or Leap-Year there is allowed to February 29 Days The Year again is divided into 4 Quarters viz. The Feast of the Annu of the Blessed Virgin Mary called Lady-day March 25 from its beginning under the Signs of Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces The next the Feast of St. John Baptist called Midsummer-day June 24 extending from the former under the Signs of Aries Taurus and Gemini the next Quarter is the Feast of St. Michael the Arch Angel called Michaelmas-day September 29. extending from Midsummer under the Signs of Cancer Leo and Virgo The last Quarter-day is the Feast of the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour called Christmas-day December 25 extending from Michaelmas under the Signs of Libra Scorpio and Sagitarius and these as I shall hereafter shew have great Influence Joyned with the Seven Planets viz. Sol Luna Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus and Saturn each of these latter governing a several Day in the Week And now because there are some Festival and other Days that are not fixed but Vary and fall Higher and Lower according to the Change of the Moon I shall shew you without the help of a common Kallender how you may find out on what days or times they fall out for ever To know what Month and Day the Moveable Feasts and Terms will fall on for many Years to come THE next Tuesday after the New Moon in February is Shrove Tuesday and the precedent Sunday is Shrove Sunday let it fall out sooner or later in the month but if the Moon happen to Change on a Tuesday Shrove Tuesday falls not on that Day but on the Tuesday following and some times by Reason of there being no New-moon or a very late one it falls in march but the Rule is the same The seventh Sunday after Shrove Sunday is Whitsunday and the Thursday next save one before Whitsunday is Ascension-Day or Holy-Thursday But to make it yet plainer I shall give you a Table how they fall out for several Years to come Year Shrove-sund Easter-day Ascen-day Whit-sunda 1698 march 6 April 2 June 2 June 12 99 Febru 19 April 9 may 18 may 28 1700 Febru 11 march 13 may 9 may 19 01 march 2 April 20 may 29 June 8 02 Febru 15 April 5 may 14 may 24 03 Febru 7 march 28 may 6 may 16 ☉ ☽ ♂ ☿ ♀ And thus may you proceed to know for a Thousand or more Years to come And now because the Terms are two of them moveable I shall say but a little of the two fixed Terms but of the other I shall lay down Rules how they may be found out in any Year with their Returns As for the fixed Terms that called Hillary Term alwaies begins the 23d of January and endeth the 12th or 13th Day of February and hath four Returns viz. Quin. Pas Tre. Pas Quin. Pas Cras Pas Michaelmas Term is the other fixed Term begining the 23 d. Day of October and ends the 28 th of November and hath 6 returns viz. Tres mich mens mich Cras An. Cras mar Oct. mar Quin. mar As for the two moveable Terms they are Trinity Term and Easter Term Easter Term always begins 17 Days after Easter Day and endeth the monday after Ascention Day and hath five returns viz. Quin. Pas Tre. Pas mens Pas Quin. Pas Cras Pas Trinity Term begins the fryday next after Trinity Sunday and the Wednesday fortnight after it ends and hath four returns viz Cras Tri. Oct. Tri. Quin. Tri. Tre. Tri. but of the falling out of the moveable Terms to make it yet more plain I shall give a brief Table how they fall for some years to come Year Easter Term  Trinity Term   Begins Ends Begins Ends 1698 may 11 June 6 June 24 July 13 99 April 26 may 22 June 9 June 28 1700 April 17 may 13 may 31 June 19 1 may 7 June 2 June 20 July 9 2 April 22 may 18 June 5 June 24 3 April 14 may 10 may 28 June 16 4 may 3 may 29 June 16 July 5 5 April 25 may 21 June 8 June 27 And according to this Table you may proceed by the afore-given Directions to any number of Years which will be very useful on many Imergencies this Book being the best of Kallanders for all useful Directions containing a great deal more than any may save the Yearly charge and trouble of buying and carrying about you any other and by the way farther Note Eight Days before any Term begins the Exchecquer openeth except Trinity Term before which it only opens Four Days and no more Eclipses of the Sun and Moon how caused with Rules to know when they will Happen AS for the Moons being Eclipsed it is when the Earth Interposes in a direct Line between it and the Sun so that the shaddow arises so high as to reach the Opacus or nether part of the moons Orb which only happeneth at a time or Opposition of a Full moon or a little before or after the Full and this is when they are in the Sign of the Dragons Head or Tail which is only the Insection of two Circles viz. The Ecliptick and the Different which Circle the moon moves about in The Eclipse of the Sun is caused by the Interposition of the moons dark Body between us and it so that till they depart from Opposition there is an Eclipse more or less but the Sun being far bigger than the moon cannot suffer a Total Eclipse though the moon often does because the Earth is bigger than the moon and so the shaddow many times Totally covers it from the Sun for a time If the moon at the time of her true Opposition to the Sun shall be different from either of the named points less than 10 Degrees 21 Minutes and 20 Seconds then the moon cannot avoid suffering an Eclipse If this Latitude of the moon at the time of a visible Conjunction be less than 30 minutes 4 seconds she will Eclipse the Sun but if the Apparent Latitude of the moon exceed 40 minutes 5 seconds then can there be no Eclipse Therefore the apparent Latitude being more than 30 minutes 40 seconds and less than 34 minutes 51 seconds then in all probability there will happen an Eclipse of the Sun though not to a very-great degree And by the Rules at all times may the Eclipses be found out as to the time of their happening and to save your Eyes in gazing on the Sun Eclipsed take the Image of it in a Mirror or Looking-glass and by that means you may plainly see how the Eclipses Encreases and Diminishes c. Prognosticks or Predictions on the Days of the Week that New Years Day shall fall on Relating to the Weather to fall out throughout the Year Scarcity and Plenty Diseases that will happen to People also to Cattle MAny have considered the whole Year upon the Day it enters on viz. The first of January being the Circumcision day of our Saviour commonly called New Years day and many Things
THE Sheepherd's NEW Kalender OR THE Citizens Country Man's Daily Companion Treating of most Things that are Useful Profitable Delightful and Advantageous to Mankind Being the Thirty Years Study and Experience of a Learned Sheepherd in the West of England Printed by A. M. for I. Blare at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge 1700. Price Bound One Shilling THE PREFACE TO THE Reader Reader IN this Laboured Work you will find so many Vseful and Profitable things that I am Perswaded you will be Constrained to acknowledge you never before found the like in any of what Volume soever and I have digested them into so Plain and Easie a Method that any ordinary Capacity may Comprehend what has so long been handled in Ambiguous Sentences Dark and Abstruse to keep all but those that are very Learned in Ignorance As for the truth of what is here set down in Relation to Prognosticks of Weather or any other matters in the vast variety contained in this BOOK a very Long and Large Experience has Confirmed it to me so that if I may speak in General Terms I may truly say there is no Ground left for a Scruple But not to Commend what must Infinitely Applaud it self being so Vniversally useful not for Limited Years but all or the greater part of it for ever I shall only Presume to Affirm it is the best of the kind that ever was Exposed to the World and cannot but gain a General Esteem It 's true it was mainly Calculated for the Meridian of Rural Affairs but contains so many different matters that it cannot but be Helpful to all sorts of People of what Quallity or Degree soever As not only giving the True Account of Time but Moveable Feasts likewise when the Moveable Terms begin and end also the Fixed Terms in like manner with the Returns of every Term Eclipses and the Nature of them Remarkable Days in relation to Weather throughout the whole Year Also as to Diseases in Man or Beast Scarcity and Plenty c. Days Lucky and Vnluckly to begin or do any Business on Signs of Weather in all particulars Prodigies Meteors and Blazing-Stars what they Prognosticate and their Causes Rules for the Management of Husbandry for every Month in the Year Signs of Diseases in Cattle and how to prevent and Remedy them The Curious Art of telling Good and Bad Fortune by the Rules of Astrology The whole Mistery of LOVE and finding out Thieves that Rob you Also to prevent Affrighting Dreams and Fears in the Night To Travel in Safety How to tell any Number one shall Think be it never so Great To know the Planet that hath Dominion in the Nativity of any Person The Art of discovering Truth from Falsehood How to know whether you shall be Successful in any matters you engage in against another To know whether the Party you Love be Virtuous and Chaste To prevent or take Vermin that come to destroy Poultry or Coney Warrens To know what place is best to Live and Thrive in whether one shall be Rich or Poor Long Life or Short what Sickness or Crosses shall befall one The Urinal Doctor or Astrological and Physical Observations on casting Urine relating to health or sickness with cautions to prevent threatned Evils A treatise of Bees how to Order Preserve Swarm Gather their Honey and all other Matters relating to them the Warreners Instructor or a Treatise of Coneys their ordering to Preserve or Encrease them the Falconers choice Instructor or the best way to Manage Feed Purge Succour and keep Hawks to Fly at all sorts of Game and to do whatever is requisite for their Preservation well Ordering and to make them Expert in what they are designed for or required to perform A plain and easie Introduction to the most curious Art and healthful Exercise of Ringing Musically on 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. or 9 Bells How a Country-man may know how much Hay or Corn his Barn will hold before it be put into it How to know the Measure that ought to be in Cords or Stacks of Wood to tell what a Clock when the Sun Shines by ones Hand A Catalogue of the Markets and the days they are kept on in the several Counties and Shires in England and Wales Also an exact Catalogue of the Fixed and Moveable Fairs held Yearly in England and Wales the days and time of their continuance the like for Exactness never before Published Likewise a Table for reducing Pounds into Shillings Pence and Farthings and the Contrary And many other Matters too tedious to be mentioned in a Preface but more at Large expressed in the Table or Contents of this Book which by casting your Eye over them will give you such Satisfaction as you can in any Reason desire I need not as I think in this place say any more in Commendation of this BOOK but that you have in it Profit and Pleasure united and a more Vseful One of this kind you cannot expect for when you find any that Equals or Exceeds it you may conclude you have found a Phoenix Therefore Relying on the Merit of what is here Written I shall Close with Recommending it to my Country-Men in general and to Lovers of Art and Critical Observators in particular in which they may find the greatest Misteries of Art and Nature and such other Matters as are exceeding Edifying So that take it altogether it cannot but be wonderfully satisfactory to the Reader as for me I covet no Praise as many do For he who Writes to get himself a Name In this dull Age is indigent of Fame And so only sending it Abroad for the Benefit of All I Subscribe my self Yours to Serve You C. P. THE Shepherd's Kalender c. A Computation of Time in Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years divided into Quarters with Signs Governing as also of the Planetary Dominions IT is not fit in this useful Work to Omit any thing that may prove profitable and advantageous to the Reader and since the Exact knowing of Times and Seasons is one main thing Requisit I shall here set it down not only for the present but future Years that without the help of any other Kallender it may be easily found out First then The Measure of Time arises from Minutes 60 of them make an Hour 24 Hours natural Day c. 7 Days goe to a Week 4 Week to a Month 13 such Lunar Months a Day and Hours to a Year though the Year is commonly divided into 12 Solar Months or so many Signs which the Sun passes through in the Circle of a Year so that one Month carrys more days than another as in this Antient observing Verse is seen Thirty Days hath Fruit-bearing September Moist April Hot June and Cold November Short February Twenty Eight alone The other Months have either Thirty One And February when the Fourth Years Run Do's gain a Day from the swift moving Sun So that by this it is plain that every fourth Year called Bissextile
are Drawn from it throughout all the Months of the Year as they fall out or begin on this day So that being proper to my Matter and a stress layed upon them by many prudent people knowing in this Art and Science I shall give my Opinion or Judgment on them from long Observation Observations on the Years entring on Sundays If New Years day the first of this month fall on a Sunday it denotes the rest of the Winter will be very cold and sharp with Frost but of little continuance the greater part moist with cold Rains The Summer hot but pestered with violent Rains yet not so-often but the Earth will kindly bring forth great Plenty of Corn Roots Herbs and Fruits Meat will be cheap among young people Fevors and Agues will be Rife and the greater number of those that dye will be of the younger sort for Cattle it will be a healthy Year Observations on Monday If the Year enter on monday it is observed That the Winter will be mild not afflicted with sharp Frosts or bleak Winds yet somewhat Rainy So that great over-flowings shall happen and much harm be done by Floods The summer however shall be temperate but Blasts in the Spring and Caterpillars brougth with the East wind much spoil the Fruits of the Earth many Ship-wrecks will be heard of and some Great Men promoted to Higher Dignities and Honors for their good services and this Year more women than men will dye travelling in Child-birth proving very fatal to many of them Pasture will be scarce yet plenty of Corn and provisions reasonably cheap enough Griping of the Guts if not the Bloody-Flux and the Small-Pox will be very Rife Observations on the Years entering on a Tuesday In this Case the Winter will be variable the Weather often given to Change from Wet to Frost then to Sleet and Snow then Rain Cloudy open Weather Sun-shine and the like So that the Frosts so happening will be much prejudicial to the Fruits of the Earth by reason of the often Freezing the Snow-water at the Corn Plants Flowers Herbage Roots c. As for the Summer it will be hot and dry scorching up tender Things which will produce a scarcity of all things but Wheat and Barly the Air will be thick and gross because little Winds or Thunder will be stirring to Purge it So that many Diseases will in all likelihood happen particularly the Bloody-Flux of which many will dye Observations on the Year beginning on a Wednesday The Year entering on this Day produces a temperate Winter yet somewhat wet and moist though free from high boisterous Winds some small matter of Snow and Frost may be expected towards the latter end The Spring however will produce much Grass and the Corn spring up well The Summer will be for the most part close and Cloudy weather hot and sultery making it sickly subject to Fevors Inflamations and other hot Diseases yet Handy-crafts and Husbandmen shall gain Riches and Trading flourish more than at other times there will be breakings-out blains botches and boils on Cattle and many Dye So that Flesh will be dear but to make amends Corn cheap Observations on the Year beginning on a Thursday This produces a long Winter mostly dry with cold winds yet wholsom and healthy The Summer a good part of it temperate though in Harvest time much Rain will fall with Thunder and Lightning doing much mischief by the over-flowing of Rivers and Land-floods to the Corn yet there will be no want of Plenty murmurings and discontents will be among some people and mischief ensue thereon people much given up to Vice particularly that of Whoredom Taxes will decrease and Trade revive For the most part the season will be healthful but many troubled with Catarrs Astmas and Consumptive Coughs in the fall of the Leaf and most part of the Winter to their no small Affliction yet fewer dye than the last Year Observations on the Years beginning on a Friday If the First day of January happen on a Friday expect the Winter dry for the most part many Black Frosts but of no long Continuance the Winds blowing moderately will so Purge the Air that it will prove very Healthful but the Spring coming in Wet it will be but an indifferent Harvest-time yet Grass Garden and Orchard Fruits shall scape tolerably well but Poor People will be in Need and much Distress for want of Employment Diseases in the Eyes will be very Rife as also the Spotted Feaver Calentures Cattle will likewise be Diseased and many Dye making Flesh Dear Lastly Observations on the Years beginning on a Saturday new-years-New-Years-day falling on a Saturday the Winter will be pretty moderate though accompanyed with Frosts but not extream in holding long at a time yet the frequent Thaws and Freezing suddenly upon it will do more Hurt than if it had held However the Earth mellowed by this will produce a Fruitful Summer Gso that there will be good store of Corn and other Fruits and much Fodder for Cattle so that Flesh will be Cheap The Diseases this Year will much fall on Aged People so that many will Dye more than usual in other Years Tertian Feavors will be very Rife many Roberys and other Out-rages will be Committed in the Face of the Sun some Murmurings and Repinings will happen but not to any Effect Thus Reader have I given you Prognosticks for the Year from the day it begins very Remarkable among the Learned and Wise Men of the Caldeans Arabians AEgyptians and many Europians leaving the Event to take Effect from your making Remarks on what has been Hinted as you find it come to pass I proceed now to other matters of moment Unluckey Days in every Month Dangerous to begin any Business on Fall Sick Blood Purge Journey c. THE Observation of the Antient Physitians and Astrologers have found out by long Experience that many Days by the malevolent Effects of the Planets have proved Dangerous to men Women and Children and therefore to Caution them from Enterprizing any thing of moment on them have set them down in their Order as followeth In January are Eight Days which ought to be avoided and these are they 1. 2. 4. 5. 10. 15. 17. and the 19. In February only 3. viz. the 8. 9. 17. In March 3 viz. the 15. 16. 21. In April there are only 2 viz. the 15. and 21. In may there are 3 viz. the 7. 15. and 20. In June there are but 2 bad days viz. 4. 7. In July 2 viz. the 15. and 20. days In August there are 2 Unluckey days 19 and 20. In September there are 2 viz. the 6. and 7. In October there is but 1 viz. the 6. day In November there are 2 viz. 5. and 19. In December there are 5 viz. the 6. 7. 11. 15. 16. The Canicular or Dog-days are ever held Perilous to fall Sick to Bleed take Physick in or take too much Love Posset between the Sheets Over-heat ones self
with Labour Travel or the Like These begin the 19 th day of July and continue to the 28. day of August As for the other days not mentioned as Bad days proceed in your Affairs and Prosper but on any of the Ominous days to fall Sick is a sign of a Doubtful Recovery if at all and those that take a long Journey begining it on any one of them will be in danger to fall sick or get some great hurt by the way if not die and never return home Who ever Weddeth a Wife on any of these days will find sorrow and crosses in such a Wedlock if not be forced to part in a little time any great work begun will not prosper nor come happily to an end as expected The most remarkable Days in the Year that are accounted Fortunate to begin any weighty matter on SInce the Antients have layed great stress as well upon the Luckey days as the Unluckey it will be Convenient to place them in Order one after another and Note by the way that tho' I shall name but some few as exceeding Luckey days for marriage Bargains going a Journey or begining a Voyage and what ever else is of weight and moment Yet all the rest not marked before to be Unluckey in each month are indifferent Luckey and not to be Neglected when your Occasions require you to Imploy them lest you be either taxed with sloath or superstition in times and seasons Lucky Days c. Twelth-day or Epiphany January 6 The Conversion of St. Paul January 25 The Purification of the Virgin Mary Febru 2 Valentines-day Febru 14 The Annun of the Virgin Mary march 25 St. Mark the Evangelist April 25 St. Philip and Jacob. may 1 St. Barnabas or the Longest day June 11 St. John Baptist June 24 St. Peter the Apostle June 29 St. James's day July 25 St. Bartholomews day August 24 St. Michael's day september 29 St. Luke's day Octob. 18 St. Simon and Judes day Octob. 28 All Saints Novemb. 1 St. Andrew's day Novem. 30 St. Thomas's day Decem. 21 Christmas-day Decem. 25 St. Steven's day Decem. 26 St. John the Evangelist Decem. 27 These are lookt on as Days that bring Blessings with them yet over and above Ordinary Days through the Year more successful than others not Named already for Luckey Days IN January are 3 more particular Happy days beside what I Named though the Rest not marked Ill as I have said are successful enough viz. the 16. 18. 26. In February there are 4 viz. 10. 19. 27. 28. In march there are 2 viz. 14. 28. In April there are 3 viz. 13. 22. 27. In may there are 5 viz. 3. 5. 7. 11. 19. In June there are 4 viz. 10. 17. 20. 27. In July there are 6 viz. 1. 13. 19. 21. 27. 30. In August there are 3 viz. 3. 7. 9. In september there are 5 viz. 4. 8. 11. 15. 19. In October there are 3 viz. 1. 8. 13. In November there are 4. viz. 3. 9. 11. 15. In December there are 3. viz. 9. 13. 17. And on these Days favoured by the more Immediate Influence of the Planets many Wonderful Actions and Things have been done to an Accomplished success as well by the mighty of the World as the Ordinary sort Insomuch that they have been Caelibrated by the Antients and Festivals Appointed on them with songs in praise of what great Atchievements have been done on them and these Festivals Promulged only for the sake of the Good Luck these days produce but let me tell you by the by however that if you undertake any Unlawful Enterprize it will not Prosper on these Days Therefore let your Designs be Good and fear not the success to your Wish according to this Prophetick Verse Good Days Good Deeds do still beget But Bad Deeds the bright Angels Let Dark Influence to Dark Acts give Birth But here the Stars Light Joy and mirth Observations on Remarkable Days to know how the whole Year will succeed in Weather Plenty c. IF the Sun shine Clear and Bright on Christmas-day it promiseth a Peaceable Year from Clamours and Strife and Fore-tells much plenty to Ensue But if the Wind Blow stormy towards the Sun set it betokeneth sickness in the spring and autumn quarters If it be Lowering or Wet on Childermas or Innocents-day it threatens Scarcity and a Mortality among the Weaker sort of Young people but if the day be very Fair it promiseth plenty If New-Years-day in the Morning open with Duskey Red Clouds it denotes Strifes and Debates among Great Ones and many Robberys to happen that Year If January 25 being St Paul's day be Fair it promises a happy Year but if Cloudy Windy or Rainy otherways hear in this Case what an Antient Judicious Astrologer If St. Paul be Fair and Clear It promisses then a happy Year But if it chance to Snow or Rain Then will be Dear all sorts of Grain Or if the Wind do blow aloft Great stirs will vex the World full oft And if Dark Clouds do muff the Sky Then Fowl and Cattle oft will Dye It is Remarkable on Shrove Tuesday that as the Sun-shines little or much on that day or as other weather happens so shall every day participate more or less of such weather till the end of Lent Mists or Hoar Forsts on the Tenth of March betoken a plentiful Year but not without some Diseases If the Sun shines clear on Palm Sunday or Easter-day or either of them there will be great store of fair Weather plenty of Corn and other Fruits of the Earth If it Rain on Ascension-day though never so little it fore-tells a Scarcity to Ensue that Year and Sickness particularly among Cattle But if it be fair and pleasant then the contrary and pleasant weather mostly till Michaelmas If it happens to Rain on Whitsunday much Tounder and Lightning will follow Blasts and Mildews c. but if it be Fair great plenty of Corn. If Midsummer-day be never so little Rainy the Hazel and Wall-nutt will be Scarce Corn Smutted in many places but Apples Pears and Plumbs will not be hurt If on St. Swithen's-day it prove Fair a temperate Winter will follow But if Rainy stormy or Windy then the contrary If St. Bartholomew's-day be Misty the Morning beginning with a Hoar Frost then Cold weather will soon ensue a sharp Winter attended with many biteing Frosts If Michaelmas-day be Fair the Sun will shine much in the Winter though the Wind at North East will frequently Reign long and be very sharp and niping If in the Fall of the Leaf in October many of them Wither on the Boughs and Hang there it betokens a Frosty Winter with much Snow Other Curious Observations on the seasons of the Year as to the Weather that will happen and such like Matters GReat Observations to predict what will fall out have been made upon Oak Apples in September if Cut they have Spiders in them it betokens Blast and Infection if Flys a dry
FEBRUARY Cut Quicksets and supply the Decayed places with New Ones Plant Vines Hops Liquorish and all Shrubs bearing Fruit sow Oynions Pease Beans Salleting for the spring and Pot Herbs Moss Fruit Trees and Prune them take off Superfluous Branches not yet Removed Graft on Young Stocks and Manure Barren Soile with Dung and other Manure to Render it Fertile lay Traps for Vermino In MARCH The Weather being open the Wind not in the Cold Quarters Cover the Roots of Fruit. Trees that before were Open with Dung Set Quicksets and Graft choice Siens Sow Barly Oats Oynions Parsnips Carroots Cucumbers Mellions Set Artichoaks Sage and all kind of Pot Herbs Bleed and Geld Cattle in the Waine of the Moon Sow all manner of Garden Seeds for the Spring and Summer store In APRIL Sow Flax Hemp and Pole your Hops set and sow what Plants and Herbs were before wanting open the Mouths of your Bee Hives clean their stools rub them over with sweet Herbs to Cherish Cheer and Enable them to take the more Pleasure in their Labour upon their first coming out weed Gardens and Corn prepare for Dary-work Bark Trees and Raise Choice Flowers In MAY. In the beginning of this Month sow and set all manner of tender Summer Herbs continue to weed trim up your Hop Gardens cut off Superfluous Branthes weed Corn Distill Cordial Waters make Conserves drive Rivers and drain Plashes In JUNE Shear your Sheep the Moon Encreasing Geld Lambs and Calves the Moon Decreasing sow Lettice and Radishes three or four Days after the Full Moon gather such Herbs as you would keep Dry for the winters Use in the Full of the Moon when the Sun has drawn up the Dew and Moisture from them set Rosemary and July-flowers and stake up weak Plants and Flowers In JULY Gather forward Summer Seeds when the Sun has dryed them cut off needless suckers drive Bees Mow Inoculate Inarch in the Full Moon gather the Seeds of such Flowers as are Ripe Dry them in the Sun then Hang them in the Pods to Harden To Kill Fleas and Bugs strow Powder of Rue Wormwood and Nut-gals under your Bed In AUGUST Take the Opportunity of the fairest weather to Reap in from the before mentioned Directions relating to weather neither Reap nor Mow Corn too early let the Sun be pretty well Risen when you begin and it will prevent much the danger of Musting and Sweating gather Garden seeds within a Day or two of the Moons Full lay Traps for Vermin gather Fruit in Dry Days sow Seeds for Winter Salleting and Pot Herbs In SEPTEMBER Gather Hops the weather being dry and the Dew off from them take Honey make Verjuce Sider Perry and other Liquors of Fruits remove set Slips of Flowers remove Young Trees and Plants marking them that in the Transplantation they may stand to the same quarters of the Wind they first grew do this in the New of the Moon the Wind at South or West cut Quicksets and gather Winter Fruit without Bruising sow Wheat and Rye sow Parsnips Carroots and Turnops for Winter store In OCTOBER Continue to sow Wheat and Rye remove young Trees and Plants in the New of the Moon cut Rose Trees Cyprus Juniper and Box set Kernel Stones and Nuts gather Grapes in the beginning of the Month the weather being dry make an end of gathering Winter Fruit lay Open the Roots of Fruit Trees and Trench your Ground Kill Swine for your winter store In NOVEMBER Fell Timber Moss Fruit Trees Geld Calves Purge your Cattle to prevent Diseases set Crabb stocks to Graft on in the last Quarter of the Moon set Pease and Beans sow Parsnips and Carroot Seeds Trench Garden Ground with Dung make Drains to carry the water off In DECEMBER Continue to Fell Timber set Traps Sprunges c. for Hares Rabbits and Wild Fowl cover your choice Flowers and Plants with Mats or Straw coat or double cover your Bee-hives Bleed Horses if the weather be Open and Drench your other Cattle keep good Fires Hospitallity and Wholsom warm Dyet and thus much in general Observations what is to be done relating to Husbandry throughout the Year which cannot but be of Use to the Honest Country Man c. Signs of Murrein Rot or such like Destroying Diseases in Cattle how to Prevent or Remedy them CAttle are one main Support of the Nation affording so many Commodities to Man so that without their doing Well and Multiplying we should be but in a Bad Condition therefore it ought to be the Care of those who are most Concerned with them and to whose particular Advantage they more Immediately Redound to look Carefully to them and secure their Health as much as may be and because Murreins among Larger Cattle and Rots among the Smaller are the most Fatal of Diseases and sweep them away by Herds and Flocks I shall from long Experience show the nearest way to fore-see the approaching Danger which coming for want of such Precaution or Fore-sight has Ruined many and having fore-shewed it tell how it may be Helped if in spight of Care it takes Effect which sometimes it will do Signs of Murrein that do befal Cattle IF the Moon change 3 days before St. Bartholomew's Day it will be a sickly Year amongst Cattle but this is not the Rule I intend to Direct you by for the observance of the particular above-mentioned but after that Day is over and no Rain fallen in the Night go as soon as it is day into the Fields of Pasture where your Cattle are to be kept and lying down with your Eye against the Suns rising as even as you can with the surface of the Earth and if you perceive a glistning like Spider threads or a white jelly froth or foam on the Grass then Infectious Vapours are beginning to Rise out of the Earth and to fall down in poisonous Dews threatning Infection to the larger sort of Cattle especially therefore for a while feed them on highe and dryer grounds but if no such thing at this time can be discerned by reason the weather may be hot and draw up that Jelly or whiteness of corrupted Dew look immediately at the time ordered on Michaelmas day in the morning and if you observe it then it will have the like effects though somewhat weaker and the Air less Corrupted To prevent therefore this Murrein Long-sought or as some call it Gurget If you are constrained to Pasture your Beasts bleed them as soon as ever the Leaf begins to fall peg their Ears and Dew-laps with Helebore or Bears-foot a Plant so called drench them with Savin and Rue boyled in strong Ale and give-them a scowring and this will prepare them to resist the pestilential Air and mainly contribute to the preserving them If you find however that any of your Beasts after the afore-named Caution be swelled under the Jaws ogainst the Throat-boul then draw forth its Tongue and open a Vein that lyeth under it an Inch and a half
In Order to this I have Erected a Scheme and when you would consider any Question to know it first view well this Scheme Erected and Calculated for the Resolving all Lawful Questions Mark how the Signs and Planets are Posited in their Government of the Coelestial Houses and then the Figures in the Square To understand this the better take in the Number of the Day of the month and Mark what Planet Rules that Day you state your Question to be Resolved and these are their Characters as to the Governing the Days of the Week as you find in the Angles or Houses of the Scheme Erected on Sunday ☉ Governs on monday ☽ on Tuesday ♂ on Wednesday ☿ on Thursday ♃ on Friday ♀ on Saturday ♄ this being Noted pitch upon any Number that exceeds not 30 add to it the Number of the Day of the month and the Letter that begins your Name if it be a Figure if it be not it stands but for 1. then gather the Number thought on and the Number of the Day of the month with that of your Name Letter into one Sum and divide it by 30 and then if you find what Remains in the upper part of the Square in the Figures placed there assure your self of Good Luck but if it fall out in the under part it promises but an Indifferency of Fortune As for Example you would be certified whether you shall have the Party you are in Love withal and desire to marry take the Number of the first Letter of your Name and the Number of the Planet that Governs the Day you enquire reckoning from Sunday as to the Days of the Week till Saturday in order and then divide them by 30 and if it appears in the upper part it promises you Success in what you desire to know but if in the under part of the Table you will be Crossed in your Expectation If there Remains neither under nor over it Remains in the Blank Houses of the Scheme where neither Good nor Bad Fortune is signifyed then being put off with a Blank you must think again and proceed in the same order till it comes up to a Figure or Sum over or under that is as you find it above or below in the Table and upon this Rule depend all Questions that can reasonably be thought on to be Demanded As Success in Love Affairs Portions great or small Law suits Absence of Friends whether Dead or Alive or when Return if ever whether you shall gain the Preferment you desire whether you shall escape Sickness or not also in Wagers Combates Children Child-birth overcoming Troubles good or bad Debts true Friendship News or storys true or false if a thing stolen be Recoverable or not and indeed what ever your Occasion requires as to Worldly Matters which for Brevitys sake I here forbear to Innumerate as being too many and too tedious to set down in all their particulars What Diseases in the Bodys of Men Women and Children are more Immediately caused by the Influence of the seven Planets with Astrological Remarks as to their Cure SAturn ♄ Reigning causes Cold Diseases as the Gout Leprofy Palsey Quartan Agues Dropsys Catarrhs Coughs Rheumatisms c. Jupiter ♃ causes Cramps Numbness Inflamations of the Liver Head Aches Pains in the shoulders Windyness in the Body Sanguin Feavours and all Diseases caused of Putrefaction the Appoplexy Caxidiac Passions Squincyes c. Mars ♂ causes Acute Feavours and Tertian Agues continual Intermiting Feavours Impostumes Erisipelas Carbuncles Fistulas Bloody Flux and such like hot and dry Diseases Sol ☉ causes Rheums in the Eyes Coldness in the stomach and Liver swooning Chollar Catarrhs Pustles in the matrix and the like in the Lower Parts Venus ♀ causes scabs and Venerial Diseases Lientery suffocations in the Womb sickness in the stomach from Cold and Moist Causes Infirmitys of the Liver and Lungs c. Mercury ☿ causes Hoarsness and Distempers in the Senses Impediments in speech and its passions Falling sickness Goughs Jaundice Vomiting Catarrhs c. The moon ☽ causes Palsey Chollick the Whites Dropsey phlegmatick Impostumes Dissenteries and all Diseases coming from Obstructions in the Veins Now having given you a sight of what Diseases the Influence bring upon the Bodys of Men and Women it is their Business to consider under what particular Planet each Individual was Born which may be known several ways treated on in this Book and therefore I need not here give further Instructions as to that particular but come to more general Terms to know how the Bodys ought to be ordered to prevent these Diseases and herein as one main Expedient I recommend Temperance moderate Bleeding and purging in seasonable times when a Friendly Planet Opposit to the Malignancy of the planet you was Born under has Dominion which will much abate the Effect of their Influence and give Nature a Power to Oppose the Malevolency which if well heeded may be a main prevention of Dangerous sickness Observe also to gather all your Physical Herbs in the Hour of the Friendly planet that temperizes with that you are Born under and in so doing they will have more Strength Power and Virtue to Opporate in the Medicines but neither physick nor Bleed on the 3d. of January the 1st of July the 2d of October the last day of April the first of August and the last for Astrologers with whom Physitians joyn conclude Perillous by reason of the bad Influence then Reigning and if it change not the Distemper into another Worse it will Augment it and put the Party in great Danger of Death if he or she in this Case be not so Luckey to escape it The Urinall Doctor or Astrological and physical Observations on Casting Urine Relating to Health or sickness with Cautions to prevent threatened Evils CAsting of Urine is now become a great Trade and many People much Rely upon it to know the Constitution of their Bodys as to sickness or health and though there is something in it yet they many times go to Ignorant Pretenders who will take their Money and tell them a plausible story though they know nothing of the Matter therefore among these many useful things I shall give the Reader an Insight to know it himself and in this very one thing save him or her the mony this whole Book fraught with so many Rarities will Cost them First Then if the Urine be Red it signifies the Blood is Heated and you must either Bleed or Allay that Heat with Cooling things to prevent sickness 2d The Urine White shows Rawness and phlegmatick Indigestions in the stomach which must be Remedyed by Gentle purges to Cleanse it and Restore lost Appetite 3d. Thick and Muddy Urine betokens the Body surfeited by over Heating in Labour Walking or other Exercise or by excessive Drinking and then to prevent a Fevour take Cooling Cordials 4th A White and Red Setling Gravelly or sandy in the Urine betokens the stone beginning to putrify in the Reins
Dolton 11 13 and 20 at St. Edmondsbury 6 and 11 at Pembridge 2 at Pennibout 30 at Enfield 11 at Folkingham 10 at Rugby 30 at Ross and Rochester 6 at Salford and stanly 23 at Froom 10 and 11 at Garstange 11 and 13 at Guilford 10 at shaftsbury and shesnal 30 at Greensteed 6 at hertford 11 at skipton in Cravan 17 at spalding harlow and hide 19 at horsham 22 at swathey 23 at sandwich 25 at hedon and higham-ferries 20 at health 6 at Trigney in Lanc. 30 at harleigh 11 at Tream 15 and 16 at Thwayt 20 at Ingenstone 23 at Tuddington 5 at Welsh-pool 6 at wetshod and wellington 10 at wem 11 at withgrig 13 at wellington 30 at wakefield and warington 2 and 11 at York 6 at lesford in Lanc. 3 at caremarthen 1 and 23 at ludlow 23 at Ketters-cross 30 at Kimbolton Fairs in DECEMBER 4 At Atherstone 5 at Dolgeth Newtown and puchley 6 at Arundel Exeter St. Edes cased Grantham heningham hethin hornse Northwich in Ch. sevenock spalding wallingford and woodstock 7 at sandhurst 8 at bewmaris Clithero Cardigan Kimar leicester malpus Northampton and whiteland 21 at charlbury 29 at canterbury 21 at Hornbury 22 at Llandilawer 29 at Royston and salisbury 11 at Northampton Note Where you find words standing for the beginning of a County after any Place Named as Lanc. for Lancashire Not. for Nottinghamshire c. then the Place is in that County And this is to distinguish them there being more of the same Name An exact Catalogue of the Moveable Fairs with their exact Times and Places AT Northampton from Christmass to June every wednesday Monday after Twelfth-day at Buckingham At Hinkley three mondays after twelfth-day At Melton-mowbrav and Salisbury the tuesday after Twelfth day for horses the thursday after Twelfth-day at Banbury and Lutterworth and for three weeks every thursday after at Litchfield the friday after Twelfth-day at Newcastle-under-line On Shrove-monday at Candene In Glocestershire on Ash-wednesday and the same day at Dunstable Chichester Eaton Exeter Folkingham Litchfield Royston Tamworth Tunbridge On the first thursday in Lent at Banbury the first monday in Lent at Abington Winchester Chichester Chersey the first tuesday in Lent at Bedford At Charlebury on Michaelmas day St. Thomas's day second friday in Lent On the third monday in Lent at Stamford for horses On midlent sunday at Odiham Saffron-Walden and Stamford the friday and saturday before the first sunday in Lent at Hartford the first sunday in Lent at Hexcomb Grantham Sudbury and Salisbury The tuesday after midlent-sunday at Leominster the monday before Lady day at Wisbich Kendale and Denbigh wednesday before Lady-day at Dolton the thursday before Lady day at Yarmouth On St. Matthew's day at Cricklade The tuesday seven-night before Palm-sunday St. Luke's day at New-market the wednesday before Palm-thursday at Drayton and the thursday before it at Landissel On Palm-sunday at Leicester Newport Alesbury Wisbich Skipton and Pomfract On the same at Billinsworth Lancaster Kendale Worcester Llaundaren the tuesday after at Wakefield The monday before Easter at Ledbury tuesday before Easter and St. Barnaby's day at Selby Monday tuesday and wednesday before Easter at Marsh the same day at Ludlow the thursday before Michaelmas the thursday before Easter and the thursday before St. Thomas's day at Kettering the monday before St. John Baptist at Soham the wednesday in Easter week at Mass-Gate monday wednesday and thursday in Easter week at Sosings On saint Peter and saint Paul at Ridbury On the Eve and Feast of saint Peter and saint Paul at Barkstrange Also on the Eve and Feast of saint Martin On the monday in Easter week and monday before saint Thomas's day at Thornbury At Cateline and Llanvillan on the wednesday before Easter and on the wednesday and thursday before at Wallingford Kettering and Sudminster On Good friday at Burnhil Amptil Brewerton Charing Berry Enfield Guilford Huntington Hatfield Ipswich Melian Lougher Nutley saint Pombs Risborough and Roborough On Easter monday at Onay Buck Dryfield and Gainsborough On tuesday at Ashby-de-la-Zouch Dantry Braleis Dorchester Oxen. North-street Hitching Roachford and Sambich On Easter wednesday at Wellingborough and Beverly On friday in Easter at Derby the next day at Skipton in Craven The second monday after Easter at New Malton Monday tuesday and wednesday after Easter at Chudley and on the wednesday at Hereford At Lodness every wednesday after Easter Martlemas day At Inglestwait monday before Holy-thursday Buckland All Souls day tuesday after Pentecost At Bricklesworth Evesham and Newcastle-under-line on monday after Low-sunday At Lough in Lincolnstire the third sunday after Easter At Beverly Englefield Lane Rech in Rogation week On Enmore Green the first tuesday in every month Green street on tuesday before Ascension day At Weobly on Ascension day and thursday three weeks after At Ross on Ascension day and the thursday after Trinity sunday On Ascension Eve at Abergelly and Darkin On Ascension day at Bread-street in Kent Bewmaris Bridgend Brimmingham Chapple-Frith Burton on Trent Eccleshal Chapple-Kinnow Egglestrew St. Eedes Hallaton in Leicest Lutterworth Kidderminster Middlewich Newcastle Newbury Penhole Rone Rippon Stopport Stratford upon Avon Sudminster Yarnwigg and the Vizes At Burlington and Thaxsted the sunday after Ascension day At Shrewsbury the wednesday after and at Ruthin the friday after On Whitsun-Eve at New-Inn Rats-dale Wisbich Skipton in Craven On Whit-sunday at Kirk by Stephen Cribby Lenham Rutsdale Ryhill and Salisbury On Whit-monday at Bromyard Kingston and Grays tuesdays and wednesdays At Ormiskirk monday and tuesday in Whitsun-week and on the monday at Lambyron Chipping Agmondsham Appleby Amersom Bradford Bricklesworth Burton in Lane Chichester Cockermouth Datterington Evesham Exeter Dyfield Linton St. Ives Harts-green Rigate Owndle Midlome Sleford Salford Sittingboun Whichurch and Stockelter On Whit-tuesday at Canterbury Ashby-de-la-Zouch Elesmere Daintree Epping Leighton Buz. Knotsford high Louguir Lewis Llaninthebury Midhurst Monmouth Melton Mobray Oringstock Rochford Perith. On the wednesday in Whitsun-week at Royston Sand-Bar Pont-Stephen Newark on Trent Libedon Llandeby and Leek On thursday the same week at saint Austel Kingstone and Chacklefield On the friday at Stow in Guillin Derby and Cogshal On Trinity Eve at Skipton in Craven Rowel and Pomfract On Trinity sunday at South haven Stokely saint Mary Awk Kemdale Rowel On Trinity monday at Raleigh Houndslow Ruilly Cresswell Waterford Usk the Vizes Spilsby and Tunbridge On the tuesday after at Radnor and Abergavenny and the wednesday after at Aberfrow On the day of Corpus Christi at Sanbury saint Anns Bishop-Stratford Catewid Bremicham Hallatan Egiestrew Haligh Kidderminster Hampstead Llanwist Llammerchimeth Newbury Neath saint Neots Newport in Montgomeryshire Stopport Prescot and Ross On the friday after at Coventry and Chepstow On the sunday after at Stamford and Bolton The sunday after the third of July at Haveril and the sunday fortnight after Midsummer at Fothering Hay On the first sunday after saint Bartholomews day at Samphbick and Ashford and the thursday
before at St. Michaels at Kettering The monday after saint Mich. at Faseley saint Faith's by Norwich Saint Michaels and on the tuesday after at Salisbury On the thursday at Banbury and the friday before Simon and Jude at Litchfield and on the thursday before saint Thomas's day at Ketterring Stafford saint Peters day Pounds Shillings Pence Farthings 1 20 240 960 2 40 480 1920 3 60 720 2880 4 80 960 3840 5 100 1200 4300 6 120 1440 5760 7 140 1680 6720 8 160 1920 7680 9 180 2160 8640 10 200 2460 8600 This Table is easie and wants no Explanation and turned backward it is Farthings into Pence Pence into Shillings and Shillings into Pounds which at first sight may be thus computed FINIS THE CONTENTS A Computation of Time in Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years divided into Quarters with Signs Governing as also of the Planetary Dominions Page 1 To know what Month and Day the moveable Feasts and Terms will fall on for many Years to come 3 Eclipses of the Sun and Moon how caused with Rules to know when they will Happen 5 Prognosticks or Predictions on the Days of the Week that New Years Day shall fall on Relating to the weather to fall out throughout the Year Searcity and Plenty Diseases that will happen to People also to Cattle 7 Unluckey Days in every month Dangerous to begin any Business on fall Sick Blood Purge Journey c. 12 The most remarkable Days in the Year that are accounted fortunate to begin any weighty matter on 13 Ordinary Days through the Year more successful than others not Named already for Luckey Days 15 Observations on Remarkable Days to know how the whole Year will succeed in Weather Plenâ—y c. page 16 Other Curious Observations on the Seasons of the Year as to the Weather that will happen and such like Matters 18 Infallible signs of Weather in all seasons throughout the Year by the Planets Elements Creatures c. 19 Infalliable signs of Rain and drisling wet Weather taken by Observations of the Planets and other Stars Elements Creatures c. ibid The signs of Rain by Creatures c. 20 Signs of Wind and sudden Storms arising Prognosticated by the Planets Elements Creatures c. in all seasons of the Year for ever 22 Signs of the Winds shifting or changing in the several Points of the Compass 24 Signs of storms Ceasing 25 Signs of Excessive Hot Weather ibid Signs of Cold Weather or Hard Winter 26 Prognosticks of Fair Weather by the Planets Elements and Creatures c. 27 Signs of Hail violent and moderate by the Planets Elements c. 28 Signs of Snow and Drisly sleet c. 29 Prognosticks of Frosty Weather by the Planets Elements Creatures c. ibid Signs of a Thaw in any great hard Frost c. 30 Of wonderful signs in the Heavens and on the Earth whence they Proceed and what they Prognosticate of strange Events ibid Comets or Blazing-stars with Astrological Observations what they are and Prognosticks on them 31 Many Suns appearing in the Heavens at once the cause and what they Predict page 33 The appearing of many Moons in the Night and what they Prognostick of Good or Bad. 35 Of the Rainbow how caused and what it Prognosticates ibid Of the Ignis Fatuus or Fires that lead People astray in the Night time called Will with the Whisp 37 Of the Flame that appears on the Hair and Beards of Men and upon that of Beasts 38 Strange Apparitions of Armies and other wonderful sights in the Air how caused 39 The Kinds of Earth-Quakes their cause and signs fore-running them and what they portend ibid Signs fore-running Thunder Lightning c. 42 Of sudden Whirl-winds surprizing Tempests ibid Approved Rules for Manageing Husbandry or Rural Affairs during the Twelve Months of the Year for ever 43 Signs of Murrein Rot or such like Destroying Diseases in Cattle how to prevent or remedy them 47 Signs of Murrein that do befal Cattle 48 Prognosticks of a Rot which fall upon Sheep 50 Rot in Sheep how to prevent it and other Diseases and Cure it when taken 51 How to Calculate Nativities to know Good or Bad Fortune Introducing to that Curious Art plainly describing it by Complexions Humours c. 53 How to tell any Number one shall Think be it never so great 56 To know the Planet that hath Dominion in the Nativity of any Person ibid The Art of Discovering Truth from Falsehood 57 How to know whether you shall be Successful in any Matters you Engage in against another Page 59 To know whether the Party you Love be Virtuous and Chaste 61 The Mosaick Wand to find out Hidden Treasure ibid Choice Secrets in Astrology on several Useful Occasions 62 A safe way to secure a House 63 A Safeguard for all Out-houses to secure Poultry Cattle Corn or what else is shut up therein 64 A Safeguard for an Orchard Park Warren or Field to take a Thief c. 65 To drive away Ghosts or Spirits that Haunt a House and prevent the Night Mare 66 This to be carryed about One for the prevention of Witchcraft being under an Ill Tongue as Planet struck ibid To prevent Affrighting Dreams and take away fear in the Night 67 To help a Person under an Ill Tongue and make â—he Witch appear or the Effects cease ibid To prevint or take Vermin that come to Destroy Poultry or Coney Warrens 68 To prevent a Dogs Barking at you in the Night time 69 To draw Cats together so that they shall not escape your Hands ibid A Pleaget to wear about ones Neck to prevent Bugs Fleas or Gnats Biting in the Night time 70 To Drive away Mice or Rats in a House or Grainary 71 To prevent being Rebbed on the Road or meeting with any bad Accident ibid To find out a Thief or make him or her bring back the Goods stolen Page 72 A Pleasant Device or Stratagem to find out any Person Suspected to have Robbed you 73 To know what Place is best to Live and Thrive in whether one shall be Rich or Poor Long Life or Short what Sickness or Crosses shall befall one 74 How to Resolve all Lawful Questions Relating to Marriage Friendship Journying Life Long or Short Business Success or any other truly stated 78 What Diseases in the Bodys of Men Women and Children are more Immediately caused by the Influence of the seven Planets with Astrological Remarks as to their Cure 81 The Urinall Doctor or Astrological and Physical Observations on Casting Urine Relating to Health or Sickness with Cautions to prevent threatened Evils 83 Cautions against much Bleeding and Physicking and what Necessary Rules are to be Taken to Supply the Defect 85 How to Dyet and Order our Bodys for the preservation of Health for every Month in the Year the most Approved Rules 87 A Treatise of Bees how to Order Preserve Swarm Gather their Honey and all other Matters Relating to them 93 The Warreners Instructor