Zodiaquâ— accounted from the first assault of thâ— Diâ—â—â—se which makes up the Octile or Semiquadraâ—â— Aspâ—â—t there by the same Reason she begins to opâ—râ—â—e as she will in the next subsequent Critical 〈◊〉 whâ—â—hâ—r it be to Good or Evil And this falls out the Fourth day wherefore it is called of Hippocrates and Galen Index Diei Septimi sequentis The second Indicative the which Hippocrates and Galen six upon the 11 th may also be upon the 10. or 12. days according as the Moon in the Point intermediate shall hasten from the First Quarter or Quadrate to her Opposition and have run through 135. degrees from the time of Decumbiture which makes the Trioctile or Sesquiquadrate Aspect And so of the rest c. This done we must observe the Disposition of the Heavens to the time when the Moon comes to the foresaid Angles and that according to the generally received Precepts and Aphorisms But to make this the clearer I will illustrate all by Example A Gentleman fell Sick at Paris of an Acute Disease Anno 1641. the Second of January about 8 a Clock in the Afternoon at which time I find the Moon in 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ wherefore I put this Sign with the degree and Minute in the first Angle as it were the Ascendant In the Next place I add 45 degrees to 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ the Radical Point of the Moon and it gives me 25 degr 19 Min. of ♓ for the place of the Moon the First Indicative And by adding 45 degrees thereunto I get the place of the Moon for the Cuspe of the Third Angle 10 degr 19 Min. of ♉ the Point of the first Crisis And soby a continued addition of 45 degrees it produceth the Fourth Angle 25 dâ—grees 19 Minutes of ♊ the second Indâ—cative The Fifth Angle in which is observed the Second Crisis 1â— degrees 19 Minutes of ♌ being the Point Opposite to the Radical place The Sixth Angle 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ designing the Third Indicative The Seventh Angle 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™ for the point of the Third Crisis And lastly the Eighth Angle wherein is the Fourth Indicative 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ These had I therein insert the Places of the Planets respectively and so I have it compleat as the following Figure demonstrates Now to know when the Moon comes to the 10. degree 19. Min. ♉ for in that point she beholds the Radical Point or her place at the time of the Decumbiture with a Quartile Aspect viz. 10 degrees 19 min. â™’ you must do as followeth First look in the Ephemeris on what day the Moon comes to the degree of the Sign that beholds her Radical place with a Quartile which you will find to be the 9 th day of January for on that day at Noon her true place is 6 degrees 11 minutes of ♉ and the 10. day at Noon in 18 degrees 34 Minutes of ♉ wherefore her Diurnal Motion is 12 degrees 25 minutes and the distance from the place of her Quadrature 4 degrees 8 minutes which had I reason thus As her Diurnal Motion 12 degr 25 min. to 24 hours So the Distance 4 degr 8 min. To 8 hours ferè the Critical time desired In the same manner do I find out the Time of the other Crises and Indicatives and after that the state and disposition of the Heavens agreeing to every Critical Phasis as is evident by the following Synopsis Abacus seu Sypnosis Calculi Figura Octogonalis Species of Critical Days The Motion of the Moon The time of â—very Critical Phasis The state of the Moon in respect of her Place in the Ralix with the Syzygies and the Mutual Aspects of the Planets January 1641. S. V. Decumbiture d. 10 â— 19 â™’ D. 2 H. 8 M. 0 P. M. ☽ app ♀ and ♄ âš¹ ☽ ♂ â–¡ ☉ ♂ â–¡ ♃ ☿ ♂ ☉ ♃ ☿ 1. Inâ—icat 25 19 ♓ 6 5 43 Manè Octile oâ— Sâ—mi-quâ—drate 1. Critic 10 19 ♉ 9 8 0 P. M. Quartile Sinister â–¡ ♂ ☿ 3 h. 11′ 2. Indicat 25 19 ♊ 13 2 36 P. M. Trioct Sinister â–³ ♄ 10 h. 57′ shewing a Bad Crisis 2. Critic 10 19 ♌ 17 5 50 Manè Opposition 3. Indicat 25 19 â™ 20 3 44 P. M. Trioct Dexter â–³ ♃ 4 h. 28′ shewing a happy and propitious Crisis 3. Critic 10 19 â™ 23 9 1 P. M. Quâ—rtile Dexter â–³ ♀ hor 22 36′ 4. Indic 25 19 â— 2â— 12 9 P. M. Oâ—tile or Semi-quadrate 4. Critic 10 19 â™’ 29 16 17 P. M. Thâ— Radical plaâ—e The Story of this Observation concerns a Person who after a long and wearisome journy was suddenly assaulted at the time aforesaid by a Quotidian Feaver attended with a dry Cough and a Plurisie The Feaver grew to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For indeed the Night before it seized on him he was in a grievous condition and the Third day he was quite without any Shivering nor brought it any Intermission to the Patient when the Moon passed 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™’ a Sign of Infirmity at which time she applyed to Venus and Saturn in a long Sextile of Mars who afflicted Jupiter and Mercury both in Combustion and likewise the Sun himself by a Quartile Aspect The Sixth of the same Month of January the disease grew worse for then the Moon came to an Octile or Semi-quadrate Aspect where the first Indicative was celebrated at which time there was no Aspect with the Moon and therefore a doubtful or unfortunate Crisis was to be feared The Ninth day about 8. a Clock produced the First Crisis by a little Sweat about which time both a Cough and a Pain he had in his side left him but his Pulse beat inordinately for thrâ—e hours after the Tritaeophia remaining Wherefore Galen Lib. 1. Epid. Proprium est Febrium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut malignarum exacerbari diebus Criticis The which also Mars seems to argue by his Quartile Aspect with Mercury about the same time Moreover both these Quartiles namely that of the Moon to her radical place ♉ to â™’ and the other of Mars to Mercury ♈ to ♑ are differing in Qualities as well Active as Passive which aggravates the mischief Besides it is to be noted that the Signs â™’ and ♉ are Signs of Infirmity The Thirteenth day when the Moon came to a Trioctile Aspect in 25 degrees 19 minutes of ♊ Saturn afflicting her by a Trine shewed that an evil Crisis was to be feared The Seventeenth day at 5 hours and 50 minutes in the Morning the Moon possessâ—ng the degrâ—e Opposite to the place she was in at the Decumbiture viz. 10 dâ—grees 19 minutes of ♌ whâ—n there was no Aspect good or bad unto her promised the Patient no hopes of his Health And then indeâ—d he was in greatest fear of himself Notwithstanding The Twentieth day about Four a Clock the Moon entered the 25. degree 19 minutes of â™ and came to a Trioctile with the
I therefore Anagrammatiz'd my name to Naworth and by that Name I writ an Almanack for several years together and continued unknown unless to some two or three of my friends whereby I seasonably prevented the before-named inconveniencies and hazards which otherwise I should inevitably have shared of And I presume that in doing this I neither wrong'd my self nor abused the Country where I lived And whatever other witty construction may be made thereof by these two trifling Gypsies by this they may perceive I took no delight as they do to be termed a Conjurer a Magician a Cabalist a Merline a trucking Mercury or any thing else whereby they desire and endeavour so much to promote and propagate their deceitful and unwarrantable dealings And whereas Lilly in the same Preface chargeth me under the same name to have wrested many false judgments from Astrology against the Parliaments actions intending thereby to prepossess the Kingdom with a vain fear that His Majesty and his designs should take place c. I must tell him that this his Accusation is most maliciously false And let him shew me if he can but one Aphorism or Sentence that ever I delivered for which I either quoted not my Authors or gave a sufficient reason in Astrology or that ever of which I shall hereafter prove him apparently guilty I wrested any part of Astrology from the Genuine sense thereof either to make for his Majesty or against the Parliament And if it hath pleased God to suffer the Loyal party thus to be trampled over it is for their sins and carâ—ies with it a supernatural Cause and Reason above the stars which could not be discerned by the clearest mortal eye No Symptome of such our sufferings could be read or observed by such man in the great Book of Heaven but rather the quite contrary as I could instance for many reasons in Astrology And whatsoever I spoke or writ was as your own sense imploys ever with submission to divine Providence But I will not busie my self so much as to examine and retort every Tatter of his ragged-Preface nor shall I need to vindicate his Majesties Officers whom he is therein pleased to term Ravenous from his polluted lips I see no reason why they may not meet with a fitter occasion and opportunity to require him but the thing I have proposed to my self is first to ferret the poor Quack inpoint of Art and afterwards in matter of Judgment The first thing and indeed the only thing that 's worth my observation is his Transcript of Eichstadius his Ephemerides for the year 1647 wherein indeed he hath taken a great deal of pains and deserves to be commended for this indefatigable Labour but withal I must tell him that he hath theâ—ein greatly betrayed his own ignorance in Astronomy or shewed himself exceedingly negligent and careless in that he hath not fitted the places of the Sun Venus and Mercury but especially the Moon to the Meridian of London as he hath done to his thinking in the Lunations and Aspects of the Planets nor which had been more easie and sooner done prescribed any Rule or Direction whereby to supputate their true places for that Meridian or any other place of the Kingdom And this Error he hath been guilty of throughout the two former years whereby our young Tyro's are much deceived in the Merline when they think they have the places of those Planets therein exactly Calculated to the Noon-tide of every day at London for although in the higher Planets whose motion is but slow there be no sensible difference yet in the Sun Venus and Mercury there is an apparent error For when they are in their swift motion their places at noon as Lilly hath set them will differ about 2. min. and often 3. min. from the truth And in the Moon whose motion is far swifter than any other of the Planets her Error is intolerable especially when she is in her swift motion For example the first of January 1647. the Diurnal motion of the Moon is 12. degr 24. min. being then but in her slow motion The difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge to which place the Longitude of the Planets as Wil. Lilly hath printed them were Calculated by Eichstadius is 50 minutes by his own confession in his Anglicus 1645. Page 54. that is the Sun cometh later to the Meridian at London than he does at Uraniburge by 50. Min. of time so that how much soever the Moon moveth according to Longitude in that space of time by so much hath Lilly erred in the Moons true place at noon for every day in the year which what it is for the said first of January I examine thus If the Moon in 24 hours move 12 degrees 24 minutes in Longitude What moves she in 50 min. of time Facit 26 min. ferè And by so much hath Lilly erred from her true place the said first of January at Noon So that whereas he hath placed her that day in 21 degrees 10 min. of Pisces she ought to have been in 21 degrees 36 min. of the same Sign And when she is in her swift motion he commits a greater Error as the tenth of March 1647. if you examin it according to the former rule you shall find just half a degree or 30 min. error and in stead of 26 degrees 3 min. of Virgo wherein Lilly hath put her that day she should be in 26 degrees 33 min. of the same Sign The next thing which I mean to take notice of is his Scheme erected to the Apparent time of the Moons Eclipse upon the tenth of January 1647. at 9. hours and 19 min. P. M. as he hath taken it from Eichstadius by deducting 50 min. for the difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge and to the same time I erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus and comparing his printed Scheme with that which I had more curiously set I find Lilly still bungling and botching but without any result of truth For whereas he hath made the Cuspe of the tenth House 22 degrees 20 min. of Gemini according to exact Calculation it is no lâ—ss than 23 degr 30. minutes whereby it appears that Master Lilly hath mistaken 1 degree and 10 min. in the Cuspe of the Medium Coeli And in the Ascendent of the same figure he haâ—h mistaken above one whole degree viz. 1 degr 10 min. for he hath made the Cuspe thereof but 23 deg and 51 min. of Virgo which should have been 25 degrees and 1 min. and the like Errors follow in the seventh house of the Figure and proportionably in all the rest which makes me wonder with what face this sensless botcher dares term me an A. B. C. fellow when all men may perceive him so shamefully ignorant in the very fundamentals of the Art he pretends to and that I am able to correct him in every point and particle of his profession For I desire
the Names Genus Species efficient and final Causes of all Comets c. from p. 140. to p. 184. 11. A Discourse teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus from p. 184. to p. 189. 12. The Cabal of the Twelve Houses Astrological from Morinus from p. 189. to p. 208. 13. An Astrological Judgment upon his Majesties March began from Oxford May the Seventh One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Five from p. 208. to p. 222. 14. Bellum Hybernicale Or Irelands War Astrologically Demonstrated from the late Celestial Congress of the two Malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars in Taurus the Ascendant of that Kingdom c. from p. 222. to p. 272. 15. Merlini Anglici Errata from p. 272. to p. 311. 16. Multiplicatio effectus Siderum secreta ex Cardano from p. 312. to p. 321. 17. A brief Account of the Causes of Earth-quakes from p. 322. to p. 324. 18. Sundry excellent Rules shewing by what Laws the Weather is governed and how to discover the various Alterations of the same from p. 325. to p. 331. 19. A Collection of sundry of the Authors most Excellent Poems as Printed in several of his Loyal Works from p. 331. to p. 415. 20. Gesta Britannorum Or a succinct Chronology of the Actions and Exploits Battels Sieges Conflicts and other signal and remarkable Passages which have happened in these Dominions from the Year of Christ 1600. unto the Year 1667. from p. 416. to p. 514. 21. XEIPOMANTIA Or the Art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the Hand of Man by the Hand of Nature c. Together with a learned Philosophical Discourse of the Soul of the World and the Vniversal Spirit thereof from p. 514. to the End of the Book A SHORT ACCOUNT Of the FASTS and FESTIVALS As well of the JEWS as CHRISTIANS With the Original and End Of their INSTITUTION IT will not I hope be denyed but that as God by his Extraordinary Presence hath Hallowed and Sanctified certain places so they are his Extraordinary Works that have worthily advanced certain times for which cause they ought to be with all men that Honour God more Holy than other Days The Times so advanced are The Festivals and Fasts of the Jews Christians Of the Jewish Festivals and Fasts Some were Instituted by Divine Authority The appointment of Men. The Jewish Festivals Instituted by God are First The Sabbath or Seventh-day in every Week so called from the Hebrew Scabath which signifies a day of rest or a time set apart for Holy rest which day God consecrated to his Worship because He thereon rested from his Work of Creation The end whereof was I. Civil and Oeconomical for the ease and refreshment of their Bodies whose strength had been Exhausted by Labour Sex diebus facies Opera tua septimo autem die quiesceÌ„s ut quiescat bos tuus asinus tuns ut respiret filius ancillae tuae peregrinus Exod. 23. 2. Ecclesiastical for the worship of God and meditation upon his Divine works 3. Spiritual 1. As being a Type of that Spiritual Rest whereby we should cease from the works of the World and the Flesh that God might work in us by his word and Spirit And 2. as shadowing unto us that endless rest which all of us hope to enjoy with God in the World to come II. The Neomeniae or Feasts of new-New-Moons Celebrated the First day of every Month initiating with the New-Moons which was Instituted in memory of the Light Created by God to the end 1. That by this means his People might be alienated from the Superstitions and Idolatry of the Ethnicks who subjected the Months to the Planets Stars and Signs Caelestial and know that God is the only Lord Governour and Moderator of the Stars and Signs themselves and consequently of the Months and Years and Time in general And therefore give unto God the greater thanks who ordained all these things for the use and benefit of mankind 2. To Typifie mans Renovation by the Illumination of the Holy Spirit which is still required of all the faithful Nisi enim homo per Spiritum Dei renatus fuerit regnum Dei videre non poterit III. The Third ordained by God is the Pasch or Passover so called from the Hebrew Pasach or as others read it Phase which signifies to leap or to passover or beyond This was Instituted Anno Mundi 2447. and celebrated from the Fifteenth day of the First Month Abib called afterwards Nisan to the Twenty First day of the same inclusively that is for Seven days together Yet so as that the First and Last thereof viz. the Fifteenth and Twenty First were held more Festivous and sacred than the rest These Seven days were likewise called the Feast of Azymes and the First of them the Pasch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because that thereon the Paschal Lamb was eaten 1. To câ—ll to mind and as it were consecrate to Eternity Gods miraculous deliverance of the Israelites from their Bondage in Egypt 2. For a sure testimony of the perpetual Mercy and Power he would shew to his People 3. To Typifie Christ Jesus and our deliverance perfected by him IV. The next Solemn Feast instituted by God is that of Pentecost so called from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but termed by the Hebrews Schesuothe that is the Feast of weeks because celebrated after the Seventh week from the former Feast of the Passover as may be seen in Exod. 34. Levit. 23. and Deut. 16. But it truly signifies the Fiftieth Solemn and Festival day from the Second of the Azymes in which sense St. Luke takes it Acts 2. where he saith Cum autem compleretur dies Pentecostes and Chap. 20. Speaking of St. Paul festinabit saith he ut si quomodo posset Pentecosten ageret Hierosolymis By this name also are meant all those Fifty days betwixt the Second of Azymes and the Fiftieth Festival day And so the Author of the Vulgar Edition understood it who renders these words of Acts 2. in the Plural Number viz. Cum complerentur dies Pentecostes c. It is also called Festum Primitiarum from the First-Fruits or the Bread Offer'd which was made of the new Fruits Exod. 23. This Feast was Instituted 1. In memory of the Law given by God on Mount Sinai the Fiftieth day after the Israelites departed out of Egypt 2. That by the Ceremonial Oblation of two Loaves made of the New-Fruits to the Lord men might be admonished they received all Fruits and so all things else for preservation of Life from the bountiful hands of God and be also excited to beseech God not only for a blessing thereupon but also to make a sanctified use thereof 3. To Typifie that Pentecost wherein Christ after he had ascended proclaimed the Law not that which was written in Tables of Stone but in the Heart and mind the Law of the New Covenant that happy day on which the First-Fruits of the Holy Spirit
and the last year 1664. and so will again unless the Julian Calendar which yet we follow be reform'd in the years 1667. 1669. 1673. 1677. 1681. 1684. 1685. 1687. 1688. 1691. 1694. 1697. and 31 times more before the year of Christ 1800. Nor is this all For there often happens a whole Months Errour as to the time of the Celebration thereof having already fallen out so three years since that of Christ 1600 viz. in the years 1625. 1652. and 1655. and so will again without correction of the Calendar in the years 1679. 1682. 1720. 1723. 1747. 1750. 1774. 1777. and in the year 1807. For in those years there will happen from the Aequinox two full-Full-Moons befoâ—e our Easter can be kept Nay there falls out very often no less than 35 days or five Weeks errour in the time of our Easter having already fallen out so no less than eleven times since the year 1600. viz. in the years 1603. 1606. 1614. 1617. 1622. 1633. 1636. 1641. 1644. 1660. and as I said before in the year 1663. and so will again without amendment of the Calendar in the years 1671. 1674. 1690. 1693. 1698. 1701. and just twenty times more before the year 1800. But in the years 2437. 2446. 2491 c. there will be 42 days Errour and sometimes afterwards no less than 49 days And after the year 2698. if the old Calendar should still be continued it will never again happen according to the Rule of the Church which fixeth it on the Sunday following the first Full-Moon next after the Vernal Equinox One Cause of which Errours is the Precession of the Aequinoctium Vernum which from the first Nicâ—ne Council to this time hath anticipated no fewer than Eleven days falling now the Tenth of March whereas at the time of that Council it was on the Twenty first of the same Month. And the reason of this Anticipation is for that the Julian year exceeds the true Solar year by 10 Minutes 48 Seconds or thereabout which causes the Aequinoxes and Solstices yearly to change their places and fly backwards so many Minutes and Seconds The Lunations also by reason of the too great Quantity allowed them do in every 19 years anticipate almost an hour and an half and in 312 years and a half one whole day and therefore not exactly to be found by the Golden Number although on those Lunations the Feast of Easter dependeth as of it all the rest of the Moveable Feasts which is another cause of those Errours and both together the First occasion of the Roman Emendation whereby that Church doth always produce Easter on the Sunday following the first Full-Moon next after the Vernal Aequinox according to the Decree of the Nicene Council Now here I could willingly and indeed intended to have demonstrated how all this might be remedied but that multiplicity of business which Steers my thoughts another course and the Narrow limits I am here confin'd to do both obstruct and discourage me All therefore I shall further say is this I do much wonder that this Lyncaeus whoever he was that so vainly boasted of his discovery of that one Weeks pretended Errour in the time of Easter and therefore traduced us all with Ignorance or Inadvertency should himself not yet discover that real Errour of the first of those Rules prefixed to the New Common Prayer-Book Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Anno 1664. the very year of that his great Discovery which pretends to shew how to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin viz. Easter-day on which the rest depend is always the First Sunday after the first Full-Moon which happens next after the One and Twentieth day of March. And if the Full-Moon happens upon a Sunday Easter-day is the Sunday after For although that Rule be true enough in respect of the Gregorian yet it is altogether mistaken as being in no wise applicable to our Julian Account which yet the Table of Moveable Feasts in the said Common Prayer-Book calculated for 40 years regardeth only and which must be followed until his Majesty shall think fit to command a better and therefore very improper for that place But I hope the Most Reverend Father in God his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury will make it his concern not only to cause this Errour to be rectified but in due time also move His Sacred Majesty to assume the Glory of a better Emendation of the Calendar than yet the Roman Church can boast of APOTELESMA or The Nativity of the World and Revolution thereof I 'Le not trouble my self or the Reader with the various Opinions of Men and Nations concerning the Lapsed years of the World's Creation some being utterly lost in conceipts that repugn Philosophy others sway'd with Philosophical Conjectures destructive to Divinity and the rest miserably varying one from another For the Heathens afford us no satisfaction Epicurus and Aristotle will not allow it had any beginning The Jews are wâ—etchedly dissenting in their accompts Philo and Josephus irreconcileable The Samaritans differing from the Jews and indeed all others The Jews from the Christians and they amongst themselves Scaliger and Petavius of the Latins Clemens Alexandrinus and Nicephorus among the Greeks T is true Longomontanus a most learned modern Astronomer with a silere amplius nequeo takes boldly upon him to discover this grand secret from the motion of the Sun 's Apogaeum supposing the Sun's Eccentricity immutable and the Apogaeum a yearly motion of One Minute One Second Fifty Thirds Fourteen Fourths stiling it Illusâ—re testimonium de Mundi Exordio duratione hactenus For by positing the Sun 's Apogaeum in the beginning of Aries at the Creation and his Perigaeum in the opposite point Libra He concludes of 4000 years within a half betwixt the Creation and the Passion of our Saviour and till the 1588 th year of his Incarnation 5554. allowing 33 whole years for our Saviour's Age with addition of the time intercepted betwixt his Nativity and Passion And this this learned Author grounds on the accurate Observations of his learned Master Ticho-Brahe who indeed concluded the progress of the Sun 's Apogaeum S.S.S. till that year 55 degrees 30 Minutes And to the End we might compare the same with the Observations of sundry old and late Astronomers throughout the respective Ages they lived in exhibits to our view the following Table of The Place of the Sun 's Apogaeum from the beginning of the World and the true Vernal Aequinox In the several Ages of Years of the World Deduct Observat Difference Hipparchus Rhodius 3810 65 16 65 30 14 Min. C. Ptolemaeus Alexandriae 4099 70 3 Â Â Â Â Albategnius Maham 4849 82 53 82 16 37 Min. Guarterus Norimberg 5454 93 43 94 15 32 Min. Nicolaus Copernicus Tur. 5492 94 23 95 8 45 Min. Tycho-Braheus Dan. 5554 95 30 95 30 0 Min. Whereby it appears that the moved Apogaeum of the Sun proportionably deduced according to the Annual motion
of time and because of the Suns double motion in respect of us it is also two-fold Mean and True The Mean motion is ascribed to the Mean Equinox and Solstice and containeth 365 d. 5 h. and 49′ 15″ 45‴ 52 ' ' ' ' 48v′ and this is the Rule and Level of all years The True motion called also Apparent and Inequal is ascribed to the true Equinox or Solstice or it is the space of time in which the Sun by his motion according to the succession of the Signs returns to the True Equinox or Solstice But this increaseth or decreaseth according to the swift or slower progress of the Equinoctial and Solsticial points and containeth in its greatest quantity 365 d. 5 h. 56′ 53‴ such as was about 64 years before Christ near to Hipparchus his time and of late again in the year of Christ 1652. at the least 365 d. 5 h. 24′ 38″ such as was about 921 years before Christ and 794 years after Christ near to Charles the Great and not far from Albategnius their times The Sydereal year is the space of time in which the Sun returns to the same Star be it Fixed or Erratical from whence he departed wherefore this also is either Fixed or Moveable The Fixed is referred to the Fixed Stars and its quantity always invariable containing according to Thebith who lived Anno Dom. 1195. and was the first Author of it 365 d. 6 h. 9′ 12″ according to Copernicus 365 d. 6 h. 9′ 40″ but according to Tycho 365 d. 6 h. 19′ 26″ 43‴ 30 ' ' ' ' The Movable is referred to some one of the Planets and either to Saturn whose Mean quantity is 378 d. 2 h. 12′ 13″ or to Jupiter whose Mean quantity is 398 d. 21 h. 12′ 9″ or to Mars whose Mean quantiry is 779 d. 22 h. 40′ c. Now the Lunar year is that wherein the Moon â—fter some Conjunctions with the Sun meeteth and uniteth again with him not far from the former place And this year also 〈◊〉 two-fold viz. Commune containing 12. Synodical Lunations or Embolismal which containeth 13. And again each of these is either Mean the Rule of all the Civil Lunar years or True The Mean common Lunar year contains 354 d. 8 h. 48′ 38″ 7‴ 38 ' ' ' ' the Embolismal 383 d. 21 h. 32′ 41″ 18‴ 16 ' ' ' ' The True exorbitates more or less from the Mean as will appear to him that considers the Motions and Syzygies of the Luminaries The Political or Civil years be such as are every where used for distinction of times wherein a respect is had either to the motion of the Sun or Moon only or to them both together 1. The Egyptians have regard to the Sun who make their year to consist of 365 days exactly for they have 12 Months in the year every one containing 3â— dayâ— and at the end they add 5 Intercalar days And such years the ancient Hebrews observed before the Alexandrean Aera yet so as that they intercalated one whole Month of 30 days in every 120 year The like years also but without the Intercalated Month the Persians used who from the Aera of Jâ—sdagird beginning Anno Ch. 632. unto the Gelalean or yeâ—r of Christ 1079. have numbered 447 Egyptian years for then the Pâ—rsians aftâ—r they had obsâ—rved the year which for some while they had usâ—d to be too small and the days of their Months by little and little anticipated they I say by Authority of the Persian Emperour Alb. Arsalam instituted an Emendation thereof and to the 4 th year for the most part and sometime also to the 5 th they yet add a day as we do in our Bissextiles but in 648. years they include 33811 weeks or 236677 days so that this year of theirs consists of 365 d. 5 h. 48′ 5″ 20‴ 2. The Romans who use a greater year than the Egyptians and ancient Persians For according to Julius Caesar's constitution their year consists of 365 d. 6 h. which 6 hours do make every 4 th an Intercalar containing 366. days whereas the Commune consists but of 365. And this year is not only used by the Muscovites who retaining the Names and Quantities of the Roman Months begin their year the First of September and likewise by the Syrians or Syro-Graecians who number their Months and Days according to the Julian manner although they give them other names as hereafter shall be shewed but also by the Habassines the Cophti and Ethiopians But according to the Emendation made by Pope Gregory the 13 th the year consists of 365 d. 5 h. 49′ 12″ and so not quite 4″ less than the Mean Solar year For because according to that Account there are in every 400 Julian years consisting of 146100 days three Intercalar days omitted it is evident that 400 Gregorian years contain but 146097 days which if divided by 400 quoteth the aforesaid number of days hours and scruples of a year Now that the reasons of this Emendation and so the Julian and Gregorian years themselvâ—s may the better be understood we must know that in the Julian year the odd 6 hours are not reckoned every year but once every fourth year being then increased to the just length of a Natural day which is always put at the 25. of February so that the Letter F. as this present Bissextile 1660. is twice repeated and St. Matthias day observed upon the latter according to the Verse Bissextum sextae Martis tenuere Calendae Posteriore die celebrantur festa Mathiae So then the Julian year is two-fold viz. Commune consisting of 365 days and Bissextile of 366 days It is called Bissextile of Bis and Sex twice six because the sixth Calends of March is twice repeated Intercalar because of the day that is put between and Leap-year for that by this Addition of the day from thenceforth the Fixed Holy-days and the like do as it were leap one day farther into the Week than they were the former year But this Julian Account is very erroneous For though the mean Tropical year consisting according to the Alphonsin's of 365 d. 5 h. 49′ 16″ it is plain that the Julian year exceeds it 10′ 44″ thereby causing an apparent anticipation of the Equinoctial and Solsticial points insomuch that the Vernum Equinoctium whose place at the first Council of Nice was the 21. of March is now come to be upon the 9 th or 10 th the Emendation of which Errour Pope Gregory the 13. hath very well performed by substracting 10 days from the 4 th of October unto the 15 th of the same Month exclusively Anno 1582. that thereby he might make the Equinoctium vernum whereon the Moveable Feasts depend agree to the 21. of March as it was by the Nicene Council established Anno 324. By means whereof all their Months begin ten days sooner than ours their 11. day being the first of the English and our last of every Month the 10. of theirs And
to retain the same Equinoctium vernum for future times invariably upon the same day he appointed that of 400 dâ—ys the 1.2 and 3. hundred the Leap-day wâ—ich in the Julian year happeneth should be omitted and not intercalated but in the 400 year that the Leap-day should not be omitted but intercalated as you may see in Maginus his Secunda Mobilia can 11. fol. 40. And this is the Account received in all Countries professing subjection to the See of Rome but we wiser than all the World besides do still retain the old Julian Account so erroneous as I said before that in process of time if no correction be made our Saviour and St. John must exchange their Tropicks i. e. The Feast of Christs Nativity will fall in June when now the Sun enters Cancer and that of the Baptists in December when now the Sun enters Capricorn And the main reason objected against an Emendation here is the Confusion would follow about the Dates of our Civil Contracts Deeds Bonds Bills Payment of Rents c. But to say no more if all Bissextiles were omitted but 52. years that alone would gradually and insensibly without the least inconvenience bring us two days before the Gregorian and be agreeable to the Sun's place at our Saviours Birth whereas the Roman being reduced only to the aforesaid Council of Nice would be two days less exact And if after that the Bissextiles be kept as before except in every 132. year wherein a Leap-day must be exempted for ever or else that one Leap-day be struck off every 100 year except in each 400 for ever there would need no more to have our Christian Festivals kept according to Primitive Observation For by supposing the Tropical year to be after Bullialdus 365 d. 5 h. 49′ 4″ 21‴ the Annual redundancy allowed it by Caesar will be 10′ 55″ 39‴ which compleateth one day in 132 years and but 2′ 25″ 48‴ over and three days in 400 years with 51′ over which make but one day in 11294 years very inconsiderable The Arabians Indians and Turks account by the Moon who make up their year of twelve Synodical Lunations and in thirty years wherein their Period is compleated they account 19. years of 354 days and 11 viz. the 2.5.8.10.13.16.19.21.24.27 and 30 th of 355. days so that by this account the whole Period consisteth of 10631. days And therefore one Lunation whereof there are 360. in the whole 30. years Period containeth 29 d. 12 h. 44′ The Romans also in times past had respect to the Moon in their description of the year according to Numa Pompilius his Ordination as Macrob. testifies Lib. 1 Saturn cap. 13. But they that regarded both the Luminaries were 1. The ancient Hebrews from their departure out of Egypt to the time of the Alexandrean Aera For in that Interval of time They instituted the Ceremonies of the Temple according to Gods Command and the Motion of the Moon And although they retained some things of a Pristine Form so that their year was as it were mixed being partly Solar running back in some sort to the Equinoxes and Solstices partly Lunar according to which their Feriae and Festivities were directed yet by little and little they anticipated the Equinoxes until at length Alexander the Greâ—t being dead they received the Graecian year as is plain by the Books of the Macchabees 2. The Atticks and Graecians for although they principally fitted their Descriptions of the year to the Course of the Moon and made up a year of 12 months yet observing that the Lunar year did not answer to the Suns Revolution they therefore intercalated a whole Month sometime in the 3 d. and sometime also in the 2 d. year according to the Calippick Period whereby they both accommodated their year to the Suns Motion which alone defineth a year and kept the Equinoxes and Solstices within their just limits 3. The Jews of these days who about the time of Constantine the Great framed a peculiar Calendar by the Industry of Rabbi Hillel wherein they brought the Moons Motion which defineth the Feasts to agree precisely enough with the Sun 's so that the Equinoxes and Solstices could not easily be removed from their places 4. They that follow the Roman Calendar do not altogether neglect the Lunar year but think likewise that the same ought diligently to be considered both because every of the months should have names given them fitted to their Qualities and Operations and also for that the Moveable Feasts especially Easter the foundation of the rest might more exactly be determined Moreover as no year hath any certain Natural beginning being every moment revolved in it self so Hypothetically or at the will and pleasure of Nations it beginneth and endeth at any place or time For Astronomers who in their Ephemerides begin the Tropical year from the Winter and there end it as the numbers expressing the Quantity of the True or apparent Tropical year do manifest are yet wont by a Common Custom to begin the Tropical year as well the Mean as True from the beginning of the Signs of the Zodiack or the Ingress of the Sun into Arieâ— because this point of the Equinox is very famous about which the Sun begins to put forth his vertues afresh openeth the Earth and quickeneth all things thereon growing But they begin the Sydereal year from the first Star in the Horns of the Ram for that Arieâ— is esteemed of as the chief of all the Asterisms The Egyptians although they begin the year from the Noon of the first day of the month Thoth yet that first day is affixed neither to certain Equinox nor Solstice but wandereth throughout all the Months of the year because they make no reckoning of the odd hours or Quadrant of a day whereby the year exceedeth 365 days by which means it anticipateth one day in every four years The like may be said of the Old Persian year which although they began it from the first day of the first month Pharavardin exactly agreeable with Choeac the Egyptian fourth month had like that of the Egyptians also wandered through all the days of the year unless a Correction had been made within 1460 Julian years which make 1461 Egyptian But a new corrected Persian year commencing from the Vernal Equinox and called Neuruz Esulthani or an Imperatorian Equinoctial year was introduced the use whereof is to this day retained in the most ample and potent Empire of the Persians The Romans by the appointment of Romulus began the year from March about the Vernal Equinox but afterward by the decree of Numa and the approbation of Julius Caesar they began it from the shortest day thereof or from the Winter Solstice And therefore Ovid Bruma anni prima est veterisque novissima solis Principium capiunt Phoebus annus idem But forasmuch as we see the Winter Solstice to outstrip the first day of the first month January by 9 days in the New Calendar and by
19 in the Old the Roman year at this time answers not to the beginning thereof as constituted by the Ancients The Muscovites and Russians begin the year from the first of September of the Julian year neither differ they almost any thing in the Names and Feasts of the Months from the Julian Account The Venetians begin their year from the first day of March perhaps because at that time the Foundation of their City might be laid There are those also that begin the year from the Birth of Christ Decemb. 25. as from which the Christian Epocha is deduced But we begin it vulgarly the first of January Howbeit the Church of England and the date of all writings and such like have their year to bâ—gin upon the 25. day of March. The Syrians or Syro-Graecians begin their year from the first day of Octob. of the Julian year unto which they apply the first month Tisrin prior and so begin their year after the Autumnal Equinox The Cophti Ethiopians and Alexandrians upon the 4. Calends of September viz. 29. Aug. of the Old year and so begin their year before the Autumnal Equinox The Atticks from the Summer Solstice or from the New Moon next to it The Hebrews have a double beginning of the year Ecclesiastical whereby they begin the year from the New-Moon next to the Vernal Equinox and Civil which begins it from the Autumnal New-Moon next to the Equinox Therefore in Politick affairs the Jewish year is deduced from the month Tisri but in Ecclesiastick from the month Nisan The Months by which we measure the year so called à metiendo vel mensurando are two-fold Astronomical and Political The Astronomical called also Natural are considered according to the Motion of the Sun and Moon and they be either Solar or Lunar The Solar are the spaces of time wherein the Sun runs through a twelfth part of the Zodiack But because the Suns Motion is two-fold Mean and True the Solar month is also two-fold one Mean the other True The Mean or Equal being the rule of all Solar Months is the space of time wherein the Sun by his Mean motion dispatcheth a twelfth part of the Zodiack and it is always 30d 10h 29′ 6″ 18‴ 50 ' ' ' ' But the True or apparent is the space of time in which the Sun by his True Motion runs through one Sign of the Zodiack and seeing this Motion is unequal it also constitutes unequal Months longer about his Apogaeum in Cancer where his Motion is slowest and shorter about his Perigaeum in Capricorn where his Motion is swiftest The Lunar Months referred to the Moons motion are three-fold Periodical Synodical and the Month of Illumination The Periodical is the space of time in which the Moon by her motion returneth to the same place of the Zodiack from whence she departed which according to her Mean motion is performed in 27 d. 7 h. 43′ 5″ fere but according to the true one hour at the most more or less The Synodical is the space of time from one Conjunction of the Luminaries till the next Conjunction following The Synodical Mean Month in which the Luminaries do meet together by mean or equal motions and which is the Rule and Measure of all Lunar Months is 29 d. 12 h. 44′ 3″ 10‴ 58 ' ' ' ' 10v. But the True whereby they are joyned by their true motions differeth sometime 14 hours from the Mean and so is either so much greater or lesser The Month of Illumination or Apparition is the space of time intercepted betwixt the first day whereon the Moon is seen after her Conjunction with the Sun and the last day of her being visible which the vulgar take to be 28 days nevertheless this is not always so for sometime she is seen sooner and sometime later and accordingly vanisheth 1. as her Latitude is Northward or Southward 2. or her Motion swifter or slower 3. or in Signs Ascending and Descending Right or Oblique Lastly the Political Months are Civil or usual whereby every Nation distributes the year as bâ—st pleaseth them But not only the Proportion but also the Denomination of the Months differ according to the variety of Nations and People For the Egyptian Months are these 1. Thoth 2. Phaophi 3. Athyr 4. Choeac 5. Tibi 6. Mechir 7. Phameneth 8. Pharmuthi 9. Pachoa 10. Payni 11. Epephi 12. Mesori all consisting of 30 days and to the end of their last month Mesori they superadded 5. days more making their whole year to consist of 365 days The Persians these 1. Pharawardin 2. Adarpabascht 3. Chardad 4. Thir. 5. Mardad 6. Sebeheriz 7. Mehar 8. Aban 9. Adar 10. Di. 11. Behemen 12. Asphander or Aspâ—irâ—â— all likewise consisting of 30 days to which are added in the Common year 5 Intercalar days and 6 in the Intercalar year which they call Musterka The Romans according to the ordination of Romulus who was Founder of their City and the first King had at first but only 10 Months in the year as Ovid testifieth in this Distich Tempora digereret cum conditor urbis in Anno Constituit menses quinque bis esse suo Wherein they included 304 days The first of which was March which Romulus so named à Marte from the God Mars or for that he would have the Roman Nation Martial and Warlike The second April ab aperiendo because then the pores of the Earth are opened The third May à Majoribus or à Majo i. e. Jupiter or à Madefactione because of the wet and moisture then caused at the rising of the Pleiades and Hyades The fourth June à Junioribus or from Juno the Wife of Jupiter The 5. Quintilis 6. Sextilis 7. September 8. October 9. November 10. December as is also witnessed by Ovid in these Verses Martis erat primus mensis Venerisque secundus Haec generis princeps ipsius ille pater Tertius à senibus Juvenum de nomine quartus Quae sequitur numero turba notata fuit Four of these 10. Months were called Pleni the other six Cavi The Pleni were March May Quintilis and October containing 31 days the other six Cavi April June Sextilis Septemb. Novemb. and Decem. consisting of 30 days But Aurelius Cassiodorus saith that this Calendar continued no longer than Romulus reigned being 38 years of which years if they followed our measure as very like they did there elapsed in that space 45 Romuleian years and 200 days ferè Yet others say this Calendar lasted but only 24. Romuleian years agreeable to 20 Julian ferè But Numa Pompilius the 2 d. King of the Romans perceiving his Predecessors year too concise thereto added 51 days which together with other six that he took from the 6 Caval Months of 30 days he disposed into two other New Months in such sort that he assigned to the first month Jan. 29 days and to Feb. 28. January is so called either à Januâ because an entrance is thereby made into
hath noted and supputated both Superterranean and Subterranean whilst scarce two notable Ones fell out in our Hemisphere Morâ—over he saith that in Lunar Eclipses we are dâ—prived of the Light and Heat of the Sun which at other times is reflected by the Moon wholly if the Eclipse be Total but in part if Partil and only so long as the Eclipse lasteth But we are not more deprived of the Influence and Elemental Efficacies of the Moon than if there had been no Eclipse at all because that between Her and Us there is nothing interposed which might dull or diminish her Elemental or Influential vertues And this is true at least in respect of Influence as well of Subterranean as Superterranean Lunar Eclipses Whence it is that the Sublunary Nature is more affected by Solar Eclipses than Lunar by reason of the thereon imminute Influence of the Sun towards us and in all Eclipses the Influx of the Moon exceeds the Influx of the Sun but most in Lunar Eclipses He condemns the Ancients who thought that in Eclipses the Action of the Deficient Luminary ceased upon these Inferiours because they supposed the Luminaries to Act by Light only and were therefore unhappily Opinionated that some one of the Lesser Planets might execute the Office of the Deficient Luminary Again he saith that the Earth and its Inhabitants are more strongly disposed by the Eclipses of the Luminaries than by the other Conjunctions or Oppositions of the Sun and Moon because virtus unita fortior est But in Eclipses the Rays of the Sun and Moon are united upon the same time or very near it which is drawn from them to the Earth And the Earth is found in a Solar Eclipse within a Cone which drawn from both the Luminaries as from its Base binds the Earth by its Ambite But in a Lunar Eclipse 't is found within a Column the extreams whereof are the Disci of the Sun and Moon Besides in every Eclipse both the Luminaries are under the Ecliptick where the Zodiacal vertue most flourisheth Whence it followeth That an Eclipse by how much greater and of longer continuance it is by so much greater are the effects it produceth Because that in great Eclipses the Central Raies of the Sun and Moon are more united in the same Line which passeth over the Earth and remain longer united Then he condemns Ptolemy and all other Astrologers even till these present days as much mistaken about Eclipses in these two following things First in limiting the places of the Earth to which the Effects of every Eclipse belong For that they would have them appropriated to those Regions and Provinces which are under the Sign wherein the Eclipse falls or others of the same Trigon according to that distribution of the Earth which Ptolemy hath allotted to the twelve Signs of the Zodiaque But forasmuch as that Distribution is but a meer Fiction as he hath endeavoured to prove Lib. 20. Sect. 1. Cap. 2. it is evident they have erred in limiting certain places of the Earth wherein the Effects of an Eclipse shall happen and the rather for that an Eclipse as every other Lunation is an Universal Cause universally active throughout the whole Circuit of the Earth but in every place thereof particularly Active according to the particular posture of the Eclipse and of the whole Heavens in respect of that place of the Earth wherein yet an Eclipse is frequently not allowed to have any Effect according to the Ancients because the place is not under the Sign wherein the defect happens or any of that Trigon which saith he is Hallucinatio intolerabilis ab Astrologicis principiis alienissima And to such as by way of Objection do offer Ptolemy's Doctrine viz. Pro locis particularibus urbibus advertere ad loca Luminarium Cardines figurae Coelestis sub qua urbes ipsae conditae sunt aut ad Medium Coeli in Genituris Principum qui ipsis urbibus dominantur Ac si haec familiaritatem seu convenientiam habeant cum locis Luminarium Cardinum in figura Deliquii Effectus ad ipsas urbes pertinere He thus Answers That the Coelestial Bodies have no Influence on things made by Art at least per se as he seems to have proved Lib. 20. Sect. 4. Cap. 8. and therefore overthrows the foundation of that Doctrine of Cities although it should be deduced from their Radical Figure whereof notwithstanding scarce any One remaineth Now as to what belongs to the Medium Coeli of Princes admitting the Familiarity aforesaid viz. That an Eclipse happens in the Medium Coeli of the Radical Figure of a Prince Or that in both Figures to wit that of the Geniture and the Eclipse the Medium Coeli should be one and the same that Eclipse indeed shall have signification upon the Actions and particular Fate of the Prince But as for what concerns the Citizens Earth Water and Air as Plagues Barrenness c. they shall not be thence foreseen unless peradventure by Accident so far forth as the Prince being actively or passively disposed to War by the similitude of the Figures Plagues and Barrenness c. may thence ensue But these things contribute nothing to the Constitution of the Air at least of Heat Cold Moisture and Drought 2. The second thing wherein he charges the Ancients to have Erred is in determining and limiting the Subject upon which an Eclipse shall especially operate by the Form and Nature of the Constellation wherein the Eclipse falls saying that if the Constellation be Human as Gemini Virgo Aquarius Men shall be affected and if Beastial as Aries Taurus Cancer Leo c. Beasts so and so called For that these names do not truly agree to the twelve Signs of the Zodiaque which ought properly to be called by the names of the Planets there predominating whose Natures they resemble Thus much Morinus whose new and uncouth Doctrine till either it be Refelled or Received by the Learned suspends my Judgments in this matter Of the Crises in Diseases to find out the same and how to judge thereof according to Durret CRisis is thus defined by Galen Est velox repentina morbi mutatio quâ Infirmus vel ad salutem vel ad mortem deducitur and indeed every swift and sudden Mutation whether it be in the Moon the Air or in a diseased Body is by him so called for that it seems to execute the Judicial Sentence be it for the Life or Death of the Patient It is so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in Latin is judico decerno or sententiam fero whence these Days are Metaphorically termed Critici Judiciales or Judiciarii Decernentes or Decretorii The cause thereof is two-fold Internal External The Internal is taken from its own proper Principle the which is also twofold For 1. Either Nature would expel some Noxious Humor 2. Or else the Humour it self not yet digested nor prepared to Excretion offending Nature either by
the quantity or quality thereof breaks out violently The which Hippocrates seemeth also to grant Lib. 4. de Morbo saying Conturbatur homo dumfebricitat cujus reisignum est quod horror alià s atque ailà s per corpus transcurrit The Extâ—â—nal cause is from some Alteration of the Spirit or Air namely when the Humours are changed from what they were by Nature as from a Cold to a Hot or from a Dry to a Moist condition contra For Hippocrates Aphoris 6. and elsewhere in his Book De Nat. Hum. tells us that Heat and Moisture in the Body move forward the Crises For saith He some Diseases proceed from naughty Dyet others from the Air we attract by means whereof we Live Wherefore Dyet as it breeds such and such Humors is the Internal and Air attracted the External cause of the Crisis That the Qualities are alter'd by the Influence of the Stars and especially the Luminaries is a thing not now to be doubted it being sufficiently apparent in the four seasons of the year how the Air with all Plants and Animals c. do diversly admit of Alteration and therefore the Watry Humors and the Spirit being Aerial are observed to operate more when they are excited than otherwise As when the Harp is touched it moves men to Dancing when the Trumpet Sounds to War like Employments Hence it appears that the universal Cause of all Crises is the Influence of the Heavens For the Coelestial Bodies by their Heat Light Motion and Configuration or Aspects to which St. Augustine adds Afflatum that is Inspiration or Instinction and St. Thomas Aptitudinis Efficaciam a virtual Aptitude or fitness do rule and govern not only the Four Elements but all Elementary Bodies and especially Man from the very first Moment of his Birth until the Ultimate Minute of his Death inciting him sometimes to Mirth another while to Sorrow now to be Sick anon Well again For as Aristotle saith Ex irroratione Coelorum felicia infaelicia germinantur in Terris c. But as touching the Efficient Radical cause thereof the Philosophers making a deeper Scrutiny thereinto do attribute it to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Unity as that which primarily and radically governs the whole Universe as the Agent and first Act from which by which and into which all things are at length Resolved Wherefore the Pythagoreans named the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Unity Apollo because that as from Unity all Numbers take their Original and Encrease So are all things not otherwise than from One alone Surely the same Act which is the Word works centrally and alone from the Center to the Circumference for God is contained in the Heavens as a Center is within its Circle but by a different manner according to the variety of the Subject whereon it appears The Form or Essence of the Agent not being changed which is always Permanent and the same Wherefore it is evident that there is but only One Agent in every Region of this World and but only One Act of his yet divers and sundry Effects according to the manifold condition of the Organical Subject the thing Receiving or Suffering Whereof more in Dr. Flud in Cris. Mysterio There are two Principal sorts of Crises the One as in Acute Diseases and Lunar The Other in Chronical Diseases and Solar Such Crises as take their Original from their proper Principle or from an Internal cause as do the Crises Synochorum depend upon the Motion of the Moon But such as Proceed from the Air or from an External Cause as do the Crises of all Pestilential Feavers are govern'd both of the Sun and Moon Of the Sun if respect be had of the year if of the Month only then of the Moon Wherefore Acute diseases follow the Motion of the Moon and her configurations or Aspects to the place she was in at the first beginning of the disease But here we must Note that in Acute Diseases the Aspects or Radiations of the Moon viz. her Quartiles and Oppositions are not to be counted as if they should begin from her Conjunction with the Sun but from the degree and minute she is in at the Beginning of the Disease until her return to the same Radical Point which is performed in 27 days 8 hours or thereabouts Of Acute Diseases some are Acuti simpliciter simply Acute some Acuti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Decidentia or from Mutation and Degeneration some Peracuti very Sharp others Perperacuti Exceedingly Sharp Acuti simpliciter are they which from the 8. to the 10 11 14 20 and 21 day Run to the very height some whereof are called Menstrui because absolved within the space of a Lunar Month. Acuti ex decidentiâ from Diminishing or Degeneration are such as are judged imperfectly For sometimes they wax worse in respect of the Symptoms and are sometimes Remitted according as the Moon meets with the Good and Evil Aspects of the Good or Bad Planets And oftentimes they Degenerate from being Acute and become Chronical As when a Pleurisie turns into an Empiema or an Ulcer in the Breast So when a Quotidian Feaver becomes a Hectick or from an Intermittent degenerates into a Quotidian Contrà And these Diseases are judged within 40 Days Peracuti are such as are judged the 5 6 7 and 8 days in which number are the Febres causones Synochae Cholera Angina Peripneumonia Lethargus and the like Perperacuti be such as are absolved within the Space of 3 days or 4 at the utmost and in that time terminated either with Recovery or Death of which sorts are all Pestilential Feavers the Apoplexy Pleurisie Phrensie c. Chronical Diseases follow the Motion of the Sun Acquiring a Crisis after the 40 th day and Judgment when the Sun attains to the Quadrates as is Evident in Hectiques Dropsies and Quaternaries When he comes to the Sextiles and Trines there are only some Indicative Motions made of such Effects as follow in the Opposition Nevertheless they are oftentimes Anticipated or Protracted according as the Planets he meets with help or hinder and for the better if by Nature those Planets be Benevolent if Malevolent for the worse And the like we are subject to in the whole course of our Lives Nam Morbus est Modus vitae Partialis as Campanella Lib. 4. Medicinal most ingeniously observes Moreover the Crises are thus generally distinguished viz. Salvae Dubiae seu suspiciosae Judicatae seu periditatae non Judicatae Crisis Salva or safe is that which happens without any great and Pernicious Accidents Crisis Dubia doubtful or Suspicious which appears with great and Pernicious Accidents and is the most dangerous Crisis Judicata or Hazarded is when on the 4 th day the Signs of Concoction do appear and therefore pâ—aesage the Disease to be judged on the Seventh day Crisis non judicata or not Judged is when the Crisis is absolved the Seventh day yet was not to be Judged the Fourth
day by any sign of Concoction Hence the days themselves are divided into Three Classâ—s For 1. Some are called Critical nomine Generico 2. Oâ—hers Judicative on which Sentence is Pronounced 3. Oâ—thers Intercident the which are Posited between the judicative and Critical whereon the Diseases is Remitted Many other Distinctions there are amongst Physicians not so proper for this Place For here I intend not to enumerate all belonging to Physick but such only as concern Astrology Nor shall I need to say any thing of the Sympathy and Antipathy Power and Efficacy of the Stars my room being so Narrow and the same amply handled in several Learned Authors Only I think it requisite before I come to the manner of Acquiring the Critical and Judicative Days to say something concerning the Terminus à quo or the Point of time from whence they take their Original Seeing therefore that by these Critical and Decretory days some Notable Alteration would be foreseen tending either to the Health or Death of the Patient 't is fit we begin our Account from the first Notable Point of the Diseases Invasion For to Assign a beginning to the Disease is a thing very hard to be done as Galen himself confesseth Lib. 1. Cap. 6. Exactè primum Principium ferè est insensibile The time when the Sick-party takes his Bed is the beginning of his Decumbiture but not the beginning of the Disease For a Man that is strong and robust endures a Disease more easily and takes not his Bed so soon as a Man that is tender weak or fearful of Mind who suspecting himself upon every Idle Pinch gets forthwith to Bed Nevertheless in many Diseases as the Vertigo Epilepsie Paralysis Apoplexy Haemorrhagia Plurisie and the like it is easie to find out the precise Beginning or Hour the Disease Invadeth And the Learned in Astrology do believe and affirm that the Moment of time to be taken for the beginning of the Disease is the very Instant in which a Man shall perceive any manifest Hurt or Malady in his Body as when he begins to lie down and be Sick of a Feaver but not when the Head akes or that he suffers any other trivial Symptom Because these are not Feavers but rather Febrium Nuntii the Messengers of Feavers Thus Hippocrates observed his Indications from the day a Man Sickned of a Feaver but not from the day whereon he perceived a Heaviness of the Body only or was troubled with the Head-Ach For by how much sharper and more violent the Feaver is by so much is it the more Manifest to sense and impossible the first Assault or Invasion thereof should be hid from the Patient It now follows that I shew the manner of numbering and determining these Critical days by the Motion of the Moon because the Radix and Fountain of this Doctrine is of all Astrologers and by Hippocrates and Galen themselves said to consist in her Efficacy and in the Motion and Position of the Parts of the Zodiaque And first I will shew you the manner of finding out the Critical and Indicative days by an Octogonal or Figure of 8 sides according to the Opinion of Hippocrates and Galen the construction whereof follows First find the Place of the Moon to the beginning of the Patient's Decumbiture as before you were taught Next let a Circle be described and divided into 8. equal parts representing the Zodiaque wherein the Moon is moved And let the Degree and Minute the Moon is in at the Hour of the Patients Decumbiture be Posited in the first division or Angle of the Figure which shall be accounted as the Ascendant or First-House Thirdly Let 45 degrees be added thereunto aâ— to the Radical place of the Moon for so many degrees are the Angles of this Octogonal Figure distant one from another and by this means you have the Moons Place in the Second Angle called the First Indicative Unto which if you add 45 degrees more it gives you the Place of the Moon in the Third Angle in which the First Crisis is Celebrated being always elongated from the Radical Point by the space of 90 degrees After this Add 45 degrees to the place of the Moon in the Third Angle and the Aggregate givâ—s you the Place of the Moon in the Fourth Angle wherein is made the Second Indicative and if thereunto you again add 45 degrees they make 180 degrees the direct point of Opposition And so by a continued Addition of 45 degrees until she return to the Radical Point of the Decumbiture By which means there will be Four principal Angles in which the Crises are observed and 4 Less principâ—l wherein the Days-Indicative are Demonstrated Lastly let the Planets be inserted in their respective Places of the Figure thus Delineated to the time of the Patients Decumbiture Now seeing it is manifest by what hath been said that the Critical days are made in such time as the Moon counting from the time of the Decumbiture or the first Paroxism of the Disease shall have run through one fourth part of the Zodiaque or 90 degrees wherein she produced the first Crisis or Alteration in the Disease which commonly happens on the Seventh day yet we must note that it may fall out on the Sixth if the Moon be swift in Motion or if slow on the Eighth day And because this Aspect is Evil Naturally by reason of the Signs Disconveniency in Qualities Passive or Active therefore a War commences between the Disease and Nature whence it is deservedly call'd Criticus Primus the first Critical Day whereon if it happen that the Moon be afflicted by Saturn or Mars or the Lord of the Eighth this Crisis the Disease growing worse and worse tends unto Death But if the Disease end not this Critical day you must wait till she comes to her Opposite Point which fâ—lls out commonly the Fourteenth day and sometimes the Thirteenth or Fifteenth according as the Moon is Swift or Slow in Motion For then the Second Crisis is to be looked for Whereon if yet the Disease be not Loosn'd then we must attend the Mâ—ons access to her other Quadrate in which shall be the Third Crisis viz. the 20 or 21 day according to the Moon 's Swift or Slow Motion And if the Diseâ—se continue still we must mark when the Moon returns to her Radical Place for then the Lunar Month is finished whose Period is 27 days and 8 hours and the Fourth and Last Crisis accomplished in Acuâ—e Diseasâ—s Wherefore if the Disease shall persevere beyond the Lunar Month we must thenceforward have regard to the Motion of the Sun and the râ—st of thâ— Planets For then the Acute degenerates into a Câ—ronical or long continued Disease as Quartan Feavers and the like Aâ— for the Second species of the Critical Points called Indicative they are such as fall exactly in the Middle of every Qâ—adrature For when the Moon â—ttains the half of her Quadrate that is 45 degrees of the
Radical Place of the Moon in the third Indicative Jupiter benignly Irradiating the Moon by a Trine about the same time denounced a propitious Crisâ—s to â—nsue The Twenty-third day about Nine a Clock in the Evening the Moon perambulating 10 degrees 19 min. of â™ wherein fell the second Critical day applyed to the Trine of Venus At which time she Produced a wholsome and propitious Crisis For on this very day the Feaver began to leave him and soon after he râ—covered his Health Quod sanè miram rerum Medicarum cum coelo Harmoniam consensum arguit Now that the Cause of this Crisis arising from the Stars may yet more plainly appear I will hereunto add a Coelestial Figure erected after the Rational manner with a Judgment Astrological thereupon Judicium Astrologicum ex Figurâ Decubitus Rationali Figura Decubitus Rationalis Ad Annum 1641. Mens Januarii Die Hor. Min. 2. 8. 00. Lat. 480 50′ T. Ap. ☽ ad âš¹ ♂ ☌ ♀ The Principal significators of this Figure are 1. The Ascendant and 2. Mercury Lord thereof in Capricorn a movable Sign Retrograd and Combust in the Fifth House 3. The Sixth House and 4. the Lord thereof in Aquarius a Fixed Sign strong and powerful in his own House the Moon in the Cusp of the Sixth House in Aquarius The Sun in the Fifth afflicted at the beginning of the Disease by a Quadrate of Mars in Aries a Fiery Sign and Lord of the Eighth House Whence it appears that the Disease proceeded from Choller ingendred of a Churlish Melancholy Humor according to the Aphorisme Sol à Marte ad Initium Morbi quovis modo infortunatus aegritudo erit Cholerica ex humore bilioso orta Furthermore Jupiter in a movable Sign in the Fifth House which rules the Stomach Liver and the Sides c. combust and wounded by the Quartile of Mars brought the Pleurisie upon him and because Mercury Afflicted by the Malevolent Planets is hereby rendered Malevolent he gave him the Dry-Cough Moreover the Moon in Aquarius applying to Saturn argues that the Cause of the Disease proceeded from the Weariness of a Journey according to the Doctrine of Hermes and Hippocrates Now for determining the length or shortness of the Disease consider these Aphorisms Sexta Domus in Signo Fixo Morbi Longitudinem pollicetur Item Saturnus existens Dominus sextae in Signo Fixo longum praesagit morbum Rursum Saturnus Dominus Sextae Domino Ascendentis fortior Morbi Incrementum denotat Postremò Luna Domino Sextae applicans Incrementum Morbi portendir Seeing therefore that Mars in a fiery Sign afflicts both the Luminaries namely the Sun by a Quadrate and the Moon by a long Sextile which is equivalent to a Quadrate I gather that the Principal Authors of this Disease are Saturn and Mars which together excited a very long Burning Feaver Then Mercury the dry Cough and at last Jupiter the Plurisie the which together with the Cough sooner ended than the Feaver for that Mercury and Jupiter were both constituted in a movable Sign Of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms c. IT will not be I hope ungrateful to the Ingenious if I recollect and commend unto their and my own contemplation the Causes of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms and Commonwealths and the rather because as I suppose Time never produced an Age so full of Prodigies nor a Generation of Men so inclin'd to Novelty as now the present wherein every day presents a New Inquiry every Month a fresh Vicissitude The Politiques distinguish the Causes of all Mutations into Two sorts First and Second The First cause is God the Creator and Governour of all things For notwithstanding the Actions of all Individual Human Creatures be in a Human Power yet the Constitutions Governments and Conservations of Human Communions and Societies or Republiques are not so in the Power of Men but depend wholly upon the First and Supreme Cause and the disposition thereof And for as much as God performs his greatest works in the world by Angels it is not impossible or strange if I say and aver that every Empire Kingdom and Republique hath some certain Angel and Genius peculiarly appropriated thereunto as a Governour ordained by God For this is the constant opinion of the Jews who believe that every Person and Place hath a certain Guardian Angel set over it nor do a few Doctors of the Catholick Church believe otherwise whilst in Dan. 10 11. there is mention made of an Angel Governour of Persia and Grece and that the Apostle Ephes. 3. expresly constitutes a certain Order of Angels which he calls Potestates Rulers or Potentates or as our English Translation hath it Principalities and Powers God hath set certain Intervals and Periods of times to all Empires c. amongst which Periods the 500. and 700. years are accounted most Fatal as you may see in Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. but especially in Richterus Ax. 1.2 seq And the natural reason hereof is for that in this space of time there clapseth the sixth Generation of Men which abateth of and more and more declineth from the simplicity strength and fortitude of those Men who at first obtained and preserved Empires by such vertues For like as the Bodies of Men became weak and feeble in the fourth and fifth Generation even so also decreaseth the strength and fortitude whereby Kingdoms are acquired preserved and propagated Besides it hath been observed that at the end of every 30 th year there usually falls out some one or other Mutation in Empires c. because that after so many years such men as formerly had the Government of Affairs and things therein do for the most part leave their Station and that from thenceforth New Ones succeed them who in the space of Thirty years more grow up and introduce new Customs and Opinions in the Commonwealth as you may read in Richterus Axiom 9. Moreover it is certain that as God hath appointed fatal Bounds and Limits of time to all Empires c. so hath he the like Bounds and Limits to all other particular places and when any change of Empires c. is imminent he commonly raiseth up some great Heroes whom he useth as Organs to punish or amend them yet first revealeth such future changes by certain Signs and Prodigies Vid. Bodin Lib. 4. Cap. 2. Richt Axiom 19. And thus much of the first cause of the Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Republiques c. The Second Cause is either Natural or Moral The Natural cause is either Superior or Inferior The Superior Natural Cause is the Motion and Influence of the Planets and Stars upon these Inferiours touching which the Ingenious Keckerman Lib. 1. Cap. 26. delivers this Canon Coelum Efficacissimè agit in Corpus humanum sibi maximè cognatum atque adeo etiam in corpus tum ipsius Principis tum Subditorum ita nempe ut in corporibus mutat temperamenta
Thousand and seven hundred German Miles Longomontanus and Cysatus found the true Diameter of the Head of the Comet in 1618. One hundred and seventy five German Miles and in proportion to the Diameter of the Earth as 377. to 3600. the length of the Tail continually variable and very uncertain excepting only the 29 of December on which day it was observed to be 445 Semi-diameters of the Earth which answers to three hundred eighty two thousand and seven hundred German Miles 9. The Situation of the Tail in respect of the Sun Venus or Mercury and of the Quarter of Heaven towards which it seems to incline PEtrus Apianus first Observed that Comets projected their Tails to the adverse part from the Sun and to him Cornelius Gemma Cardanus Maestlin Cysatus Blananus Longomontanus and Tycho subscribed The last of whom speaking of the Comet in 1590. hath these words Ex iis vero quas indicavimus caudae porrectionibus evidenter colligitur ubique à sole fuisse ad amussim versam si modo solis positus cum capite Cometae locis quos iisdem temporibus obtinuerunt in vicem conferantur viz. By these Porrections or stretchings out of the Tail saith he before expressed it is evidently gathered that the same have been every where exactly averse from the Sun if so be the Positions of the Sun and the places of the Comet 's Head which at those times they possessed be compared together Nevertheless Tycho acknowledges that the Tail of the Comet in 1577. was directly opposed to Venus not the Sun which he rather attributes to some secret Optical Cause than he would admit Venus could cast out such strong Rays But whether for some hidden Optical Reason as Tycho thinks or because the Head of the Comet is not exactly Sphaerical as Cabaeus supposes certain it is that the Tail sometimes seems to recede a little from the place opposite to the Sun for so Kepler himself acknowledges pag. 54. Solemne hoc est Cometis quod caudae ipsorum nonnihil ab opposito Solis deflectant This is ordinary saith he with Comets that their Tails do somewhat incline from the places opposite to the Sun The like may be said of the Comet in 1618. the Tail whereof Kepler the 9 th of December found to be rather opposed to Mercury than the Sun Johannes Hommelius likewise Observed that the Tail of the Comet in 1556. did not exactly oppose the Sun so long as it was distant from him less than a Quadrant or 90 degrees but that afterwards it tended directly to the Quarter opposite to the Sun By all which it appears that this deflection from the opposite place of the Sun arises per accidens from the Position of the Sun the Comet and Observer other secret Causes perhaps concurring in the matter and shape of the Head or from the transverse distance and motion thereof But doubtless of it self it always respects the Region opposite to the Sun Whence it is as before I noted that Matutine and Oriental Comets are bearded their Rays being projected Westward but the Vespertine and Occidental Tailed their Rays being averse from the West Eastward 10. The Quarter of Heaven in which they arise to which they are carried and where extinct AS to this we read of none that were moved by a direct Tract from any one Quarter of Heaven to another opposite thereunto but all obliquely unless it was that observed by Haly Anno 1200. because he saith the same was carried by the motion of the Primum Mobile from the East Westward Those of the Years 392. 405. 1471. 1475. 1532. 1533. 1539. 1556. and 1618. were moved from the East Westward but all of them obliquely inclining Northward So on the contrary Those that move from the West Eastward incline either Southward or Northward As that great Comet of the Year 373. before Christ seen and described of Aristotle which begun in the West Aequinoctial point and came thence to Orion's Girdle where it extinguished In like manner the Comet in September 1607. began to shew it self betwixt the North and West Aestival point having almost 50 degrees of Northern declination and by a continual Motion according to the Order of the Signs the 10 th of October it was got beyond the Aequator ad Serpentarii Tibiam praecedentem where it vanished having twelve degrees and upwards of South declination Others have first appeared in the North and been moved thence Eastward as that Anno 54. in Nero's time others towards the South as those of the Years 1313. and 1551. Others have at first appeared in the North as that at the Death of Julius Caesar in the 44 Year preceding Christ with many more 11. Their Motion according to the Succession of the Signs or contrary and of the Motion of the Primum Mobile SOme Comets have moved according to the Succession of the Signs as those of the Years 1592. and 1607. Some contrary as they of the Years 1556. and 1618. with many others Some that were at first Retrograde have become direct as that in 1556. and some that were at first Direct have become Retrograde or Stationary as were those of the Years 1569. and 1582. That they have a Diurnal Motion or a Motion agreeing to that of the Primum Mobile is evident because that the most part of such as appeared in the Morning have return'd in the dawning of the day or before but were not to be seâ—n at Sun-set or Twilight in the same place where they were in the Morning as they should have been if they had remained in the same place or had moved only by their own Motion In like manner the greatâ—st part of those that are seen in the Evening do so appear after Sun-sâ—t above the West part of the Horizon that notwithstanding their Motion according to the Succession of Signs some set in the West before Midnight others at least before the Sun rise next Morning yet among these some rise in the Evening and set in the Morning as the Comet 119. Some are visible all the Night long or set not at all as did those included within the Circle of â—hose Stars that never sâ—t viz. the Comets of the Years 1513. 1533. and 1556. and that in 1618. from the 20 of December But whether the Comet that hung over Rome Anno 13. before Christ and that other of the 70 Year after Christ which appeared a whole Year over the City Jerusalem had any common or proper Motion will not easily be determined 12. The Arch or Way of Comets and the Quantity thereof AS touching the Arch or way of Comets there hath been great Controversie whether all or the most of Comets are moved by a right Line as Kepler Galilaeus and some others thought or by a Circle as the most suppose and if by a crooked Line whether in the Plane of a great Circle of a Sphere as Regiomontanus Tycho Longomontanus and many Modern Astronomers have demonstrated This apparent Arch hath been
denuncianda mitti Principumque exitus calamitates confarcinare That a Comet is not a Physical cause of Calamities but rather a Sign at the pleasure of God using the Comet although by a Natural Effect to terrifie and amend Mortals like as he uses the Rain-bow to signifie the Covenant made betwixt him and Mankind And although Comets may be Fortunate or seem so unto some yet that they are not sent for that End but to denounce more sorrowful things and to heap up the Death and Calamities of Princes The like saith Franciscus Resta but the narrow room I am tyed to will not admit of all their Testimonies in the Original especially Cabaeus admits some Comets to be unfortunate others fortunate both per se and to all and also per accidens Because there is never any thing so pernicious to one but it profits another and if one lose an Empire another gets it and subscribeth to Cardan That Elementary Comets are generated of the great plenty of Sulphurous Spirits which cause or signifie Drought â—nd Distempers of the Air whereby the tenderest and weakest Bodies and those that be most delicately nurâ—ur'd and such as be subject to Cares and Watchings are soonest hurt and offended In which number are all Princes so likewise tender Bodies and delicate Females but that the Death of such is not so much taken notice of as Princes Of Astronomers let Tycho have Audience first He Progym Tom. 1. Ã pag. 800. condemns all such who because of the Errors of some Astrologers and the weakness of Humane Understanding in attaining the certain Presages of these Portents deprive them of all Energy and vertue of signifying as if God and Nature should dally with these appearances and would have nothing to be thereby fore-told the World Longomontanus his Scholar Append. ad Astr. Dan. cap. 7. sharply reprehends Thomas Erastus and others who allow of some Vertue to Ordinary Stars yet indulge no Power or Efficacy to Comets Because saith he God and Nature have made nothing in vain but ordain'd the Evils themselves signified by Comets to a good End That is to say Dearth of Corn and Barrenness that the Earth as it were by lying fallow might in the interim be fitted and prepared to a plenty of all Fruits So likewise Tempests that the Air thereby being tossed and tumbled might be purged from Dregs Diseases and Wars that wicked and ungodly Men being thereby routed out the World might be renewed according to these Verses of Palingelius Tales ergo homines imo umbras tempore certo Mittit in arma Deus crudeli morte necandos Sic genus humanum purgat multosque per annos Qui remanent vivunt hilares hac parte Remora Donec succrescunt iterum mala gramine rursus Evellendo acri bello gladioque secanda Tunc iterum immundas dispuniat Jupiter Ollas Tunc iterum immissis furtis purgamina verrit For although these new Phaenomena be lock'd up in the Cabinet of Nature in respect of the Matter and Efficient Cause thereof yet as to the end they were pre-ordained of God to signifie the Eversions and Changes of Publick things and to pull down the too much Security of Men. Hitherto Longomontanus Kepler Physiolog Comet saith that Comets were made to the End the Aethereal Region might not be more void of Monsters than the Ocean is of Whales and other grand thieving Fishes and that a gross fatness being gathered together as Excrements into an Aposthume the Coelestial Air might thereby be purged lest the Sun should be obscured as partly he was in the Year 1547. from the 24. to the 28. of April or for a whole Year together as in that wherein Julius Caesar was slain when being made weak by a Murrey or Bloody colour he cast but a dim and disdainful Light And lib. 3. he proceeds to the significations of the Comet in 1607. unto which he attributes Drought Scarcity of Corn and many other Evils adding withal that the wisest of Historians and Philosophers testifie That Infelicities and Miseries have always succeeded Comets not only by the Death of Princes and changes thence ensuing but by a thousand other ways And sums up the Troubles and Calamities which followed the Comet in 1531. in Helvetia Saxony and the Baltique Sea and that of the Year 1532. in Westphalia and Holland That of 1538. in England That of 1539. in Misnia Thuringia Marchia Brudenburgica and Brunswick That of 1558. again in England France and Holland So likewise that of the Year 1569. in Saxony and those in 1577. and 1580. in several places of Germany c. Which done he declares the Events of the Comet in 1607. and his Judgment of those in 1618. and 1619. unto which I refer the Reader I have been the larger in these Testimonies of Philosophers Poets Fathers Meteorologists and Astronomers to the end all rational and indifferent Men may see and judge what an awful regard hath ever been had of Comets and other the like Prodigious Meteors amongst the Learned and how far differing from the too prejudicate and uncharitable Censures of some silly Sciolists of this Age who judge of all things but according to the shallow Current of their own Fancies or to cherish the predominant Humour of these giddy times As for Astrologers I shall not produce them as Witnesses but Judges to decide the Portents of the aforesaid new Comet in December 1652. the Occasion of this Discourse and which now I come to handle Astrologically But first I will give you the Place and Motion thereof Of the Comet 1652. UPon Wednesday the Eighth day of December 1652. Stilo veteri about Nine a Clock at Night I first beheld this Comet below the hinder-most Star in the Constellation of the Hare but some few degrees to the East thereof It was likewise seen the same Evening by Mr. Childrey of Feversham in Kent as I have it from a good hand but neither he nor my self could as then perceive any Tail visible what it had before the Moon was up I know not I have heard of some who say they saw it the sixth or seventh day And 't is very probable the first appearance thereof might be about the Full Moon Dec. 5. or rather as I suppose upon the Quartile of Jupiter and Mars Celebrated the seventh day of December whereof more hereafter The 9 th day betwixt 7 and 8 in the Evening I saw it the second time under the Foot of Orion not far from the Hares Eye and then there appeared a dim Tail directly opposed the Sun but after the Moon rose the Tail was hardly visible This Evening also it was observed by the Astronomical Reader of Gresham Colledge as I am inform'd and afterwards so often as the Air would permit him till it vanished It is my unhappiness not to be acquainted with the Gentleman Yet by the means of a Noble Friend I obtained the Longitude and Latitude thereof as he had found the same by Instrument
by the Sign of the Logger-head in the Front of it upon his judgmentâ— of the Year at the Vernal Ingress where he saith that Jupiter is in Ascendente hora revolutionis and accordingly draws fine Peaceable judgment from Jupiter being in the Ascendant when notwithstanding Jupiter is above 30 deg or a whole sign distant from thence and so in the 11 House as you may see in Wil. Lilly's Figura mundi in his Anglicus Erected for the same time and place by which the Reader may perceive what certainty can be in this dull Fellows Prognosticks who is thus palpably and intolerably erroneous as to miss no less than a whole Sign in the place of one Planet And thus have I diligently and carefully examined Wil. Lilly's Discourse wherein I find him very foolishly rash and even brim-full of Malice and Ignorance and do now assuredly know him unworthy the name of an Artist I could have taken notice of a great many more Errors c. and particularly in his Translation of those first 50 Aphorisms of Ptolomy's Centiloqui wherein he shews himself Ignorant in the Original so hath he infected some of them with his own foolish Commentaries and amongst the rest a ridiculous story of a Suit of Clothes that he tore many holes in in going a Nutting when the Moon was ill dignified in Leo which Suit he says did never do him any service after Whereby you see that Lilly is as bad a Taylor as he is an Astronomer that could mend his own Clothes no better the truth is he was not born to be a Workman But I shall reserve my other more serious Observations till I hear further from him which if ever I do I promiâ—e to lash him without Mercy in the interim I should advise such Gentlemen as desire to be Instructed in this kind oâ— Learning to shake off these Ignorant Fellows and apply themselves to Doctor Nicholas Fisk Doctor Scâ—â—borough Mr. Jonas Moor or Mr. Holland â—ho are all of them singular Artists and Men of Honeâ—t and clear intentions Multiplicatio Effectus Syderum Secreta HE that will know Great and Noble things must commit three Rules to Memory 1. The Rarity and Time of the Planetary Conjunctions and multiply one into the other if it be exquisite or perfect if not into the part thereof in respect of Days and the Factus shall be the number of the Days of that Effect For Example Suppose a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in some point of the Zodiack and besidâ—s that of the Moon ad unguem The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is in Twenty Years and the Recourse of the Moon in Twenty seven Days and eight Hours Then Multiply Twenty seven and one third part of a Day by Twenty and they make Five hundred forty six Years and two thirds of a Year for the time of the Effect of that Conjunction But yet it may ere that be obstructed by another Conjunction especially after one half of the time be expired for the Effect will be Naturally increased for the space of Two hundred seventy three Years and one third part of a Year And this when the Conjunction of all the Three shall be in one Point But admit the Moon should then be distant Thirty Minutes we will take the Semi-diameters of the Moon and therewith compare the Proportion of her distance in such sort as that we allow thereunto one half of the time because her Semi-diameter is one half of her distance And so if the Moon shall be distant one whole degree we must give only a Fourth part Multiplying six Days and twenty Hours into twenty Years and the time of the Effect shall be One hundred thirty six Years The like must be done until the Moon shall be further distant than the quantity of her Beams which is twelve degrees and a half For although this Proportion be not altogether perfect yet it is sensible and near to the truth The Magnitude of Sun is 16 m. Moon 17. Jup. Venus 5. almost to 6 m. Sat. Mars 4. Mercury 2. 2. That the Effects be multiplyed in Strength like the Rarity according to an exquisite Application As if Saturn have Four Vertues Jupiter Five Mars Three and are all conjoyned in one Point then let us multiply Three Four and Five together and the Effect shall be Sixty in Strength viz. twelve times so much to the Effect of Jupiter alone fifteen times so much to Saturn and twenty times so much to Mars But if Mars shall be distant one degree at a time when Saturn and Jupiter are in Conjunction we must multiply three Minutes of the Semi-diameter of Mars into three the Number of his Strength and the Factus is Nine Then Divide the Number by Sixty the number of Minutes in the distance of Mars from Jupiter and Saturn and the Quotient is three twentieth parts which we multiply into Twenty the Number of the strength of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and the result is Three whiâ—h add to Twâ—nty and the strength of that Conjunction shall be Twenty three that is almost eight times so much as the strength of Mars six times so much as the strength of Saturn and five times so much as the strength of Jupiter And the like of the rest The strength of every Planet may be known by the Magnitude thereof and the slowness of its Motion for by how much greater the Planets be and by how much slower they are in Motion by so much stronger are they in General Causes but not so in Particular For Example I would know what Power Saturn hath in respect of the Moon as to length or continuance of their Effects I see that Saturn's Revolution is performed in Twenty nine Years and Three hundred fifty eight Days wherein are 10750 Days This I multiply into the Square of his Semi-diameter and they make 96750 Days In like manner I multiply the Circuit of the Moon into the Squared Minutes of her Semi-diameter and the Factus is 7899 Days and one eighth part of a Day I Divide the one by the other and the Quotient is Twelve And so much is the proportion of Saturn's strength to the strength of the Moon The same I say of Conjunctions in respect of the length or Continuance of their Effects And it may be demonstrated in one word because the Effects continue until the Return as the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter till another Conjunction and the Ingress of Saturn into the first point of Aries untill his next entrance into the same Point For Nihil datur inane in Natura And therefore if the Effects should not continue until the Return it were a Mathematical Circuit not a Natural a Cause without an Effect yea a kind of Impotency Wherefore Proportio Circuitus ad Circuitum ut temporis ad tempus quod erat probandum Nevertheless every one of these Circuits is reduced to the half thereof because that from the Opposition the force of the
Conjunction is finished and the Opposition regarded only These things understood it is manifest that in either Rule what is said of two Planets and three holds also in four and five and six As if Saturn Jupiter Mars and the Moon shall be joyned ad unguem or within some degrees you must multiply their Times and Vertues as well in respect of the Magnitude of the Effects as the Magnitude of Time Observing the first Rule in the Times the Second in their Vertues 1. Hence it is concluded that the most powerful Conjunction and the most durable is that of the Head of Aries of the Eighth Sphere with the Head of Aries of the Ninth Sphere because it is but once in Thirty six Thousand Years And in this Conjunction it is manifest that all the Signs of the Eighth Sphere do agree to those of the Ninth and that all the Stars of the Eighth Sphere contribute their Powers So likewise all the Planets because their Absides are moved by the Motion of the Eighth Sphere and for that the Ecliptique-lines are joyned to one another unto which the Planets have a Respect both in regard of the Sun's Motion and the Motion of Latitude also 2. The Second is the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the Sign of Aries that is the Circuit from Aries to Aries which is but once in Seven hundred ninety five Years regard being had to the change of the Trigon 3. The change of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter from one Trigon to another which happens in One hundred ninety nine Years and proceeds according to the Succession of Signs viz. from the first Trigon of Aries into the second Trigon of Taurus thence into the Trigon of Gemini and then into that of Cancer after which it returns to the first Trigon 4. The Return of Saturn to the beginning of Aries in the space of Thirty Years 5. The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter once in every Twenty Years 6. The Return of Jupiter to the beginning of Aries perfected at the end of Twelve Years 7. The Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in Twenty seven Months 8. The Conjunction of the Sun and Mars in Twenty six Months 9. The Conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Twenty five Months 10. The Circuit of Mars in Twenty three Months 11. The Conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter every Fourteen Months 12. The Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn every Thirteen Months 13. The Circuit of the Sun in Twelve Months And what is said of the Sun as to his own Circuit and his Conjunction with the Superiour Planets must be understood also of Venus and Mercury In like manner what shall be said touching the Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun must be understood also of the Conjunction of the Moon with Venus and Mercury 14. The Conjunction of Venus with the Sun in Ten Months or Two hundred ninety two Days 15. The Conjunction of Mercury with the Sun in two Months or in Fifty and eight Days 16. The Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun in twenty nine Days and ten Hours a Lunar Month. 17. The Revolution of the Moon in twenty seven Days and eight Hours 18. The Return of any Planet or Fixed Star or Place of Conjunction to the Ascendant or Circle of the Mid-heaven which hath as much force as the Ingress of the same Star into the first Point of Aries And this is demonstrable by the third Rule which is this Every Star that hath much Power per se as is the Rarity of the Event for this was but even now demonstrated and this Rarity in gradu is always a Three hundred and sixtieth part Therefore if the Star be the same and Rarity the same it is as much to have that Star in the degree of the Ascendant which happens every day and is called the Diurne Circuit as that the same Star should enter the first Point of Aries Now I will shew that Rarity is the same For like as every day that Degree continues but only four Minutes of time in the Ascendant So Saturn remains the space of a Month ferè in the first degree of Aries And thus notwithstanding the Ingress of Saturn into Aries can be but once in Thirty Years and Saturn in the Ascendant but once every day yet because he remains in the Ascendant but for a Moment viz. Four Minutes of an Hour which are the three hundred and sixtieth part of a Day and the whole Circuit and in the first degree of Aries the space of a Month which is also the three hundred and sixtieth part of Thirty Years Circuit It is evident that it is as Rare to have Saturn in the degree of the Ascâ—ndant as in the fâ—rst degree of Aries The same may be demonstrated concerning the Moon and the Great Conjunctions of the Hâ—ad of Aries of the Eighth Sphâ—â—e with the Head of Aâ—iâ—s of the Ninth For although it happen but once in Thirty six thousand Years yet because the Head of Aries of the Eighth Sphere continues in the first degree of Aries in the Ninth and every Fixed Star of the Eighth in one degree of the Ninth Sphere the space of a Hundred Years 't is plain that it is as Rare to have the Head of Aries in the Ascendant whether of the Eighth or Ninth Sphere as that any one is Born at the time of that Conjunction viz. Of the Head of the Eighth Sphere with the Head of the Ninth in the same Degree And so of the rest wherein a regard must be had of the Circuit because one Term remaineth Fixed The like I prove of Those in which the Terms are both moveable and as is manifest for Example in the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter which although it falls out but once in Twenty Years yet remain joyned for the space of the 360 th part of the Circuit that is to say for more than Twenty Days the like of all others And the Reason is the same concerning the Circuit and Corporal Conjunction in respect of one of those Stars in the Cuspe of the Ascendant and Mid-heaven Whence it follows That even all Conjunctions whether of the Planets amongst themselves or of the Fixed Stars in respect of the same distance suppose of one Degree or ten Minutes or in the very same Minute are of the same Vertue according to their Rarity yea and according to their Power or Strength in respect of Rarity but yet not in respect of the Stars that be in Conjunction For that as but now was said the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter can do more than the Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and much more the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter than of Venus and Mercury in the same distance in regard of their Bodies And so likewise the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the same degree be it in what place soever of a Nativity may do more than if Saturn or Jupiter only were in the degree of the Ascendant or
in the Thirteenth of Queen Elizabeth a Hill of Twenty Acres with a Rock under it at Kinnaston in Hereford-shire The like another Anno 1583. which removed a Field of three Acres at Blackmore in Dorset-shire 6. Great Winds and Tempests manifest Changes and diversities of the Times Infection of the Air and all that Breath in it especially of such Creatures as are accounted Irrational viz. Oxen Swine and Sheep whose Heads are inclined downward for the Vapours that ascend are deadly Poysonous bringing Plagues and Pestilence as you may Read in Pliny Lib. 2. And in Seneca's Natural Questions 7. Cardan Lib. de Rer. Var. Cap. 72. goes yet a little further For saith he Terrae motus magni Bellum out Pestem Nunciant vel Tyrannicam Oppressionem efficiunt segetum inopiam Famem i. e. Great Earthquakes do presage a War or Pestilence or at least some grievous Oppression they cause a scarcity of Corn and a Famine Sundry Excellent Rules shewing by what Laws the Weather is Governed and how to discover the various Alteration of the same TO Satisfie the Learned and Ingenious part of the World on what grounds we proceed in judging of the Alteration of the Air and to convince another sort of People who reflecting on Marsianus his Rule Si vis divinare totum contrarium ad unguem dicito ejus quod Astrologi pollicentur Suppose we do but guess at the Weather and believe that if they should say Rain when the Astrologer writes fair and dry Weather or Calm when he fore-tells Winds they should hit the Mark as often as the Astrologer I will once for all hint a few of the many Causes which either are or should be considered by all such as aim at Credit or Truth in their Predictions of this kind First then you must know that when the Sun according to appearance wheels to a Star of a hot Nature as to Mars or Jupiter it argues a hot or warm disposition of the Air If to a Star of a cold Nature as Saturn or Mercury a distemper'd Air through the extremity of Cold. And the mutual Conjunction of the Stars that be of one Complexion augments the same Quality As the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars by a two-fold vertue of their Heat make the lower Region of the Air more fervent Many Planets especially the Superiour in Northern Signs a hot Summer or a temperate Winter The contrary when many Planets the three Superiours chiefly are in Southern Signs For so they signifie a Cold and Moist Peristasis of the Air and a colder Winter Saturn in Southern Signs and especially in Capricorn and Aquarius Terrible Winters of Frost and Cold Summers remiss in Heat a Famine an evil increase of Wine and of all such Fruits as delight in the Sun Moreover when the Cold Nature of Saturn is duplicated by the presence of Mercury it makes the Quality of the Season Colder But if such a Conjunction or Aspect of the Planets falls out at the New or Full Moon or at any other Aspect of the Luminaries the vertue thereof shall appear much more Effectually nay if within three days preceding a New Moon it addeth Vigour to the Vertue of such a Planetary Conjunction or Aspect But when Signs of a contrary Nature be united by commixture of Mutual Aspects then shall a temperate affection of the Air attend the same The like you may Judge if there happen at the same time Constellations of different Natures whereof one produceth Frost and Cold the other Heat or if one of them bode a Dry Air the other a Moist for so of necessity a mean is produced The Influences of contrary Constellations mutually impeding and mitigating one another As the Conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter or Mars when both in Fiery Signs brings with it greater Heat than if one were in a Cold Sign and the other in a Hot. Furthermore the Full and New Moons that be Celebrated in Angles the Horoscope especially or Angle of the Earth are usually accompanied with Rain the same Day they happen But here you must Note That the Effects of the Stars do often-times shew themselves before they come into Partile Configuration that is to say during the time of their Access or Application one to another and sometimes in their defluxion or separation which the Ancient Grecian Astrologers named Epichemasin and Prochemasin There are some who not altogether without Reason Erect Schemes to the Apparent times of the Conjunctions of the Luminaries And having found the Almuten of the Figure and observed what Planets be Angular direct the Horoscope of the Conjunction allowing one Day for every thirteen Degrees eleven Minutes the mean Motion of the Moon in one Day For that when the Horoscope comes by such Direction to any Planet that was then Angular or to the Lord of the Lunation some Change of Air to Rain or Snow or Wind at least a dark Cloudy Air succeedeth Consider likewise the Position of the Lord of the Lunation in the Figure and the Latitude of the Moon for from thence come the Winds that occasion Tempests Take notice also when the Moon comes wâ—â—hin the Beams of the Lord of the Figure or the Angular Planets for then principally does she manifest her self according to the Nature of the Planet The Conjunction of the Planets with Fixed Stars not far distant from the Ecliptique produce a Notable Alteration of the Air And when the Stars leave one Sign and enter into another they betoken Showers Yet still a regard must be had to the Qualities of the Signs and Seasons As if the Mutation be in a Watry Sign and in the Winter or Spring then may Rain or Snow be safely denounced Snow in Winter if so be a Cold Peristasis is impending The General Rule is Grandines in Aprili Octobri Nives in Hyeme in Aestate Tonitrua A special regard must be had to the Nature of the Earth and Air peculiar to the Horizon you live in or Write for because that in all places they are not of a like Nature And no less to the Winds that agree to the particular Season of the Year for as much as they blow not alike in all places some being Topical and peculiar to one place others Chronical which come at a certain time of the Year Wherefore Cardan Seg. 7. Aph. 29. Oportâ—t Coelum cognoscere Regionis quo tempore Anni sit tempestuosum tum etiam cui signo Regio magis conveniat si veritatem in judicando assequi velimus In the next place let the Interval of the Sun Moon and Planets be Observed which consists of the Aggregate of the Sun and Planets Orbs upon the Access or deflux thereof and especially in the Corporal Conjunction of the Planets As in the Sun's Application to a Conjunction with Saturn because the Sun's Orb consists of twelve Degrees and Saturn's of Nine Therefore so soon as the Sun shall be distant from him not more than Twenty one Degrees
which Number is produced by the addition of Twelve and Nine Degrees the Cold commenceth and lasts for the most part until the Sun have separated himself Twenty one Degrees from his Conjunction with him In like manner the Planets which have their Houses opposite when they behold one another by a forcible Aspect as the Opposition or Quartile or Trine do introduce a Memorable Change to Rain or Cold or Heat As if the Sun be in Aspect with Saturn a Cold Peristasis of the Air especially if either of them be in Watry Signs In the Summer time frequent showers but in Winter Cold and Snow So also the Configuration of Mars and Venus do bring for the most part Heat and warm Showers Jupiter and Mercury vehement blasts of Wind. And these Configurations of the Sun with Saturn Venus and Mars Jupiter and Mercury are by the Ancient Mathematicians called Portarum seu valvarum Apertiones Nor must you neglect the rising and setting of the fifteen Fixed Stars of the First and the fifteen of the Second Magnitude Recorded by Ptolomy in his Kalendar For if upon the Days that those Stars rise or set with the Sun there be a New or Full Moon Celebrated or that some Planet of a Conformable Nature with those Fixed Glories shall rise or set with him or some other memorable Constellation that Day happen then may you safely Predict a notable Change of Air. And this is confirmed of Cardan Segm. 7. Aphor. 71. Oportet exortus occasus Heliacos clariorum Syderum observare vix enim fiet nè sub Ortu Caniculae siccitatis morbi non vigeant sub Arcturi occasu imbres And indeed unless the rising and setting of the Fixed Stars did Operate something we should hardly have Rain at one time more than another For as saith the same Author Seg. 7. Aph. 72. Incertus est Planetarum concursus Observe also when the Moon or any of the Planets transits the Angles of the Worlds Revolution and of the Angles of the New â—nd Full Moons for then be sure some Change of Air ensueth according to the Nature of those Planets Moreover if upon a Conjunction or Opposition of the three Superiour Planets either amongst themselves or with the three Inferiours the Moon soon after apply unto them by an Opposite or Quartile Configuration be assured of Rain or Winds according to the Nature of the Planets so Conjoyn'd or Opposed Consider too the Eclipses Comets and other general Constitutions for often-times they augment or mitigate the Special I presume it is not forgotten what vehement and mighty Winds we had in January and February following the first appearance of the Comet in December 1652. and what Incredible Tempests were the two following Years on the Coasts of England France Spain Holland and Germany in the Atlantick Ocean and the Baltick Seas the Owners of the Navies thereby scattered and of the many Ships Goods and Men that were lost and therein miserably Perished have cause to remember Neither do ye wholly neglect the Rule of Eudoxus which Pliny tells of Lib. 2. Cap. 47. viz. That in the space of four Years not only the Winds but all other Tempests for the most part return to what they were before For although that Rule of his depends only upon this Foundation That at the end of four Years next following the Leap-year the Political-year agrees almost with the Astronomical in respect of Time the rising setting and Mediation of the Fixed Stars with the Sun howbeit the Motion of the Moon and the other Planets be far different Yet because the Power of the Sun and Fixed Stars is so great in stirring up of Tempests and the Moon not far disâ—ant from the place opposite unto that wherein she was four Years before it is probable that almost the same Tempests may return I confess I never observ'd it But touching the Mansions of the Moon I do not regard them as remembring what Cardan admonisheth Seg. 7. Aph. 57. Mansiones Lunae nè inspicias est Luna vis à loco suo à loco in signifâ—ro à Lumine Planetis Fixis And these are the Rules I thought fit to communicate concerning the Change of the Weather A Collection of sundry of our Authors most Excellent Poems as they were Printed in several of his Loyal Annual Works IN his Loyal Almanack for 1650. being the next Opportunity of the Press he had after the Bloody Murther of His Sacred Majesty of Blessed Memory Charles the First he hath these several signal sparks of Loyalty following 1. He begins with Liber Lectori Touch me not Traytor For I have a Sting For all but such as love and serve the King I am no Temporist Nor can I brook The Pocket of a Bradshaw Steel or Cook Or any Regicide that liveth I Disdain all Harbours of Disloyalty URANIA is Divine and to be clear I serve no Mortal but the CAVALIER If then thou be'st not one pray let me lie Until thou canst affect as well as buy 2. Under the Table of Kings c. having placed therein K. Charles the Second he writes Let such as Booker cringe unto a State And leave a Blank where I have rank'd a King 'T is far below my Quill to Calculate The spurious Birth of that Prodigious thing For maugre all its Acts and damned Art Still Charles the Second's Monarch of my Heart 3. Under the Table of Terms c. Thus should the Terms begin and end if we Were not controll'd by Traytors Tyranny But since they may adjourn or Vote them down My Rule 's not certain whilst they Rule the Town 4. In January having put the Decollation of His Royal Majesty and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in Red Letters that the Cruelty of those Actions might more eminently appear he writes Behold those Crimson Veins England lament Nay curse the Authors of thy Dismal Fate But dote no longer on a Parliament Nor be Ambitious to be hight a State Since in this Month those Tyrants hewed down In Laud the Mitre in blest Charles the Crown 5. In February Lo here again two Martyrs on a Tree Burleigh and Beaumont basely put to Death That for attempting's Soveraign to free This that he would not Saint-like break his Faith Look to it Wild and Lambert there 's a Season Heaven will Revenge this Blood reward your Treason 6. In March Yet yet the thirsty Saints howl out for blood Brave Gapel Cambridge Hoâ—land all must die The first 'cause he for 's King and Country stood They 'cause they would and yet would not comply They found thy Mercy and fair Quarter Flat Cruelty But Capel is the Martyr 7. In April The lofty Saints their Prowess now to show And make their Fame float with the spreading Main Vouchsafe this Month to let great London know They durst encounter Boys as well as Men. For Lion-like th' Apprentices they slay But what cannot resist is Asses prey 8. In May. Now wise
of it taken by the Parliament Sept. 11. Bristol surrendred 13. Montross defeated at Philip-haugh in Scotland 15. Farley Castle surrendred to the Parliament 23. So the Castle of the Devises Laicock-house the like 24. The Battle of Routon-Heath wherein the Kings Army was defeated 26. Barkly Castle delivered to the Parliament Octob. 1. Sandal Castle the like 8. Winchester the like 14. Basing-House taken by Storm 15. Kings Forces defeated at Sherburn in York-shire 19. Tiverton Castle taken by the Parliament 21. Langford-house surrendred 27. Shelford-house stormed and taken by the Parliament Nov. 5. Bolton Castle yielded to the Parliament 16. Beeston Castle the like 22. The out-works and Stables of Belvoire Castle Stormed and taken by the Parliament Dec. 1. House of Com. voted the King to confer several Honours upon several Members of both Houses and inter alios a Dukedom on the Earl of Essex 4. Latham-house delivered to the Parliament 18. Hereford the like 22. H. of Lords put it to the vote whether christmas-Christmas-day should be kept Dec. 26. King offered Personally to repair to London for settling of a Peace Denied Jan. 1. Newarkers Sally'd out upon G. Pointz his Quarters at Stoke 8. Sir Allen Apsly's quarters beaten up near to Barnstaple 9. L. Wentw. quarters the like at Bovy-Tracy 13. A Personal Treaty denyed by the Parliament 16. Plymouth Siege raised 19. Dartmouth Stormed and taken by the Parl. 20. Parl. Quarters beaten up at Marlborough by a party from Oxford Astley Castle taken by a party of the Kings from Ashby 25. Poulderham Castle yielded to the Parliament 30. Carlion Castle in Monmouth-shire taken by a party from Ragland Feb. 1. Newport in the same Countrey taken by the same party 3. Belvoir Castle delivered to the Parliament Westchester the like 6. Dunstar Castle relieved by the Kings Forces 7. Marham surpâ—ized and Corfe Castle relieved by a party of the Kings Feb. 15. A sharp Encounter betwixt a party of the Kings from Titbury Castle and a party of the Parliaments from Barton-house in Darby-shire 16. Torrington Stormed and taken by the Parl. 18. A party of the Parliaments routed by the Kings Forces near Uttoxeter in Stafford-shire 24. An Engagement of Horse near to Stratton in Devonshire 25. Launceston quitted by the King 28. Saltash the like 29. Lizard Town the like March 2. Abbingdon entred by a party from Oxford but forced to retreat 3. Mount-edgcomb yielded to the Parliament The Town of Foy quitted by the King An Engagement of Horse at Castle-Den in Cornwall 10. A Cessation betwixt the Lord Hopton and Gen. Fairfax 11. The Treaty began at Tresilian-bridge 13. St. Mawes Castle yielded to the Parliament 14. L. Hopton accepted of conditions for disbanding his Army March 16. Exmouth Fort yielded Dennis Fort yielded 21. L. Astly defeated near to Stow on the edge of Gloucester-shire Anno 1646. 27. Newark Summoned by the Parliament April 8. Ruthen Castle delivered Corfe Castle taken by Storm and Stratagem 9. Articles agreed on for the surrendring of Exeter to the Parliament 10. Barnstaple Summoned 13. Exeter delivered Litchfield Summoned 14. Barnstaple Town and Castle the like 15. S. Michaels Mount yielded 25. Dunstar Castle delivered 26. Woodstock delivered 27. King disguised from Oxford May 2. Oxford Besieged the second time by the Parliament 4. Treaty began at Newark 5. King came to the Scotch Army at Southwel 8. Banbury surrendred 9. Newark surrendred by the Kings Command 11. Oxford Wallingford and Radcot Summoned 13. King came to Newcastle 18. Treaty began before Oxford 24. Radcot surrendred to the Parliament 29. The Dispute began at Newcastle betwixt the King and Mr. Henderson June 6. Carnarvon Town and Castle surrendred 9. Ludlow delivered 10. Borstal-house the like 20. Treaty before Oxford ended 24. Oxford surrendred Farrington the same July 9. Duke of York's Servants discharged 11. M. Lilburn committed to the Tower 16. Litchfield Close surrendred The Dispute betwixt the King and M. Henderson ended 23. Worcester surrendred 24. Princess Henrietta conveyed from Oatlands 28. Wallingford Castle surrendred 31. Gotheridge Castle surrendred Aug. 7. Ragland Summoned 13. Sir John Stawell Prisoner to Ely House 17. Committed to Newgate Pendennis yielded Conway taken by storm 18. Great Seal of England broken and defaced 19. Ragland surrendred Sept. 13. E. Essex dyed 16. Scilly Island and Castle surrendred Octob. 22 E. Essex's Funeral 26. Denbigh Castle surrendred Nov. 12. Gen. Fairfax returned Triumphantly to London 14. Both Houses Congratulated his coming The like did the Londoners Feb. 11. Scotch Army marched over Tweed 12. Berwick quitted by the Scots 15. Excise House burnt 17. King Charles to Holmby Anno 1647. June 4. Reformado-Officers met at Westminster Menaced the Parliament King taken from Holmby by Cornet Joyce and carried to Childersley 8. King brought to Newmarket 14. Representation of the Army 19. Proposals made to the King 23. Remonstrance of the General and the Army presented to the Commissioners at St. Albans 24. King removed to Royston 25. Duke of Richmond Doctor Hammond and Doctor Sheldon came to the King at Roston 26. King removed from Royston to Hatfield July 1. King brought to Windsor 3. Thence to Caversham 5. Prince Elector visited the King 6. A Letter from the General at Reading to the Two Houses giving an Account of some Transactions betwixt the King and the Army 15. King Duke of York c. Dined at Maiden-head 22. King to Latimer Thence to Stoke 26. The Londoners Petition the Houses for resetling their Militia as formerly which was seconded by another Petition from the Prentices who offering some violence to the Parliament got the Ordin of Repeal null'd and the Militia resetled as before 30. The City declared against the Army Aug. 1. Proposals of the Army for setling of a firm Peace 6. All Votes Orders and Ordinances from July 26 till August 6. nulled 7. Army marched through London 7. Gen. Fairfax made Constable of the Tower The Forts and Works about the City slighted Some Aldermen and others Impeached and Imprisoned Some Lords Impeached Suspended and Imprisoned 14. King at Oatlands 18. A Remonstrance of the Gen. and Army expressing their readiness and desires for the Parliam closing with the King and his bringing up to London 23. King dined at Sion House 24. King to Hampton-Court Sept. 7. Propositions presented to the K. at Hampton Court by Commissioners of both Houses and of Scotland Octob. 15. The Case of the Army stated presented to the Gen. at Hampstead by the Agitators of the Army Nov. 9. The Agreement of the People presented to the House of Commons by the Agitators of the Army Which together with a Petition were voted destructive to the Being of Parliaments and the Fundamental Government of the Kingdom 11. King left Hampton Court and fled into the Isle of Wight One White an Agitator shot to Death at Ware for fomenting the said Petition and Agreement c. 23. Thomas Prince and Samuel Chidley committed to the Gate-house for avowing and prosecuting the
the Moons Place denote a prosperous and constant Fortune in Foraign Countreys 5. The Mons Lunae well and fairly depicted with convenient Incisures premonstrates Journeys 6. The Mensal cutting the Mount of Jupiter denotes Men that are full of Wrath And so they are wont to be for the most part in whose Nativities Mars resideth in the 6. 7. The same Dissected under the Finger of Saturn by a short and thick Line threatens a Grievous Disease in the lower part of the Belly and that in his Old Age. 8. The Vital broken towards the end thereof by a double Incisure bodes Diseases about the 52. or 54 Year of his Age. At that time the Horoscope comes by Direction to the 6 th degree of Leo the Terms of Saturn very Ominous c. 9. The Via Lactea adhering to the Dragons Tail another Cross occuring speaks his Old-age to be full of Tranquillity 10. The Cross in the Mensa under the Solar Finger designeth Honours and the Favour of Great Men. It is not requisite to describe all that is signified by the Geniture because in the Disposition of the Planets shewed you before all things are comprehended which Sydereal Face and Position very seldom happeneth Example V. One Born in the Year 1586. Decemb. 9. New Style Hor. 8. Min. 40. Before Noon in the Vpper Lusatia AS you see but a simple Concourse of Lines in the Hand so the Places of the Planets in the Geniture are sufficiently dejected 1. 'T is true Jupiter is accounted Angular and in his Exaltation yet is he Retrograde and by Calculation not partily found to be in the West Horizon He hath not as yet adorned his Mount with any Lines yet there in the Geniture he favoureth Marriage and when he doth so the Lines that shall arise in their due time upon the Tuberculum of Jupiter will manifest not without some other Prosperity 2. Venus also is hereunto fitted as being in the Seâ—ond House yet adorns her Tuberculum but slowly because she is Peregrine 3. This Child was sometimes afflicted with an Epilâ—psie nor was he ever Cured thereof Which Accilent whether it should be attributed to those little Branches arising from the Thoral under the Region of Saturn Or to the Conjunction of the Thoral with the Epatica by that little clear Incisure I cannot determine 'T is hardly possible to find the Signs of all Accidents in the Hands And I confess I have not here so accurately distributed the Lines of the Fingers for that in Children we can very seldom perceive their Delineations plainly Indeed in the Geniture the Conjunction of the Luâ—inaries is Infortunate because the Brain is thereby much weakened and greatly bereft of the Animal Spirit By how much nearer their Conjunction is by so much more evidently do we find the Evils thence descending I know that such are of a weak and simple Ingenuity almost continually Sick but especially Afflicted with Hypocondriacal Melancholy Moreover Saturn being here in Aries augments the Infirmities of the Head 4. The Epatica inclined towards the Restricta thereby making a Narrow Triangle Contracts his Wit diminisheth his Prudence But withal it renders him somewhat Covetous The Cephalica decently drawn helpeth the Wit in some measure In the Geniture you find but slender Testimonies of Ingenuity for Mercury in Sagittary nigh to the Sun is altogether weak The Moon is hardly a Days Journey from the Sun The Horoscope also not Irradiated by either Jupiter and Saturn Annular are the only Assistants The Line passing by the Vital to that Concave of Mars and there Erecting a Cross with the dimidiate Line of Saturn betokeneth Wounds and dangers of Life by the means of Thieves c. The same is rightly manifested by Mars in the Geniture he being then in the Cuspe of the 9 th House because of his North Latitude and in Quartile to the Sun and Mercury The Conjunction of the Thoral and Epatica by the small Intervening Line confirms this Judgment The afore-said Cross in the Concave of Mars threatens Fevers and other Diseases of his Nature c. Now it sufficiently appears that the Abject Concourse of the Stars in the Nativity do agree with the Rude Draught of the Lines in the Hands which very thing I have elsewhere also observed Another Born in Thuringia in the Year of Christ 1585. June 26. Half an hour before Noon IN which Geniture Saturn falleth in the 7 th House in Aries Jupiter in the 9 th in the beginning of Gemini the Sun in the 10 th in Cancer and in Conjunction with Mercury who is Retrograde and in Square of Saturn Mars in Virgo possesseth the 12 th House the Moon in Scorpio the second Venus being Retrograde in Leo. This Positure as it is the most dejected so found I the Lineaments of his Hand accordingly Infortunate For first the Vital is Dissected by a part of the Cephalica not touching the Cavity of the Hand And I beheld as it were some Ruder Lines not only here and there projected from the Cephalica through the Ferient but they also broken one by another near to the Place of the Moon Moreover in the Concave it self or rather under the Tuberculum of Saturn than the Sun 's a certain Star adheres to the Epatica casting a Cleft through the Mensa upon the Thoral Line under the Region of Saturn c. These Signatures bring not only Infelicity but shorten the Life The same you may Collect from the Geniture it self The Horoscope comes by Direction to the Opposition of Saturn about the 15 Year of his Age designing a Deadly Disease Example VI. The Brother of the former Born in the Year 1588. December 17. New Stile at 5 in the Morning 1. MARS Lord of the Horoscope received of Venus from Houses yet they dejected ingenders Lust and Incontinency You see the Region of Venus how evidently it is adorned with Furrows a Cross being Posited in the upper part thereof which often-times produceth Adulteries 2. Jupiter is partly collocated in the Mid-heaven making a sufficiently decent Triangle with Saturn and Mercury in Earthly Signs And therefore Jupiter adorneth his Seat by the little Line and the Cross annexed thereunto Whence you may conjecture that this Planet hath greatest Dominion over the Native His Significations may be Collected from what hath been said before yet more Remisly because he is in his Detriment 3. Saturn in Conjunction with the Moon is Lord of the Geniture and this by a double Proportion in respect of Jupiter And therefore you see the Saturnia whole and Entire and which is more a Sister annexed thereunto the same extending beyond the Thoral by a decent Tract 4. Although that from Jupiter Venus and Saturn there be something of Wit demonstrated yet you may see the Cephalica drawn to the Tuberculum of Mercury and the Auricular bearing a small Line which is clear enough and running through the Joynt it self Mercury in the Geniture in Capricorn promotes the Wit exceedingly
a Right Angle through the Cavity of the Hand to the Natural Mean All these things do plainly presage a most Excellent Man in all manner of Sciences especially the Mathematicks And this very same judgment manifestly ariseth from the Geniture by the Situation of Mercury in Scorpio the Positure of the Moon in the Horoscope in her own House and the Trine of Mercury Lastly by the Reception of Houses betwixt Mars and Mercury Besides the Sextile of Mars and Mercury c. argues Celerity The which are so manifest to the Intelligent they cannot be look'd upon and conferr'd without Admiration 5. The Region of the Moon presenting a very clear Line betokeneth Journeys The Moon Angular in a Moveable sign the same So also Mercury received of Mars Lord of the Third 6. The Vital and that Line which runs from the Tuberculum of Saturn through the Hand unto the Region of the Moon do seem to resemble a Scale or Ladder of an Excellent bigness and that by a Notable Tract In which Scale are every where found Transverse Lines requisite to the shape thereof This presages a wonderful and formidable Tract of Dignities but not without great Envy 7. As touching Riches what need we say more There are no Dignities no Kingly and Magnificent Affairs wherein an Affluence of all things is wanting-Venus Centrally in the 4 th House contributes Honourable Possessions in his Old Age and no little Fame after his Death You see how her Tuberculum even Luxuriates with accustomed Incisures 8. The Vital diversly cut concerns no small or light Infirmities In the fifth Year of his Age he was sick of the Small Pox. The rest you may judge to fall out in the 11 21 25 and 43 Years of his Age or thereabout 9. Moreover Saturn projecting in his Region an Incisure through the Mensal bodes a Disease in the lower part of the Belly I suppose the Stone in the Bladder c. As therefore this Geniture of it self is happy so are likewise the Lineaments of his Hand and the Conveniency in the Lines themselves which was to be Proved Example IX One Born in the Year of Christ 1551. the 8 th day of March at Nine a Clock and 30 Min. before Noon where the Elevation of the Pole is 51 degr in Silesia WE observe the Right Hand of this Person because that therein we perceived the Lines most clear according to our former Annotation We have also made Proof thereof in other Examples yet oft-times found a certain Diversity as before we have said we must not every where repeat this same thing which makes so little to the purpose First let us see the Practise and throughly enquire its wonderful Agreement with the Genitures themselves 1. The Line of Life conspicuous with Incisures as it were some little Hairs portends no small Diseases The like Saturn cutting the Thoral with four Incisures whereby he also fore-shews four more grievous Infirmities proceeding from his Nature The First of which befalls the Native about the 21 Year of his Age by a sudden Catharre upon his Breast and Lungs not without some strangling and Difficulty of Breathing The second in the 35 Year of his Age by the means of a Poyson'd Drink But in regard he shall not wholly Drink off the Cup at one Draught because of some Nauseous thing appearing the Deadly dregs is left in the bottom yet hurts it him something But by the Help of a Physician the strength of the Poyson is easily Compress'd If you take the pains to Calculate you will find that the Progression of the Sun comes exactly then to the Quartile of Saturn The Third we conjecture will be in the 45 Year of his Age or thereabout the Horoscope then passing out of Cancer into Leo. This Progression also is wont to bring a Change of Outward Goods The Fourth we judge to fall out in the 54 or 55 th Year of his Age the Horoscope coming then by Direction to the 6 th degr of Leo which degree how greatly it threatens in Directions we will more clearly explain to you elsewhere But although this ensuing Disease may prove very Grievous yet is it not to be thought altogether deadly because of Jupiters divolving himself to the very degree of the Horoscope Let him then take heed of a Quartan Fever the Plague or Pestilence Upon the Direction of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars in the 13 or 14 Year the Native fell into hot-scalding-water with the hurt of his Arm and Breast Now this Accident we seek for in the Vital yet not in Specie where we behold little Hairs The Place of Mars according to the Calculation of Copernicus hath of North Latitude 2 degr 10 min. wherefore his Oblique Ascention is 62 deg 50 min. 2. Jupiter conspicuous in his Tuberculum with no unusual Incisures shews Dignities that be sufficiently Great respect being had to the Place of his Birth The like in that he is Collocated in the Cuspe of the Ascendant We have also elsewhere observed from the Line of Mars drawn through the Vital to the Region of Jupiter the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the Geniture Nor does the precedent Example very much dissent from the same 3. The Sun is not ill placed near to Venus in Pisces You see therefore in his Mount a little Line that is clear enough 4. The Region of Venus adorn'd with convenient Furrows not only manifests her good habit in the Geniture but also presages some goodness to accrue by the means of a Wife The Sun therefore coming by Direction to the Sextiles of Venus greatly Enriched him by the Inheritance of a Wife and this about the 41 Year of his Age in which we observed his Hand thus Delineated 5. Jupiter and Mars arising together in the East denotes Ingenuity So Mercury in Aries thus remote from the Sun a ready Wit Observe his Region and therein you shall find Three Parallel Incisures The same you may pronounce from other places according to the former Precepts 6. The Cephalica and Via Lactea do hereunto both contribute notwithstanding they be of a shorter extent 7. The Region of the Moon is Incult and quite destitute of Incisures and therefore wholly silent like as also she is in the Geniture being scarcely departed from the Sun above a days Journey 8. The Restricta continued and of a good colour argues Riches and a good Crasis of the Body 9. The Mensa very broad his goodness of Nature And the like you shall find by Jupiter in the Nativity 10. The Natural Mean dissected by the Intervening of an Incisure Heat and Grief of the Liver The like from Mars next to Jupiter in the East in an Airy Sign 11. Saturn in the Cuspe of the 10 th is in some sort averse to Dignities occasioning Envy especially He also exhibites and that not vaily an Iâ—cisure under his Finger arising from the Interval of the Medius and Annular Thus also have we briefly demonstrated
often destroys Elder Brothers 35. The Lord of the 4 th in the 5 th makes you Fortunate in Tillage or Navigations 36. The Lord of the 5 th in the 4 th brings Gladness and Delight to you from things that be Immovable as the Building of goodly Houses and the Tillage of sweet and pleasant Gardens And here Venus undoubtedly confirms that Portent because such things are contained under her Dominion 37. Mars Lord of the 6 th in the First excites many hot Infirmities but this is qualified by the Reception of Jupiter 38. The Lord of the 7 th in the 4 th presageth strifes about the Father or Wives Inheritance and this the rather for that he is most cruelly Afflicted of Mars 39. The Lord of the 8 th in the 3 d. shews that the Native shall survive all his Brothers He often designeth Death in a Foraign Countrey 40. The Lord of the 9 th in the 3 d. occasions Journeys for the Cause of Dignities 41. The Lord of the 10 th in the 3 d. and there excellently well Placed makes the Native more Honourable than the rest of his Brethren 42. The Lord of the 11 th in the 4 th denotes a second Fortune in Goods that be Immoveable especially in Old Age. 43. The Lord of the 12 th in the 4 th Displeasures and Strifes for Possessions and Church-Goods These may be sufficient in General Judgments Now if we will Consider the Principal Lines of the Hand we shall every where find the same things signified notwithstanding that we have curtailed the Decrees of the Significators We told you Experience her self bearing Witness that the less Principal Lines are changed at a certain time according to the Progressions of the Coelestial Places and Stars who are Significators Whereby it comes to pass that we may best judge of any thing from them either when they appear de novo or begin to wax clearer than they were before 1. The Vital indeed is continued but yet Marked with some Incisures although but slender ones Whence judge you some Diseases about the 14 30 40 c. Year of your Age. 2. Venus is Fortunate in the Geniture and therefore she hath thus Rased her Region with the accustomed Furrows 3. The Epatica decently drawn and without Sections argues a good Temperance of the Liver Health of Body and a Life that is long enough 4. The Mensa full of Branches shews an Increase of Riches 5. The Mensa form'd by a sufficiently decent space perspicuously bearing the Character of Jupiter under the Region of the Annular or Ring-finger is an excellent Argument of Honours chiefly Ecclesiastical 6. The Place of Jupiter beautified with a most clear little Line the same So likewise the Tuberculum of the Sun not undecently Furrowed 7. The Moons Region presenting a clear Incisure premonstrates Journeys 8. The Dominion of Mercury is also most obvious in that he excellently adorneth his Region as also the First joynt of the Auricular or Little-finger 9. The Cephalica contributes to the Wit in that it decently composeth the Triangle Jupiter Venus and Mercury do the like 10. Saturn also hath some Portents especially a Disease in that he bears a Character under his Finger 11. The Parallel Lines which run through the midst of the Hand towards the Ferient confirm the Arguments of Felicity 12. The Saturnia produced even to the Epatica declares uprightness of Judgment and Manners The same Line having a Cross about the Restricta argues a Peaceable and most Honoured Old Age. General Elections In the use of all Purgative Medicines you must observe the Decurse of the Moon in Scorpio Aquarius and the third Decade of Pisces although she be not joyned to Jupiter or Venus For the Conjunction of these Planets with the Moon inhibits the vertue of the Purgative Medicine in regard they affect the Body and incline the Medicine to the nature of Nourishment In other Actions as in Buying of Houses in Journeys and the Commencement of Administrations c. Let the Moon be in Aries Taurus Cancer Leo Libra or Aquarius and Aspected by one or both of the Fortunate Planets And as for the Day let it be upon a Wednesday Thursday or Friday And now lest this Geniture should have seemed Defective I present it wholly as I composed the same unto the studious in Astrology Indeed chiefly for that it is not in the Number of the Vulgar sort but diligently enough composed A Special Judgment of this Geniture giving you the Directions of the Principal Places and their Significations 1. THE HOROSCOPE to the Body of Mars Deg. Min. The Place of Mars in Sagittary 03. 10. His Latitude 00. 06. N. Declination 20. 56. S. Right Ascention 241. 06. Circle of Position 54. 45. Ascentional Difference 32. 47. Oblique Ascention 273 53 Direction sought for 29 40 The Oblique Ascention also of the Horoscope is 144 deg 13 min.   2. The Horoscope to the Sextile of the Sun   Sextile of the Sun in Sagittary 08 00 Oblique Ascention 280 32 Direction sought for 36 19 3. The Horoscope to the Scorpions Heart   Scorpions Heart in Sagittary 03 45 Latitude 04 00 S. Declination 24 53 Right Ascention 240 53 Ascentional difference 40 52 Oblique Ascention 281 45 Direction required 37 32 4. The Horoscope to the Opposition of Saturn   Opposition of Saturn in Sagittary 13 40 Latitude 2 20 N. Declination 20 10 S. Right Ascention 252 34 Ascentional Difference 30 36 Oblique Ascention 283 10 Direction required 38 57 5. The Horoscope to the Trine Dexter of Jupiter   Trine of Jupiter in Sagittary 19 30 Latitude 00 43 N. Declination 22 23 S. Right Ascention 258 36 Ascentional Difference 35 41 Oblique Ascention 293 17 Direction sought for 47 04 6. The Horoscope to the 26 deg of Sagit the Term of Saturn he hath in the Year 59 20 7. To the end of Sagittary in 63 47 8. The Horoscope to the Sextile Dexter of Venus   Sextile of Venus in Capricorn 04 30 Latitude 00 27 S. Declination 23 50 S. Right Ascention 274 55 Ascentional Difference 38 36 Oblique Ascention 313 31 Direction required 69 17 The Directions of the Sun   Sun's Place in Aquary 08 00 Declination 18 19 S. Distance from the Fourth House 23 47 Circle of Position 21 40 Oblique Ascention 318 00 9. The Sun to the Square Sinister of Mars   Quartile of Mars in Pisces 3 10 Oblique Ascention 339 09 Direction required 21 09 10. The Sun to the Body of Venus   Venus in Pisces 04 30 Latitude 00 55 S. Declination 10 44 Right Ascention 336 43 Ascentional Difference 4 28 Oblique Ascention 340 11 Direction required 23 11 11. The Sun to the Square Dexter of Saturn   Quartile of Saturn in Pisces 13 40 Oblique Ascention 347 32 Direction sought for 29 32 12. The Sun to the Trine Sinister of Mars   Trine of Mars in Aries 3
affected about the Conception and the Fathers and Mothers another way it must needs be that some Discrepancy will hence arise But the Impression of the Mothers Imagination is vulgarly known as much as may be at the time of the Birth The finding out of all Causes is very Abstruse Nevertheless as touching those who have the Lines of either Hand appearing with a different Face we cannot otherwise appoint and Pronounce but that such are disposed and inclined to a double Fortune Good and Bad. And now at length being about to put a Period to this our Tract we earnestly desire all Learned Men that whatsoever they know in Chiromancy as having made some certain Tryal thereof they will be pleased freely to contribute the same to these our Endeavours I confess I have not every where in my Praxis satisfied my own self I know what Experience I have need of to Compleat an Absolute Praxis And other Men also may know I have Assay'd to dig at some such thing It had been requisite to have annexed somewhat of The Soul of the World and of what appertaineth thereunto as well lest some should Rashly Proclaim Incertain things to be Explained and Confirmed by Incertain As also that we might in some sort Admonish both the Ignorant and likewise such as Deride the Lethargy of the Celestial in these Terrene Bodies comprehending much in a few words from which Beginning there may be Degrees of confirming these truly sincere things in Philosophy Thanks be to GOD that it is not estrang'd from the Holy Scriptures See the Book of Wisdom Chap. 7. 13. wherein the Lethargy of Celestial things is separated from these Inferiours lest they should Feed on the Tares of Philosophy I shall be perswaded it is possible That the Knowing and Ingenious may Favour this my First Endeavours If otherwise it sufficeth me that I received a Sober Censure at least amongst those Wise and Learned Men to whom I presented this in writing Nevertheless there be some of that Profession who suppose it otherwise I have nothing to do with the Ignorant and Malevolent AN END ERRATA PAge 585. Line 1. Read adverse to Ibid. l. 25. r. hostilly Pag. 615. l. 3. r. Pag. 545. l. 16. r. 551. Speech at Oxon. * Capt. E. A. * A Child of his so Named in memory of the Victory near York (a) Bradshaw the bold Villain that Sentenced His late Sacred Majesty to Death Steel one appointed to draw up the Charge against him but by reason of Sickness was absent Cook the Wretch that Sollicited the whole Villany and prayed the pretended Court to Murther his Soveraign (a) Those two Worthy Persons were Murthered in the Month February though in different Years viz. 1. 1647. the 2. 1648. (b) Those three Worthies were for their Loyalty Murthered March 9. 1648. (c) April 9. 1648 there were several Apprentices c. kill'd in the Streets (d) The E. of Strafford was beheaded May 12. 1641. (e) Mr. Yeomans and Mr. Bowcher put to death May 30. at Bristol 1643. (f) Sir Nich. Kemish put to death at Chepsrow May 25. 1648. (g) June 2. 1648. The Kentish-men Murdered for presuming so much as to Petition for a KING (h) Mr. Tompkins and Mr. Challoner put to Death â—t London July 4. 1643. (i) Francis Lord Villiers slain at Kingston July the 7. 1648. 1648. August 28. Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot to death at Colchester after Quarter given September 18. 1648. The Treaty in the Isle of Wight begâ—n Basing-house taken by Storm and after Quarter was promised many were Murdered October 14. 1645. Mr. Dan. Kniveton put to Death for his Loyalty on Nov. 27. 1643. at London k Major Pitcher shot to Death in St. Paul ' s Church-yard for being Loyal Decemb. 29. 1648. Sir Alex. Carew beheaded December 23. 1644. for the same Crime * Some Lords after their House was Voted useless very contentedly turn Commoneâ—s * Meaning King CHARLES the First our late Dread Soveraign * Mars this Month being in Aries cast a Quartile to Jupiter in Capricorn * Meaning our now Gracious and Dread Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second This month there was a Trine of the Planets Saturn and Mercury from Cancer and Scorpio * Mâ—aning the Eclipse of the Moon that happened in Libra on March the fiftâ—enth day this Year (o) Iove and Mars thiâ— Month wâ—re in Quartile Aspect * This was purely Prophetical and is now most happily verified * We have had Preachers of all sorts and sizes in this Age of Liberty and Licentiousness * O. Cromwel the pretended Protector and his pretended Parliament had agreed together for Triennial Parliaments * There was then an Opposition of Saturn and Mars from Virgo and Pisces (a) The pretended Protectors Tyranny began now to be most notorious * The Author was Prisoner in Windsor-Castle when he wrote his this Years Ephemeris †Saturn and Mars this Month were in Trine Aspect from Virgo and Taurus * Sirius is the great Dog-star which in July toward the latter end thereof ariseth cosmicaâ—ly with the Sun inflaming the Air whence from that time toward the end of August are termed Dog-days These Lines deserve a Comment Luke Mills was the Tapster in Windsor-Castle at what time our Author was Prisoner there Here O. Cromwels Usurpation and Tâ—ranny together with hâ—â— praying Pretences to Justice and Honesty are Curiouslâ— though Aenigmatically taxed He would be a King in Re but not in Nomine * Monarchia à Monos Archon the Rule of one Prince In the Month April 1659. the Rump appear and put a Period to the Reign of Richard Cromwel and indeed extirpate that Family whose Honour was only built upon a Sandy Foundation On October 6. Parliament Council of State and Officers of the Army were Feasted at Grocers-Hall by the City The 12. the Parliament Vote Lambert and other Officers Commissions from them 13. They turn the Parliament out of Doors for it 26. The pretended Committee of Safety erected Quere Was not this quick work and crafty c. Lord General Monk beholding the Confusions of England Marches hither to put a stop to them The King of Sweden shortly after died which this Learned Artist must needs mean by this Eclipse of the Sun * The Author was suspected privy to and guilty of the Plot in which the Reverend Dr. Hewyt c. miscarried When the Florida Ambassador was in London Col. Pride being once at Dinner with him instead of propounding a Question like a Statist asked him Whether there were not good vent for Beer and Ale in Florida Whence our Author saith A Spungie Head c. * It wâ—â— the saâ—â—eâ—t and most dismal Tragedy that ever was Acted in Englâ—nd * Oliver Cromwel †The Play that pâ—â—vâ—nted Englands Happiness is now most happily ended * At the Death of Oliver Cromwel there was a most Prodigious Wind the like hath seldom been known in England Most Countries in England sent uâ— Addresses to Richard Cromwel with as much Zeal as if he had been the most Lawful and undoubted Heir to the Government of England It is observable that the Parliament this Month gave Order to warn all Lodgers out of Whitehall that it might be prepared the better for His Royal Majestes Use. This relates to the Apprentices and some Women that were stain in London streets April 1648. * E. of Sandwich The Stars have Life The Stars Rational and Intelligent Harmony of Heaven consisteth in Motion To deny Heaven to Live is not to be a Philosopher Herbs more just to Heaven then Men.