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A88290	The starry messenger; or an interpretation of that strange apparition of three suns seene in London, 19. Novemb. 1644. being the birth day of King Charles. The effects of the eclips of the sun, which will be visible in England, 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force, from January, 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares; and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most common-wealths of Europe, but principally in England. With an answer to An astrologicall judgement. Printed at Oxford, upon his Majesties present martch. / By William Lilly student in astrologie.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Wharton, George, 1617-1681. Astrologicall judgement upon His Majesties present martch.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2245; Thomason E288_17; ESTC R200103	40,051	61

Princes after an unwonted manner be deprived of Friends Rule and Dominion by people formerly contemptible scarce dreamed of and which themselves within lesse then a few yeers aimed at no such thing The most Ancient and Noble Families of Europe are declining but especially here not far remote or in England And this Saturn by Retrogradation doth easily declare The Nobility and Gentry who have continued many Generations are now sinking and an inferiour sort of people by plain Legerdemain are ascending but whether to heaven or worldly preferment sub judice lis est The Souldier whom I most honour shall tremble and yet fight for he knows not whom or what as Mars in the seventh House doth manifestly declare Germany that part thereof Some parts of France and my own dear Countrey of England and therein especially Kent Sussex Surrey part of Essex Suffolk and Lincoln and parts adjacent Oxford shall suffer both with Sword Sicknesse Famine Plague if not finall Subversion Shall the City of Rome escape No nor Pamfilio the now present Pope shall continue scarce six yeers without Poison or Opposition I will not say Deposition I omit some Countreys purposely for Infidelity and Ingratitude is to be requited with Blood the sword and not words Some shall notwithstanding their prudence be ensnared without caution I wish cordially all happinesse to the Kingdom of Scotland Nor shall some waspish Antagonists of that Nation against Astrologie cause me to love the Kingdom the worse There 's not yet any probability of a constant Settlement in that Common-wealth Let us expect to hear of some mutiny amongst the Turks and in Constantinople and Faction amongst the Nobles in Polonia I cannot predicate good to the barbarous Irish I am doubtfull Denmark is appointed for a Patern either of Vengeance or Mercy it is it must suffer more and more This prodigious Apparition foreshews to all England a generall Infelicity perhaps to all Europe I mean to the North-East part thereof so situate from London in England A Famine Scarcity of bread and provision for Man is like to be subsequent the Murrain of Cattel infectious and pestiferous Diseases as well in man as in beast and full Plague and half a Plague this yeer and the next not in Villages onely but almost in every great Town of England Horrible persecution of the Nobility and Gentry and indeed the Runaways from our Parliament deserve no lesse and some besides Some superlative Discord with and concerning Religion and Controversies therein Incursions of forreign Princes into their Neighbours Territories Friends and Allies No belief upon earth amongst men Surely the world is not yet at an end But whosoever shall see or have the unhappinesse to survive the two or three yeers next succeeding will wonder at the strange Metamorphosis and Catastrophe of Humane Chances in Christian Common-wealths where Jesus Christ is professed with so much pretended-Zeal but his Doctrine practised with so slender Devotion Nor shall many and those not the least Cities and Towns of England suffer in their private Common-wealths lesse then a new moulding of their present Government Did the wit of man of set purpose studie it he could not finde out so many unnecessary Inventions for present and future destruction as we our selves with premeditated wisedom finde out with intention to salve up all our sores We begger our selves with Wit and destroy Mankinde with Discretion In good truth the City of London is like to be afflicted and now simple George at Oxford holds his mouth wide open with the Plague and some other Pestilentiall or Purse-Diseases c. Do not I see both the Sun and Moon in Opposition to Gemini Their Ships are like to suffer by Fire and Pyracie c. Is not Gemini the Signe descending on the Cusp of the sixth and seventh God blesse their Ships from Sea-fights and Shipwracks And yet methinks there 's one in the world looks high born and in being that would but shall not exalt himself to a Crown Quicunque fuerit ex stirpe Regali si in ejus Radice Nativitatis fuerint duo Soles erit Regibus contrarius c. My friend be quiet thou art not the man thy time is short the Chicken of the West shall prevail Return in peace if thou canst to the Sepulchre of thy not-Kingly Ancestours c. This is part of the little I am able at present to put forth concerning the Signification of the three Suns whose Effects cooperating with the immediate subsequent Eclipse in August shall not determine in lesse time then three whole yeers Dixi. An Astrologicall-Judgement concerning the Effects probably like to succeed the Eclipse of the Sun upon the eleventh day of August 1645 being Munday It s beginning is at 10 ho 17 min. before noon Its Middle is at 11 ho 14 min. It Endeth eleven minutes after 12. The Digits eclipsed are six The Duration of the Eclipse is One hour fifty four minutes To finde when it shall begin to operate and how long the Effects shall continue you must consider The Elevation of the Pole at London which is 51 deg. 32 min. The Semidiurnall time which is 7 hor 3 min. The time of rising of the Sun the day of the Eclipse 4 h. 57 m. The length of the day is 14 hours 6 minutes The Interval of time from Sun-rise to the time of the Eclipse is 6 ho 17 min. Now I say If 14 hours and 6 minutes give 365 days What will 6 hours and 17 minutes If you work it by proportion it will give you 162 days which added to the 11 of August point out the 20 of January 164 5 6 for a Beginning to the Effects depending on this Eclipse The Dignities and Debilities of the Planets stand thus Saturn hath one Debility Jupiter hath Fortitudes 20 Mars 13 Venus 4 Mercury 12 The Duration being 1 hor 54 min. the Effects shall continue almost two whole yeers viz. untill the 16 of December 1647. A short Historicall Narration of some preceding Eclipses and the Effects that thereupon ensued The first Eclipse we finde recorded to Posterity is by Dion Hal. and it was in the yeer of the world 3180 about 767 yeers before Christ It s noted by Historians that Romulus was that yeer conceived and the Kingdom of Israel began to decline Many were the Eclipses which Antiquity took notice of and after most of them some memorable Actions to have succeeded As that in anno Mundi 3235 and 26 of May the Sun suffered a fearfull Eclipse and it was in that yeer Sennacherib King of Assyria departed from the Siege of Jerusalem and had One hundred and fourscore thousand men slain in his Army You may read what succeeded after 2 Kings cap. 19. Anno mundi 3470 and 19 of April the Sun was eclipsed at what time Xerxes went with his innumerable Army against the Greeks and was as valiantly beaten at Thermopylas and Salamine Anno mundi 3621 there was a totall Eclipse of the Moon

the Sun which at length vanishing there was seen two Suns The Pope being an English-man is taken Prisoner The Kingdom of Denmark is divided And in the next yeer the Pope and Emperour fall at variance Anno 1157 in September there were seen three Suns together in as clear weather as could be And a few days after in the same moneth three Moons and in the Moon that stood in the middle a white Crosse Sueno King of Denmark at a great Feast killeth Canutus Sueno is himself slain in pursuit of Waldemar The Order of Eremites according to the rule of Saint Augustine begun this yeer and in the next the Pope submits to the Emperour was not this miraculous Lumbardy was also adjudged to the Emperour Anno 1168 the first of September there was seen at once in the West three Suns Two hours after when two were gone he in the middle went down alone By mediation of the French King Becket is restored to his Archbishoprick Almaricus King of Jerusalem calleth in the Turks to his aid which was the ruine of that Kingdom and contrary to his Faith given aids the Greeks against the Egyptians A Conspiracy arose in Bohemia against the King Anno 1169 three Moons appeared The yeer succeeding Becket the stiff Priest was slain in a Church in England Catana a City in Sicily is destroyed with fifteen thousand people as also the Bishop and Clergie by an Earthquake A Smiths son raised great troubles in Norway pretending himself to be Harolds Grandchilde The Romanes raze the City of Alba And in the next yeer a great Inundation was in Freezland Anno 1314 three Moons appeared Lewis was Crowned Emperour by some Electors Frederick by the rest A Councell was at Ravenna for Reformation c. Note the instability of the Clergie The Pope dieth and the See is void two yeers and four moneths The English under a simple and wilfull King Edward the second are overthrown by the Scots and to purpose Lewis Hutine comes to the Crown of France hangs his Treasurer c. The Queen of Castile dieth The Genowayes rob the Venetian Merchants and invade their Territories Anno 1372 the first of July and some days after a strange Circle was seen about the Sun over which appeared two Crosses of a red colour neer Basill The French besiege Rochell and the English defend it The yeer after the Order of Nuns of Saint Katharine was founded Robert Stuart King of Scotland marrieth his Concubine and John Duke of Lancaster the King of Castiles daughter The King of Portingall refuseth a Match in Castile and takes a Noble-mans wife from him having banished her husband at which his people are discontented Shortly after the Venetians restore Paleologus being expelled by his son Andronicus Anno 1460 the second of February three Suns appeared every one shewing a severall light which again closed all together in one The Duke of York is attainted of Treason Henry the sixth is taken Prisoner at Northampton Civill War in France called The Weal-publike caused by the Kings Covetousnesse The King of France dieth having upon a foolish Conceit forborn his meat so long that when after he would eat he could not A Rebellion in Spain against the Queen for death of the Prince James the third came to the Crown of Scotland The Duke of York is slain in York-shire David Emperour of Trapezond and his two sons taken and slain by Mahomet the Turk In the next yeer after Edward the fourth came to the Crown of England and poor innocent Henry the sixth sent to the Tower c. Anno 1466 three Suns were seen at Rome in which yeer Erasmus was born The King of Denmark is excommunicated by the Pope Warwick and Edward the fourth fall out John King of Spain is deposed and Alfonsus crowned The King of Hungaria's brother is taken by the Turks and beheaded at Constantinople Gerard the King of Denmark's brother is imprisoned for aspiring Matthias of Hungaria is set up against the lawfull King thereof Scanderbeg a most valiant Captain against the Turk dieth The French King takes from his brother the Dutchy of Normandy Anno 1492 the fifteenth of December three Suns were seen in Poland at noon The Jews are expelled Spain Alexander the sixth plays the ungratefull fellow with his Gardinalls Towards the later end of the yeer the Emperour of Germany dies and John Albert succeeds Casimire in the Kingdom of Polonia The Ganthois in Flanders rebell Anno 1514 in January three Suns were seen in the Dutchy of Wittenberge the middlemost surpassed the rest in greatnesse In every of these there appeared the form of a bloody and fiery sword The same yeer in March three Moons were seen It was in that yeer some parts of Sussex were burned and spoiled by the Rhodians in behalf of the French An Interview follows betwixt the Emperour King of Polonia and Bohemia The French King and Pope meet The Queen of Scotland fleeth into England The French King dieth and Francis the first succeeds and recovers Millan Anno 1515 Queen Mary the scourge of Protestants is born in England Wolsey a proud Priest begins to rise at Court The Pope falls out with the Venetians Anno 1520 the fifth of January about Sun-rising three Suns appeared with a Rainbowe of divers colours at Vienna The seventh of January there were three Suns also seen After Charles the fifth was Crowned there was seen a circle about the Sun with a Rainbowe The Pope he spues out his Excommunications against Luther who as stoutly burns his foolish Bulls The Pope executes the Tyrant of Perugia The Duke of Buckingham is in England beheaded for Treason The French detain our Merchants goods we imprison the French Solyman the Magnificent comes to be Emperour of Turkie The Geldrois rebell The next yeer after the French War began which continued thirty and eight yeers troubles arise in Scotland Many rich Cities taken by the Turk in Hungary Anno 1523 in Switzerland there was seen three Suns at once and also divers Circles in the Element At Norimberge in a Diet there held grievances are exhibited against the Pope The Peasants rebell against the Nobles in Germany Both the French and Swedes are defeated by the Imperialls The Earl of Surrey burns thirty seven Towns in Scotland The Duke of Holsten is chosen King of Denmark and the former King expelled for his Cruelty The Janizaries mutiny at Constantinople Anno 1525 there was seen in Hungaria five Suns two on either side the right Sun The Duke of Luneburg becomes Lutherane The Order of Capuchines is erected The French King is released out of prison Fifty thousand Clowns are slain Henry the eighth falls off from the Emperour The women of Hague rise against their Customers upon their exactions and the Swedes become Lutheranes Anno 1526 in Sweden three Suns were seen with divers circles in the Elements The Emperour abolisheth the Popes Authority in Spain The Tartarian invades the Polonian and is defeated and taken Rome

is wasted by the Columnenses and besiege the Pope in S. Angelo A Sedition arose in Suffolk The holy League made by the French King Pope Duke of Millan and Venetian against the Emperour Now was the Battel of Mohatz where the whole Nobility of Hungary was slain and the King in flight drowned in a ditch Bud● a chief Citie of Hungary is yeelded to Solyman The next yeer the Duke of Burbon takes Rome sacks it ten moneths Sweating sicknesse in London continuing two yeers Anno 1528 in Switzerland and moneth of June many Suns were seen at once and about them three circles A Councell was then held at Sena for Reformation Images and Popish trumperies abolished at Perne and Strasburg A Rebellion at Dansk Some mutinous Vtrechters executed by the Bishop Sharp Differences betwixt Henry the eighth and Queen Katharine The next yeer Solyman invades Hungary with One hundred and fifty thousand men Vienna is besieged but not taken The Ransome of the French King is paid Anno 1532 the eleventh of April at Venice Cardanus saw three fair and bright Suns with two Rainbowes not with points descending but opposite to the Sun Vienna is relieved by the Emperour Henry the eighth is divorced from Queen Katherine 1533 Qveen Elizabeth was born Sedition raised by the Anabaptists and strange Factions in Hungary Anno 1541 there appeared three Suns the usuall Sun stood in the Centre and two bright Circles did environ it Katherine Queen of England is beheaded The Rochellers rebell Charles the fifth maketh an unfortunate Voyage to Algiers The Germane Forces are foiled by the Turks onely by the cowardise of the Leaders The yeer after the Scots were beat at Solwy Moss and their King dies of Melancholly Transilvania is subdued by Solyman and given to John Popery rejected in the Palatinate Anno 1550 neer Brunswick three Suns appeared Now great troubles arise at Antwerp and the Inquisition opposed in the Netherlands Difference betwixt the Emperour and Ferdinand about succession in the Empire Some of the Electors arm against the Emperour The Thames ebbed and flowed three times in nine hours Peace with Scotland Anno 1551 in March at Magdeburg about seven in the morning seven Rainbowes were seen and in the evening three Moons In April at Wittenberg three Suns were seen with various Circles in the Element There was seen the same yeer at Antwerp three Suns with divers Circles The same yeer there was seen two mock-Moons twice In England the Duke of Somerset is beheaded A world of Disputes in Germany about Religion The French make War with the Emperour Anno 1553 three Suns appeared the middle of a bright colour but the Parclii or mock-Suns red and bloody The same day after Sun-set three Moons appeared The Papist and Protestant in England dispute The King of England dieth A tumult in Brussels between the insolent Spaniard and the townsmen Now Persecution in England for being Protestants Queen Mary comes to the Crown usher'd into the world by a Prodigie and to the Crown with the like ominous Portent Anno 1554 in Bavaria divers kindes of Suns were seen but especially the sixth of March two Suns were seen with a Rainbowe In May the same yeer two more Suns were seen the Sun as it were environed all about with a Rainbowe Wyat riseth in Kent Philip and Mary married Sena betrayed to the Emperour by the Pope Henalt in Arthoys wasted by the French Anno 1556 in Saxony two mock-Suns appeared Charles the Emperour entreth the Monastery of S. Justus in the confines of Castile The Lord Sturton is hanged in England for a Murder Transilvania revolts Nineteen thousand people at Brussels die of Cold and Famine The next yeer the War is begun betwixt the King of Spain and the Pope A generall Pestilence happens in England Calais is lost to the French and the Scots invade the English Treasons and Uproars are frequent in Turkie Anno 1622 three Suns appeared at Heidelberg The wofull Calamities that have ever since fallen upon the Palatinate we are all sensible of and of the losse of it for any thing I see for ever from the right Heir Osman the great Turk is strangled that yeer and Spinola besiegeth Bergen up Zoom c. I have heard it credibly reported that there were seen about twelve yeers since many Suns at one time in Cornwall and in March 1639 towards Sun-set three Suns were seen in the West not far from Oxford I have not seen any of these Suns I mention my self onely in those six yeers in which I lived in the Countrey viz. 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 c. many evenings I observed a strange fiery skie and unusuall forms in the Elements towards that part of the heaven where Oxford stands and towards Bark-shire Hamp-shire and so also towards Buckingham-shire c. I have the rather repeated these things that the incredulous of the times might not be wavering or a party now upon earth too confident that these prodigious Sights have no signification upon Mundane affairs The Historicall part is now ended and my own Judgement upon those three Suns apparent the nineteenth of November 1644 followeth Wherein if oft repetitions of the same thing trouble thee with modesty or courtesie passe them by for in Astrologie it cannot be avoided Nor do thou expect an exact Method from me sith it was no part of my meaning or could I conveniently do it Onely this I must tell thee that the Interpretation I write is I conceive grounded upon probable foundations and who lives to see a few yeers over his head will easily perceive I have unfolded as much as was fit to discover and that my Judgement is not a mile and a half from truth A Figure of the 3 Sonns appearan̄ ♂ 19 Nouember 1644. 9 45. A.M. ab ☍ ♃ in ☌ ☉ ad △ ♄ ♀ 21 ♎ ♍ 28 ☊ 2.38 ♌ 4 ♂ 2.56 ♋ R ♊ 26.5 ♊ 5.34 ♃ 24 47 R ♉ 2.0 ♉ 1.0 ♈ ♄ 14.32 R ♓ 28 ☋ 2.38 ♒ 4 ♑ ♐ 26.5 ☉ ☽ 7.51 ♐ ● 34 ♏ 20 ☿ 18 ♏ 1.0 Londinum Angliae MAny Philosophers are of opinion that these false Suns amongst the learned called Parelii do especially appear when many subtill moist clouds are betwixt us and the Sun Others that they are round clouds shining like the Sun or that they are images of the Sun in a thick and neighbouring cloud in the form of a Mirror But if that collected clouds or multitude of vapours or any Naturall cause produced such rare and unusuall Apparitions Why have we not such Sights oft It s well known such are not usually seen although once in a moneth we do not want plenty of Vapours which if they were so produced might cause monethly or oftner such like Apparitions And besides when these three Suns were seen it was a very fair Sunshine-day a very clear day no Clouds Vapours Foggs or Mists appearing Indeed for seven or eight days before we at London had extreme stormy Weather

I apprehend the Stars as directory-Messengers of some such things but in my solid Judgement conclude it the All-seeing providence of God God is angry we will see nothing but more angry because though some do see and perceive and know to what Ruine we are hastening yet like mute Statu's they are silent in this great necessity of the State and close up their mouthes lest they should utter Verity My Genius if it be lawfull to say so dictates unto me nothing but Fraud Cozenage Dissimulation Hypocrisie will be used amongst some pretended-Reformers both of Church and Common-wealth If I understand any thing scandalous aspersions shall without number or just cause be fathered upon our Parliament and their Proceedings hainous and formidable Informations against the Nobility and Gentry Seurrilous Reproaches from all parts shall fall upon our Senior and Orthodox Clergie-men from a Junior sort of Rabbies a Serpentine people not heretofore visible or known in the world lately elapsed by chance not from heaven where Goodnesse it self dwells but from the Moon which Galileus saith is habitable in some terrible Thunder-clap for I believe they were so terrified and stupified in their hearings by their so violent descent in that storm that not any sense could ever since pop into their Noddles Reason in Astrologie must be given and so it shall Mercury generally signifieth in Man Youth his Orientality of the Sun and in the Figure addes more Youth But now in the sense I speak it it tells the whole World the Novelty of what now most afflicts us Jupiter is generally a Significator of Nobility and by position of the Clergie he is under the earth and in the descending part of heaven we hear of things now that did not appear before c. From whence I frame this Judgement That Youth or young novell Opinions or Disputations shall deceitfully prejudice maturer Judgements with Lyes Hypocrisie Calumny Impudence c. And I say again Because Mars that is Lord of the tenth House disposeth of Mercury and he is Retrograde in the seventh House and mansion of the Moon and opposite to the Ascendant I deliver ingeniously this free-hearted Judgement That if his Majestie give protection to such upstart pretended-Saints he shall run Retrograde that is he shall receive infinite Dishonour by it And to our Parliament I say If Connivance be had under their Protection with these superlative assuming Zelotes for my heart will not suffer me to abuse Religion so much as to call them Religious the Parliament shall more suffer in the conclusion even by them then either by the Turk were he armed against us or all the Forces of any potent Enemy I cannot call them by any certain name that so they might be distinguished do but observe their actions and it best informs you they absolutely studie nothing but Division c. and suppression of Monarchy The very true meaning of these three Suns is to inform every Common-wealth of Europe that they are hastening to either their Confusions or unavoidable Dangers The Counsels of the most aged shall be despicable the Projections of the younger men shall cause Insurrections Slaughters Murders the Advice of the most wise shall be innocently slighted A great Work is in hand Both Sun and Moon are ill placed Both Kings and People and all Common-wealths are in their Councels now to seek They have cunningly as long as they could carried their Devices secretly This Prodigie speaks as if we shall discover more then is wished and yet conceal enough to undo us Three Suns have been seen many times and severall Circles sometimes over sometimes under the true and proper Sun Seditiones inter mortales manifestas ostendunt ab omni concensu concordiaque alienationem Junct 312. Here 's a strange thing that they do manifest publike and eminent Seditions amongst mortall men and a generall alienation or aversnesse to any Peace Agreement or Unity Infinite Divisions these three Suns are the Forerunners of of sturdie Disturbances to Emperours Kings Princes and all manner of Principalities and they do usually shew a generall Calamity at hand they declare Schisms and Rents in the Church Disorder amongst the Religious the brooding or upstarting of some cragged or rugged Tenents in Divinity some admirable miraculous and unexpected passages amongst men a generall Delirium or madnesse or Confusion in Opinions reigning and raging and to domineer in most parts of those Countreys adjacent to the place of appearance All manner of inferiour people threatning their Superiours and Commanders grumbling repining whispering out revenge against them No union in Counsel or constancy in Opinion Nothing is thought on but how to bring the whole Fabrick of every Common-wealth out of frame Not a man appears but he is more judicious in State-affairs then Ahithophel Each Cobler in Divinity assures himself of more knowledge then Calvin Luther or Melancton were acquainted with poor Ideots The acts of the most Reverend men preceding such times are called in question the validity of their Judgement undervalued and a Rabble of Saturnine people fill the Times with Ignorance the Church with Sects the Common-wealth with Beggery and their own Coffers tantum quantum with as much Money as they can theevishly cozen the King Kingdom and State of Is there need of more Suns then one in the day or of more then one Moon in the night or of one King in a Kingdom one entire Government in a Common-wealth one uniformity in the Affairs of the Church Verily I think that man out of his wits that would affirm a positive necessity of more and yet usually after the appearing of such Prodigies such lawlesse and and unaccustomed Monsters appear and even such most irregular Attempts are to be prosecuted by people of as great antiquity as the two mock-Suns which appeared at an instant but vanished not away in a moment When God Almighty had drowned the world in confirmation he would do so no more he produced the Rainbowe and made it appear at all times and seasons in a constant and naturall form and manner ever opposite to the Sun and this was out of his great love to Mankinde But while in anger he permits his ministring Angels as now he did to manifest to our eyes a Rainbowe and that such a one as no Age hath absolutely recorded the like to appear with the Bend of it downward just over the naturall Sun The Prognostick part hereof may gravell an assured Judgement Reader pity the weaknesse of Humane understanding and let thy love appear in charitably passing by my failings The Portent of this Prodigie is very great The Angels are willing we should discern something else why was it made visible There was no necessity of it O All you Emperors Kings Princes Rulers and Magistrates of Europe this unaccustomed Apparition is like the Hand-writing in Daniel to some of you it premonisheth you above all other People to make your peace with God in time You shall every one of

and it was onely twelve days before the great Fight betwixt Darius and Alexander and this was upon Saturday the 20 of September The Monarchy of Persia by the overthrow of this Battel vanished after it had ruled Asia 200 yeers Anno mundi 3733 there was an horrible Eclipse of the Sun the 11 of February Who is conversant in History may finde that not long after Hannibal slew fifteen thousand Romanes and Ptolomeus Philopater King of Egypt overthrew Antiochus after which Victory the proud King being insolent entred the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Jews for which he was punished by God and so returned into Egypt Anno Christi 45 some say 47 the Sun suffered an Eclipse the first of August after which followed that sad Famine universall to all the world prophesied of by Agabus Act. 11. But I hasten Anno Christi 807 the Sun was eclipsed once and the Moon twice there succeeded instantly very great Division in the Empire under Charles the Great Anno Christi 813 an Eclipse of the Sun preceded the death of Carolus Magnus Anno Christi 891 after an Eclipse of the Sun the Emperour and Princes of Italy fell at variance and mutually invaded each other by which means Italy was fearfully afflicted for many yeers I finde some remarkable Observations in Plutarch after Eclipses as these At what time Pericles armed 150 Ships and was ready to set sail an Eclipse of the Sun happened which being conceived to be ominous by some Pericles derided the Prognostick But see the words following But Pericles hoysing Sail notwithstanding did no notable or speciall Service answerable to so great an Army or Preparation for which he was deprived of his Charge of Generall c. and fined at fifteen Talents In the Life of Pelopidas you shall read that upon his second Journey against the Tyrant Alexander of Pheres a great Eclipse of the Sun was causing great darknesse at noon-day You may read fol. 303 in Plutarch that Pelopidas wilfulnesse contrary to the advice of some in the Army cost him his life for not onely those that were then versed in Soothsaying but his own Citizens told him That this Eclipse did threaten the death of some great Person like himself c. which his death exactly verified You shall also read in the Life of Nicias That instantly after an Eclipse of the Moon the Syracusians overthrew the whole Power of the Athenians by Sea and he himself and Demosthenes were taken Prisoners and not long after lost their lives During the Effects of a Lunar Eclipse and upon some prodigious Sights in the air Dyonisius Tyrant of Syracusa was enforced to flee and that City after 48 yeers restored to liberty That was no weak Judgement therefore that Mil●as the Soothsayer resolutely delivered upon sight thereof My good friends be of good chear and assure your selves that we shall prosper for God doth foreshew us by this Sight we see that some one of the chiefest things now in highest place and dignity shall be eclipsed He that shall please but to peruse Leovitius de Conjunctionibus Eclipsibus may be more fully satisfied And yet if examples of late yeers work any thing in us we cannot forget that eminent Eclipse in 1639 and in the moneth of May I am sure we were never quiet since It was fully visible in our Horizon We may not forget the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet upon our English Coasts within four moneths after c. In all my reading I finde Solar Eclipses are most ominous to Princes to Authority Magistracy c. and that Eclipses of the Moon do both afflict King and People but most properly incite and excite the Subjects to Arms and the vulgar against his Lord and Master For whereas the Solar Eclipse puts difference betwixt one Prince and another betwixt one State another one Noble-man and another each Common-wealth against his next neighbour a Lunar Eclipse on the contrary stirs up people of more ignoble Condition to strive against their Ministers that have power over them c. The Effects of the present Eclipse prosecuted IF that Sentence of Ptolomey be admitted for truth Lib. 2. c. 7. Quaecunque Stella erratica pluribus dignitatibus utrique loco id est deliquii ipsius hoc sequentis cardinis associabitur Sola dominabitur Which in English runs thus That Planet which hath most Dignities in the degree or place eclipsed and angle succeeding shall be ruler of the Eclipse that is Consider his nature and position how he is well or ill affected and how and by whom aspected and accordingly judge of the Events By which Doctrine we may be bold to affirm that Mars shall principally rule the effects of this Eclipse as having most dominion in the place of the defect and solely ruling the angle subsequent which is the Ascendant If I deviate an hairs breadth from truth I must expect some dirty fool to throw out non-sense in Print against me therefore observe if Cardan confirm not my words Lib. 20. fol. 258. Cum enim idem fuerit Dominus loci deliquii loci sequentis anguli ille prorsus erit Dominus Principalis When the same Planet is Lord of the place eclipsed and of the sequent angle he shall be altogether or especially Lord of the Eclipse To which Judgement Campanella fol. 84 consenteth while he delivers Validior est qui deliquii loco cardinis plus potest And yet in designing the effects of the Eclipse we are to consider the Predominancy and Fortitudes of the rest of the Planets and their mutuall Aspects each to other their position in the heaven signe and quarter for they will challenge something in the Effects as Ptolomey lib. 2. cap. 8 saith Hoc sumitur a natura dominantium Stellarum quae sunt in praecipuis locis earum commixtione inter sese cum iis locis in quibus esse conspiciuntur We ought saith he to take signification of the Eclipse from those Stars that are most powerfull in the chiefest places of heaven and their commixtion one with another together in those places in which they are posited But sith Ptolomey delivers us a kinde of Method we shall willingly follow it in manifestation of the Effects now subsequent Wherein we first consider The Kingdoms Cities or Common-wealths of Europe likely to suffer as also what manner of men be most probably to smart by the Effects In our Figure because the Eclipse is in a fiery Signe the fiery Triplicity is passive viz. Aries Leo Sagittarius In defectibus Solis Lunae maximè insignibus considerabimus locum Zodiaci in quo fuit luminum defectus ei loco juxta Trigonorum distributionem familiares quae Vrbes propter Horoscopum in exstructione aut propter locum quem eo tempore tenuerunt aut propter medium-Coeli in Nativitatibus Principum earum regionum familiaritatem habent cum loco defectus Ptol. lib. 2. cap. 5. In