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A77082	A bloody Irish almanack, or, Rebellious and bloody Ireland, discovered in some notes extracted out of an almanack, printed at Waterford in Ireland for this yeare 1646. Whereunto are annexed some astrologicall observations upon a conjunction of the two malignant planets Saturne and Mars in the midle of the signe Taurus the horroscope of Ireland, upon Friday the 12. of Juue [sic] this yeare 1646. with memorable prædictions and occurrences therein. By John Booker.	Booker, John, 1603-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3723A; Thomason E328_14; ESTC R200676	44,634	69

and nature It deales not with mans will simply and directly but accidentally it doth It deales with mens inclinations dispositions temperature affections and humours It meddles not with miraculous workes nor with fatall necessity except some contingency be joyned with it nor with Gods secrets It is necessary for Physicke Policie Husbandrie Navigation Military Discipline for health It can yeeld reasons which other Arts cannot as in Clymactericall yeares Criticall dayes Why children borne in the eighth month most part are not vitall Of Tides Why Customes Rites Manners Lawes and Temperaments be divers in people inhabiting in severall Clymates Why certaine Seasons be turbulent Why some yeares be dangerous And many other things which may be read in that great Booke of the most wise God the Heavens The Stars therein differing in glory and brightnesse one from another but whose motions are most wonderfull Regular and Harmonious which stares like severall letters some being capitalls and others of lesse size being as it were set together A man endued with an apt Genius and Knowledge therein may not onely spell but in some reasonable measure reade the admirable Worke of God therein in their influentiall and secondary government of all sublunary Creatures Faelices anima quibus hac cognoscere primum Inque Domus Superas scandere cura fuit On the other side I doe pitty the blinde ignorance of some others who thinke themselves as learned as wise that not knowing the motions of the Planets and starres if they chance to see a starre in the day time doe wonder at the same possessing themselves with some strange conceit of some great matter to ensue such an Apparition So it was in the yeare 1625 when a little before the death of King James the glorious Planet Venus being occidentall of the Sun and in her greatest distance from him was thought to have beene a Comet or some nova stella being Sunday in the Afternoone the Moone and she seemed to touch one another or that as Kepler sayes she did quasi haerere in sinistro Cornu Lunae which I my selfe being at Yorke then with some others observed in the West part of the Heavens So likewise what great wonder and amazement there was in the yeare 1630 at that time when Prince Charles was borne the same starre Venus being then in great distance from the Sun and orientall or rising before him was seen to goe before the Sun all day for the most part I will set downe the words of Johannes Johnstonius in his Thaumatagraphia Capite 3. Admirand Coeli Artic. 2. de stellarum luce c. Nona denique Junii hujus Anni visa una in Anglia ante meridiem cum Gratia Deo propter nativitatem Principis Walliae agerentur visam eandem codem tempore Diepae in Gallia a Gallis quibusdam accepimus That is the ninth day of June in the forraigne account the 30 of May being Sunday in the English account of this yeare one was seene in England before noone when thanks were given to God at Pauls Church in London for the birth of the Prince of Wales And we received intelligence from certain French men that the same Starre the same time was seen at Diep in France But by leave of this Learned Gentleman I doe not accompt this a wonder for it is usuall with Venus once or twice in the yeare to shew her selfe in the day time being in her greatest distance from the Sun either when she is orientall or riseth before the Sun or occidentall and setteth after him and this may be easily demonstrated out of her Theory If she presignified any thing she was the prodromus of the miseries that since have ensued to this Kingdome And now at this very time the Royall party in some places as I am informed flatter and promise themselves strange matters by reason this Starre Venus none of them having so much Astronomy as to discover what she is appears so bright and glorious in the West after Sun-setting if she betoken any thing I suppose she appears to our gallant Generall and the rest of the Commanders Souldiers now in the West as a bright lamp to discover the darke blinde corners of the West the unknown wayes of the enemy there and in Wales to reduce that miserable wasted Country which God be thanked is in a good forwardnesse I never observed or read that the simple appearance of any Star in the day time foreshewed any thing except what Hieronomus Cardanus in lib. 14. de varietate rerum cap. 70. mentions whose words I will set down as they are there Stellas quoque die sereno bis vidisse Mediolani me memini cum tota Civitate alteram splendidissimam Anno 1511. cum pulsi sunt Galli aliam Anno 1535. subobscuram cum mortuus est Franciscus Sfortia secundus sed tunc quod sine filliis mortuus fuerit mutatus est princeps transiitque in Carolum Imperatorem Civitatis Regnum variato rerum statu that is I remember my self twice to have seen Stars in a cleer day at Millain the whole City being spectators one very bright Anno 1511. when the French were expulsed and the other Anno 1535. somewhat obscure or dark when Francis Sfortia the second dyed but then he dyed without Sons the Prince was changed and the government of the City passed over to the Emperor Charles with a various state of affairs I know not whether if God have so ordered the motion of the Stars that Stars appearing in the day time should foreshew any thing for my part I beleeve it not in that simple apparition it is not proper for the Stars to shine or appear in the day God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night he made also the Stars and God set them in the Firmament to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darknesse and God saw that it was good Gen. 1.16 17. verses This I am sure of that they work by their influence incessantly day and night upon all creatures Nay in many places of Scripture God would not tell us of the dominion of the Stars upon the earth and the creatures therein if they had no force power and influence in many places therein they are called the Host of Heaven and the Armies of Heaven therein amplifying the most wonderfull divine power and might of God by the force influence and energeticall operation of these glorious creatures in some places God expresly distinguisheth between the sweet influence of the Pleiades or the seven Stars and the binding influence of Orion under which two Constellations being of clean opposite nature and effect God comprehends all the rest of the Stars and as it were by the figure of Locution he puts the part for the whole thereby manifestly giving us so much understanding as to conceive all the other Stars of

Heaven have their several particular vertues God sayes He will hear the Heavens and the Heavens shall hear the earth Hosea chap. 2. ver 21. whereby we may be informed that the fruits of the earth doe not vegetate nor have their dependance upon one two or moe constellations but upon the whole Heavens We may read in Deuteronomy chap. 33. ver 13 14. that Moses amongst his blessings upon the twelve Tribes he blessed Joseph in these words saying Blessed of the Lord be his Land for the precious things of Heaven for the dew and for the deep that coucheth beneth and for the precious fruits brought forth by the Sun and for the precious things put forth by the Moon Where no man can deny but the vertues of the Heavens and the Stars are stirred up by the two Luminaries the two great Lights where the encrease of the earth is referred to the comfortable influence of the Sun and Moon who are there said to bring forth put forth or thrust forth the fruits thereof as the Original hath it Quae quaeque Luna protrudit they are not only thus declared in the Scriptures evidently to exercise their dominion in vegetable things alone but they are further created for and to the service of men Nay there is no speech nor language where their voyce is not heard that is there is no place in all the world where they doe not operate and have influence We read in Deuteronomy 4. chap. ver 19. that God in his exhortations to the Israelites bids them that they should not so lift up their eyes to Heaven as that when they saw the Sun and the Moon and the Stars even all the Host of Heaven they should be driven to worship and serve them God having divided them unto all Nations under the Heaven By which distinction we are not to understand the light which they cause between day and night and the seasons of the yeer but we must understand the Ministery of the Stars to have a further construction nay if there were no Stars in heaven the Sun and Moon would be sufficient to distinguish between night and day Summer and Winter and the other seasons of the yeer without question the influence of the Sun Moon and Stars extends to the constitution and temperature of man it is evident that those that are lunatick whose distemper followes the course of the Moon have their intermissions of their grievous fits as the Moon is wel irradiated and on the contrary most grievously tormented as she is afflicted which is evident by the judgment of all Physitians Nay certainly we read in 1 Chron. 12. chap. ver 32. that the children of Isachar by their skill and knowledge of times could advise the Israelites in their actions for the words are thus and the children of Isachar which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to doe And if so then of the successe which is confirmed by innumerable examples in all Ages and in Scripture we read as I said before that the Stars in their courses fought against Sisera Judges chap. 5. ver 20. By which it is evident that they have dominion over men c. Many Expositors understand this place of Scripture that this fighting from Heaven was by hail rain and Tempest and true it is saith the Author of Astrologomania G. C. or George Carleton sometime Bishop of Landaffe afterward of Chichester or the publisher thereof T. V. B. of D. or Thomas Vicars Batchelor of Divinity fol. 105. That the Stars by their cosmicall rising or setting are observed to further rain and tempest for in the next words of the Text it followeth the River Kison swept thtm away whereby is declared the inundation of the River caused by the hail and rain which fell from Heaven whereby the Canaanites were overthrown by the Tempest from heaven and drowned in the River This is evident by the Text. And because the Scripture mentions so much in that place and no more and that many Translators have so expounded that Text must it be inferred thence that the Stars have no other influence but in the causing of hail rain tempests c. must the Stars be concluded from all other influence all the Creatures of God are at his command and are used as Instruments to doe his will in the protection of his Church and against his enemies God most miraculously plagued Aegipt with turning their waters into blood and destroying their Fish and sent Frogs Lice Flyes Murrain boils and blains hail with Locusts and darknesse among them and the death of all their first born and at last Pharaoh pursuing the Israelites with all his Host were drowned in the red sea Thus God wrought wonderfully and beyond the course of nature But in this place it is said the Stars in their courses fought c. under correction besides that exposition I understand by courses the various motions configurations and divers Aspects the Sun Moon the rest of the Planets and Stars have to one another and amongst themselves and by their fighting c. I understand likewise some notable configuration or position of the Stars or Planets from whost influence God having so appointed from the beginning they cause wonderfull mutations in the world and it is usuall when the superiour Planets are in Conjunction Quadrate or Opposite Aspect to one another very forcible they doe not only cause rain hail and tempests c. but wars murther and great dissentions other great changes have followed such positions of those Stars as I could instance in all Ages in innumerable undeniable examples I have named some already I will only repeat the words of that most excellent man Henricus Rantzovius a noble Dane c. in his Examples of Astrologial Predictions upon great Conjunctions fol. 112. where he amongst other notable matters sayes in that Book which was the third Edition of it and printed at Colen in the yeer 1585. Anno Domini 1583. Habuimus Conjunctiones Planetarum sedecim omnes in Piscibus inter quas fuit etiam Saturni Jovis Anno 1584. Quatuordecim Conjunctiones in Ariete Eclipsim Solis Lunae in Tauro Anno Domini 1586. Conjunctiones etiam in Ariete tredecim unam in Tauro Solis Mercurii Deinde Anno Domini 1588. Conjunctiones duodecim in diversis signis Has absque dubio sequentur nefaria Consilia ac facta motus seditiones bella caedes in Civitatibus Regnis Provincis inaudita genera morborum Pestis Obitus magnorum Regum ac Dominorum infinitae dissentiones ac novae diversitates opinionum in Religione ac denique ingentes calamitates in toto orbe terrarum ut multi rerum coelestium periti opinantur colligentes haec ex eventibus quae secutae sunt praterlapsas Conjunctiones quas recensui That is we have had in the yeer 1583. sixteen Conjunctions of the Planets al of them in Pisces amongst which was a Conjunction of