not worth full 10 years purchase may the lease of an hundred years or the Fée-simple cannot be worth above 10 years purchase allowing the said rate of 10 per cent for the money Many other questions of Purchases and Reversions might be added as you may sée at large in my Purchasers pattern printed for Mr. Pierrepont at the Sun in Pauls Church yard A brief Discourse of the Celestial part of the World of the Distances Magnitudes Motions and Scituations of the Planets and fixed Stars 1. Of the Heaven of the fixed Stars ALthough by the Diurnal motion of the Primum mobile this Heaven as all the other Orbs of the Planets are be violently turned about once in 24 hours yet they retain a proper motion to themselves which is contrary to the former this motion is called natural because it is effected by the proper motion of the Star or Planet in its own Orbe and the other motion is called Violent because it forceth a motion contrary to what the thing it self in nature would perform This Heaven of the fixed Stars is very slow in motion moving but one degree in 71 years and so is 25412 years moving through the whole Zodiack It is adorned and beautified with divers glorious bodies of several magnitudes of which the Ancients have noted 6 in number and that the multiplicity of these glorious bodies might not confound the beholders by their irregular scituation the Ancients have contracted their number by the uniting a certain number of them together into the form or fashion of some living Creature or other object as the SWAN the BEAR the SHIP the CROSSE c. and these are called ' Constellations of these Consteliations the Ancients observed only 48 though there be others found out of later times of which 21 were on the North side of the Equinoctial 15 on the South side and 12 in the Zodiack it self each of these Constellations contain a certain number of these Stars whose magnitudes are very vast in respect of this little ball whereon we live for A Star of the first Magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 68 times of which magnitude there are 15 Stars A Star of the second Magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 28 times of which magnitude there are 45 Stars A Star of the third magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 11 times of which magnitude there are 208 Stars A Star of the fourth magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 11 times of which magnitude there are 244 Stars A Star of the fifth Magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 21 times of which magnitude there are 217 Stars But a Star of the sixth Magnitude is lesse than the Earth and of his Magnitude are 49 Stars An Appendix to the precedent Almanack 2. Of the Heaven of Saturn THis Heaven is scituated within the Concavity of the Heaven of the fixed Stars and containeth only the body of his own Planet which appeareth as a Star of the second magnitude he is of a swarthy and obscure colour like unto lead his distance from the Earth in his mean distance is 9091960 Miles and the circumference of his Spheare is 57030266 miles according to which by the violent motion of the primum mobile he is moved 2376261 Miles in an hour but his own proper motion is slower than any of the other Planets yet much swifter than that of the fixed Stars for he endeth his course in 30 years 3. Of the Heaven of Jupiter VVIthin the Concavity of the Sphear of Saturn is sciutated the heaven of Jupiter in which moveth the body of 4 which appeareth like a Star of the first magnitude very bright and of nature warm In his mean distance he is distant from the Earth 3431400 Miles his body exceeding the earth in magnitude 14 times the periemter of his sphear being 21568800 miles so that his hourly motion is 898700 Miles he finisheth his Zodiacal period in 11 years and 316 dayes 4. Of the Heaven of Mars UNder the Heaven of Jupiter is the Orb of Mars appearing of a red fiery colour being distant from the earth in his mean distance 1500700 Miles the Circumference of his Spheare being 9432971 Miles so that by the violent motion of the primum mobile he is moved 393040 Miles in the space of an hour he compleateth his revolution in one year and 322 dayes 5. Of the Heaven of the Sun THe Sun is seated in the midst of the Planetary Orb by which he enlightens the superiour as well as the inferiour In his mean distance he is distant from the earth 989000 Miles the magnitude of his body being according to Tycho 140 times greater than the earth the compasse of his Orb being 6216571 Miles and he moveth in a hour 259023 Miles he maketh his Zodiacal revolution in 365 dayes 5 hours 49 min. 16 second 6. Of the Heaven of Venus VENUS the most bright and splendent star in all the Firmament is moved about the Sun as about a Centre her distance from the earth being 989000 Miles she moveth equally about the Sun though her motion séem to be very irregular she is sometimes higher and sometimes lower than the Sun she is six times lesse than the Earth and is distant from the Sun 735300 Miles 7. Of the Heaven of Mercury VVIthin the concavity of the Spheare of VENUS is placed MERCURY he is seituate very near the Sun and is never above 29 degrees distant from the Sun so that he is rarely séen he moveth about the Sun as Venus doth and is distant from the Earth 989000 Miles he is lesse than the earth 19 times 8. Of the Heaven of the Moon THe Moon is the lowest of all the Planets being distant from the earth in her mean distance 48760 Miles the Circumference of her Spheare being 306491 Miles she runneth in the space of an hour 12770 miles she is lesse than the Earth 39 times but according to Copernicus 43 times and finisheth her course in 27 dayes 7 hours 43 min. and 6 seconds Having thus taken a brief view of the heavenly Orbs we cannot but admire their vast magnitudes and swift motions and if from hence we can learn nothing yet let us learn this that there is a God and that he is far above all the works of his hands and the Wise-man contemplating thereupon saith We may understand by the heavens how much mightier he is that made them for by the greatness and glory of the Creatures proportionally the Maker of them is seen A most plain and easie Table shewing the true time of the beginning and continuance of the Reign of each King and Queen in England from the Conquest until this year 1662. Gathered forth of Chronicles and set forth for the profitable use of Lawyers Scriveners c. William Conqueror began his Reign 1066. October 15. and Reigned 20 years 11 months and 22 dayes William Rufus began his Reign
and meeâ— as the Chicken 27 Moveable and varying as the Fish 28 Lecherous as the Boat 29 Strong and puissant as a Camel 30 Traiterous as the Mule 31 Advised as the Mouse 32 Reasonable as an Angel And therefore he is called the little world or else he is called all Creatures for he doth take part of all 13. The Description of the four Elements and of the four Complexions with the four Seasons of the Year and the twelve Signs for each Month. IN each man and woman reigneth the Planets and every Sign of the Zodiack and every prime Qaulity every Element every Complexion but not in every one alibe for in some men reigneth one more in some reigneth another and therefore men be of divers manners as shall be made apparent 14. Of the four prime Qualities FOur prime Qualities there be that is to say Coloness Heat Driness Moisture which be contraries and therefore they may not come nigh together without a mean for the hotness on the one side bindeth them together and coidness on the other side Also hotnesse and coldnesse are two contraties and therefore they may not come nigh together without a mean for the moistness on the one side bindeth them together and driness on the other Moistness is cause of every thick substance of every swéet tast And there again driness is cause of every thin substance and of every sower stinking saste and also hotness is cause of every red colour and large quantify there again coloness is cause of every white colour and little quantity These four prime Qualities in their combination make the four Elements Aire minst and hot the Fire hot and dry the Earth dry and cold the Water cold and moist The Aire and Earth are two contraries and therefore they may not come nigh together but as fire binds them on the one side and the water on the other side Also Fire and water are two contraries and therefore they may not come nigh together but as the air betwéen them binds on the one side and the earth on the other side The fire is sharp subtil and moveable The Aire is sabtil moveable corpulent and dull The Earth is corpulent and thick The water is moveable corpulent and dull The Earth is corpulent dull and unmodable In the heart of the earth is the Center of the world that is to say the midst point and in every Center is Hell And there again about the Fire are the stars and about them in Heaven Chrysta-line that is to say waters of all blesse departed in nine orders of Angels then is Heaven in the hightest rooms and largest And there again is Hell in the lowest narrowest and straitest place Right as there be four Elements so there he four Complexions according in all manner of qualities to these four Elements The first is Sanguine that is to say blood gendred in the liver limbe like to the air The seeâ—nd is Choler gendred in the Gal and like thereto and it is according to the fire The third is Mâ—â—â—â—â—cholp gendred in the Milt and like to the dregs of blood and it â—ccordeth to the earth The fourth is Flegm gendred in the lungs like to Gall and it accordeth to the Water A Sanguine man much may and much coveteth for he is most hot A Cholerick man much coveteth and little may for he is hot and dry A Melancholiâ—ue man little may and little coveteth for he is dry and cold A Flegmatick man little coveteth and little may for he is cold and moist A Sanguine man is large lovely glad of cheer laughing and ruddy of colour steadfast fleshy right harry mannerly gentle and well nourished A Cholerick man is guileful safe and wrathful traiterous and right hardy small dry and black of colour A Melancholious man is evious sorry covetous hard false guileful dreadful slothful and clear of colour A Flegâ—â—atick man is slumbry sleepy slow sleightful â—humatick dull and hard of wit fat visage and white of colour 15. The year divided with the knowledge of the state of mans Body by Urine IN the year be four quarters ruled by these four Completions that is to say the Spring Summer Harvest and Winter Spring hath three Months that is to say March April May and it is Sanguine complexion Summer hath also three Moneths that is to say June July and August and this Quarter is Cholerick Complexion Harvest hath also three Months that is to say September October and November and this Quarter is melancholious Complexion Winter hath also three Months that is to fay December January and February and this Quarter is flegmatick Complexion Each day also these four complexions reigneth that is to say from three after mid-night to nine reigneth Sanguine and from nine after mid-night to three after mid-day reigneth Choler and from three after mid-day to nine after mid-day reigneth Melancholy and from nine after mid-day to three after mid-night reigneth Flegme Also in the four Quarters of the World reigneth these four Complexions that is to say Sanguins in the East Choler in the South Melancholy in the West and Flegm in â—he North. Also the four Complexions reign in the four Ages of Man that is to say Choler in child-hood Sanguine in man-hood Flegme in Age and Melancholy in old age Child-hood is from the birth to fourteen years full done Man-hood is from thence to Thirty years of age and from thence to fifty years And old age from thence to fourscore years and so forth to death All these four Complexions reign in the four parts of mans body Choler raigneth in all the soulet Limbs from the brest upward Sanguine reigneth in all small Limbs from the Midriff to the Wesand And Flegme reigneth in all nourishing Limbs from the Reins to the Midriffe And Melancholy reigneth in all Limbs from the Reines downward Wherefore every mans Vrine is cast in four that is to say Corkil Superfice middest of the ground every part of the Vrine to his part of Mans body and therefore to four things in every Vrine we must take heed that is to say Substance Quantity Colour and the Content Three Substances there are that is to say Thick Thiu and Middle Thick substance betokeneth very much moistnesss Thin substance betokeneth much drinesse A middle substance betokeneth temperance Also three quantities be in Vrine that is to say much little mean Much quantity betokeneth great cold Little quantity betokeneth great heat Mean quantity betokeneth temperance Also take â—heâ—d to the taste whether it be sweet or not Sweet taste betokeneth health And other taste betokeneth stâ—knesse Also in Vrines be twenty colours of the which the first ten betokeneth cold and the other ten betokeneth heat The ten colours that betoken cold are these The first is black as dark coal and cometh of livid going before The second is like to lead and those two betoken mortification Che third is white as clear water The fourth is lactick like to
is eder in our sight cannot be seen with them that dwell there and the other Pole which is ever out of our sight is in sight to them Again there is a place on earth where both the Poles have even like scituation in the Horizon 28. Of the Circle of the Sphear SOme of the Circles of the Sphear be parallels some be oblique some others goe crosse over the Poles The parallels are they that hath the same Poles as the World hath and there be five parallel circles the Artick the Estival Tropick the Equinoctial The Artick circle is even the greatest of all those circles that we have continually in sight and he scarcely toucheth the Horizon in the point and is altogether presented above the earch And all the Stars that are incluâ—ed in this circle neither rise nor set but a man shall espie them all the night long kéep their course round about the Pole And that circle in our Habitation is drawn of the further foot of Ursamajor The Estival circle most Northward of all the circles that be made of the Sun whom when the Sun removeth into he turneth back from his Summer circuit then is the longest day of all the year and the shortest night and after the Summer return the Sun shall not be perceived to progresse any further toward the North but rather to recoil to the contrary parts of the world wherefore in Gréece this Circle is called Tropocos the Equinoctial Circle is the most greatest of all the five paralled circles and is so parted by the Horizon that the one half circle is above the earth the other half circle lyeth under the Horizon The Sun being in his circle causeth two Equinectials the one in the Spring and the other in the Harvest The Brumal Tropick is a circle most South of all the Circles that by the moving of the world be described of the Sun which when the Sun is once on red into he returneth back from his Winters progress then is the longest night and the shortest day in all the year And beyond this Winter mark the Sun progresseth never a whiâ— further but goeth into the other coasts of the World Wherefore this Circle is also named Trevicos as who so say returnable The Antartick Circle is equal in quantity and distance with the Artick Circle and toucheth the Horizon in one point and his course is altogether underneath the Earth and the Stars that be placed in this are alwayes invifible unto us The greatest of all the said Circles is the Equinoctial and then the Tropicks and the least I mean in our Habitation are the Artichs And these circles must be understood without breadth and be reasoned of by according to the scituation of the Stars and by the beholding of the Dioptra and but supposed onely in our Imagination for there is no circle séen in all the Heaven but only Galaxias As for all the rest they be conceived by imagination 29. The Reason why that five parallel Circles are onely in the Sphear FIve parallel Circles alone are wont to be described in the Sphear not because there be no more paralels than those in al the world For the Sun maketh every day one parallel Circle equally distant to the Equinoctial which may be well perceived with the turnning of the World Insomuch that 128 parallel Circles are twice described of the Sun between the Tropicks for so many dayes are within the two returns and all the Stars are dayly carrted withall round about in the parallel Circles Howbeit every one of them cannot be set out in the Sphear And though they be profitable in diverse things in Astrology yet it is impossible that the Stars may be described in the Sphear without all the parallel circles or that the magnitude on dayes and nights may be prâ—cisely found out without the same parallels But in as much as they be not déemed so be so necessary for the first introduction of Astrology they are left out of the sphear But the five parallel circles for certain special instructions are exhibited The Artick circle severeth the Stars which we ever sée the Estival Tropick containeth the going back of the Sun and it is the further most part of the progresse into the North the Equinoctial circle containeth the Equinoctials and the Brumal Tropick is the furthermost point of the way of the Sun toward the South it is even the mark of the Winter return the Antartick circle determineth the Stars whom we cannot sée And so séeing that they are very expedient for the introduction into Astrology they be right worthy to take room in the Sphâ—ar 30. Of the five greater Circles of the Appearance and Non-appearance ef them ALso the said five parallel circles the Artick circle appeareth altogether above the earth and the Estival Tropick circle is divided into two parts of the Horizon whereof of the greater part is above the earth and the lesser lighteth underneath it Neither is this Tropick circle equally divided of the Horizon in every Town and Country but according to the variety of the Regions it hath diversities of uprising and this Estival circle is more unequally divided in the Horizon to them that dwell nearer the North than we do and further there is a place where the Estival Tropick is wholly above the earth and unto them that draw nearer unto the South than we the Estival Tropick is more unevenly parted in our Horizon Furtheremore there is a coast but south from us wherein the Tropick circle is equally divided of the Horizon But in our Habitation the Estival Tropick is so divided of the Horizon that the whole circle being divided into eight parts five parts shall be above the earth and thrée under the earth And indéed it séemeth that Aratus meant this Climate when as he wrote his book of Phaelomenon whereas he speaking of his Estival Tropick Circle saith on this wise When this Circle divided is into eight parts even just Five parts above the earth and three underneath remain needs must The restlesse Sun in Summer hot from this returneth back And so of this division it followeth the day to be of fiftéen Equiuoctial hours the night of nine Equinoctial hours long and in the Horizon of Rodes the Estival Tropick is so divided of the Horizon that the whole circle being divided into eightéen parts there shall appear 29 divisions above the Horizon and ninetéen under the earth by which division it appeareth that the longest day in the Rodes hath but fourtéen Equinoctial hours in it and the night nine Equinoctial hours with two half hours more beside The Equinoctial circle in every Habication is so justly divided in the middest by the Horizon that the one halfe circle is above the earth and the other half circle underneath the earth And this is the cause that the Equinoctials happen alwayes in this circle The Brumal Tropick circle is so divided of the Horizon that the lesser part shall
it rain then the corn withereth S. James day before noon betokneth the winter time before Christmas and after noon it betokeneth the time after Christmas If it be so that the Sun do shine on S Iames day it is a token of cold weather but if vain thereon it is a token of warm and moist weather But if it be betwéene both that is a token of neither too warme nor yet too cold 8 How the Winter should be the twelve Moneths If a man desire to know what faire weather shal be in every moneth or what rain then must he mark in what hour the new Moone is in and under what signe and what planet ruleth the same hour so sual the same moneth be hot and dry cold and moist after the judgment and manner of the foure times of the yéere Item when the Moon is new changeâ— what weather shall be that moneth shâ—lbe found out after this manner If the Moon shine this and cleare and so followeth wind 〈◊〉 the Moone pale so shall it raine If it 〈◊〉 in the next moneth after a new Moone 〈◊〉 shall it raine forth the whole moneth 9 The saying of Sylinus and Petrus If the Sun have in the morning under him trouble some clouds then shall ye have â—aine and much tempest of weather if the Clouds be troubled in the morning early and blacke then shall there blow a strong North wind If the Sun and Element be red in the morning it betokeneth rainy weather If it be â—â—d in the Evening it is a token the next day shall be faire weather 10 The Circles about the Sun Moone and other Stars GUido Bonarus speaketh on this wise wée shall mark the circles which be somtime about the Sun and about the Moone whether they be one or more if there be but one they being cléer and not long enduring and quickly vanish'd it betokeneth a faire and cléere weather following and a good and cléere ayre and when there be many circles it betokeneth wind if they be of colour red cléere in many parts then it betokeneth trouble in the ayre And if they be grey dark and of earthy colour then it betokeneth trouble in the ayre through cold and wind and it bringeth in the winter time snow and in summer time raine When they be blacke it betokeneth in the winter wind and snow and in summer raine and when they be many then doe the same the more increase 11 The colours and lights of the other Stars When the Stars give great light it betokeneth wind from the same parts where those lights be séene When the stars be misty dark as though they shined through a myst and that all the same time there be no Clouds in the element it is a token of trouble in the Ayre and much raine or snow after the time of the yeare And when they be cleare and red they judge it to be windy Likewise if thou séest the common Stars thicke darke and of course sight it betokeneth alwayes change of weather If thou in cleare weather séest the Starres shoot and fall downe to the earth that is a token that there shall be shortly after wind from those parts where the starres doe shoot and the more they shoot the stronger shall be the wind For when you sée such things present it betokeneth inordinate wind and when you sée such like in every part of the element that is a token of great trouble in the Ayre in all parts with thunder and lightning 12 How to know the Weather by the rising and going down of the Sun When the Sun ariseth cleare and faire it is a token of a faire day When the Sun ariseth and hath about him red Clouds it is a token that it will rain that day When there be Clouds in the Orient so that the Sun cannot shine through them at his arising it is then a token of raine When the kuglin is in the rising of the Sun it betokeneth a sharpe wind and in the going downe of the sunne faire weather When there be Clouds about the sun when he riseth the lesse that the Sun doth shine the more redder be the Clouds When at the rising of the sun there procéedeth a long shining it betokeneth raine When afore the rising of the Sun-shine doth appeare it betokeneth water and wind When the sun in the rising is dark either hid under a Cloud it betokeneth raine When the sun is cleare and that it giveth light from the middle part against the rising about midnight that betokeneth rain wind When long shining beames goe before the sunne it betokeneth a dead and strong wind from those parts that the beames doe shine When by the accident at Night there is a shining circle it betokeneth that night a boistrous and unruly weather and if there be a myst the stronger shall the wind be if the myst fall from the sunne it betokeneth wind in the Region beyond where it falleth When the sun ariseth black or with clouds under it or that he hath on both parts clouds the which some men call the Sun or sun-beames which procéed from the sunne whether they be black of colour or no it betokeneth a winter ayre or raine When the circle that is round about the Sun in the rising or going down thereof is in many sundry colours or else as red as fire or else that the light of the Sun doth fall or that the colour be setled or that the Clouds stand thereby or that the Sun-beams be very long it signifieth a strong wind to come from those parts When in the rising or going downe of the Sun the light or shining thereof goeth before and evening the Element is red it betokeneth the next day faire weather And when the shining thereof in the rising or going down be not right it betokeneth rain 13 Albertus of the Lightning If the colour of lightning be red and cléere the flames white red or the colour of snow that betokeneth all things fruitfull the other helpeth to the beinging forth and doth neither hurt nor hinder except it be too far withered The third goeth through and setteth forth 14 Of the Rain-bow from whence he is and what it signifieth When the Rain-bow is cléere and appeareth bright in clear weather then shall it not be long cleare after which betokeneth a winter ayre or raine Item When thou séest in the morning a Rain-bow it betokeneth rain the same day and there shal be a great boystrous storme Item when the Rain-bow doth appear about thrée or foure of the clock in the afternoon it betokeneth fair weather and there shall be against in a strong dew Item When there doth a Rainbow appear about noon it betokeneth much water Item When the Rain-bow doth appear about the going down of the Sun then doth it for the most part thunder and rain Item When it appeareth in the Orient then followeth fair weather Item when the Rain-bow appeareth in boisterous weather in the