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A88292	The vvorld's catastrophe, or Europes many mutations untill, 1666. The fate of Englands monarchy untill its subversion. Government of the vvorld under God by the seven planetary angels; their names, times of government. An exact type of the three suns seen in Cheshire and Shropshire, 3 April 1647. Their signification and portent, astrologically handled. / By VVilliam Lilly student in Astrologie: who is, amicus patria, & veritas amator. To which is added, A whip for Wharton.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Merlin Ambrosius.; Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2252; Thomason E387_1; ESTC R201490	73,237	78

Nations and several alterations of Empires Originall of Venetians The Venetians from this time do compute and reckon the originall both of their people and City from the Trojans And its observable that very many other Nations as well in Europe as in A●●a pretend to have taken their originall from the Trojans to whom I thought good to give so much credit as they themselves were able to perswade me was truth upon sufficient testimony and proof The Arguments they produce concerning their Nobility and Antiquity are frivolous being desirous to magnifie themselves openly as if there were no People or Nation in Europe before the Destruction of Troy or as if there had been no Pesant or Clown amongst the Trojans Saul Under the moderation also of this Planet Saul was made first King of the Jews after him David whose son King Salomon built in ●erusalem the Temple of the true God the most famous and glorious of the whole world from hence the Spirit of God illustrating and enlightening his Prophets with a more ample illumination of his grace they did not only foretell of the future incarnation of our Lord and Saviour but also many other things as holy Scriptures do testifie amongst whom were Natha● son of King David G●d A●ap● Achias Se●●i●s A●arias Anan and many others Homer Gabriel Angel of the Mo●n his second time of ruling An. 4●52 Homer the Greek Poet VVriter of T●●ys Destruction Dares Phrygius D●●●● C●e●e●sis who were themselves at the rasing and sacking thereof and have likewise described it are supposed to have been alive near about these times The thirteenth time in order Gabriel the Spirit of the Moon again undertook the ordering of this world the 30 day of Ianuary in the year from the beginning of the Universe 4252 and he presided in his Government 354 years 4 moneths untill the year of the World 4606 and fourth moneth In this time many Prophets were famous and excelled amongst the Jews viz. Helias Helis●us Micheas Abdias with many others There were many alterations of the Kingdom of the Jews L●c●●g●● gave Laws and Ordinances to the Lacedemonians Heliah Ca●●tus Sylvius Lyberius Sylvius Romulus Sylvius Pr●●●s Sylvius Nu●it●r Kings of Italy flourished during the moderation of this spirit more Kingdomes also had their Originall or foundation under him as those of the Lydians Medes Macedonians S●a●tans and others the Monarchy of Assyrians under Sardanapalus Decay of Assyrian monarchy now ended And in like manner the Kingdome of the Macedonians was consumed or worn out Sundry lawes are imposed on men the worship of the true God is neglected and the Religion of false Gods too much p●opagated the City of Rome is built City of Rome under the Dominon of this Spirit in the year 1484 which yeare in order was the 239 of the Angell Gabriel the Kingdome of the Sylv●a●s in Italy now ended and that of Rome began in these times Thales C●●lon P●●iander Cleobulus Bias and Pitta●us Seven wise men of Greece the s●aven wise men of Greece florished and from thence ●hilosophers and Poets came into request At Rome Romulu the first founder of the City reigned 37 years being a Fratricide and a stirre● up of Sedition After whom Nu●● Pompilius continued that Kingdome in peace full 42 years he amplified the worship of the Gods and lived in the time of Hezektah King of Iudea About the expiration N●buchad●nozor of this Angell of the Moon his government Nebuchad●nozor King of Babylon took Hi●rusalem and destroyed Zed●bia● the King and carryed away all the people Captive Hieremiah the Prophet was now famous who fore-told this destruction as also their future delivery from Babylon When Gabriel had finished his co●●se againe Michael Angell of the Sun did assume Michael the Angel of the sun his second return A●●● 4606. the 14. government of the World who began the first day of the moneth of May in the year of the World 4606. the fourth moneth and did rule the World according to his own order 354. years untill the year of the Worlds Creation 4960. and eighth moneth In the time of this Angels moderation Evill Merodach King of Babylon did restore both their Liberty and King to the people of the Jews according to the direction of the Angell Michael who as Daniel wrote stood for the Nation of the Jews unto whom they were committed by God In these times likewise the Monarchy of the Kingdome of Persians began whose Persian monarchy destroys the Assyrian first King Darius and the second Cyrus did bring to nothong or utterly ruine that most powerfull Kingdome of Babylon in the dayes of Bal●●azar as Daniel and the Prophets had predicted In these times Sybilla Cuma●a was much spoken of and grew famous who Sybilla Cuma●a brought 9 books to Tarqui●●●● Pris●us the King to be bought for a certain price in which were contained the reason order and succession of future Avisements of the whole common-wealth of the Romans But when the King refused to give her the price demanded Sybilla the King seeing it burnt the three first books demanding the same price for the other six which when again he had denyed to give her she committed to be burnt three of those remaining and would have done so by the rest unless the King by perswasion and Councell of others had not redeemed them from consuming giving the same price for the three last for which he might have had the whole nine Moreover the Romans having abrogated Government by Kings constituted two Consuls to reign every year Phalaris the Tyrant in these times occupied Sicilia Magique or naturall Philosophy was also in these times highly esteemed amongst the Kings of Per●● Pythagoras Pythagoras the Philosopher and very many others flourished amongst the Greeks the Temple and City of Hierusalem are a new reedified Esd●as Esd●as the Prophet repaired the books of M●ses burned by the Ch●lde●ns who were also called Babylonians and committed them to memory for example X●●xes King of the Persians brought his Army against the Greeks but had no success Socrates Plato therein The City of Rome is taken burned and destroyed by the Ga●●es the Capitoll only preserved by a Goose stirring up the weary Champions The Athenians had eminent wars in these times Socrates Plato Philosophers lived now Tribunes Aediles The Romans lessened the power of their Consuls instituted Tribunes Aedils and were also about these times involved in many calamities Alexander the great Persian monarchie overth own after the expiration of the rule of Michael reigned in Macedonia destroyed the Monarchy of the Persians in Darius conquered all Asia and annexed it with part of Europe to his own Empire He lived 33 years reigned 12. after whose death infinite wars and many mischiefs followed and his Monarchy became divided amongst four Now amongst the Jews first of all they began to contend for the Priesthood the Kingdome of Syria

gushing out with tears assumeth the Spirit of Prophecy and saith Wo unto the Red Dragon for his ruin approcheth The White Dragon shall possess his Dens which signifieth the Saxons whom thou hast invited but the Red Dragon designeth the Nation of Britain which shall be oppressed of the White Therefore shall the Mountains thereof be levelled as the Valleys and the Rivers of the Valleys shall stream with blood The purity of Religion shall be defaced and the ruine of Churches shall be manifested At length the oppressed shall prevail and shall withstand the Tyrannie of strangers For the Boar of Cornwell shall assist and shall trample the necks of them under his feet The Isles of the Ocean shall be subject to his Authority and shall possess the French Forrests Rome shall tame his ●yrannie and his end shall be doubtfull He shall be famous in the mouth of the multitude and his actions shall be as meat to those that recount them Six of his successors shall attain the Scep●● but after them shall a German Worm arise The Sea-wolf shall magnifie him whom the Affrican Forrests shall accompany Religion shall again be defaced and there shall be a transmutation of the chief Seats The dignity of London shall adorn Cant●bu●y and the 7. Pastor of York shall be often in the Lesser Britanie Anglisea shall be cloathed with the garment of the City of Legions and the Preacher of Ireland shall be silent by reason of an infant growing in the Womb. It shall rain blood and a horrible dearth shall afflict men These things coming on a sudden the Red Dragon shall fret but with much ado he shall flourish Then shall the white Dragons calamity approach and the buildings of his little Villages shall be overthrown Seven kings shall be destroyed and one shall be hallowed The mothers bellies shall be ript open and the children shall be abortive There shall be a wonderfull great punishment of men that the Natives may be restored He that shall do these things shall become a Brazen-man and he shall for a long time after keep the Gates of London upon a Brazen-horse From thenceforth the red Dragon shall return to his peculiar temperature and shall indeavour to exercise cruelty upon himself Therefore shall the wrath of the most high come suddenly upon him for the fields shall frustrate the labour of the hasbandman A sudden mortality shall snatch away the people and shall sweep away whole Nations Such as be left shall forsake their Native soil and shall sow their corn in Forraign Countreys A blessed King shall prepare a ship and in a Princes Court he shall be numbred among the 12. blessed There shall be a lamentable desolation of the Kingdom and the Barn-floores full of Corn shall be turned into unprofitable woods The white Dragon shall arise the second time and shall invite the daughter of Germany Our little villages shall once more be replenished with a strange generation and the red Dragon shall languish in the end of the Lake Afterward shall the German Worm be crowned and the Brazen Prince shall be humbled A bound is set him which he cannot pass For he shall remain 150. years in disquiet but he shall be in subjection 300. years Then shall the North wind rise against him and shall snatch away the Flowers which the west wind begot Churches shall be beautified yet shall not the sword depart The German Worm shall hardly keep his den because vengeance shall suddenly come upon him for his treacherie at length he shall flourish for a while but the Decimation of the Normans shall offend him for the people shall ru●h in upon him in wooden horses and Iron coats who shall be revenged of his naughtiness He shall restore to the former inhabitants their possessions and the destruction of the Aliens shall then appear the branches of the White Lion shall be cut off from our Territories and the remainder of his generation shall be tenth'd They shall undergo the yoke of perpetuall servitude and they shall wound their mother with mattocks and ploughs Two Dragons shall succeed whereof one shall be choaked by the dart of envy but the other shall return under the shadow of a Kingly name The I yon of justice shall follow at whose roaring the French ●owers and the Island Dragons shall tremble In his days shall gold be squeazed out of the Lilly and Nettle and silver shal be extracted out of the hoofs of the lowing beasts The spruce Fantasticks of the times shall put on changeable garments and their outward habits shall bewray the vanity of their mindes The greedy hounds shall be ham-string'd the Beasts of the Forrest shall rest in quiet humanity shall bewail the punishment the coyn shall be cleft and each half shall be made round The ravenousness of the Kites shall be consumed and the teeth of the Wolves shall be broken the Lions whelps shall be turned into Seasithes and his Eagle shall build her nest upon Mount M●riana Vendoria shall be dyed red with her mothers blood and the house of Corim●● shall slay fix brothers The Isle shall be damp with her mighty tears whereupon all men shall be provoked to all things Wo unto thee Normandy for on thee shall the brain of the Lion be wasted and his Members being torn in pieces shall be thrown out of his Native soil They that succeed shall indeavour to remove the Crown but the love of new Kings shall be extol'd For his goodness he shall be abused by the wicked untill he become a Father Therefore being armed with the teeth of the Boar he shall pass over the tops of the Mountains and the shade of the helmet the Highlanders of Scotland shall be displeased and having assembled their Collaterals shall proc●●m war He shall put a bridle in the jaws of him which shall be established in the very bosom of little Britany The Eagle of the broken truce shall beautifie it and shall rejoyce in his third building The whelps of the roaring Lion shall awaken and the Forrests being forsaken shall be hunted beneath the walls of the Cities and shall commit great slaughter upon such as withstand them and shall cut out the tongues of the Bulls they shall load the necks of the roaring Lions with chains and shall renew the ancient times Afterward the Regall unction shall pass from the first to the fourth from the 4. to the 3. from the 3. to the second The sixt shall overthrow the wals of Ireland and shall turn the forrests thereof into plain fields He shall reduce divers kingdoms into one and he shall be crowned with the head of a Lion His beginning shall be in a restless and wavering affection but his end shall be blessed for he shall repair the decayed Monasteries throughout the Country and shall place Preachers in convenient places He shall cloath two cities with two garments and he shall bestow Virgins gifts upon Virgins for which he shall me●● the favour of God and

discerning of Nobility begun to be taken notice of which was when men in their manner of living and in wisdom did excell the rest of men undertaking Trophies of glory from the great ones of the earth as rewards for their merits From hence first of all the whole world began to come into the knowledge of men whilest every where the Nations being multiplied many Kingdoms did arise and various differences of tongues did follow Anael the secondtime His rule begins 2● Octob. 2834. Increase of Idolatry The ninth time in order and course Anael the Angel of Venus began again to sway the world the 29. day of October and in the year of the Creation of Heaven and earth 2834. and 8 moneth and he presided 354. years four moneths untill the year of the VVorld 3189. In these times men forgetting the true God began to honour the dead and to worship their Statues for God which Errour hath infected the World more then two thousand years Men did now devise curious and costly Ornaments for better trimming and adorning their bodies found out divers kindes of Musicall Instruments again men prosecuted too much the lust and pleasures of the flesh instituting Zachariel the second time his rule Ann● 3189. and dedicating Statuas and Temples to their Gods Witchcraft and Incantations in these times were first excogitated by Zor●●ster King of the Bactria●s and divers others as well as he whom Nim● King of Ass●●ia overcame in War In order the tenth time Zachariel the Angel of Jupiter again began to rule the world the last day of February in the year of the building or framing the heaven and earth 3189. and he moderated according to his custom and manner 354. years and four moneths untill the year of the world 3543. and fourth moneth These were joyfull times and might truly be called golden wherein there was plenty of all manner of usefull things which much conduced for the increase of mankinde giving thereby exceeding beauty and adornment to the things of this World In like manner about this time God gave to Abraham the Law of Circumcision The restauration of mankinde promised and first of all promised the Redemption of Mankinde by the Incarnation of his onely begotten Son Under the Government of this Angel the Patriarchs first Founders of Justice were famous and the righteous were divided from the ungodly by their own proper indeavour and consent About these times in Arcadia Iup●ter grew famous who was stiled also Lisania Iupiter king of Arcadia the Son of Heaven and God a King who first of all gave Laws to the Arcadians made them very civill in their manners and behaviour taught them the worship of God erected them Temples instituted Priests procured many advantagious benefits for mankinde for which his so great benefits he was by them termed Jupiter and after his death accounted for a Deity or God He had his Original from the sons of Heber viz. Gerar as ancient Histories do record to posterity Prometheus also the son of Atlas is reported under the Government of this Angel Promet●●us to have made Men onely because of rude and ignorant he made them wise and knowing humane courteous accomplished in learning and manners he made Images by Art to move of themselves He first found out the use of the Ring Scepter Diadem and all kingly ornaments In or about these times other joviall men did excell men most wise and women also who by their own understanding delivered many profitable inventions to mankinde who being dead for the greatness of their wisdom were reputed as Gods viz. Phoroneus who first of all instituted amongst the Greeks Laws and judgements as also Sol Min●rva Ceres Setap●● amongst the Aegyptians and very many besides In order the 11. time Raphael the Angel of Mercury again undertook the ordering Raphael the Angel of Mercury the second time returns An. 3543. of the world the first day of the moneth of Iuly in the year of the world 3543. and fourth moneth he continued in his Commands 354 years and four moneths untill the year of the Creation of heaven and earth 3897. and 8. moneth Verily in these times as it evidently appears from the Histories of the Ancients men more earnestly applied themselves to the study of wisdom amongst whom the last learned and most eminent men were Mercurius Bacchus Om●gy us Isis Inachus Argus Apollo Ce●●ops and many more who by their admirable inventions both profited the world then and posterity since Severall Superstitions also about these times concerning the worship of their Idols were instituted by men Sorceries Incantations and Arts of framing Diabolical Images were now in a marvellous manner increased and whatsoever either of subtilty or wit that could possibly be attributed to the invention or cunning of Mercury about these times did exceedingly increase Moses the wisest Commander of the Hebrews expert in the knowledge of many Moses things and Arts a Worshipper of one onely true God did deliver the people of Israel from the slavery of the Ae●ypt●a●s and procured their liberty Ianus About this time Janus first of all reigned in Italy after him Saturnus who instructed his people to fat their grounds with soile or dung and was accounted or esteemed for a God ●●●mus inventor of the Greek Letters Manifestation of Divine Law Near these times Ca●mus found out the Greek Letters or Characters and C●ment●● the daughter of Evander the Latine God Omnipotent under the Government of this Ra●h●●● the Angel of Mercury delivered by the hands of Moses to his people a Law in writing which giveth a manifest testimony of our Saviour I●sus Christ his future birth and nativity to be born in the flesh Here arose in the World a wonderful diversity of Religions During these times here flourished many Sybills Pr●●hets Diviners Soothsayers or such as used inspection into the entrals of Beasts Magitians or Wise-men Poets as Sybills Eryth●●● she of the Isle of Del●hos she whom we call the Phrygian because she lived in Phrygia with the rest Samuel the Angel of Mars his second Government A● 38●7 Again in order the twelfth time Samuel the Angel of Mars began to exercise his Dominion upon the world the second day of the moneth of October in the year of the world 3897 and eighth moneth and his time of ruling was 354 years and four moneths from thence untill the years 4251 under whose Empire and rule was that great and most famous Destruction of Troy in A●●a the less as also an admirable mutation and alteration of Monar●hy and many Kingdoms together with Destruction of Troy new institutions or moldings of many Cities as Paris Mogunce Carthage Naples and very many besides these Many new Kingdoms were newly erected or now had their first beginning as that of the ●acede●●●●an● Corinthians Hebrews and divers more Here in these times all over the whole world there was very great wars and B●t●ls of Kings and

began After the Spirit of Michael had finished his course then the 15 time in order Orifiel Orifiel angel of Sa●urn his 3. return An 4960. Punick War Calamity of Rome Colossus destroyed the Angell of Sa●urn the third time assumed the regulating of this World the last day of the moneth of Sept●mber in the year from the building of the Universe 4960. and eighth moneth and he did rule in Chief 354 years 4 monethes untill the year of the World 5315. Under whose moderation the Punick war began betwixt the Romans and Carthaginians the City of Rome was almost wholly consumed by fire and water The Brazen Molten Image called Colossus in length one hundred and twenty six foot fell down being shaken by an earthquake At or near this time the City of Rome enjoyed peace one year after the Punick War which Common-wealth had never been without War in 440 years before Hierusalem together with the Temple is burnt and destroyed by Anti●●bus and Epiphanes the History of the Machabees and their Wars were now acted Carthage ●●●●d In these times Carthage 606 years after its first foundation is destroyed and burned continually by the space of 17 whole dayes In Sicilia seaventy thousand slaves made a Conspiracy against their Masters many prodigies Mithridates Many Prodigies in these times were beheld in Europe tame domesticall cattle fled to the Woods it raigned blood a fiery Ball shined appeared and glistered out of heaven with great noyse and crackling Mithridates King of P●ntus and Armenia held Wars with the Romans 40 years The Kingdome of the Jews is restored which had interruption 575 years from the time of Zedechia untill Arist●●ulu● The people also of Germany called the Theutones invaded the Romans and after many fights are overcome and one hundred and threescore thousand of them slain besides innumerable others of them who slew themselves and familiars under Casus and Manlius the Consuls notwithstanding this many of the Romans were before this cut off by them after which time Civill Wars did much shake Three Suns the Romane Common-wealth which endured full 40 years Three Suns appeared and were seen in Rome but not long ere they were reduced into one A very few years succeeding ●ulius Caeju● Caesa● usurped the government of the Romans which Octavius Augustus after him amplified and ●oyned Asia Africk and Europe into one Monarchy he reigned 36 years by whom or whose means God gave peace to the whole World In the year from the building of the City 751 and of Caesar Octavius Augustus 42. and in the 24● year and eighth moneth the 25 of December of the government of the aforesaid Orifiel the Angell of Saturne ●esu● Christ the Son of God is born in Bethe●●n of Iudea of Mary the Virgin Note how faire and wonderfull the Ordination of Divine providence is For the World at first was created under the rule of Saturn his Angell Orifiel and mercifully redeemed instaurated and made new again under his third government so that the great number and agreement of concurring Actions may seem to administer no small beliefe to this manner of description or setting forth that this World is governed by the seaven Angels of the Planets for in the first Gubernation of Orifiel there was one only Monarchy of the whole World under his second as we mentioned before it was divided amongst many Again during his third as is manifest it was reduced into one although if we consider or measure time aright it is manifest also that in the second government of Orifiel there was but one only Mon●rchy when the Tower of Babel was built From this time forward the Kingdome of the Jews was quite taken away and the sacrifice of meat-offerings ceased nor shall liberty be restored to the Jews before Increase of of Christian Religion the third Revolution of the Angell Michael and this shall be after the Nativity of Christ in the year 1880 the eighth moneth viz. In the year of the World 7170. and eighth moneth Many of the Jews in those times and of the Gentiles also shall embrace Christian Religion most plain and simple men preaching the word of God whom no humane institution but a divine spirit hath inspired The World shall then be brought to its first innocency of its simplicity the Angell of Saturne Orifiel governing the World every where Coelestiall things are mixed with earthly many of the Christians for that ●aith which they did Preach shall be slaughtered by the rulers of this World About the ending of the Moderation of Orifiel Hierusalem is destroyed by the Romans and the J●●s are dispersed into every Nation there being massacred of them eleven hundred thousand and four score thousand sold for slaves the residue of them fled Iudea destroyed Anael Angell of Venus his third return and Government and so the Romans wholy destroyed Judea After that Orifiel had finished his government Anael the Angell of Venus the sixteenth in order the third time reassumed his Regiment of the World the last day of Ianuary in the year of creating the Heaven Earth 5315. but from the year of the birth of Christ 109. and he regulated the affaires of the World 354 years 4 moneths untill the years of the World 5669. 4 moneths but of the Nativity of our Saviour Iesus Christ in the flesh 463. And its remarkable that almost during the whole rule of this Anael the Angel of Venus the Church of Christians did flourish in her persecutions and prevailed many thousands of men being Butchered for the Faith of Christ Moreover in these times very many Heresies began to be broached in the Church which were not extinguished but after some time and with labour the blood of good men Many men were eminent about these times in all manner of learning and such as were learned and Eloqu●nt Divines Astronomers Physitians Orators Historiographers and men of like quality not only amongst the Gentiles but Christians At length the persecution of I●fidels ceased after that Constantine Caesar the great had assumed the Christian faith in the year of the World 5539 after the middle of the Government of the aforesaid Anael the Angell of Venus Although those pre●essing the Religion and faith of Iesus Christ in some measure were now and then disturbed and molested by the Ungodly Yet notwithstanding the peace of the Church did remain free from molestation a long time From this time forward Mankinde which from the time of Ninus the King for almost the space of two thousand and three hundred years had most miserably gone astray about the worship of Idols was now revoked mercifully to the knowledge of one only God Various Arts of Subtilty in these times were augmented and had increase and reputation according to their conveniencie unto the nature of Venus For the manners of men are changed with the time and the inferiour bodies are disposed according to the influence of the superiors The mind of man verily is

shall be numbred among the blessed A Woolf-like beast shall come out of him penetrating all things who shall indeavour the ruin of his own Nation for by him the Normans shall lose both the Isles and shall be bereaved of their Pristine dignity From thenceforth shall the ancient Inhabitants return to their own Isle for variance shall arise among the aliens Likewise a venerable old man upon a white horse shall divert the river of Periton and with his white Scepter shall dispose of the Mill thereon standing Cadwalader shall call home the ●inani and shall receive the Highlanders into fellowship Then shall there be great slaughter committed on the Forraigners then shall the rivers stream with blood then shall the mountains of little Britain burst out and shall be crowned with the Diadem of Brute Wales shall be filled with joy and the Oaks of Cornwall shall wax green The Isle shall be called by the Name of Brute and the memory of the strangers shall be forgotten From Conanus shall come a warlike Boar who shall exercise the sharpness of his teeth within the French Forrests for he shall hew down all the greater Oaks but he shall give protection to the lesser The Arabians and Affricans shall quake for fear of him for the violence of his motion shall threaten the further Spain A Goat of the Venerean house shall succeed him having golden horns and a silver beard who shall breath forth such a cloud from his Nostrils as that the surface of the whole Isle shal be obscured There shal be peace in his days and by the fruitfulness of the earth all sorts of grain shal be multiplied Women by reason of their Lewdness shal be made Serpents and every step they make shal be filled with pride The tents of V●us shal be renewed neither shal the darts of Lust leave off to wound The Rivers shal be turned into blood and two Kings shal fight a duel for the Lyoness of Stafford Every one shal wantonize and civility it self shal not forbear to admit of contraries All these things three ages shal see fulfilled until the interred Kings within the City of London shal be discovered Famine shal again infest mort●lity shal once more return and the inhabitants shall lament the desolation of their Cities A ●ear of commerce shall unexpectedly arise who shall bring back his scattered droves to their forsaken Pastures His brest shall be food to the Hungry and his tongue shall appease the thirsty Rivers shall flow from his mouth which shall refresh mens dried cheeks Afterward a Tree shall be procreated upon the Tower of London which having only three ●oughs shall obscure the face of the whole Isle with the breadth of its leaves From hence the North winde its enemy shall suddenly arise and by its cruell blast shall snatch away the third bough thereof The other two shall supply the room thereof untill by the multitude of their leaves one shall cover another But afterward it shall obtain the room of two and shall sustain Birds of Forraign Nations It shall be accounted obnoxious to the Native Birds for through the fear of its shadow they shall lose their flying-young An unprofitable Asse shall succeed ready in punishing counterfeiters of gold but slow in revenging the ravening of Wolves In those daies the Oaks throughout the Forrests shall burn and Accorns shall grow upon the boughs of Lindens The Severn shall run through seven Gates and the river Osca shall wax hot for the space of seven moneths The Fishes therein shall die by the heat thereof and of them shall Serpents be ingendred The Baths of Bado shall frieze and their wholsome waters shall become poysonous London shall lament the slaughter of 20000. men and the river of Thames shall be turned into blood Monks shall be compelled to marriage and the noise of them shall be heard in the Mountains of the Alps. Three Fountains shall burst out in the City of Winchester whose little brookes shall divide the Isle into three parts he that shall drink of one shall prolong his life neither shall he be afflicted with any sudden feebleness He that shall drink of the other shall perish with hunge and a wanuess and horror shall possess his face He that shall drink of the third shall die a sudden death neither shall his body be bu●ied But if his dead body shall be thrown upon the water the ashes thereof shall be turned into water Her upon a Damos●ll shall come from the City of Can●●us of the Forrest to prepare a Medicine whereby as she shall understand all Arts she shall dry up the obnoxius Fountains by the only vertue of her breath Afterward to refre●h her self with the wholsome Liquor she shall carry the Calidonian Forrest in her right hand but in her left hand the Bulwarks of the Walls of London What way soever she shall pass she shall leave sulphureous tracks behinde her which shall smoak with a double flame That smoak shall stir up the Ruche●s and shall destroy the Fithes of the Sea She shall continue in lamentable sorrows and shall fill the Isle with her hortible out-●ry A●tagg of ten branches shall slay h●r four of which branches shall carry together the golden Diadems But the other six shall be turned into the Horns of the wilde Oxen. which by a horrible noise shall shake the three Isles of Bri●●nie The Forrest of Daneum shall be stirred up and with a gentle voice shall call Come Wales and joyn Cornwall to thee and say to the City of Winchester The Earth ●●all 〈◊〉 a●●ow thee up Transfer the seat of thy Pastor whither the Birds do flock and the other Members shall follow their head For the day draweth near whereon the Inhabitants shall be destroyed for the sin of perjury The whiteness of their Wooll and the diversity of their Tincture hath offended Wo be to that perjured Nation by whose means a noble City shall be destroyed The Birds shall rejoyce at so great an increase and two shall be made one And a Hedghogg laden with fruit shall rebuild it to the smell whereof Birds of divers Forrests shall fl●ck He shall adjoyn thereto a wonderfull great Palace and shall strengthen the same with 600 Towers In every of which a Senator shall be appointed who shall give Laws unto the Subjects Therefore shall London envy her and shall increase her Walls th ice so much as formerly they were The river Thames shall incompass her on every side and the rumour of the works shall trans●end the Alps. The Hedghog shall hide his fruits within her and shall plot secretly against her In that day the stones shall speak and the Sea that leads to France shall be contracted into a narrow room One man shall hear another from either shoar and the whole Isle shall be enlarged The wonders of the do●● shall be revealed France shall quake for feare After these things a Hearn shall proceed from the forresh Callaterio● which shall fly

the strength of the Empire The Normans harrowed France Rome is twice scourged by the Saracens under Lodowick the second it raigned blood from Heaven in Italy by the space of three whole dayes In Saxo●y a certain village with all its buildings and inhabitants was in a moment swept away by an horrible gaping or opening of the earth Othos Emperors Translation of the Empire to the Germans Hungaria conve●ed Orig●nall of the Princes Hestors Henry the ●●●st sounder of the Church of Bamburg About the year of our Lord God 910 there were many great motions in Italy and Italy sell from the Empire of the Franks or Franconians and ordained proper kings for themselves of their own election the first whereof was Berengarius the Duke of Fo●olivium after whom seven in order succeeded near upon fifty years untill the translation of the Empire unto the Germans The first Emperour that was thereof was Otho from which time the Empire began to be reformed unto whom Otho his son and his Nephew Otho after succeeded in the Empire under whose Government the Hungarians are converted to the Christian Faith But the third Otho dying without children instituted after his death Electors of the Empire in the year of Christianity 1002. even as they remain to this present day Ierusalem is again taken by the Saracens many strange sights are seen in the air in the Heavens in the Earth and sea and in waters But Otho the third being dead Henry the first by election of the Princes succ●eded raigned 20. years who founded the Church of Bamburg and dying a Virgin together with his wife Kunigunda he shone gloriously in miracles ister whom Co●●ade first Duke of the Francks is chosen and ruled 20. years Godsrey Ea●l of Bullen also recovered the holy Land and City of Jerusalem from the hands of the Infidels Before the end of this Revolution many signs and Prodigies were seen and a little time after the Nation of the Tartars exceeded the bounds of their own Country and did many mischiefs to the Empire of Rome There was Famine Pestilence Earthquakes in the Empire Three suns were seen in the East and as many Moons In the year of our Lord God 1153. Frederick first called Barbarossa began to reign and ruled 33. years the beginning of 3 S●nns scen whose Government was in the 336. year of Ra●ha●l He did many noble exploits and enlarged the strength of that Empire performed sundry wars with great success in whose ninth year the Egians and Lituotrians were converted to the Faith Samuel Angel of Mars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to governe the third time Anno 6378. of Christ Samuel the Angel of Mars in order the nineteenth time came to accept of the Gubernation of the universall world it being now his third returne and this he did the third day of Ma●h Anno Mundi 6378. and he regulated mundane affaires 354. years four moneths untill the years of the World 6732. fourth moneth and of our Lord God 1525. under whose predominancy many wars were all over the whole world by which means infinite thousands of men perished and sundry 〈◊〉 Kingdoms lost their former bounds betwixt Frederick the first Emperour and the Romane Nobility many controversies arose sundry great battels were fought and many thousands of Romans perished The aforesaid Frederick did wholy subvert Mediolenum Leige is destroyed Hierusolem Leige is again taken by the Saracens the Empire of the Tartarians the greatest in the whole World about these times took its beginning occasioned a very great plague in the World nor yet do they cease After Frederick Henrie his Son is elected Emperour Who being dead Schism Rumors of VVars confounds that Empire under Philip and Otho many battel 's followed in the confines of Germany ●rgentin● Cullen Liege Wormes Sp●res and all over the Kingdom The sect of begging or Mendicant Friars began in these times in the 40 year or thereabouts of Samael from whence it is most apparent that all things are done by providence The Sarazens fought many battels against the Christians in Asia and Africk Constantinople is taken by the Germans Baldwin Earl of Flanders is instituted Emperour In ●lmain more then twenty thousand young men are drowned in the Sea by Pyrats who seduced by a vain spirit did give forth they would recover the holy land From Spain many shepheards or keepers of cattle united themselves together coming to Paris dispoiled the clergy of their livelyhoods the common people taking part with them or being well pleased with it But when they extended their hands to take away the goods of the Layity they were quite cut off and destroyed In the year of Christ 1212. Frederick the second is elected he reigned 33. years Eclips and Earthquake and did many acts against the Church In the yeare 1238. an Eclipse and a continual Earthquake undid many thousands of men Frisia also by continuall incursions of the sea was almost wholly drowned and there did perish more then one hundred thousand of men and women The Tartars waste Hungaria and Polo●ia Arme●ia the greater being first subdued Irruption of Tartars and many regions besides In the year of Christ 1244. a certain Jew digging in the ground at To●●do in A book found by a Iew. Spain found a book in which it was written In the third World Christ shall be born of the Virgin Mary and shall suffer for the salvation of man not long after the third World believing shall be baptized It was the third Revolution of the Angell of Saturn concerning which what is spoken is intended in the beginning of whose reign Christ was born of a Virgin The Popes of Rome deposing Frederick it is said the Empire was vacant 28 years untill the Election of Rodolph Count of ●abspurg constituting Kings by turns in he Intervals or vacancy First Henry Count of Schuvartzerburg at Thuring by election of the Princes then Wiliam Earle of Holland Conrade the Son of Frederick Alsonsus King of Castile Richard Earle of Cornwall brother to the King of England many evils were multiplied upon the face of the Earth At or neer this time about the year of our Lord God 1260 the Confederacy of the Switzers began a small people in number but have increased with the time Switzers who have slain many of their Nobility and being a Warlike people have banished and frighted away many others of their Nobles from their proper habitations whose Common wealth is now known to all the people of Germany In the year of Christians 1273. Rudolphus of Habspurg is consti●u●ed Emperour by Election of the Princes he raigned 18 years the best of men prudent in all manner of affaires from whom afterwards descended all the Dukes of Austria The Tartari●ns invading the Lands of Christians Constantinople and Greece brought insinite Originall of the Dukes of Austria damage to the Christians The Saracens do occupie many Cities in Asi● kill and destroy more then four Adolphus