Maria imbarqued for France 30 The Odious Carcasses of O. Cromwel H. Ireton and J. Bradshaw drawn upon sledges to Tyburn and being pull'd out of their Coffins there hang'd at the several Angles of the Triple-tree till Sun-set then taken down beheaded and their loathsome Trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallows Their heads were afterwards set upon Poles on the top of Wastminster-Hall Feb. 27 Cardinal Mazarine dyed Mar. 23 Zachary Croften committed to the Tower for matters of High-Treason Anno 1661. Apr. 11 His Maj. being 31 years old washed and kiss'd the feet of 31 Poor Men. 15 He went to Winds 16 Knights of the Garter there Installed 19 68 Knights of the Bath created 20 6 Earls and as many Barons created 22 His Maj. Magnificent proceeding from the Tower to White-hall 23 Charles II. Crowned at Westminster May 7 A general muster of the London Forces in Hide-Park 8 Parl. began in Eng. wherein the House of Ls. were restor'd to their Privileges Parl. began in Ireland 11 The scatter'd Limbs of the Immortal Montross being brought together were honorably Inter'd at Edinburgh 16 Convocation began 17 Eliz. Qu. of Bohemia arrived at London 22 Solemn League and Covenant burnt in London and Westminster and afterwards all the Kingdom over with wonderful great solemnity 24 Earl of Argyle received his sentence 27 Beheaded at Edinburgh for High Treason June 1 Guthexy and Giffen there also executed for High-Treason 7 The Solemn Funerals of Sr. Ch. Lucas and Sr. Geo. Lisle Savagely Murder'd in cold Blood at Colchâ—ster Aug. 28 1648 most Honourably there Celebrated 19 Earl of Sandwich weighed Anchor in the Downs 25 The Ls. Bishops of the several Diocesses of this Realm most nobly entertain'd at Dinner by S. Ric. Brown July 1 L. Mounson Sr. Hen. Mildmay and Mr. Rob. Wallop brought to the Bar of the House and there sentenc'd to be drawn like themselves upon sledges with ropes about their Necks from the Tower to Tyburn 15 Mr. Prin recanted his Sundry reasons c. and the House remitted his Offence 19 L. Commissioner of Scotland came to White-hall 29 Earl of Sandwich before Argiers 30 Parl. adjourn'd till Nov. 20 following Aug. 1 Commissionerâ— from the Parl. in Ireland came to Westminster 13 His Highness the D. of York with several other great Personages highly entertain'd by the Artillery Company at Merchant Taylers-hall 15 His Sacred Maj. the Illustrious Duke of York c. dined at the Inner Temple Sept. 7 E. of Clarendon L. H. Chancellor of England at Oxford 10 Parl. in Ireland adjourn'd till Oct. 10 follow 28 Francis Meynel and Sam. Starling Esq Sworn Sheriffs of London 38 Swedish Embassador landed at Tower wharf where the French and Spanish Ambassadors so hotly contended for precedency Sir John Fredrick Elected Lord Mayor of London Octob. 15 The Learned Loyal and truly Pious John Berwick Doctor of Divinity Elected Dean of St. Pauls 19 The Election confirm'd 20 A Proclamation for removing the Mercats from St. Pauls Church-Yard into Aldermanbury and Broad-street 29 Sir John Frederick Sworn Lord Mayor of London The Dauphin of France born Nov. 4 James Duke of Ormond that truly Honourable and most constantly Loyal Personage made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 19 J. James arraign'd for Sedition and Treason 20 Parl. sat again in which the Lords Spiritual were restor'd to their Privileges 21 1100000 l. Voted for supply of his Majesties present occasions 22 D. of York return'd from Dunkirk J. James sentenced to be drawn hang'd and Quarter'd 24 Hen. E. of St. Albans L. Ambassador Extraordinary from his Maj. to the Crown of France came to Whitehall 25 The remaining Regicids in the Tower Penington only by reason of his bodily Infirmities excepted were brought to the Barr of the House and Lambert Vane and the rest lately sent away Ordered to be sent for back to the Tower Illegal Protections Null'd Praise-God Barbone and Sam. Moyer Committed to the Tower for Treasonable Practices 26 Major Wildman Mr. sometimes Sir James Harrington Mr. sometimes Alderman Ireton and Major Haynes Committed also to the Tower of London 27 Capt. Rob. Holms Committed to the Tower by order of the Council J. James drawn hang'd and Quartered at Tyburn 28 The truly Honorable and no less valiant Gentleman Sir Charles Compton departed this life 29 Col. Salmon Committed to the Tower for Treasonable designs and Practices 30 Dyed the Learned and Reverend Brian Lord Bishop of Chester Dec. 2. Capt. Holms released 3 The noble E. of Peterborow took his leave at Whitehal to go for Tangier 9 His Majesties Forces intended for Tangier Imbark'd at Dunkirk 20 Parl. adjourn'd till Jan. 7 next following 30 Hen. Covâ—ntry Esq Son to the late Famous Tho. Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England sworn one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber Jan. 7 Parliam met again according to the last adjournment Frederick L. Conwallis Treasurer of his Majesties household departed this Life 10 Sr. Hen. Vane and Mr. J. Lambert order'd to be sent for back to the Tower of London The Marquess Durazzo Ambassadour Extraordinary from the Common-wealth of Genoa enter'd London 13 Had his Audience 27 L. Mounson Sr. H. Mildmay and Mr. Robert Wallop all drawn from the Tower of London on Sledges with Ropes about their Necks to Tyburn and having there Threded the Triple-tree back again in like manner to the Tower 30 Earl of Peterborough took possession of Tangier in Africa for his Majesty February 1 The Genoa Ambassador took his leave of his Majesty 7 The condemned Prisoners in the Tower brought to the Barr of the House of Peers 13 Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia departed this life 18 Prodigious Winds doing great mischiefs in most parts 21 Died that most Loyal and Signal Sufferer for the Crown of England Sr. John Stawell Christopher L. Hatton that most Pious and Faithful Councellour to his late Majesty sworn one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council made Governour of Guernsy durante vita and the Reversion of that Government most deservedly Conferred on his son March 16 Miles Corbet John Okey and John Barkstead brought Prisoners to the Tower of London having been taken at Delft not many days before by the care and faithfulness of Sr. George Downing 24. George Withers removed from Newgate to the Tower for his wonted practise of Seditious Libelling Anno 1662. April 3 the most Noble and Valiant Sr. Will. Compton Master General of his Majesties Ordinance Son to that magnanimous Heroe Spencer late Earl of Northamp who so gallantly sacrificed his Life in defence of his late Majesty at the Battle on Hopton-heath Anno 1642. sworn of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 13 Qu. Kathrine Embarqued for England in the Royal Charles 16 Miles Corbet John Okey and John Barkstead received the sentence due to Rebels and Traytors to their Soveraign Lord and King 19 They were all 3 drawn on sledges from the Tower to Tyburn and there Hang'd and Quarter'd 23 Articles
ancient Christian Custom of Fasting they called this chief Season of Fasting the Fast of Lent because of Lenct-Monat wherein the most part of the time of this Fasting always fell and hereof it cometh that we now call it Lent or rather the Fast of Lent Sir Richard Baker saith it was first Commanded to be observed in England by Ercombert the 7 th King of Kâ—nt before the year of Christ 800. Of Ashwednesday THis is the Head or Beginning of the Quadragesimal Fast or Holy time of Lent dedicated by Gregory the Great to the Consecration of and Sprinkling with Ashes being therefore called Dies Cinerum or Ashwednesday And yet as Hospinian confesseth there is extant an Homily of Maximus Bishop of Tours in France with this Inscription IN DIE CINERUM which shews the institution thereof before his time For that Maximus Taurinensis lived 170 years before him viz. Anno Christi 440. Quadragesima is so called for that as before hath been noted it is Forty days distant from Easter comprehending the Fast of Lent as kept by the Primitive Christians in Imitation of our Saviours Fast of Forty days and Forty nights in the Desart It iâ— otherwise named Invocavit because that thereon iâ— sung Invocavit me ego exaudiam eum or taken out of Psal. 91.14 This is the First Sunday in Lent The Second Sunday in Lent is called Reminiscere from the entrance of the 6 verse of Psal. 25. Remeniscere miserationum tuarum Domine c. The Third Oculi from the entrance of the 15 verse of the same 25 Psal. Oculi mei semper ad Dominum c. The Fourth Laetare from the entrance of thâ— 10 verse of the 66 Chapter of Isaiah Laetare cuâ— Jerusalem c. it is called also Dominica de Rosa from the Golden Rose which the Roman Bishop carrieth in his Hand before the People in the Temple Likâ—wise Dominica de Panibus for that thereon the Miracle of the five Loaves in the Gospel is explained We in England rightly call it Midlent-Sunday The Fifth Judica from the entrance of Psalm 34. Judica me Deus discerne causam meam c. The Sixth Dominica Magna or the great Lords day because of the great and ineffable good thing which befel the Faithful in the following week viz. Death abolished Slander removed and the Tyranny oâ— the Devil loosed by the Death of Christ. It is also called Palm-Sunday from the Branches of Palms which the Jewish People strewed on the ground when our Saviour enter'd Jerusalem The Wednesday next after this is the Council day of the Scribes and Pharisees The Thursday following the Parasceve or preparation of the Legal-Passover and the Night thereof the Institution of the Supper This is otherwise called Maundy-Thursday from a Ceremony antiently used by the Bishops and Prelatâ—s in Cathedral Churches and Religious Houses of washing their Subjects Feet Which Ceremony is term'd the fulfilling the Mandate and is in imitation of our Saviour Christ who on this day at Night after his last Supper and before his Institution of the Blessed Sacrament washed his Disciples Feet telling them afterwards that they must do the like to one another which is the Mandate whence the day is denominated At the beginning of the aforesaid Ceremony these words of Christ uttered by him anon after his washing their Feet Joh. 13.34 are sung for an Antiphon Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos And lastly Good Friday being the Day of the Passion and Cross of Christ whereon he suffer'd and satisfied for the Sins of the whole World Next to the great Week succeeds the Pasche or Feast of Easter celebrated not in memory of the Angels Transit in Egypt according to the Jewish Custom but of the Resurrection of our Saviour And yet we retain the name Pasce not only because the Lamb which of old was kill'd by the Jews in the Passover was a Type of the Lamb of God Christ Jesus which was slain and sacrificed for the salvation of the World but because at that very time â—e passed from this World to his Father for Paesah or Phase signifies a passage or because that then a passage is made from an Old to a New Life It is called Easter from Eoster a Goddess of the Old Saâ—cons whose Feast they kept in April or as Minshew hath it because at that time our Sun of Righteousness did rise as the Sun in the East And â—his is the foundation Basis of all the Lords days in the year After this doth immediately follow the Quinquagesimal Interval of Fifty days betwixt Easter and Pentecost which was kept by the Primitive Christians as a whole Festival in Honour of the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ and the Glorious Mission of the Holy Ghost with exceeding great Rejoycing and Gladness It containeth Six Lords days or Sundays Whereof The First is called Quasimodogeniti from the entrance of 1 Pet. 2.2 Quasi modo geniti Infantes rationabiles sine dolore lac concupiscite It is otherwise called Dominica in albis in respect of the Angels that appear'd at the Resurrection in White Garments and because such as of Old were Baptized on Easter day did wear and walk in White Garments all the Week after until this day on which they laid them aside Or for that those who had then been Baptized were confirm'd of the Bishop and put on other White Vestments which they wore till the following Sunday The Second Sunday after Easter is called Misericordia from the entrance of the 5 verse of Psal. 32. Misericordiâ Domini plena est terra c. The Third Jubilate from the entrance of Psal. 65. Jubilate Deo omnis terra c. The Fourth Cantate from the entrance of Psal. 98. Cantate Domino Canticum novum c. The Fifth Vocem jucunditatis from the like entrance Vocem jucunditatis annunciate audiatur c. This is also called Rogation Sunday and the Week following Rogation Week Invented or Restored by Mamercus or Mamersus Bishop of Vienna Anno Christi 452. and so called à rogando Deum as being once we cannot say now Extraordinarily consecrated above all other weeks in the year unto Prayâ—rs and Supplications 1. Because Princes about this time undertake their Wars 2. For that the Fruits of the Earth being in their Blossom are in great hazard In both which respects all Christians have good occasion at this Season especially to Pray In this week also it hath been an ancient and good Custom continued till of late days to make perambulations and processions in every Parish and Township for viewing and considering the ancient Bounds and Limits to prevent incroachments and contentions On the Thursday also of this Week which is the Fortieth day from Easter was wont to be celebrated the Feast of Christs Ascension which is the Consummation of all he did and taught whilst on Earth and therefore termed Foelix clausula totius Itinerarii filii Dei
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
Different Cusp Lat. 50. est 46 min. 60. 46. 30.   1380. 2.   46.   60.    180.   18. 3.   120.   6.    1380.   0.  Gradus Zod. est Sagit 5. 24. P. P. 23. min. S. Vera Cuspis XII est Sagit 5. 1. Pro cusp 1. Ascen 300. 4. Lat 53. 30. Sagit Lat. 53. Prox. major 300. 46. 26. 300. 4. Prox. minor 299. 37. 25. 299. 37.  Different 1. 9. 1.  27.  69. 60.  27.  1620 2.     60.  69. Gradus Zod. Sagit 25.   1620.  138. P. P.  23 min.    240. 3.       69.       207.       33. Cusp 1. Lat. 53. est Sagit 25. 23.   deg min.  deg min. Lat. 54. Prox. major 301. 7. 25. 300. 4. Prox. minor 299. 57. 24. 299. 57.  Different 1. 10. 1.  7.  70. 60.  7. 420. 6.     60. 70.      420. 0.  Grad Zod. est 24. Sagit P. P. 6 min. Cuspis 1. Lat. 54. est 24. 6. Sagit    deg min. Differentia Cusp Lat. 53. est 1. 17. 54. 60. 77. 30. 2310. 3.   77. 60.     18.    210.     210. 51. 8.    6.    2310. 48.  Grad Zod. Sagit 25. 23.  3.  P. P.  38 min. S.   Vera Cuspis I. est Sagit 24. 45. Pro Cuspis II. Ascen 330. 4. Lat. 49. 30. Aquar Lat. 49. Prox. major 330. 7. 4. 330. 4. Prox. minor 329. 25. 3. 329. 25.  Different  42. 1.  39.  42.  60. 39.  234. 5.     60.  42.       210.     2340.   Grad Zod. 3. Aquar     240. 5. P. P. 56 min.     42.       210.       30. Cuspis 2. Lat. 49. est 3. 56. Aquar   deg min. Aquar deg min. Lat. 50. Prox. major 330. 20. 3. 330. 4. Prox. minor 329. 38. 2. 329. 38.  Different  42. 1.  26.  42.  60. 26.  1560. 3.     60.  42. Gradus Zodaici 2. Aquar   1560.  126. P. P. 37 min.     300. 7.       42.       294.       6. Cusp 2. Lat. 50. est 2. 37. Aquar    deg min. Different Cusp Lat. 49. est 1. 19. 50.   60. 79. 30 2370. 3.   79. 60.   270. 18.   210.     57. 9. Gradus Zod. est 3. 56. Aquar 2370. 6. P. P.  39 min. S. 54.    30. Vera Cuspis II. est Aquar 3. 17. Pro cusp III. Ascen 0. 4. Lat. 34. 3.     Ariet.   Lat. 34. Prox. major 00. 38. 1. 00. 04. Prox. minor 00. 00. 0. 00. 00.  Different  38. 1.  04.  38. 60. 4.   240. 6.    60.   38. Gradus Zod. 0. 0. Ariet. 240.   228. P. P.  6 min.    12. Cusp 3. Lat. 34. est 0. 6. Ariet. Lat. 35. Prox. major 00. 38. 1. 00. 04 Prox. minor 00. 00. 0. 00. 00.  Different 00. 38. 1. 0. 4.  38. 60. 4.   240. 6.    60.   38.       228. Grad Zod. 0. 0. Ariet. 240.   12.  P. P.  6 min.    Cuspis 3. Lat. 35. est 0. 6. Ariet.    deg min. Differrentia Cusp Lat. 34. est 0. 0. 35.   Vera Cusp III. est 00. 06. Ariet. Collectio Cuspidum X. 2. 16. Scorp Taur 2. 16. IV. XI 19. 59. Scorp Taur 19. 59. V. XII 5. 1. Sagit Gem. 5. 1. VI. I. 24. 45. Sagit Gem. 24. 45. VII II. 3. 37. Aquar Leon. 3. 37. VIII III. 0. 6. Ariet. Libr. 0. 6. IX Thaema Coeleste ex tabulis Directionum Regiomontani ad tempus Apparens Conjunctionis Saturni Martis Anno Domini 1646. Junii 12. ♀ Hor. Min. Sec. 7. 54. 41. P. M Latitude 53 1 2. What think you now Mr. Booker have not I just cause to distrust and diligently to examine your work And to call your judgment in question which is grounded upon a wrong Basis Do you not blush to see your Ignorance your Errors your Impudence your Malice thus palpably discovered Have you not most grosly mistaken 2 deg 25 min. in the twelfth and sixth Houses 2 deg 35 min. in the Ascend and seventh House 2 deg 59 min. in the eleventh and fifth Houses 3 deg 46 min. in the tenth and fourth four degrees 47 min. in the eighth and second And no less than 6 deg and 10 min. in the third and ninth Houses Is any man so much beside himself as to give Credit to any of your Prognosticks when not one scruple of certainty can be found in your Calculations And are not you and Mr. Lilly alike ashamed to account your selves Masters in Astrology when I have made it appear that neither of you have yet attained so much skill as to set a Figure of Heaven exactly Will any man of understanding think you fit to Prognosticate the effects of the Planets and Stars who are not of your selves able to Calculate their true Places Motions and Aspects but are forced to take them upon trust from others For so Mr. Lilly himself confesseth in his England's Prophetical Merlin pag. 23. in these words viz. Having intreated my loving Friend Mr. Matthew Fiske to give me the true Scheme of the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1603. for it was so he gave me the positure aforesaid exactly done by the Rodolphine Tables c. And Page 76. of the same Book I conceive it possible and do believe I have the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1642 3 exquisitely done by the same Learned hand and that either he or any as able as himself may compass the true moment of any Conjunction This is a modest and ingenuous acknowledgment of Mr. Lilly's want of skill in Astronomy for you see he was fain to be beholden to Mr. Fiske for Calculating the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter in 1603. and 1642 3. or else he knew not where to have had them And he confesses that he doth but believe the last of them to be exquisitely done He cannot tell how to determine whether it be so or not of his own knowledge And by this I
Reason why the Irish may not challenge as much freedom and Priviledge in the enjoyment of their Religion as is allowed the Independents Anabaptists Brownists and at the least a hundred more Sects and Schismes within the Lines of Communication who have Libeâ—ty without any restraint or limitation to exercise their Gifts as they term it both publickly and privately To Preach and Write what they please and even to cloy the Press with â—heir Heresies and Schismes And if we look back upon the Original ground of the Irish Insurrection was it not high time think you for the Irish after they were denyed any reasonable Answer to their Propositions which were sent and delivered in an humble and peaceable manner to the Parliament by Commissioners of that Kingdom who were dismissed hence without any hopes of having their grievances redressed which notwithstanding were far greater and more intolerable than those which the Scots pretended when they clearly perceived so many pernicious Plots and damnable Designs daily inventing against them and with what Acrimony the Roman Catholicks here were proceeded against after the third of November 1640. After so much swearing and forswearing to take off the Earl of Strafford's Head And the Parliament electing a new Deputy of their own mould and metal to be sent over in his stead And His Majesties Person in continual hazard by the frequent Tumults of the Sectarists and Schismaticks Was it not time I say their Nation being thus neglected and threatned His Majesties Person being not exempt from danger and all this occasioned by their own fellow Subjects to associate and unite themselves and to stand upon their Guard for the preservation of their Religion Lives and Liberties And was it more Rebellion in them by the known Laws of this or that Land to raise Forces for the necessary defence of their Kingdom than in the English or Scots to raise so many great Armies that have fought against His Majesty under the pretence of Fighting for him whilst yet there hath been no body to oppose him but themselves I remember a few Verses that were written by some body Anno 1641. they resemble the form of a Petition directed to His Majesty by the considerate Catholicks of Ireland They are pretty ones and therefore I will here give you them as I had them from a Friend MOst gracious Soveraign grant that we may have Our ancient Land and Faith 't is all we crave Your English and your Scots not so content Claim all that 's Yours by Act of Parliament Their Tyranny we hate Confess your Right 'T is not 'gainst you 't is against them we Fight Whilst you were King we were your Subjects Scorn To be their Slaves we 're Fellow-Subjects born Heavens bless your Majesty increase your Powers You being your Self again we still are Yours But to return again to John Booker for I will not lose him yet I would gladly demand a Reason from him in Art for his menacing of France or Spain with vengeance for assisting the Irish Or why the Pope should come in any danger of hazarding his Triple Crown in the Quarrel Unless the States intend to advance for Italy If they do they may do well to transmit the Directory to Rome as the pre-cursor of a new Reformation there But I am afraid Sir Thomas his Courage will cool at the conceit Nor is it pertinent to the handling of this Conjunction for Booker to tell us an old story of the Spanish Armado in 88. or of the Gun-powder Treason 1605. The wickedness of those Devilish attempts are both thought on and abhorred by every true English Christian. Or of what concernment is the Decollation of Mary Queen of Scots Anno 1587. to the Kingdom of Ireland because that when she was Beheaded Saturn was in Taurus as now he is Or of Saturn and Mars their being conjoyned in the Year 1588. a little before the Spanish Armado appeared upon the English Coast Does not John Booker here most wretchedly confound himself Instead of going about to prove Saturn's Progress through Taurus Ominous to Ireland he contrarily produces Examples which prove that Position dangerous to England and Scotland For whatever his meaning be he instances not any one thing hurtful to Ireland in either of those Years And then he robs Sir Christopher Heydon of more than a whole Page concerning the general Occurrences in the World which happened in 88. without any mention made of that most Learned and Judicious Knight And so he proceeds to fill up the remainder of his Malicious Pamphlet with railing at the Irish telling them how they have ever been most Rebellious and Treacherous to the English Nation and have most Barbarously and Inhumanely Murthered many thousand Souls c. But we know of another Kingdom that hath sometimes been more Rebellious and Treacherous than they for less cause But I never heard of any Souls that ever either of them Murthered I speak not this to justifie or maintain any inhumane Action in Ireland or elsewhere for my Nature abhors all manner of Cruelty to the worst of Men I think I could not harm either Mr. Lilly or John Booker in word or deed if I had them in my power but rather use them with all civil respect and courtesie if they were worse than they be nor to countenance Treason and Rebellion That I need not it hath been sufficiently done by a far greater Power But the thing I aim at is to unmask Booker's inveterate hatred to that distressed Nation who if he were but half so Charitable as he is either unreasonable or ignorant he would not attempt to Assassine the Honour of a whole Nation with his Invectives but rather suspend these his rash Censures and wish a happy Union than the confusion of so many Christians The remainder of his Pamphlet tends to the Defence of Astrology wherein he still plays the Thief with Sir Chr. Heydon and of the Planet Venus her appearance in the day time at the Birth of our most hopeful Prince Charles which he saith if she presignifieth any thing was the Miseries of this Kingdom Because saith he it is usual and an ordinary thing for Venus to be seen in the day time I grant him that it is both usual and ordinary but not always at the Birth at Princes It is both usual and ordinary for Saturn and Mars to be in Conjunction and shall we therefore say it presignifies nothing I confess I have not seen any Authors that handle such Appearances nor hath Booker any other Authority than his foolish Fancy for saying she was the Prodromus of these unhappy differences in England But he that shall make inspection into the Positure of the Heavens when Venus was in Apog Eccentrici or in her greatest distance from the Sun shall find matter more than ordinary whereon to fix his Contemplations And I am of Opinion that her glorious appearance at the Nativity of our hopeful Prince Charles did presignifie things not yet
thought upon that may ere long amaze the unjust Usurpers of his Royal Fathers Birth-right But no more of that this Year I will not trouble my self much longer with this Malicious Fellows Errors and Impertinencies nor with his scurrillous Language belch'd out against an Irish Gentleman who writ an Almanack Printed at Waterford in Ireland I never saw the Book and therefore I cannot judge of any thing in it nor admit of any such thing as Booker pretends to have Corrected him in For I have it from good hands that the Gentleman is so knowing a Scholar that it is incredible he should be guilty of such gross Errors as Booker hath charged him with And you have seen how able a Man Booker is to Correct any body But were I that Manapian he speaks of I would reward him with another Scheme for the future Opposition of the same Planets which happens upon the 20 day of October 1647. at half an hour past 6 a Clock in the Morning Saturn being then in 0. deg 27 min. of Gemini the Ascendant of London and Mars in 0. deg 27 min. of Sagit as appeareth by the Figure which I have Calculated exactly for the Meridian of London because it will much concern the South and West parts of England and that in a higher measure than the Conjunction before treated of doth the Kingdom of Ireland See the Scheme A Labente Anno. 1647 Octobr. 20 18 Hor 4 min 18 sec. Lost meridiem Latitud 51.32 And until the time of this Opposition do the Effects of the Conjunction vigorously extend themselves and then they have lasted 539 days which wants but 8 days of a Year and a half after which time the Effects of this Opposition shall begin and forcibly Operate until their next Conjunction which will happen again upon the 28 day of June 1648. in the 11 deg of Gemini which will be very ominous to some parts of England and especially the City of London For I cannot say the Effects of the Opposition shall cease when the Mathematical Circuit of their Conjunction finishes because that next Conjunction doth likewise happen in the Sign Gemini wherein Saturn is at the time of his Opposition to Mars which will not much differ in signification Although it be a received Truth that the Effects of the Opposition of these two Planets do commonly work more violently and quick Nam diametrae radiationes quemadmodum Tetragonismi mortes repentinas violentas mutationes faciunt congressus vero generalia accidentia And Haly the Arabian in his 8 Part Cap. 6. saith Quod Oppositio Saturni Martis est deterior eorum Conjunctione deteriores ac maligniores significationes demonstrant And indeed this is very Malicious in that they are both unhappily affected and afflicted Saturn being infortunate and Mars out of all his Essential Dignities and otherwise but meanly Fortified Haec oppositio significat quod homines in se invicem discordabunt prosequentur se mutuo odio cessabunt se familiariter invisere detrabet quilibet alteri Haly Part 8. Cap. 25. This Opposition signifieth that Men shall wrangle one with another and shall Prosecute themselves mutually with hatred And they shall forbear to visit one another familiarly And every one shall back-bite or speak evil of another It further praemonstrates great Pestilence and Mortality especially amongst Old Men Many Thefts and Robberies much deceitful dealing and that generally Men shall betray their Trust. That many unjust and unreasonable Taxes shall be imposed under several specious pretences to the undoing of many far worse than that of Ship-money I have taken the pains to set Booker the Scheme rightly for London and if he do not too much play the Fool or the Knave he needs must exceedingly terrifie the People subject to the Sign Gemini wherein Saturn is at the time of this Opposition in the 8. House the House of Death and Venus who is Lady of the 8. House is with the Moon in the latter end of the 2. House where likewise Mars afflicteth The 4. deg of Leo culminates Jupiter is in the latter end of the 10. House but Saturn and Mars do strongly besiege him He is miserably afflicted by their hateful square and is also in his Detriment Look now to your selves you of the Presbyterian-Cut the People are weary of your extemporary non-sence You Judges Officers and Magistrates who have betrayed or forsaken your Master and perverted the Law to serve your own wills expect to render an account of your Actions I unfeignedly protest you are all strongly threatned From the Sun and Mercury expect your comfort or none They cast a Friendly Sextile to Jupiter and they are free from the Malevolents though in the most viperous Sign of the Zodiack The Sun here represents His Majesty of England as being both Lord of the 10. House and Natural Significator of Kings Mercury as he is with the Sun hath signification of the Masters of the Houses of Princes and great Lords and their Secretaries and Stewards And they are both if not only Angular in the Figure This promises well to His Majesty and his Servants and not one jot of ill to Ireland By this time a Man may call a Spade a Spade Let me see the Face of him dare call the Queens Majesty a Traytor But the States have Voted her so for her Love so exemplarily shewed to the King her Husband Is there not one Lord nor Ten Commoners yet ashamed of it Yes some blush others are bold and impudent some stupidly senseless others wrangling away their Lives by strange and noisome Diseases some are threatned by Prodigious Births and those too of their own begetting And what not to render a People palpably accursed miserably and fully wretched Ireland now demands a reason for the Ordinance of the 24 of October 1644. And asks if you will buy any Land there Scotland tells you they have as great an Interest in the King as England and will in some of the Lands too if you will needs In a word we all look back and say Lord what have we done and been a doing for 7 Years Some make Question whether they be awake or in a Dream All Men are at a stand yet still in Action The besotted Crew do quake and murmure say little but think mischievously Furórne coecus an rapit vis acrior An culpa Responsum date Tacent Et ora pallor albus inficit Mentesque perculsae stupent Doth fury blind or greater Power command Is Sin the cause Oh let me understand They silent are Their cheeks are paler made And fears their horror-strucken Minds invade But it is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars upon the 28 of June 1648. before mentioned will be assuredly Fatal to London and many other places of England I pray God avert the Judgments thereby threatned and incline the Hearts of His Majesties Subjects that as they are or ought to be all Christians so to be of
where she overflows The Fertile Banks yet never further goes Without a Miracle tâ—an Natures Bounds Or if we think she do 't is where some Towns Encroach upâ—â— hâ—r 〈◊〉 â—or she Is full as constant fâ—r more just than we 7. In January All hail my Masters I must now implore Your Ticket for a twelve Months Recreation I know no Plot save that which keeps us poor And this of mine to gain your Approbation All my Designs lurk in these Rural strains My Guts Conspire indeed but not my Brains 8. In February I Honour all that have a Soveraign Pow'r Extol their Prowess be it more or less Admire them growing in a golden showre Observe but point not at their vain excess The Sun's defects seen in a line direct Hurt th' Eyes not when in Water they reflect 9. In March I pray for Kings and think 't a Pious deed Good Princes very well deserve our Pray'rs But thereof bad ones sâ—and the most in need For such be sure do stand on slippery stairs And like to Iron generate the rust From their own substance turns 'em into dust 10. In April I 'm hugely taken with the Golden Train Those lofty Stars which glide along this Sphere Yet Greatness without Goodness I disdain A Spungie Head full ill becomes a Peer Persons of Honour should have Princely parts No empty Cock-lofts or deceitful Hearts 11. In May. I Reverence Justice on the meanest seat She was a Vertue once though now a wonder I like sweet words intended not to cheat And works of Mercy not too far asunder But Cruelty how that would make me swagger Were it not common both to Sword and Dagger 12. In June I love the Ministry all but the name That Motly and promiscuous Appellation Which mingleth Dung-hill Dirt with Austin's Fame With Holy Writ pretended Revelation Give me the Priest disdains to tell a Lye That Priest who dare for his Religion die 13. In July I like the Comm'nalty that Sov'raign Pow'r Whilst not to Faction or Revenge dispos'd But Commons over-stinted or too sowre Are best improved when they are inclos'd Who gives a Giddy Multitude the Reins O're-whelms the State betrays his want of Brains 14. In August I own the Camp where Gallantry Commands Where Arts and Arms advance their awful Crosts But wish the Cramp befall such Victors Hands As cannot Conquer their Ambitious Brests Success enlarges Mens desires nay more It breeds some thoughts they dream'd not on before 15. In September I hug the Souldier dreads no violent end For stoutest Men such Fortune often have It is the Cause not Mode of Death shall send Us Glorious or Inglorious to the Grave He who'll avoid a shameful Death must run The danger of a brave one and 't is done 16. In October I fancy well our great Metropolis She harbours store of Men and store of Riches There is no sounding of that vast Abyss What wonder then if London wear the Breeches Yet must this Darling now and then untruss Correction keeps her most Obsequious 17. In November But O the Country free from jarring-strife Where Plants and Flow'rs abound with Eloquence Where ev'ry Hedge and Tree doth breath new Life Where pratling Birds do captivate my sense There I sequestred from the World abide And if needs must there I 'le be Crucifi'd 18. In Decembâ—r Thus in an Humour purely Innocent I add one Year more to a careful Age No more of this till freed from my Restraint I cannot chant like Birds within a Cage Yet know I have although my aim's not high Seleucus-like an Anchor on my Thigh 19. His Conclusion Thus have our melting Eyes England beheld With smooth-fac'd Peace and wanton Plenty swell'd Into a Monster so unweildly grown Her own vast weight depress'd her Princely Crown A Brutish War â—ore Church and State asunder Fool'd us with Fears fill'd all the World with wonder The fairest Sâ—â—rs losing their sacred light And cheâ—rfâ—l dâ—y turn'd into drowâ—ie Night Th' Aâ—tipodes true Mirrour of the Cause Re-aâ—ted through three Nations with applause Bâ—t EXIT OLIVER whilst yet we lend Oâ—r Patience till the PLAY be at an end In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1660. We meet with thâ—se several Excellent and true Verses 1. Under the Regal Table WHere 's now the Sultan What remorsless Star Remov'd that Famous Idol Olivar Unwelcom Death But what flint-hearted Fate That Mushrome-Prince his Son Our glorious State Thus then we see what luck Protâ—ctors have A restless Life or Ignominious Grave 2. Under the Table of Terms Lo here 's a Trade surpasseth all the rest No change annoys the Lawyers Interest His Tongue buys Lands builds Houses without toyl The â—en's his Plough the Parchment is his Soil Him Storms disturb not nor Militia-Bands The Tree Roots best that in the Weathâ—r stands 3. In January And is He gone indeed Then farewel He Farewel to all our New Nobility Good-night Illustriousness Adieu old Joan The Kitchen better fits you than a Throne Lay ' side your Purple and your Râ—bes off cast Play'rs are but Princes while the Play doth last 4. In February About my Muse and try if thou can'st find What pow'rful Charm rais'd that Prodigious Wind Some dis-affected Conjurer I trow Did long to hear what News there was below But others think the Devil was matched so His breath grew short and so was forc'd to blow 5. In March But where be those fine Juglers did Address Such sugred Phrase such smooth Obsequiousness That vow'd to live and die with Richard yet Ne'r blemisht when they saw his glory set Such Hypocrites run with the stream of things And will keep Time whatever Dance begins 6. In April O for a Besom now to sweep the House And rid the Palace both of Fox and Goose Some choice Perfumes withal would be design'd Ill Spirits ever leave ill scents behind And when 't is cleansed and things sweeter grown Great Berecynthia's Sons go claim your own 7. In May. What 's to be done now all are grown so Wise And our fore-Fathers Wisdom counted Lies Were all the many Ages that are past Mistaken until this un-erring Last Good God! how sped they shall none saved be But Schismaticks Then what becomes of me 8. In June But 't is the Mode Come come let 's all comply There 's no firm footing on Integrity For having said and done all what we can The Pliant Willow is the Precious Man Whose Oaths of one day though of fair pretext Vail to an Inspiration of the next 9. In July Down then with Tythes they are a burthen great For which the Parson never soundly sweat Yet let 's remember maugre all new light He that detains them robs God of his right And though to him the tenth we should not pay The Publicans will sweep it all away 10. In August Let 's lay the Clergy by What need we Priests Or Ministers w' are all Evangelists The Bible's English thank the Bishops for
't The Spirit 's in us why not we exhort Yet let 's beware before we farther boast And think who 't was receiv'd the Holy-Ghost 11. In September Let 's fell the Church and Colledge-Lands Away With Humane Learning that 's but for a day Down with the Steeple-Houses melt the Bells And own no Metal but what 's in our selves But stay first let us Learned Spelman read And then perhaps we may abhor the deed 12. In October Let 's tear our Ribbons burn our Richer Laces Wear Russet and contrive betwitched Faces With Thee and Thou let us go quack a while And cheat the World in Quakers garb and stile But do not trust 'em more than well befits Th' are Presbyterians run besides their Wits 13. In November Or were they not yet fool not over-fast For this Religion too shall flag at last Naylor himself will never for it burn Nor let us use 't but for our present turn On such sad Mummers grace will not be had Much longer than the Multitude are mad 14. In December But now th' Apostates are restor'd their Wits And Plots and Plotters crumbled all to bits A Blessed Reformation will I hope At last succeed in spite of Turk and Pope Till when and always let 's observe the Laws And truly Celebrate The Good Old Cause Which Good Old Cause England is now again by Gods especial Providence Blessed with to the great satisfaction and rejoycing of the Inhabitants thereof who by reason of their Sufferings in our late twenty Years Confusion cannot but give their joy the greater Latitude at this so happy and by many almost unexpected Revolution of Government viz. of turning from Anarchy to the most Natural of all other Governments MONARCHY In his Kalendarium Carolinum 1661. are found these Worthy Verses 1. Under the Table of Kings STand there Great Charles in your successive Might Our King by Miracle our King by Right The Number now is even and You are He Which must compose the Odds if any be Your Glorious Father by his Matchless Pen Made Jews turn Christians You make Beasts turn Men. 2. Under the Table of Terms 'T was Will not Law 't was Envy not Right Reason Condemn'd ev'n Majesty it self for Treason But now both Law and Reason taking place Who doubts the Issue of an Honest Case Yet with your Case bring Coyn and Cap in Hand Else Lawyers will it not well Understand 3. Explanation of his Kalendar Martyrs and Saints my Kalendar displays No private Fastings nor yet Lecture-days No nor such Martyrs pearch on Tow'rs and Gates To shew how truly High and Mighty States Triumphant Charles Blest Strafford Glorious Laud I Celebrate as Martyrs without Fraud These these and such as these deep-dye my Pages The Shame of this Wonder of After-Ages Nor do my Saints wear Buff or Bandaliers Or are they known by their Prodigious Ears Short Hair and Hatchet-Faces to delude A Monster-headed Giddy-Multitude No no th' are Saints rejoyceth Heav'n to see Yet would the rest were all such Saints for me 4. In January All hail Great King Thrice welcom to your own Your own good Subjects your Imperial Throne Renowned Charles whose Glory let it be Your blest approach hath set three Kingdoms free Whose powerful Influence whose chearful Rays Make all the Year consist of Halcyon-days 5. In February King Charles return'd What Heav'nly News is that Nay more Enthron'd where's Martyr'd Father sate Thanks Noble Monk whose gen'rous Vertue brought To pass this Miracle-transcending thought May all that 's Good requite you Let your Name Be Crown'd with Lawrels of Eternal Fame 6. In March King Charles restor'd how 't glads my wounded heart That Deathless Name breath's Life to every part Now now my Blood runs smoothly and my Meat And Drink 's Digested with more Active Heat My boyling Stomach rages craves full Mâ—als What surfeited before now Feeds and Heals 7. In April King Charles at Westminster How happy we Whom Heav'n reserv'd this Glorious Prince to see Whose greedy Eyes surcharg'd with fresh Delight Neglect all Mediums fix on that fair Light We Reverence both the Cassock and the Gown But Charles his Presence Consecrates the Town 8. In May. Holy silent are the Rumpers whilome steer'd Our Reeling Bark so furiously Carrier'd 'Gainst Truth Peace And trod down all before them Save the dull Rabble destin'd to adore them Observe the Good Old Cause how fast it sleeps See how Rebellion on the Belly creeps 9. In June Thus have we seen the modern Use of Saint What 't is to cozen with Religious Paint And Herod-like when you intend to Kill To offer Worship and profess no ill What fair Advantages the Devil affords To Frantick Garbs starch't Faces Canting Words 10. In July Thus have we seen what 't is t' insinuate And kindle Jealousies within a State To give Alarms of Dangers where are none And talk of Grievances were never known To hold forth Liberty and Freedom when Ye meant t' enslave your very Brethren 11. In August Thus have we seen what 't is to Preach and Pray 'Gainst Kings and Curse them in a Holy way T' incite the weak and wavering to Rebell Proclaiming To your Tents O Israel Absolve from Oaths and other Sacred Ties Suborning Scripture for the loudest Lies 12. In September Thus have we seen ye ' midst your Wickedness Exult and Prune your selves with wish'd Success Your Prosperous Mischiefs urged to invite Our troubled Reason to confess you Right Prevailing Sins dangerous Temptations prove Unless to him well Armed from Above 13. In October Thus have we seen ye Temporizing Slaves Act all things any thing like subtil Knaves Observe the Point whence came the fairest Gales Spread and receive them in your swelling Sails Abjure your God Religion all you know Might Skreen you from the Beams would make you grow 14. In November Thus have we seen what 't is to slight your King Stain the fair Model of his Governing Asperse his wisest Actions and pretend Gross Lapses which no Mortal yet could mend To dress him like a Tyrant and what 's worse Destroy him On your selves entail a Curse 15. In December And now I hope w'have seen enough to Pray God save the King And send him long to Sway Great Britain's Scepter That the grumbling Frie Will warning take and cease to cogg the Die For now their Cheats are so well known I fear Their Trading will not last another Year 16. After his Gesta Britannorum Thus ends the Chapter Here 's a Period To our Rebellion Charles that Earthly God Invested in his Throne The Traitrous brood Lurking in Corners gaul'd with Guilt and Blood They would have Built but Heav'n would no such And so confounded Language Tower and All. Wall His Dedication to the King Vouchsafe Dread Soveraign to accept this Mite This Pedlar's Trash this one Year's Over-sight I have not yet approach'd your Sacred Feet To beg one Boon Let that Great Sir be it I was none of the Crowd though now
did Fâ—tter No Guardian like to Châ—â—les He He alone Shall be Protector of Great Britain's Throne In him alone concur both Rule and Right For him alone Law Pleads and Souldiers Fight In his Kalendarium Carolinum for 1665. We find these Pithy Poetick strains 1. In January OUR Saviour Circumcis'd The Wise-men are Conducted to his Cradle by a Star Blest Laud Beheaded Paul's Conversion wrought All-glorious Charles upon the Scaffold brought Whose Royal Blood shed by remorsless Slaves Sculk where they can pursues them to their Graves 2. In February The Blessed Virgin to the Temple hies Presents the true Messiah Purifies Away to Shrift would Ancient Christians cry Confess Prepare the Holy Fast draws nigh Matthias now from Macedonia come In Old Judaea's Crown'd with Martyrdom 3. In March Whilst Loyal Wales pays Homage to her Saint Stout Capel's Blood so lost makes England faint A Week of Passion and three Days of Sorrow But then the Pensive World is bid Good-Morrow The Son of Righteousness restores our Light Whose glorious Rising makes that Day so bright 4. In April Low-Sunday leaveth off those Garments white Put on in Baptism by the Neophite Saint George King Charles both upon one day Crown'd Saint George a Martyr Charles a King Renown'd Saint Mark th' Evangelist by Trajan Burn'd Whilst Alexandria for her Bishop Mourn'd 5. In May. To finish what our Saviour did and taught He now Ascended His Disciples saw 't The Holy Ghost in Fiery Tongues was sent Great Strafford Sacrific'd yet Innocent King Charles the Second Born and Born again His Birth and Restauration makes it plain 6. In June Saint Barnaby the Bright doth next appear And then Saint John the Royal Harbinger Saint Peter Chief of all the Twelve and Paul Both Roman Martyrs Glorious Martyrs all Yet such is still Saint Peter's sad Mischance His being at Rome some count but a Romance 7. In July The Dog-star now begins to shew his might Yet that Mad-Dog in England doth not bite Saint James who to the Twelve Tribes Preach'd the Word He in Judaea fell by Herod's Sword Of whom more than the rest this may be said He was the first Christs Kingdom entered 8. In August Saint Bartholomew next to the Cross we bring Both Heir and Nephew to a Syrian King Yet by Polemius his unjust Decree Beat first with Cudgels then Nayl'd on a Tree So Flay'd alive at last while breath remain'd His Head struck off and so this Glory gain'd 9. In September The Grand Usurper dies the Faction Powts And Dick his Son drest up a King of Clouts Both Court and City in close Mourning drest Drapers and Silk-men more than all the rest Illustrious HENRY Gloucester's Duke Expires Whom yet the World lamenteth yet Admires 10. In October Thaddaeus slain and Simon Crucifi'd Was last of all the Twelve Apostles dy'd Saint Luke departeth in a Peaceful Bed At Ephesus where he is Buryed Rarely bad Quarter such Physicians find Who can like him both Body Cure and Mind 11. In November With Bells and Bonfires here we Celebrate Queen Katherine's Birth-day England's Happy State Adorn'd with such a Gemme so fair a Queen In whom all Vertues are concentring seen All-hallow-day needs fear no more Complaints Since She makes up the Total of All-Saints 12. In December Just when the Scepter is departed from Judaea Shaddows Substances become Janus his Temple-gates are shut Wars cease Behold at Bethlem Born the Prince of Peace Well fare that Day Parent of such a Birth As Reconcil'd at once both Heav'n and Earth 13. Under the Table of Kings Now Peace and Plenty in our Bowels raign And none but Enemies are heard complain I ask our Anti-Monarchists How they Could more Oâ—â—â—ge us if they had the sway For let them Fancy what they please New things No Freedom's like to that proceeds from KINGS 14. Under the Table of Terms Not Major-Generals nor Committees Rump-Justices or fell Presbyteries But England's Laws with Loyal Minds Expounded Distribute Right to Cavalier or Thanks to our Gracious King by whom we have So great Deliverance from Fool and Knave In his last Kalendarium Carolinum which was for the Year 1666. We meet with these Learned Pieces of Poesie 1. On the Year 1666. NOW Sixteen hundred sixty six is come When as some say shall be the Day of Doom Or else the Pope and Hierarchy destroy'd Presbytery Advanc'd and over-joy'd Here 's Seven Years Purchase offer'd â—or his Land Who thinks that Dreadful Day so nigh at hand And if his Holyness suspect his Chair I 'le tak 't my self though but for this One Year 2. In January Now that we have Chastis'd th' Insulting Dutch Tho yet De Witt scarce let them know so much Shut up their Shops restrain'd their Fishing Trade And shewn the World how they have play'd the Jade Burn we our Incense first then Pay our Vows And with fresh Lawrel Crown the Conquerers Brows 3. In February The Conquering Brows of our Renowned King Without whose Council this had never bin Without whose Stars our Stars had fought in vain And Hogen-Mogens Vanquish'd Charlemain Side-belly'd Bores Eclips'd Great Britain's Fame And London truckl'd under Amsterdam 4. In March The Conquering Brows of our Illustrious James York's Famous Duke whose all-consuming Flames Upon the Floating Altar of the Main Have Sacrific'd what They account but Slain Fir'd Batter'd Sunk and Took what did not run Ended a War e're it was well begun 5. In April The Conquering Brows of that Heroick Prince Whose Blows are th' Arguments which must Convince Such State Delinquents One Broad-side from Him Breaks their whole Body Reason but one Limb. Whose very Name 's enough to strike 'em Mute RUPERT no more to end the whole Dispute 6. In May. The Conquering Brows of that great Archimede Who when the Monster Tacks about and 's fled Can with one Beam of his Ingenious Ire Reach her proud Head and mak 't a Cone of Fire More Dreadful than the Spainish Inquisition Or which was worse Duke D' Alva's Imposition 7. In June The Conquering Brows of Neptune's Choicest Sons Whose Triumphs we Proclaim'd with their own Guns Loud Bells large Bonfires full and chearful Bowls To strike stone-dead those Ague-shaken-Souls Whose Luck 't will be though no great Dignity To drain that Universal Quagmire Dry. 8. In July Dry as when Switzer Priest and Saxon Monk Had with strange Doctrines made the Pagâ—â—â— Drunk And in Compassion drawn the Power of Spain To come and Pickle up their Wits again When scarce one Herring lest to trim the Barrel 'Till William of Nassaw espous'd their Quarrel 9. In August William the First who set their Country Free Emboldned Them to that Confederacy With Zeland and Both with the other Five Whose Blood and Fortunes made them so well thrive They quickly bad Defiance to their King So started up this High and Mighty Thing 10. In September But now that Union 's run out of Date And Holland claims the Soveraignty of State Whilst th' other six
at Dunfermling in Scotland Feb. 25. E. of Essex beheaded in the Tower Anno 1601. Monopolies restrained by the Queen Spaniards Landed in Ireland but forced thence with loss Anno 1602. Mar. 24. Queen Eliz. dyed James the 6 King of Scotland Proclaimed King of England A great Plague in London Tyr-Oen craved Pardon He was brought into England by the L. Montjoy and restored by the King Anno 1603. April 5. King James began his Journey out of Scotland May 7. He Arrived at the Charter-House in London June 11. Queen Anne wiâ—h Pr. Henry and the Lady Elizabeth her Son and Daughter came to York 27. The King met them at Easton in Northampton-shire July 25. They entred London King and Quâ—en Crown'd at Westminster Nov. 17. Sir Walter Rawleigh Arraigned and Condemned Garter sent to the Duke of Wittenburgh Watson Clerk and Brook Executed Anno 1604. Aug. 18. A Treaty of Peace with Spain Octob. Charles Duke of Albany being newly cured of a Fever was brought to Windsor Jan. 4. Created Duke of York This Year King James was first enstyled King of Great Britain Sir Th. Smith Embassador into Russia Lord Admiral into Spain Earl of Hertford into Flanders Duke of Holst Honoured with the Garter Anno 1605. Nov. 5. The Powder-Treason Discovered The Oath of Allegiance devised and administred Anno 1606. July 17. Christianus King of Denmark first arrived in England Aug. 12. Departed thence The Earl of Northumb. and the Lords Mordant and Sturton censured in the Star-Chamber Anno 1607. A great Inundation in Somerset-shire and Gloucester-shire May. An Insurrection in Northampton-shire Warwick-shire and Leicester-shire about Inclosures whereof Captain Pouch was the Ring-leader June 12. King James made free of the Cloth-workers 23. Tho. Garnet a Jesuit Executed at Tyburn July 16. Prince Henry made free of the Merchant-Tayl Tyr-Oen with others fled out of Ireland Anno 1608. April 19. Thomas Earl of Dorset L. Treas dyed suddenly This Year was the N. Exchange built Saint Edmunds Bury burnt Virginia Planted Anno 1609. April 10. The New Exchange first furnished with Wares and named by King James Britain's Burse May 8. Fishing on the English Coast forbidden to strangers without License This Year was the making of Allom first brought to perfection in England by Sir John Burchier Silk-worms brought first into England League with France Anno 1610. May 30. Prince Henry created Prince of Wales Anno 1611. March 25. Sir Robert Carre created Viscount Rochester Gold enhansed Legate the Arrian burnt The Lant-grave of Hesse visitâ—d the King Anno 1612. June 29. L. Sanquer a Scot Executed for contriving the Murder of John Turner a Master of Fence Octob. 16. Frederick Prince Palat. of the Rhyne arrived in England 29. Prince Henry fell sick Nov. 6. He dyed at S· James's Hor. 7. 30′ circ P. M. Dec. 7. He was Interred at Westminster Feb. 14. Lady Elizab. Married to the Palsg. at White-Hall The Kings Mothers Body removed from Peterborough to Westminster Plantation in Ireland by the Companies of London Anno 1613. April 10. The Palsgrave and his Princess departed England 17. A Monster born at Standish in Lancashire viz. A Mâ—iden Child wiâ—h four Leggs and four Armâ— two Bellies joyned to one Back one Head with two Faces the one before the oâ—her behind like the Picture of Janus Aug. 7. Dorchester consumeâ— with Fire This Year also was the Globe Play-House burnt Nov. 4. Sir Robert Carre created Earl of Sommerset The Artillery Company revived Anno 1614. July King of Denmark came the second time into England Aug. 1. He departed thence Stratford upon Avon consumed with Fire The N. River brought to London by Sir Hugh Middleton Moor-fields fashion'd into Walks Anno 1615. Sept. 27. The Lady Arbella dyed in the Tower Sir Tho. Overbury Poysoned for which the E. of Sommerset and his Lady were condemned Sir Gervas Elvis and divers others suffered Smithfield Paved Anno 1616. Nov. 3. Prince Charles created Prince of Wales March King James began his Progress into Scotland The Arch-Bishop of Spalato came into England The Cautionary Towns restored to the States Anno 1617. April 4 G.W. Nascitur Sept. 5. King James returned from Scotland Haidock the sleeping Preacher Anno 1618. May 24. A Declaration tolerating Lawful Sports on Sundays Octob. 28. Sir Walter Rawleigh beheaded Nov. 18. A Comet first observed in England by Dr. Bainbridge Trask censured in the Star-Chamber Anno 1619. March 2. Queen Anne dyed at Hampton-Court Alterations of Gold Coyns Sir Henry Yelverton censured in the Star-Chamber Sir Richard Weston Ambassadour to Bruxels Anno 1620. July 17. Bernard Calvert of Andover performed his Journey from Southwark to Callice and back again in This one day Peace with France Anno 1621. Arch-Bishop of Spalato retracted what formeâ—ly he had writ in favour of the Protestants and was therefore commanded to depart the Kingdom Sir Francis Bacon displaced and committed to the Tower Sir Gyles Mompesson and Sir Francis Michael censured by the Parliament Anno 1622. Arch-Bishop of Spalato returned The English Treated with the Spaniard touching the restitution of the Palatinate Anno 1623. Pr. Charles imbarqu'd for Spain Octob. 5. He returned from thence 24. The Fall at Black-Friers March 23. King James first Armed for the Palatinate Anno 1624. Nov. 10. The Marriage with France accorded Count Mansfield came into England and suffered Ship-wreck Amboyna's Bloody Cruelty Anno 1625. March King James dyed at Theobalds 27. Prince Charles Proclaimed King A great Plague in London May 1. The Marriage with France Celebrated at the Church of Nostredame in Paris 3. Rejoyced for in London 7. King James Inhum'd at Westminster June 18. Parliament began at Westminster 22. Q. Mary Landed at Dover 23. King met and conducted her to Canterbury whâ—re the Marriage was finally completed 27. The Marriage declared at White-Hall King and Queen removed to Hampton-Court Aug. 1. Parliament met at Oxford Michaelmas Term was kept at Reading Octob. 8. Gades Voyage Feb. 2. King Charles Crowned at Westminster 6. Parliament met at Westminster E. Arundel committed to the Tower League with Denmark Suevia and the States against Spain Anno 1626. May 1. Duke of Buckingham questioned June 8. D. sequestred from the House of Lords 15. Parliament Dissolved E. Bristol committed to the Tower Queens Servants returned into France August Commission for Loan-Money Octob. 13. Nov. Embargo of the English Ships at Bourdeaux Bishop Andrews dyed Sir Fran. Bacon dyed Traffique with Spain prohibited Anno 1627. June 27. Duke of Buck. imbarqued for the Isle of Rhâ— at Portsmouth July 31. He Landed in the Isle of Rhe. Sir W. Heydon slain there Aug. St. Martins Fort Besieged Sir Joh. Burroughs slain Mich. Term. Lo. Purbeck censured in Star-Chamber Octob. 19. St. Martins Fort relieved Duke raised his Siege and defeated by the French many English slain Jan. 6. A Fray in Fleet-street Rochellers craved Aid March 17. Parliament began at Westminster Petition of Right granted by the King Commissions for Loan and Excise
to the Tower 20 A great Fire in Thredneedle-street Lond. Anno 1655. Mar. 26 Londoners Petitioned to have the Militia revived 30 James Duke of Lenox died 31 The Fleet set sail from Barbadoes Apr. 1 Col. Penrud and Jones examined at White-hall Poor Knights at Windsor continued 6 The Fleet by the Lee under St. Christophers 8 Passed by Sancta Cruze 6 Colonels Penrud Jones sent back into the West in order to their Tryal there 12 Commissioners for the Tryal of the Risers met at Salisbury Col. Penrud and Jones sent to Exeter 13 The Fleet within kenning of St. Domingo 14 The greatest part of the Army landed in Hispaniola 16 The remainder landed 18 Several persons condemned at Exeter 22 A Fire in Southwark 25 Major Gen. Haines slain before Saint Domingo 26 Baron Thorp and Judge Newdigate had Writs of Ease May 3 The Army in Hispaniola discomfited and shipped Kensy and Thorp executed at Salisbury 7 Seven more executed at Salisbury 8 Marquess Leda from Spain had Audience 9 Colonel Penrud and Colonel Grove beheaded at Exeter 10 The Fleet Anchored in S. Jamaica Harbor 11 They entred the Town of St. Jamaica 18 Serjeants Maynard Twisden and Windham committed to the Tower 21 The Scotch Lords in the Tower with the Lord Grandson M. John Ashburnham and his brother Col. Ashburnham were removed to more remote places 25 The Discovery fired and blown up 28 Serjeant Steel admitted Lord Chief-Baron of the Exchâ—quer June 1 M. Long made Recordâ—r of London 6 M. Coppleston Knighted 7 Judge Rolls delivered up his Commission 8 Lords Commissioners theirs 9 Col. Nathaniel Fines made Lord Privy-Seal M. G. Lambert Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports Lord Willoughby of Parham committed to the Tower Cap. Crook had 200 l. per annum given him for his service in the West 11 Com. Gen. Reynolds Knighted 12 Several of the Nobility and Gentry who had been of the late Kings Party imprisoned 15 L. Hen. Cromwel for Ireland Sir Will. Constable died Serjeant Glyn sworn Lord Chief Justice 16 An Order for regulating the Chancery 17 Collections in London for the Savoy Protestants Dr. French the Divine died at White-hall 21 Sir Will. Constable buried at Westminster 25 The Fleet bound for England set sail from Jamaica July 3 A fire at Lambeth 19 The Fleet entred the Gulf of Florida 22 Passed out of the same Aug. About the beginning of this month fell that unhappy Accident in the Family of Sir George Sondes of Kent 21 M. Thurloe Secretary of State made Post-master General 29 Hannam the notorious Thief escaped from Newgate 31 Fleet anchored at the Spithead near Portsm Septem 5. The weekly Pamphlets restrained 9 Gen. Venables arrived at Portsmouth 18 Council of State commenced in Scotland 20 L. Mayor of London Knighted Gen Venables and Pen committed to the Tower 22 L. Deputy Fleet-wood arrived at London Oct. 10. M. Biddle removed from Newgate to Plymouth to be thence transported into Scilly Orders passed for regulating Printing 17 Dutch Ambassadors had Audience General Blake presented himself to his Highness 26 A Declaration setting forth the justness of the War with Spain Nov. 1 General Venables set at liberty An Order for erecting of a Council of Trade 7 Col. Edmund Harvey committed to the Tower 19 The Peace with France Ratified 24 Cavaliers disarmed c. 27 The Assessment of 60000 l. per mens continued 28 Peace with France proclaimed Dec. 4. The French Ambassador took leave of his Highness The Jews Petition again for admittance into England January 6 Several persons seized on by the Soldiers as they came from the Venetian Ambassadours 16 Many slain at Spalding in Lincolnshire by the fall of a Chamber-Floor 17 Col. Pride Knighted 19 M. G. John Barkstead the like Godfrey Goodman the late Bishop of Glocester died about this time February 1 Venetian Ambassadour had Audience Three Gentlemen Prisoners to Saint James's Tryed at the Upper Bench Bar for killing of a Soldier who were found guilty only of Manslaug-hter 12 The Swedish Ambassador had Audience 13 The High Sheriffs freed from their usual expence in the Assise time 16 War with England proclaim'd by the Spaniards in Dunkirk 21 A general Embargo in England for 21 days 28 About this time Sir Thomas Alcock cut his own Throat 29 Charles Stuart departed from Colin Mar. 15 Sir Thomas Wortly slain in the Strand 16 One Tyson a Minister of Saint Buttolphs Billingsgate cut his own Throat 18 The Fleet put forth to Sea but forced into Torbay 21 The late Bishop of Armah died at Rygate Anno 1656. This month one Mr. Grantham being slain in a Duel was found dead in the Fields near South-hampton house 27 The Fleet set sail out of Torbay April 17 Archbishop of Armah his Funeral 18 L. H. Cromwell's Lady delivered of a Son named afterwards Oliver May Records c. of the First Fruits Office seized on by the Serjeant at Arms. 13 A Committee appointed for the discovery of fraudulent and counterfeit Debentures June 12 Wrestling in Moor-Fields prohibited 13 M. G. Worsly buried in H. 7 Chappell 17 R. Hannam that notorious Thief executed in Smithfield 30 Letters Patents granted to Robert Villiers for assuming the surname of Danvers July 9 L. Lambert constituted Chief Justice in Eyre within the Forrest of Dean 10 Peace with Portugal Ratified Writs for summoning a New Parliament sealed 20 A prodigious Storm of Thunder Lightning and Hail in Norwich and other parts of Norfolk very obnoxious to the Inhabitants 25 Swedish Ambassador had Audience 26 Entertained at Hampton-Court and one of his chief Gentlemen Knighted Ten sail of Ships returned from the Fleet. August 11. Building upon New Foundations Ordered to be staid in Lincolns-Inn Fields and Saint James's Fields 20 The general Election of Parl. Members 23 Swedish Ambassador departed Sept. 3 A Thanksgiving observed by his Highness and Council for the two Victoriâ—s over the Scots at Dunbar and Worcester 9 A Proclamation for the Cavaliers c. their departing London and 20 miles distance by the 12 instant Sir Henry Vane Prisoner to Carisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight The Ship called the Merchants Delight burnt upon the Thames near Redriff Divers Gentlemen of the late Kings Party sent to the Tower 15 Alderman Dethick and Mr. George Fleetwood Knighted L. Steele for Ireland 17 Parliament first sat and chose Sâ—r Thomas Widdrington Speaker 23 A Declaration for a General Fast October 30· 24 A Day of Humiliation observed by the Parliament at St. Margarets in Westminster 29 Alderman Tichburn Elected L. May. of London 30 M. Pendarvis buryed at Abbingdon in Berkshire Octob. 3 The River of Thames Ebbed and Flowed twice in three hours 8 A Thanksgiving at Westminster for success against the Spaniard 24 General Montague returned into Stokes-Bay Novâ—mber 1 The Silver taken the Spanish Gallion brought into the Tower and The Marquess of Badâ—n and his Brother Prisoners to London Dec. 10 Col. William Lockhart and Mr. James Calthrop Knighted 15