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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

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 Printed in the yeare 1647. To the Reader IT is a common Proverb Dogs bark more for Custome then Fiercenesse And had I not assuredly known this Whelp Lilly to be one of that bawling Litter I should not have suffered his perpetuall snarling with that Patience and temper I did but before this would have alighted from my Saddle to hurle him one stone at the least to gnaw on But as hee is now growne bolder and blacker in the jawes I must begin to have an eye over him and a care to keepe him at a distance lest he byte mee till I bleed and thereby I become maniaque or Brain-sicke like himselfe and so be more desirous of his Liver then his Heart I shall scorne to take notice of his former Grinnings nor will I trouble my selfe or the Reader with any repetition of his by-past Fooleries frantique expressions and but a few if any of his many Errors and Mistakes so grossely committed in every of his Lowzie-Pamphlets for them indeed I have tyed and twitch'd up together in a Pack-thread as thinking them fitter for his Quondam Hell then the meanest Shelfe in my study but I will content my selfe only with that dainty bit this sweet bratt of his owne begetting Merlini Anglici Ephemeris the 4th and perhaps the last of that name And examine I shall and that strictly of what mettall it is compounded or whether it bee simple like the Dad of it and the truth you have freely as followeth The Errors mistakes and mis-aplications of Mr. Lilly's New Ephemeris c. I Will not trouble my selfe or the Reader in taking notice of any thing in his Long-winded-Preface save only the reverend mention he hath made concerning him whom he is pleased to tearm an A. B. C. felow viz. Naworth of Oxford by whom as he pretendeth hee found himselfe intollerably abused in Print and could doe no lesse then vindicate himselfe in point of Art As for the Name Naworth which William Lilly and John Booker to make their Worships merry have so often and as wisely as wittily inverted to No-worth and Worth-nothing it is well knowne to be the Letters of my name long since transposed purposely to avoid the Scandall and obloquy which both these Mounte-banks so greatly delight in and indeavour so much to assume For whereas I observed the Common people generally possessed of a confident beliefe or rather a foolish conceipt that such as could write Almanacks were esteemed with a Country-reverence Wise-men like Lilly and Booker or if I shall render it in their owne Dialect Conjurers or such as can tell all things past present and to come And so were usually haunted by the silly people with a number of unlawfull unnecessary and ridiculous questions by meanes whereof many ingenious and honest Artists have not only been branded with the titles of Conjurers Necromancers Wizards Sorcerers and Figure-Casters in the worst sense but have often been imprisoned and Indicted and proceeded against upon the Statute against Witchcraft c. and hardly escaped with their lives especially when they came before Judges that were ignorant in or disaffected to Astrology after they had suffered severall yeares imprisonment and thereby wasted and consumed their estates I say that I having resolved to write yearly which was not usuall without prefixing a name nor for the reasons above-mentioned would I then publish any thing of that nature in my owne name I therefore Anagramatiz'd my name to Naworth and by that Name I writ an Almanack for severall yeares together and continued unknowne unlesse to some two or three of my friends whereby I seasonably prevented the before-named inconveniences and hazards which otherwise I should inevitably have shared of And I presume that in doing this I neither wrong'd my selfe nor abused the Countrie where I lived And what ever other witty construction may be made thereof by these two trifling Gypsies by this they may perceive I tooke no delight as they doe to be tearm'd a Conjurer a Magician a Cabalist a Merline a trucking Mercury or any thing else whereby they desire and indeavour so much to promote and propagate their deceitful unwarrantable dealings And whereas Lilly in the same Preface chargeth me under the same name to have wrested many false judgements from Astrologie against the Parliaments actions intending thereby to prepossesse the Kingdome with a vaine feare that his Majestie and his designes should take place c. I must tell him that this his Accusation is most maliciously false And let him shew me if he can but one Aphorisme or Sentence that ever I delivered for which I either quoted not my Authors or gave a sufficient reason in Astrology or that ever of which I shall hereafter prove him apparently guiltie I wrested any part of Astrology from the Genuine sence thereof either to make for his Majestie or against the Parliament And if it hath pleased God to suffer the loyall party thus to bee trampled over it is for their sinns and carries with it a supernaturall Cause and Reason above the stars which could not be discerned by the clearest mortall eye No Symtome of such our sufferings could be read or observed by any man in the great Booke of Heaven but rather the quite contrary as I could instance for many reasons in Astrology And whatsoever I spoke or writ was as your owne sence implyes ever with submission to divine Providence But I will not busie my selfe so much as to examine and retort every Tatter of his ragged-Preface nor shall I need to vindicate his Majesties Officers whom hee is therein pleased to tearme Ravenous from his polluted lips I see no reason why they may not meet with a fitter occasion and opportunitie to requite him but the thing I have proposed to my selfe is first to ferret the poore Quack in point of Art and afterwards in matter of Judgement The first thing and indeed the only thing that 's worth my observation is his Transcript of Eichstadius his Ephemerides for the year 1647. wherein indeed he hath taken a great deale of paines and deserves to be commended for this indifatigable Labour but withall I must tell him that hee hath therein greatly betrayed his owne ignorance in Astronomy or shewed himselfe exceedingly negligent and carelesse in that he hath not fitted the places of the Sunne Venus and Mercury but especially the Moone to the Meridian of London as he hath done to his thinking in the Lunations and aspects of the Planets nor which had been more easie and sooner done prescribed any Rule or Direction whereby to supputate their true places for that Meridian or any other place of the Kingdome And this Error hee hath beene guilty of throughout the two former yeares whereby our young Tyro's are much deceived in the Merline