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-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-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
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-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
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
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
with Figures under the Letters viz. A 13 B 3 C 22 D 24 E 22 F 3 G 7 H 6 I 20 K 1 L 10 M 33 N 13 O 8 P 13 Q 7 R 13 S 9 T 8 V 2 X 6 Y 6 Z 4 And now to Amaze the Party more that comes to be Resolved put the Christian Names into Latin in the Nominative Case Singular as suppose Peter is Contending or to Contend in any of these Matters with Paul set down Petrus Paulus and so of any other Name then according as the Alphabet directs joyn unto every Letter of the Names proposed the Figure or Figures under the Letter as they stand in Order then Cast up the Numbers to each Party by it self and being put together proceed to Divide by 9. and so doubt not to find the Division being made what Remains to the one Party and to the other and this gives a sight of the Victor and the Vanquished and if it so happen that in the Division of the whole 9. nothing Remains then take the last Number of 9. to serve for your purpose as I shall more fully Explain in the Close And thus I begin with the Names Mentioned as by the same Rule you may do with any other P 13   ☽ P 13   E 22 67 makes seven times nine ☿ A 1 37 makes four times nine T 8   ♂ U 2   R 13   ☉ L 10   U 2   ♄ U 2   S 9   Remains 4. ♃ S 9  Remains 1.  Sum 67.      Sum 37. And by this Rule the Planets give their Favourable Influence to Peter and promise him the Advantage over the other as having 4. to 1. against him in the Remainder that is three odds to give him a good Lott But yet to make this more Manifest take the following Table according to the fore-going Rule 1 He that shall Overcome is of 3 5 7 9 2 1 4 0 8 3 2 5 7 9 4 1 3 6 8 5 2 4 7 9 6 1 3 5 8 7 2 4 6 8 8 1 3 5 7  2 4 6 8 And thus may you know what is proper without any Frivolous Conceits of Conjuration or Dealing with the Black Art to Injure or Hurt your self by Diabolical Charms or Enchantations To know whether the Party you Love be Virtuous and Chaste THIS is a Nice Secret and may do much Good in preventing much Evil and Strife after Marriage Write down the Proper Name of the Party either Man or VVoman with his or her Mothers Name and put the Number to each Letter as the fore-going Experiment add 15 to the Sum Total divide it then by 9. and so the Sum Remaining or the Remainder of that Sum being even then Conclude the Person Chaste Honest and Virtuous but if it appear odd then you may with all Imaginable reason Conclude the Contrary The Mosaick Wand to find out Hidden Treasure THIS has been a secret put in Practice to great Advantage in this Order Cut a Hazle wand Forked at the upper end like a Y Peel off the Rhine and dry it in a moderate Heat then steep it in the Juice of Wake Robin or Night Shade and Cut the single lower End sharp and where you suppose any Rich Mine or Hidden Treasure is near place a piece of the same Mettal you conceive is Hid or in the Earth to the top of one of the Forks by a Hair or very fine Silk or Thread and do the like at the other end pitch the sharp single end lightly in the Ground at the going down of the Sun the Moon being in the Encrease and in the Morning at Sun-rise by a Natural Sympathy you will find the Mettal enclyning and as it were pointing to the Place where the other is Hid. Choice Secrets in Astrology on several Useful Occasions MANY have been desirous to know as a great Secret the Power that is given to the Planets and other Stars to prevent Thefts and Depredations on Houses Out Houses Orchards Parks Warrens Fields of Corn Cattle Timber and the like How either to stop and take the Thief or scare him from coming thither and since Wonders have been wrought in this to Secure Honest People in their Just Rights and it being hitherto an Occult Faculty or Rare Secret I shall give the Reader such an Insight into the Matter as few have hitherto done A safe way to secure a House IF you suspect your House will be Robbed and would secure it from Thieves as no doubt but you are desirous consider the Night what Planet Reigns and is Lord of the Ascendant and these are their Characters the Sun ☉ on Sunday the Moon ☽ on Monday Mars ♂ on Tuesday Mercury ☿ on Wednesday Jupiter ♃ on Thursday Venus ♀ on Friday Saturn ♄ on Saturday Now consider on what Night you do this as to these Planets and Write on fair Parchment these Characters ♌ ♈ ♒ and suppose it be on a Sunday add the Planetary Character ☉ with this Number 1. 3. 5. ¼ 1 7. and that Night lay this under the Earth or covered with a Tile in the middle of the House as near as may be sprinkle it over with the Juice of Night shade and so go to Sleep as soon as you have thrice Repeated them over and if the Thieves have power to Enter the House they shall have no power to get out again or to carry any thing away till the Sun Rises and if you be Watchful then you may easily Apprehend them before they are able to depart And this you may do any Day of the Week adding the Character of the Planet that Rules that day as I have set it down to what is beside set down in Order A Safegaurd for all Out-houses to secure Poultry Cattle Corn or what else is shut up therein COnsider the Day as in the former and set down in a piece of Clean Parchment these Characters ♉ ♋ ♠add the Character of the Planet as for Monday ☽ and these Figures 9. 8. 5. 3. ⅕ ¼ lay this sprinkl'd with the Juice of Hemlock under the Threshold of the Out-house or if there be none in some secret Corner and if any Thieves Enter they will be so Blinded and Amazed that they will not find their way out again but groap in vain till the Sun Rise before which time you must be Watchful to come thither for the Sun shooting its Beams through the Air the Guardian Virtues Retire and the Force is dissolved for that time but with Changing the Planet will serve for the next Night and so on A Safegaurd for an Orchard Park Warrin or Field to take a Thief c. THE several Places being Guarded by one and the same Planet not to be too tedious to you one and the same thing will indifferently serve to secure any of them from Thieves that come to make Robbery or Depredations whether it be of
25th of this Month to the 24th of June the Signs Arises Taurus and Gemini Govern and Produce Moist and Hot Diseases as Agues Fevours Dropseys Dissenterys Fluxes and the like In this Month therefore to keep your Body in good Condition throughout the Quarter bleed freely if you are of a Sanguin Complexion and the Veins full of Blood having moderately purged 3 or 4 Days before to stir the Humours that the more Gross and Noxious may the better be carryed off and for a Week after take a Drink about a Quarter of a Pint in a Morning Warm made of Figgs Rasins Liquorish and a little Cardus Boiled in Ale and strained well so you will prevent Agues and Fevours and other Diseases incident to this Month. In APRIL This is the most proper Month to bleed and purge in but do it when the Air is Dry and Serene so shall Head-Aches pains in the Eyes sore Throats and Diziness with their Concomitants be prevented Eat Wholsome Warm broths but not too much of Raw Herbs lest you are Afficted with pains in the stomach and in bleeding purging and other weighty Matters observe to avoid the Bad Days that are Perillous to Health and Business as I before have set down In MAY. In this Month Walk abroad Eatly in the Fields for your Health sake but not Fasting nor upon too full a Stomach bleed as you see Occasion if you have not been Blooded in the fore-going Month Eat wholsome Warm Meats pretty freely and if the Weather be Seasonably Warm Bath in Clear Water but if your Health permit not then you may do it in Warm Water at Home in which Mallows Chamomil and Groundsil have been Boiled and it will much refresh and strengthen the Body purge with Senna Rhuburb or such like Harmless Refreshing purgations to Clense the stomach Liver Lungs and so prevent Distempers in the Hotter Season Eat not Raw Trash for fear of a Fiux or pains in the bowels keep to a wholsome Dyet and take such Cordials Fasting as may strengthen the Heart and keep out pestilential Infectious Aires c. In JUNE In this Month be sparing of Blood Letting unless it be upon urgent Necessity now Drink purging Waters Morning and Evening to Cleanse the stomach and bowels and keep the body Cool and Temperate but Drink not Hot Liquors upon it lest the two struggling Opposits throw you into a Fevour or surfeit or cause breakings Out with troublesome sores be Temperate in Meats and Drinks In JULY Refrain this Month from any Violent Exercise because the Humours are much stired and the Blood is apt to be put into a Ferment Bleed not but upon great Necessity Bath often and Rise Early in the Morning to take the Fresh Air but be not much Abroad in the Heat of the Day Eat Cooling Things but not over much In AUGUST Bleed not this Month because of the Canicular or Dog-days unless Necessity Urge it and then but a little forbear Eating-much Green Herbs or Fruits Drink Cooling Purging Waters Ales or such Liquors in the Morning and Sleep not over much and forbear Purging till the next Month. In SEPTEMBER I should have told you according to my Method that from the 24th of June to the 26th of this Month that the Signs Cancer Leo and Virgo are Predominant which are Hot and Dry and suitable Diseases attend them as the Small Pox Fevours Squincys Spotted Fevours and some times the Plague Therefore it is proper to be very Cautious as I have Hinted in temperate Dyet bleeding Physicking and the like however you may Eat this Month Cooling Fruits yet with Moderation now purge and bleed that the body Evacuated so of bad Humours may be the better Enabled to hold out against Winter Diseases as Dropsy Palsy Falling Evil and sometimes Phransy and other Defects in the Head and brain Sweat Moderately and Walk much when the Weather is Fair. The Signs that Rule from the 25th of This Month the rest of the Year not already mentioned are Libra Scorpio and Sagitarius and they are Cold Moist and Dry their Attendant Distempers are Dropsys Rheumatisms Colds Catarrhs Coughs Defects in the Lungs and Affliction of the brain also of the Nerves and Sinews Pains in the Joynts c. In OCTOBER Drink Cordials Fasting in the Morning or good Wine Eat Temperately forbear bleeding unless some Uneasiness in your Body obliege you to it and then do it on the Luckey Days when the Sign is well Posited that is neither in the Head Neck Shoulder nor Arms Eat wholsome Dyet and be not Late Abroad in Foggy Unhealthy Aires In NOVEMBER Go not Abroad if you can help it in Wet Drisling Days or Nights bleed not but for Necessity and then but a little for the blood and Humours are necessary to Fortify the Body against the ensuing Colds Eat Seasonably and Temporately and avoid being Abroad in Foggy Mornings above all things Hurtful to the Lungs In DECEMBER to the 25th of the Month. Take care to keep good Fires and wholsome Dyet bleed not at all take Caudles strengthening broaths and Cheer your Heart with a Glass of Wine Humming Ale Beer or Cyder or any good Warm Refreshing Liquor as you can come by it Forbear much going Abroad unless in a Clear Day when the Foggs and Damps are sucked up or dispersed by the Sun especially if you be not of a very Healthful Constitution and thus you may in a great measure keep your self free from all Griefs and Sickness and preserve a Healthful Constitution to extream Old Age as in the following Lines are Discribed by the Poet Nature is Kind if we her Rules Obey And stubbornly don 't throw our Health away 'T is Lifes Chief Jewel yet we many find When they Possess it do it little mind But when 't is gone O what they then would give That Temporately they had been Wise to Live Of BEES A Treatise of Bees how to Order Preserve Swarm Gather their Honey and all other Matters Relating to them THE Bee though a Creature Numbered among Insects is exceeding useful to Man their Wax and Honey being Commodities Trafficable in all Nations yet are they a Nice Choice Creature and without much Dilligence and Care cannot be brought to any extraordinary Perfection to the Profit and Advantage of the Owners which being proper to this Undertaking for the general good I shall for the Instruction of those that are Ignorant in it lay down Choice Rules and Directions how they should be Ordered to Preserve and Encrease their Stocks that so in a little time they may turn to the great Profit of the Owners First In the Choice of your Stock see they be Little Lively and Smooth for those that are Rough and Unsightly will never prove well above all if you can see the Master Bee or King consider if he be Long and Shining bedashed with Golden Spots and Cheerful for on him mainly depends the Welfare of the whole Stock for if he be Rough Drooping and
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