against his people his Parliament his Kingdomes should raise warre till soone after that time in the Irish Calendar mentioned And now let all the world judge whether this Manapian be not a most Malignant lying pernitious Antichristian Irish Rebell that so falsly slandereth the Parliament and Kingdome by calling their just actions Anarchicall Rebellion and the people thereof the Roundheads of England Over againg the 23 of October in the Almanack This Helhound in bloody red letters writes thus The happy Vnion of the Catholicks eo die This is that infamous that fatlla day the 23 of October 1641 when that unparallel'd Grand Rebellion of the barbarous Irish violently burst forth to the massacring destruction of many thousands of innocent Protestants in that Kingdome by a crew of Devills incarnate who pleade Commission for this inhumane Act and call it The happy Vnion of the Catholicks This 23 day of October 1641 I could wish were marked with Carbone nigre or for ever were deleated out of the Calendar But when I observed that very day twelve moneth viz. the 23 of October 1642. How just God was in punishing though not the Irish Nation yet the Abetters of them and their horrible Rebellion in that memorable Victory it pleased God to give the Parliaments Forces under the conduct of their then Lord Generall the Right noble Earle of Essex betweene Keynton and Edgehill against the Enemy I am struck with admiration and with me it shall never be forgotten How the Oxford Naworths and this Irish Manapians Almanack agree seemes to me somewhat strange The Oxonian calls it The Grand Rebellion he meanes the 23 of October 1642 when the Battell at Keynton was But I meane that black day the 23 of October 1641 when the Irish unparrallel'd Grand Rebellion burst out which this Manapian termes The happy Vnion of the Catholicks so that the Grand Rebellion in the Oxford Almanack and The happy Vnion of the Catholicks in the Irish are both one Though there was a Rebellion but in one yet they were both united in the prosecution of a most bloody warre what was intended by the Irish in 1641 in that Kingdome against the Protestants there was in 1642 on the same day vehemently pursued by their Confederates against the Protestants here There is a time drawing neere when the Oxfords Almanack Grand Rebellion and The happy Vnion of the Catholicks in Ireland will be remembred and both of them called to a strict account for the same There are some admirable Astrologicall Observations which happened on these two dayes viz. the 23 of October 1641 And that 23 of October 1642 On that in 1641 though not visibly to be seene was a great and terrible Eclipse of the Sun in eleven degrees of Scorpio the opposite Signe to the Horoscope of Ireland The Moone then changing the 24 day causing such a darkenesse in him in the morning as if he were ashamed to behold the intended Irish massacring of the Protestants which was discovered the 23 day by Owen Ockanellee then servant to Sir John Clotworthy Eclipsis Solis si fuerit in Scorpione fundamentorum ruinas inter Ecclesiasticos â—dia simultates turbas excitabunt plebis turbae ignobilium interitus diuturnaeque bellorum seditiones c denotat Sic Jo. Anton. Giuffus in tractatu de Eclipsibus That is If the Sun shall be eclipsed in Scorpio it threatens destruction of Ancient Foundations and stirres up hatred and grudgings and debates amongst Ecclesiasticks The death of the common or ignoble people and continuall seditions of warre And Proclus sayes if the Sun shall be eclipsed in the first ten degrees of Scorpio Tumultus bellicos movet cades odia captivitates proditiones machinatur That is It stirres up warre-like tumults slaughters hatred captivities and treacheryes it doth threaten And if in the second ten degrees of Scorpio as this was Regis cujuspiam perniciem aversum exercitus animum Part of this prediction is already fullfilled and if God prevent it not the residue is approaching very neere It began to operate that very day and hath continued in much virulency to this very time But the next 23 of October viz. 1642 was most memorable when Mars who was Lord of the said Eclipse met in opposition to the Sun was that Signall great Battell fought at Keynton betwixt the Kings Army and the Parliaments Both which dayes and configurations Mars was extreamely afflicted by being opposite to his houses In the first he was in Libra and in the second in Taurus very fatall to the Irish and that party their Associates I gave a touch of that in October 1642 in my Almanacke amongst other thus much Caedes quoque cruentae lites atrae hinc inde percrebescent Edgehill Battell can witnesse this The number that was slaine on both sides there are not yet knowne This 23 of October 1642 the Sun was in ten degrees of Scorpio and Mars in Taurus retrograde in the opposite Signe and neere the degree opposing And I well remember what Origanus says Par 3. de effectibus Fol 522 Pertinet ad fidem diligentiam Astrologorum omnium quantum fieri potest Principum Ducum Comitum Nobilium Consulum praecipuorum quoque Theologorum Episcoporum Consiliariorum Medicorum Genituras inquirere Non enim magna solummodò laut est priori consulta experientia de ipsis in specie aliquid dicere Sed publica quoque fata ex eorum salute pendent Quicquid enim delirant reges plectuntur Achivi That is It is for the credit of Astrologers as much as in them lyes to search into the Nativities of Princes Dukes Earles Nobles Consuls i. e. Mayors or chiefe Officers of Cityes or Townes Prime Divines Bishops Councellours Physicians c. For there is not onely great prayse experience being had of them particularly But the Publicke Affaires or Commonwealth depends on their wellfare And most men frame themselves to the minde of the King I am not ignorant of this and have had some experience of late of this Aphorisme And this I dare boldly say that what ever he be from Caesarto Codrus if he have at the time of his Nativity the tenth degree or within five degrees ante retro of Scorpio Leo Aquary but especially Taurus culminating Horoscopicall The Sun Moone or part of Fortune in the same or neere it He she or they will suffer extreamely in one kinde or other some in their Honours Estates Dignities Some in their Life c. and some in all of them I know some and those no meane ones But Cynthius Aureno vellit Our King is either misled or willfull For the first Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse Prov. 25.5 But if he continue in this strange unheard of absence from the Parliament whereby not onely through the neglect of due and just governing of his people both his and their ruin must inevitably succeed I must remember him of
mirabiliter fieri traditur ut nulla venenata bestia ibi vivat Petrus Galasinius ex Beda lib. 1. cap. 1. Histor Angl. That is He was the first Bishop of Ireland and his Image is portrayed with Serpents cast under his feete for that by his divine vertue it wonderfully came to passe that no venemous Beasts can live there This is a miracle indeed if it be true Surely Panrick extracted all the Venome of Serpents Toades and such like odious creatures then in Ireland And by his preaching infused the same into the people There were before Patrick came such like creatures there and there be now in Ireland more Venemous and Serpentine people then the very creatures themselves can be in any other Countrey in the world which this late Horrid Rebellion doth sufficiently evince But I hope there will be a Reformation there as well as here more glorious preaching then that of Patrick or all Popish Bishops Priests Jesuites c. And the Faith Catholicke indeed not in a Popish sence Though I conceive this Manapian should have said since Ireland first received the Popish Catholicke faith c. This had beene to purpose and then I should not have excepted against it The next Chronologicall Observation is Since England first received the Catholicke Faith 1463 yeeres If he had said since England first received the Christian Catholicke Faith c. it had beene somewhat neere truth For King Lucius beginning his rule over the Brittaines hearing of divers miracles wrought by the Christians and amongst the rest of the plenty of Water in time of distresse and want thereof as of the great Victory obtained Anno Christi 173 for the Emperour Marcus over the Marcomanni Quadi by the prayers of the Christian Legion which he called Fulminatrix sent to Eleutherius then Pope of Rome to send him some learned men into Brittaine to instruct the people in the Faith whereupon he sent Damianus and Fugatius who Baptized King Lucius and his people He was the first Christian King of Brittaine and lived neere the time of Christian Religions Primitive purity when Popish Catholicke Religion was not heard of If any of the Popes were ought this Pope Elutherius was none of the worst He prohibited the superstitious refusall of eating any thing which was mans meate Et primus erat Episcoporum Romanorum qui non periit morte violenta King Lucius built Peters Church in Cornhill London about 430 yeeres before Pauls Church which was built by King Ethelbert who began his raigne Anno Christi 596. After follows since Henry the second arrived at this City of Waterford and the first Major of it 474. yeers This is neer an historicall truth for Anno Christi 1170. or thereabout at what time that ambitious turbulent fiery spirited Arch-bishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain This King Henry the second had wars with Ireland and the next yeer he subdued it and I suppose King Henry the second at his comming to Waterford made it a Major Town and indeed as most men that have been there report it to be the second City in all Ireland and that the Kings of England have granted great priviledges to the same Who this Major was our Irish Chronologer doth not name I beleeve he was an English not an Irish man for I cannot conceive otherwise but they were then rebellious as now so that there is greater necessity of correcting their present rebellion by a new supply of valiant English men who if they land at Waterford the present Major may chance to be displaced and the Citizens lose their liberty The next is since the use of Guns invented in Germany and the first making of Powder by a Fryar Bartholdus Swartz 263. yeer This doth not much differ from the supposed time of their known use in Christendom although I have read that in the time of Charles the great who flourished about the yeer of Christ 800. Camoscus Frisiae Rex Slopeti ictu Hollandiae Comitem cum duobus filijs transuerberavit and Roger Bacan our famous Historian who flourished about the yeer or Christ 1280. makes mention of Gun-powder and I beleeve what Petrus Maffeus writes that Guns were of great antiquity and known in China many Centuries of yeers before they were used in Christendome However let us suppose that Bartholdus Niger vulgo Swartz Monachus Franciscanus Alchymista usum Bombardae vulgavit pro ut nunc est anno Christi 1380. as Alsteed sayes in his Chronologie Orig. var. pag. mihi 256. I think the Adage Turdus sibi malum cacat or as we in England have it he hath made a rod for his own breech will be exactly verefied this yeer Look to it all ye Irish Popish Fryars Monks Jesuits c. and the rest of that rabble of Locusts there are new Guns new Ordnances inventing preparing that will purge and cleer the three Kingdoms of all of you Now this Irish Chronologer Bellarmine like spets forth venome and rores out which since Lutheranism Calvinisme and such like heresies began in Germany 128. yeers he that would be throughly satisfied touching this worthy Doctor Martin Luther this Malleus Paparum Papistarum may be pleased to peruse the second Tome of Acts and Monuments or the Book of Martyrs written by that reverend and learned man Master John Fox p. 60 61. deinde of the last Impression 1641. he shall have his life and doctrine at large described he flourished in the yeer of Christ 1515. c. This is he of whom John Hus at the time of his Martyrdom prophesied 1415. Centum Revolutis annis Deo Respondebitis and Hierom of Prague 1416. at his Martyrdom who said Post Centum annos omnes vos Cito now 100. yeers after Martin Luther began first to write against the Pope which was exactly verified Reformation began in his time he opposed the Popes supremacy writ against his pardons Decrees Buls and so stoutly defended himself against them that he was excommunicated by the Pope and men hired to kill him nay the Devil the Pope the Emperour and almost all the Christian world were against him and by open force and secret fraud sought his destruction yet God miraculously preserved him for about thirty yeers space in despight of them all and at last he dyed in hia bed in peace at Islebia in Germany the 18. of Febr. 1546. from whence his body was removed to Wittenberg and there was buried the 22. of February 1546. it being just 100. yeers since this Febr. 1646. at what time I write this and now I may adde a third Prophesie or prediction to cite all Irish Priests and popish Fryars c. Quod post centum annos Luthero respondebitis this Chronologer most falsly accusing him of heresie whose sound doctrine hath so confuted the errours of those ignorant times that to this day the Papists could never answer him but most maliciously traduce him As for Master Calvin he was a most reverend orthodox man and
Saturn and Jupiter In the yeer 1584. there was fourteen Conjunctions of the Planets in Aries and the Sun and Moon Eclipsed ih Taurus In the yeer 1586. there will be thirteen Conjunctions of the Planets in Aries and one in Taurus of the Sun and Mercury and afterwards in the yeer 1588. twelve Conjunctions of the Planets in divers Signs without doubt after these Conjunctions will follow or succeed mischievous villanous and wicked Counsels and detestable Acts commotions or troubles seditions wars slaughters or killing in Cities Kingdoms and Provinces unknown or unheard of diseases the plague death of great Kings and Lords Infinite dissentions and new diversities of opinions in Religion and to conclude very great calamities in all the Countries of the world as many skilfull men in coelestiall matters suppose gathering these things from the events which are to follow these forepast Conjunctions now rehearsed I shall hereunto adde some particular predictions out of the same Rantzovius pag. 99. Friderici secundi imperatoris Astrologus ab eo interrogatus cur tantum honoris Rudolpho Haspurgensi Comiti pauperi in Aula sua tunc versanti exhiberet respondit mortuis tuis filiis quorum adhuc decem supersunt ipse posteri ejus ad tua Regna pervenient Author Albertus Argentinensis quod exitus ipse probavit Nam Anno Christi 1273. Calend. Octob. Rudolphus a Germanis principibus Francofurti in Regem Romanum eligetur cum Basiliam obsideret hodierno adhuc die videmus Rudolphi posteros Regnum Neopolitanum Ducatum Austriae Sueviae una cum Imperio Regno Neopolitano obtinere Modernus nam Imperator Rudolphus ab eo nomen ditiones haeditario jure accepit Philippus Hispaniae Rex ex eodem natus Regnum Siculum Neoplitanum nactus est That is The Astrologer of the Emperour Frederick the second being asked by him why he showed so much respect to Rudolph the poor Earl of Habspurg then frequenting his Court To whom the Astrologer answered Thy Sonnes being dead of whom ten are yet living He and his Posterity shall attaine to thy Kingdoms which the event proved for in the yeer of Christ 1273. the first of October Rudolph besieging of Basill was elected by the Princes of Germany at Frankeford to be King of the Romans and to this day we see the posterity of Rudolph to enjoy the Kingdom of Naples the Dukedoms of Austria and Suevia together with the Empire and Kingdom of Naples for the late Emperour Rudolphus by hereditary right received from him both his name dominions and Empire and Phillip King of Spain proceeding from him obtained the Kingdom of Scicily and Naples This Frederick the second was elected 1212. he raigned 38. yeers he dyed 1250. the Empire was void 22. yeers though Conrade his Son and Richard brother to Henry the third King of England who was Earl of Cornwall were elected in the interim and in the yeer 1273. this Rudolph was elected Emperour and so continued seventeen yeers nine moneths and sixteen dayes it being sixty yeeres before this prediction came to passe for ought I read to the contrary In pag. 97. in the same Rantzovius thus I find Magister Christianus Astrologus Pragensis Ladislaum Jagellonem Regem Poloniae per Sacerdotem praemonuit ut mortem sibi imminentem praecaveret quod multi Planetae conjungerentur fieret Eclipsis Lunae sub Terra mortuus autem nihil ominus est eo Anno qui fuit Annus Domini 1434. Anno Aetatis 49. That is Master Christian an Astrologer of Prague admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by his Priest that he should beware of imminent death for that many Planets were conjoyned this yeer and there would be an eclipse of the Moon under the earth notwithstanding that premonition he dyed that yeer of our Lord which was 1434. in the 49. yeer of his age In the same page the next adjoyning observation is thus Joannes Picus Mirandulae Comes edidit Librum adversus Astrologos hi inter quos fuerunt Bellantius Senensis Antonius Sirigatus Florentinus Angelus de Catastivis Carmelita ut Artem veram ostenderent illum annum aetatis 33. non transgressurum predixerunt ex directione Ascendentis ad Martem quemadmodum hinc inde editis constat that is Joannes Picus Earl of Mirandula published a Book against Astrologers These men that is to say the Astrologers amongst whom were Bellantius of Sena Antonius Sirigatus a Florentine and Angelus de Catastivis a Carmelite that they might shew it Astrology to be a true Art they foretold the said Picus that he should not escape the 33. yeer of his age by reason of the direction of the Ascendant to the body of Mars as it appears in the writings published upon this occasion I mention this the rather for that it is most appaâ—â—nt these three men were Astrologers and by Astrology foretold to this Picus the time of his death who flattering himselfe with a false comfort as if he could wrangle away Death by writing against Astrology indeavouring to prove the Art vaine his death concurring exactly with the time predicted confirmed the same Art to be true and more actually confuted that which he had written against it then if all the world besides had conspired to answer him I have rehearsed these things and been the larger upon them though I could shew above one thousand examples of rare observations Astrologicall and many of my owne experiment to cure that Episcopomania or An examination of Sir Christopher Heydons Defence of Astrology For would any man but a man not well in his wits T. V.B. of D. publish and Print that the Astrologer foretelleth that is true by the helpe of Satan that Astrologicall predictions depend not upon naturall Causes that Astrologicall predictions stand not by learning but by some instinct that Astrology considereth the fortunes onely of Fooles and wicked men that the first Inventor of Astrology was the Divell that the Astrologer attaineth not to his intended end in a Prediction without the helpe of Magicke with many other absurd Tenents I will tell you a story of himself as he writes it in his Epistle Dedicatory where he says thus That those predictions doe not always fall out jump and true as they would bear us in hand but that either the Devil doth misse sometimes or that his Instrument doth mistake his informations this I am able to justifie and make good by a plain story of my self when I was a child and went to School at Carleil where I was born there came an odde fellow about the Country he was reputed a cunning man and so called for that he took upon him to tell fortunes the fellow was dumb or at least faigned himself speechlesse but certain it was he had an instinct or familiarity with some Spirit This fellow being on a time in my Fathers house there were some there more simply honest then religiously wise made signs unto him to shew what should be my