affliction and sorrow shall bee turn'd into joy prosperity sublimitie and advantage the sight whereof will even breake the Malitious heart of this proditorious peasant Lilly And for the signification of Venus who is under the Sun beames and thereby much impedited and descending into the eighth though now locally in the ninth it portends a disturbed fancy and a person not free or much enlarged for the Sun Lord of the 12. and Venus are within Orbes her debilities promise him no great good significat enim quod eveniat Regi in revolutione illa ira tristitia contentio similiter atque timor she as posited is the signifier of much anger malecontentednesse and controversie and the Conclusion which is worst of all saith that he shall be in great feare c. of what I am silent Wharton I have told you in my Prognostication that Venus her fortitudes exceeds the number of her Debilities by 8 and is therefore to be accounted strong and powerfull in the Figure so that what detriment soever her debilities might promise her fortitudes being so many more in number doe utterly extinguish and annihilate whereby is clearly signified good fortune and authority to Officials and other of the Kings head Officers and that the King shall prosper in his affaires So that the Reader may perceive your owne Fancy so disturbed and clowded as that you cannot fancy or discerne any sentence or Aphorisme that hath any shew in it of good towards his Majestie but indeavour to conceale all things that tend thereunto against your owne conscience and the Principles of Art Nor can in my opinion the Sun and Venus their being within Orbes portend any kind of restraint to his Majesty but rather absolute freedome in regard they are both his Majesties significators and behold the Cuspe of the twelfth House with an Aspect of true and perfect Amity Lilly But let me examine Astrologically whether there be any affection or unity betwixt his Majesty and Subjects which you may discerne saith Bonatus Fol. 526. Per Conjunctionem significationem ad invicem viz. by the Conjunction of each significator to other or with other vel per eorum aspectum cum receptione quia ille ex significatoribus qui recipit alium committit illi dispositionem or by the mutuall aspect of the Significators with Reception for observe whose Significators receives the other commits his disposition or vertue to the Planet received or more properly may be said to be ruled or directed by him Here doe I find the Sun Significator of our Honourable Patriots at Westminster in his Exaltation receivingVenus his Majesties in her detriment viz. in a low condition c. Wharton If the Conjunction of the Sun and Venus had seene by Application or a perfect conjunction you had said something to the purpose but Mr. Wisdome you see Venus is separated from him and the Moone who is Significatrix of your Honourable Patriots is hasting to an Opposition with them both which are signes of small Affection or unitie betwixt them and as for that Reception you mention to be betwixt them I will not grant any for I learn'd when I was in my A. B. C. of Astrology that Receptio est duplex una ex domicilio altera ex exaltatione It is either from House or Exaltation which you cannot find here betwixt the Sun and Venus for althought the Sun be in his Exaltation yet Venus is not in hers so that there is no Reception in respect of Exaltation and for matter of House you 'le grant there can be none Yet I remember Zael admits of this and one more as a kind of Reception and Origanus takes notice of them in him and Schonerus and calls them Receptiones minores but he does not commend or allow them but rather sets a marke upon them for invalid and superstitious for saith he posteriores receptiones non nisi in particulari et ad superstitionem inclinante judicio locum habent Pag. 427. So that if the Commonalty or Kingdom be no more obedient and kind to the King then this reception inclines them to I shall despaire of any Peace or Tranquility this yeare nor expect better successe of their formall addresses then formerly Lilly If we run a straine above Astrology the Hermeticall Learning will tell us that the Angells Samael and Malchidael are the Intelligences or presiding Angells of the English Common-wealth and Kingdom and Generally every Astrologer is satisfied that Marsis the Planet and Aries the signe to which Great Britaine is Subject If the greater Angell and his Minister stand firme for us as its thought they doe and if the Planet be well fortified and the Ascending signe of this Kingdome not afflicted I see no cause in nature to mistrust any gewerall misfortune to happen within this Kingdome to the Inhabitants thereof