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A42682	Day-fatality, or, Some observations of days lucky and unlucky penn'd and publish'ed whil'st His present Majesty, the most serenc king, James II was Duke of York, persecuted by the excluding party, and retir'd into the Low-Countries : presaging many great things, some whereof are wonderfully come to pass, and particularly made good, in his peaceable inthronization, and his speedy quashing two notable rebellions, headed by two persons, eminent for military conduct, one in England, the other in Scotland, and by whom greater things are yet to be done.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.	1686 (1686)	Wing G648; ESTC R7283	10,537	13

Joseph c. because I have even now blamed the Liberty of the Antient Rhymers He means by Mors aliena some strange kind of Death though Aliena signifies Strange in quite another Sense than here used I shall take particular Notice here of the Third of November both because 't is my own Birth-day and also for that I have observed some remarkable Accidents to have happen'd thereupon Constantius the Emperor Son of Constantine the Great little Inferiour to his Father a worthy Warriour and good Man died the Third of November ex Veteri Calendario penes me Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury that great Man and famous Commander sub Henry IV. V. and VI. died this Day by a Wound of Cannot-shot he received at the Siege of Orleance E MSS. quodam Glovero So also Cardinal Borrhomeo famous for his Sanctity of Life and therefore Canonized Heylyn in his Praecognita says He made Milan memorable by his Residence there died 1584. this Day as Possevinus in his Life Sir John Perot Stow corruptly calls him Parrat a Man very remarkable in his Time Lord-Deputy of Ireland Son to Henry the VIII and extreamly like him died in the Tower the Third of November 1592. as Stow says Grief and the Fatality of this Day kill'd him See Nanton's Fragment a Regalia concerning this Man Stow in his Annals says Anno 1099. November the Third as well in Scotland as England the Sea broke in over the Banks of many Rivers drowning divers Towns and much People with an innumerable Number of Oxen and Sheep at which time the Lands in Kent sometimes belonging to Earl Godwin were covered with Sands and drowned and to this day are called Godwin's Sands I had an Estate left me in Kent of which between Thirty and Forty Acres was Marsh-Land very conveniently flanking its Up-land and in those days this Marsh-land was usually Lett for Four Nobles an Acre My Father died 1643. Within a Year and an half after his Decease such Charges and Water-Scots came upon this Marsh-Land by the Influence of the Sea that it was never worth one Farthing to me but very often eat into the Rents of the Up-land So that I often think this Day being my Birth-day hath the same Evil Influence upon me that it had 580. Years since upon Earl Godwin and others concerned in Low Lands The Parliament so fatal to Romes Concerns here in Henry the Eighth's Time begun the Third of November the Twenty Sixth of his Reign In which the Pope with all his Authority was clean banished the Realm he no more to be called otherwise than Bishop of Rome The King to be taken and reputed as Supreme Head of the Church of England having full Authority to reform all Errors Heresies and Abuses of the same Also the First-Fruits and Tenths of all Spiritual Promotions and Dignities were granted to the King See Stow's Annals and Weaver pag. 80. Not long after which followed the Visitation of Abbies Priories and Nunneries and after that their final Suppression This Parliament being the Door of Entrance thereto The Third of November 1640. began that Parliament so direfully fatal to England in its Peace its Wealth its Religion its Gentry Nobility nay its King So verifying the former Verse of the Calendar Scorpius est quintus tertius e nece cinctus A killing Day to some or other The Third of September was a Remarkable Day to the English Attila Oliver 1650. He obtained a Memorable Victory at Dunbar another at Worcester 1651. And that Day he died 1658. The first Two Occurrences wonderfully accord to the preceding Verse Tertia Septembris denus fert mala membris being fatal to the Two Members of Great Britain Scotland and England The Third as happy to them both as the same Day 1666. was dismal and unhappy to the City of London and consequently to the whole Kingdom with its immediate preceding and two succeeding Days viz. the Second Fourth and Fifth of September Pope Paul the Third confirm'd the latter Part of the Verse when he advised his Son Peter Aloisa to beware of that Day He neglecting it was Murder'd and cruelly dismember'd Sleidan in his Commentaries the Nineteenth Book I come now to the Days of the Week Tuesday Dies Martis was a most Remarkable Day with Thomas Becket Arch-bishop of Canterbury as Weaver 201. observes from Matt. Paris Mars secundum Poetas Deus Belli nuncupatur Vita Sancti Thomae secundum illud Job Vita hominis militia est super terram tota fuit contra hostem bellicosa c. Mars according to the Poets is called The God of War The Life of St. Thomas according to that of Job The Life of Man is a Warfare upon Earth was a continual conflict against the Enemy Upon the Tuesday he suffered upon Tuesday he was translated upon Tuesday the Peers of the Land sate against him at Northampton upon Tuesday he was banished upon Tuesday the Lord appeared to him at Pontiniac saying Thomas Thomas my Church shall be glorified in thy blood upon Tuesday he returned from Exile upon Tuesday he got the Palm or Reward of Martyrdom and upon Tuesday 1220. his Venerable Body received the Glory and Renown of Translation Fifty years after his Passion Thus my Authors One thing I make bold to gloss upon His Translation is here mentioned twice Note This is no Tautology of the Historian but the latter Paragraph is a more particular Recitation of the first viz. Reference to the time when he was Translated into the number of Saints and Martyrs Quando in Divorum numerum relatus as Cambden phrases it in many places upon like Occasion Wednesday is said to have been the Fortunate Day of Sixtus Quintus that Pope of Renowned Merit that did so great and excellent things in the time of his Government See The Just weight of the Scarlet Robe pag. 101. his deserved Praises On a Wednesday he was born on that day he was made Monk on the same he was made General of his Order on that also was he successively created Cardinal elected Pope and also Inaugurated See Heylyn speaking of the Temple of Jerusalem Fryday was observed to be very fortunate to the great and renowned Captain Gonsalvo he having on that day given the French many memorable Defeats Saturday was a Lucky Day to Hen. VII Upon that Day he atchieved the Victory upon Ric. III. being August 22. 1485. On that Day he entred the City being Aug. 29. Correct Stow who mistakes the Day And he himself always acknowledg'd he had experienced it Fortunate See Bacon in his Life Saturday also has been very successful to the Portugals as Their Chronicles report See Mr. Sandford now Lancaster-Herald his Translation of the History of Their Kings where he speaks of the Recovery of that Kingdom from the Spaniards Thursday was a Fatal Day to Henry VIII as Stow 812. and so also to his Posterity He died on Thursday Jan. 28. King Edward VI. on Thursday July 6. Queen Mary on

Day-Fatality OR SOME OBSERVATIONS OF Days Lucky and Vnlucky Penn'd and Publish'd whil'st His Present MAJESTY The Most Serene KING JAMES II. WAS DUKE of YORK Persecuted by the Excluding Party and Retir'd into the Low-Countries Presaging many Great Things some whereof are wonderfully come to Pass and particularly made Good in His Peaceable Inthronization and His Speedy Quashing Two notable Rebellions headed by Two Persons Eminent for Military Conduct One in England the Other in Scotland And by WHOM Greater Things are yet to be done Illi Pax Comes est Comes aut Victoria laeta Peace is His Mate Or if War chance to come It 's His good Fate His Foes to Over-come The Second Impression with Large Additions To which is Added Prince-Protecting-Providences AND The SWANS WELCOME All Written by an Officer at Arms Author of a Book Entituled Introductio ad Latinàm Blasoniam c. LONDON Printed by Alexander Milbourn for the Author And are to be Sold by the Booksellers of London 1686. THE PREFACE IN the ensuing Treatise Pag. 10. I inform my Reader how Lucky the Fourteenth of October hath been to the Princes of England And observing out of Wharton's Gesta Britannorum and the Collections of Others That His late Royal Highness our Present Magnanimous Magnificent Soveraign was also Born upon that Augural Day it made more than ordinary Impression upon me So that I never saw him but I thought in his very Face there were extraordinary Indices and Tokens of Regality But when after his Recess into Holland Those whom I Prophetically Characteris'd Pag. 165. of my Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam exceedingly Tryumphed wishing he might never return nay that he durst not nor would be permitted so to do using moreover opprobrious Terms Indignation made me Print my ensuing Sentiments Which though derided by Rome's Pacquet and the People of that Leven yet among the Better and more Loyal Sort found good Acceptance As will appear in the next Page by a Letter sent me from an Honourable and Learned Knight Things by me forethought and publickly hinted being come to pass my Day-Fatality began to be remembred And One whom I wish very well desiring I would give him Leave to Reprint That and Two other of my small Pieces together I assented to his Request I will Conclude this Preface with the following Metrical Demonstration of my Loyal Well-Wishes Authoris Votivum pro Rege JACOBO Caermen Aureus avulso Primo non deficit alter Aen. lib 6 Constans Corde piusque Anima frugì Generosus Qui facturus erit dìtia Regna Regit Huic esto in Terris Foelix diuturna Corona Aeterna in Coelis altera detur ei Oremus Tanto ne desit Mascula Regi Proles Eximij quae sit imago Patris Ejus posteritas sit in omne Volubilis aevum Sit Regum Series stirps sine fine sua Thus Translated and the Quotation of Virgil brought in to accompany the rest One's gone Another comes welcom to All Resolv'd and Pious Frugal Liberal Whose Conduct make His Kingdoms flourish all Oh! May His Earthly Crown full long endure Before He of His Heavenly Crown be sure Let 's pray So great a KING may live to see A Son who may his Father's Medal be Oh! May Great JAMES His Race for ever live And never fail a List of KINGS to give A Letter from Sir Winston Churchil Knight Father to the Right Honourable John Lord Churchil I Thank you for your kind Present the Observation of the Fatality of Days I have made great Experience of the Truth of it and have set down Fryday as my own Lucky Day the Day on which I was Born Christ'ned Married and I believe will be the Day of my Death The Day whereon I have had sundry Deliverances too long to relate from Perils by Sea and Land Perils by False Brethren Perils of Law-Suits c. I was Knighted by chance unexpected by my self on the same Day and have several good Accidents happened to me on that Day And am so superstitious in the Belief of its good Omen That I chuse to begin any Considerable Action that concerns me on the same Day I hope HE whom it most concerns will live to own your Respect and Good Wishes express'd in That Essay of yours Which discovering a more than common Affection to the DUKE and being as valuable for the Singularity of the Subject as the Ingenuity of your Fancy I sent into Flanders as soon as I had it That They on the Other Side the Water may see 'T is not all sowre Wine that runs from our English Press Day-Fatality OR SOME OBSERVATIONS OF Days Lucky and Vnlucky CONCLUDING With some Remarks upon the Fourteenth of October The Auspicious Birth-Day of His Royal Highness JAMES Duke of York Atavis qui Regibus editus Augustissimo CAROLO Proximus NUM XXVII 8 9. LUC. XIX 42. In Hoc Die Tuo In This Thy Day THAT there be Good and Evil Days and Times not only the Sacred Scriptures but Prophane Authors mention See 1 Sam. 25.8 Esther 8.17 and 9.19 22. Ecclus 14.14 The Fourteenth Day of the First Month was a memorable and blessed Day amongst the Children of Israel See Exod. 12.18 40 41 42 51. and 13.4 Levit. 23.5 Numb 28.16 Four hundred and thirty Years being expired of their Dwelling in Aegypt even in the self-same Day departed they thence A thing somewhat parallel to this we read in the Roman Histories That that very Day four years that the Civil Wars were begun by Pompey the Father Caesar made an end of them with his Sons Cneus Pompeius being then slain and it being also the last Battle Caesar was ever in Heylyn in the Kingdom of Corduba Our Historians tells us That Normandy was Conquer'd from Duke Robert by Henry the First that Day forty Years the Normans had won England A remarkable Retaliation Anglia Nomandiae par retulit England paid Normandy in its own Coyn. Burton's Historical Remarks The Calendar to Ovid's Fastorum says Aprilis erat mensis Graecis Auspicatissimus a most Auspicious Month to the Graecians As to Evil Dayes and Times see Amos 5.13 and 6.3 Eccles 9.12 Psalm 37.19 Obad. 12. Jer. 46.21 And Job hints it in cursing his Birth-day Cap. 3. v. 1. to 11. See Weaver p. 458. The old Rhimes concerning the Scots Erly in a Morneuing In an Evil Tyming Went they from Duubarre Horace lib. 2. Ode 13. cursing the Tree that had like to have fallen upon him says Ille nefasto te posuit die intimating that it was planted in an Vnlucky Day The Romans counted Febr. 13th an unlucky Day and therefore then never attempted any Business of Importance for on that Day they were overthrown at Allia by the Gauls and the Fabii attaquing the City of the Veii were all slain save one Heylyn speaking of St. Peter's Patrimony And see the Calendar annext to Ovid's Fastorum as to the last Circumstance The Jews counted August Tenth and Unfortunate Day for on that