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A42682 Day-fatality, or, Some observations of days lucky and unlucky penn'd and publish'ed whil'st His present Majesty, the most serenc king, James II was Duke of York, persecuted by the excluding party, and retir'd into the Low-Countries : presaging many great things, some whereof are wonderfully come to pass, and particularly made good, in his peaceable inthronization, and his speedy quashing two notable rebellions, headed by two persons, eminent for military conduct, one in England, the other in Scotland, and by whom greater things are yet to be done. Gibbon, John, 1629-1718. 1686 (1686) Wing G648; ESTC R7283 10,537 13

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Day the Temple was destroyed by Titus the Son of Vespasian On which Day also the first Temple was consumed with Fire by Nebuchadaezzar Heylyn The Treasury of the Times says The Eighth of Loyon August the very same Day 679. Years one after another And not only among the Romans and Jews but also among the Christians a like Custom of observing such Days is used especially Childermas or Innocents-day Comines tells us That Lewis XI used not to debate any Matter but accounted it a sign of great Misfortune towards him if any Man communed with him of his affairs and would be very angry with those about him if they troubled him in any matter whatsoever upon this Day But I will descend to more particular Instances of Lucky and Unlucky Days Upon the Sixth of April Alexander the Great was born Upon the same day he Conquered Darius won a great Victory at Sea and died the same Day Neither was this Day less fortunate to his Father Philip for on the same he took Potidea Parmenio his General gave a great Overthrow to the Illyrians and his Horse was Victor at the Olympick Games Therefore his Prophets foretold to him Filium cujus natalis c. That a Son whose Birth-day was accompanied with Three Victories should prove Invincible Pezelius in Mellificio Historico Upon the Thirtieth of September Pompey the Great was born Upon that Day he Tryumphed for his Asian Conquest and on that Day he died The Nineteenth of August was the Day of Augustus his Adoption On the same Day he began his Consulship He Conquer'd the Triumviri and on the same Day he died Hitherto out of the Memoirs of K. Charles I. Heros If Solemon counts the Day of ones Death better than the Day of ones Birth there can be no Objection why that also may not be numbred amongst ones Remarkable and Happy Days And therefore I will insert here That the Eleventh of February was the Noted Day of Elizabeth Wife to Henry VII who was born and died that Day Weaver p. 476. Brook in Hen. VII Marriage Stow in Anno 1466. 1503. Bassianus Caracalla the Emperor was Born the Sixth of April and Died the same Day as says the French Author of the Journal History Henry the Cardinal King of Portugal Died 1580. the last of January upon which Day he also was Born Sixty eight Years before Histoire Genealogique de la Maison de France So Saint Louis of Sicily died upon the Nineteenth of August the Anniversary-Day of his Birth A Man memorable for his Extraordinary Virtue and Piety for he forsook the Infallible Succession to his Father's Crown and the Marriage of the Fair Princess of Majorque for a Cloyster As also that the Twenty third of November was the Observable Day of Francis Duke of Lunenburgh who was born on that Day and died upon the same 1549. as says the French Author of the Journal History who adds upon particular Remark and observable Curiosity Ipsa Dies vitam contulit ipsa necem The same Day Life did give And made him cease to live Sir Kenelm Digby that Renowned Knight great Linguist and Magazen of Arts was born and died on the Eleventh of June and also fought fortunately at Scanderoon the same Day Hear his Epitaph composed by Mr. Farrar and recited in the aforesaid Memoires Vnder this Stone the Matchless Digby lies Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skill'd in Six Tongues and learn'd in All the Arts. Born on the Day he died th' Eleventh of June On which he bravely fought at Scanderoon 'T is rare that one and self-same Day should be His Day of Birth of Death of Victory I had a Maternal Uncle that died the Third of March last 1678. which was the Anniversary-day of his Birth And which is a Truth exceeding strange many Years ago he fore-told the Day of his Death to be that of his Birth and he also averred the same but about a Week before his Departure This Third of March is the Day of St. Eutropius of which hereafter And as to my Uncle it was significative it turn'd well to him according to that of Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the Dead c. and that of Ovid Metam lib. 3. Dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque Funera debet None happy call Before their Death and final Funeral The Sixth of January was five times auspicious to Charles Duke of Anjou Ibid. in the Life of the Earl of Sunderland The Twenty fourth of February was happy to Charles the Fifth four times Ibid. Heylyn speaking of the Temple of Jerusalem hints Three of these Four His Birth His taking of Francis King of France Prisoner His receiving the Imperial Crown at Bononia And so doth also the Journal History before-mentioned Of the Family of the Trevors Six successive Principal Branches have been Born the Sixth of July Same Memoirs Sir Humphrey Davenport was born the Seventh of July and on that Day Anniversary his Father and Mother died within a quarter of an Hour one of another Same Memoirs Henry Earl of Northumberland Convicted in Star-Chamber to have favoured the Design of the Fifth of November died on the Fifth of November some Years after His Son Algernoon Earl of Northumberland Baptized the Thirteenth of October 1602. died the same Day 1668. I have seen an Old Romish MSS. Prayer-Book and shewed the same to that general Scholar and great Astrologer E. Ashmole Esq at the Beginning whereof was a Calendar wherein were inserted the Unlucky Days of each Month set out in Verse I will recite them just as they are sometimes infringing the Rule of Grammar sometimes of Prosodia a matter of which the old Monkish Rhimers were no ways scrupulous It was as Antient as Henry the Sixth or Edward the Fourth's Time January Prima Dies mensis septima truncat ut ensis February Quarta subit mortem prosternit tertia fortem March Primus mandentem disrumpit quarta bibentem April Denus undenus est mortis vulnere plenus May. Tertius occidit septimus ora * Ex re Iaedo relidit June Denus pallescit quindenus foedra nescit July Ter-decimus mactat Julii denus labefactat August Prima necat fortem prosternit secunda cohortem September Tertia Septembris denus fert mala membris October Tertius denus est sicut mors alienus November Scorpius est quintus tertius e nece cinctus December Septimus exanguis virosus denus anguis The Tenth Verse is intolerable and might be mended thus Tertia cum dena fit sicut mors aliena If any object and say Deni is only the Plural I excuse my self by that admirable Chronogram upon King Charles the Martyr Ter deno Jani Lunae Rex Sole cadente Carolus exutus Solio Sceptroque secure Neither will I have recourse for Refuge to that Old Tetrastich Intrat Avaloniam duodena Caterva virorum Flos Arimathiae