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Day-fatality, or, Some observation of days lucky and unlucky concluding with some remarques upon the fourteenth of October, the auspicious birth-day of His Royal Highness, James Duke of York.
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Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.
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a matter of which the old Monkish Rhimers were no ways scrupulous It was as ancient as Henry the Sixth or Edward the Fourths time January Prima dies mensis septima truncat ut ensis February Quarta subit mortem prosternit tertia fortem March Primus mandentem disrumpit quarta bibentem April Denus undenus est mortis vulnere plenus May. Tertius occidit septimus ora * Ex re laedo relidit June Denus pallescit quindenus foedera nescit July Ter-decimus mactat Julii denus labefactat August Prima necat fortem prosternit secunda cohortem September Tertia Septembris denus fert mala membris October Tertius denus est sicut mors alienus November Scorpius est quintus tertius e nece cinctus December Septimus exanguis virosus denus anguis The tenth Verse is intolerable and might be mended thus Tertia cum dena fit sicut mors aliena If any object and say deni is onely the Plural I excuse my self by that admirable Chronogram upon King Charles the Martyr Ter deno Jani Lunae Rex Sole cadente Carolus exutus Solio Sceptroque secure Neither will I have recourse for refuge to that old Tetrastich Intrat Avaloniam duodena Caterva virorum Flos Arimathiae Joseph c. because I have even now blamed the liberty of the ancient Rhymers He means by mors aliena some strange kind of Death though aliena signifies strange in quite another sense than there used I shall take particular notice here of the Third of November both because 't is my own Birth-day and also for that I have observed some remarkable Accidents to have hapned thereupon Constantius the Emperour Son of Constantine the Great little inferiour to his Father a worthy Warriour and good Man died the Third of November ex Veteri Calendario penes me Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury that great Man and famous Commander sub Hen. IV. V. VI. died this day by a Wound of Cannon-shot he received at the Siege of Orleaunce E MSS. quodam Glovero So also Cardinal Borrhomeo famous for his Sanctity of Life and therefore Canonized Heylyn in his Praecognita says He made Milan memorable by his Residence there died 1584. this day as Possevinus in his Life Sir John Perot Stow corruptly calls him Parrat a Man very remarkable in his Time Lord Deputy of Ireland Son to Hen. VIII and extremely like him died in the Tower the Third of November 1592. as Stow says Grief and the Fatality of this Day kill'd him See Nanton's Fragment a Regalia concerning this Man Stow in his Annals says Anno 1099. Novemb. 3. as well in Scotland as England the Sea broke in over the Banks of many Rivers drowning divers Towns and much People with an innumerable number of Oxen and Sheep at which time the Lands in Kent sometimes belonging to Earl Godwin were covered with Sands and drowned and to this day are called Godwins Sands I had an Estate left me in Kent of which between thirty and forty Acres was Marsh-land very conveniently flanking its Up-land and in those days this Marsh-land was usually let for Four Nobles an Acre My Father died 1643. Within a year and half after his decease such Charges and Water-scots came upon this Marsh-land by the influence of the Sea that it was never worth one Farthing to me but very often eat into the Rents of the Up-land So that I often think this day being my Birth-day hath the same evil influence upon me that it had 580 years since upon Earl Godwin and others concerned in low Lands The Parliament so fatal to Romes Concerns here in Henry the Eighth's time begun the Third of November 26 of his Reign in which the Pope with all his Authority was clean banished the Realm he no more to be called otherwise than Bishop of Rome the King to be taken and reputed as Supreme Head of the Church of England having full Authority to reform all Errors Heresies and Abuses of the same Also the First-fruits and Tenths of all Spiritual Promotions and Dignities were granted to the King See Stows Annals and Weaver pag. 80. Not long after which followed the Visitation of Abbies Priories and Nunneries and after that their final Suppression This Parliament being the Door of entrance thereto The Third of November 1640. began that Parliament so direfully fatal to England in its Peace its Wealth its Religion its Gentry Nobility nay it s King So verifying the former Verse of the Calendar Scorpius est quintus tertius e nece cinctus A killing day to some or other The Third of September was a Remarkable day to the English Attila Oliver 1650. he obtained a memorable Victory at Dunbar another at Worcester 1651. And that day he died 1658. The first two Occurrences wonderfully accord to the preceding Verse Tertia Septembris denus fert mala membris being fatal to the two Members of Great Britain Scotland and England The third as happy to them both as the same day 1666. was dismal and unhappy to the City of London and consequently to the whole Kingdom with its immediate preceding and two succeeding days viz. the Second Fourth and Fifth of September I come now to Days of the Week Tuesday Dies Martis was a most remarkable day with Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury as Weaver 201. observes from Matt. Paris Mars secundum Poetas Deus Belli nuncupatur Vita Sancti Thomae secundum illud Job Vita hominis militia est super terram tota fuit contra hostem bellicosa c. Mars according to the Poets is called The God of War The Life of S. Thomas according to that of Job The life of man is a warfare upon earth was a continual conflict against the enemy Upon the Tuesday he suffered upon Tuesday he was translated upon Tuesday the Peers of the Land sate against him at Northampton upon Tuesday he was banished upon Tuesday the Lord appeared to him at Pontiniac saying Thomas Thomas my Church shall be glorified in thy blood upon Tuesday he returned from Exile upon Tuesday he got the Palm or Reward of Martyrdom and upon Tuesday 1220. his Venerable Body received the Glory and Renown of Translation Fifty years after his Passion Thus my Authors One thing I make bold to gloss upon His Translation is here mentioned twice Note This is no Tautology of the Historian but the latter Paragraph is a more particular Recitation of the first viz. reference to the time when he was translated into the number of Saints and Martyrs Quando in Divorum numerum relatus as Cambden Wednesday is said to have been the fortunate day of Sixtus Quintus that Pope of renowned Merit that did so great and excellent things in the time of his Government See The Just weight of the Scarlet Robe pag. 101 his deserved Praises On a Wednesday he was born on that day he was made Monk on the same he was made
General of his Order on that also was he successively created Cardinal electected Pope and also Inaugurated See Heylyn speaking of the Temple of Jerusalem Fryday was observed to be very fortunate to the great and renowned Captain Gonsalvo he having on that day given the French many memorable Defeats Saturday was a Lucky day to Hen. VII Upon that day he atchieved the Victory upon Ric. III. being August 22. 1485. On that day he entred the City being Aug. 29. Correct Stow who mistakes the day And he himself always acknowledg'd he had experienced it Fortunate See Bacon in his Life Thursday was a Fatal Day to Henry VIII as Stow 812. and so also to his Posterity He died on Thursday Jan. 28. King Edw. VI. on Thursday July 6. Queen Mary on Thursday November 17. Queen Elizabeth on Thursday March 24. Saturday or the Jewish Sabbath was fatal to Jerusalem Temple for on that day 't was taken by Pompey Herod and Titus successively Heylyn Hitherto by way of Prologue And be pleas'd to take notice As to the Days of the Month I have taken such care that all are according to the Julian or Old Account used by us here in England See Partridges Almanack Pref. to the Reader Pope Gregory XIII brought in his New Stile used generally beyond Sea Anno 1585. in October as asserts the Journal History before-recited Now for Epilogue and Remarkable Reflexion Turning over our Annals I chanced upon a two-fold Circumstance I will not say that none else hath observed the same but I protest Ita me Deus amet ut verum loquor I do not know of any that have and therefore must justly claim to be acquitted from the least suspicion of Plagiarism or plowing with others Heifers The first is of William the Conqueror The second of Edward III. I need not say any thing of the Eminency of these two every one knows what great things they did And making reflection upon the Auspicious Birth-day of His Royal Highness the Duke of York I adventured upon the following Composure I cannot be proud of my Poetry but I cannot but be glad of my BON HEVR d' avoir en lisant tombè si fortuitemènt sur les evenements d' un si BON JOVR Ad Illustrissimum Celsissimum Principem JACOBUM Ducem EBORACENSEM de Natali Suo Auspicatissimo Octobris XIV Anno MDCXXXIII Deus Anne nefasto te posuit die Hor. li. 2. od 13. The Fates have they Thy Birth design'd on an unlucky day OCtobris Decimo quarto Normannus Haraldum Dux superavit hinc Regia Sceptra tulit Tertius Edwardus capto pernice Caleto Gallica quo Regna sunt reserata sibi Ire domum tentans diris turbomibus actus In pelago Vitae Magna pericla subît Octobris Decimo quarto tamen appulit Oras Nativas His quà m prosperus ille dies Natali laetare tuo quà m Maxime Princeps Fausta velut sunt haec Omina semper habe OCtobers Fourteenth gave the Norman Duke That Vict'ry Stow in An. 1066. whence he Englands Scepter took Third Edward after he had Calais won The Mean whereby he France did over-run Returning home by raging Tempests tost And neer his Life so fortunes to have lost Arrived safe on Shore the self-same Date Idem in An. 1347. This day to them afforded so fair Fate Great Duke rejoyce in this Your day of Birth And may such Omens still encrease Your Mirth These Verses I presented in Anno 1677. to a most Honourable Peer of the Land and of great Place near His Royal Highness Since which time old Fabian coming into my hands from him I got knowledge that that advantageous Peace mentioned by Stow Anno 1360. concluded between the forementioned King Edward III. and the French King was acted upon the Fourteenth of October with grand Solemnity The two former Circumstances must needs fall out Providentially Whether this last of Anno 1360. was designed by Edw. III. or no as remembring his former good hap may be some question I am of opinion not Where things are under a Mans peculiar Concern he may fix a time but here was the French King concerned equally with the English and many other Great Personages interessed To have tied them up to his own Auspicious Conceit of the Day had been an unkind Oppression and would have brought the Judgment of so Wise a Prince into question We may conclude then 't was meerly fortuitous And therefore to the former Observation concerning this famous Edward give me leave to add Insupèr hoc ipsoque die sibi commoda Grandis Rex cum Galligenis foedera fecit idem An advantageous Peace on day self same This mighty Prince did with the Frenchmen frame A memorable Peace foretold by Nostredamus much conducing to the saving of Christian Blood was made upon the Fourteenth of October 1557. between Pope Paul IV. Henry II. of France and Philip II. of Spain Nostredamus says These Great Princes were frappèz du Ciel moved from Heaven to make this Peace See Garencieres Comment on Nostredamus pag. 76. A Lucky day this not onely to the Princes of England but Auspicious to the Welfare of Europe Upon the Third of March last being the day of St. Eutropius His Royal Highness withdrew towards the Low-Countries Procopius tells us Humana saepe contingit a Deo mutari Terence says Vicissitudo omnium rerum est Which two Sayings I can no way better English than by that of Eccles 9. 11. Time and chance happens to all men Nor no way better second than with that of 1 Cor. 4. 11. Incertis vagamur sedibus This Accident therefore our life being but a pilgrimage as Jacob termed it to Pharaoh is nothing to a General Providence in the main Therefore from the Augury of His Fourteenth of October and from the good Omen comprehended in the Signification of Eutropius which hints that all this shall end well and turn to the best and from Ecclus 14. 14 15. I accost His Royal Highness with a Non defraudabitur a die bono He shall not lose his Good day Dixerunt Ibis pariter dixêre Redibis Te non infausto Dîi posuere die The Gods thy Exit have ordain'd and also they Thy blest Return have firm'd born on a Lucky day I just now said That the Third of March was dedicated to Eutropius which is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 well and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to turn It is also dedicated to St. Maximus St. Marinus St. Lucius which three also have notable hints in relation to His Royal Highness First No man can deny but that He is Maximus Princeps Secondly He is Maximus Marinus for in the time of His Exile He was Admiral of Aragon as I have been told many years since in Flanders and I am sure very many Commissions in those days past under His Name And till 1673. He was Lord High Admiral of England Lucius comes from Luci which signifies in the morning and betokens a Child born in the morning or at Sun-rising which some affirm to be a good time for Birth But I will for my present purpose deduce it a Luceo and I must affirm Quod hic maximus Princeps gestis marinis maxime lucet alias lucebit This most Great Prince is extremely Illustrious in Sea Negotiations and shall yet be otherwise most Illustrious That his Highness has long since verified the first Paragraph of my Assertion take it not onely on my Credit but besides what has been said before hear part of an Ode to His Sacred Majesty on His Highness Victory over the Dutch June 3. 1665. compos'd by Sir T. H. a most Worthy Person whom his Foreign Negotiations have made enough known This day Your Empire Fate secures And now One half of the whole World is Yours The Austrian Youth who won the day When the pale Crescent to the Cross gave way Must to Your Glorious Brother yield Who with less Loss hath got a greater Field c. The Germans High and Low amongst which last His Highness now resides call October Wyn-maendt Mensis Vindemialis the Wine-month The Effects of Wine we read Judges 9. 13. Psal 104. 15. Eccles 10. 19. Zach. 10. 7. Why then may we not term this Month Mensis Laetificans That it may be so to his Royal Highness as well as it was to the most Great Queen His * John 16. 21. Mother are the hearty Prayers of BLEW-MANTLE Virg lib. 1. Haec olim memenisse juvabit Ib. l. 7. 1. Vunanimes omnes cùm Te Dux Celse reducto Certatìm instaurent epulas atque omine magno Crateres laeti statuant Vina coronent Remembrance of these things delight shall Thee When home return'd great Feastings thou shalt see And Healthings round shall stir up gladsom glee And this Rejoycing general shall be I have by me a Book printed Anno 1641. containing the true Effigies of King CHARLES the First of Blessed Memory his Queen with their Royal Progeny with Verses annext wherein are notable Predictions of His Royal Highness which I will here recite This Prince much like another Sun darts forth Most glorious Beams to 's Dukedom and the North And makes us see with Eyes of expectation He 'll be a mighty Pillar to this Nation A Stay of State a strong supporting Prop Whose Fame will scale the Heighth of Honours Top. He hates dull Idleness and loves to be In Action such as fits His High Degree He will be stirring in such Exercise As well becomes His Years and Qualities Surely th' Eternal Eye of Providence Doth watch direct and guide this Hopeful Prince For some Designs may be for Heavens glory And fill the Earth with JAMES His Noble Story This All True Britans do expect in Love No doubt our Wishes are confirm'd Above Thus that Book And I add Quis meliora petat consultus quòd Tripos edat Who Better things than these can wish From the Oracles Breath of Bliss 1678. Martis Mense data haec timidi committere praelo Non Impressores audebant * Prov. 6. 19. tempore duro J. Gibbon FINIS