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Animadversions upon Mr. John Gadbury's Almanack, or diary for the year of our Lord 1682 by Thomas Dangerfeild [sic] and printed for the author.
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Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.
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ANIMADVERSIONS UPON Mr. John Gadbury's ALMANACK OR DIARY FOR The Year of our Lord 1682. BY THOMAS DANGERFEILD And Printed for the Author Published by Langley Curtis at the Sign of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey in Goat-Court on Ludgate Hill 1682. MEeting with Mr. John Gadbury's Almanack or Diary for the year 1682. Printed for the Company of Stationers with more consideration of Gain than Loyalty I could not but take notice of his scandalous Reflections by them Printed and by him according to the Old Papistical Method of Lying thrown upon my self Of which I take not so much regard under my private Circumstances as under that publick Circumstance of being the King's Evidence against him the said Gadbury and several of his Fellow-Conspirators against the Life of His Majesty and the Peace of the Kingdom I say Conspirators for what I then swore I am ready still to maintain and justifie The Company of Stationers when they saw Mr. Gadbury's famous Lines might have been so kind to have consulted me before they Printed such scandalous Aspersions upon my Evidence and the Discoveries I made But since they have made them publick Gadbury shall not think to wipe off so easily the Stains and Blurs of his deny'd Complyances with Treason by calling me Buffoon and Scoundrel But it is so natural for an Astrologer to Lie that I am in very great hopes that the World will give no more credit to him than is his due which is in verity none at all 'T is a strange thing to me that He who when he was accused by my self before the King and Council and was then asked this Question by the King viz. If he had consulted his Stars to know whether he should be sent to Newgate or to the Gate-house and could tell no more what Answer to make than a Horse Or that He who can tell not so much as a common Shepherd when 't will Rain when 't will Snow when 't will Hail and has made such a silly Conjecture of the present Raging Storms by crying Somewhat Windy at the beginning should be so impudent as to prognosticate the Changes and Alterations of Supreme Councils and National Governments and bring the Planets and Stars to vouch his paltry Impositions upon the People For this reason it was that the Chaldeans and Mathematicians for by those names the Fortune-tellers and Scheme-Erectors of those Times commonly assumed to themselves were several times expell'd Italy particularly in the Time of Tiberius who ordered one Thrasyllus by name for his Lying to be thrown into the Sea Secondly in the time of Claudius at what time one of their Ringleaders called Pituanius was cast headlong from the Tarpeian Rock into Tybur And then again in the Time of Vespasian certainly the Chaldean Gadbury cannot pretend to any more Art than they did and how he a Professor of an Impostor infamous we find as well to Heathenism as Christianity should now aspire to spit in the face of Truth I cannot easily understand unless it be that he is an utter Enemy to that which he never did or could write in his Life Surely he forgot to consult the Stars whether I would answer him or not for if he had he would never have had the Impudence to deny what he does And now Mr. John Gadbury to the point in the management of which I shall address my self to your Chaldeanship in the common tearms of You and I for brevities sake and you shall have the honour to have your You put into Dominical Letters because You are an Almanack-maker and signally black is the Dominican Colour You say that meeting with the Earl of Castlemaines Manifesto and in p. 96. your Name mention'd as subpena'd to testify at his Lordships Tryal with this mark That You never had any discourse with Dangerfeild about his Lordship as the said Dangerfeild pretended And being demanded by many of your particular Friends and others whether the thing his Lordship said there were true You did and do aver it for a truth and as true as truth itself And also You farther aver that You never had discourse with Dangerfeild either about his Lordship or concerning any matter or Person else as having never seen him but twice in your life before he appear'd against You at the Council and then but transiently neither As to his Lordships reflection upon your assertion there is little or no heed to be given to it For 't is well known of what credit his Lordships writings are in reference to the Popish Plot to which the World well knows how zealous a Wâ—ll Wisher he was by his discreet management of the St. Omers Evidence Now as to your avowment and farther avowment You shall hear what I swore and then set it be brought to Tryal when You please viz. That You and I upon or about the 2d of September 1679. entring into discourse I perceiv'd your countenance to change when looking very angrily on me You told me that You wonder'd I would offer to displease the Lords in the Tower and especially the Lord Ca 〈…〉 emaine then out upon Bail who design'd to advance me in the World and help me to make my Fortune To which I repliâ—d that I was not a little suâ—priz'd to hear such words from You and asked You if You knew the ground of thâ—ir displeasure You then repli'd yes yes You did and then â—alling into a great passion said 't was because I would not kill the King said You to me I admire at your Ingratitude that when you could not propâ—se to your self any possible way of getting out of Prison c. you should offer to refâ—se it Nay said You to me I might have done it with all the ease in the World for no manner of hurt could have befallen me Why said I would not Death unavoidably have been the Consequence of it No said You for before I was releas'd out of the Kings Bench You had an exact account from Mrs. Cellier of the Year Month Week Day and Hour I was born in And the Countess of Powis ordered You to calculate my Nativity And it is so clear said You to me that you are by all adjudged the Person allotted for that hold and daring enterprize Now I appeal first to your own conscience if you have any and then to all the World whether this were not an absolute discourse between You and I about the Lord Castlemaine For it is all most sacredly true notwithstanding all your confidence to deny it But here lies the knack of the business You mean that I never had any discourse with You about the Lord Castlemaine in the Year 1641. or in the year 1681. had you said so there You had hit the nail o' the head but alass I did not swear to any of those Years but only to the Year 1679. and that I 'll stand by to the last And therefore neither You nor the Lord Castlemaint must think to Sham the world with impertinent