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A42768	A brief relation of the life and death of the late famous astrologer, Mr. Vincent Wing Together with his nativity, as it was done, many years before his death, by his own hand; and now, for general satisfaction, made publick. By J.G. philomathētikos.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1669 (1669)	Wing G75A; ESTC R215141	18,788	38

or Aries Ascending at their Birth shall not need the envy of others to bring them to their ends but be the unhappy cause of their own Deaths although I believe and all the world knows and is satisfied that Mr. Wing was not felo de se as Lawyers speak being of better principles than to commit a violence upon or against himself yet I am convinced that in a charitable and just sense he made the Aphorisme good For we know his Soul was so set upon business as before you have heard that he laboured not only beyond his strength even till the last but against the opinions of his Physicians not that he conceived in so doing he any way did hasten or accelerate his Death but because he hated Idleness being a man of so unwearied a fancy that he was Active and working to the last and had not Strength and Vigor first left him he had never left his Employment for he dyed labouring even in the middest of his business as well as his years The worthy Albohali tells us that if the significators of Death in any Nativity shall be in domibus vel exaltationibus suis a malis liberi erit mors ejus in parentes et proximos suos And so true we find his words for they take full place in Mr. Wings Nativity that as Mr. Wings Life did not cross or Contradict the Influences of the Stars neither did his Death For he as the Holy Patriarch Jacob dyed among his Relations received an honourable Interment On the Death of so many Eminent Astrologers and Mathematicians and particularly on the Expiration of Mr. Vincent Wing OUr Mirth and Pleasures leave us for a space While Sighs and Tears Usurp upon your place Behold the Wounds the Stars do give their Friends The Fates spare none may bring about their Ends. First they force Loyal Neve resign his Breath Next Learned Fisk compel to yield to Death Then the great Oughtred in a goodly Age His part being done they hurrey off the Stage Culpeper follows The Physicians Foe All Astrologians surely are not so And painful Booker too they take to 's rest Angels themselves subscribe Ac Mortuus est But Death not satisfied unless he Work a sure Famine in Astrology And make the world with his Massacres Ring Hath last of all remov'd Laborious Wing Sure Death 's turn'd Courtier will not be deny'd The thing he covets though the best man Dy'd Ah! Cruel Tyrant what ill hast thou done To bless'd VRANIA her scarce risen Sun Must set before it the Meridian Mount What shall we now of Fair Vrania Count She could have spar'd thee Quacks Fools good store Turn-coats and Traitors full as many more Which Tribe thy hungry Stomach might suffice In taking them thou 'dst sav'd VRANIA'S eyes But at her Friends to cast thy envious Dart At once strikes Blind and Dead her Eye and Heart No more Astrologers since these are gone Trouble your serious skill or thoughts upon Poor Mortals Life and Death Your Period's set And the Alchocoden that governs it Must veile to th' Anareta All your pain Cannot from it the meanest minute gain 'T is Natures privilege to be severe And let her reign Triumphant in her Sphear T. F. Astrophil Advertisement Courteous Reader IN the foregoing discourse you are informed of the Death of the Person of Mr. Wing but his Fame that is still surviveing and this not only in his own Laborious pieces emitted into the world in his Life time but in a Son he left behind him who bears his own Name And is so far inclined to his Fathers Studies that he hath for this present year 1670. wrote his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Almanack and by Gods blessing intends the Annual continuance thereof FINIS * I mean only the Angry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who of all men most emulates Astrology and yet huggs an opinion an 100 times more ridiculous than any one principle thereof nay directly untrue Viz. that of Praedestination in the most terrifing sence Mr Wing's Ancestors 1st came out of Wales and settled at great Panton neer Grantham in Lincolnshire and neer 100. Yeares since Planted themselves in North Luffenhan and as I have it ascertain'd me from an honorable hand there have bin of them in that place three Generations successively with himself It frequently happens that far greater Families oftner change their Seats somtimes in much shorter space do also lose their Names Mr. Wing wanted an Academical Education and the reasons thereof Dominus Ascendentis applicatus Domino M. C. existenti in sua exaltatione decernit Natum ex se ipso honores cumulaturum Argol 134 p. ☜ * And I could wish also that such whose inclinations bend to learning might be but so happy as not to miss an Academical Education ‖ Ex quolibet Ligno non fit Mercurius Omar de Nativit Lib. 2. Cap 3. c. Firmic Lib. 2. Fol. 57. ad Mavort Stellae fixae irrationabile is atque admirabileis faelicitates afferunt c. Ptol. Cent. Aphor. 29. Spica Virginis in Ascendente dignitates altas imp●rtitur c. Ptol. Parv. p. 131. ‖ Dominus decimae in nona Natus erit honestae vitae Argol p. 42. Venus honestè posita ut in suis dignitatibus cum Luna c. Honestos mores laudabiles decernit Argol 116. p. All Rutlandshire Northamptonshire and the Countreys round about give this general good commendable Character of him as any that pleases may more particularly inform themselves from any of the Gentry of those Countreys as my self have done before the writing hereof because I would publish nothing but truth concerning him Luna in None Nato religioni addicit Argol p. 140. Quum ♃ ♀ c. sunt signif dispositionis Animae Natus erit simplex amans nitiditatem magisteriam at que r●rum investigationes eritque bonae qualitatis animae pius sani cordis Deum amabit illi serviet cupiet etiam amore Dei laboriosus esse erit sensatus amans humilis c. Ptol Quadrip lib. 3. cap. 13. Rue or Herb-grace delights not to grow in the Face of the Sun although he be the Life of all living things and this any Gardner will tell you ‖ ♄ in domo Mercurii dat Scientias Ptol. parv p. 34. D●cima septima pars ♎ Si in horoscopo fuerit inventa ☽ bene posita ad benevolas plena lumine feratur Litera●os faciet c. Firmicus Lib. 8. Cap. 21. * Astrologus nascitur non fit ☜ matth cap. 15. vers 36 37. 1 Cor c. p. 1. vers 25 26. Dominus medii Caeli in suis dignitatibus applicatus domine Ascenden is Orientalis honores in regno pollicetu● Principum familiaritatem Arg. p. 134. Sol in Cusp de septimae tribuit honores gloriam post mortem Ptol. par p. 133. Canis Syrius sicut Procyon in medio Caeli as here dat honores magnos c Ptol. par 131 Gradus medii Caeli exaltatio Jovis I am sure it is neer it Celebre nomen diffundit Argol p. 132. ☿ Motu velex facit expeditos in inventionibus rationibus Bene dispositi Mercurius Mars faciunt ingenio acutissim● pag. 137. See the History of his Life Vide my Collectio G●niturarum p 2. Where all their Nativities a●e to be found * See his Nativity as done by himself in his Astrologia Gallica ☜ Math. 25. 25. ‖ See his excellent Tables in his Astronomia Instaurata and Harmonicon Coeleste of those Planets motions As also his Astronomia Britanica lately published * And of this I have had the happiness of being more than once or twice a witness Mr. Wing the Reviver and Defender of the motion of the Earth in these later Times ☞ Vide his many Almanacks wrote in the times of our late Rebellion when he might have sided against his Sovereign with applause and gain as well as some other Almanack-writers but you find by them he was too Loyal for such degenerous impious actions or practices ☞ Nota bene ‖ Dominus septimae in duodecima dissensiones decernit cum inimicis Argol ☜ Seneca saith that a man hath so much wit as he hath anger And St. Paul alloweth of anger so that it be limited and not transported with a desire of revenge Ephes 4. * Vide Cardan in Coment Ptol. Morinu in Astrol Gallica Gregor in Notes on Scripture Card. Aliac c When Mr. Wing first appeared upon the Stage of the world His writings universally esteemed and embraced ☞ * Dominus Ascendentis cum domino Medij Caeli d●t honeres Principum aut Magnatum familiaritates Ptol. par p. 132. * Facut experiar Jehovah finem meum mensura dierum meorum quid sit experiar quam d●abilis sum Psal Quorum autem ascendens erit Aries aut Libra hi mortis suae causae erunt Ptol. Cent. Aphor. 37.

A BRIEF RELATION OF THE Life and Death Of the late Famous Mathematician and Astrologer Mr. VINCENT WING TOGETHER With his Nativity as it was done many years before his Death by his own hand And now for general satisfaction made publick By J. G. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quum Moritur vir an revicturus est Job 14. Et Mortuus adhuc per hanc loquitur Heb. 11. LONDON Printed by T. Milbourn 1669. To the Honourable Edward Deering of London Esq His Majesties Merchant and Receiver General of his Majesties Revenues in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey c. Honoured Sir NOt only your acquaintance with the Sciences Mathematical and the many profitable Labors of the Industrious Person whose Life I here publish but your known affection to all the friends of VRANIA hath invited me to this address As also to return my humble thanks for that you were pleased lately in a Company of Giant-like yet ignorant opposers as well Nobly to favour the Truths of Astrology as courteously to own me and my meaner Arguments in its behalf In which contest by your prevailing and sinnewey Reasons you so far wrought upon their Passion and Prejudice little than a Miracle that at length those angry Opponents although some of them were men otherwise learned and Elderly too began ingeniously to acknowledge that they had never heard so much discourse of Astrology in all their Lives and therewithal frankly engaged to enquire into the grounds of that Science before they believed any more reports against it A good president for all that are Enemies to any truth upon the bare hear-say of others or because the ignorant Multitude as taught by the supercilious Man in Black have declaimed or rather snarl'd against it Vox Populi is not alwaies Vox Dei And Truth is too Coy to be courted by the Rabble-rout She hath select Favourites to whom she dispenceth her Graces In your acceptance of this Dedication you will help to preserve to posterity a true Son of Science One whose Industry was such that Ages will scarcely Equal And yet Sir not so much protect him as that mean Piece I have in the following History drawn of him scarce to the Life I confess My numbers are too immusical to sound forth his worth And my Colours now like his Ghost too pale and lifeless to express his great Deservings Mr. Wing was his own best Herald And his Fame will live for ever in his own works What I have done is only to pay a grateful respect to his Ashes as he was my friend that future times may find he had some who were contemporary with him that knew how to value him and his merits If therefore Sir you will vouchsafe me but a corner of the Mantle of your Nobler Reputation and Favour for my defence you will thereby at once keep Mr. Wing warm in his Coffin and cover the many imperfections of him who thus endeavours to embalm his memory against the Flesh-flies of Envy and Detraction and esteems it one of his greatest Felicities that he hath an opportunity to entitle himself Honoured Sir From my study in Brick-Court by the Deans-Yard Westminster Your real Servant and Honourer J. Gadbury SOME REMARKS ON THE LIFE and DEATH OF Mr. VINCENT WING Compared with his NATIVITY MR Vincent Wing was born at North Luffenham in the County of Rutland in the Year of our Lord 1619. on the Ninth Day of April at Five Hours Forty-eight Minutes P. M. or Afternoon He was a branch of an honest and virtuous stock as proceeding from Parents rather good than great who with their Ancestors have been long seated in the said Town of Luffenham enjoying a greater blessing in their continued and setled condition than many others in the Multitude of Riches A fixed Habitation being even the mightiest Mercy that Fortune can bestow upon Mortality and so characterized by GOD Himself to Moses in the Mount Whereas a wandring or erratique condition or course of life either in Persons or Families is not only a reproach but a Curse to them that undergo it and their future Generations And this Cain in the beginning of time and the Jewes since the Death of our Saviour have by a long and miserable experience found certain and true But Mr. Wing's Family hath been happy above many other Families in the inheriting so peculiar a blessing and yet not more fortunate therein than in the bringing forth this their ingenious and industrious Son Who from his own merit and endeavours with God's blessings thereupon hath not only preserved but much augmented the Reputation of his deserving Predecessors and so firmly planted his Name and Memory there leaving to his Posterity an Estate and Fortune considerable to support and maintain it should their after endeavours be wanting thereunto of which I am credibly informed there is at present no just cause to doubt Where a large Purse or ample Fortune to a Father is wanting the Son though never so prompt and meritorious must be content to miss of a liberal breeding and thus it fared with Mr. Wing whose Lot it was to be of capable years and fit for Learning even in the worst of times Viz. at the begining of our late unhappy Confusions When Rebellion was opposed to Loyalty Plundering and Free-Quarter to the providing for and advancement of Posterity The Pistol and Pole-Axe to Terence and Tully c. And every well-meaning Person though of a Fortune competent had enough to do to shift and provide for Himself In which unhappy and perhaps unheard of Calamity Mr. Wing's best Friends and Parents sharing were the more disabled for pursuing his promotion and encouragement in Learning But although it was his luckless Fortune and unhappiness to want an Academical Education yet such was his Natural Inclination and Propensity to an acquaintance with Letters that by his own Industry and study he had in time conquered a competent Portion of Learning Viz. A perfect acquaintance of the Latine Tongue and a moderate understanding in the Greek c. By which happy advantages the greatest and most critical Authors and Masters of Astrologie and the Mathematiques in their own Language were no strangers unto Him From whence we may collect this true and modest Observation That Mr. Wing was born a Scholar although not bred or made one and therefore preferrible before many Thousands that had the gainful advantage of an Vniversity Learning and yet were not therewith capable of matching Him in Mathematical and Astrological Performances So excellent is an Innate worth and glory that all the external Paints and Florishes cannot so much as equalize much less transcend or surpass it Yet let the ingenious Reader know that I have no dis-respect for the Muses or for such whose happy Fate it is to suck at the sacred Brests of Minerva as having the Schools of Learning in Adoration and ever bearing a high honour and value for all those that derive