29 april 14 The prince of Orange slaine 1584 518 26 28 apr 19. E Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge founded by VValter Mildmay 1585 519 27 27 aprill 11  1586 520 28 26 aprill 3 Sir H. Sidney deceased 1587 521 29 25 aprill 16 The Queene of Scots beheaded 158◠522 30 24 apr 7 G Tilbury Campe. 1589 523 31 23 mar 30 Portugall voyage 1590 524 32 22 aprill 19 Christs Colledge in Cambridge founded 1591 525 33 21 aprill 4  1592 526 34 20 ma. 26. B Terme at Hartford 1593 527 35 19 aprill 15 Prince Henry borne in Scotland 1594 528 36 18 mar 31  1595 529 37 17 april 20 A great dearth Anno Reg. 37. 1596 530 38 18 apr 11. D The Spaniards win Callis 1597 531 39 15 mar 27 The voyages to the Isles of Tercera's 1598 532 40 14 aprill 16 The King of Spaine dyeth 1599 533 41 13 aprill 8 The Earle of Essex rode towards Ireland 1600 534 42 12 ma. 23. F  1601 535 43 11 april 12 The Earle of Essex beheaded 43. Marshall Baron of France arriued 1602 536 44 10 aprill 4 Seminaries executed Q. Elizabeth died Mar. 24 periodi K. Iames began Mar. 24 periodi She dyed hauing reigned 44. years 4. moneths 14 daies buried at Westminster An. D P. C kr Sc. T. e. East da The great plague in London wherof dred from Decem. 1602. to Dece 1603 30 578 peace with Spaine 3 Popes in 6 weekes Powder treason The King of Denmark cometh to England Great inundations in England The Oath of Alegeance ministred The first plantation of Virginia The King of France murthered And the prince created Prince of Wales after setteth his house in honorable fashion order his Titles be Henry Prince of VVales Duke of Cornvvall and Rothesey and Earle of Chester 1602 536 1 36 10 aprill 4 1603 537 1 37 9 apri 24 1604 538 2 38 8 ap 18. A 1605 539 3 39 7 mar 31 1606 540 4 40 6 apri 20 1607 541 5 41 5 april 5 1608 542 6 42 4 m. 27 C 1609 543 7 43 3 april 16 1610 544 8 44 2 aprill 8 1611 545 9 45 1 mar 24 Anno Domini post conquestum K. Re. England K. Re. Scotland time expired Easter day 1612 546 10 46 0 apr 12 E 1613 547 11 47 1 aprill 4 1614 548 12 48 2 april 24 1615 549 13 49 3 aprill 9 1616 550 14 50 4 ma. 31. G 1917 551 15 51 5 april 20 1618 552 16 52 6 april 5 1619 553 17 53 7 mar 28 1620 554 18 54 8 apr 16 B 1621 555 19 55 9 april 1 1622 556 20 56 10 april 21 1623 557 21 57 11 april 13 1624 558 22 58 12 ma 28. D 1625 559 23 59 13 april 17 1626 560 24 60 14 aprill 9 1627 561 25 61 15 mar 25 1628 562 26 62 16 apr 13 P 1629 563 27 63 17 aprill 5 Anno Domini post conquestum K Re. England K Re. Scotland time expire Easter day 1630 564 28 64 18 mar 28 1631 565 29 65 19 aprill 10 1632 566 30 66 20 apri 1. A 1633 567 31 67 21 april 21 1634 568 32 68 22 april 6 1635 569 33 69 23 mar 29 1636 570 34 70 24 ap 17. C 1637 571 35 71 25 aprill 9 1638 572 36 72 26 mar 25 1639 573 37 73 27 april 14 1640 574 38 74 18 apr 4. B 1641 575 39 75 29 april 25 1642 576 40 76 30 april 10 1643 577 41 77 31 april 2 1644 578 42 78 32 ap 21. G 1645 579 43 79 33 aprill 6 1646 580 44 80 34 mar 29 Note in the reading of these briefe Chronicle Notes at the end of many of them you shall haue certaine figures set which signifies the yeare of the King it happened in because sometime the accident was not in that regnal yeare that stands against the Eclesian yeare The Description and vse of this New Table called A Concordancy of Yeares THis my Concordancy of Yeares hath in euery page 5 seuerall rowes vnder seuerall Titles as the first row is vnder the Yeare of our Lord beginning at 1066. at what time the Conqueror began so continuing to the yeare 1646. The next row is vnder post Conquestū shewing how many yeares any yeare of our Lord or any yeare of any King was after the Conquest The third is vnder Kings Reigne shewing how the yeares of the Kings answere to the yeares of our Lord. The fourth is vnder Time expired shewing how many yeares it is since any of the yeares placed in any of the 3 former rowes at this present yeare 1612. And the last row is placed vnder the Title of Easter day shewing what day of the moneth Easter day fell vpon any yeare since the Conquest to the yeare 1646. In which row also be certaine Capitall letters placed which bee the later of the Dominicall letters in the Leape-yeare as in Chap. 21. Now these things considered you are to vnderstand that all the difficulty in computating of time is when the question is onely propounded by the yeare of the Kings reigne and therefore if you can deuise when any question is made by any yeare of any King to know in what yeare of our Lord it was then the labour is nothing for you must know that euery yeare of any King as yet began in one yeare of the Lord ended in the next insuing yeare which is the cause of this difference But to make all more plaine I will propound certaine examples both of the yeare of our Lord and of the regnall yeare Quest 1 I haue a Lease for an hundred yeares bearing date in Aprill 1514 and I would know this yeare 1612. what time I haue remaining ANSVVERE Séeke first the yeare of our Lord 1514 their begin to tell at the next yeare forwards calling 1515. one 1516. two and so procéed vntill you come to 1612 so shall you count to the number of 98 yeares and so many of your 100 yeares be expired But in the numbring thus you must remember that before after the change of euery Prince one the same yeare of our Lord is twice placed therefore omit the one in your reckoning Or take 1514 out of 1612 so haue you 98 years Or séeke with more ease in the third row vnder Time expired what figures stand against 1514 so shall you finde 98 as before and so many yeares be expired 1612. But if you had sought this any other yeare after 1612. as 1614 then must you haue séene what figures in the fift row had béene against 1614 as 2 the which 2 must haue béene added to 98 so had you 100 yeares The like for any other yeare after to 1646. Quest 2. I haue a Lease granted for 60 yeares bearing date the 8 of Ianuary in the 6 yeare of Edward the 6. and I would know this yeare 1612 how many years be expired ANSVVER You must note first that
in the place of the Eclipse exceedeth the latitude of the Moone and her bodily somidiameter The Partile Eclipse of the Moone is when part if the body of the Moone is darkened whereof there be 3 sorts first when halfe her diameter is darkened happening when the latitude of the Moone is equall to the semidiameter of the earths shadow next when lesse then the semidiameter is darkened happening when her latitude is more then the semidiameter of the earths shadow Thirdly when more then the Moones semidiameter is obscured which cometh to passe when the latitude of the Moone is lesse then the semidiameter of the earths shadow Of the parts of the Moone Eclipsed Like as the body of the Sun so also the body of the Moone is imagined to bee diuided into 12 parts because their diameters appeare as a foot long so that we say they bee eclipsed so many digits or fingers but for the Moone by reason of the thicknesse of the shadow of the earth she may be eclipsed 23 Digits but I should proue ouer-tedious amply to discourse of these matters therefore find out her eclipse thus To finde the Moones Eclipse Finde as before at what houre and what day of the moneth any full Moone happeneth and there finde the eclipse of the moone as you did that of the Sunne remembring alwaies to séeke the moones eclipse vnder the Title Full Moone and her Eclipse and the Digits or parts of her body eclipsed in the row vpon the right hand vnder Digits ☽ remembring what is said of the Sunne This is casie CHAP. XXXVI To find the houre of Sun-rising and setting the length of the day and night with the breake of day and continuance of twi-liâ—â—â— Moneths Dayes Breake of day Sunne rising Length of day Length of night Sunne setting Twylight H M H M H M H M H M H M Ianu. 1 3 54 8 0 8 0 16 0 4 0 6 0 10 5 44 7 19 8 21 15 39 4 11 6 16 20 5 37 7 34 8 52 15 8 4 26 6 23 Febr. 1 5 15 7 13 0 24 14 16 4 45 6 47 10 5 0 6 56 10 8 13 52 5 4 7 0 20 4 50 6 36 10 47 13 13 5 24 7 10 March 1 4 20 6 19 11 22 12 38 5 41 7 40 10 4 0 6 1 11 58 12 2 5 59 8 0 20 3 40 5 45 12 37 11 23 6 19 8 22 Aprill 1 3 8 5 18 13 23 10 37 6 42 8 52 10 2 40 5 1 13 57 10 3 6 59 9 20 20 2 10 4 43 14 33 9 27 7 17 9 50 May 1 1 30 4 25 15 9 8 51 7 3â— 10 30 10 0 30 4 22 15 35 8 25 7 48 11 30 20 Al day 4 0 15 59 8 1 8 0 no night Iune 1 and no darke night 3 51 16 17 7 43 8 9 but conunuall twylight 10 3 48 16 23 7 37 8 12 20 3 51 16 17 7 43 8 9 Iuly 1   4 0 15 59 8 0 8 0 0 0 10 1 30 4 25 15 9 8 51 7 35 10 30 20 2 10 4 43 14 33 9 27 7 27 9 50 Aug. 1 2 10 4 43 14 33 9 27 7 17 9 50 10 2 40 5 1 13 57 10 3 6 59 9 20 20 3 8 5 18 13 23 10 37 6 41 8 52 Sept. 1 3 40 5 41 12 37 11 23 6 19 8 20 10 4 0 6 1 11 58 11 2 5 59 8 0 10 4 2 06 10 11 22 12 38 5 41 7 40 Octo. 1 4 50 6 26 10 47 13 13 5 24 7 10 10 5 0 6 56 10 8 13 52 5 4 7 0 20 〈◊〉 15 7 13 9 34 14 26 4 47 6 45 Noue 1 5 35 7 34 8 52 15 8 4 26 6 25 10 5 44 7 49 8 21 15 39 4 16 6 16 20 5 54 8 0 8 0 16 0 4 0â— 6 6 Dece 〈◊〉 5 58 8 10 7 40 16 20 3 50 0 2 〈◊〉 6 0 8 11 7 34 16 23 3 59 6 0 〈◊〉 5 54 8 0 8 0 16 0 4 0 6 6 The vse of the former Table IF you would know at what houre the day breake the Sunne rise and set and how long the daies and nights be and when twi-light ends do thus In the first row vpon your left hand finde your moneth and in the next row rightwards the day of the moneth which are placed against the moneth three times thus 1 10 20 and when you want the iust day take the neerest for it will serue precise enough The day of the moneth thus found proceed rightward against the said day so shall you see the houre and minute of all the foresaid vnder their proper Titles and against the said day of the moneth As the 20 day of August the day breaketh at three of the clocke and 8 minutes the Sunne riseth at 5 and 18 minutes the length of the day is 13 houres and 23 minutes and so proceed forth To finde the houre of the day MVltiply the signe of the Sunnes Altitude taken instrumentally by the signe of the semidiurnall Arke diuiding the product by the signe of the Sunnes Meridian altitude reseruing then the quotient séeke the arke answering to the same as you be taught in the'seuenth booke of my Staffe called Trigonometria the which arke conuert into houres as you be also taught in the said seuenth booke so haue you the number of houres from Sunne rising if your obseruations were before noone or the distance from Sun set if they were in the afternoone Otherwise In the ensuing Scheme finde the degree that the Sun is in in the lowerend thereof and in the side B A finde the altitude of the Sun then note where the line passing by the degree of the Sunne paralell to B A intersects with the line running from the altitude of the Sunne and paralell to D A or C B for the houre-line passing by that intersection is the houre of the day Example The 21 of Aprill 1612 the Sunne is in the 10 degree of 8 and 30 degrees high the paralels issuing from which two places intersect at E and the houre-line passing by is marked with 8 and 4 so that if your obseruations were before noone it had beene 8 if after noone 4 of the clocke By this means the degree the Sunne is in and the houre of the day giuen you may find his altitude the same houre and contrary also hereby you may finde the rising and setting of the Sun c. and many other pretty conclusions which the ingenious will soone know and I for breuities take omit The Meridian Line South Signes Capricorne Scorpius Pisces Aquarius Libra North Signes Aries Virgo Taurus CAAP. XXXVII To know how long the Moone shineth when she riseth and setteth with the cause of her lesse or greater light THe Moone hath no light but what shee receiueth of the Sunne being a darke and grosse body as is well manifested in the time of her eclipse and though the vulgar
18 Of the lunar yeare both coÌ„mon extraordinary ch 19 Of the solar yeare and the etymology thereof Ch. 20 Of the Iulian yeare or our vulgar yeare of the leap yeare and the cause thereof with diuers beginnings of yeares Chap 21. Vulgar errors reform'd c. 22 Of the Kalends Nones c. and what they be Cha. 23. Of the infortunate and fatall daies of the yeare as also of the good and happy daies Chap. 24 To find what planet reigneth any houre in the yeare and how long he reigneth c. 25 Of the natures properties of the 7 planets Cha. 26 A briefe discourse of the naturall causes of watery meteors as snow haile raine c. Chap. 27 Diuers signes to prognosticate what wether is towards Chap. 28 Of the foure quarters of the yeare and first of Winter Chap. 29. Certaine predictions of the weather in euery Moneth with necessary Abstracts and the poeticall rising of the starres Chap. 30 Predictions of euery day more particularly Cha. 31 Of the golden number circle of the Sunne Dominicall Letter and Epact c. Chap. 32. To get the age change full quarters of the Moone Chap. 33. To finde what signe the Sun or Moone is in Chap. 34 Of the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone and to know when they shall happen and the quantity of obscuration Chap. 35 To finde the houre of Sun-rising setting the length of the day night with the breake of day continuance of twy-light Cha. 36 To know how long the Moone shineth when shee riseth with the cause of her lesse or greater light C. 37 A Table to know the houre of the night by the moone her comming to the south the quaÌ„tity of her shining and full sea through England Chap. 37 Astronomicall Elections for phisick and chirurgery depending vpon the place and course of the Moone Chap. 38. Of the moueable Feasts and diuersities of Easter with the reason of our difference with the Romans Chap. 39. To find the moueable feasts for euer according to our English Kalender Cha. 40 To find the moueable feasts according to the Romane Church Chap. 41 Of the Ember and Fasting-dayes as also of the times of mariage Chap. 42 Of weights and measures vsed in England Chap. 43 Measures in longitude and of the length the bredth and compasse of England Ireland and the adiacent Islands Chap. 44 To know how to reckon how much your daily expences commeth to in the whole yeare very readily without a Table or Calculation Chap. 45 Of the difference of gold in finenesse and the valuation of seuerall peeces of gold with other necessary Tables Chap. 46. Of the degrees of men before the Conquest Ch. 47. The placing of Estates and Degrees of Nobility in England in this Age C. 48 Of the number of Bishops in England and how they be to take place one before the other and of the number of parish Churches in England c. Of the towns that haue Burgesses in the Parliament house with the number of parishes in euery shire Chap. 49 A Concordancy of Yeares containing a most exact Computation of time with briefe Notes out of the best Chronicles against euery yeare Also a briefe Description and vse of the same AD LECTOREM IN LAVDEM AVTHORIS ROBERTI BROVGHTON Interionis Templi Carmina A ARtis ingenij vi nixus lector in arcto R Replicat Hoptonus coÌ„modapro partria T Tramite vulgari non est ingressus at eccè H Hîc procul occultas inuenit ille vias V Vraniae motus numeros scrutatur astra R Rarus aerarum computus ecce tibi H Hinc tibi concursus lunae cum sole notatur O Ortus stellarum Cosmicus Chronicus P Pandit deliquium solis lunaeque forensi T Tum fastos memorat iustitijque dies O Optamus placeat saueas tu sin minus audin N NecquicquaÌ„ infestans rumpitor inuidiâ AD ARCTVRIVM HOPTON Annis etiamnum Iuuenilibus Homine liboro verè dignis Studijs oppidò quà m insignitum Carmine Phaleucio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Encomium AN quem Patricius docebat olim Iam tu a Scholler to the Irish Saint wrot of Genethliaque Iudgements liued vnder Vortiger about CDLX Bal. Maccius an scholae b A great Machematitian president of the publique Schooles which for those times were as our now Vniuersities at Caer leon in Munmouth not instituted by Arthur as Cay in his antiquity of Cambridge supposes but long after otherwise how could there haue beene C C. Students there about the Saxons ariuall as is witnessed in Camden out of Alexander Essâ—biensis Nor doth the Munmouth Ieffrey affirme that he instituted any Schoole there but onely that he had in the time of that pompous celebration of the Round Table-Order a Schoole of C C. Philosophers in this Citie which were altogether in coelestiall obseruations and Astrologie iudiciall Bale puts all this at Chester but vpon warâ—ant of the Brittish Story which in some things is seriously to be regarded it should be at Caerâ—leon vpon Vske stiled Isea Leg. II Aug. in Surita's Antonmus which may perhaps be meant by Ptolemâ—es 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although he places it in another people He flourished vnder Vortimer vetustae Es Maugantius Insulaenè Glasti An c Otherwise Mouinus a Monke of Glastenbury in Somerset an Astrologer in Vortiport reigne Melkinus an aemulus Bladudi Madulphi d ¶ Elmer forrein writers call him so studious in curiosities that hee aduentured the imitation of Daedalus and the British Bladud's flying but with no lesse mis-fortune About the Confessors time was he a Monk of Malmsbury in VViâ—â—shire Bal. Cent. 2. Leland Malmesburicus Lib. 1. cap. 2. Camd. Matth. Paris in Hen. 3. so called froÌ„ Maldulph a Scot or Scoto-Hibernus who with Adelm his scholler disputed wrote about the great Controuersie of celebrating the true Passouer in his true time monachus e Rohert surnamed Grosse-test Bishop of Lincolne vnder Hen. III. besides his Mathematique sufficiencies which remaine testified in his Computus Higdens Polychronicon and else where spent seuen yeares labour in framing a Brasen-head which as Orpheus his did in Lesbos should tell Of such things as befell Philostrat in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I Govver in Confess Amantis lib. 4. And seven yeres besinesse He layd but for the lachesse Of halfe a minute of an houre Fro first he began labours He lost all that he had do Such a peece of Magique performed is by an old Monke affirmed of Gerebert G. Malmsh de hist reg lib. 2. cui Gerebertus iste contrà quam alijs â—st Ioannes PP XV. De themate munâ—â— consule Petrum Alliacens ap Picum Mirand aduers Astrolog lib. 5. cap. 9. v. Iul. Firmic Bal. Cent. 3. De praestig Damonum lib. 2. cap. 4. Th. Iames in Eclog. Oxonio-Cantabrigâ—ers lib. 1. Leo Suan in comvend philâ—sâ— Paracels ad Paracels lib. 1. de vitalongá afterward Pope Syluester
at what time the Sunne hath runne through Aries Taurus and Gemini if the Spring be much moist the fruite will bee rotten and scarce but wéedes will abound if hoate the trées soone bring forth leaues the fruits of that quarter as Cheries c. will soone be ripe which being not gathered before their full maturity will bee subiect to wormes especially in warme regions but it is seldome with vs though frequent in Italy Roses will bee frome but not so swéete all such things shal better please the sight then that sent or tast if it bee cold and dry there will hoare frosts fall in the end of the quarter according to the full Moone the wine and fruits will be scarce being dry and not hot fruits will bee scarce but good with want of graine if it be cold the fruits will be late riping if it be wet with much South wind and the former Winter dry with Northen winds the next Summer will happen agues and bleerenesse dropping of the eyes and paine of the bowels A dry Spring with much Northen winds and a wet Winter full of Southerne winds going before causeth women with child to bee deliuered before their time or to bring forth weake children Gal. l. 3. Aphor. 3. So that if the quarter vary from his proper nature the commodities of the earth be made worse and scarce the ordinary diseases of this quarter bee leaprosies red spots tooth-ach feuers of bloud pushes or wheales in the face small-pox ring-wormes falling-sickenesse paines in the throate and necke the Kings euill wens griefes in the shoulders and armes causes by bloud Of Sommer SOmmer is of nature hot and dry like the fiery tryplicity or like the chollericke if taketh beginning when the Sun entreth Cancer continuing vntil he haue passed ouer Cancer Leo and Virgo and now is rage and choller most abounding being the hottest time 〈◊〉 the yeare but in the begining there rise certainâ—â—â—arres in Cancer whose vertue is to make moist especially Aselli so that the Sunne comming to them some raine falleth to fructify the earth but comming to Leo beeing neere Syrius and Procyon starres of a warme nature the heat groweth most vehement to temperate which the Etesian winds blow Lastly comming to Virgo which is a barren signe the constellation of Arcturus rising a mittigation of heat is produced with some raine If Sommer be ouer wet the Sommer fruits shall putrify and there will bee but small store of graine there will be many sickenesses if it be onely dry there will happen want of graine and Sommer fruits will be wholsome the fishes shall die in waters great sicknesses will happen if it exceede in heat many sicknesses also will happen with great store of Sommer friutes if to conclude it bee cold the yeare will bee wholsome but the fruits rotten This quarter as it is hot and dry in nature so doth it accordingly alter the humors in mans body bringing all fruits to their ripenesse cattell to their fatnesse and men to their wealth the sicknesses agreeing to the nature thereof bee griefes and torments about the breast ribbes and spléene pushes leprosy and diseases of the face as in the Spring bleard and sore eyes with other impediments therein the plurisy cough heart and stomacke-aking sorrow vexations feuers of bloud apostumes pestilence feuers the ianndise paines in the belly and secret parts with other infirmities proceeding of melancholy Of Autumne AUtumne is the fourth and last quarter Astronomicall but the third according to our English accompt by nature is cold and dry melancholy like old age resembling the element of the earth beginning at the Sunnes first ingresse into Libra producing thereby a second Equinoctiall cocquating the daies with the nights which may also be called our second Spring making an apt time to take Physicke bléed c. but in that Libra is a signe of the Airy triplicity there is produced heat with temperate moisture but comming to Scorpio the aire is made more cold and moist for Scorpio is of the watry triplicity but comming to Sagitarius a signe of the fiery triplicity accompanied with certaine starres of a warme nature there is made a restraint of the extremity of wet and cold for the good of such as sow plow If Autumne be most moist grapes will be putrified and wine bad if the end be wet there will be want of fruite the insuing yeare if the beginning be dry there will be penuria Milij if hot many sickenesses and euils if cold there is losse of haruest fruits in quantity iuyce and beauty The diseases of this quarter properly be paines in the backe darknesse of sight retention of vrine fluxes of bloud paynes in the backe and priuy parts with infirmities in the face as in the Spring also the canker fistuloes emrods the stone and grauell feuers of bloud and impediments in the eies And here note that Winter in Latine Hyems is so called ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is dimidium for the vulgar people doe diuide the yeare into two parts Sommer and Winter Winter being the greater Ver the Spring is so called à vireo vires because then omnia virent all things flourish Aestas Sommer is so called ab aestu which is à feruore by reason of heat Lastly Autumnus Autumne or Haruest is so called à bonorum anni augmentatione or it taketh name with Hipocrates ab ortu Arcturi during till the Vespertine setting of the Pleiades or of Autumnus which is morbidum or tempestiuosum these foure times be resembled to the foure Regions of the world to the foure Cardinall winds to the foure Elements to the foure quarters to the foure humors to the foure ages as in the ensuing table  Warme and dry Hot moist Cold moist Cold dry Regions of the world Oriens Meri Occid Septe Cardinall winds East South West North 4 Elements Fyre Ayre Water Earth 4 Quarters of the yeare Sommer Spring Wint. Autu 4 Humors Cholor Sangu Fleame MelaÌ„ â— Ages Youth Ma. sta Age old ag CHAP. XXX Certaine predictions of the weather in euery moneth with necessary abstracts and the Poeticall rising of the Starres Ianuary NEw-yeares day in the morning being red portends great tempest and warre after ryseth Orions girdle Vespertine troubling the ayre causing South-west winds the 10 and 11 day doth Lucida Corona produce by a Vespertine setting about which time also riseth Asellus and praesepe great causers of raine the more Iupiter being in moist signes the 12 day Asellus riseth Cosmicall the 13 Praesepe setteth Cosmicall the 20 the South part of Asellus ryseth Chronicall the 28 Sirius riseth Vespertinus the 30 Eagle riseth Cosmicall All which with Ptolemaeus bring wet and tempest some say if the Sun shine the 12 of Ianuary there shall be much winde others Prognosticate of Saint Pauls day saying if the Sunne shine it is token of a happy yeare if raine or snow indifferent if misty great death but
before and then resort vnto your Kalender finding the Moneth and the Prime in the head of the Table for that moneth Now descending downe the Columne which is vnder your Prime vntil you come against the day of the moneth there shall you finde against the said day of the moueth the true signe that the Moone is in that day Example 1612 the Prime is 17 I desire to know what signe the Moone is in the 7 day of May I therefore descend the Columne vnder 17 vntill I come against the 7 day which stands vpon the left hand the Table there I finde â™ I conclude the Moone is then in Sagittarius then the 8 day in ♑ Capricorne but the Computation and the rest of the bookes say the 8 day in Sagittarius which is false Lastly ouer each of my Tables for the Moone is placed the nature of the signe she is in To know what signe the Sunne is in The Degree and Signe that the Sunne is in stands in the last columne in the former Table for the place of the Moone vpon the right hand against the day of the moneth and vnder this Title ☉ place CHAP. XXXV Of the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone and to know when they shall happen and the quantity of obscuration THe Eclipse of the Sunne is nothing else but the conueying of the Moone which is a darke body betwixt our sight and the Sunne insomuch that the Sunne looseth no light but onely wee are depriued of the same in respect of the interposition of the Moone and this neuer happeneth but when the Sunne and Moone be in a visible coniunction for you haue your meane true and visible coniunction the which true and visible coniunction alwaies happen together when the Sunne and Moone haue no paralax which is when they bee in coniunction in the 90 degrée sâ—â— that the further the true coniunction is from the 90 degrée the greater is the difference of these two coniunctions so that you can haue no eclipse of the Sunne but when the visible coniunction is néere the Nodes Now all eclipses of the Sunne beeither totall without duration which happeneth when the Moone hath no apparent latitude at the time of the visible coniunction or partiall which duration may happen thrée manner of waies First when the diameter is only darkened as when the apparent latitude of the Moone is equal to her apparent semidiameter Secondly when there is more then his semidiameter darkened as when the Moones apparent latitude is lesse then her apparent semidiameter And lastly when there is lesse then the Sunnes diameter darkened as when the apparent latitude of the Moone is greater then her apparent semidiameter and you shall know if the apparent latitude of the Moone excéede 34 minutes 51 seconds the Sunne cannot be any thing eclipsed and the greatest eclipse the Sunne can suffer is when he is in the Auge of his Eccentricke and in his greatest eccentricity and the Moone in her opposite Auge whereby such places that bee sytuate within the compasse of the Moones shadow may loose the whele light of the Sunne the diameter whereof doth containe 280 of our English miles or thereabouts Further it may so fall out that you shall see the whole body of the Moone within the compasse of the Sunne the Sunne séeming to loose his light in the very middest and about the same will appeare a narrow shining circle of thrée quarters of an inch in bredth which happeneth when the Moone is in her Auge and the Sunne in his least eccentricity and in oppost Auge but this discourse is not fit for this volume therefore to the matter To finde the Eclipse of the Sunne You must know that the body of the Sunne is supposed to be diuided into 12 Digits and that hée is neuer eclipsed but at the new Moone therefore finde the new Moone as you bee taught before then in the row vpon your left hand vnder the title Digits ☉ sée if there stand any figure against the same for then may you conclude the Sunne to be Eclipsed the same houre that the new Moone happens and that there be so many parts of his body darkened as the figures vuder Digits ☉ expresse Example 1612. In May I finde the new Moone to happen the 20 day at 5 of the clocke and 43 min. before Noone then against the same vnder Digits ☉ stands 8 12 therefore I conclude that the Sun shall be eclipsâ—â— at that houre 8 parts and a halfe and if there â—ad stood such a marke as this â— he had bene eclipsed though not visible in our Horizon After the same order may you finde what eâ—â—ipses happen any day of any moneth for any yeare to come or thus séeke vnder the title of Digits ☉ what figures stand there and what Primes answere thereunto then finde the said Primes in the little Table before and ouer the head thereof is the yeare of our Lord God Of the Eclypses of the Moone To speake properly of an Eclypse it is an obscuration of light in the Sunne and a defection of the Moone for the Moone is a darke and grosse body hauing no light but such that thee receineth of the Sunne whereby she is neuer eclipsed but at such time that the earth is betwixt the Sun her which chanceth thee béeing at the full diametricall opposite to the Sunne and some what néere to the head or taile of the Dragon But these Eclipses of the Moone for diuers causes be not alwaies after one manner as first by reason of her vnequall latitude which sometime is nothing at all whereby the eclipse is greater in magnitude and longer in duration Another time her latitude is so great that thee falleth but a little within the shadow of the earth loosing but a little light sometime she commeth not in the shadow of the earth and then is not eclipsed for it is generall that when the Moones latitude at a true Opposition is lesser then the semidiameter of the shadow and the Moones body both being set together that the Moone will be eclipsed and the more those semidiameters exceed the latitude the greater is the Eclipse Againe these Eclipses differ in respect of the vnequall thicknesse of the shadow of the earth for the body of the Sunne as is said is greater then the body of the Earth and therefore the shadow cannot be Cylindricall or Calathoidall but onely Conicall rising beyond the earth and ending in a point but for all these and many other causes of the variety of lunar Eclipses yet we may reduce them for breuities sake into two principall heads as Totall and Partile the Totall is two-sold as either without continuance of time loofing all her light but for an instant because the semidiameter of the earth is as great as the Moones latitude and her semidiameter or totall with continuance loosing all her light for a certaine space because the semidiameter of the shadow of the earth
added the yeare of our Lord God vnto 1630 so that knowing what yeare of our Lord it is you haue vnder it both the Prime and Epact and when these yeares of our Lord God be expired then set 1631 where 1612 is and 1632 where 1613 is and so proceede whereby you make your Table serue so long as the Epact and Prime agree which is vntill 1700 be past or take 10 from our Epact found Chap. 30. so haue you the Romane Epact till 1700 after which time deduct 11 for the correption of the yeares Now to finde the moueable feasts according to the Romanes do thus First finde the Epact as before and then the Dominicall Letter for the Tabula Paschatis noua Reformata Lit. Do. Cyclus EpactaruÌ„ Dies Cinerum Pascha Resurre Ascensio Domini Pentecostes Aduent Domini D 23.22.21.20.19.18.17.16.15.14.13.12.11.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 * 29.28.27 26.25 25.24 4. Febr. 11. Feb. 18. Feb. 25 Feb. 4 mar 22. Ma. 29. mar 5 Aprill 12. Apr. 19. Apr. 30. Apr 7 May 14. may 21. may 28 may 10 May 17 may 24 may 31. may 7. June 29. No. 29 29 29 29 E 23.22.21.20.19 18.17.16.15.14.13.12.11.10.9.8.7.6 5 4 3.2.1 * 29.28.27.26.25.25.24 5. Febr. 12 Feb 9. Febr. 26. Feb. â— mar 23 mar 30. mar 6 Aprill 13. Apr. 20. Apr. 1. may 8. may 15 may 22. may 29. may 11 may 18 may 25 may 1 Iune 8 Iune 30. No. 30 30 30 30 F 23.22.21.20.19.18.17.16.15.14.13 12.11.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 * 29.28.27.26.25.25.24 6 Freb. 13. Feb. 20. Feb. 27 Feb. 6 mar 24. mar 31. mar 7. April 14. apri 21 Apr. 2. may 9. may 16. may 23 may 30. may 12 may 19. may 26 may 2 Iune 9 Iune 1. Deec 1 1 1 1 G 23.22.21.20.19.18.17.16.15 14.13.12.11.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 * 29.28.27.26.25.25.24 7. Febr. 14 Feb. 21. Feb. 28 Feb. 7 mar 25. mar 1. April 8. April 15. Apr 22 Apri 3 may 10 may 17 may 24 may 31 may 13 may 20 may 27. may 3. Iune 10 Iun. 2. Dece 2 2 2 2 A 23.12.21.20.19.18.17.16.15.14.13 12.11.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 * 29 28.27.26.25.25 24. 8. Febr. 15 Feb. 22 Feb. 1 Febr. 3 mar 26. mar 2. April 9. aprill 16. apr 23. apr 4. may 11 may 18. may 25. may 1 Iune 14. may 21 may 28 may 4 Iune 11 Iun 3 Dece 3 3 3 3 B 23.22.21.20.19.18.17.16.15.14.13.12.11.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 * 29.28.27 26.25.25.24 9. Febr. 16 Feb. 23. Feb. 2. mar 9. mar 27 mar 3 aprill 10 april 17. apr 24. apr 5. may 12. may 19 mar â—6 may 2. Iune 15 may 22 may 29 may 5 Iune 12 Iun. 2. No. 27 27 27 27 C 23.22.21.20.19.18.17.16.15.14.13.12.11.10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 * 29.20 27.26.25.25.24 10. Feb. 17. Feb. 14. Feb. 3. mar 10. mar 28. mat 1â— april 11. april 18. april 25. april 6. may 13 may 20. may 17 may 3 Iune 16 may 23 may 30 may 6 Iune 13 Iun. 28. No. 28 28 28 28 proposed yeare as you be after taught these had finde the Dominicall letter in the last Table vpon the left hand then in the square answering to that letter finde the Epact amongst the numbers there set this had procéed right wards in the same line so shall you haue the day and moneth that any of the feasts written in the top of the Table happeneth vpon This needeth no example One thing note if the proposed yeare bee Bissextile then must you finde Dies Cinerum or Ash-wednesday with the former of the letters and the rest of the feasts with the later letter A Table to finde the Circle of the Sunne and Dominicall Letter in the Romane Kalender till after Anno 1700. Ann. Do. 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620  Cyclus ☉ 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5  Litera Domini AG F E D CB A G F ED  Ann Do. 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629  Cyclus ☉ 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14  Litera Domini C B A GF E D C BA G  Ann Do. 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 Cyclus ☉ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2â— Litera Domini F E DC B A G FE D C B The vse of this Table is Find the Circle of the Sunne for the proposed yeare so haue you the Dominicall Letter vnder it or finde the yeare of our Lord so haue you the Circle of the Sunne and Dominicall Letter vnder the same And this Table you make perpetuall if when the yeares of our Lord there placed be expired you place 1640 where 1612 is and so proceed and when that circle of yeares bee finished set 1667 where 1640 was proceeding forth in like manner CHAP. XLII Of the Ember and Fasting-daies as also of the times of Mariage THere be foure times in the yeare called Anni quatuor tempora which the Church hath appointed for Ieiuniall or fasting dayee euery of which times containeth three daies Wednesday Friday and Saturday two of which fasts depends on dayes fixed the other vpon dayes moueable First we fast in the Spring to the end as all things then flourish so may also the workes of men in Sommer that we may be in charity in Autumne that we may bring forth the fruits of good workes and in winter that as the leaues fall from the trees and small hearhes dye so vice may be killed in vs and superfluities fall from vs Or we rast to temperate and moderate the humour predominating that quarter as Choler in Sommer c. as in Chap. 27. the which fasting dayes be The Wednesday Friday and Saturday after Quadragesima The Wednesday Friday and Saturday after Whitsunday The Wednesday Friday and Saturday after Holy Crosse The Wednesday Friday and Saturday after Saint Lucies day But if Holy Crosse or S. Lucies day fall vpon a Wednesday then take the Wednesday following as for other fasting dayes they be noted in the Kalender And the cause wherefore the Romanes and we obserue no fasting day betwixt the Resurrection and Ascension day is as I take it grounded vpon this Text Can the children of the Mariage Chamber fast whilst the Bridegrome is with them c. Mark 2.19 Times prohibited from Marriage from after AdueÌ„tsunday after Septuagesima 3 dayes before the Ascension till 8 daies after the Epiphany from after AdueÌ„tsunday after Septuagesima 3 dayes before the Ascension till 8 do after Easter Trinity Sunday CHAP. XLII Of Weights and Measures vsed in England In England wee commonly vse two kinde of weights as Troy and Auerdupois by the Troy weight we weigh wheat bread gold siluer and such like and this Troy weight containes in euery pound 12 ounces euery ounce 20 peny weight euery peny weight 24 graines whereby a Marke weight is 80 ounces as in the insuing Table Graines 5760 2880 1440 960 480 240 120 60 24 12 6 Peny weight 240 120 60 40 20 10 5 2½ 1 1½ 7 4 Ounces 12 6 3 2 1 ½ ¼  Pounds 1 ½ ¼  By the weight Auerdupois is weighed all kinde