Zodiaquâ— accounted from the first assault of thâ— Diâ—â—â—se which makes up the Octile or Semiquadraâ—â— Aspâ—â—t there by the same Reason she begins to opâ—râ—â—e as she will in the next subsequent Critical 〈◊〉 whâ—â—hâ—r it be to Good or Evil And this falls out the Fourth day wherefore it is called of Hippocrates and Galen Index Diei Septimi sequentis The second Indicative the which Hippocrates and Galen six upon the 11 th may also be upon the 10. or 12. days according as the Moon in the Point intermediate shall hasten from the First Quarter or Quadrate to her Opposition and have run through 135. degrees from the time of Decumbiture which makes the Trioctile or Sesquiquadrate Aspect And so of the rest c. This done we must observe the Disposition of the Heavens to the time when the Moon comes to the foresaid Angles and that according to the generally received Precepts and Aphorisms But to make this the clearer I will illustrate all by Example A Gentleman fell Sick at Paris of an Acute Disease Anno 1641. the Second of January about 8 a Clock in the Afternoon at which time I find the Moon in 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ wherefore I put this Sign with the degree and Minute in the first Angle as it were the Ascendant In the Next place I add 45 degrees to 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ the Radical Point of the Moon and it gives me 25 degr 19 Min. of ♓ for the place of the Moon the First Indicative And by adding 45 degrees thereunto I get the place of the Moon for the Cuspe of the Third Angle 10 degr 19 Min. of ♉ the Point of the first Crisis And soby a continued addition of 45 degrees it produceth the Fourth Angle 25 dâ—grees 19 Minutes of ♊ the second Indâ—cative The Fifth Angle in which is observed the Second Crisis 1â— degrees 19 Minutes of ♌ being the Point Opposite to the Radical place The Sixth Angle 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ designing the Third Indicative The Seventh Angle 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™ for the point of the Third Crisis And lastly the Eighth Angle wherein is the Fourth Indicative 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ These had I therein insert the Places of the Planets respectively and so I have it compleat as the following Figure demonstrates Now to know when the Moon comes to the 10. degree 19. Min. ♉ for in that point she beholds the Radical Point or her place at the time of the Decumbiture with a Quartile Aspect viz. 10 degrees 19 min. â™’ you must do as followeth First look in the Ephemeris on what day the Moon comes to the degree of the Sign that beholds her Radical place with a Quartile which you will find to be the 9 th day of January for on that day at Noon her true place is 6 degrees 11 minutes of ♉ and the 10. day at Noon in 18 degrees 34 Minutes of ♉ wherefore her Diurnal Motion is 12 degrees 25 minutes and the distance from the place of her Quadrature 4 degrees 8 minutes which had I reason thus As her Diurnal Motion 12 degr 25 min. to 24 hours So the Distance 4 degr 8 min. To 8 hours ferè the Critical time desired In the same manner do I find out the Time of the other Crises and Indicatives and after that the state and disposition of the Heavens agreeing to every Critical Phasis as is evident by the following Synopsis Abacus seu Sypnosis Calculi Figura Octogonalis Species of Critical Days The Motion of the Moon The time of â—very Critical Phasis The state of the Moon in respect of her Place in the Ralix with the Syzygies and the Mutual Aspects of the Planets January 1641. S. V. Decumbiture d. 10 â— 19 â™’ D. 2 H. 8 M. 0 P. M. ☽ app ♀ and ♄ âš¹ ☽ ♂ â–¡ ☉ ♂ â–¡ ♃ ☿ ♂ ☉ ♃ ☿ 1. Inâ—icat 25 19 ♓ 6 5 43 Manè Octile oâ— Sâ—mi-quâ—drate 1. Critic 10 19 ♉ 9 8 0 P. M. Quartile Sinister â–¡ ♂ ☿ 3 h. 11′ 2. Indicat 25 19 ♊ 13 2 36 P. M. Trioct Sinister â–³ ♄ 10 h. 57′ shewing a Bad Crisis 2. Critic 10 19 ♌ 17 5 50 Manè Opposition 3. Indicat 25 19 â™ 20 3 44 P. M. Trioct Dexter â–³ ♃ 4 h. 28′ shewing a happy and propitious Crisis 3. Critic 10 19 â™ 23 9 1 P. M. Quâ—rtile Dexter â–³ ♀ hor 22 36′ 4. Indic 25 19 â— 2â— 12 9 P. M. Oâ—tile or Semi-quadrate 4. Critic 10 19 â™’ 29 16 17 P. M. Thâ— Radical plaâ—e The Story of this Observation concerns a Person who after a long and wearisome journy was suddenly assaulted at the time aforesaid by a Quotidian Feaver attended with a dry Cough and a Plurisie The Feaver grew to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For indeed the Night before it seized on him he was in a grievous condition and the Third day he was quite without any Shivering nor brought it any Intermission to the Patient when the Moon passed 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™’ a Sign of Infirmity at which time she applyed to Venus and Saturn in a long Sextile of Mars who afflicted Jupiter and Mercury both in Combustion and likewise the Sun himself by a Quartile Aspect The Sixth of the same Month of January the disease grew worse for then the Moon came to an Octile or Semi-quadrate Aspect where the first Indicative was celebrated at which time there was no Aspect with the Moon and therefore a doubtful or unfortunate Crisis was to be feared The Ninth day about 8. a Clock produced the First Crisis by a little Sweat about which time both a Cough and a Pain he had in his side left him but his Pulse beat inordinately for thrâ—e hours after the Tritaeophia remaining Wherefore Galen Lib. 1. Epid. Proprium est Febrium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut malignarum exacerbari diebus Criticis The which also Mars seems to argue by his Quartile Aspect with Mercury about the same time Moreover both these Quartiles namely that of the Moon to her radical place ♉ to â™’ and the other of Mars to Mercury ♈ to ♑ are differing in Qualities as well Active as Passive which aggravates the mischief Besides it is to be noted that the Signs â™’ and ♉ are Signs of Infirmity The Thirteenth day when the Moon came to a Trioctile Aspect in 25 degrees 19 minutes of ♊ Saturn afflicting her by a Trine shewed that an evil Crisis was to be feared The Seventeenth day at 5 hours and 50 minutes in the Morning the Moon possessâ—ng the degrâ—e Opposite to the place she was in at the Decumbiture viz. 10 dâ—grees 19 minutes of ♌ whâ—n there was no Aspect good or bad unto her promised the Patient no hopes of his Health And then indeâ—d he was in greatest fear of himself Notwithstanding The Twentieth day about Four a Clock the Moon entered the 25. degree 19 minutes of â™ and came to a Trioctile with the
Radical Place of the Moon in the third Indicative Jupiter benignly Irradiating the Moon by a Trine about the same time denounced a propitious Crisâ—s to â—nsue The Twenty-third day about Nine a Clock in the Evening the Moon perambulating 10 degrees 19 min. of â™ wherein fell the second Critical day applyed to the Trine of Venus At which time she Produced a wholsome and propitious Crisis For on this very day the Feaver began to leave him and soon after he râ—covered his Health Quod sanè miram rerum Medicarum cum coelo Harmoniam consensum arguit Now that the Cause of this Crisis arising from the Stars may yet more plainly appear I will hereunto add a Coelestial Figure erected after the Rational manner with a Judgment Astrological thereupon Judicium Astrologicum ex Figurâ Decubitus Rationali Figura Decubitus Rationalis Ad Annum 1641. Mens Januarii Die Hor. Min. 2. 8. 00. Lat. 480 50′ T. Ap. ☽ ad âš¹ ♂ ☌ ♀ The Principal significators of this Figure are 1. The Ascendant and 2. Mercury Lord thereof in Capricorn a movable Sign Retrograd and Combust in the Fifth House 3. The Sixth House and 4. the Lord thereof in Aquarius a Fixed Sign strong and powerful in his own House the Moon in the Cusp of the Sixth House in Aquarius The Sun in the Fifth afflicted at the beginning of the Disease by a Quadrate of Mars in Aries a Fiery Sign and Lord of the Eighth House Whence it appears that the Disease proceeded from Choller ingendred of a Churlish Melancholy Humor according to the Aphorisme Sol à Marte ad Initium Morbi quovis modo infortunatus aegritudo erit Cholerica ex humore bilioso orta Furthermore Jupiter in a movable Sign in the Fifth House which rules the Stomach Liver and the Sides c. combust and wounded by the Quartile of Mars brought the Pleurisie upon him and because Mercury Afflicted by the Malevolent Planets is hereby rendered Malevolent he gave him the Dry-Cough Moreover the Moon in Aquarius applying to Saturn argues that the Cause of the Disease proceeded from the Weariness of a Journey according to the Doctrine of Hermes and Hippocrates Now for determining the length or shortness of the Disease consider these Aphorisms Sexta Domus in Signo Fixo Morbi Longitudinem pollicetur Item Saturnus existens Dominus sextae in Signo Fixo longum praesagit morbum Rursum Saturnus Dominus Sextae Domino Ascendentis fortior Morbi Incrementum denotat Postremò Luna Domino Sextae applicans Incrementum Morbi portendir Seeing therefore that Mars in a fiery Sign afflicts both the Luminaries namely the Sun by a Quadrate and the Moon by a long Sextile which is equivalent to a Quadrate I gather that the Principal Authors of this Disease are Saturn and Mars which together excited a very long Burning Feaver Then Mercury the dry Cough and at last Jupiter the Plurisie the which together with the Cough sooner ended than the Feaver for that Mercury and Jupiter were both constituted in a movable Sign Of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms c. IT will not be I hope ungrateful to the Ingenious if I recollect and commend unto their and my own contemplation the Causes of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms and Commonwealths and the rather because as I suppose Time never produced an Age so full of Prodigies nor a Generation of Men so inclin'd to Novelty as now the present wherein every day presents a New Inquiry every Month a fresh Vicissitude The Politiques distinguish the Causes of all Mutations into Two sorts First and Second The First cause is God the Creator and Governour of all things For notwithstanding the Actions of all Individual Human Creatures be in a Human Power yet the Constitutions Governments and Conservations of Human Communions and Societies or Republiques are not so in the Power of Men but depend wholly upon the First and Supreme Cause and the disposition thereof And for as much as God performs his greatest works in the world by Angels it is not impossible or strange if I say and aver that every Empire Kingdom and Republique hath some certain Angel and Genius peculiarly appropriated thereunto as a Governour ordained by God For this is the constant opinion of the Jews who believe that every Person and Place hath a certain Guardian Angel set over it nor do a few Doctors of the Catholick Church believe otherwise whilst in Dan. 10 11. there is mention made of an Angel Governour of Persia and Grece and that the Apostle Ephes. 3. expresly constitutes a certain Order of Angels which he calls Potestates Rulers or Potentates or as our English Translation hath it Principalities and Powers God hath set certain Intervals and Periods of times to all Empires c. amongst which Periods the 500. and 700. years are accounted most Fatal as you may see in Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. but especially in Richterus Ax. 1.2 seq And the natural reason hereof is for that in this space of time there clapseth the sixth Generation of Men which abateth of and more and more declineth from the simplicity strength and fortitude of those Men who at first obtained and preserved Empires by such vertues For like as the Bodies of Men became weak and feeble in the fourth and fifth Generation even so also decreaseth the strength and fortitude whereby Kingdoms are acquired preserved and propagated Besides it hath been observed that at the end of every 30 th year there usually falls out some one or other Mutation in Empires c. because that after so many years such men as formerly had the Government of Affairs and things therein do for the most part leave their Station and that from thenceforth New Ones succeed them who in the space of Thirty years more grow up and introduce new Customs and Opinions in the Commonwealth as you may read in Richterus Axiom 9. Moreover it is certain that as God hath appointed fatal Bounds and Limits of time to all Empires c. so hath he the like Bounds and Limits to all other particular places and when any change of Empires c. is imminent he commonly raiseth up some great Heroes whom he useth as Organs to punish or amend them yet first revealeth such future changes by certain Signs and Prodigies Vid. Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. Richt Axiom 19. And thus much of the first cause of the Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Republiques c. The Second Cause is either Natural or Moral The Natural cause is either Superior or Inferior The Superior Natural Cause is the Motion and Influence of the Planets and Stars upon these Inferiours touching which the Ingenious Keckerman Lib. 1. Cap. 26. delivers this Canon Coelum Efficacissimè agit in Corpus humanum sibi maximè cognatum atque adeo etiam in corpus tum ipsius Principis tum Subditorum ita nempe ut in corporibus mutat temperamenta
denuncianda mitti Principumque exitus calamitates confarcinare That a Comet is not a Physical cause of Calamities but rather a Sign at the pleasure of God using the Comet although by a Natural Effect to terrifie and amend Mortals like as he uses the Rain-bow to signifie the Covenant made betwixt him and Mankind And although Comets may be Fortunate or seem so unto some yet that they are not sent for that End but to denounce more sorrowful things and to heap up the Death and Calamities of Princes The like saith Franciscus Resta but the narrow room I am tyed to will not admit of all their Testimonies in the Original especially Cabaeus admits some Comets to be unfortunate others fortunate both per se and to all and also per accidens Because there is never any thing so pernicious to one but it profits another and if one lose an Empire another gets it and subscribeth to Cardan That Elementary Comets are generated of the great plenty of Sulphurous Spirits which cause or signifie Drought â—nd Distempers of the Air whereby the tenderest and weakest Bodies and those that be most delicately nurâ—ur'd and such as be subject to Cares and Watchings are soonest hurt and offended In which number are all Princes so likewise tender Bodies and delicate Females but that the Death of such is not so much taken notice of as Princes Of Astronomers let Tycho have Audience first He Progym Tom. 1. Ã pag. 800. condemns all such who because of the Errors of some Astrologers and the weakness of Humane Understanding in attaining the certain Presages of these Portents deprive them of all Energy and vertue of signifying as if God and Nature should dally with these appearances and would have nothing to be thereby fore-told the World Longomontanus his Scholar Append. ad Astr. Dan. cap. 7. sharply reprehends Thomas Erastus and others who allow of some Vertue to Ordinary Stars yet indulge no Power or Efficacy to Comets Because saith he God and Nature have made nothing in vain but ordain'd the Evils themselves signified by Comets to a good End That is to say Dearth of Corn and Barrenness that the Earth as it were by lying fallow might in the interim be fitted and prepared to a plenty of all Fruits So likewise Tempests that the Air thereby being tossed and tumbled might be purged from Dregs Diseases and Wars that wicked and ungodly Men being thereby routed out the World might be renewed according to these Verses of Palingelius Tales ergo homines imo umbras tempore certo Mittit in arma Deus crudeli morte necandos Sic genus humanum purgat multosque per annos Qui remanent vivunt hilares hac parte Remora Donec succrescunt iterum mala gramine rursus Evellendo acri bello gladioque secanda Tunc iterum immundas dispuniat Jupiter Ollas Tunc iterum immissis furtis purgamina verrit For although these new Phaenomena be lock'd up in the Cabinet of Nature in respect of the Matter and Efficient Cause thereof yet as to the end they were pre-ordained of God to signifie the Eversions and Changes of Publick things and to pull down the too much Security of Men. Hitherto Longomontanus Kepler Physiolog Comet saith that Comets were made to the End the Aethereal Region might not be more void of Monsters than the Ocean is of Whales and other grand thieving Fishes and that a gross fatness being gathered together as Excrements into an Aposthume the Coelestial Air might thereby be purged lest the Sun should be obscured as partly he was in the Year 1547. from the 24. to the 28. of April or for a whole Year together as in that wherein Julius Caesar was slain when being made weak by a Murrey or Bloody colour he cast but a dim and disdainful Light And lib. 3. he proceeds to the significations of the Comet in 1607. unto which he attributes Drought Scarcity of Corn and many other Evils adding withal that the wisest of Historians and Philosophers testifie That Infelicities and Miseries have always succeeded Comets not only by the Death of Princes and changes thence ensuing but by a thousand other ways And sums up the Troubles and Calamities which followed the Comet in 1531. in Helvetia Saxony and the Baltique Sea and that of the Year 1532. in Westphalia and Holland That of 1538. in England That of 1539. in Misnia Thuringia Marchia Brudenburgica and Brunswick That of 1558. again in England France and Holland So likewise that of the Year 1569. in Saxony and those in 1577. and 1580. in several places of Germany c. Which done he declares the Events of the Comet in 1607. and his Judgment of those in 1618. and 1619. unto which I refer the Reader I have been the larger in these Testimonies of Philosophers Poets Fathers Meteorologists and Astronomers to the end all rational and indifferent Men may see and judge what an awful regard hath ever been had of Comets and other the like Prodigious Meteors amongst the Learned and how far differing from the too prejudicate and uncharitable Censures of some silly Sciolists of this Age who judge of all things but according to the shallow Current of their own Fancies or to cherish the predominant Humour of these giddy times As for Astrologers I shall not produce them as Witnesses but Judges to decide the Portents of the aforesaid new Comet in December 1652. the Occasion of this Discourse and which now I come to handle Astrologically But first I will give you the Place and Motion thereof Of the Comet 1652. UPon Wednesday the Eighth day of December 1652. Stilo veteri about Nine a Clock at Night I first beheld this Comet below the hinder-most Star in the Constellation of the Hare but some few degrees to the East thereof It was likewise seen the same Evening by Mr. Childrey of Feversham in Kent as I have it from a good hand but neither he nor my self could as then perceive any Tail visible what it had before the Moon was up I know not I have heard of some who say they saw it the sixth or seventh day And 't is very probable the first appearance thereof might be about the Full Moon Dec. 5. or rather as I suppose upon the Quartile of Jupiter and Mars Celebrated the seventh day of December whereof more hereafter The 9 th day betwixt 7 and 8 in the Evening I saw it the second time under the Foot of Orion not far from the Hares Eye and then there appeared a dim Tail directly opposed the Sun but after the Moon rose the Tail was hardly visible This Evening also it was observed by the Astronomical Reader of Gresham Colledge as I am inform'd and afterwards so often as the Air would permit him till it vanished It is my unhappiness not to be acquainted with the Gentleman Yet by the means of a Noble Friend I obtained the Longitude and Latitude thereof as he had found the same by Instrument
I therefore Anagrammatiz'd my name to Naworth and by that Name I writ an Almanack for several years together and continued unknown unless to some two or three of my friends whereby I seasonably prevented the before-named inconveniencies and hazards which otherwise I should inevitably have shared of And I presume that in doing this I neither wrong'd my self nor abused the Country where I lived And whatever other witty construction may be made thereof by these two trifling Gypsies by this they may perceive I took no delight as they do to be termed a Conjurer a Magician a Cabalist a Merline a trucking Mercury or any thing else whereby they desire and endeavour so much to promote and propagate their deceitful and unwarrantable dealings And whereas Lilly in the same Preface chargeth me under the same name to have wrested many false judgments from Astrology against the Parliaments actions intending thereby to prepossess the Kingdom with a vain fear that His Majesty and his designs should take place c. I must tell him that this his Accusation is most maliciously false And let him shew me if he can but one Aphorism or Sentence that ever I delivered for which I either quoted not my Authors or gave a sufficient reason in Astrology or that ever of which I shall hereafter prove him apparently guilty I wrested any part of Astrology from the Genuine sense thereof either to make for his Majesty or against the Parliament And if it hath pleased God to suffer the Loyal party thus to be trampled over it is for their sins and carâ—ies with it a supernatural Cause and Reason above the stars which could not be discerned by the clearest mortal eye No Symptome of such our sufferings could be read or observed by such man in the great Book of Heaven but rather the quite contrary as I could instance for many reasons in Astrology And whatsoever I spoke or writ was as your own sense imploys ever with submission to divine Providence But I will not busie my self so much as to examine and retort every Tatter of his ragged-Preface nor shall I need to vindicate his Majesties Officers whom he is therein pleased to term Ravenous from his polluted lips I see no reason why they may not meet with a fitter occasion and opportunity to require him but the thing I have proposed to my self is first to ferret the poor Quack inpoint of Art and afterwards in matter of Judgment The first thing and indeed the only thing that 's worth my observation is his Transcript of Eichstadius his Ephemerides for the year 1647 wherein indeed he hath taken a great deal of pains and deserves to be commended for this indefatigable Labour but withal I must tell him that he hath theâ—ein greatly betrayed his own ignorance in Astronomy or shewed himself exceedingly negligent and careless in that he hath not fitted the places of the Sun Venus and Mercury but especially the Moon to the Meridian of London as he hath done to his thinking in the Lunations and Aspects of the Planets nor which had been more easie and sooner done prescribed any Rule or Direction whereby to supputate their true places for that Meridian or any other place of the Kingdom And this Error he hath been guilty of throughout the two former years whereby our young Tyro's are much deceived in the Merline when they think they have the places of those Planets therein exactly Calculated to the Noon-tide of every day at London for although in the higher Planets whose motion is but slow there be no sensible difference yet in the Sun Venus and Mercury there is an apparent error For when they are in their swift motion their places at noon as Lilly hath set them will differ about 2. min. and often 3. min. from the truth And in the Moon whose motion is far swifter than any other of the Planets her Error is intolerable especially when she is in her swift motion For example the first of January 1647. the Diurnal motion of the Moon is 12. degr 24. min. being then but in her slow motion The difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge to which place the Longitude of the Planets as Wil. Lilly hath printed them were Calculated by Eichstadius is 50 minutes by his own confession in his Anglicus 1645. Page 54. that is the Sun cometh later to the Meridian at London than he does at Uraniburge by 50. Min. of time so that how much soever the Moon moveth according to Longitude in that space of time by so much hath Lilly erred in the Moons true place at noon for every day in the year which what it is for the said first of January I examine thus If the Moon in 24 hours move 12 degrees 24 minutes in Longitude What moves she in 50 min. of time Facit 26 min. ferè And by so much hath Lilly erred from her true place the said first of January at Noon So that whereas he hath placed her that day in 21 degrees 10 min. of Pisces she ought to have been in 21 degrees 36 min. of the same Sign And when she is in her swift motion he commits a greater Error as the tenth of March 1647. if you examin it according to the former rule you shall find just half a degree or 30 min. error and in stead of 26 degrees 3 min. of Virgo wherein Lilly hath put her that day she should be in 26 degrees 33 min. of the same Sign The next thing which I mean to take notice of is his Scheme erected to the Apparent time of the Moons Eclipse upon the tenth of January 1647. at 9. hours and 19 min. P. M. as he hath taken it from Eichstadius by deducting 50 min. for the difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge and to the same time I erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus and comparing his printed Scheme with that which I had more curiously set I find Lilly still bungling and botching but without any result of truth For whereas he hath made the Cuspe of the tenth House 22 degrees 20 min. of Gemini according to exact Calculation it is no lâ—ss than 23 degr 30. minutes whereby it appears that Master Lilly hath mistaken 1 degree and 10 min. in the Cuspe of the Medium Coeli And in the Ascendent of the same figure he haâ—h mistaken above one whole degree viz. 1 degr 10 min. for he hath made the Cuspe thereof but 23 deg and 51 min. of Virgo which should have been 25 degrees and 1 min. and the like Errors follow in the seventh house of the Figure and proportionably in all the rest which makes me wonder with what face this sensless botcher dares term me an A. B. C. fellow when all men may perceive him so shamefully ignorant in the very fundamentals of the Art he pretends to and that I am able to correct him in every point and particle of his profession For I desire
and at least 8000 modestly computed of their men killed and taken Prisoners 16 His Royal Highness arrived at Whitehal accompani'd with his Highness Prince Rupert whose Prudence and Courage in the late Engage Crown'd all his former atchivems 19 2063 Dutch Prisoners brought to Colchester whereof 13 Commanders 20 A Publick Thanksgiving observ'd in London and Westminster and other places adjacent for the late glorious victory obtain'd against the Dutch 21 The Parliam met at Westminster according to the term of Prorogation and was again Prorogu'd to the 1 of August next His Excellency the Count de Molina Ambassador to his Majesty from the Spanish King made his publique entry with great Splendor and Magnificence 22 Was Interred the Body of the most Noble Earl of Falmouth unfortunately slain in the late Fight with the Dutch His Majesty conferr'd the Honour of Knighthood upon Vice-Admiral Mynns and Câ—pt Smith for their Eminent services in that Fight 23 His Excellency the Count De Molina had publick audience 26 Mr. William Coventry Secretary to his Royal Highness received from his Sacred Majesty the Honour of Knighthood and was afterwards sworn of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 27 His Majesty with his Royal Highness the D. of York his Highness P. Rupert his Grace the Duke of Monmouth and oâ—hers of the Nobility arriv'd at the Buoy in the Nore together with her Majesty the Qu. Mother who thence prosecuted her journey toward France his Maiesty taking his leave this night and afterward going aboard the Royal Charles Conferred the Honour of Knighthood upon Rear-Admiral Tyddiman Capt. Jordan Capt. Spragg and Capt. Cuttings for their eminent valour shewed in the late Fight with the Dutch July 2 His Majesty return'd to Greenwich whence he passed by Coach to Hampton-Court 4 A Publick Thanksgiving throughout England and Wales for the late glorious Victory obtain'd against the Dutch 5 Part of his Majesties Fleet set sail from Southwold-Bay towards the Coasts of Holland A general Fast observed in London and Westminster and places adjacent by his Majesties Command upon occasion of the Plague and Pestilence then raging there And the second of August next to be kept in like manner and so the first Wednesday in every month for the future until it pleased God to remove that heavy Judgment 27 His Majesty and the Queen Consort removed toward Salisbury 28 Their Majesties parted this morning at Farnham-Castle her Majesty proceeding towards Salisbury his Majesty to Portsmouth whither he came this day at Noon 29 Her Majesty arrived at Salisbury 31 His Majesty in the Isle of Wight Aug. 1 His Majesty came to Salisbury Parliament again Prorogued to the 3 of October next coming 5 Their Royal Highnesses arrived at York 15 The Receipt of his Majesties Exechequer being removed to his Majesties Honour of Non-such in Surrey in regard of the great and dangerous increase of the Plague at Westminster opened there 16 His Royall Highness at Hull The Dutch Smyrna Fleet and Straits-Men De Ruyters and their East-India return Ships in all about 50 being arrived at Bergen in Norway were by a Squadron of 22 Sail commanded by Sir Tho. Tyddiman most gallantly Attack'd in that Harbour But the Danes having suffered the Dutch to land and plant their Guns ashore to the best advantage of annoying us assisted them by their Shot from the Castle and Forts All which would not yet have served their turn if a strong Gale out of the Harbor had not made our Fire-ships useless whereupon our Ships retired with some loss of Men amongst whom M. Edward Montague and Mr. Wyndham who lost their lives honourably in the service of their King and Country and some 4 or 5 of our Ships disabled But not without some severe Execution done both upon their Men and Shipping 30 His Majâ—sties Fleet commanded by his Excellency the Earl of Sandw set sail towards the Coast of Holland in hope once more of ingaging the Dutch this year 31 A great storm at Sea especially upon the Coasts of Norway which scatter'd the Dutch thereabouts September 1. His Grace the Duke of Ormond Arrived at Waterford in Ireland The Bishop of Munster advancing with an Army against the States General for recovery of Bokelo the Eyler Fort and several other places by them unjustly detained from him being assisted thereto with a great sum of Money by his Majesty of Great-Brit to find them work at Land as well as by Sea Sir George Downing return'd from Holland 3 4 Four Dutchmen of War two rich East-India Ships and several other of their Merchant-men taken by some of his Majesties Navy commanded by his Excellence the Earl of Sandw with the loss only of the Hector a small Flem. Vessel of 22 Guns taken from them in the last War unhappily sunk in this ser. 5 Fires kindled and continued 3 days 3 nights in all the Streets Courts Lanes Alleys of London to correct and purifie the Air. 7 The Holland Fleet joyn'd with the rest of their Merchant-men at Bergen 9 Some of his Majesties Ships encountred 12 sail of Hollanders and took the greatest part of them amongst which were four Dutch-men of War and several others West-India Men and Provision-Ships with above 1000 Prisoners So that no less than 30 Prizes were taken from the Dutch in this Expedition under his Excellency the Earl of Sandwich who had pursued this advantage into their own Harbours had not a most violent storm this very day put the Fleet into some disorder many Ships being thereby separated from the Body thereof 11 His Majesty removed from Salisbury to the Right Honourable the Lord Ashleys at Saint Giles's where he lay that night 15 His Majesty at Pool 17 At Lutworth-Castle in the Isle of Purbeck 18 At Weymouth 19 His Majesty at Portland 20 At Dorchester whence he return'd to St. Giles 21 Thence to Salisbury 23 His Royal Highness set forth from York toward Oxford and lay at Sir George Savills at Rufford that night 24 At Warwick-Castle 25 His Majesty set out from Salisbury toward Oxford where he orrived and met his Royal Highness the same night 26 The Queens Majesty came to Oxford Her Royal Highness began her Journey from York toward Oxford 29 Sir Thomas Bludworth elected Lord Mayor for the ensuing year October 5 Her Royal Highness arrived at Oxford 9 Parliament met at Oxford according to the Term of Prorogation 10. The two Houses â—et and attended His Mâ—â—esty in Christ-Church-Hall â—his Morning where His â—ajesty Entertained them â—ith a most Gracious â—peech which was Seconâ—ed by another from the Right Honourable the L. Chancellour After which â—he House of Commons â—oted That Humble and Hearty Thâ—nkâ— should be â—eturned to His Majesty â—or his great Care and Conâ—â—ct in the Preservation of 〈◊〉 People and the Hoâ—our of this Nation and â—â—at they would Assist him â—ith their Lives and Forâ—â—nes against the Dutch or â—â—y other that should Asâ—â—â—t them against His Maâ—esty That the Humble and
a Right Angle through the Cavity of the Hand to the Natural Mean All these things do plainly presage a most Excellent Man in all manner of Sciences especially the Mathematicks And this very same judgment manifestly ariseth from the Geniture by the Situation of Mercury in Scorpio the Positure of the Moon in the Horoscope in her own House and the Trine of Mercury Lastly by the Reception of Houses betwixt Mars and Mercury Besides the Sextile of Mars and Mercury c. argues Celerity The which are so manifest to the Intelligent they cannot be look'd upon and conferr'd without Admiration 5. The Region of the Moon presenting a very clear Line betokeneth Journeys The Moon Angular in a Moveable sign the same So also Mercury received of Mars Lord of the Third 6. The Vital and that Line which runs from the Tuberculum of Saturn through the Hand unto the Region of the Moon do seem to resemble a Scale or Ladder of an Excellent bigness and that by a Notable Tract In which Scale are every where found Transverse Lines requisite to the shape thereof This presages a wonderful and formidable Tract of Dignities but not without great Envy 7. As touching Riches what need we say more There are no Dignities no Kingly and Magnificent Affairs wherein an Affluence of all things is wanting-Venus Centrally in the 4 th House contributes Honourable Possessions in his Old Age and no little Fame after his Death You see how her Tuberculum even Luxuriates with accustomed Incisures 8. The Vital diversly cut concerns no small or light Infirmities In the fifth Year of his Age he was sick of the Small Pox. The rest you may judge to fall out in the 11 21 25 and 43 Years of his Age or thereabout 9. Moreover Saturn projecting in his Region an Incisure through the Mensal bodes a Disease in the lower part of the Belly I suppose the Stone in the Bladder c. As therefore this Geniture of it self is happy so are likewise the Lineaments of his Hand and the Conveniency in the Lines themselves which was to be Proved Example IX One Born in the Year of Christ 1551. the 8 th day of March at Nine a Clock and 30 Min. before Noon where the Elevation of the Pole is 51 degr in Silesia WE observe the Right Hand of this Person because that therein we perceived the Lines most clear according to our former Annotation We have also made Proof thereof in other Examples yet oft-times found a certain Diversity as before we have said we must not every where repeat this same thing which makes so little to the purpose First let us see the Practise and throughly enquire its wonderful Agreement with the Genitures themselves 1. The Line of Life conspicuous with Incisures as it were some little Hairs portends no small Diseases The like Saturn cutting the Thoral with four Incisures whereby he also fore-shews four more grievous Infirmities proceeding from his Nature The First of which befalls the Native about the 21 Year of his Age by a sudden Catharre upon his Breast and Lungs not without some strangling and Difficulty of Breathing The second in the 35 Year of his Age by the means of a Poyson'd Drink But in regard he shall not wholly Drink off the Cup at one Draught because of some Nauseous thing appearing the Deadly dregs is left in the bottom yet hurts it him something But by the Help of a Physician the strength of the Poyson is easily Compress'd If you take the pains to Calculate you will find that the Progression of the Sun comes exactly then to the Quartile of Saturn The Third we conjecture will be in the 45 Year of his Age or thereabout the Horoscope then passing out of Cancer into Leo. This Progression also is wont to bring a Change of Outward Goods The Fourth we judge to fall out in the 54 or 55 th Year of his Age the Horoscope coming then by Direction to the 6 th degr of Leo which degree how greatly it threatens in Directions we will more clearly explain to you elsewhere But although this ensuing Disease may prove very Grievous yet is it not to be thought altogether deadly because of Jupiters divolving himself to the very degree of the Horoscope Let him then take heed of a Quartan Fever the Plague or Pestilence Upon the Direction of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars in the 13 or 14 Year the Native fell into hot-scalding-water with the hurt of his Arm and Breast Now this Accident we seek for in the Vital yet not in Specie where we behold little Hairs The Place of Mars according to the Calculation of Copernicus hath of North Latitude 2 degr 10 min. wherefore his Oblique Ascention is 62 deg 50 min. 2. Jupiter conspicuous in his Tuberculum with no unusual Incisures shews Dignities that be sufficiently Great respect being had to the Place of his Birth The like in that he is Collocated in the Cuspe of the Ascendant We have also elsewhere observed from the Line of Mars drawn through the Vital to the Region of Jupiter the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the Geniture Nor does the precedent Example very much dissent from the same 3. The Sun is not ill placed near to Venus in Pisces You see therefore in his Mount a little Line that is clear enough 4. The Region of Venus adorn'd with convenient Furrows not only manifests her good habit in the Geniture but also presages some goodness to accrue by the means of a Wife The Sun therefore coming by Direction to the Sextiles of Venus greatly Enriched him by the Inheritance of a Wife and this about the 41 Year of his Age in which we observed his Hand thus Delineated 5. Jupiter and Mars arising together in the East denotes Ingenuity So Mercury in Aries thus remote from the Sun a ready Wit Observe his Region and therein you shall find Three Parallel Incisures The same you may pronounce from other places according to the former Precepts 6. The Cephalica and Via Lactea do hereunto both contribute notwithstanding they be of a shorter extent 7. The Region of the Moon is Incult and quite destitute of Incisures and therefore wholly silent like as also she is in the Geniture being scarcely departed from the Sun above a days Journey 8. The Restricta continued and of a good colour argues Riches and a good Crasis of the Body 9. The Mensa very broad his goodness of Nature And the like you shall find by Jupiter in the Nativity 10. The Natural Mean dissected by the Intervening of an Incisure Heat and Grief of the Liver The like from Mars next to Jupiter in the East in an Airy Sign 11. Saturn in the Cuspe of the 10 th is in some sort averse to Dignities occasioning Envy especially He also exhibites and that not vaily an Iâ—cisure under his Finger arising from the Interval of the Medius and Annular Thus also have we briefly demonstrated