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A88290	The starry messenger; or an interpretation of that strange apparition of three suns seene in London, 19. Novemb. 1644. being the birth day of King Charles. The effects of the eclips of the sun, which will be visible in England, 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force, from January, 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares; and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most common-wealths of Europe, but principally in England. With an answer to An astrologicall judgement. Printed at Oxford, upon his Majesties present martch. / By William Lilly student in astrologie.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Wharton, George, 1617-1681. Astrologicall judgement upon His Majesties present martch.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2245; Thomason E288_17; ESTC R200103	40,051	61

the Sun which at length vanishing there was seen two Suns The Pope being an English-man is taken Prisoner The Kingdom of Denmark is divided And in the next yeer the Pope and Emperour fall at variance Anno 1157 in September there were seen three Suns together in as clear weather as could be And a few days after in the same moneth three Moons and in the Moon that stood in the middle a white Crosse Sueno King of Denmark at a great Feast killeth Canutus Sueno is himself slain in pursuit of Waldemar The Order of Eremites according to the rule of Saint Augustine begun this yeer and in the next the Pope submits to the Emperour was not this miraculous Lumbardy was also adjudged to the Emperour Anno 1168 the first of September there was seen at once in the West three Suns Two hours after when two were gone he in the middle went down alone By mediation of the French King Becket is restored to his Archbishoprick Almaricus King of Jerusalem calleth in the Turks to his aid which was the ruine of that Kingdom and contrary to his Faith given aids the Greeks against the Egyptians A Conspiracy arose in Bohemia against the King Anno 1169 three Moons appeared The yeer succeeding Becket the stiff Priest was slain in a Church in England Catana a City in Sicily is destroyed with fifteen thousand people as also the Bishop and Clergie by an Earthquake A Smiths son raised great troubles in Norway pretending himself to be Harolds Grandchilde The Romanes raze the City of Alba And in the next yeer a great Inundation was in Freezland Anno 1314 three Moons appeared Lewis was Crowned Emperour by some Electors Frederick by the rest A Councell was at Ravenna for Reformation c. Note the instability of the Clergie The Pope dieth and the See is void two yeers and four moneths The English under a simple and wilfull King Edward the second are overthrown by the Scots and to purpose Lewis Hutine comes to the Crown of France hangs his Treasurer c. The Queen of Castile dieth The Genowayes rob the Venetian Merchants and invade their Territories Anno 1372 the first of July and some days after a strange Circle was seen about the Sun over which appeared two Crosses of a red colour neer Basill The French besiege Rochell and the English defend it The yeer after the Order of Nuns of Saint Katharine was founded Robert Stuart King of Scotland marrieth his Concubine and John Duke of Lancaster the King of Castiles daughter The King of Portingall refuseth a Match in Castile and takes a Noble-mans wife from him having banished her husband at which his people are discontented Shortly after the Venetians restore Paleologus being expelled by his son Andronicus Anno 1460 the second of February three Suns appeared every one shewing a severall light which again closed all together in one The Duke of York is attainted of Treason Henry the sixth is taken Prisoner at Northampton Civill War in France called The Weal-publike caused by the Kings Covetousnesse The King of France dieth having upon a foolish Conceit forborn his meat so long that when after he would eat he could not A Rebellion in Spain against the Queen for death of the Prince James the third came to the Crown of Scotland The Duke of York is slain in York-shire David Emperour of Trapezond and his two sons taken and slain by Mahomet the Turk In the next yeer after Edward the fourth came to the Crown of England and poor innocent Henry the sixth sent to the Tower c. Anno 1466 three Suns were seen at Rome in which yeer Erasmus was born The King of Denmark is excommunicated by the Pope Warwick and Edward the fourth fall out John King of Spain is deposed and Alfonsus crowned The King of Hungaria's brother is taken by the Turks and beheaded at Constantinople Gerard the King of Denmark's brother is imprisoned for aspiring Matthias of Hungaria is set up against the lawfull King thereof Scanderbeg a most valiant Captain against the Turk dieth The French King takes from his brother the Dutchy of Normandy Anno 1492 the fifteenth of December three Suns were seen in Poland at noon The Jews are expelled Spain Alexander the sixth plays the ungratefull fellow with his Gardinalls Towards the later end of the yeer the Emperour of Germany dies and John Albert succeeds Casimire in the Kingdom of Polonia The Ganthois in Flanders rebell Anno 1514 in January three Suns were seen in the Dutchy of Wittenberge the middlemost surpassed the rest in greatnesse In every of these there appeared the form of a bloody and fiery sword The same yeer in March three Moons were seen It was in that yeer some parts of Sussex were burned and spoiled by the Rhodians in behalf of the French An Interview follows betwixt the Emperour King of Polonia and Bohemia The French King and Pope meet The Queen of Scotland fleeth into England The French King dieth and Francis the first succeeds and recovers Millan Anno 1515 Queen Mary the scourge of Protestants is born in England Wolsey a proud Priest begins to rise at Court The Pope falls out with the Venetians Anno 1520 the fifth of January about Sun-rising three Suns appeared with a Rainbowe of divers colours at Vienna The seventh of January there were three Suns also seen After Charles the fifth was Crowned there was seen a circle about the Sun with a Rainbowe The Pope he spues out his Excommunications against Luther who as stoutly burns his foolish Bulls The Pope executes the Tyrant of Perugia The Duke of Buckingham is in England beheaded for Treason The French detain our Merchants goods we imprison the French Solyman the Magnificent comes to be Emperour of Turkie The Geldrois rebell The next yeer after the French War began which continued thirty and eight yeers troubles arise in Scotland Many rich Cities taken by the Turk in Hungary Anno 1523 in Switzerland there was seen three Suns at once and also divers Circles in the Element At Norimberge in a Diet there held grievances are exhibited against the Pope The Peasants rebell against the Nobles in Germany Both the French and Swedes are defeated by the Imperialls The Earl of Surrey burns thirty seven Towns in Scotland The Duke of Holsten is chosen King of Denmark and the former King expelled for his Cruelty The Janizaries mutiny at Constantinople Anno 1525 there was seen in Hungaria five Suns two on either side the right Sun The Duke of Luneburg becomes Lutherane The Order of Capuchines is erected The French King is released out of prison Fifty thousand Clowns are slain Henry the eighth falls off from the Emperour The women of Hague rise against their Customers upon their exactions and the Swedes become Lutheranes Anno 1526 in Sweden three Suns were seen with divers circles in the Elements The Emperour abolisheth the Popes Authority in Spain The Tartarian invades the Polonian and is defeated and taken Rome

wants strength to manage his feeble body in a time of so much sorrow as the Eclipse saith is approaching When the daring or cruell Enemy comes neer us what shall the infirm man do neither able to move or be moved Perish he must flee he cannot there 's no way assigned but death yea although he was the son of a father most eminent But again to the purpose Si in Revolvendo anno Regni Stella in signo depressionis inventa fuerit magnus aliquis vir ex stellae ipsius natura morietur Ptol. Apho. 31. In handling the Judgement or Revolution of a yeer if a Planet that is usually taken for Lord of that Kingdom be in his depression viz. either in his detriment or fall some great person of the nature of that Planet will die that yeer This is like to be fatall to the Kingdom of England for in Figura mundi Saturn was in his fall In this present Eclipse Mars that hath sole dominion in the Ascendant and place eclipsed is in his detriment It cannot be the death of any vulgar or ordinary man that is hereby intended to be sent to another world Mars represents great persons principall Commanders in our Armies as well as in his Majesties Truely I fear an eminet Commander Cavete viri qui sunt tanquam Princes You that are in esteem like Princes and domineer like little Kings beware every one of you in every County and City you are said to be gods you shall die like other men c. disgraced odious c. It s not one onely man that is intended by the heavens to be the mock of Fortune and scorn of Mankinde there 's a signification of many that are to undergo a very hard and unpleasant Doom ere the Influence of this Eclipse shall have period or the Porrent of the three Suns be fully determined Obsecro mi Domine mitt● qu●m missurus es I may be derided for predicting so much but I rather laugh at their folly that having been oft premonished amend not their lives and endeavour Composition of these unhappie Dissentions now too prevalent all over Christendom What great one soever thou art of England or of any Nation of Europe that hast the 28 or 27 of Leo ascending at thy birth or the same degree of Taurus Scorpio or Aquarius to thee I say Thou art in great danger of death or mighty disturbance in thy health ere this Revolution of almost two yeers be compleated I am not idle but thou art mad and out of thy wits if thou doest not beware in time Let us admit thou hast the same degree culminating look to thine Honour Crown and Dignity if thou art a King thou shalt assuredly receive blemish in thy fame and estimation nor shalt thou escape without hazarding thy Crown or most fearfull scandals on thy Reputation Hast thou the same degrees ascending on the Cusp of the seventh Art thou a King thou shalt have War unlook'd for enemies without number domestick and forreign shall invade thee look to be plunged to purpose and to suffer discontent without period those as dear unto thee as thy wife in thy bosom shall betray thee by indirect counsels Hast thou the said degree upon the Cusp of the fourth house Art thou Emperour of Constantinople Thy father left thee more Kingdoms then thou shalt leave thy son Lose part of thy Dominions I desire thee the Fates will have it so Art thou of the Noble Austrian Family or art thou King of England France Spain or Denmark Be all or any of you assured to have a share in these Calamities a part or parcell an arm or a branch of your Kingdoms will be lopt off from you Is there any man hath the Sun or the Moon in the 28 degree of Leo or Aquarius at the time of his birth let him ponder these words of Ptolomey lib. 2. cap. 8. Sed periculosum in primis inevitabile est si ipsae Eclipticorum locorum partes aut oppositae coinciderint cum gradibus alter utrius Luminum quos geniturae tempore possederunt The sense of which words run thus That if an Eclipse happen in that Eclipticall degree in which at the time of birth either of the Lights viz. Sun or Moon were it s an argument saith he of some danger at hand hardly to be avoided We cannot forget that fearfull losse his Majestie of Spain suffered not long after the Eclipfe of the Sun in Geminis 1639. Truely I fear that same potent Prince must have another such like Brush for the three Suns doth in a manner deliver so much and look carefully what Nation or Prince suffered upon the Influence of that Eclipse shall again by these three Suns apparition in a more then miraculous way if it be possible be loaded with misfortune Prodigies in heaven of heaven and from heaven appear not in vain Eclipses do ever foreshew some notorious and eminent matter neer hand yea in a most peaceable season The Courts of all Princes shall be stricken dead with fear horrour and amazement Privie Counsellours shall be trampled down like dirt under our feet In the East from the East or somewhat South-east shall the beginnings of some miraculous Accidents have some first life motion and beginning But this is quite out of the Text If as the wisest men conceive the Sun and Moon do govern our body and spirit and so moderate the Elements that all men even every vulgar person understands it what shall we then think to be more admired or formidable then when we upon a sudden see these most glorious Bodies obscured and their light taken from our present sight We may from thence imagine Somewhat more then ordinary is drawing on It was therefore well and rightly said of Ptolomey Cardinales Eclipses sunt pollentiores ac vehementius afficiunt quipp● quum cardines sint mundi prima loca in quibus cum Planetae collocati cum Majestate praesideant Eclipses that are in Angles are more prevalent and more fiercely afflict for Angles are the chiefest places of the Figure wherein when Planets are posited they rule as it were with Majestie Our Eclipse begins in the tenth its middle and end is there also How wonderfull and eminent Designes Changes of Fortunes in the states of great persons is hereby to be expected and these all over Europe doubtlesse such things shall hereby come to passe as this Generation now living hath scarce been acquainted with the like Here 's mad work in hand Kings and Lords clouded Clowns and silly fellows climbing aloft The world is almost turning Topsie-turvey What is the matter that a sudden Affright shall amaze the Italian Princes They that er●-w●ile thought of no such thing shall now tremble for fear So shall Pamphilio the Pope fume to no purpose and be in as much danger by a Conspiracy at home as if he were a road ●nd amidst a rude sort of enemies But whether this Eclipse shall point out his

you smart and every one of you taste none excepted the heavie hand of God who will strengthen your Subjects with invincible Courage to suppresse your Misgovernments and Oppressions in Church or Common-wealth Nor shall War cease or the Sword of God leave persecuting you and your Off-springs untill this great Work is perfectly done What will you say if the Almighty is ready to let fall from heauen a new Government quite contrary to any hath hitherto been in the world Here 's threatned an universall Insurrection against you by your oppressed People Here 's either the Deposing Flight or finall Extirpation of some of you at hand Your Viceroys Lieutenant-Generalls shall quake and tremble and prove men of no Courage shall shrink from you in your greatest necessity Your Confederates shall fail in reall Performances and do you more mischief then a professed enemy Your Children shall wander as banished People all over the world die unlamented in strange Countreys while some of your own Generation of set purpose shall bring you in dislike of your vassails Those words are generall A word to my own Countrey of England Verily I am doubtfull there 's now as great Treason in hatching against England as either the Armado in 1588 or furious Gunpowder-Plot in 1605. I am scrupulous for the love I bear to my native Soil whilest I conceive there 's a second Massacre in agitation and yet I faithfully believe we shall really overcome it and maturely and in good sadnesse take lusty Vengeance on the Contrivers c. Are not both the Lights in our Scheam with or neer Cor Scorpii a most violent fixed Star which usually if we believe Antiquity or Experience threatens sudden and violent death else why have we this Aphorism Cor Scorpii cum Luminaribus cruentam mortem aut ex veneno repentinam denuntiat He or she of any great Family that hath either the Sun or Moon or both with this Star in the Radix of their Nativities are threatned hereby either to die some violent death by casualty Sword Gun or Poison Look to your selves here 's some monstrous death towards you But to whom wilt thou say Herein we consider the Signe Lord thereof and the House The Sun signifies in that Royall Signe great ones the House signifies Captivity Poison Treachery From which is derived thus much That some very great man what King Prince Duke or the like I really affirm I perfectly know not shall I say come to some such untimely end What Magistrate soever of Europe hath the Sun or Moon in the place now afflicted his person and estate will be in danger Where the 6 7 or 8 of Sagittarius do culminate he loses his Sovereignty where the same degrees arise in the Horoscope it threatens his life witnesse the King of Sweden c. Great men may and I know will despise these favourable Admonitions Let them so do and afterwards cry Had I wist Here in our Figure we have all the superiour Planets Retrograde as if all the Grandees of the world and every principall man in his kinde should finde vexation enough or as if every State and Common-wealth or Society of men were declining and ready to suffer in one kinde or other Significat etiam morbos populares mortalitates quod ibi morietur Rex Haly Popular Diseases that is abundance of the common people shall die by the Sword Mortality c. And where these afflictions are in most force there and in that Land shall the King or principall Officer die What successe shall follow of Treaties or from or by means of Messengers Commissioners Ambassadours Nuntio's Generall or Provinciall Councels you may read by the positure of Mercury in Scorpio hastening to Opposition of Jupiter The Significator in fixed Signes shew the tediousnesse of such like matters the length of time shall be spent in Embassages Treaties Counsels but was there ever without the immediate finger of God any good Conclusion when the Significators applied by opposition Long deceitfull and painfull Debates slender and impertinent Conclusions Men are employed by some to good intents and purposes but one dash of a Pen one simple underhand-missive of or from a guilty Secretary or male-contented States-man or one scrupulous Tenent of or from an unsetled Separatist hinders and makes void all conclusion of difference by Negotiations and Treaties Whereas formerly Commissioners from Prince to Prince have determined the greatest Controversies ever happened there 's now in the Figure of heaven no apparance of such blessings the Sword being onely intended to decide these consuming Plagues and inveterate Quarrels that either have or shall for some yeers rise amongst the European Common-wealths Blinded shall be the eyes of the wisest discerning men curbed and disheartned shall be the intentions of the cordiall slandered shall be the well-wishes of innocent and harmlesse souls who are not so verball to no purpose as some airy spirits Wars shall be prolonged beyond either the reason or judgement of the wisest States-man now living nay untill the furious Souldier himself is weary The Rainbowe seemed occularly to be amongst the Northern Constellations above the Aequator in that space of heaven where the learned place Serpentarius or the form of a Serpent his mouth gaping wide open and a Crown ready to fall into the Serpents mouth This is the second time within one yeers space that some Princes of Europe have been threatned with Ruine and Destruction if they repent not for the last of June 1644 there were strange Apparitions in the heavens in this very Constellation and now again this unusuall Rainbowe extending it self over the proper Sun and quite thorow the body of the Serpent Let me adde to this The subsequent Eclipse I shall write of hath no little signification in the fortune and persons of Kings and great men Was not our mother Eve deceived by ill counsel given unto her by the devil in form of a Serpent and was not Adam thereby himself mistaken and so his whole Posterity made capable of that punishment he for that suffered and we all by his act It was not Adam it was not Eve but the Serpent It s not Kings or Princes it s not their Queens or Ladies that invent those execrable Counsels so totally destructive no it 's the Serpent it's in plain language such destructive Counsel as is put into them by Serpents that is ill Counsellors It s Mercury in Scorpio its religious men in habit but devils in conditions its men of great Conformity outwardly that deceitfully hatch these hellish Advices I wish in time great men to become themselves for if some good Angel hath hitherto seemed to keep their Crowns their Dominions their Authority from dropping into the Serpents mouth that is from Ruine Approach of forreign Power or Incursion c. yet now as in a little time this Rainbowe vanished and so left the true Sun naked and to recive any impression so questionlesse in a short time shall

and it was onely twelve days before the great Fight betwixt Darius and Alexander and this was upon Saturday the 20 of September The Monarchy of Persia by the overthrow of this Battel vanished after it had ruled Asia 200 yeers Anno mundi 3733 there was an horrible Eclipse of the Sun the 11 of February Who is conversant in History may finde that not long after Hannibal slew fifteen thousand Romanes and Ptolomeus Philopater King of Egypt overthrew Antiochus after which Victory the proud King being insolent entred the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Jews for which he was punished by God and so returned into Egypt Anno Christi 45 some say 47 the Sun suffered an Eclipse the first of August after which followed that sad Famine universall to all the world prophesied of by Agabus Act. 11. But I hasten Anno Christi 807 the Sun was eclipsed once and the Moon twice there succeeded instantly very great Division in the Empire under Charles the Great Anno Christi 813 an Eclipse of the Sun preceded the death of Carolus Magnus Anno Christi 891 after an Eclipse of the Sun the Emperour and Princes of Italy fell at variance and mutually invaded each other by which means Italy was fearfully afflicted for many yeers I finde some remarkable Observations in Plutarch after Eclipses as these At what time Pericles armed 150 Ships and was ready to set sail an Eclipse of the Sun happened which being conceived to be ominous by some Pericles derided the Prognostick But see the words following But Pericles hoysing Sail notwithstanding did no notable or speciall Service answerable to so great an Army or Preparation for which he was deprived of his Charge of Generall c. and fined at fifteen Talents In the Life of Pelopidas you shall read that upon his second Journey against the Tyrant Alexander of Pheres a great Eclipse of the Sun was causing great darknesse at noon-day You may read fol. 303 in Plutarch that Pelopidas wilfulnesse contrary to the advice of some in the Army cost him his life for not onely those that were then versed in Soothsaying but his own Citizens told him That this Eclipse did threaten the death of some great Person like himself c. which his death exactly verified You shall also read in the Life of Nicias That instantly after an Eclipse of the Moon the Syracusians overthrew the whole Power of the Athenians by Sea and he himself and Demosthenes were taken Prisoners and not long after lost their lives During the Effects of a Lunar Eclipse and upon some prodigious Sights in the air Dyonisius Tyrant of Syracusa was enforced to flee and that City after 48 yeers restored to liberty That was no weak Judgement therefore that Mil●as the Soothsayer resolutely delivered upon sight thereof My good friends be of good chear and assure your selves that we shall prosper for God doth foreshew us by this Sight we see that some one of the chiefest things now in highest place and dignity shall be eclipsed He that shall please but to peruse Leovitius de Conjunctionibus Eclipsibus may be more fully satisfied And yet if examples of late yeers work any thing in us we cannot forget that eminent Eclipse in 1639 and in the moneth of May I am sure we were never quiet since It was fully visible in our Horizon We may not forget the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet upon our English Coasts within four moneths after c. In all my reading I finde Solar Eclipses are most ominous to Princes to Authority Magistracy c. and that Eclipses of the Moon do both afflict King and People but most properly incite and excite the Subjects to Arms and the vulgar against his Lord and Master For whereas the Solar Eclipse puts difference betwixt one Prince and another betwixt one State another one Noble-man and another each Common-wealth against his next neighbour a Lunar Eclipse on the contrary stirs up people of more ignoble Condition to strive against their Ministers that have power over them c. The Effects of the present Eclipse prosecuted IF that Sentence of Ptolomey be admitted for truth Lib. 2. c. 7. Quaecunque Stella erratica pluribus dignitatibus utrique loco id est deliquii ipsius hoc sequentis cardinis associabitur Sola dominabitur Which in English runs thus That Planet which hath most Dignities in the degree or place eclipsed and angle succeeding shall be ruler of the Eclipse that is Consider his nature and position how he is well or ill affected and how and by whom aspected and accordingly judge of the Events By which Doctrine we may be bold to affirm that Mars shall principally rule the effects of this Eclipse as having most dominion in the place of the defect and solely ruling the angle subsequent which is the Ascendant If I deviate an hairs breadth from truth I must expect some dirty fool to throw out non-sense in Print against me therefore observe if Cardan confirm not my words Lib. 20. fol. 258. Cum enim idem fuerit Dominus loci deliquii loci sequentis anguli ille prorsus erit Dominus Principalis When the same Planet is Lord of the place eclipsed and of the sequent angle he shall be altogether or especially Lord of the Eclipse To which Judgement Campanella fol. 84 consenteth while he delivers Validior est qui deliquii loco cardinis plus potest And yet in designing the effects of the Eclipse we are to consider the Predominancy and Fortitudes of the rest of the Planets and their mutuall Aspects each to other their position in the heaven signe and quarter for they will challenge something in the Effects as Ptolomey lib. 2. cap. 8 saith Hoc sumitur a natura dominantium Stellarum quae sunt in praecipuis locis earum commixtione inter sese cum iis locis in quibus esse conspiciuntur We ought saith he to take signification of the Eclipse from those Stars that are most powerfull in the chiefest places of heaven and their commixtion one with another together in those places in which they are posited But sith Ptolomey delivers us a kinde of Method we shall willingly follow it in manifestation of the Effects now subsequent Wherein we first consider The Kingdoms Cities or Common-wealths of Europe likely to suffer as also what manner of men be most probably to smart by the Effects In our Figure because the Eclipse is in a fiery Signe the fiery Triplicity is passive viz. Aries Leo Sagittarius In defectibus Solis Lunae maximè insignibus considerabimus locum Zodiaci in quo fuit luminum defectus ei loco juxta Trigonorum distributionem familiares quae Vrbes propter Horoscopum in exstructione aut propter locum quem eo tempore tenuerunt aut propter medium-Coeli in Nativitatibus Principum earum regionum familiaritatem habent cum loco defectus Ptol. lib. 2. cap. 5. In

death within the compasse of two yeers it little concerns me nor if he be presented with a Spanish Fig and die thereof shall my conscience be any thing troubled I finde upon the last Restauration of Rome 1506 that both Mars Saturn and the Dragons tail were in Leone in the second House We have in the moneth of August a totall Eclipse of the Moon though not visible in Europe in the 15 of Aquarius I admonish the Prelaticall Tribe of Cardinals to provide good store of Money and the Citizens of Rome to be no niggards of their purses A Famine is threatned to them and some parts of It●ly and a sudden fire is like to descend to the consuming of many stately houses Neither do I positively affirm that a strong Intruder shall waste part of Italy or supplant some very good Families therein I see plenty of Consults amongst the Princes fruitlesse Embassages variance upon Niceties even to wearinesse a giddinesse amongst wise people Worthy men you have most admirable men amongst you that yet keep a Traditionall learning amongst you as ancient as Hermes whereby you may be better provided Quid agendum I love Italy and am no Mahometan But I passe by Italy sith her Princes in a moment may confer with men as deserving as any in Europe Constantinople is like to grone under the Pressures of some mercilesse fires and extravagant commanding Souldiers A Plague will wander thorow that spacious City to the consumption of some scores of thousands Nor is any great successe to attend the Emperours of Greece whom we call The great Turk An inferiour People shall give him a Baffle and he contented with a Flea in his ear If thou art English and disaffected to our present Parliament and City of London thou expectest I should speak somewhat of this famous Citie so terrible to our now-mischievous enemies The exact Scheam thereof thou gettest not from me no not with large promise of money or reward for have not I read some Treatises called T Z Countrey-men I tell you Gemini is in the eighth House of this Eclipticall Figure but Mercury that is Lord thereof is in Virgo his own house angular and departing from the Sun-beams Wilt thou have me speak plain English This very Citie must suffer a share in the effects of this Eclipse it were a wonder else the times considered I fear not the Plague very much I rather fear hurt unto us by Pyracy losse of Ships and the death of many poor Creditors abroad and from thence a generall Damage to the Citizens Indeed courteous George Naworth I would not reside in London were I as doubtfull of its safety as I am confident of some Calamity to Oxford Our Citie must stand yet to day and to morrow this moneth and one more this yeer and the next and 52 besides He that understands this Riddle shall know more then a little he that takes it to the letter mistakes my meaning he that would know the truth viz. when and how long he must first know the Astrologicall way of numbers and what doth mean 1732 then he may give a moderate sense and yet come short of the Authors meaning and of truth it self yet shall he come to a knowledge not despicable nor repent that he spent some time in the disquisition hereof Magnorum facias Principum significatorem Solem vel aliquem de superioribus Herm. Apho. 7. Make the Sun or some of the Superiours significator of great Princes It is so the heavens doubly and trebly give that warning which I have set down unto Kings Princes c. But why or wherefore will some busie-body say I answer with Hermes In Revolutione annorum mundi multae difficultates erunt praelia cum in exaltationibus fuerint Jupiter Saturnus In the Revolution of one of the yeers of the world you shall judge many difficulties and Battels when Saturn or Jupiter are in their Exaltations If this hold true in a Figure of the Suns entrance into Aries much more in an eminent Eclipse We have onely Jupiter of those two Planets exalted in our Scheam he doth by his now-position signifie unto us things concerning Religion Laws Leagues Covenants all manner of Association either of one Prince with another or man with man generally as here posited now he prenotes high points to be in handling in things Divine Jove is but entring his exaltation Shall a people begin with great ardour and vigour to contrive new Tenents in Religion and not live to see them confirmed Is there no stability in this world One Sect to day another to morrow Shall lesse then a Sabbath of yeers blot almost out of remembrance many fruitlesse Niceties in Doctrine Why the Clergie of Europe in a time so troublesome should invent so many new Opinions to be permanent so little a while I know not What shall we do or whither do we arrive with these generall Disputes I see Jupiter direct at the time of the Eclipse but Retrograde two moneths after We have a Proverb in English doth well expresse that sense viz. He was turned out of his place before he was warm in his Gears The assured sense hereof is this That when the world thinks Religion setled it s then furthest off from a sollid confirmation One Generation comes and another passeth away the later usually corrects and refines the former So will it be even till man as well as Religion in this world have no more being In person I am not more remote from Vtopia then my judgement from finding the year of the world when unity in Doctrinall or Ceremoniall points shall be Conjunctiones totius anni Oppositionesque Quadraturas necesse est ut consideres per has causantur diversaetransmutationes temporum Consider the severall Conjunctions Oppositions Quadratures of the whole yeer for divers and sundry transmutations of the yeer are caused from thence c. Wherefore finding a dangerous Opposition of Saturn and Mars Saturn in 2 deg. 19 min. Taurus and Mars in 2 deg. 19 min. Scorpio the later end of September I was doubtfull what it might in generall signifie sith the Aspect happens so neer the Cusps of the East angle and seventh house in the Figure of the Eclipse For Oppositiones infortunarum in diversis latitudinibus terribilem habebunt effectum demonstrabunt inducentque effectus velociter interficientes auferentes vitam An Opposition of the two Infortunes having divers Latitudes as now they have hath most terrible effects they will demonstrate and induce their effects furiously and such as shall kill and take away the life of man But upon which side or on what party these foreseen slaughters shall fall you must give me leave to expatiate my self and so I will Nor let that vain and enforced Opinion without sense honesty or art in that purblinde-Prognostication printed at Oxford by his Majesties Command any thing move those that stand well-affected to the Parliament upon this direfull