and nature It deales not with mans will simply and directly but accidentally it doth It deales with mens inclinations dispositions temperature affections and humours It meddles not with miraculous workes nor with fatall necessity except some contingency be joyned with it nor with Gods secrets It is necessary for Physicke Policie Husbandrie Navigation Military Discipline for health It can yeeld reasons which other Arts cannot as in Clymactericall yeares Criticall dayes Why children borne in the eighth month most part are not vitall Of Tides Why Customes Rites Manners Lawes and Temperaments be divers in people inhabiting in severall Clymates Why certaine Seasons be turbulent Why some yeares be dangerous And many other things which may be read in that great Booke of the most wise God the Heavens The Stars therein differing in glory and brightnesse one from another but whose motions are most wonderfull Regular and Harmonious which stares like severall letters some being capitalls and others of lesse size being as it were set together A man endued with an apt Genius and Knowledge therein may not onely spell but in some reasonable measure reade the admirable Worke of God therein in their influentiall and secondary government of all sublunary Creatures Faelices anima quibus hac cognoscere primum Inque Domus Superas scandere cura fuit On the other side I doe pitty the blinde ignorance of some others who thinke themselves as learned as wise that not knowing the motions of the Planets and starres if they chance to see a starre in the day time doe wonder at the same possessing themselves with some strange conceit of some great matter to ensue such an Apparition So it was in the yeare 1625 when a little before the death of King James the glorious Planet Venus being occidentall of the Sun and in her greatest distance from him was thought to have beene a Comet or some nova stella being Sunday in the Afternoone the Moone and she seemed to touch one another or that as Kepler sayes she did quasi haerere in sinistro Cornu Lunae which I my selfe being at Yorke then with some others observed in the West part of the Heavens So likewise what great wonder and amazement there was in the yeare 1630 at that time when Prince Charles was borne the same starre Venus being then in great distance from the Sun and orientall or rising before him was seen to goe before the Sun all day for the most part I will set downe the words of Johannes Johnstonius in his Thaumatagraphia Capite 3. Admirand Coeli Artic. 2. de stellarum luce c. Nona denique Junii hujus Anni visa una in Anglia ante meridiem cum Gratia Deo propter nativitatem Principis Walliae agerentur visam eandem codem tempore Diepae in Gallia a Gallis quibusdam accepimus That is the ninth day of June in the forraigne account the 30 of May being Sunday in the English account of this yeare one was seene in England before noone when thanks were given to God at Pauls Church in London for the birth of the Prince of Wales And we received intelligence from certain French men that the same Starre the same time was seen at Diep in France But by leave of this Learned Gentleman I doe not accompt this a wonder for it is usuall with Venus once or twice in the yeare to shew her selfe in the day time being in her greatest distance from the Sun either when she is orientall or riseth before the Sun or occidentall and setteth after him and this may be easily demonstrated out of her Theory If she presignified any thing she was the prodromus of the miseries that since have ensued to this Kingdome And now at this very time the Royall party in some places as I am informed flatter and promise themselves strange matters by reason this Starre Venus none of them having so much Astronomy as to discover what she is appears so bright and glorious in the West after Sun-setting if she betoken any thing I suppose she appears to our gallant Generall and the rest of the Commanders Souldiers now in the West as a bright lamp to discover the darke blinde corners of the West the unknown wayes of the enemy there and in Wales to reduce that miserable wasted Country which God be thanked is in a good forwardnesse I never observed or read that the simple appearance of any Star in the day time foreshewed any thing except what Hieronomus Cardanus in lib. 14. de varietate rerum cap. 70. mentions whose words I will set down as they are there Stellas quoque die sereno bis vidisse Mediolani me memini cum tota Civitate alteram splendidissimam Anno 1511. cum pulsi sunt Galli aliam Anno 1535. subobscuram cum mortuus est Franciscus Sfortia secundus sed tunc quod sine filliis mortuus fuerit mutatus est princeps transiitque in Carolum Imperatorem Civitatis Regnum variato rerum statu that is I remember my self twice to have seen Stars in a cleer day at Millain the whole City being spectators one very bright Anno 1511. when the French were expulsed and the other Anno 1535. somewhat obscure or dark when Francis Sfortia the second dyed but then he dyed without Sons the Prince was changed and the government of the City passed over to the Emperor Charles with a various state of affairs I know not whether if God have so ordered the motion of the Stars that Stars appearing in the day time should foreshew any thing for my part I beleeve it not in that simple apparition it is not proper for the Stars to shine or appear in the day God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night he made also the Stars and God set them in the Firmament to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darknesse and God saw that it was good Gen. 1.16 17. verses This I am sure of that they work by their influence incessantly day and night upon all creatures Nay in many places of Scripture God would not tell us of the dominion of the Stars upon the earth and the creatures therein if they had no force power and influence in many places therein they are called the Host of Heaven and the Armies of Heaven therein amplifying the most wonderfull divine power and might of God by the force influence and energeticall operation of these glorious creatures in some places God expresly distinguisheth between the sweet influence of the Pleiades or the seven Stars and the binding influence of Orion under which two Constellations being of clean opposite nature and effect God comprehends all the rest of the Stars and as it were by the figure of Locution he puts the part for the whole thereby manifestly giving us so much understanding as to conceive all the other Stars of
so that now they may see these words to their shame and Gods glory fulfilled But I am tedious although no neede is thereof let any indifferent man judge on Mr. Lillies Observations in this present March 1646. He saith the first weeke Newes from severall quarters and some towne or fort surrendred so we had the surrender of Ashby and the town of Torrington Then he proceds some proposition from our weather beaten enemies Westward Is not this true in the Lord Hopton his surrender of 2000 horse upon modest propositions Againe his Majesty stands amazed who thinks lesse then so when he sees all is like to be lost Here 's strugling saith he this we in London know to be true Againe Three dayes promise our enemies successe but God may blinde their eyes to make use of none that is neither eyes nor time The poore fellowes were in Abington 2 March but were hastily and valiantly thrust out by the valour of the Garrisons this was one of their promising dayes In the second weeke of March they attempted it againe but to no purpose the same weeke they missed our Convoy of 20000 pound by contrary Intelligence so that its hoped their three dayes ore out of date and their eyes quite put out and they may wander with Rupert and Maurice to Ireland to cry Oh hone for here 's no more plunder to be obtained in England These his predictions in favour of Astrology I have repeated because they are excellent and notable expressions in the Art and manifestly visible They that would be further satisfyed repaire to the books themselves For what I have performed in the ensuing Tractate I leave to the candid censure of the well disposed and doe hope as Mr. Lilly and my selfe have the same principles in Art so our judgements in the generall and my owne particular notion upon the sollid foundation of Art will have answerable successe I hartily wish all happinesse to our present Parliament and abundant of blessing to the City of London wherein I now inhabit pray to God preserve both States in Unity and Concord that so the Affaires of the Publique may more vigorously be prosecuted Religion established and Peace universally succeed So wisheth a true English man an Abhorrer of the Irish Rebellion One that prayeth for the Peace of Church and State and the utter extirpation of Popery JOHN BOOKER A Bloody Irish ALMANACK for the YEERE 1646. NOt many dayes after the Irish Cabinet or his Majesties Secret Papers for establishing the Papall Clergy in Ireland came to publick view which is worthy to be perused by all true hearted Protestants of England There appeared an Irish Almanack intituled thus A new Almanack for the yeere of our Lord God 1646. being the second after Leap yeere and since the Creation of the World 5595. Calculated for the Longitude and Latitude of the City of Waterford and may serve generally for all Ireland By an Manapian Waterford Printed for the Yeere MDCXLVI Which Almanack I having had sight of and perusing the same I found many remarkable and memorable Chronologicall Observations agreeing so exactly with the transaction of the forepassed and present affaires betweene his Majesty and the bloody Irish who are called his Majesties Catholick Subjects That I held it a great injury to the English Nation if the same should have been smothered and not divulged I meane so much thereof as discovers the inveterate hatred of that inhumane people against the Parliament and the whole Kingdome of England The other part being either Popish Saints dayes or vulgar Observations in most common Almanacks I passed by as not materiall to the present taske in hand and indeede the whole of it and all of them I judge worthy no other then the fire In the leafe next the Title page Thus it is Printed Our most Gracious King Charles began his Raigne over great Brittaine and Ireland the 27 of March in the yeare of our Lord 1625. And hath Raigned 21 yeares compleate the 26 of March 1646. But the 27 day we write Anno Regni 22 Whom God prosper in all his Designes against his Rebellious Subjects the ☞ ROVNDHEADS of ENGLAND I trust God will not heare their prayer but turne it into Sin and Abomination Psal 109.7 Prov. 28.9 Hath the King Designes against his Subjects Are his Subjects termed Rebells Are they pointed out for destruction by a bloody hand and called the Roundheads of England O God blast all such designes And all yee true hearted English men looke about you unite your selves against the common Enemy the blood-thirsty Irish Papists Jesuites and their confederates c Why doe the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Councell together against the Lord and against his anointed Saying Let us breake their bands asunder and cast their coards from us He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh The Lord shall have them in division he shall speake to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He shall breake them with a rod of iron and dash them in peeces like a Potters vâ—ssâ—ll Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little But blessed are all they that put their trust in him Psal 2.1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. The next Irish note which I observe is as followeth In the month of January over against the 10 day in bloody red letters this Manapian one borne in Menapia a City or Towne in the County of Weisford or Wexford in Ireland or Wexford it selfe as Camden thinks in his Description of Ireland fol. 89. mihi sets it downe thus The most pernitious Anarchicall Rebellion of the Roundheads of England It may be remembred that January the first 1641 The Parliament petitioned the King for a Guard foreseeing a designe upon them And the next day the Kings Answer was He tendred their safety as his owne and their life as the life of his children But the fourth day he came in person to the House of Commons attended with about foure hundred persons with Swords Pistolls c. to demand the five Members which unparallel'd attempt discovered the designe of the Enemy to make warre against the Parliament which afterward followed yea and the next day after the King himselfe came to the Guild Hall in London at a Common Councell to what intent appeared in few dayes for this tenth day mentioned in the Irish Almanacke The King with the Queen Prince Duke of Yorke left Whitehall and went to Hampton-Court ever since which time to this very day having forsaken his Parliament and left his people out of his protection hath beene the most horrible bloody unnaturall warre that ever was in England nay in all the world it being never knowne that a King
against his people his Parliament his Kingdomes should raise warre till soone after that time in the Irish Calendar mentioned And now let all the world judge whether this Manapian be not a most Malignant lying pernitious Antichristian Irish Rebell that so falsly slandereth the Parliament and Kingdome by calling their just actions Anarchicall Rebellion and the people thereof the Roundheads of England Over againg the 23 of October in the Almanack This Helhound in bloody red letters writes thus The happy Vnion of the Catholicks eo die This is that infamous that fatlla day the 23 of October 1641 when that unparallel'd Grand Rebellion of the barbarous Irish violently burst forth to the massacring destruction of many thousands of innocent Protestants in that Kingdome by a crew of Devills incarnate who pleade Commission for this inhumane Act and call it The happy Vnion of the Catholicks This 23 day of October 1641 I could wish were marked with Carbone nigre or for ever were deleated out of the Calendar But when I observed that very day twelve moneth viz. the 23 of October 1642. How just God was in punishing though not the Irish Nation yet the Abetters of them and their horrible Rebellion in that memorable Victory it pleased God to give the Parliaments Forces under the conduct of their then Lord Generall the Right noble Earle of Essex betweene Keynton and Edgehill against the Enemy I am struck with admiration and with me it shall never be forgotten How the Oxford Naworths and this Irish Manapians Almanack agree seemes to me somewhat strange The Oxonian calls it The Grand Rebellion he meanes the 23 of October 1642 when the Battell at Keynton was But I meane that black day the 23 of October 1641 when the Irish unparrallel'd Grand Rebellion burst out which this Manapian termes The happy Vnion of the Catholicks so that the Grand Rebellion in the Oxford Almanack and The happy Vnion of the Catholicks in the Irish are both one Though there was a Rebellion but in one yet they were both united in the prosecution of a most bloody warre what was intended by the Irish in 1641 in that Kingdome against the Protestants there was in 1642 on the same day vehemently pursued by their Confederates against the Protestants here There is a time drawing neere when the Oxfords Almanack Grand Rebellion and The happy Vnion of the Catholicks in Ireland will be remembred and both of them called to a strict account for the same There are some admirable Astrologicall Observations which happened on these two dayes viz. the 23 of October 1641 And that 23 of October 1642 On that in 1641 though not visibly to be seene was a great and terrible Eclipse of the Sun in eleven degrees of Scorpio the opposite Signe to the Horoscope of Ireland The Moone then changing the 24 day causing such a darkenesse in him in the morning as if he were ashamed to behold the intended Irish massacring of the Protestants which was discovered the 23 day by Owen Ockanellee then servant to Sir John Clotworthy Eclipsis Solis si fuerit in Scorpione fundamentorum ruinas inter Ecclesiasticos â—dia simultates turbas excitabunt plebis turbae ignobilium interitus diuturnaeque bellorum seditiones c denotat Sic Jo. Anton. Giuffus in tractatu de Eclipsibus That is If the Sun shall be eclipsed in Scorpio it threatens destruction of Ancient Foundations and stirres up hatred and grudgings and debates amongst Ecclesiasticks The death of the common or ignoble people and continuall seditions of warre And Proclus sayes if the Sun shall be eclipsed in the first ten degrees of Scorpio Tumultus bellicos movet cades odia captivitates proditiones machinatur That is It stirres up warre-like tumults slaughters hatred captivities and treacheryes it doth threaten And if in the second ten degrees of Scorpio as this was Regis cujuspiam perniciem aversum exercitus animum Part of this prediction is already fullfilled and if God prevent it not the residue is approaching very neere It began to operate that very day and hath continued in much virulency to this very time But the next 23 of October viz. 1642 was most memorable when Mars who was Lord of the said Eclipse met in opposition to the Sun was that Signall great Battell fought at Keynton betwixt the Kings Army and the Parliaments Both which dayes and configurations Mars was extreamely afflicted by being opposite to his houses In the first he was in Libra and in the second in Taurus very fatall to the Irish and that party their Associates I gave a touch of that in October 1642 in my Almanacke amongst other thus much Caedes quoque cruentae lites atrae hinc inde percrebescent Edgehill Battell can witnesse this The number that was slaine on both sides there are not yet knowne This 23 of October 1642 the Sun was in ten degrees of Scorpio and Mars in Taurus retrograde in the opposite Signe and neere the degree opposing And I well remember what Origanus says Par 3. de effectibus Fol 522 Pertinet ad fidem diligentiam Astrologorum omnium quantum fieri potest Principum Ducum Comitum Nobilium Consulum praecipuorum quoque Theologorum Episcoporum Consiliariorum Medicorum Genituras inquirere Non enim magna solummodò laut est priori consulta experientia de ipsis in specie aliquid dicere Sed publica quoque fata ex eorum salute pendent Quicquid enim delirant reges plectuntur Achivi That is It is for the credit of Astrologers as much as in them lyes to search into the Nativities of Princes Dukes Earles Nobles Consuls i. e. Mayors or chiefe Officers of Cityes or Townes Prime Divines Bishops Councellours Physicians c. For there is not onely great prayse experience being had of them particularly But the Publicke Affaires or Commonwealth depends on their wellfare And most men frame themselves to the minde of the King I am not ignorant of this and have had some experience of late of this Aphorisme And this I dare boldly say that what ever he be from Caesarto Codrus if he have at the time of his Nativity the tenth degree or within five degrees ante retro of Scorpio Leo Aquary but especially Taurus culminating Horoscopicall The Sun Moone or part of Fortune in the same or neere it He she or they will suffer extreamely in one kinde or other some in their Honours Estates Dignities Some in their Life c. and some in all of them I know some and those no meane ones But Cynthius Aureno vellit Our King is either misled or willfull For the first Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse Prov. 25.5 But if he continue in this strange unheard of absence from the Parliament whereby not onely through the neglect of due and just governing of his people both his and their ruin must inevitably succeed I must remember him of
from the enemy since June 1645. to this present February which may be read in a small Tractate entituled Englands Remembrancer abstracted in a short Catalogue lately printed the number there computed being seventy all within ths space of seven moneths and since the publishing thereof many more great victories but amongst the rest I will only mention the surrender of Chester the back-door for Ireland to that faithfull man to his Country Sir William Brereton and now if I should tell the Irish they are never like to hear or say Masse there or ever see their Unhallowed Candle again lighted which was extinguished the second of February last they may chance to storm fret and fume at me and and curse with Bell Book and Candle all which will doe me or any man else as much hurt just as the howling of an Irish Wolf or the barking of an Irish Wolf dog does the Moon The last Chronologicall observation I perceive troubles them exceedingly and that is the downfal of their Dagon the Crosse in Cheap-side which in base railing language he utters thus Since Cheap-side Crosse was pulled downe the third of May 1643. and immediatly after all other Crosses from off the top of Steeples in and about London by a crew of Antichristian Parliamentary Round-heads enemies to Christianisme 3 yeers Indeed it would trouble any Saint any Christian any Heathen to lose his God or have his God taken from him or his God forsake him but for a wooden stone golden silver leaden iron gilt god a headlesse mouthlesse earlesse noselesse handlesse footlesse god is none but a papistical senslesse Irish Man-Apian or a meer man that hath as much understanding as an Ape would be troubled at it I doe much admire at this third day of May as at any day in all the yeer the Papists Irish and all Romanists c. celebrate the third of May as a great Festivall in commemoration that the Crosse of Christ on which he suffered was found about Anno Christi 326. on the third day of May by Hellen Mother to Constantine the great with the other two Crosses on which the two Thieves suffered unperished as Ruffinus sayes and the third day of May is thus noted in the Almanack Inventio Crucis Saint Cyrill sayes the whole world is full of pieces of this Crosse and yet by a continuall miracle as Paulinus saith it hath never been impaired and the County of Tipperary in Ireland is called The County of the holy Crosse of Tipperary and enjoys certain peculiar freedoms granted in honour of a piece of Christs Crosse there sometimes preserved thus were Christians in ancient times perswaded and incredible it is what a confluence there is even yet of these sottish popish Irish Manapians continually upon devotion thither as unto an holy place so firmly do they persevere in the old blind Religion of their fore-fathers which the carelesse negligence of their Prelats Bishops and popish Priests and ignorance together hath beyond all measure encreased when as there be none to instrust and teach them otherwise It is true that third of May 1643. the Crosse in Cheapside was totally subverted and pulled down to the ground yea that morning Dagon was falled on his face to the ground the head of Dagon and the palms of his hands were cut off no not so much as the stump of Dagon was left unto him by vertue of an Ordinance of Parliament and by the assistance of godly and honest men friends to true Christian Religion but are enemies to and have taken a Covenant to pluck up popery root and branch And not long after the crosses from off the top of many Steeples Yes and in divers Churches and other places many popish and superstitious pictures crosses crucifixes and Romish Trinkets c. were demolished defaced and burnt which are certain fore-runners of the finall and utter destruction of Rome Me thinks when I read Revelations the 18. I hear one crying mightily saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hatefull Bird and therefore it is high time that we come out of her that we be not partakers of her sinnes and receive not of her plagues Now having briefly run over the Observations in the Almanack and those others in the compendious Chronology of things memorable I thought to have found in the Prognostick part thereof some Oxonian Irish predictions against the Parliament and Kingdom of England but God be thanked it is hid from their knowledge and the evill they have wished thereunto will redound and fall upon themselves There are some monethly Observations touching planting grafting sowing and such like affairs c. but what they sowe another shall reap c. now in the conclusion of all as if he were a profound calculator an Astronomer indeed he says there will be three Eclipses two of the Sun and one of the Moon but none of them to be seen Only he doubts that of the Moon the 17. of July I will put him out of doubt and doe tell him that there are five Eclipses this yeer viz. three of the Sun and two of the Moon whereof only one of the Moon visible in Europe and that is already past which was on Wednesday the 21. of January last about six of the clock in the morning the beginning thereof being about four of the clock in the morning I my self saw but immediatly after by reason of a very thick mist and foggy vapour the light of the Moon and visibility of the Stars was taken away from us about London that it could not be observed this Eclipse this Irish Manapian takes no notice of as if there were not such a one to be seen in the Heavens but I shall tell him it belongs to them and the best of their friends the effects begins now to operate some short Observations I have made in my Almanack of this yeer to which I refer you As for the rest of the Eclipses in regard none of them are to be seen in any part of the Christian world I will not mention them only I said I will put him out of doubt And again doe tell him that the Lunar Eclipse the 17. of July next shall not be seen in any part of Europe much lesse in Ireland for the beginning thereof will be about three quarters of an hour past one of the clock in the afternoon the middle about five of the clock and the end about seven of the clock all which time for the most part of Europe the Moon is under the earth and the Sun gloriously shineth above the Horizon Indeed the Inhabitants in Finland Litvania and Muscovia shall observe the Moon to rise Eclipsed and they that live in Kirkithay a Country in Tartary in Turchestan in India within and without Ganges and in the Gulf of Bengala and in Sumatra and places neer thereto shall have that Eclipse in
their Miridians or midnight-sted But those that are in Anian and Quivira shall have the Moon to set Eclipsed now for that the Sun is above the Horizon when this Eclipticall full Moon happeneth being the 17. of July and because the Eclipse is past when the Sun setteth the Moon then rising There is no such doubt to be made as this Irish Almanack would possesse his Country-men withall notwithanding that Kingdom of Ireland amongst many other places shall partake of the effects of that Eclipse and of some others as well Lunar as Solar lately passed whose effects now most strongly operate together with a notable Conjunction of the two Malignant Planets Saturn and Mars which happeneth this yeer on Friday the 12. of June forty minutes past seven of the clock in the afternoon in the longitude of 17. degree and a half and latitude 53. degrees and a half agreeing neerest to that of Dublin being the chief City in Ireland the position of the Heavens there at that time being as followeth A Coniuction of Staturne Mars on friday the 12 of Iune 1646 at Dublin in Ireland IN the yeer 1419. there was a Quadrate Aspect of Mars and Saturn Mars in the latter degrees of Taurus and Saturn in the latter degrees of Leo the supposed Sign under which Bohemia among many other places is and there was that yeer on the 26. day of March a little before noon a great Eclipse of the Sun in the 15. degree of ♈ Aries ♂ Mars being governour thereof After which followed a great tumult in Bohemia Joannes Ziska a noble Captain and a man descended from a great Family one very ingenuous and skilfull in Military Affairs favouring the Hussites being sore grieved for the death of John Hus and Hierom of Prague raised a mighty Army to the number of 40000. whom he called Thaborites almost possest himself of all Bohemia subverted the Monasteries and Idolatrous Temples pulling down and breaking in pieces the Images and Idols driving away the Priests and Monks which he said were kept up in their Cloysters like Swine in their Styes to be fatted His Army encreased and in the yeer 1421. having lost before one of his eyes lost his other eye by a Shaft when he besieged the Town of Raby but from hence being carried to Prague was cured of his wounds and would not though he was blind forsake his Army and the next yeer defeateth the Emperour and was Victor in many battles against the Pontificians and in the yeer 1424. he was striken with sicknesse and dying he gave order that a Drum should be made of his skin to terrifie the enemy Now others suppose that Kingdom to be under ♋ Cancer because that in the yeer 1424. there was a great Eclipse of the Sun the 26. day of June in the 14. degree of Cancer in the evening the effects succeeded the next yeer viz. 1425. at what time three powerfull Armies from Saxony Franconia and Bavaria entred into Bohemia in three severall places but they all fled without sight of an enemy and left their Tents to the Bohemians In like manner Saxony and the maritine Cities neer there are supposed to be under the Sign ♑ Capricorn because after some great Eclipse or unfortunate Aspects of the superiour Planets being in the same afflicted some notable calamity hath happened thereunto so in the yeer 1548. there was a Conjunction of ♄ Saturn and ♂ Mars in ♑ Capricorn in the Moneth of February foreshewing the many troubles that happened soon after in Saxony So also the City of Venice is said to be subject to the Sign ♋ Cancer for that many wonderfull events have happened to that City when an Eclipse or great Aspect of the superiour Planets hath happened in that Sign or in the □ Quadrate or ☠Opposite Aspect thereof so in the time of Maximilian the first Emperour in Germany 1505. who made peace with the Venetians there was a ☌ Conjunction of the higher Plante◠in ♋ Cancer they were extreamly put to it and suffered much by him and he by them And 1508. the Emperour Pope and the French enter in League at Cambray against the Venetians and the next yeer after they took divers places in Forum Julij and other places from the Venetians and in few yeers after strange transactions of Affairs happened between the Pope and them the French and them sometimes on one side sometimes on the other as Historians relate In like manner the famous City of Noremberg amongst many others although the time is uncertain of the first foundation thereof yet from notable events and admirable unusuall accidents which have happened unto the same it is strongly conjectured to be under the Sign II Gemini for when a notable Conjunction happened in ♠Virgo which doth afflict the Sign II Gemini by a □ Quadrate and ☿ Mercury be unfortunate then some ominous matter hath happened thereunto and so likewise if any Eclipse be in the said Signs as in the yeer 1448. the 29. of August was an Eclipse of the Sun in the 15. degree of ♠Virgo in □ Quadrate to ♊ Gemini with whom ♄ Saturn mixed his malicious influence Marchio Albertus Sir-named the Achilles of Germany fought nine battles with the Norembergers and was Victor in eight of them with great destruction to the Citizens So likewise in the yeer 1551. was a great Eclipse of the Sun in 17. degrees of ♠Virgo ♂ Mars being elevated in the middle of Heaven above the Eclipse but placed in his Detriment in ♎ Libra a little while after which Albertus Marchio the son of Casimir besieged the City the Suburbs were spoiled and the Citizens were compelled to dishonourable conditions of peace So likewise in the yeer 1560. another Eclipse of the Sun happened in the eighth degree of ♠Virgo in Quadrate to ♊ Gemini in which Sign of Gemini ♄ Saturn was in 22. degrees very much afflicting ☿ Mercury who was Lord of the said Eclipse in 22. degrees of Virgo by which means the evil foreshewn by the Eclipse was duplicated or much encreased and the effects continued to the yeer 1563. in which space of time many thousands of the Norembergers were swept away with the plague I might reckon up many other places which Historians make mention of but I shall much exceed my intentions I will only remember some few Observations concerning England and all or most Astrologers think it to be under the Sign ♈ Aries for that when any Eclipse or great Conjunction happeneth in that Sign or the opposite Sign ♎ Libra or the □ Quadrate Signes ♋ Cancer or ♑ Capricorn some memorable occurence hath befallen that Kingdom as in the yeer 1345. there was a totall Eclipse of the ☽ Moon the 18. day of March about 9. of the clock in the night in the 6. degree of ♎ Libra opposite to ♈ Aries in which yeer such unusuall tempests and violent winds with great rains and inundations happened throughout the whole Summer
and likewise in the time of Harvest that in the Northern parts Corn and alll manner of Grain and fruits were corrupted and putrified and for two yeers following was a great scarcity of all things and much famine and a great mortality amongst Sheep And in the yeer 1346. the 28. day of August was a most terrible battle fought between Phillip of Valoys King of France and Edward the second King of England at Cresse where the English with 10000. men overcame 60000. French the King of Bohemia was there slain together with 30000 men 11. Princes 89. Barons and 1200. Knights and in the yeer 1347. King Edward winneth Calice John Copland defeateth the Scots takes David King of Scotland prisoner who is sent to the Tower Copland was made a Banneret and rewarded with 500li. per annum and in the yeer 1348. was such a mortality and pestilence amongst men as scarce hath been known the like 50000 were buried in the Charter-house Church-yard and many strange matters happened in those times which our Histories and Chronicles mention to which I refer you So likewise I will remember that terrible Eclipse of the Sun which was on the second day of October 1605. about one of the clock in the afternoon in the 19. degree of ♎ Libra being the opposite Sign to ♈ Aries under which England is supposed to be subject What a horrible unheard of damnable treason of the Papists was discovered the 5. of November following I hope will never be forgotten in England If I should but remember the Eclipse of the Sun which happened on Friday the 29. of March 1633. in the 19. degree of ♈ Aries I should be over-tedious I will refer you to my Almanack for that yeer and some yeers following in which the tyranny of the Prelats in these times manifestly appearing I my selfe not escaping their fury So also that Eclipse of the Moon the 8. of Octo. 1641. in the 26. degree of Aries or that of the Moon likewise the 4. of April 1642. in 25. degrees of ♎ Libra and another of the Moon the 27. of September following in the 15. degrees of ♈ Aries or that of the Moon likewise the 17. of September 1643. in 4. degrees of ♈ Aries I should but rub the gold horse back and put your in mind of the sad and deplorable condition too fresh in our memory this poor Kingdom of England is in I will set down these following Tables wherein you may understand unto what Signes Astologers have placed out of continuall observation and experience many Countries and Cities that thereby you may see when any Eclipse of the Sun or Moon or notable Conjunction or Configuration of the superiour Planets happeneth what places are subject or likely to participiate of the influence of any such Coelestiall position under such Signes their ☠opposite and □ Quadrate Aspects these Signs following Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Virgo ♠Is opposite to Libra ♎ Scorpio ♠Sagitary ♠Capricorn ♑ Aquary ♒ Pisces ♓ And this Aspect is an aspect of perfect enmity and hatred and this is six Signs asunder So likewise these Signs following doe behold one another though not so violently yet they doe disagree very much in Nature and disposition viz. by a Quadrate Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Leo ♌ Virgo ♠Hath a Quadrate Aspect to ♋ ♑ ♌ ♒ ♠♓ ♎ ♈ ♉ ♠♊ ♠Thus Aries beholds Cancer and Capricorn by a Quadrate □ Taurus beholds Leo and Aquary Gemini beholds Virgo and Pisces Cancer beholds Libra and Aries Leo beholds Taurus and Scorpio and Virgo beholds Gemini and Sagittary by a Quadrate Aspect which is called an Aspect of imperfect emnity or faigned friendship or trecherous amity c. and this is three Signs asunder But there is another manner of the Signs beholding one another two wayes viz. by a Trine Aspect which is an Aspect of perfect amity and friendship and is when Signs of one Triplicity of Nature behold one another As ♈ ♌ ♠are of the fiery Triplicity hot and dry ♉ ♠♑ are of the earthly Triplicicy cold and dry ♊ ♎ ♒ are of the aiery Triplicity hot and moist ♋ ♠♓ are of the watry Triplicity cold and moist Thus we see the fiery Trigonagrees with the earthly Triplicity in drinesse and with the Aery in heat and the earthly triplicity agrees with the watery triplicity in coldnesse and with the fiery triplicity in drinesse sic è converso These three Signes doe behold one another by a trine △ aspect and for the most part when any of the signes of one nature is well qualified or affected by a certain sympathy and agreement the other signes of the same qualitie participates of the same good or evlll influence and this Aspect is foure Signes asunder The other Aspect is called a ⚹ Sextile and is more imperfect then the Trine and the Signes doe thus behold one another viz. ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♠Hath a Sextile aspect to ♒ ♊ ♓ ♋ ♈ ♌ ♉ ♠♊ ♎ ♋ ♠Here we see the fiery triplicity agrees with the Aerie in heat the Earthy with the Watery in coldnesse the Aery with the Fiery in heat and the Watery with the Earthy in coldnesse by a ⚹ Aspect and this is when Planets or Starres are two signes asunder Now I shall set downe the twelve Zodiacall Signs and such places Kingdomes Countries and Cities as have experimentally been found to have been subject to the said Signes and they are as followeth Vnder ♈ Aries these Countries England North and East part France Germany Suevia Silesia the higher part of Polonia Burgundie part of Denmark Basternia Syria Palestine Vnder ♈ Aries these Cities Naples Capua Ancona Ferrara Florence Verona Bergamo Lindaw Trajectum Padua Marseilles Epidaurum Crackow Augusta Caesarea Vincentia Vnder ♉ Taurus these Countries Russia Polonia the great the North part of Sweathland IRELAND Lorraigne Campania Helvetia Rhetia Franconia Parthia Persia the Islands Cyclades between Europe and Asia Cyprus the Sea towns of Asia the lesse Vnder ♉ Taurus these Cities Bononia Sena Mantua Tarentum Panorme in Sicily Perusium Parma Caput Histriae Brixia Tigure Lucerne Nantz Metis Herbipolis Carolstade Liepsig Posnania Gnesna Novagrade Vnder ♊ Gemini these Countries Sardinia part of Lumbardy South West part of England part of Flanders Brabant the Dukedome of Wittemberge Hircania Armenia Mariana Cyreniaca Marmarica Aegypt the Lower Vnder ♊ Gemini these Cities Carduba in Spaine Viterbiurn Coesena a City in Lumbardy Turin Vercelli Rhegium Lovaine Bruges in Flaunders LONDON Mentz Kitzing Hasford Bamberge Villacum Noremberge though Schoner and Cardan say it is under Sagitary yet Garcaeus proves it for many reasons to be under Gemini Vnder ♋ Cancer these Countries SCOTLAND Granado part of Burgundy HOLLAND Zeland Prussia Numidia Africa Bithynia Phrygia Colchis Carthage Vnder ♋ Cancer these Cities Constantinople Tunis VENICE Genoa Lucas Pisa Millain Vincentia Bern YORK Saint ANDREWES in SCOTLAND Lubeck Magdeburge
Wittenburgh Gorlick Vnder ♌ Leo these Countries Gallia Togata being part of Lumbardy the Alps Italy Sicyly Apulia Bohemia but Garcius thinks it to be under ♋ Cancer part of Turky Aemilia Sabina Phaenicia Chaldea Orchinia Vnder ♌ Leo these Cities Damasco Siracusa ROME Ravenna Cremona Ulms Confluence Prague Lintz Cremusium Vnder ♠Virgo these Countries Achaia Greece Creet Croacia Carinthia Arthesina the Dukedom of Athens Mesopotamia Babylon Assyria part of Gallia Comata part of Rhyne Sylesia the lower Vnder ♠Virgo these Cities Hierusalem Corinth Rhodes Papia or Pavia Sigina Brundusium Cuma a City in Campania Aretium or Arezzo Novaria a City in Italy Tholouse Lyons Paris Bazil Heydelberg Erphord Uratislavia Vnder ♎ Libra these Countries Austria Alsatia Livonia Savoy Daulphine Bactriana Toscanye Caspia Seres in Aethiopia Thebaida Oasis a Country in Aegypt called Azagar Trogloditica a Country in Aethiopia Sundgavia Vnder ♎ Libra these Cities Lisbone Arles Gajetta in Italy Lauda a City in Mauritania Suessa Placentia Felkirk Friberge or Carda Bianca Argentina Spiers Frankford ad Maenum Hala in Suevia Winpina Heilbrunna Frisinga Mospachium Landshut Vienna in Austria Anwerp Vnder ♠Scorpio these Countries NORWAY Bavaria the upper Metagonitis now called Biledulgerid in Numidia a Region in Affrica Comogena a Country in Syria Cappadocia Idumea Mauritania Fes Gethulia Catalonia Vnder ♠Scorpio these Cities Algiers Valentia in Spain Trabezond Urbine Aquilegia Pistorium Camerinum Tarecisium Forum Julium Messana Vienna Allabrogum Aichstade Monachum Gedanum Frankfod upon Oder Vnder ♠Sagittary these Countries SPAIN Dalmatia Sclavonia Hungary Moravia Missina Geltica Thyrrenia Arabia the happy Vnder ♠Sagittary these Cities Toledo in Spain Volaterra a City in Hetruria Mutina Narbon Avenion Colonia Agrippina or Colen Studgard Rottenburg Judenburg Buda Gascovia Vnder ♑ Capricorn these Countries Macedonia Illiria Thracia Bossina Albania Bulgaria part of Greece Masovia Litvania Saxony Hassia Thuringia Marchia in Styria the Islands of the Orchades India Arriana Gedrofia Vnder ♑ Capricorn these Cities OXFORD Mechlin Juliacum Clevonia Berga Gaunt Vilna Brandenburge Augusta Vindelicorum or Ausburg Constance Derthona Faventia Vnder ♒ Aquary these Countries Amazonia Sarmatia Tartaria the great Wallachia Muscovia Swethland the South part Denmark part Westphalia Mosell Piemont Bavaria part Aethiopia Sogdiana Media Arabia the desert and stony Vnder ♒ Aquary these Cities Hamborough Breme Mountferate Pisaurum Trent Saltzburgh Ingolstade Vnder ♓ Pisces these Countries Cilicia Calabria Portugall Galitia Normandy Phasania Nasamonia in Lybia Garamantes Lydia Pamphilia Aegypt the higher Vnder ♓ Pisces these Cities Alexandria Hispalis Compostella Parentium Rhemes Wormes Ratispone c. Now having shewn what Signs are appropriated to certain places and what places Ancient and Modern Astronomers have in many respects found subject to the influence of the said Signs which hath its ground from the like reasons as are experimented in Nativities for as when any terrible Eclipse of the Luminaries the Sun or Moon shall be in the Ascendant of any man or woman in the mid-heaven or the part of fortune thereof or in the opposite or Quadrate place to any of these in the Nativity or when any of the infortunes or malignant Planets Saturn or Mars shall passe by any of those places or shall aspect any of them hatefully it threatens destruction or death or some eminent danger or evill successe in affairs to such a man or woman especially if any evill direction shall happen at or neere the time of such Eclipse Conjunction Aspect or Transit and of the truth of this innumerable examples might be given So likewise those Kingdoms or Countries Cities or places that have any familiarity with the Sign wherein the Eclipse doth happen or in that wherein any notable Conjunction or other great Aspect is for the most part they have had grievous and sore afflictions and troubles as I could instance in many examples besides what I have spoken of But I shall proceed to some observations touching the dismall Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the 14. degree 27. minutes or Taurus both of them culminating with that fatall Star Caput Algol or the head of Medusa so ominous to and obtruncating some great personages heretofore and no lesse minacious to others now living who if they had some faithfull Spurina about them Spurina predicted the fatall day to Julius Caesar the Ides of March to tell them of their iminent danger might perhaps if not prevent yet mittigate that evill influence impending or otherwise being forewarned might be the better provided against an inevitable storm but not to meddle with particulars only I could wish men were more observing of the true time or neerest that can be of their nativities together with some Accidents as imprisonment banishment sicknesse many other casualties incident to man kind for the verification thereof which I have given notice of in many of my Almanacks heretofore I will therefore come to the generals of this Conjunction and as I said before it happeneth on Friday the 12. of June 1646. 40. minutes past 7. of the clock in the afternoon in the Meridian of Dublin it happeneth in the fourth house two degrees distant from the body of Venus who some three days before viz. the 9. of June is corporally with Saturn declining Mars whom she finds so debilitated as if she had no mind to conjoin with him Satun and Mars are peregrine that is out of all dignities and when any Planet is so he is as it were a man deprived of all he hath or sequestred from his estate and unlesse the neernesse of Venus by her corporal presence and the Sextile Aspect of Jupiter to them both doth abate of their evil positure it is a very ill meeting of them to those places and people they have influence upon which are under Taurus Scorpio Aquary and Leo with is the second Quadrangle of the Zodiaque and most concerned in this Conjunction which happens in Taurus the night house of Venus where she her self is and indifferently well fortified and irradiated and doth separate apace from these two malevolents yet the Moon who conveys the influence of all the heavenly bodies upon all sublunary creatures hath more to doe in the said Conjunction then Venus for it is her exaltation and she hath a triplicity and face therein but if we observe how unfortunately shee is placed in the very degree of her fall for as shee is exalted in three degrees of Taurus so she is abased and cast down in three degrees of Scorpio in which she now is exactly and is placed in the tenth house which is the house of Rule and Dominion Kings Princes c. the position will hold whether it be reduced to London or Edinburgh so the Scheam will serve the three Kingdoms and Mars who disposeth the place of the Moon and the most part of the mid-heaven is in his Detriment in the opposite house and the next day the ☽ having been in a friendly Trine to the Sun meeting the