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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90977	The astrologers bugg-beare being a briefe discription of many pitthy passages, which were brought to passe upon that day which the astrologers painted out for Black-Monday: whereby wee may all see and know that God's power is beyond mans expectation. Mark well and take notice, it is worth your observation. Written by L.P.	L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680?	1653 (1653)	Wing P3354; Thomason E1351_2; ESTC R209385	2,961	15

THE Astrologers Bugg-beare Being a briefe Discription of many Pitthy Passages which were brought to passe upon that day which the Astrologers painted out for Black-Monday Whereby wee may all see and know that God's power is beyond mans expectation Mark well and take notice it is worth your observation Written by L. P. London Printed for Sicnarf Seloc in the Yeare of the downfall of darke Astrology and are to be sold in Country and City by honest harmelesse people that love England and ' its Friends The ASTROLOGERS Bugg-Beare Being a briefe Description of many pitthy passages which was brought to passe upon that day which the Astrologers painted out for Black Monday CHAP. I. TO Condemne all for some mans faults were too severe a matter to work upon or to give credit to all the reports that are going were the ready way to be deceived as may appear by those late Astrologers who have bin accounted to be the chiefest men for Wisedom Knowledge and Understanding that was in all the world beside those lines which are here written of them are not written in spight nor malice of them neither doe I speake against that which is necessary in Astronomy Astronomy I hold to be very good and beneficiall if it be honestly faithfully and reasonably dealt withall as for recording what hath bin done in former ages and to fore-tell the seasons of the yeare the length of the day the changes of the Moon the circle of the Sun the nature of the Starrs and the time when is fitting for Bathing Letting blood and the like But I would not have men to undertake to study so far in Astrology whereby to write of matters more then becomes them as some of late have done to their shame discredit Whose names I need not to repeat in this discourse for they have themselves at large set forth their owne Names as you may read it in severall Almanacks as Lilly Culpepper and others who though in some things yet they all took ayme at one mark although never a one of their arrowes came to the right place they all spoke of the 29 day of March which some of them called Black-Monday More-over they reported that it would be a sad day a dismall day a day of darknesse and such a day that the like had not bin since the oldest man alive can remember also they fore-told what the effects of that sorrowfull and dreadfull Eclips of the Sun and the Moone would bring forth how that Cities should be fired Towns and Castles over-thrown great Ship-wracks at sea Robberies done on the land and that many fearfull Sicknesses and Diseases should be amongst us so that men and women should be suddenly stricken and fall down dead as they went along the streets the consideration of which matter made many people of a beliefe what things some of them had written in their Almanacks would prove to be very true nay I am perswaded that some put more confidence in Lilly then they did in God but now see what God can doe to their Sexes the very day which they had painted out to be such a dismall day as is before spoken of fell not out according to their Expectations and Prognostications yet a small Eclips was of the Sun and did visibly appeare for a little space and so the day became Faire and Cleare blessed praised and glorified be the Name of our good God for our deliverance CHAP. II. Here followeth a briefe Relation of many severall passages and strange effects which was done upon the 29 of March this present Yeare 1652. which the Astrologers called Black Monday AT the conceit of the matter which the Astrologers had written in their Almanacks concerning the horrible and terrible Eclips of the Sun bred such Rumours and Feares throughout all the Cities Townes and Countries in England that men and women were amazed and knew not how to bestow themselves nor what to doe doubting what would come to passe whereat some falling into dispaire made short dispatch and hang'd themselves others run mad about the streets and many came by untimely deaths before the day of of the Eclips came But when the day of the Eclips was come in the morning many thousand of people both in the City of London and in the Country were in such feare that although they had businesse to doe they durst not goe about their occasions doubting what danger might come upon them Some there were in London which kept fast their shops their doores and their windowes and would neither buy nor sell till they had seene that the worst was past Some that were market folkes durst not goe in the Market to sell their commodities Some lay a bed til 2. of the clock in the after-noone fasting because they durst not rise out of their beds to eate their dinners Among the rest a gallant young woman that had made promise and was to be married to a Gentleman durst not stur out of the house to goe to the Church hee having made a vow that he would not be married in any other place by which meanes she lost her love and was dismist of her husband and afterwards wisht that all the Almanack-makers were hanged for their false Predictions A. Usurer that was to receive money of a country man that was his debter on that day durst not to venter fourth of his house by which meanes the man rid forth of London and paid not in his moneyes for which cause the Usurer was about to cut his owne throat and had don it if he had not bin preuented by some of his Neighboures Some other Christians were so fearefull of what would befall that they sent their maids two dayes before Black-monday for to fetch in faire water in a redynesse to wash fearing that the ayre would infect the water Some tooke Medicines Pils and Antidotes which was administred unto them by a supposed out landish doctor which he had set bils for in severall places caling his Medicines an Antidote against the tirrible Eclipes of the Sun so he got money and they went away as wise as woodcockes yet their were some in London that proved stout hearted and said that they would neither beleve Lilly Culpepper nor any other false prophesie but that they would only trust in God to be their guid and to defend them from all evils and so went through their businesses and praised be God they speed never the worse CHAP. III. Thus having told you of many passages were done in and about the City of London upon the day that the Astraligers cald Black-monday J pray you to have the patience to hearken to some thing of what was done in the Country IT is very true the Country people in many places put so much confidence in Lilly and Culpeppers Almanackes and monthly observations that they beliued every syllable that was there written to be true and therefore vpon Black-monday they would not undertake to do no maner of busines neither would they suffer their seruants nor Children to goe forth of their doores sor feare that they should come by some strange mishap to be scorch't with the sun or to be kild with a Thunder Bolt Others thought that there would be an Egyptian darknesse ouer all the whole land wherefore the Plowmen durst not in some places to go to plow the maids were fearefull to go to milking Carriers and Trauilers were fearefull to passe along the rode nor durst they that were from home return to their own tell such time that they had seene the danger of the time ouer past which at last came to nothing But praysed be God we heare of no harm that was done to man woman nor child on that day neither in London nor in the Countryes and now we may see what it is for mortall men to presume to fortell or to prophisie of what God wil have done we may reade in the Scripture that God is onely true and all men are lyers therefore dear friends I desire you all to consider of the matter and never depend upon nor believe lyers but settle your affections your hopes your trust and your beleefe only upon God the Father and his onely Sone our Saviour Jesus Christ and so wheather we live or dye we shall be sure to doe well So to conclude I remaine your Servant so long as you serve God L. P. FINIS