Qui loca Septa Salo junget ubique sibi Principe magnifico Tellus viduata vacabit Annis bis Ternis mensibus atque novem Antiquos Reges justos fortes Locupletes Largos Famosos Scotia maesta luget Vt Merlinus ait post Reges victoriosus Regis more carens Regia Sceptra Reget Vae canet Albaniae tantis praesaga Ruims Totaque Gens propria fraude perempta jacet Quod respirabit post funus Regis avari Versibus antiquis prisca sibylla canit Candidus Albanus Patriotis causa Ruinae Traditione sua Scotica Regna teret Rex borealis enim numerosa Classe potitus Affliget Scotos ense furore fame Extera gens tandem Sociorum fraude peribit In bello Princeps Noricus ense cadet Gallica quem gignet qui Gazis Regna replebit O dolor O Gemitus Fratris ab ense cadet Tristia cessabunt quae prospera fine sequuntur Pacis adveniat Tempore grata quies Historiae veteris Gildas luculentus Amator Haec retulit parvo Carmine plura notans Which as near the Sense as I can to make iâ— Verse I thus English Those that can Translate it more exactly let them SCotland 'bove all shall her brave Chief bemoan Who all the Sea-girt places Rules alone The Widdowed Land of bounteous Prince berest Shall Twice Three Years and Nine long Months be left Sad Scotland mourns her Old Just valiant Kings But Merlin says after them up their Springs One that shall not in Kingly manner sway The Royal Scepter yet makes them obey To Albany presaging Ruin flows By their own fraud undone more than their Foes Yet Old Sybil in Ancient Rhimes has told She shall revive when one that dotes on Gold Is laid to rest The White Albanion then By Treachery undoes his Countrymen A Northern Prince with numerous Ships shall vex The Scot whom Fury Sword and Death perplex The Forraigner by fraud of his Allies Is lost and in disastrous Battle Dies Th' French-Womans Bearn who shall his Kingdoms fill With Wealth Alas A Brother's Sword shall kill Soon after sorrows cease and joys appear And Welcome Peace salutes our Hemisphere This Gildas in story well-read foreshows Whose Verse thouth brief much matter may disclose The words of Mr. Lilly Printed with Licence in his Almanack 1677. AS to the time of Manifestation when these so wonderful Mutations or Revolutions shall be effected or visibly declared or put into Action We say That although in part some breakings out there are in esse at present yet the most violent Actions or dreadful Concerments shall not have full Manifestation or perfect appearance until Three times Ten Years added to 1669. do come which will be 1699. Weighty matters require many Years for their performances yet in the mean time the powerful Configurations of the Superior Planets the remaining Influences of the Comet or Comets in 1664 1665. and also of that 1673. have in some measure begun those Effects which will in convenient time be more apparent long before the Year 1699. In the Year 1682. and Month of October Viz. the Twentieth Day there will be a Conjunction of the two Superior Planets Saturn and Jupiter in the Twentieth degree of that Regal Sign Leo which is the Terms of Jupiter and wherein he and the Sun have their Triplicity It will be the Fifth time of their meeting in the Fiery Triplicity since their Conjunction in 1603. at what time they changed one Triplicity and entred into another which usually if we may credit Antiquity Experience or History hath not happened without considerable Revolutions and Changes in the World Viz. according to the Nature and Sign of the Planet most Essentially fortified We have observed That those Conjunctions which have happened in the Year 1603. and since succeeded in the Fiety Trygon have not been accompanyed with Propitious Successes unto England or the City of London At the entrance of those Planets into the Fiery Trygon Queen Elizabeth dyed In 1603. a great Plague was in London and in the Year 1623. the Second Conjunction of the Superior Planets fell in the Seventh Degree of Leo. Not long after King James a Peaceable and Wise Prince dyed Again in the Year 1625. at least 50000 Persons dyed of the Plague in London In short time after follows the unfortunate business or attempt of the Isle of Rhee in France the Murther of Buckingham c. and during all that time a general murmuring and repining of the Common People especially amongst those of different Judgments which gave encouragment to and occasion of our late unhappy Troubles and Intestine Wars In the Year 1642 3 the Third Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter was celebrated in Twenty Six Degrees of Pisces but the Effects most concerned those People subject to the Sign Aries Upon this Conjunction our late unhappy Calamities began which more or less continued until the Year 1652. In that Intestine and Bloody War many Thousand Persons of all Degrees and Qualities miserably suffered and the City of London especially in her Trade and Commerce What is most remarkable after the Year 1663 was That in 1665 Viz. the greatest Plague that ever happened in London wherein 't is credibly reported that near One Hundred Thousand People perished And besides in the Year 1666. that terrible and never to be forgotten Fire which destroyed the greatest part of that Famous and Flourishing City and these Calamities followed the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the Sign Sagittary of the Fiery Trygon Anno. 1663. But what manner of accidents shall precede or follow this next Conjunction of the Superiors in the Kingly Sign Leo Anno 1682. which will be One Hundred Years and Ten after the Mock-star of 1572. and Seventy Nine Years after the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1603. and Seventeen Years after the appearance of the Comet in 1665 whose tail extended Fiery and large towards the East part of Heaven The Effects whereof we Judge are not yet in being but will in part be put forward in or about the Year 1682. or something later with an heavy vengeance or judgment on those People and Nations Providence shall dispose the Effects to fall upon by Wars Famine Death of Cattle several Mortalities barrenness of the Earth and cruel destruction of Mankind It portends great Rents and Schisms amongst the Religious Odrers of Monks Fryars Jesuits as also amongst those of different Judgments call them by what Name you please And this Judgment is the more aggravated in reguard these Two Superior Planets Saturn and Jupiter do also meet again in the Sign Leo in May 1683. as appears by Calculation and also by the Ephemerides of Argol And hence I conclude this Conjunction to be the Prodromus of every Prodigious Effects which we may not live to see transacted There will be some preceding differences perhaps Verbal which will begin to break forth at first clandestinely before those great Deluges of Affairs are transacted For we find that upon the Fifth Day
brought down to the Dust And the Son Man with the Eagle shall be exalted And there shall be an Universal Peace over all the World And the Son of Man shall receive a wonderful sign And there shall be great plenty of all Fruits of the Earth And he shall go into the Land of the Cross The Prophecy of Malachy a Popish Saint declaring the Number and some marks of all the Popes that shall be hereafter together with the final destruction both of Popery and the City of Rome THis Malachy was Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and of the Cistertian Order of Monks a Contemporary with St. Bernard and very intimate with him about the year 1140 He pretending to the gift of Foresight undertook by certain Hieroglyphical descriptions to give an account of all and every the Popes that should be from his time to the Worlds end or at least until the utter subversion of the Papacy All which I find both recited and as far as then was accomplisht explained and by application found to be very true and significant in an Appendix to a Book Intituled Flores Historici written by Johannes de Bussieres a French Jesuit abbout the year 1655. To recite all the old Ones from the year 1143 would be both tedious and impertinent being so long past those that are curious may find them in the Author just now cited Only to give the Reader a Taste that he may the better apprehend the Humour of this Irish Pope-fortune-teller I shall give you his Symbols and their Explications for above One hundred years past and also all those that are to come and I will begin at the year 1550. The Propecy Popes Names The year of our Lord and Explanation De Corona Montana the Mountain and Crown Julius the Third An. 1550. He was called before he came to the Popedom John of the Mountain and his Arms were Mountains and Crowns of Laurel Frumentum Floccidum Bread-corn suddenly perishing Marcellus Second 1555. He had a blade of Wheat in his Arms therefore said to be suddenly perishing because he continued a very little while in the Popedom De Fide Petri Of the Faith of Peter Paul the Fourth 1555. His name was Peter de Carafe which signifies as much as Peter Of the dear Faith Aesculapii Pharmacum The Medicine of the Physician Pius the Fourth 1560. He was before called Johannes Medicus John the Physician Angelus Nemorosus the Angel of the Wood. Pius the Fifth 1560. Call'd before Michael Boschi Michael Wood. Medium Corpus pilarum a middle body of Balls Gregory the Thirteenth 1572. His Arms the middle of a Dragon and was made Cardinal by Pius the 4th who had the Balls in his Arms. Axis in Medietate signi the Axle-tree in the midst of a Sign Sixtus the Fifth 1583. His Arms an Axle-tree in the midst of Leo. De Rore Coeli from Heavens Dew Vrban the Seventh 1590. He was Archbishop in Calabria where Manna is gathered Ex Antiquitate Vrbis from a City of Antiquity Gregory the Fourteen 1590. Of Millain Pia Civitas in Bello a City pious in War Innocent the Ninth 1590. Of Bononia Crux Romulea the Roman Cross Clement the Eighth 1592. His Arms a triple oblique Papal Cross Vndosus vir A man gone as soon as a Wave Leo the Eleventh 1605. He continued but Four and twenty days Gens perversa a perverse people Paul the Fifth 1605. In his days the Bobemians rose against the House of Austria whom our Author will have to be the perverse Nation but why not rather the Venetians with whom this Pope had great Broils In tribulatione Pacis in the work of Peace Gregory the Fifth 1621. As soon as he was made Cardinal he was sent by Paul 5th Legate to Savâ—y concluded a peace between the Duke and the King of Spain and soon after was chosen Pope Lilium a Rosa the Lilly and Rose Vrban the Eighth 1623. A Florentine which City is so called from Flowers and has a Rose in is Arms. Jucunditas Crucis the joy of the Cross Innocent the Tenth 1644. Montium Custos the Keeper of the Mountains Alexander the 7th  Sidus Olorum the Constellation of Swans Clement the 9th Rospigliosi he had the Star and Swan in his Arms. De Flumine magno of the great River Clement the 10th Altieri born at the time of a great Inundation of the River Tyber Bellua insatiabilis an insatiable Beast Innocent 11th Odischalchi the present Pope called an insatiable Beast because of his great covetousness The Symbols or Hieroglyphicks of all the Popes in order that shall be hereafter POenitentia gloriosa A glorious Penitent Rastrum in Porta A rake in the Gate Flores circumdati Flowers encompassing De bona Religione Of a good Religion I wish we might see such a Pope once Miles in Bello A Souldier in War Cobumna excelsa A lofty Pillar Animal rurale A rural Animal Rosa Vmbriae A Rose of Vmbria Visus velox A quick sight Peregrinus Apostolicus An Apostolical Pilgrim Aquila rapax A ravenous Eagle Canis Coluber A Dog and a Snake Vir Religiosus A Religious man De Balneis Hetruria From the Baths of Tuscany Crux de Cruce Cross of Cross Lumen de Coelo A light from Heaven Ignis ardens A flaming fire Religio depopulata Religion laid waste Fides intrepida Faith fearless Pastor Angelicus An Angelick Pastor Pastor Nauta Both Shepherd and Sailer Flos florum The Flower of Flowers De mediteate Lunae Half the Moon De labore Solis The labour of the Sun or an eclipse Gloria Olivae The Glory of the Olive After which our Irish Prophet concludes with this sad O hone hone In persecutione extrema Sacrae Romanae Ecclesiae sedebit Petrus Romanus qui pascet Oves in multis Tribulationibus quibus transactis Civitas Sepâ—…icollis diruetur judex tremendus judicabit populum In English thus In the last Persecution of the Holy Roman Church one Peter a Roman shall possess the Chair and feed the Sheep in many Tribulations which being accomplished the Seven-hill'd City shall be destroyed and the dreadful Judge shall call the people to Judgment Hitherto the words translated out of the before-mentioned Jesuite's Flosculi Historici There being according to this man's reckoning Twenty six of their Vnholinesses behind if we shall allow according to our usual Estimate of a man's life seven years to each it will amount to 182 years that is to the year of our Lord 1865 before the final destruction of the Papacy and that bloody City shall be compleated But the Prayers of the faithful and the Cries of the Martyrs from under the Altar may 't is like sooner draw down and accelerate the just Judgments threatned to this Babylon and spiritual Sodom Quod faxit Deus A very ancient Prophecy of Gildas the Scot recited by Archbishop Vsher in his Book Intituled De Britanicarum Ecclesiarum Primoraiis Page 680. FAta ducis celebris super omnia Scotia flebit
the Planets Eclipses Conjunctions Comets c. to foretell future Accidents or as one very significantly defines it Astrologia est Doctrina quae ostendit vires Stellarum cognitas Perpetua Experientia et Qualitates Temperamenta et Inclinationes in Elementis et Corporibus Hominum ortas a Luce Motu et Influentiis Stellarum Quibus Qualitatibus Temperamentis et Inclinationibus Respondent suae quaedam Actiones nisi aut Divinitus aut aliis Causis Fortioribus Impediantur Astrology is a sort of Learning which shews the Force and Vertues of the Stars known by perpetual Experience and the Qualities Temperaments and Inclinations arising from the Light Motion and Influencies of the Stars in the Elements and Bodies of men Answerable to which Qualities Temperaments and Inclinations are their Actions unless hindred by Divine power or some other stronger Causes This Art I cannot say is unlawful but I take it to be but Conjectural and by Ignonorant Pretenders much abused strange things have been and frequently are thereby foretold and prove true when a skillful Artist hath the handling of the matter but many times fall out otherwise sometimes from the Ignorance of him that undertakes the Judgment otherwhile from the Influence of some of the fixed Stars which being seldom taken notice of may cross or hinder what may otherwise be signifyed Or 3dly from the want of a sufficient Treasure of Observations by which Judgment ought to be given The same posture of the Heavens having never twice hapen'd alike in every circumstance since the Creation and by that means leaving the World destitute of stable means whereon to build their Judgment since what can be rationally said in that kind must proceed from the Comparing of Events which have happened under such and such Configurations with what are like to be when the same fall out again Or lastly by reason of the care of the party himself who may by his own Industry prevent what from the Influence of the Stars would have been his Destiny for they at most do not Necessitate but Incline and by the Providence and over-ruling Power of God and the Wisdom of Man are sometimes diverted III. A Third sort is a Geomantical or Terrestrial Divination in which from certain voluntary Pricks or Points made by the hand at Adventure certain Figures are raised From the first four of which called Fathers are produced other four called Daughters These Eight bring forth four Grand Children from them come out Two Witnesses from those a Judge and the Judgment upon this sort of Divination is not much unlike that of Astrology But the Foundation of all this seems to be laid upon a false Supposition That the Soul of man knoweth things to come but is hindred by the dulness of the Organs of the Body And therefore in the practice of it a great sedateness of mind is required a freedom from all noise that may disturb it and such like Circumstances Which he that hath a mind to fool a way time may find in Cattan Flood and H. de Pisis But this kind of Divination I take to be idle vain and superstitious as not built upon any stable Foundation of Reason or supported by any thing but Fancy IV. A Fourth sort is by framing certain Figures of Stone or Metal underneath such Constellations and placing them either in some Conspicuous Place or Town or sometimes Under-Ground by which some have pretended to do strange Feats These are called Talismans of which as also the Language of the Stars with an Alphabetical Table and how from That words are framed which shall declare the Event of things to come according to the Nature of the Question Gaffarel a Learned French-man hath largly written in his Book of Vnheard-of Curiosities and such no doubt they will prove to him that spends much time in the study of them V. A Fifth sort if indeed there be any such thing may be by Communication with Angels and Spirits For many have pretended to such a Converse I do not mean by the Black-Art Conjuring Negromancy or having to do with Devils but with good Angels who out of Charity Love and Compassion to their Fellow Creatures are said often to be willing to forewarn them of impending dangers and discover to good men what may be of advantage Thus the Learned Brown in his Religio Medici sticks not to declare his opinion to be That Mankind owes the Invention of many of our excellent and profitable Arts to the Courteous Revelation of Spirits VI. Lastly There is Enthusiasm or Illumination an Enlightning of the whole Soul either from a certain unusual Crasis or an over-poize of Complexion or strength of purer Spirits or else by some unknown supernatural means as the Possession or Inspiration of some Spirit either good or bad Aristotle tells of one Maracus of Siracuse a Poet who never made so good Verses as when he was mad and immediately before that Story hath these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Many because that Heat is near the seat of the mind are taken with sundry Frantick and Enthusiastick Fits from whence they become Sybills Bachides or inspired not from any Disease but a Natural Temperament So that it seems in the sense of Aristotle much of this kind of Illumination proceeds from an Exaltation of the mind by some Ecstatick operation of the Soul and great Examples in all Ages might be produced out of the Observations of Physitians to this purpose some whereof have been meer Cheats to gain Credit to such as should Cure or Exorcise them Others true and natural where some Melancholy Heat or strong Imagination or lastly through Custom and use the persons affected have brought upon themselves such an Habit that fancy prevailing over their Judgment and Understanding they have pretended to Prophesy and sometimes what they have spoken hath proved true Of these several sorts of foretelling as touching the Astrological Predictions or such as are gtounded on that Art we have briefly shewn whence they may pretend to Credit having in themselves a natural ground as Effects are foreseen in their Causes But as touching the Common Abstruse Indications of great Accidents Wars death of particular men Casualties to Cities c. usually stiled Prophecies from what spring to derive them or to what Cause they ought to be attributed is difficult to be determined To deny that any things have been so foretold or that because some pretending thereunto were either Cheats or Hypochondraique That therefore all were so is to give the Lie to the experiences of all Ages and in many of them the very great time between the Predictions and the fulfilling of them doth sufficiently Evince that they came from an higher Cause than a Melancholy Heat For where that is predominant I have ever observed that between the Prophesie and the time alotted for the Accomplishment there is rarely or never more than a score of years sometimes not so many Moneths I. Concerning the Sybils not
of September 1682. there will first be a Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and upon the Twelfth Day of the same Month in the aforesaid Year there will be another Conjunction of Tory Mars with Saturn in the Seventeenth Degree of the same Sign and again in December following there happens a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter also in or near Twenty Degrees thereof and both swift motion Then matters Treasons Consultations Treachery of Subjects against their Superiors are Plotting Contriving or Agitating some Years before this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is Celebrated Those pretending to Religion or such as are Famous for Schisms Haeresies or of different Judgments from the Profession of that Religion which is establisht by Authority will for some Years grumble and repine for Restriction of their Consciences as the will term it and the nearer the time of the Conjunction it self or a little after we fear greater disturbances of those Nations and the Princes they live under disquieting their Governours and this for Conscience-sake as they pretend But in some Nations Breach of the Peoples just Priviledges Ancient Customs and former enjoy'd Rights will animate the Generality to a strong and sturdy Rebellion and countenance that Translation of Monarchy mentioned by Trithemius Certainly you Princes of Italy as also the Roman Pontisex or Conclave of Cardinals of the See of Rome will all of you find great and most grievous distempers in your Governments near the time limited So will many People and Nations subject to the Fiery Triplicity and this Evil will be the more aggravated to those Kingdoms or Governments subject to the Signs Taurus Leo Scorpio and Aquary Many believe the last Age of the World is at hand we verily conjecture that a troublesome and vexatious time is approaching upon most Nations of Europe wherein those pretending to Religion whether Papists or Protestants will shew little mercy or compassion to those persons whose unhappiness it will be to fall under their subjection The Coadunation of so many Planets in the Sign Leo in the Year 1682. gives very rational grounds to predict the appearance of another Comet very strange Apparitions in the Air or some Prodigious Meteors either preceding that Conjunction or subsequent in a short time after And we also are fearful that some more than ordinary Fire or Fires may afflict or do considerable damage to many Cities of Europe God keep this Judgment â—om the City of London and Bless her Inhabitants with much Health and Prosperity and â—eliver her from another Plague or Pestilenâ—al distemper in those Years Thus Lilly divers Years since wherein his â—rediction of a Comet in 82. which exactly â—appened in August last being visible both morning and evening for many Nights his mentioning the Word Tory which when he wrote was not in use though since the occasion of many Animosities his Menaces of more mischief by Fire sadly felt by the poor Inhabitants of Wapping near London on the Nineteenth of November this present Year 1682. whereby about 1000 houses were consumed are very remarkable and how far the rest may answer Truth time may shew A Prophecy found in the Library of Salizarius of Heidelburg in Germany almost 200 years since THere shall a King arise out of the Nation of the most Illustrious Lilly having a long Forehead high Brows great Eyes and an Eagles Nose He shall gather a great Army and destroy all the Tyrants of his Kingdom and â—ay all that fly into Mountains and Caves from his Face for Righteousness shall be joyned unto him as the Bridegroom unto the Bride With them he shall wage War even unto the Fortieth year bringing into subjection the â—landers Spaniards and Italians Rome and Florence he shall destroy and burn with fire so as Salt may be sowed â—n that Land The greatest Clergy-men who have Invaded Peter's Seat he shall put to death and in the same year obtain a double Crown At last going over-Sea with A great Army he shall enter Greece and be named King of the Greeks The Turks and Barbarians he shall subdue making an Edict That every one shall die the Death that worshippeth not the crucified One and none shall be found able to resist him because an Holy Arm from the Lord shall alwayâ— be with him and he shall be with him and he shall possess the Dominions of the Earth These things being done hâ— shall be called The Rest of the Holy Christians The Apocalyptical Interpreters adventuring to sail in the vast Ocean of Futurity have most-timeS ship-wrackt their judgment and credit do the Rocks of Presumption yeâ— I shall presume here to add the words of that Reverend French Divine Peter du Moulin in his Book Intituled The Accomplishment of Prophecies Translated into English Anno 1613 Page 411. as follows As for the time of three days and an half during which the Bodies of the faithful Witnesses shall be cast out through all the Quarters of the Roman Church It is manifest that S. John doth hereby shew us how long the Persecution of the Church under the Roman Hierarchy must continue For to know how long this time shall endure and to how much the Three Days and an half will amount unto we are to note that Three Days and an half make half a Week which gives us to understand that the Holy Ghost here under the name of a Week doth comprehend the whole time of the Beast's Reign and doth advertise us that the Persecution shall last half the time of this Reign Since therefore he shall Reign 1260 years as we have shewed before it followeth that the Roman Hierarchy shall persecute the Faithful 630 years Now I do not find that the Church of Rome did begin to persecute and is use cruelty in general against all that did withstand her Doctrine till the time of Berengarius whom Pope Nicholas the Second compelled to Recant by force in the year 1059 and ever since the Popes have persecuted such as have maintained the same Doctrine If then you add the 630 years to 1059 years you shall find that the persecution of the Church under the Pope shall have an end in the year of our Lord 1689. This Term once expired the Truth that was oppressed shall lift up her head afresh and the faithful Witnesses shall be seen to stand up again who shall astonish the Church of Rome The Prediction of the most Learned and pious Archbishop Vsher is very remarkable as it was printed above a years ago with Licence and the Truth of the matter of Fact therein delivered never that I know of denied out confirmed by many which in short was thus That the year before this holy Primate died who was buried in the Abbey at Westminister 17 of April 1656. The Vsurper Cromwel allowing 200 l. towards his Funeral so great his Worth that it even charmed that Tyrant otherwise far from being a Friend to any of his Profeâ—sson An intimate Friend of the Archbishop's asking him amongst other