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
Thousand and seven hundred German Miles Longomontanus and Cysatus found the true Diameter of the Head of the Comet in 1618. One hundred and seventy five German Miles and in proportion to the Diameter of the Earth as 377. to 3600. the length of the Tail continually variable and very uncertain excepting only the 29 of December on which day it was observed to be 445 Semi-diameters of the Earth which answers to three hundred eighty two thousand and seven hundred German Miles 9. The Situation of the Tail in respect of the Sun Venus or Mercury and of the Quarter of Heaven towards which it seems to incline PEtrus Apianus first Observed that Comets projected their Tails to the adverse part from the Sun and to him Cornelius Gemma Cardanus Maestlin Cysatus Blananus Longomontanus and Tycho subscribed The last of whom speaking of the Comet in 1590. hath these words Ex iis vero quas indicavimus caudae porrectionibus evidenter colligitur ubique à sole fuisse ad amussim versam si modo solis positus cum capite Cometae locis quos iisdem temporibus obtinuerunt in vicem conferantur viz. By these Porrections or stretchings out of the Tail saith he before expressed it is evidently gathered that the same have been every where exactly averse from the Sun if so be the Positions of the Sun and the places of the Comet 's Head which at those times they possessed be compared together Nevertheless Tycho acknowledges that the Tail of the Comet in 1577. was directly opposed to Venus not the Sun which he rather attributes to some secret Optical Cause than he would admit Venus could cast out such strong Rays But whether for some hidden Optical Reason as Tycho thinks or because the Head of the Comet is not exactly Sphaerical as Cabaeus supposes certain it is that the Tail sometimes seems to recede a little from the place opposite to the Sun for so Kepler himself acknowledges pag. 54. Solemne hoc est Cometis quod caudae ipsorum nonnihil ab opposito Solis deflectant This is ordinary saith he with Comets that their Tails do somewhat incline from the places opposite to the Sun The like may be said of the Comet in 1618. the Tail whereof Kepler the 9 th of December found to be rather opposed to Mercury than the Sun Johannes Hommelius likewise Observed that the Tail of the Comet in 1556. did not exactly oppose the Sun so long as it was distant from him less than a Quadrant or 90 degrees but that afterwards it tended directly to the Quarter opposite to the Sun By all which it appears that this deflection from the opposite place of the Sun arises per accidens from the Position of the Sun the Comet and Observer other secret Causes perhaps concurring in the matter and shape of the Head or from the transverse distance and motion thereof But doubtless of it self it always respects the Region opposite to the Sun Whence it is as before I noted that Matutine and Oriental Comets are bearded their Rays being projected Westward but the Vespertine and Occidental Tailed their Rays being averse from the West Eastward 10. The Quarter of Heaven in which they arise to which they are carried and where extinct AS to this we read of none that were moved by a direct Tract from any one Quarter of Heaven to another opposite thereunto but all obliquely unless it was that observed by Haly Anno 1200. because he saith the same was carried by the motion of the Primum Mobile from the East Westward Those of the Years 392. 405. 1471. 1475. 1532. 1533. 1539. 1556. and 1618. were moved from the East Westward but all of them obliquely inclining Northward So on the contrary Those that move from the West Eastward incline either Southward or Northward As that great Comet of the Year 373. before Christ seen and described of Aristotle which begun in the West Aequinoctial point and came thence to Orion's Girdle where it extinguished In like manner the Comet in September 1607. began to shew it self betwixt the North and West Aestival point having almost 50 degrees of Northern declination and by a continual Motion according to the Order of the Signs the 10 th of October it was got beyond the Aequator ad Serpentarii Tibiam praecedentem where it vanished having twelve degrees and upwards of South declination Others have first appeared in the North and been moved thence Eastward as that Anno 54. in Nero's time others towards the South as those of the Years 1313. and 1551. Others have at first appeared in the North as that at the Death of Julius Caesar in the 44 Year preceding Christ with many more 11. Their Motion according to the Succession of the Signs or contrary and of the Motion of the Primum Mobile SOme Comets have moved according to the Succession of the Signs as those of the Years 1592. and 1607. Some contrary as they of the Years 1556. and 1618. with many others Some that were at first Retrograde have become direct as that in 1556. and some that were at first Direct have become Retrograde or Stationary as were those of the Years 1569. and 1582. That they have a Diurnal Motion or a Motion agreeing to that of the Primum Mobile is evident because that the most part of such as appeared in the Morning have return'd in the dawning of the day or before but were not to be seâ—n at Sun-set or Twilight in the same place where they were in the Morning as they should have been if they had remained in the same place or had moved only by their own Motion In like manner the greatâ—st part of those that are seen in the Evening do so appear after Sun-sâ—t above the West part of the Horizon that notwithstanding their Motion according to the Succession of Signs some set in the West before Midnight others at least before the Sun rise next Morning yet among these some rise in the Evening and set in the Morning as the Comet 119. Some are visible all the Night long or set not at all as did those included within the Circle of â—hose Stars that never sâ—t viz. the Comets of the Years 1513. 1533. and 1556. and that in 1618. from the 20 of December But whether the Comet that hung over Rome Anno 13. before Christ and that other of the 70 Year after Christ which appeared a whole Year over the City Jerusalem had any common or proper Motion will not easily be determined 12. The Arch or Way of Comets and the Quantity thereof AS touching the Arch or way of Comets there hath been great Controversie whether all or the most of Comets are moved by a right Line as Kepler Galilaeus and some others thought or by a Circle as the most suppose and if by a crooked Line whether in the Plane of a great Circle of a Sphere as Regiomontanus Tycho Longomontanus and many Modern Astronomers have demonstrated This apparent Arch hath been
of it taken by the Parliament Sept. 11. Bristol surrendred 13. Montross defeated at Philip-haugh in Scotland 15. Farley Castle surrendred to the Parliament 23. So the Castle of the Devises Laicock-house the like 24. The Battle of Routon-Heath wherein the Kings Army was defeated 26. Barkly Castle delivered to the Parliament Octob. 1. Sandal Castle the like 8. Winchester the like 14. Basing-House taken by Storm 15. Kings Forces defeated at Sherburn in York-shire 19. Tiverton Castle taken by the Parliament 21. Langford-house surrendred 27. Shelford-house stormed and taken by the Parliament Nov. 5. Bolton Castle yielded to the Parliament 16. Beeston Castle the like 22. The out-works and Stables of Belvoire Castle Stormed and taken by the Parliament Dec. 1. House of Com. voted the King to confer several Honours upon several Members of both Houses and inter alios a Dukedom on the Earl of Essex 4. Latham-house delivered to the Parliament 18. Hereford the like 22. H. of Lords put it to the vote whether christmas-Christmas-day should be kept Dec. 26. King offered Personally to repair to London for settling of a Peace Denied Jan. 1. Newarkers Sally'd out upon G. Pointz his Quarters at Stoke 8. Sir Allen Apsly's quarters beaten up near to Barnstaple 9. L. Wentw. quarters the like at Bovy-Tracy 13. A Personal Treaty denyed by the Parliament 16. Plymouth Siege raised 19. Dartmouth Stormed and taken by the Parl. 20. Parl. Quarters beaten up at Marlborough by a party from Oxford Astley Castle taken by a party of the Kings from Ashby 25. Poulderham Castle yielded to the Parliament 30. Carlion Castle in Monmouth-shire taken by a party from Ragland Feb. 1. Newport in the same Countrey taken by the same party 3. Belvoir Castle delivered to the Parliament Westchester the like 6. Dunstar Castle relieved by the Kings Forces 7. Marham surpâ—ized and Corfe Castle relieved by a party of the Kings Feb. 15. A sharp Encounter betwixt a party of the Kings from Titbury Castle and a party of the Parliaments from Barton-house in Darby-shire 16. Torrington Stormed and taken by the Parl. 18. A party of the Parliaments routed by the Kings Forces near Uttoxeter in Stafford-shire 24. An Engagement of Horse near to Stratton in Devonshire 25. Launceston quitted by the King 28. Saltash the like 29. Lizard Town the like March 2. Abbingdon entred by a party from Oxford but forced to retreat 3. Mount-edgcomb yielded to the Parliament The Town of Foy quitted by the King An Engagement of Horse at Castle-Den in Cornwall 10. A Cessation betwixt the Lord Hopton and Gen. Fairfax 11. The Treaty began at Tresilian-bridge 13. St. Mawes Castle yielded to the Parliament 14. L. Hopton accepted of conditions for disbanding his Army March 16. Exmouth Fort yielded Dennis Fort yielded 21. L. Astly defeated near to Stow on the edge of Gloucester-shire Anno 1646. 27. Newark Summoned by the Parliament April 8. Ruthen Castle delivered Corfe Castle taken by Storm and Stratagem 9. Articles agreed on for the surrendring of Exeter to the Parliament 10. Barnstaple Summoned 13. Exeter delivered Litchfield Summoned 14. Barnstaple Town and Castle the like 15. S. Michaels Mount yielded 25. Dunstar Castle delivered 26. Woodstock delivered 27. King disguised from Oxford May 2. Oxford Besieged the second time by the Parliament 4. Treaty began at Newark 5. King came to the Scotch Army at Southwel 8. Banbury surrendred 9. Newark surrendred by the Kings Command 11. Oxford Wallingford and Radcot Summoned 13. King came to Newcastle 18. Treaty began before Oxford 24. Radcot surrendred to the Parliament 29. The Dispute began at Newcastle betwixt the King and Mr. Henderson June 6. Carnarvon Town and Castle surrendred 9. Ludlow delivered 10. Borstal-house the like 20. Treaty before Oxford ended 24. Oxford surrendred Farrington the same July 9. Duke of York's Servants discharged 11. M. Lilburn committed to the Tower 16. Litchfield Close surrendred The Dispute betwixt the King and M. Henderson ended 23. Worcester surrendred 24. Princess Henrietta conveyed from Oatlands 28. Wallingford Castle surrendred 31. Gotheridge Castle surrendred Aug. 7. Ragland Summoned 13. Sir John Stawell Prisoner to Ely House 17. Committed to Newgate Pendennis yielded Conway taken by storm 18. Great Seal of England broken and defaced 19. Ragland surrendred Sept. 13. E. Essex dyed 16. Scilly Island and Castle surrendred Octob. 22 E. Essex's Funeral 26. Denbigh Castle surrendred Nov. 12. Gen. Fairfax returned Triumphantly to London 14. Both Houses Congratulated his coming The like did the Londoners Feb. 11. Scotch Army marched over Tweed 12. Berwick quitted by the Scots 15. Excise House burnt 17. King Charles to Holmby Anno 1647. June 4. Reformado-Officers met at Westminster Menaced the Parliament King taken from Holmby by Cornet Joyce and carried to Childersley 8. King brought to Newmarket 14. Representation of the Army 19. Proposals made to the King 23. Remonstrance of the General and the Army presented to the Commissioners at St. Albans 24. King removed to Royston 25. Duke of Richmond Doctor Hammond and Doctor Sheldon came to the King at Roston 26. King removed from Royston to Hatfield July 1. King brought to Windsor 3. Thence to Caversham 5. Prince Elector visited the King 6. A Letter from the General at Reading to the Two Houses giving an Account of some Transactions betwixt the King and the Army 15. King Duke of York c. Dined at Maiden-head 22. King to Latimer Thence to Stoke 26. The Londoners Petition the Houses for resetling their Militia as formerly which was seconded by another Petition from the Prentices who offering some violence to the Parliament got the Ordin of Repeal null'd and the Militia resetled as before 30. The City declared against the Army Aug. 1. Proposals of the Army for setling of a firm Peace 6. All Votes Orders and Ordinances from July 26 till August 6. nulled 7. Army marched through London 7. Gen. Fairfax made Constable of the Tower The Forts and Works about the City slighted Some Aldermen and others Impeached and Imprisoned Some Lords Impeached Suspended and Imprisoned 14. King at Oatlands 18. A Remonstrance of the Gen. and Army expressing their readiness and desires for the Parliam closing with the King and his bringing up to London 23. King dined at Sion House 24. King to Hampton-Court Sept. 7. Propositions presented to the K. at Hampton Court by Commissioners of both Houses and of Scotland Octob. 15. The Case of the Army stated presented to the Gen. at Hampstead by the Agitators of the Army Nov. 9. The Agreement of the People presented to the House of Commons by the Agitators of the Army Which together with a Petition were voted destructive to the Being of Parliaments and the Fundamental Government of the Kingdom 11. King left Hampton Court and fled into the Isle of Wight One White an Agitator shot to Death at Ware for fomenting the said Petition and Agreement c. 23. Thomas Prince and Samuel Chidley committed to the Gate-house for avowing and prosecuting the