July 13. Old Stile the 23. New Stile began the 1982. year from the Death of Alexander Although it be not denied but that Alexander died at Babylon Anno aetatis suae 33. and in the 453. Olympiad Yet as touching the day of his Death all Authors are not of one Opinion For Paulus Crusius refers it to May 20. Buntingus to the 9. and Christmannus to the 23. of June Scaliger who would ever be singular to July 25. But howsoever it was Astronomers fix it to the 12. Nov. the first of the Egyptian Month Toth because Astronomers do not always like Historians record the Res gestae on the days they happen but for the most part refer their Epochae to the beginning of the years publickly used and follow the vulgar computation days for their greater ease in Calculation The Syrian Syro-graecian Alexandrean or Chaldâ—ean Aera which the Jews and the Writer of the History of the Machabees used in the Jewish affairs began in the 4402. year of the Julian Period the 3638. from the Creation the 436. of Nabonnassar the 12. of Alexander and the 311. before our Saviour The year 1657. was the 1968. current year of this Aera but from October began the 1969. This Epocha is reckon'd from Seleucus Nicanor a most potent Monarch who ruled with great fortitude in Syria Caldaea and other bordering Regions as far as the River Indus It is termed Alexandrean not that it commenceth either from the Empire or Exit of Alexander for his Death precedes it above twelve years but because that after the Death of Alexander the Eastern Empire became Bipartite or divided into Asia and Syria whence this Epocha is also called Diâ—lcarnain i. e. Two-horned from the two Horns or two Empires which sprang from that one Eastern Alexandrean Empire In 1 Machab. 1.11 it is called the Aera or beginning of the Kingdom of the Greeks It is also called Aera Contractuum The Julian Epocha or the year wherein Julius Caesar corrected the Calendar began in the year 45. before our Saviours Incarnation in the 4668. of the Julian Period the 3934. year of the World the 709. of the City and the 732. Olympiad or the 4. year of the 183. Olympiad Wherefore the year 1657 was the 1702. from the Julian Emendation Julius Caesar having observed the year instituted by Romulus to consist but of ten Months or 304 days which agree not with the 12 Conjunctions of the Luminaries in a year and the Custom of the People every where reckoning the year by Months Neither the year instituted by Numa Pompilius consisting of 12 Lunar Months with the motion of the Sun the only measure of the year that he might provide for and gratifie his Subjects in this respect also and perpetuate the memory of his name to Posterity by the help of Sosigines an Egyptian Mathematician whom he brought with him from Alexandria then corrected the year ever since from his name called Julian by ordaining it to consist of 365 days 6 hours JESUS CHRIST the Son of GOD and Saviour of the World was incarnated in the 4713. year of the Julian Period the 3949. of the Creation the 4. of the 194. Olympiad the 753. current year of Romes Foundation and in the 748. Current of Nabonnassar The Aera of the Ethiopians or Abyssins called Dioclesian the Aera of Martyrs or the Aera of the Cophti Martyrs for by all those Names it is so called used by the Alexandrians and Egyptians at this day began in the 4997. of the Julian Period the 4233. of the World the 4. year of the 265. Olympiad the 1033. of Nabonnassar the 18. day of the Month Athyr but with the 284. of Christ. And therefore the year 1657. is the 1373. compleat but the 1374 current year of the Dioclesian Aera beginning August 29. When Dioclesian the Emperour had gained a great name of Prudence and therewith so delighted and flatter'd himself that needs he must be Worshipped as a God he Commanded all the Subjects of his Empire to observe the beginning of his Reign and from thence to reckon their years whereby it came to pass that from the 284. year of Christ in which he came to the Empire this Aera called from his name Dioclesian took its beginning It is called The Aera of Martyrs because of the exceeding great Tyranny which he exercised in the time of his Government against the Christians The Aera of the Cophti Martyrs from the Country and City so called near to the River Nilus wherein were cruelly destroyed a multitude of Christians by sundry exquisite and unheard-of Torments True it is that this grievous persecution fell out in the 19. year of his Reign Nevertheless the Cophti in the Notations of their years do account the beginning of the Persecution from the first of Dioclesian's Reign So that the Dioclesian Aera is the same with that of Martyrs The Turkish Aera from Hegira or the Flight of Mahomet from Mecha began in the 622. current year of Christ July 16. The years are Lunar repeding towards the heads of the Julian years And the year 1657. commenceth the 1067. of Hegira But hte Turkâ— do reckon 11000. years till the present because 537. Arabian or Turkish years make scarce 527 Julian Or as Scaliger will 235 Arabique years but 228 Julian wanting a day This Mahomet or Mahumed is the Turks great Prophet or rather grand Impostor whose Law is the Alchocran Arabia was the Nest that bred and foster'd this unclean Bird Medina the place of his Birth Mecha of his Burial both which are therefore had in great Veneration The Persian Aera is twofold Jesdagirdick and Gelalaean The Jesdagirdick or the years from the death of Jesdagirda began the 632. year of our Saviour June 16. And the year of 1657. began the 1026. of that Aera This Jesdagird was the last King of the Persians whom Othoman the Sarazen Emperour overthrew and at once deprived him both of Life and Kingdom The Sultan or Gegalaean Aera began the 1079. current year of our Redeemer March the 14. in the 448. of the Jesdagirdick on the 18. day of the Month Pharavardim or Pheurdim And the year 1657. began the 579 of this Aera This Sultan Gelal so called by the Persians was Emperor of Chorosan and Mesopotamia who by the help of 8 Persian Mathematicians then corrected the Calendar of that Nation For having observed that the year Equally numbered from the Aera of Jesdagird after the manner of the Egyptians was lesser than requisit as not exactly Solar and that the Months by degrees did run backward That the Julian year agreed not to the Sun's Motion but was greater than it should be and by little and little yet with a slower Progress than in the Egyptian year crept forward they invented a peculiar quantity of the year somewhat lesser than the Julian and a little greater than the Gregorian but by much exceeding the Egyptian This year thus invented and fixed as aforesaid
and last Particular laid down by Ptolemy and that is the time of these Events In due search whereof we are to consider the Habit of the Comet in respect of the Sun Cometa Orientalis effectum suum citius ostendit Occidentalis tardius An Oriental Comet doth quickly shew its Effects but an Occidental as this was more slowly And this in the general In Specie saith Cardan quantum temporis requiritur Prolemaeus non dixit Ptolemy hath left us no special Rule whereby to know the precise beginning of a Comets Effects Howbeit Cardan is of Opinion that the beginnings thereof are as in Eclipses deferred so many Months as there shall be inequal hours intercepted between the Comet and the Ascendant of the Figure erected to the middle time of its appearance Yet saith he Hoc unum interest quod semina corum quae pâ—r Cometam significantur diutius proferuntur This one thing is considerable that sometimes the Generation or Seeds of those things which are signified by a Comet are deferred longer And he gives the Example of our Saviour at whose Birth there appeared a Comet in the East which the Wise Men saw and came therefore to Worship him They called it a Star by a common name as well because Comets are called Stars as also for that it was most fair and beautiful and resembling those that usually shine by Night Which Star or Comet saith he pronounced the Seditions and Troubles that succeeded by the Promulgation of the Faith of Christ These many Exiles and Martyrs and afterwards the Kingdom of Peace and Salvation to be established The Author and King of which CHRIST was born in the very Glory of the Comet because it appeared in the East Nevertheless the Effects thereof that is to say the Preaching and Promulgation of his Law the Seditions and Tumults of the People the Persecutions Banishments Deaths Wars and Kingdoms erected in a Christian Name scarce had their Commencement Thirty Years after and persevere until this very day So on the contrary in 1264. there appeared an unhappy Comet in the East extending its Hairs or Rays if we Credit the Story to the Mid-heaven which Comet continued almost Nine Months together Nâ—ither sooner vanished it than Pope Urban dyed After whose death Charles with an Army of Frâ—nch marched against Manfrâ—dus and having Vanquished him possesses himself of the Kingdom of Naples Two Years after the Paeni or Carthaginians invaded Spain and there committed great Cruelty nevertheless they were afterwards repulsâ—d and slam At the same time there were great Tumults raised in Hetruria What followed In the third Year after the Comet Banducar or rather Bandoduchar King of Babylon and Assyria invaded Armenia with a mighty Army Conquered Antioch and committed most grievous slaughters upon the Christians In the fourth Year after the Comet Conradinus the Suevian being Vanquished and taken Captive by Charles Earl of Provence and Sicily and as Aemilius writes the declared King of Jerusalem was Beheaded In the fifth Year Lewis the Ninth King of France passing into Africa was taken at Carthage or as others say at Tunera and dyed of a Flux the greatest part of his Army being first destroyed by Famine and Pestilence Whose Death was no sooner heard of than the aforesaid Charles enforced the King of the Carthaginians to a Yearly Tribute In the Sixth Year the Scythians now called Tartars assisting the Armenians the Assyrians or Saracens being Vanquished and fled freed Asia and long kept it by the consent of the Christians So that the measure of time limiting the beginning and ending of a Comets Effects cannot be prefixed unless as Ptolemy describeth for so indeed they may be conjectured But to adventure on feigned proportions of time where none is in Nature were ridiculous Diuturni Cometae effectuum magnitudinem diuturnitatem stabilemque in perturbatione quam afferunt statum significant Effectus minores minus stabiles minus Diuturni Cometae afferunt Comets that continue long saith Origanus import the Magnitude and continuance of their Effects and a stedfast condition in the Trouble or Aâ—â—iction they bring But such as continue a shorter time lesser Effects and not so durable This Comet continued twenty three days or thereabouts and 't is probable the Effects may continue as many Years but I dare not conclude so For although that proportion should hold true where the Effects of Comets meeting with no obstruction terminate per se their virtue being extinguished like as it falls out in all other Natural Causes Yet when another Comet Eclipse or Great Conjunction supervenes which is of a contrary Nature it everts the Decrees of the former and so eludes us as to any certain proportion of time limiting their Effects Teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus viz. Johannes Baptista Morinus Doctor in Physick and Physician in Ordinary to the Duke of Luxemburgh after his Epistles to the South and North Astrologers for restoring of Astrology Printed at Paris Anno 1628. delivers these six following Articles c. as necessary for the Confirmation and Demonstration thereof by Principles which Articles c. I have faithfully Translated and here inserted in hope some Noble Spirits endued with Ability of Parts and Purse may timely attempt the Prosecution thereof 1. FIrst to Collect from the Histories of several Nations of the World the most Eminent and Notable Changes that have therein happened in respect of Sects Empires Kingdoms Wars Famines Deluges c. with the exact times of their Changes and the true postures of the Constellations and Planets preceding the same 2. To observe the Changes of the Air in respect of Heat Cold Moisture and Drought as also the Winds throughout the whole Latitude of the Earth And then the different places of Longitude in their Natures and Qualities at the same and at several times Erecting Coelestial Figures most congruous for that purpose and to mark well how from thence Plants Brutes and Men are affected and all these Observations to compare one with another 3. To erect the several Nativities of such as dyed not long after they were Born of those that be Sickly or any ways Hurt Blind Lame Ulcerated Wounded Burnt Mutilated c. diligently observing the Parts so affected the which may most conveniently be done in a spacious City such as Paris is where are many Hospitals and Poor People innumerable many Chirurgeons and every day various Casualties 4. By help of the Physicians to find out if possible the Beginnings Species Accidents and Solutions of all Acute and daily Diseases that every where abound Erecting Coelestial Schemes to those Beginnings And that especially at Paris where the exorbitant Practice of frequent Blood-letting does much disturb Natures Motions and Crises in Diseases and very often elude and frustrate the Astrological Predictions of the Ancients concerning them 5. What the Ancient Astrologers have delivered on every Subject the same to Collect and Observe in several by diligent reading thereof and to
Years Since all the Heav'ns appeared on a fire 82 Years Since Piercy and great Navil's Insurrection 87 Years Since Gresham Colledge and th' Exchangâ— erection 85 Years Since Drake surrounded this our Globe of strife 79 Years Since Pious Gresham did exchange this Life 77 Years Since Saint Domingo ransack'd wash by Drake 71 Years Since then the Spaniards did not sighâ— but quake 71 Years Since Zutphen-Siege our Famous Sydnâ—y slew 70 Years Since Scotch Queen Mary bid the World adieu 69 Years Since boasting Spain's Armado overthrown 68 Years Since th' Indian Weed was first in England known 65 Years Since daring Drake and noble Hawkins di'd 61 Years Since Cheap-side-Cross most richly beautifi'd 60 Years Since Cales was from the Spaniards stoutly torn 60 Years Since CHARLES the first to grief and sorrow born 56 Years Since Learned JAMES the English Crown possest 54 Years Since he th' Allegiance Oath upon us prest 54 Years Since Fate reveal'd the Puny Powder-Plot 51 Years Since first rejoyc'd for now regarded not 50 Years Since Fred'rick Count arriv'd on English Earth 44 Years Since we bewail'd Heroick HENRY's Death 44 Years Since here last Christianus Denmark's King 42 Years Since Middleton's River brought from Amwel-spring 42 Years Since we Bermudas â—irst inhâ—bited 42 Years Since Learned Rawleigh's noble Blood was shed 38 Years Since last a Comet in the Scorpion seen 38 Years Since that brought death to Ann our James's Queen 37 Years Since Charles with cares as well as gold was Crown'd 31 Years Since his fair Queen first trod on English Ground 31 Years Since Londâ—n's last great Plague from Heaven sent 31 Years Since then at Oxford sate the Parliâ—ment 31 Years Since Buckingham's great Duke so basely slain 28 Years Since Englâ—nd did conclude a Peace with Spain 27 Years Since liâ—ing Charles fiâ—st breath'd this loathsom air 26 Years Since Rev'râ—â—â— LAUD began St. Paul's repair 22 Years Since the late King advanc'd against the Sâ—OT 17 Years Since Peace concluded but intended not 17 Years Sincâ— Wolves and Foxes first were Idoliz'd 16 Years Since 〈◊〉 Strafford's Blood was Sacrific'd 15 Years Since Sects and Tumults set the Land on fire 15 Years Since the dead King was forced to retire 15 Years Since Hotham shut Hull-gates against the King 14 Years Since ruined for thoughts to let him in 12 Years Since we with Essex vow'd to live and die 14 Years Since we cashier'd him of his Excellency 12 Years Since Charles his Royal Standard streaming stood 14 Years Since Keinton-field deep dy'd with English blood 14 Years Since Cheapside-Cross for Conscience-sake did fall 13 Years Since Moses Tables forc'd to give the wall 13 Years Since the Scotch Army marched to our aid 13 Years Since they return'd from Hereford well paid 13 Years Since Uxbridge Overture's initiation 12 Years Since Love bâ—lâ—ht fire brands that consum'd the nation 12 Years Since first we felt the vertue of a Tax 12 Years Since glorious Laud triumphed o're the Ax 12 Years Since Common-Prayers ceas'd abjured rather 12 Years Since the wise Synod voâ—ed God the Father 12 Years Since Naseby-field first own'd that fatal blow 11 Years Since even poor Women felt the overthrow 11 Years Since pensive Charles left Oxford in Disguise 10 Years Since he to Treacherous Scots became a Prize 10 Years Since Henderson receiv'd his Mortal Wounds 10 Years Since Scotch-men sold their Prince for English pounds 10 Years Since Holmby-house â—estrain'd his further flight 10 Years Since Joyce surpriz'd him in the dead of Night 9 Years Since he had terms propos'd and promis'd right 9 Years Since fairly juggl'd into th' Isle of Wight 9 Years Since there the sinful Treaty did commence 8 Years Since broken off he forthwith hurry'd thence 8 Years Since the old Commons took a purging dose 8 Years Since CHARLES made truly great and glorious 8 Years Since they the House of Lords did useless doom 8 Years Since Kingship dangerous and burthensom 8 Years Since the Supremacy was Eastward bound 8 Years Since our Allegiance bury'd under ground 8 Years Since CHARLES's Crown exposed to a rate 8 Years Since England hight â—he Title of Free-State 7 Years Since Scotland tasted of Heav'ns ireful Cup 5 Years Since English Hogs are our dear Brethren up 5 Years Since Mars unroosted those had twelve years rul'd 3 Years Since Mad-men on their Ruines 'gan to build 3 Years Since that illiterate Conclave's Dissolution 3 Years Since this blest Governments first Institution 3 Years This is added out of his Ephemer 1655. Since Time was pregnant of a Lord Protector 2 Years Since she brought forth a more than Trojan Hector 2 Years Since London feasted him at Grocers Hall 2 Years Since Viner the first Knight amongst us all 2 Years Since Peace concluded with the High-born Dutch 2 Years Since the shrill Trumper nois'd it to be such 2 Years Since Knights and Burgesses their free Election 2 Years Since winnowed and made of one complexion 2 Years Since they conven'd and sate with blest intent 2 Years Since they presum'd to tune the Instrument 2 Years Since found flat-guilty of that High Ambition 2 Years Since taught the meaning of a Recognition 2 Years Since some like Rats forsook the falling House 2 Years Since others big with Mountains dropt a Mouse 2 Years Since the Protector set their sins before them 2 Years Since he dissolved never to restore them 1 Years Since Noble James the Duke of Lenox dy'd 1 Years Since Perjur'd Falc'ner wisely stept aside 1 Years Since Wiltshire's Insurrection broach'd new fears 1 Years Since the grand seisure of the Cavaliers 1 Years For the continuing this Ingenuous Chronology to any time you need but add the elapsed Years between your proposed year and the Year 1656. and 't is done Examples are needless 2. Over the Festivals Why rail we not at superstitious days Pull Crosses down and burn the harmless Bays â—hy do we not inhibit Common-Pray'rs â—nd threaten Bridewell to the Cock-Pit Players â—ow can our tender Consciences digest Organs and Altars stand they East or West Plum-broth and Pies made of Malignant-Paste Which erst the Godly would not dare to taste And plead Allegiance now that Fatal stroke Hath cut the Chain and cleft in two the Yoke The change is great and may be well defended But 't is enough to say The work is ended 3. Over the Table of Kings Yet yet the Regal Table courts the Nation Kings are not out of date though out of Fashion Under the Table of Kings Two Williams twice four Henries Stephens but one Three Richards twice three Edwards and a John One Mary one Elizabeth a James And Charles five times five Soveraigns with ten names Who numbers more transgresses out of Reason God save my Cow and that I hope 's no Treason 4. Over the Table of Terms The Chancery's reform'd and so are we All things enjoy their Pristine Purity Under the Table of Terms Lawyers 't is true like new-set Mill-stones grind Their Rough-shod Clients
the Registers and publick Notaries those Letters were confusedly written as one word the first sillable whereof was the Dipthong AE and had a declination assign'd it It is likewise by some called Hera but very corruptly for so the Spanish Dictionary of Antonius Nebrissa wherein it is made to signifie a Monarchy So Hera Mundi Hera Christi Hera Ordinationis Julianae and generally any other time computed from the beginning or rise of an Eminent and Illustrious Nation Religion or Sect is called Hera Now forasmuch as the business and benefit of these Epochae or Aerae is that the times past may thereunto be compared and applied as to a term prefixed I have here accommodated the Reader with the most Illustrious Epochae observed at this Day when they Commence how they agree and may be reduced to that of our Saviour the most Famous of all amongst Christians in limiting and determining of their Affairs for that such as be rightly instructed in the principal Intervals of years do best understand the differences of times which are Various and reap far greater profit in the Histories they read A view of the more notable Epochae EPOCHAE Anni Period Julia. Mens Perioda Juliana 1 January 1 Mundi Creatio 765 January 1 Aera Olympiadum 393◠July 8 Urbs condita 3961 April 21 Epocha Nabonnassari 3967 February 26 Obitus Alexandri Magni 4390 November 12 Aera Chaldaeorum 4463 October 15 Aera Ordinationis Julianae 4668 January 1 Aera CHRISTI DEI 4713 Calend. January  EPOCHAE Anni Christi Mens Aera Martyrum Copcitar 284 August 29 Aera Turcica Hegirae 622 July 16 Aera Jesdagirdica 632 June 16 Aera Sultanica 1079 March 14 Aera Gregoriana 1582 October 5 The Julian Period albeit but feign'd and invented by Scaliger through a continued Multiplication of the three Cycles of the Sun Moon and Roman Indiction used in the Julian year is Registred among the most Famous Epochae as being the Vehiculum by which we are safely carried through a Series of years This Period commenceth 4713 compleat years before the Common Aera of Christ or in the 4714. inchoate before his Nativity Therefore the first of January in the year 1657. Old Stile begins the 6370. year of the Julian Period the First whereof is Bissextile The Epocha or Aera of the Worlds Creation falleth out in the 765. year of the Julian Period which was Bissextile 3949 compleat years before the Birth of Christ. juxta Historicam veritatem wherefore the year 1657 is the 5660. Current year of the Worlds Aera Sed haec tamen incerta juxta varias Chronologorum sententias immutata Besides The Greek Church numbereth from the Creation to Christs Aera 5508 compleat years and begins it in the 5509. Current from the Antecedent Calends of September Therefore the year 1657. Current of the Christian Aera beginneth the 7165. current year of the World according to the Grecian Account The Latin Church according to Eusebius doth reckon from the Creation to Christs Nativity 5199 years counting from the Julian Vernal Month of March. And therefore the year of Christ 1657 is the 6856. year from the Creation which must as I said be computed from March for that according to this Account the Months January and February belong to the year 6855. The Jews Hebrews and later Rabbins do number from the Creation to the Nativity 3761 years beginning their Account from the first day of the Month Tisri which then agreed to the seventh of October in the Julian year And therefore the year of Christ 1657 is the 5418. year from the Creation according to their Account The Aera of the Olympiads or the first year of the first Olympiad began in the Summer of the 3938. year of the Julian Period in the 3174. year of the Creation Therefore the first year of the Christian Aera agrees to the 766. Olympiad Current or the 4. year of the 194. Olympiad which began the Summer before Therefore the Summer of the year of Christ 1657. began the first year of the 609. Olympiad This Epocha of the Olympiads is so called from the plains of Olympus nigh to the Temple of Jupiter Olympicus in the Country of Elis not far from the City Pisa and the River Alpheus where the Certamina ludicra or the Olympique Games were first instituted by Hercules Alemenus Anno Mundi 2757. in honour of this Jupiter Quibus homines Ethnici saith my Author ad immortalium Deorum cultum ad vires exercendas excitati sunt The Judges therein being the Citizens of Elis. After Hercules his Death these Games were discontinued for more than 400 years and until Prince Iphitus renewed them Anno Mundi 3174. and caused them to be Celebrated every fifth year The Epocha of Romes Foundation agrees with the 3161. year of the Julian Period April 21. being Paliliorum Urbis Romae Natale Festum with the 3197. year from the Worlds Creation the 3. year of the 6. Olympiad and the 753. current year before Christ. Therefore the year 1657. April 21. old stile began the 2410. year from the Foundation of Rome The Epocha of Nabonnassar the most ancient and famous of all other Astronomical Epochae took beginning with the Death of the King in the 3967. year of the Julian Period the 3203. of the World the first of the 8. Olympiad the 6. of the City and the 747. before Christ. Therefore the year 1657. July 5. New Stile but June 25. Old Stile begins the 2406. current year of Nebonnassar This Nabonnassar is not the same whom the Arabians Hebrews and some late Mathematicians amongst which Andreas Argolus is One following Alphonsus do meerly I suppose for the similitude of the Names call Nebuchadonosor or Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon For by examining the Interval of the 423 Egyptian years between the Empire of Nabonnassar and Alexanders Death with some famous actions during that time amongst the Jews and other Nations according to the Sacred and Profane Histories we shall find that Nabuchadonosor was 140 years after Nabonnassar Besides Funccius Bucholcerus Buntingus Colmannus and others especially Reinholdus Tab. Prut believed him to be the same with Salmanassar King of the Assyrians But Scaliger Calvisius Christmannus and Origanus conclude him for either that King of Babylon which 2 Reg. 20.12 is called Baladan the Father of Berodach or Mardochempadi as Ptolemy calleth him or else that King which Scaliger by this name calleth the first in the Dynastie of the Babylonians which revolted from Artica King of the Medes and erected a New Kingdom wherein he reckoneth Twenty Kings until Cyrus King of the Persians The Radix or Epocha of Alexander the Great which the Arabians call Aera Philippi began the 4390. year of the Julian Period the 3626. of the Creation Nov. 12. the 425. of Nabonnassar and the 324. Current before Christ. This Epocha was used by Hipparchus Ptol. Theon Alexandrinus in Canonibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Albategnius The year 1657.
but in vain 24. E. Essex and Sir W. Waller joyned Forces about Blewbury and marched towards Abingdon May 25. Stopford taken for the King Latham House relieved 28. Bolton Stormed and taken for the King 29. Essex and Waller divided their Forces 30. Essex attempted to cross the River Charwel at Gesworth-bridge but repulsed 3. Waller to pass Isis at New-bridge but obstructed He demolished Abingdon-Cross June 1. Essex attempts the second time to cross Charwel in several places at once but beaten back with loss 3. King marched with his Army from Oxford towards Worcester 4. Essex passed Charwel with his Army A prodigious Storm on Campsfield near Woodstock 5. Essex marched after the King to Chippingnorton 6. Returned to Burford and there Deputed Waller to pursue the King 11. Dudley Castle relieved by the Kings Forces from Worcester 12. Borstall-House taken by the Oxford Forces 16. Pr. Henrietta Born at Exeter 18. King returned to Witney 22. King at Buckingham 25. Parliaments Forces routed at Colne June 26. Waller in Keinton-field The King at Brackley 28. The King to Banbury where he found Waller drawn up on Crouch hill 29. Waller defeated at Crop-ready Bridge July 2. York relieved by the King and immediately after began that terrible Battle on Marston Moor wherein the Kings Forces were at last worsted and several persons of note slain 6. Parliaments Forces routed at Warmister 15. King with his Army at Bath Qu. arrived at Brâ—st 23. York delivered to the Parliament His Majesty at Kingsmoor in Sommerset-shire 31. Dennington Assaulted by the Parl. repulsed Aug. 1. King with his Army passed Tamar at Polton-bridge in Cornwal in pursuit of the Earl of Essex 25 Lestithiel Castle taken by the King 30 Parliaments Horse fled towards Plymouth Sep. 1. E. Essex fled to Plymouth The Army of Foot submitted to the King 11 Basing relieved by some Forces from Oxford Sept. 12. Ilfercomb surrendred to the King 17 Barnstaple the like 23 Banbury stormed by the Parl. Forces repulsed Oct. 7. Salatach stormed and taken by the King 25 Banbury Siege raised 27 Newbury Second Battle 29 Shelford House Storm'd and taken by the Parliament Nov. 6. Kings Army rendeâ—ouzed on Burlington Green 9 Dennington Siege raised by the King 17 He advanced to Hungerford Parliament Forces left the Field They raised their Siege from before Basing 19 Parahelii or three Suns appeared in London Monmouth regained for the King 23 King returned to Oxford Propositions from the Parliament 26 Book of Common Prayer voted down by the House of Commons Dec. 13. The King by the D. Richmond and E. South sends to the Parl. for a Treaty 15 Helmsly Castle surrendred to the Parliament Dec. 22. Two Troops of the Nottingham Horse taken at Upton by a party from Newark 23 Sir Alexander Carew Beheaded on Tower-hill 24. Sir John Price defeated at Welch-pool by the Kings Forces 28 Mr. Blake's House at Pinnel in Wiltshire taken by a party of the Kings 31 Sir Thomas Fairfax Voted General of the Parliaments Forces Jan. 1. Capt. Hotham Beheaded Sir John Hotham Beh. Lipiat-House taken by the King About this Col. Ludlow's Regiment of Horse was routed at Salisbury 3 An Ordinance for abolishing the Book of Common Prayer and establishing a Directory in the room thereof 10 Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Beheaded The Skirmish at Cullombridge 30 Began the Treaty at Uxbridge Feb. 9 10 11. Weymouth and the Forts taken for the King but lost again in a few days after 15 Rowden House taken for the King 20 L. Macquire an Irish Baron Executed at Tyburn 22. Treaty at Uxbridge ended Shrewsbury suâ—prized for the Parliament Feb. 25. Col. Rossiter defeated near Melton-Mowbray 26 The Northampt. Horse defeated near to Daventry Castle-ditch taken by a party of the Kings from Hereford March 1. Pontfract relieved and the Parliaments Army defeated 6 A Convoy of the Parliaments Horse consisting of about 200 taken at Hawford 7 Major Abercromy slain and his whole party taken and dispersed near to Stratton Audley by a party of the Kings from Borstal 14 Col. Long 's Regiment of Horse defeated and himself taken Prison near the Devizes 15 Col. Brandlin's quarters at Badsworth beaten up by a party from Pontfract 18 Northampton Horse routed near Abthrop Beeston Castle relieved Anno 1645. 25 A party of the Parliaments Horse defeated at Pitmaster Dennington Castle surrendred to the Parliament Worcester Summoned April 1. Parl. Quarters beaten up at Wincaunton 5 Col. Popham's Regiment defeated April 14. High Archal Siege raised 17 Dr. Featly dyed a Prisoner 19 Fort at Notting Bridge taken by the Newarkers but quitted within a few days 22 C. Massey defeated at Ledbury 23 Newcastle Emblin relieved by the King and the Besiegers defeated 24 A party of the K. Horse routed at Islip Blechingdon House Summoned and delivered to the Parliament Col. Windebank shot to Death at Oxford 30 Farrington assaulted by the Parl. Forces but repulsed Gen. Fairfax began his march from Windsor May 7. King began his march from Oxford A Fight at Newbridge 12 Taunton relieved by the Parliament 15 Hawksly House surrendred to the King Chester Siege raised 22 Oxford the first time Besieged 23 Godstow House quitted 26 Evesham taken by the Parliament 30 Leicester Besieged by the King 31 Leicester Stormed and taken Bagworth Colehorton Kirby-bellows and Burleigh quitted by the Parliament June 1. Gaunt-House yielded 2 A notable Sally made out of Oxford Gen. Fairfax raised his Siege there 4 He Assaulted Borstal Repulsed 6. A prodigious Storm about Loughborough 9. Kings Forces worsted about Stokely 14. The fatal Battle of Naseby wherein the Kings Army was totally overthrown 18. Leicester regained by the Parliament A party of the Parliaments Horse routed at Ryby by a party from Newark 27. Highworth surrendred 28. Carlisle delivered to the Scots July 3. Taunton the second time relieved by the Parliament 4. Parl. Quarters beaten up near Bamcroft Castle in Shropshire 5. High-archal Siege raised and the Besiegers routed by the Kings Forces 8. Ilchester quitted by the King 10. Kings Forces defeated at Langport 11. Bridgewater Besieged by the Parliament 13. Burrough-hill Fort in Sommerset-shire yielded to the Parliament July 16. Chippenham taken for the King Welbeck-house surprized by a party from Newark 21. Pontfract Castle surrendred to the Parliament 23. Bridgwater the like 25. So Scarborough 30. Bath also Aug. 1. Torksey-House in Lancashire taken by the Newarkers 4. The Club-men on Hamilton-hill routed by the Parliament 8. Capt. Allen and his whole Troop taken by a party from Belvoire Castle on the Borders of Lincoln-shire 15. Sherb Castle Assaulted and taken by the Parliament 17. Montross defeated the Scotch Army in Kilsieth field near Glasgow in Scotland 20. Nunny Castle surrendred to the Parliament 24. Huntington taken for the King Sept. 2. The Scots raised their Siege from Hereford 6. Parl. Quarters beaten up at Tame by a party from Oxford c. 9. M. Strood one of the five Members dyed 10. Bristol Storm'd and part
Christi 30. Saint Peter and Saint Paul the first whereof was chief of the Apostles and Preached the Gospel in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Bithynia and in the end at Rome where he was aftâ—rwards Crucified under Nero with his Head downward for that was his desire and there also buried The latter viz. Saint Paul who being called of Christ himself after his Assumption and number'd in the Catalogue of the Apostles Preached the Gospel from Jerusalem to Illyricum Italy and Spain and was beheaded at Rome under Nero Anno Christi 68. on the third Calends of July as was also Saint Peter with whom he there lyeth buried Saint James the greater Brother to Saint John Son of Zebedee an Apostle and Martyr who preached the Gospel to the twelve dispersed Tribes and was slain by the Sword or Beheaded by Herod Agrippa in Judea Anno Christi 45 where also he was buried and so consequently the first of all the Twelve Apostles in Christs Kingdom Saint Bartholomew who was Nephew some say and Heir to a King of Syria yet both an Apostle and Martyr He preached the Gospel to the Indians where by the Command of Polemius King of India He was the first day beaten with Cudgels the next Crucifi'd and Excoriated or fleyed alive as fastned on the Cross. And last of all whilest Breath remained Beheaded Anno Christi 51. Wherefore it is called Duplex Festum some keeping also the Twenty Fifth as we the Twenty Fourth of August Saint Matthâ—w who being a Jew by Birth and a Publican or Toll-customer by Profession became a Disciple an Apostle an Evangelist and Martyr He wrote the Gospel of Christ in the Hebrew tongue and delivered it to James the Brother of our Lord then Bishop of Jerusalem The same he preached in Ethiopia where he was entertain'd by the Eunuch Câ—amberlain to Queen Candace whereof mention is made in the Acts And prevailed so far that Aeglippus the King and his People came to Baptism but there reigning after him one Hyrtacus who hated the Apostle by his Command he was run thorow with a Sword in the year of Christ 71. Saint Michael the Arch-Angel is he who figured Christ and fought for his Church against the Red Dragon or the Devil and his Angels Saint Luke born in Syria by Profession a Physician of Antioch an Evangelist and the Penman of the Apostles Acts who accompanied the Apostles in their Peregrination but Especially Paul and died at Ephesus in the Eighty Fourth year of his Age where also he was buried Anno Christi 74 But many years after Translated together with Andrew and Timothy to Constantinople in the time of Constantine Son to Constantine the Great Saint Simon Zelotes and Saint Jude the Brother of James both Apostles of Christ. The first of which was born in Cana a Town of Galilee being the son of Mary and Clâ—ophas according to Eusebius lib. 3. Ch. 11. and preached the Gospel in Egypt and Persia whence he returned and succeeded Saint James in the Bishoprick of Jerusalem where he was Crucified under Trajan in the 120 year of his Age and so the last Martyr of all the Apostles The latter viz. Saint Jude likewise called Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus who preached the Gospel to the Edessaeans and throughout all Mesopotamia and was slain at Berytus in the time of Agbarus King of Edessa where also he was very honourably buried Anno Christi 51. The Feast of All-Saints is dedicated to all Christs Apostles Martyrs and Holy Confessors in general Of Saint Andrew the Brother of Simon Peter by Profession a Fisher yet an Apostle and Martyr Who preached to the Scythians Sogdians Sacians and in the Middle Seabastopolis After that in Cappadocia Galatia Bithynia and along the Euxine Sea Lastly in Thrace Macedonia Thessally and Achaia where in the time of Vespatian he was Crucified by Aegeas King of the Edesseans and buried at Patris a City of Achaia about the 80. year of Christ. Saint Thomas Didymus Christs Apostle and Martyr who Preached to the Parthians Medes and Persians So also to the Caramans Hircans Bactrians and Magicians and was slain with a Dart at Calamina a City of India where he was Honourably buried Anno Christi 35. The Feast of Christs Nativity which without all doubt was on the Twenty Fifth day of December as is fully proved by that Learned Gentleman Edward Fisher Esq in his Vindication of our Gospel Festivals a Book never as yet that I know of answered by any of the separation although Printed and reprinted ever since April 1649. It is commonly called Christmass from the old Saxon word Maeppan whence the English Misse and Mass signifies a Feast and accordingly with them any Holy or Festival day is called Maeppan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Masse day and so doth the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latine Missa from whence the common word Mensa is but lightly removed and signifies the Meat and not the Table only Mensaeque remotae in Virgil the Meat taken away and Mensae secundae the second Course and all this from the Latin Missa because ad Mensam mittitur it is sent or served up to the Table So the Reverend Dr. Hammond In the Northern parts of this Nation it is called Yule from the Latin Jubilum which signifies a time of Rejoycing and Festivity By the Western or Latin Church Luminaria or the Feast of Light because they used many Lights and Candles at this Feast or rather because Christ the Light of all Lights that true Light then came into the World But for the high and Excellent Titles which the Christian Churches gave this Feast See the above mention'd Mr. Fisher Sect. 3. And this is the Basis and Foundation of all the other Christian Festivals and ought to be Celebrated accordingly Of Saint Stephen the First Martyr who was Ordained one of the Seven Proto-Deacons Ut bona communia curaret eaque viduis pauperibus rectè distribueret who zealously refuted the erroneous Opinions of the Jews concerning the Messiah affirming Jesus Christ of Nazareth to be the true one foretold by the Prophets and being therefore accused of Blasphemy was condemned and stoned to Death by the Jews at Jerusalem Anno Christi 35. Saint John the Brother of Saint James who was also an Evangelist and the best beloved Apostle He preached the Gospel in Asia but the Emperor Trajan exiled him into Patmos an Isle of the Egaean Sea where he wrote his Gospel afterward published at Ephesus by Gaius his Host and Deacon After the Death of Trajan he returned from Patmos and remain'd at Ephesus until he had lived 120 years where he died of an Apoplexy Anno Christi 104. Lastly of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem slain by Herod the Great in our Saviours stead though not for his sake amongst whom his own Son as some Historians affirm escaped not his till then unheard-of cruelty which gave Augustus Caesar that occasion to say Melius est esse Herodis
here allowed it throughout the respective Ages of their Astronomers differs no where more than 45 Minutes from what it was observed by them Ptolemy excepted who as saith Longomontanus too confidently maintained that Hipparchus's supposition of the Sun 's Apogaeum had continued invariable until his time his observations being without all question violently fitted to such a purpose And to say the truth were it that we had the Sun 's Apogaeum precisely and uncontroulably so determined by Longomontanus or otherwise by any other very well it might be called Illustre testimonium of the Worlds Original But forsomuch as later Authors do all or most of them differ more or less from him in the Annual motion of the Sun 's Apogaeum and consequently in the place thereof for instance Bullialdus who makes it this year viz. 1655. much less than he viz. 3s. 6° 26′ 27″ by abating 5 Seconds of what Longomontanus allows for its Annual Motion I dare not confidently build upon this Foundation which would this year 1655. compute of above 5621 years since the Creation yet that far short of what arises from Bullialdus whereby the Age of the World should now be no less than 6091 years both of them exceeding but the later by far that Account which the latest and best Chronologers sit down with So that hence also we receive very little or no satisfaction But let the Age of the World be what it please the Season of its Birth I undoubtedly take to be Spring the particle of time in which that mighty Giant the Sun began his unwearied course according to appearance from the first scruple of Aries in the Meridian of Mesopotamia where Paradise is by men very learned both in Divinity and Geography affirm'd to have stood unless we admit of such Allegories as make Paradise to signifie a place of Pleasure and the four Rivers Four Cardinal Vertues or hoist it up in the Air under the Moons Orbit fancying those Rivers to fall down from thence and running under the Ocean to rise up again in those places where now they are found the one Opinion being as unwarantable as the other For it is as true as truth it self that God instituted the beginning of the Ecclesiastical year at the Vernal Aequinox whereby he restored to the People the Beginning of the years which the Patriarchs had observed before them and which they by their long Conversation with the Egyptians had discontinued whence the soundest both Divines and Historians conclude that God restored to the Israelites the Ancient account of the year and the true beginning thereof partly to the end it might be a memorial of their departure out of Egypt partly that the Worlds Creation might be recorded and partly that it might be a Prophecy oâ— Christ who was to suffer at this time So that the Creation the celebration of the Passover and the Redeâ—ption of the World by the Death of Christ do all of them fall out at the same time Now that the Patriarchs had this beginning of the year who can doubt it They had the most natural account of the year and such is that which fixes its Original at the Vernal Aequinox For seeing the Mode of Perfection is two-fold One cùm res fit the Other cùm facta est the consummate Perfection doth in no wise appâ—rtain to the Birth of the thing but the Inchoate and as I may say Vernant For illustration whereof it may be added That the Spring is the most beautiful time of all the year and the most proper for gâ—neration of things Which Moses not Obscurely implyeth where he saith Terram germinasse herbam virâ—ntem Neither is the Objection of Adam's plucking Fruit from off the forbidden-Tree available it being very well known that in some Eastern Countries yea elsewhere they have Fruit growing twice a year tâ—e Poma aurea of Spain both at Spring and Autumn Noâ— does the great Volume of Heaven but confirm this Opinion whilst the Dodecatemory of Aries Commences the natural year wherein the first Conversion or change of these sublunary things is caused To conclude this point The Chaldaeans had their Learning and Wisdom from the Hebrews Now forasmuch as they appointed the beginning of the year at the Vernal Aequinox as did also the Persians 't is vâ—ry proâ—able they borrowed this account of the year from tâ—e Heâ—â—ews and therefore saith Scaliger Exerc. 257. Mundum verè ortum primò autumnaut sapientes credere par est So runs also the sentence of pious Antiquity Hâc est illa dies quinta vigesima Marti Qâ—à verbo Domini mundi textura peracta est Mortuus hâc Adam Mortem hà c devicit Iêsus Hâc est casus Abel fuit hà c â—actandus Isaacus Hâc Pascha indictum Hà c David Rex dicitur unctus Which is thus much after my rude version This is of March the Five and Twentiâ—th day Whereon God finished th' Heavens â—arth and Sea And all therein when the first Adam di'd And when the Second JESUS Crucifi'd When Abels blood was by his Brother shed And Isaac's ready to be offered The Passover proclaimed to begin Whâ—n Holy David was Anointed King Of the Worlds Revolution IF this then be the Season of the year wherein the world had its Birth as the most learned Divines Chronologers and Astronomers have unanimously concluded It followeth next that we consider the Revolution thereof Now to find out the temporary moment of the Sun's Revolution to the first scruple of Aries where he was in the Radix of the Worlds Creation hath been by some accounted impossible by others a task very difficult and uncertain And to say the truth such has been the wide difference herein amongst Astronomers until of late days that the Calculations how nice and curious soever made from the several Tables they published howbeit every man with equal confidence and commendation of the verity and exactness of his own have wanted that precise concurrence which is requisite to raise thereon so compleat an Astrological Structure as might withstand the Tempestuous Storms that frequently arise from the Turbulent Sea of Ignorance and Malice Whereof Cardanus was so sensible that because he would not run the hazard of his Credit so great in the World he rather wholly neglected the then so doubtful Cusps of the Houses in these Revolutional Figures saving thereby the labour of erecting Schems than from such uncertainties to raise alike incertain Judgments In which respect he prescribes a regard only to the places and Aspects of the Planets And indeed should we grant the Tables Astronomical what as yet we find not in them I mean the exactness aimed at and coveted by all men yet till the long sought for and hitherto unfound certainer way of attaining the true Longitude be discovered some discrepancies more or less will be always occurring In the mean while I could wish that some ingenious Artists would apply the Directions of Daniel Santbeck Probl. Astronom and Geom.
rendring his Death no less Prodigious than was the course of his Life Or that of the Year 1572. in Cassiopâ—ia surpassing of the quantity of the Earth 500 times Or those of the Years 1604. and 1618. which were no less Miraculous than that the Sun should stand still as we read it did in the Days of Joshua or return ten Degrees backward as once upon the Dial of Abaz or be Eclipsed so near a Full Moon as at our Saviour's Passion being all of them alike â—strang'd from the accustomed Order of Nature In like manner the Eclipses of thâ— Luminaries are the Causes of many Changes that ensue in the World because their Effects are general pouring forth theâ—r Influence not only upon Cities but even whole Regions subject to the Quadrangle the Sign more especially wherein the Defect happens and no less on particular Persons who have any affinity in their Genitures with the Schemes of such Eclipses So likewise are the strong Genitures of Kings c. Geniturae validae Regna mutant Mighty Genitures change or translate Kingdoms Causes adjuvant are Revolutions of the World the Progression of the Great Orb of Great Conjunctions before the Flood the Birth of Christ Mahomet and the like I could much enlarge my self upon the Progressions of the Great Orb Great Conjunctions c. but shall forbear in regard the most of them concern Foreign Parts excepting that of the Great Conjunction before the Flood which in the Year 1653. was come to the Sign Cancer and did therefore afflict according to Albumazar Tract 4. Differ 4. the Countries of Scotland and Holland with many Changes and Conversions of things from one condition to another a Famine and Poverty proceeding from Siccity and Drought and a general Fear to possess the People of those places because of their Enemies Great Mortality and Slaughters amongst them with abundance of such Creatures as are destructive to the Earth Thus far have you seen the Superiour Natural Causes of the Mutations or Changes of Empires Kingdoms and Common-Wealths how far wherein and when they concern us and other Nations The Inferiour Natural Cause is either within or without Man That within is the Disposition of the Temperament of the Bodies both of Princes and Subjects aâ—d â—o both different Births and Deaths as well of them that Govern as those that be Governed in the Common-Wealth That without is a Mutation either of Fire or Water and of the Earth and place where the Common-wealth is constituted Unto which do belong House-burnings Earthquakes Change of Ports Barrenness Famine Pestilence and all other Natural damages by the which Common-wealths are changed The Moral Cause of Mutation is either Internal or External The Internal is either on the Prince's or Subject's part The Internal on the Prince's part admits this general Canon The beginnings of Princes are for the most part good but their Progress worse From which Change arise great Mutations in Publick Affairs and things The Internal Cause also of Changes in respect of the Prince is either Ethical or Political Touching Ethical Causes there are these Canons 1. Intemperance and Lust of Princes occasion change of the Common-wealth 2. The like when Princes are Effeminate and Cowardly For like as Empires are obtained maintained and kept by Warlike Fortitude so on the contrary are they lost or dangerously changed by softness and Pusillanimity Political Causes of Changes are either in respect of the Foundation of the Principality or of the Office and Care of the Prince As touching the Causes respecting the Foundation of the Principality there be these Canons 1. It is impossible any Common-wealth should long be safe where the Prince comes to Rule either by a violent Invasion or a crafty Subreption without any access to the Principality 2. The Perjuries of Princes that is when they keep not their Oaths made to their Subjects at the time they were called to Govern bring upon Kingdoms dangerous Changes and Conversions 3. The Authority of a Prince decreasing produceth Change and when the Periods of Empires are divolved the Authority of those that Govern faileth The Causes that respect the Care or Office of the Prince have these Canons 1. When the Prince listens not to Wise and Faithful Councellors Changes are imminent 2. When Publick Judgments are corrupted and hainous Impieties remain unpunished Changes are at hand 3. When the Prince affords not the Subject a Lawful and necessary Defence but suffers him to be vexed and trampled over by Incursions of Enemies Changes ensue 4. When the Revenues of a Kingdom decrease of necessity a Change must follow For Moneys are the Nerves of Empires 5. When the Prince doth too much Poll his Subjects with heavy Tributes and Exactions a Change succeedeth 6. When the Potency and Amplitude of Kingdoms arrive at an exceeding greatness a Change follows for the most part and the Empire falleth by its own weight 7. Foreigners rashly irritated or called into a Kingdom do introduce a Change thereof These are the Causes of the Prince his part there now remain the Causes on the Subjects part which are also either Ethical or Political Touching the Ethical Causes these be the Canons 1. When grievous Wickedness is committed amongst the Subjects and all Reverence of the Laws shaken off and that they Live Licentiously in Lust and Luxury Mutations follow 2. When Subjects degenerate from their Pristine Fortitude and become Unwarlike and Effeminate Kingdoms are Changed Political Causes have these Canons 1 When Subjects begin to have their Princes in hatred and grow weary of them Changes will assuredly follow 2. Pâ—nishments and Changes do ever succeed Infidelity of Subjects 3. Changes of things do always accompany the Disobedience and Contumacy of Subjects 4. Where neiâ—her the Laws nor Magistrates are had in Honour there the Common-wealth cannot be safe or durable An Excellent Discourse of the Names Genus Species Efficient and Final Causes of all Comets c. THE Order which Nature observeth in all things Created doth plainly enough teach us That whatsoever is Born passeth and hasteth towards Death And that all things which have a beginning necessarily and interchangably roul towards their End And as in Humane Bodies some are more strong vigorous and of better Constitution than others and therefore of longer continuance Even so in Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealths some preserve themselves longer for that either they are by Nature more strenuous and stable as having propitious Stars and they well Fortified at the time of their first Foundation Or because the Situation of them is Naturally stronger than others as we see at this day in the Signory of Venice The like holdeth in Cities and Towns in particular Families Laws Conclaves and Councils in Religions Heresies and Schisms The consideration whereof prevents my Wonder at the Vicissitudes and Changes here on Earth I account it no Miracle to see a Monarchy Eclipsed in its greatest Glory and the ruine of one the raising of another I stand not
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
more or less be endamaged and hurt by the Effects thereof This inclined for the most part to the North-East Nations of the World And what they are may be discerned by the Globe or Map unto which I refer the Reader But the places principally designed to endure its Effects are the Countries Subject to Gemini and Taurus through which it moved and those are according to Origanus Sardinia part of Lombardy Flanders Brabant the Dukedom of Wittemberge Hyrcania Armenia Mariana Cirenaica Marmarica and the lower Egypt Russia Alba the Greater Polonia the North of Swedland all Ireland Lorrain Campania Switzerland Rhetia Franconia Parthia Persia and the Cyclades Islands which lye between Europe and Asia Cyprus and the Coasts of the Lesser Asia more particularly the Cities of London Corduba Viterbium Cesena Turinum Vercellas Rhegium Lovain Bruges Moguntia Hasford Bamberge and Noriberge Moreover Bononia Senas Mantua Tarentum Parma Lucerna Nants Wirizburge Carolostadium Lipsia Posania Guesna and Novogardia in Muscovia 3. So likewise the Regions unto which this Comet was Vertical For as Origanus pag. 525. Cometae illis regionibus imprimis nocent quibus sunt verticales aut in quarum sunt signis Comets saith he do especially hurt those Regions unto which they are Vertical or in whose Signs they happen And our Learned Country-man Dr. d ee tells us Aphor. 54. Quo magis ad perpendicularitatem c. By how much more the Radious Axis of any Star or Comet comes nearer being perpendicular to any Elementary Superficies by so much more powerfully that Star or Comet pours out its Vertues upon the place of its Incidence For the specifical Vertues of the Stars and Comets being conveyed to us by their Light the fewer the Beams are that fall upon the Horizon the less shall be their Vertue and that fewer Beams fall upon the place of the Horizon in their Oblique Position than when they approach nearer to or are in their Perpendicularity is evident to every one but meanly Versed in Geometry and the Opticks Now what the Regions and Countries be unto which this Comet became Perpendicular the following Aphorism will determine Stella verticales sunt illae quae tantam habent declinationem ab Aequinoctiali quanta est elevatio Poli illius Regionis Stars that be Vertical are those which have as much Declination from the Equinoctial as is the Elevation of the Pole or Latitude of the place And therefore all the Regions Kingdoms Common-wealths Countreys and Towns that have from 00. degrees to 16. degrees 46 minutes of South Latitude and from 00. degr to 49° 9′ of North Latitude are herein principally concern'd I 'le only instance some few eminent places on this side the Equator the rest you may see in the Globe Alexandria in Egypt Ancona in Italy Athens Avenio in France Babylon Bactra Barcino in Catholon Basilia in Helvetia Berna in Helvetia Bethlehem Bononia in Italy Bourdeaux in France Brundusium Buda in Hungary Burgos in Spain Chartres Compostella Constantinople Constance Conimbria in Portugal Corduba Corinthus Dalmatia in Egypt Damascus Ephesus Ferraria Fessa Florence Gades in Spain Genoua in Italy Goa in India Halicarnassus Hamburgh Hydruntum Hierusalem Ingolstade Leyden Lyons Lisbon Lucca S. Malo Mecha Mexico Morocco Madrid Millan Messina Marbon Nants Naples Paris Padua Pampelona in Navar. Pelusium in Egypt Poictiers Ratisbon Rochel Rome Salamanca in Spain Sena in Hetruria Syracuse Smyrna Thessalonica Tholose Tubinga Turino Tarraco in Cathalo Tirolis Tours in Spain Valence in Spain Valladolid in Spain Venice Vienna in Austria Ulms. Ulissippo in Portugal Urbinum in Italy Here it may be objected whether England shall not suffer by the Effects of this Comet as well as other places To which I answer That although I find it not Vertical to any part of England yet I must needs confess it wanted but a little of being so in the Southern parts thereof and cannot therefore be exempted from sharing with other places in the Miseries and Calamities threatned them especially London in whose Ascendant the Comet first appeared Howbeit England in general shall not suffer by it so extreamly as some Provinces and Cities of Italy France Spain Portugal and other Countreys under whose Ascendant it moved or to whom it was Vertical It was a Retrograde Comet in Gemini and Taurus Anno 1553. That immediately preceded a great Earthquake and horrible Winds in the Countreys bordering upon the Rhine A Schism in England a Famine in Germany an Inundation of Waters in Polonia and no fewer than 960 Houses in one Town in Brabant all of them burnt and consumed by Fire The Death of Clement the Seventh and the Duke of Millan And why not this another Earthquake and Famine in Germany or France A fine new Schism in England or another such Deluge in Polonia Why not the like Mischiefs by Fire about Cracovia or Casimyria Why may not another such Duke or Prince a King or an Emperour give up the Ghost A Pope or a Cardinal be Poysoned or Stab'd But Solinumine afflati praedicant particularia I must not exceed the Limits of a general Judgment neither the bounds alotted me by the Printer yet to satisfie the unbelieving part of the World that Comets have really ever been the Prodromi or fore-runners of the Death of one or more such Personages for those are the proper Subjects of Comets I shall here give them the following Catalogue wherein to recede no further are The Years of the Comets after Christ. The Princes c. that Dyed in the same or the following Year 13. Agrippa 14. Augustus Empâ—rour 54. Claudius Emperour 70. Vitellius Emperour 80. Vespasian Emperour 213. Severus Emperour 340. Constantine Emperour 363. Julian the Apostate 392. Valentinian Emperour 454. Theodosius Emperour 571. Albonius King of Lumbardy 603. Maurice Emperour 814. Charles the Great Emperour 837. Pepin King of France 839. Ludovicus Pius Emperour 882. Ludovicus Bavar Emperour 983. Otho II. Emperour 1009. Pope John XVIII 1066. S. Edw. King of England 1106. Henry IV. Emperour 1169. Malcolm King of Scots 1214. William King of Scots 1264. Pope Urban IV. 1301. Andrew King of Hungary 1314. Philip the Fair. 1341. Andronicus Emperour 1375. Charles the IV. 1402. Tamberlain and Galeat Vic. 1450. Amurath the Turk Emperour 1456. Ladislaus King of Poland 1457. Alphonsus King of Naples 1477. Charles Burgundy 1505. King Philip. 1506. Alexander King of Poland 1512. Pope Julius II. And Bajazet the Turk Emperour 1521. Leo the X. 1533. Clement VII Alphons Duke of Ferraria And Duke of Millan 1558. Charles V. Emperour Queen of Poland and Hungary And Mary Queen of England 1559. Paul IV. Henry King of France King of Portugal King of Denmark Duke of Venice Duke of Ferraria and fifteen Cardinals with divers other Princes 1577. Sebastian King of Portugal 1585. Osman Turk Emperour And Stephen King of Poland 1590. Urban VII And Charles Arch-Duke 1607. Charles Duke of Lorrain 1618. Matthias Emperour And Ann Queen of England 3. I come now to the third
Which are all the Coâ—lâ—stial Aspects from whence not omitting the Conjuncâ—ion all variations of the general Coelestial Influences do happen And these Aspects do perfectly agree with all the parts of the Number 12. which are 1.2.3.4.5.6 whereof 1. is referred to Union or Conjunction 2. the 6. part of 12. to the Sextile Aspect 3. the 4 part thereof to the Quartile and 4. the third part to â—he Trine and 6. the middle part to the Opposition And as there are not more Aspects in the Circle so in thâ— Number 12 not more parts For indeed all 〈◊〉 made by God in Number Weight and Mâ—aâ—â—râ— Thus much premised I say that the Life of Man consisâ—s of 4 Ages Child-hood Youth Man-hood and Old-age And that in Man there are 4. different things obsâ—rvable unto which all the other be reduced as it were to their first beginnings Namely Life Action Marriage and Passion And these agree with the Beginning or Rise Vigour Declination and End or Dâ—ath which four were before insinuatâ—â— generally agreeable to all the effects of Nature For Man is said to Rise into the World when first he enjoys a Worldly Life To be strong in Action when he acteth or reduceth his vigour of doing into Action To decline so soon as a plentiful dissipation of his innate heat and radical moisture beginneth as at the time of Marriage And from Man-hood the best time of Marriagâ— he declineth toward Old-age and at length Dyes when he sustains the last Passion of Life Therefore Man's Life Action Marriage and Passion belong to the same Coelestial Principles as do the Birth Vigour Declination and Death of all other things in the World viz. Life to the East Action to the Mid-heaven Marriage to the Wâ—st-angle and Passion to the Angle of the Earth Whence do arise 4. Triplicities of the same generical nature and 12. Houses as aforesaid The First Triplicity is of the Angle of the East which they name the First house and belongeth to Child-hood called the Triplicity of Being and Life The other houses of this Triplicity are the Ninth and Fifth both which do behold the first housâ— by a Partile Trine Aspect in the Aequator whâ—re is made this rational Division of the houâ—â—s For Man liveth in a three-fold respect in himself in God and in his Posterity But the First Life is onely given a Mâ—n for thâ—â—â—auses viz. That he might Worship Gâ—d and begâ—t his own likeness Which is the complâ—at intention of God in the production of Man 1. Now as touching the Life of Man in it self because it is the first of all other things in the Order of Nature and without it the rest coâ—â—d not be therefore it justly challâ—ngeth the principâ—l House of this Triplicity viz. The Angle of the East 2. Life in God the second in order exists in the house of Religion viz. the Ninth subsequent to the First house in this Triplicity according to the Motion of the Aequator 3. And lastly Life in his Posterity bestowed on the house of Children which is the fifth Wherefore this whole Triplicity concerneth Life But herein one thing is very remarkable viz. That by the motion of the Aequator the measure of Time there is made an immediate ingress from the 9. house into the 8. which is the house of Temporary Death whereby man is to understand That he must live to himself in God until his Temporal Death so that betwixt this and the Life in God no part of time intercedeth The second is the Triplicity of the Angle of the mid-heaven which they name the 10. house and appertaineth unto youth This is also called the Triplicity of Action and of Gain or worldly goods flowing thence because every thing working Physically worketh for some Physical good For as by the Motion of the Equator progress is made from the Angle of the East to the Angle of the mid-heaven so is there a progress made from Child-hood unto youth and from Being or Life to Action The two other houses of this Triplicity are the 6. and 2. But Gain or the Physicall good arising to man from his Actions is threefold 1. The first in order of dignity is Immaterial as are Arts Magistracy Dignities and honours unto which a man is raised as also Power and Majesty wherefore it hath the principal house of this Triplicity viz. The Angle of the mid-heaven 2. The second is Material and Animated as are subjects servants and all other living creatures and iâ— placed in the 6. house according to the Motion of the Equator in the subsequent Triplicity 3. The last is Materiall-inanimated as are gold silver house-hold-stuff and even all other Immoveable Goods gotten by our own labour which are attributed to the second house under the name of Riches Therefore this whole Triplicity is of Action and Gain thence arising The third is the Triplicity of the West Angle named the 7. House and belonging to man-hood This is called the Triplicity of Marriage or Love For as by the Motion of the Equator progress is made from the Angle of the Mid-heaven to the West Angle even so there is a progress from youth to Man-hood and from famous deeds to Marriages and friendships of men which thence are purchased The two other houses of this Triplicity are the 3. and 11. But a man is joyned to another in a threefold respect 1. The first Conjunction in order of dignity is that of the body which we call Matrimony and therefore the principal house of this Triplicity viz. the West Angle is thereunto dedicated 2. The second is that of Blood which constitutes Brethren and Kindred in the Third House accord-to the Motion of the Equator in this following Triplicity 3. The last is that of simple Benevolence or favour whence do arise friends in the 11. house Therefore this whole Triplicity is of Marriage and Love The fourth Triplicity is that of the dark angle in the middle of night or bottom of heaven called the fourth house and â—he Cave or Den of the Planets attributed to old-age and termed the Triplicity of Passion Affliction and Death whereunto every man is subject for the sin of Adam The two other housâ—s of this Triplicity are the 12. and the 8. 1. But the first Affliction of Man in the order of nature is a sorrowful â—xpâ—ctation of the Natural Deaâ—h of his Parâ—nts or raâ—her speaking Cabalistically it is that stain of Original Sin which our Parâ—nts imprint in us and through which we are from our very Birâ—hs made obnoxious to every misery and at lâ—ngâ—h to death it self And therefore the Parents and their Condition during the life of the Native as also Dâ—â—th and heritages left by them to the Native do 〈◊〉 the principal house of this Triplicity viz. The Aâ—gle of the fourth house 2. The second 〈◊〉 consiâ—tâ— in the hatred deceipts Machinations Trâ—achâ—â—â—uâ—ness and Injuries of Enemies especially secrâ—t ones So likewise in Prisons Servitude Poverty and all other
4. In January Now CHARLES is dead the Senate in a ditty Sung in Wild Airs about the Holy City The ill-got-Lords made worse than Indian Slaves And Priests like Churches hovering o're their Graves Whose turn is next speak you as may be free I dare not meddle with SUPREMACY 5. In February Fetch Me a Ladder and a Broom that I May sweep the Cobwebbs from the Azur'd Skie Dispatch the fumes that cloud the subtile Air And make the Heav'ns look Maiden-smooth and fair Else is that Roof too mean for those that vie With Gods themselves for Crowns and Majesty 6. In March Justice now flows and Righteousness doth stream Throughout the streets the Conduits run with Cream Our Virgins Lamps be full of Holy Oyl Themselves o're-charg'd and ready to recoil Old Mâ—n dream Dreams and Young Men Visions see Their cloven Tongues are tip't with Prophesie 7. In April Well fare Gay knacks and men to change inclin'd They raise the dust and cloud the work design'd In gildâ—d Roofs who doubteth of dâ—ceit In troubled waters who can see the Bait He that would closely bring great things about Must mud as well as Fish the Rabble-rout 8. In June W' are all Reform'd and free as we were born Almost as naked too much more forlorn The Times are Tyrannous not Men for they Have brought to pass what Men b' asham'd to say But if one truth may slip my harmless Pen Times would be better had we better Men. 9. In July Sweet are the Sippets of a Diadem Shall Foreigners invade us or we them Victors but once grown bouzy with success Dream of nought â—lse but Gold and Gloriousness But we are lowly-minded and despise All Earthly Substance being Heavenly-wise 10. In September What fine new-nothing's this that I espy A Sect a Schism or a Heresie Or shall I Nick-nam't a Religion Say No 't relishès the sober water-way Yet wants no fire to make the Spirit beat Nor bucksome Creatures to allay the heat 11. In October Must Treasurers account 't is fit they do They shall in time make satisfaction too But these and other Pious Cheats we have Can quote us Scripture why they play the Knave Religion is a Cloak for all deceit And shrowds designs that be of greatest weight 12. In November Ho Presbyterians Prick up your Ears Advance your Troops of Jealousies and Fears Summon your Elders in their several Classes The Covenanters Directory-Asses And tell me now your blood and breath 's nigh spent Where 's one dares Fight for King and Parliament 13. In December A Blessing on the Common-wealth Affairs May that green Lady never know gray Hairs Let 's on with Courage and resolve to do What e're Necessity compels us to So long as God's with us what need we fear Whose turn it is to Reign another year In his Ephemeris 1655. I find these several Excellent Poems following 1. Over the Feasts LO here the Sacred Saint-offending days Religion's outward worth and splendent Rays Old Truth 's strong Evidence motives to Zeal Rich badges of a Christian Commonweal Fair Hieroglyphicks of what we profess ' Live shadows of Eternal Happiness Lasting Records on Earth wherein even they That won't be drawn to hearken what we say May by observing only what we do Read our Belief and reading do so too 2. Over the Table of Kings Here 's yet the Regal Table who can tell But 't may by thus long Prostitution swell Under the Table of Kings How Tyrants all what glory is 't to be Accounted Gods if Gods of Tyranny 'T is strange your Conquests were not claim enough Yet ours of one another Gospâ—l-proof Either your Titles to the Crown were good Or ours so Mystical not understood 3. Over the Table of Terms Away to Westminster and do not fear We will indulge ye yet another Year Under the Table of Terms Go to brave Hero's and Abridge the Law Teach in Epitome to Hang and Draw Mâ—ke Magna Charta speak us Lilburn-free That Treason which is writ without a T. Correct Old Littleton and Print him New The Sword 's one Tenure more he never knew 4. In January Rythm you whose measures charm you better luck I must be mute my Muse is Planet-struck Her Fancy's fetter'd and her Ink is froze Complaint is made her Pen's too broad at Nose I 'le to the Woods and find some Satyr out There 's now no fellow to the Cloven-foot 5. In May. The Pole's perplexed and the German dreads The horned Moon should pierce the Eagles heads Goths Huns and Vandals once had greatest Power The Tartars and the Turks have now much more If then success be it which best depaints A glorious Cause Turks are the only Saints 6. In September From th' Honour of our ill-begotten Peers From the sowre batch of Jealousies and Fears From slouds of Orphans and poor Widows Tears From twice-six other over-tedious Years Good Lord deliver us The Number Three Hath always in it some high Mystery 7. In December Now Falcifer Gradivus doth oppose Then through the Virgin hobling backward goes Hence th' Waters are corrupted Fishes die The Earth is Barren a Mortality Afflicts the Land Mars rageth up and down Not quiet with nor yet without a Crown In Hemerosc 1656. are to be read these incomparable Pieces of Learning and Ingenuity 1. I shall present you with his Chronology it being the last in Verse and the most compleat of all his others SInce all things were of God created good 5605 Years Since Noah ascended th' Ark t' avoid the flood 3949 Years Since God the Promise made to Abraham 3583 Years Since th' Israelites from Egypts Bondage came 3153 Years Since Solomon the Temple finished 2669 Years Since King Zedekias a Captive led 2246 Years Since JESUS of the Blessed Virgin born 1656 Years Since for Mans sins he suffered death and scorn 1623 Years Since Caesar's force the Britains overthrew 1708 Years Since hence the Rav'nous Roman Eagle-flew 1232 Years Since first the Saxons stept on English ground 1201 Years Since here the Danes the like advantage found 824 Years Since Norman William Britain over-powr'd 590 Years Since Maud the English-Saxon Blood restor'd 551 Years Since Second Henry Ireland first assayl'd 483 Years Since our first Edward hence the Jews expell'd 365 Years Since Tyler's Highness would the Throne ascended 274 Years Since he his Life with hiâ— Rebellion ended 274 Years Since Guâ—â— those mortâ—l Engines first were found 276 Years Since Pâ—inting made the world with Books abound 213 Years Since Protestants by Luther first so nam'd 127 Years Since Loiola the Jesuites Order fram'd 116 Years Since Ket and 's followers seduc'd the Nation 108 Years Since hang'd upon the Tree of Reformation 108 Years Since Kentish Wiat rose against Queen Mary 102 Years Since with Spain's Philip she did intermarry 102 Years Since London streets by Coaches first molested 101 Years Since Scotland with Geneva-trash infested 99 Years Since Lightning last consumed Paul's high Spire 95
Lord Mayor Tichburn Knighted 17 James Nayler sentenced 18 Pillory'd in the Palace-Yard and Whipped at the Old Exchange 27. Pillory'd again bored through the Tongue with a hot Iron Stigmatiz'd in the Forehead at the Old Exchange Jan. 6. Col. James Whitlock Knighted 14. Judge Jenkins that constant Sufferer ordered his Liberty yet continues he still in Windsor Castle 17. The Parliaments sentence executed upon Jam. Naylor at Bristol 24. Peace with Portigal proclaim'd And. James Naylor committed to Bridewel London Feb. 9. Miles Sundercombe brought to his Tryal in Westminster-hall where the Sentence of Death pronounced against him as a Traytor And. 13. said to have Poyson'd himself And. 17. Drawn at the Horses Tail to Tower-hill where under the Scaffold a hole being digged he was turned in naked and had a stake driven through him 20. A Thanks-giving for the deliverance Mar. 3. Alderman Dickenson of York Knighted Anno. 1657. Apr. 9. Another dangerous Plot said to be discovered 10. Whereupon M.G. Harrison C. Rich M. Danvers and Cap. Lawson with several others secured Apr. 20. G. Blake attempted the Spanish Fleet in Sancta-Cruze May. 4. Sir Jo. Reinoldson Commissionated to Command the 6000 Foot raised for the French Service 8. The Protector gave the Parliam his final Answer That he could not undertake the Government with the Title of KING 8 9. 3500. Of the New raised Forces embark'd for France 16. The remainder now the like 17. Sir Jo. Reinoldson followed after 19. Resolved that LORD PROTECTOR should be the Title inserted in the Humble Petition and Advice 25. Humble Petition and Advice consented to by the Protector Jun. 3 Parliament kept a thanks-giving for the great success at Sancta Cruze 11 Captain Stainer Knighted for his good Service 26 The Protector 's Magnificent and Solemn Investiture at Westminster Parliament adjourn'd till January 20. July 1. Protector Proclaimed in London 3. A lamentable accident at Ratcliffe by Gun-Powder 7 Gen. Montague to Greenwich in order to his Sea expedition 8 Ground sunk at Bickley in Cheshire 9 Protector Proclaim'd at Dublin 15 The like at Edenburgh 18 Lord Rich. Cromwell elected Chancellor of Oxford 20 J. Cleypole Esq created Baronet and afterwards Knighted 24 Col. Edward Saxby Commited to the Tower 29 L. R. Cromwell instal'd Chancelor of Oxford Aug. 10 News came of the Death of Gen. Blake and Vice Admiral Badiley 17 Mr. Jefford Mr. Ashley and Mr. Alanson Commited to the Tower 19 The Corps of Gen. Blake brought to Greenwich 20 Captain Bernard sometimes of the Army executed at Tyburn for Robbery Aug. 27 Major General Jephson sent as a publick Minister into Swedâ—n 29 John Lilburn dyed at Eltham 31 One Nathaniel Butler executed in Cheapside for the Murder of John Knight an Apprentice Son to a Gentleman of good worth in Berkshier The same day John Lilburn brought to London and buryed by the Quakers in the New-Church-yard adjoyning to Bedlam Sept. 4 Gen Blake buryed in Henry 7. Chappel 9 Portugal Ambassador had private Audience 19 The Fort at Mardike besieged by the French Oct. 23 Mardike surrendred to the French and by them afterwards put into Possession of the English Nov. 19 The Lord Faulconbridge Marryed the Lady Mary Cromwel Daughter to Oliver Lord Protector Dec. 5 Sir John Reynolds Col. White and divers others cast away upon Goodwin Sands 25 Dr. Wild Mr. Gunning and others secured by the Souldiers for Celebrating the Anniversary of our Saviours Birth 31 L. Rich. Cromwel Sworn a Privy Counciller Jan. 13 Col Saxby dyed a Prisoner in the Tower of London 20 The Parliament met and sat again Feb. 4 Dissolved by the Protector 16 Mr. Robert Rich Son in Law to the Protector dyed 27 Cavaliers and Papists confined to within 5 Miles of their abode Mar. 8 Richard Greenvile Son and Heir of Sir Richard Greenvile Executed 23 A general search in London and Westminster where many were secured Anno 1658. April Dr. Hewit Committed to the Tower 18 Robert Earl of Warwick dyed May 1 A Solemn Fast in London and Westminster May 10. A High Court of Justice met in the Painted Chamber 15 16. Many seized on and secured in most places 19 The Solemn Fast observ'd throughout England and Wales 21 A General Rendezvouz of the City Regim 25 The High Court of Justice first sat in Westminster-Hall upon Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby June 1 Dr. Hewit and Mr. Mordant brought to their Tryal 2. Mr. Mordant acquitted but Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewit sentenced to Death 8 Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewit beheaded 〈◊〉 Tower-hill 10 Captain Henry Mallory Mr. Thomas Woodcock and Sir Humphrey Bennet brought to their Tryals 15 Dunkirk surrendred to the French who the same day put it into the hands of the English Mr. Woodcock acquitted and Capt. Mallory sentenc'd to Death but 17 Reprieved and Sir Henry Bennets Tryal deferr'd July 1 The High Court of Justice sate upon Tryal of Col. Edward Ashton John Sumner Edward Stacy William Carent John Bettely Henry Fryer and Oliver Allen. 2 Mr. Carrent acquitted but John Sumner Edmund Stacy Col. Ashton Oliver Allen J. Batteley and H. Fryer adjudged to Death And Mr. Christoph. Pitts fined 1000 l. and Imprisoned during the pleasure of his Highness for refusing to give his testimony against Mr. Carrent 7 Col. Edward Ashton Executed as a Traytor in Tower-street John Bettely the like in Cheapside but Henry Fryâ—r reprieved 9 Edmund Stacy sometimes a Souldier in the Parliament Army Executed in Corn-hill but John Sumnâ—r and Oliver Allen reprieved 13 High Court of Justice adjurn'd till Nov. 1. 22 A Solemn day of Thanksgiving Aug. 6 Lady Elizabeth the Protectors Second Daughter dyed at Hampton-Court Aug. 10 Buryed in Henry the 7 ths Chappel 20 Graveline deliver'd to the French 23 Earl of Mulgrave dyed suddenly at Lincoln 24 D. of Buckingham Committed to the Tower Sept. 3 The Protector left Hampton-Court and came to White-hall where he died 4 Rich. Cromwel his Eldest Son proclaim'd Protector in London and Westminster his Father having at his Death declar'd him his successor and his Son H. L. Lieutenant or Vice-Roy of Irel. 9 Proclaim'd at Edenburgh in Scotland 14 At Dubl in Irel. soon after which he receivd congratulation from the Armies of Engl. Scotl. Irel. all the Independent Congregational Churches the most eminent of the London-time serving Ministers the Fren. Dutch and Ital. Churches and most of the Countries Cities and chief Towns in England with engagements to live and die with him 20 The late Protectors Corps privatly remov'd from White-Hall to Sommerset-house Nov. 23 His Funeral Celebrated at a vaster charge than hath formerly been used for the best of K. in the Richest times Jan. 27 Another new Parl. began at Westm. call'd on purpose by the Court Party for the better transferring the Govern of these Nations from the Stuarts to the Cromwels In which Parliament Challener Chute Esq was chose Speaker Mar. 16 Mr. Chute being sick Mr. Bampfield was Elected
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
which will bring a stain upon his Honour by the means of something relating to his Wife 12. The Tuberculum of Saturn hath upon it the same Mark that we found before in the fourth Example Which threatens the Gout and some other grievous Diseases of the Nature of Saturn And the same is discern'd by the Residence of Saturn in the House of Death afflicting the Moon and Mars by a Platique Quartile 13. The Vital somewhere touched and cut by other Lines presageth Diseases about the 14 20 24 30 48 c. Year of his Age The Horoscope proceeds from Libra into Scorpio about the 20 Year of his Age and there remains in the Terms of Mars for the space of Nine Years Saturn Infortunate in Nativities is wont to Vomit his Poyson most vehemently after the first Revolution that is after the 29 and 30 Years in which time he moveth round the Zodiack What the Cross above the Restricta meaneth we have often told you The other Incisures especially those that seem to shadow the Saturnia are but slender and obscure as yet Example XVIII One Born at Erphordia in the Year 1589. the 8 th of May at 1 h. 45 min. Afternoon 1. Venus Mercury and Jupiter Rule the Geniture and therefore you see their Regions in the Hand decently enough adorned 2. Hence therefore we Prognosticate a happy Wit and other things that flow from Jupiter Venus and Mercury 3. The Triangle drawn with the best Conformity helps the Ingenuity and all the Endowments both of Body and Mind 4. The Region also of the Moon shews her Dominion the same being marked with no despicable Incisures it occasioneth Prosperous Journeys addeth splendour both to the Body and Manners of the Native and gains the Favour of Women which very thing the Moon in Cancer and in the 10 th House of the Heavens most plainly demonstrates 5. The Lines of Jupiter are somewhat troubled and therefore his Condition is but indifferent Yet gives he Honours not contemptible although with some Difficulties some Impediments 6. The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury in the House of Venus and in a Partile Trine of Jupiter is accounted very Fortunate For thereby his Mind is excellently inclined unto all such Arts as are dedicated to Venus and Mercury I see he will prove a most Eloquent Man The two Parallel Lines which are drawn in the Form of a Scale or Ladder from the Region of Mercury to that of Venus do clearly manifest this Conjunction and the very same judgment We have almost the same Scale or Ladder in the 15 th Example which gave that Native the Benefit of a Voluble Tongue and a quick Pronunciation 7. Saturn hath Ominous Signatures upon his Tuberculum intimating Wounds and other grievous Accidents And the Line which runneth underneath the same from the Thoral to the Concave of the Hand threatens a fall from an High Place or Drowning The same is Denounced by the Sun in the Geniture who is Afflicted of Saturn by his Conjunction with him near to the Hyades Mars Lord of the Eight House being in his Detriment 8. The Vital is thrice touched First by a Line running from the Cephalica But because it breaks not the Vital we suppose the Disease thereby signified will not be so grievous as otherwise The Moon comes by Direction to the Quartile of Mars about the 18 th Year of his Age. Besides the Progress of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars about the 47 th Year will agree to the other Incisures And lastly the Progression of the Moon to the Square of Saturn about the 54 th Year in all which Years the Native must take heed of a violent Death 9. The Mensa excellently Rased confirms the goodness of Wit and Temperament and the continuance of a plentiful Fortune c. But here it is to be Noted by every one desirous of this Knowledge that in the precedent Examples the Incisures and small Lines are not all of them Delineated partly for that they were exceedingly slender and partly because they could not be described so accurately as requisite Besides we must observe that even of those Lines which we have posited some ought to be more obscure and slender Others more clear and conspicuous and therefore good Caution must be had when we would apply them to other Examples The Skill of the Engraver can never follow the form of the Lines so precisely as they present themselves in the Hand Moreover we have often omitted some Accommodations in the Geniture lest their significations as considered in themselves might Nauseat the Readers Example XIX Now that I may perform the present Task by a more Commendable Example I shall annex the whole Judgment of the Geniture to the Practick of Chiromancy as I delivered the same almost two Years ago to a certain Saxon a Friend of mine He was Born in the Year of Christ 1561. Jan. 17. Hor. 13. Min. 35. Sec. 40. Afternoon in the Latitude 54 degr 45 Min. HERE are Five Planets excellently well Plac'd in their own Prerogatives Saturn and Mercury Received from Houses and Locally in their own Triplicity So Jupiter and Mars assume a just Power by their Reception of Houses Venus also is in her Exaltation and in the Angle of the Earth Lastly the Moon is in her Triplicity But she having not as yet obtained her due Light from the Sun is here very Silent Mercury and Saturn are notably united by a Trine The Part of Fortune Rises with the Scorpions Heart Venus and Jupiter are the Prime Rulers of the Geniture Saturn and Mercury participating c. 1. A Long-Life is conjectured from the Horoscope and the Luminaries being not impedite although the Moon be opposite by the Quartile of Mars Yet the Progress of the Horoscope is first to the Opposition of Saturn whereof anon 2. His Temperature excells by an Equal Mixture of Humours because he receiveth his Ferment chiefly from the Perfusion of Jupiter and Venus Saturn and Mercury besprinkling a Melancholy juice 3. Hence the Force of Discerning and Representing vulgarly cally the Phantasy breatheth nothing but what is Moderate and Agreeable to Reason For Jupiter maketh such as are Born under him Honest Just Wise and addicted to Quiet and Peaceable Counsels doing always that which is Right and Honest both in Judging and Advising Such also as are very desirous of Praise and Renown Yet in gaining the same recede not from their Natural Modesty and Temper neither from good Arts whereby Honour and true Glory are wont to be obtained But because Saturn and Mercury are both excellently well placed in respect of their Reception and Partile Trine they also do largely bestow their vertues They make the Native exceeding diligent in his Arts and Affairs So that in administring them he useth singular Sedulity and Care they cause him to search after secret things and make it his study for to Penetrate hidden Mysteries to find out the Causes of Natural things to understand the Civil
as may both Purge the Body from all Filthy Humours and likewise comfort the Principal Members strengthen the Vital Spirit and Native Heat which are of another Quality The Scorpion as also the Serpent deduced from Heaven I speak with Virgil preserves him safe that carries it about him from Fevers Poyson and Pestilence These are Secrets In the same Year of your Age the Mid-heaven coming to the Trine Sinister of Saturn presages Goods to ensue by means of the Dead Ancient Possessions the Gift of some Aged Man The 42 d. and 43 d. Year of your Age will be Honourable and Prosperous Because the Mid-heaven comes to the Virgins Spike and Venus her self to the Body of Jupiter By this means they bring some Notable-good in the Increase of Dignities and Wealth and that by the occasion of a certain Great Personage You shall observe the 14 th day of July 1602. and then the 11. and 16 of August Also the 3 d. of September In the following Year 1603. the 22. and 23. of January the 7 and 8 of June Here the Profection of the Sun succeeds the Trine Sinister of Jupiter There the Mid-heaven shall come to Venus her self In the 45 th Year of your Age the Mid-heaven coming to the Opposition of Jupiter will intercept or subvert the Friendship of some Great Lord At which time take heed how you Manage your Affairs with Noble-Men c. In the same Year upon the Sun 's receding to the Trine of Mars you shall fall into the Friendship of some Martially disposed Person not without some Advantage Use his Benevolence and Friendliness prosperously In the 48 th Year of your Age Anno 1608. The Horoscope coming to the Trine dexter of Jupiter gives you a most Thriving Constitution of the Body and makes you Conversant with Great Men whereby Great Good is to be expected Of the same Nature is the subsequent Direction to wit the Sun to a Proper Sextile in the Terms of Venus falling out in the 49 th Year of your Age in the Year of Christ 1609. In this Year the Part of Fortune coming to the Antiscia of Mars will add unto your Expences occasioned by the means of Kindred and Journeys Beware also of some Thieveries of your Servants or Messengers In the 45 th Year of your Age Anno 1614. The Sun coming to the Sextile Sinister of Mercury and the Dexter of Saturn shall enlarge your Authority and Esteem with or by the Learned For seeing you are unweariedly carried by a certain Natural Violence both to the Scienâ—es of Mighty things and also to the knowledge of Hidden Secrets I easily fore-see What a one how great a one you shall suddenly be Go on Couragiously that you may Act things Answerable to your Ingenuity that you may advance and further your Fortune The 57 and 59 Years of your Age will be very Honourable and the most Acceptable of any You shall therein find a Signal Increase of your Possessions Renown Dignities and Authority For then Venus will come to her Proper Sextile The Mid-heaven to the Trine Dexter of Venus And the Sun to the Body of Jupiter The Profection of the Mid-heaven to the Sextile of Venus falls out in the Year of Christ 1617. the 14 and 15 of January Old Style But the Profection of the Sun to the Trine of Mercury and the Body of Saturn will happen about the Verâ—al Equinox There are also Fortunate Profections in the Year 1618. about the Winter Solstice Also Jan. 21. c. Saturn is in the second Degree of Gemini Adverse the Mid-heaven whereby he shall in some sort endeavour to protract an Event by the means of some Mans Death In the 60 th Year of your Age Anno 1620. The Horoscope coming to the 26 Degree of Sagittary the Contiguous Terms of Saturn and Mars shall occasion a Feverish Disease which will easily be removed by the help of a Physician Or if the yearly Medicines and Evacuations were not as is requisite forborn contrary to Custom it could hardly be that any Disease should trouble you The Profection of the Horoscope and the Sun are removed from the Society of the Malevolent Planets The Transite of Mars in Taurus by the Point opposed unto the Horoscope shall happen the 15 of April then in Leo by the Point in Square thereunto the 22 23 and 24 of August which are more to be observed In the 61 Year of your Age Anno 1621. The Progress of the Part of Fortune to the Body of the Sun shall multiply your Treasure by the Rewards of Kings and some other Great Personages The like for your Honours In the 63 Year the Mid-heaven coming to the Southern Lance of Libra favours you with no mean Dignities In the 64 Year the Horoscope arriving at the end of Sagittary threatens you with a Disease attended especially with Lassitudes of the Body Filthiness of Defluxions and with Pains in the Feet above all other Signs are Interficient The which I have often-times found to be true But because that here Venus most Powerfully beholds this Place by an approaching Sextile Aspect I boldly Affirm Humane Providence assisting You shall not Dye this Year In the 65 Year of your Age Anno 1625. The Part of Fortune coming to the Body of Mercury and the Trine of Saturn confers upon you a Large Inheritance or fair Possessions by the means of some Deceased For Saturn being so Fortunate it is impossible this Direction should be Fruitless So in the Year 1627. The Sun coming to the Trine of the Mid-heaven will again occasion all manner of Good to befall you In the 70 Year of your Age Anno 1630. The Sun coming to the Sextile Sinister of Venus The Horoscope also to the Sextile Dexter of Venus point out â— most Honourable time in Dignities Possessions and Renown in all manner of Benefits The same almost is discern'd by the Progression of the Part of Fortune to the Sextile Dexter of Jupiter falling out in the 72 Year of your Life for that also Presages Kingly Rewards from Foreign Countreys But enough and more than enough concerning this your most Fortunate Geniture Farewell In the Year 1593. A BRIEF DISCOURSE OF The Soul of the WORLD AND The Vniversal Spirit thereof THE World is a System of Celestial and Terrestrial Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectual The former Part of the Definition is clear from the Holy Scriptures The latter is Proved of Plato and that by manifest Reasons Where we say A Living System we intend a certain Natural Life diffused through the Bodies of the World extended and movably Acting together with the Body of the World Where we call it An Animate System we mean the substance of the Soul of the World whose Essence indeed is both Indivisible and Immutable like the Intellect yet it may in some sort be termed Divisible and Movable because it is the Proper Fountain of some Powers that are declining to Divisible
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.
and almost at the Brink of Destruction But the Turkish Empire began in the First Quadrant with the Law of Mahomet and hath been most swiftly augmented proportionably to the Motion thereof being at this Day wherein the Eccentricity is at the least in a Flourishing Estate But shall henceforward be diminished until the other Quadrant and alike swiftly God so pleasing hasten to Destruction Indeed according to Tycho and others of the besâ— Astronomers the Eccentricity is already notably increased viz. unto Part 2. 9′ or thereabouts Lausbergius makes it Part 2. 6′ 21″ Insomuch that if the Christians of Europe could but henceforth lay aside their Ambition and Avarice and Live at Peace among themselves the God of Nature presents them with an Age wherein they may totally subvert and lay waste the Empire of â—he Turks and put a speedy Period to the Law of their Prophet Mahomet A Third Cause is the change of the Obliquity of the Zodiack which when at the greatest according to Bullialdus is 23° 52′ 53″ And this was Anno Nabonassari 381. 367 years before the Nativity of Christ. When at the least 23° 31′ 7″ and that fell out Anno Christi 1434. so that the mean betwixt these is 23° 42′ 00″ In the year 1653. the greatest Obliquity of the Zodiack was 23° 31′ 55″ For the Motion of the Anomaly of the Zodiack's Obliquity was 6s. 21° 49′ The Prosthaphaeresis 0′ 48″ which added to the least Obliquity 23° 31′ 7″ gives us 23° 31′ 55″ as before So that the Obliquity of the Zodiack is now likewise increasing for it still increaseth and diminisheth with the Suns Eccentricity Whereby it appears that the Axis of the Earth's Poles by little and little changes its Inclination to the Plane of the Zodiack through some Motion of the Libration But to find out the Physical Cause thereof my Reason concludes it almost impossible For as Bullialdus truly saith Scimus rem esse sed causam motus illius ignoramus nâ—c potest humani Ingenii acumen pervidere causas illas We know saith he there is such a Motion but are ignorant of the Cause thereof nor can the subtilty of Humane Wit throughly perceive those Causes A Fourth Cause is â—he Conjunction of the â—wo Superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter which according to Cardanus is three-fold Great Mean and Lesser The Lesser are they which happen in Signs of the same Nature or Trigon with others preceding them and so cannot occasion any great Change yet are not without their peculiar Effects as you may see in Cardâ—n Seg. 5. Aphor. 48. Of these there be ten in Number which do orderly succeed one another in the space of less than 200 Years The Mean are they which fall out in a differenâ— Trigon yet not in such as are altogether contrary is qualities that is when the Conjunctions pass from a Fiery into an Earthy Sign out of an Earthy into an Airy or from an Airy into a Watry Sign as from Ariâ—s into Capricorn out of Capricorn into Libra from Libra to Cancer As touching these it is certain they produce sundry Operations For they alter in one respect or other the Estate of Empires Kingdoms Common-wealths and Countries causing some new Empires and Kingdoms to emerge Like as that of Alâ—xander the Great in an Airy the Persians in an Earthy and that of Mahomet in a Watâ—y as you may read in Cardan Sâ—g 1. Aphor. 73. And of these Conjunctions if so be you account frâ—m the change of the Fiery Trigon into the Earthy thâ—re falleth out always three within the space of 596 Yearâ— The First in the Earthy the Second in the Airy and the Third in the Watry Trigon But they are called Great Conjunctions which begin to be Celebratâ—d in the Fiâ—ry Trigon chiefly in Aries the first Sign of thâ— Zodiack For when there shall be a Transit made from a Watry into a Fiery Sign which are as contrary â—ach to other in thâ—ir prime quâ—lities as Fire is to Water then also do great Mutations succeed all the World over And this is clear'd to all Men who have been â—ut never so little conversant in History For if we Calculate backward and allow for each of these Great Conjunctions 794 Years and about a half we shall be reduced from the Year 1603. in which there happened a Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagittary to the Year of Christ 809. in which the Roman Empire Destroyed by continual Wars is at length reformed and augmented under Charles the Great Thence to the Year of Christ 15. soon after which succeeded a great Mutation both of the State Ecclesiastical and Political From thence to the Year preceding Christ 779 soon after which followed the Institution of the Olympick Games and Times the Birth of Romulus and Râ—mus the Building of Rome and a grievous Affliction of the Kingdom of Israel by Tiglath Pileser King of the Assyrians and at length a Destruction thereof by Salmanassar his Successor Hence we recede to the 1574. Year before Christ near unto which Moses was Born who afterwards led the People of Israel out of Egypt by a Divine Power Thence to the Year 2368. within one Age after which followed the Universal Deluge afterwards to the Year 3163. and at length to the Year 3957. about which God Created the World of Nothing And 't is good Reason that like as Rome was Built a little after the beginning of the fifth Fiâ—ry Trigon the first being that under which the World was Created and afterwards by little and little increased and amongst other Cities the great Assembly of the Inhabitants People and Kingdoms she has subdued bore up her Head until at length about the sixâ—h Fiery Trigon she had reduced very many Kingdoms of Europe Asia and Africa to the Form of a Monarchy and Sovereign Empire and flourished in great Glory and that from thence the Empire bâ—ing divided into two East and West was observed to be fallen to decay been troubled with Intestine Wars and exhausted by the Alienations of Kingdoms and Provinces until about the seventh Trigon it was restored by Charles the Great and in some sort received its Pristine Beauty So also shall this Empire at this time under the eighth Fiery Trigon sustain great Mutations which I rather leave to Experience than Prostitute my own Judgment at so easie a rate Nor do only the Great Mean and Lesser Conjunctions of the two Superiours but also their Opposite and Quartile Configurations design great Mutations in the World as you may read in Cardan Seg. 5. Aphor. 49. and Seg. 7. Aphor. 6. Other Causes are Comets or counterfeit Stars c. such as that whereof Josephus Bell. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. makes mention which appeared for a years space in the form of a Fiery Sword over the City Jerusalem fore-warning her Destruction or as that at the Death of Mahomet seen at High-Noon in the shâ—pe also of a Sword which continued the space of a Month