wants strength to manage his feeble body in a time of so much sorrow as the Eclipse saith is approaching When the daring or cruell Enemy comes neer us what shall the infirm man do neither able to move or be moved Perish he must flee he cannot there 's no way assigned but death yea although he was the son of a father most eminent But again to the purpose Si in Revolvendo anno Regni Stella in signo depressionis inventa fuerit magnus aliquis vir ex stellae ipsius natura morietur Ptol. Apho. 31. In handling the Judgement or Revolution of a yeer if a Planet that is usually taken for Lord of that Kingdom be in his depression viz. either in his detriment or fall some great person of the nature of that Planet will die that yeer This is like to be fatall to the Kingdom of England for in Figura mundi Saturn was in his fall In this present Eclipse Mars that hath sole dominion in the Ascendant and place eclipsed is in his detriment It cannot be the death of any vulgar or ordinary man that is hereby intended to be sent to another world Mars represents great persons principall Commanders in our Armies as well as in his Majesties Truely I fear an eminet Commander Cavete viri qui sunt tanquam Princes You that are in esteem like Princes and domineer like little Kings beware every one of you in every County and City you are said to be gods you shall die like other men c. disgraced odious c. It s not one onely man that is intended by the heavens to be the mock of Fortune and scorn of Mankinde there 's a signification of many that are to undergo a very hard and unpleasant Doom ere the Influence of this Eclipse shall have period or the Porrent of the three Suns be fully determined Obsecro mi Domine mittâ— quâ—m missurus es I may be derided for predicting so much but I rather laugh at their folly that having been oft premonished amend not their lives and endeavour Composition of these unhappie Dissentions now too prevalent all over Christendom What great one soever thou art of England or of any Nation of Europe that hast the 28 or 27 of Leo ascending at thy birth or the same degree of Taurus Scorpio or Aquarius to thee I say Thou art in great danger of death or mighty disturbance in thy health ere this Revolution of almost two yeers be compleated I am not idle but thou art mad and out of thy wits if thou doest not beware in time Let us admit thou hast the same degree culminating look to thine Honour Crown and Dignity if thou art a King thou shalt assuredly receive blemish in thy fame and estimation nor shalt thou escape without hazarding thy Crown or most fearfull scandals on thy Reputation Hast thou the same degrees ascending on the Cusp of the seventh Art thou a King thou shalt have War unlook'd for enemies without number domestick and forreign shall invade thee look to be plunged to purpose and to suffer discontent without period those as dear unto thee as thy wife in thy bosom shall betray thee by indirect counsels Hast thou the said degree upon the Cusp of the fourth house Art thou Emperour of Constantinople Thy father left thee more Kingdoms then thou shalt leave thy son Lose part of thy Dominions I desire thee the Fates will have it so Art thou of the Noble Austrian Family or art thou King of England France Spain or Denmark Be all or any of you assured to have a share in these Calamities a part or parcell an arm or a branch of your Kingdoms will be lopt off from you Is there any man hath the Sun or the Moon in the 28 degree of Leo or Aquarius at the time of his birth let him ponder these words of Ptolomey lib. 2. cap. 8. Sed periculosum in primis inevitabile est si ipsae Eclipticorum locorum partes aut oppositae coinciderint cum gradibus alter utrius Luminum quos geniturae tempore possederunt The sense of which words run thus That if an Eclipse happen in that Eclipticall degree in which at the time of birth either of the Lights viz. Sun or Moon were it s an argument saith he of some danger at hand hardly to be avoided We cannot forget that fearfull losse his Majestie of Spain suffered not long after the Eclipfe of the Sun in Geminis 1639. Truely I fear that same potent Prince must have another such like Brush for the three Suns doth in a manner deliver so much and look carefully what Nation or Prince suffered upon the Influence of that Eclipse shall again by these three Suns apparition in a more then miraculous way if it be possible be loaded with misfortune Prodigies in heaven of heaven and from heaven appear not in vain Eclipses do ever foreshew some notorious and eminent matter neer hand yea in a most peaceable season The Courts of all Princes shall be stricken dead with fear horrour and amazement Privie Counsellours shall be trampled down like dirt under our feet In the East from the East or somewhat South-east shall the beginnings of some miraculous Accidents have some first life motion and beginning But this is quite out of the Text If as the wisest men conceive the Sun and Moon do govern our body and spirit and so moderate the Elements that all men even every vulgar person understands it what shall we then think to be more admired or formidable then when we upon a sudden see these most glorious Bodies obscured and their light taken from our present sight We may from thence imagine Somewhat more then ordinary is drawing on It was therefore well and rightly said of Ptolomey Cardinales Eclipses sunt pollentiores ac vehementius afficiunt quippâ— quum cardines sint mundi prima loca in quibus cum Planetae collocati cum Majestate praesideant Eclipses that are in Angles are more prevalent and more fiercely afflict for Angles are the chiefest places of the Figure wherein when Planets are posited they rule as it were with Majestie Our Eclipse begins in the tenth its middle and end is there also How wonderfull and eminent Designes Changes of Fortunes in the states of great persons is hereby to be expected and these all over Europe doubtlesse such things shall hereby come to passe as this Generation now living hath scarce been acquainted with the like Here 's mad work in hand Kings and Lords clouded Clowns and silly fellows climbing aloft The world is almost turning Topsie-turvey What is the matter that a sudden Affright shall amaze the Italian Princes They that erâ—-wâ—ile thought of no such thing shall now tremble for fear So shall Pamphilio the Pope fume to no purpose and be in as much danger by a Conspiracy at home as if he were a road â—nd amidst a rude sort of enemies But whether this Eclipse shall point out his
The effects of the Eclips of the Sun which will be visible in ENGLAND 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force from January 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most Common-wealths of Europe but principally in ENGLAND With an Answer to an Astrologicall Judgement Printed at Oxford upon his Majesties present Martch By WILLIAM LILLY Student in Astrologie LONDON Printed for John Partridge and Humphry Blunden and are to be sold at the Signe of the Cocke in Ludgate Streete and the Castle in Cornehill 1645. To his truly Honoured Friend Master JOHN THOMPSON of the City of LONDON Merchant SIR AS in those more painfull imployments you formerly underwent in Transmarine parts you did with great fidelitie courage and industry for sundry yeers mannage the affaires of our English Merchants intrusted to your care and discretion So now in this your present retirement your continuall Study makes it manifest you act not the part of a young man though your yeeres speake you not aged but like a wise man that ever husbands Time with advantage You enrich your minde with Knowledge Converse amongst Studies and with Authors of wisedome that hereafter you may be more serviceable to your Country as opportunitie shall present you with a fit occasion I shall not neede acquaint the World that you have as we say changed heaven and lived not further then five degrees from the Aequinoctiall yet have you still remained your selfe and twice returned Statu quo bettered by your travells This little Treatise of lesse worth then I wish it I present unto you and desire your perusall by way of Recreation I am not singular in Dedicating a small thing to a worthy Friend Iohn Dee a most Learned man Dedicated his Aphorismes to Gerard Mercator a man famous and they consisted of lesse then sixe sheets Wearied I say with more weighty Studies run over this and the rather because its the first in this kinde ever wrote by any and you can judge whether 't is well or ill done and few else Your selfe have seene it in loose papers from the beginning middle and to the end of it are able to testifie its my owne I borrowed it from no man that impertinent Traveller spoake by Authority who hoodwinked in judgement bleated openly that others performed my Worke yet he never saw me Sir Favour me with as much love in Receiving it humanely as I in Affection tender it unto You and You engage me to rest Your Reall Friend WILLIAM LILLY To the Reader BEfore I speake any thing of that prodigious Apparition of the three Suns in the Elements I will acquaint thee with as rare a Progedy which happened in Cheshire When first our unnaturall Wars began and that it was apparent Warre would be betwixt King and Parliament Sir George Booth Knight and Barronet of a Noble Family in Cheshire and one excellently deserving of the whole Kingdome for his fidelity to the Parliament and without whose countenance our affaires in those parts could not so happily have succeeded this gallant old Knight perceiving that many of his Tennants were necessarily to engage their persons for better incouragement of them he seriously professed unto them that if any Tennant or Tennants sonne of his servant or any other that was any of the lives in any the Leases made by him or any of his Family should casually be slaine in this unnaturall warre in defence of the Parliament Religion and Subjects Liberties that then he would make a new Lease Gratis and insert any younger life in Liew thereof which thing he hath constantly and freely performed ever since to his eternall fame and honour and if this be not worthy of especiall taking notice of I know nothing Nor let us forget the singular valour of his Noble Grandchilde Collonell Booth during the siege of Nantwich against the English Irish But to our owne Discourse If there be any of so preuaricate a judgement as to thinke that the apparition of these three Suns doth intimate no Novell thing to happen in our owne Climate where they were manifestly visible I shall lament their indisposition and conceiue their braines to be shallow and voyde of understanding humanity or notice of common History For full satisfaction of such unbeleeuing Saints I haue produced presidents not one or two but many and those recorded by men of unquestionable Credit When was it knowne that such like unusuall sights appeared and were not the fore-runners of things to come yet seldome regarded before the things they signifyed came to passe I am of this opinion the Heauens neuer send forth any great signes which haue not a particular relation to some great personages for doubtlesse they are the Vniuersall cause God permitting of all things and whilest they produce effects which seeme to haue relation to one onely if he be a Prince it hath an Vniuersall operation for people are partakers with their Princes in their gaines losses vertues and vices and this is the reason why many times our predictions doe not jumpe in that measure of time by us limited for actions are not done by their Agents in an instant dispositions precede them c. Besides great alterations require great influences which when they cause great diuersity in their working happen nor because the influences are diuers but because they are diuerse that receiue them Read me with indifferency and poyse me with an equall judgement I write with no prepared gall no not against Master Noworth of Oxford who borrowes the grosse of his judgement in his last Almanack from my Prophetick Merlin nor am I angrie but pitty that woodden Doctour whether Atheist or Papist I know not that swells with his owne ignorant fancy and sayth he can make it appeare what I speake in behalfe of the Parliament in point of Art ought to happen to their enemies this is one of those purblind Prophets that in corners villifie the Parliaments Freinds and yet they uncontrolled harbour amidst us c. but this thing called a Galenist I let passe untill his capacity can erect a figure c. Many and great are the judgements ready to fall downe upon some great Families of England and Europe but unlesse an Angell nay if an Angell from Heaven should report it nothing will be beleeved an Achan and an Achitophell or faction equivalent both covetous and irreligious and countenancing for byerespects unworthy men have wearied my Pen disheartned the Gentry to our inevitable losse and impoverishment of the poore Commonallty and destruction of those townes so unluckely committed to their charge Let the towne of Leicester be hereof an unlucky president which hath beene these three yeares fortifying and now on the suddain transmitted to his Majesties forces What became of the vast summes of money there raysed why the valiant Gentlemen displaced and men of inferiour ranke exalted who gives any reason unlesse it was purposely done to betray the Towne
the Sun which at length vanishing there was seen two Suns The Pope being an English-man is taken Prisoner The Kingdom of Denmark is divided And in the next yeer the Pope and Emperour fall at variance Anno 1157 in September there were seen three Suns together in as clear weather as could be And a few days after in the same moneth three Moons and in the Moon that stood in the middle a white Crosse Sueno King of Denmark at a great Feast killeth Canutus Sueno is himself slain in pursuit of Waldemar The Order of Eremites according to the rule of Saint Augustine begun this yeer and in the next the Pope submits to the Emperour was not this miraculous Lumbardy was also adjudged to the Emperour Anno 1168 the first of September there was seen at once in the West three Suns Two hours after when two were gone he in the middle went down alone By mediation of the French King Becket is restored to his Archbishoprick Almaricus King of Jerusalem calleth in the Turks to his aid which was the ruine of that Kingdom and contrary to his Faith given aids the Greeks against the Egyptians A Conspiracy arose in Bohemia against the King Anno 1169 three Moons appeared The yeer succeeding Becket the stiff Priest was slain in a Church in England Catana a City in Sicily is destroyed with fifteen thousand people as also the Bishop and Clergie by an Earthquake A Smiths son raised great troubles in Norway pretending himself to be Harolds Grandchilde The Romanes raze the City of Alba And in the next yeer a great Inundation was in Freezland Anno 1314 three Moons appeared Lewis was Crowned Emperour by some Electors Frederick by the rest A Councell was at Ravenna for Reformation c. Note the instability of the Clergie The Pope dieth and the See is void two yeers and four moneths The English under a simple and wilfull King Edward the second are overthrown by the Scots and to purpose Lewis Hutine comes to the Crown of France hangs his Treasurer c. The Queen of Castile dieth The Genowayes rob the Venetian Merchants and invade their Territories Anno 1372 the first of July and some days after a strange Circle was seen about the Sun over which appeared two Crosses of a red colour neer Basill The French besiege Rochell and the English defend it The yeer after the Order of Nuns of Saint Katharine was founded Robert Stuart King of Scotland marrieth his Concubine and John Duke of Lancaster the King of Castiles daughter The King of Portingall refuseth a Match in Castile and takes a Noble-mans wife from him having banished her husband at which his people are discontented Shortly after the Venetians restore Paleologus being expelled by his son Andronicus Anno 1460 the second of February three Suns appeared every one shewing a severall light which again closed all together in one The Duke of York is attainted of Treason Henry the sixth is taken Prisoner at Northampton Civill War in France called The Weal-publike caused by the Kings Covetousnesse The King of France dieth having upon a foolish Conceit forborn his meat so long that when after he would eat he could not A Rebellion in Spain against the Queen for death of the Prince James the third came to the Crown of Scotland The Duke of York is slain in York-shire David Emperour of Trapezond and his two sons taken and slain by Mahomet the Turk In the next yeer after Edward the fourth came to the Crown of England and poor innocent Henry the sixth sent to the Tower c. Anno 1466 three Suns were seen at Rome in which yeer Erasmus was born The King of Denmark is excommunicated by the Pope Warwick and Edward the fourth fall out John King of Spain is deposed and Alfonsus crowned The King of Hungaria's brother is taken by the Turks and beheaded at Constantinople Gerard the King of Denmark's brother is imprisoned for aspiring Matthias of Hungaria is set up against the lawfull King thereof Scanderbeg a most valiant Captain against the Turk dieth The French King takes from his brother the Dutchy of Normandy Anno 1492 the fifteenth of December three Suns were seen in Poland at noon The Jews are expelled Spain Alexander the sixth plays the ungratefull fellow with his Gardinalls Towards the later end of the yeer the Emperour of Germany dies and John Albert succeeds Casimire in the Kingdom of Polonia The Ganthois in Flanders rebell Anno 1514 in January three Suns were seen in the Dutchy of Wittenberge the middlemost surpassed the rest in greatnesse In every of these there appeared the form of a bloody and fiery sword The same yeer in March three Moons were seen It was in that yeer some parts of Sussex were burned and spoiled by the Rhodians in behalf of the French An Interview follows betwixt the Emperour King of Polonia and Bohemia The French King and Pope meet The Queen of Scotland fleeth into England The French King dieth and Francis the first succeeds and recovers Millan Anno 1515 Queen Mary the scourge of Protestants is born in England Wolsey a proud Priest begins to rise at Court The Pope falls out with the Venetians Anno 1520 the fifth of January about Sun-rising three Suns appeared with a Rainbowe of divers colours at Vienna The seventh of January there were three Suns also seen After Charles the fifth was Crowned there was seen a circle about the Sun with a Rainbowe The Pope he spues out his Excommunications against Luther who as stoutly burns his foolish Bulls The Pope executes the Tyrant of Perugia The Duke of Buckingham is in England beheaded for Treason The French detain our Merchants goods we imprison the French Solyman the Magnificent comes to be Emperour of Turkie The Geldrois rebell The next yeer after the French War began which continued thirty and eight yeers troubles arise in Scotland Many rich Cities taken by the Turk in Hungary Anno 1523 in Switzerland there was seen three Suns at once and also divers Circles in the Element At Norimberge in a Diet there held grievances are exhibited against the Pope The Peasants rebell against the Nobles in Germany Both the French and Swedes are defeated by the Imperialls The Earl of Surrey burns thirty seven Towns in Scotland The Duke of Holsten is chosen King of Denmark and the former King expelled for his Cruelty The Janizaries mutiny at Constantinople Anno 1525 there was seen in Hungaria five Suns two on either side the right Sun The Duke of Luneburg becomes Lutherane The Order of Capuchines is erected The French King is released out of prison Fifty thousand Clowns are slain Henry the eighth falls off from the Emperour The women of Hague rise against their Customers upon their exactions and the Swedes become Lutheranes Anno 1526 in Sweden three Suns were seen with divers circles in the Elements The Emperour abolisheth the Popes Authority in Spain The Tartarian invades the Polonian and is defeated and taken Rome
is wasted by the Columnenses and besiege the Pope in S. Angelo A Sedition arose in Suffolk The holy League made by the French King Pope Duke of Millan and Venetian against the Emperour Now was the Battel of Mohatz where the whole Nobility of Hungary was slain and the King in flight drowned in a ditch Bud◠a chief Citie of Hungary is yeelded to Solyman The next yeer the Duke of Burbon takes Rome sacks it ten moneths Sweating sicknesse in London continuing two yeers Anno 1528 in Switzerland and moneth of June many Suns were seen at once and about them three circles A Councell was then held at Sena for Reformation Images and Popish trumperies abolished at Perne and Strasburg A Rebellion at Dansk Some mutinous Vtrechters executed by the Bishop Sharp Differences betwixt Henry the eighth and Queen Katharine The next yeer Solyman invades Hungary with One hundred and fifty thousand men Vienna is besieged but not taken The Ransome of the French King is paid Anno 1532 the eleventh of April at Venice Cardanus saw three fair and bright Suns with two Rainbowes not with points descending but opposite to the Sun Vienna is relieved by the Emperour Henry the eighth is divorced from Queen Katherine 1533 Qveen Elizabeth was born Sedition raised by the Anabaptists and strange Factions in Hungary Anno 1541 there appeared three Suns the usuall Sun stood in the Centre and two bright Circles did environ it Katherine Queen of England is beheaded The Rochellers rebell Charles the fifth maketh an unfortunate Voyage to Algiers The Germane Forces are foiled by the Turks onely by the cowardise of the Leaders The yeer after the Scots were beat at Solwy Moss and their King dies of Melancholly Transilvania is subdued by Solyman and given to John Popery rejected in the Palatinate Anno 1550 neer Brunswick three Suns appeared Now great troubles arise at Antwerp and the Inquisition opposed in the Netherlands Difference betwixt the Emperour and Ferdinand about succession in the Empire Some of the Electors arm against the Emperour The Thames ebbed and flowed three times in nine hours Peace with Scotland Anno 1551 in March at Magdeburg about seven in the morning seven Rainbowes were seen and in the evening three Moons In April at Wittenberg three Suns were seen with various Circles in the Element There was seen the same yeer at Antwerp three Suns with divers Circles The same yeer there was seen two mock-Moons twice In England the Duke of Somerset is beheaded A world of Disputes in Germany about Religion The French make War with the Emperour Anno 1553 three Suns appeared the middle of a bright colour but the Parclii or mock-Suns red and bloody The same day after Sun-set three Moons appeared The Papist and Protestant in England dispute The King of England dieth A tumult in Brussels between the insolent Spaniard and the townsmen Now Persecution in England for being Protestants Queen Mary comes to the Crown usher'd into the world by a Prodigie and to the Crown with the like ominous Portent Anno 1554 in Bavaria divers kindes of Suns were seen but especially the sixth of March two Suns were seen with a Rainbowe In May the same yeer two more Suns were seen the Sun as it were environed all about with a Rainbowe Wyat riseth in Kent Philip and Mary married Sena betrayed to the Emperour by the Pope Henalt in Arthoys wasted by the French Anno 1556 in Saxony two mock-Suns appeared Charles the Emperour entreth the Monastery of S. Justus in the confines of Castile The Lord Sturton is hanged in England for a Murder Transilvania revolts Nineteen thousand people at Brussels die of Cold and Famine The next yeer the War is begun betwixt the King of Spain and the Pope A generall Pestilence happens in England Calais is lost to the French and the Scots invade the English Treasons and Uproars are frequent in Turkie Anno 1622 three Suns appeared at Heidelberg The wofull Calamities that have ever since fallen upon the Palatinate we are all sensible of and of the losse of it for any thing I see for ever from the right Heir Osman the great Turk is strangled that yeer and Spinola besiegeth Bergen up Zoom c. I have heard it credibly reported that there were seen about twelve yeers since many Suns at one time in Cornwall and in March 1639 towards Sun-set three Suns were seen in the West not far from Oxford I have not seen any of these Suns I mention my self onely in those six yeers in which I lived in the Countrey viz. 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 c. many evenings I observed a strange fiery skie and unusuall forms in the Elements towards that part of the heaven where Oxford stands and towards Bark-shire Hamp-shire and so also towards Buckingham-shire c. I have the rather repeated these things that the incredulous of the times might not be wavering or a party now upon earth too confident that these prodigious Sights have no signification upon Mundane affairs The Historicall part is now ended and my own Judgement upon those three Suns apparent the nineteenth of November 1644 followeth Wherein if oft repetitions of the same thing trouble thee with modesty or courtesie passe them by for in Astrologie it cannot be avoided Nor do thou expect an exact Method from me sith it was no part of my meaning or could I conveniently do it Onely this I must tell thee that the Interpretation I write is I conceive grounded upon probable foundations and who lives to see a few yeers over his head will easily perceive I have unfolded as much as was fit to discover and that my Judgement is not a mile and a half from truth A Figure of the 3 Sonns appearan̄ ♂ 19 Nouember 1644. 9 45. A.M. ab ☠♃ in ☌ ☉ ad △ ♄ ♀ 21 ♎ ♠28 ☊ 2.38 ♌ 4 ♂ 2.56 ♋ R ♊ 26.5 ♊ 5.34 ♃ 24 47 R ♉ 2.0 ♉ 1.0 ♈ ♄ 14.32 R ♓ 28 ☋ 2.38 ♒ 4 ♑ ♠26.5 ☉ ☽ 7.51 ♠◠34 ♠20 ☿ 18 ♠1.0 Londinum Angliae MAny Philosophers are of opinion that these false Suns amongst the learned called Parelii do especially appear when many subtill moist clouds are betwixt us and the Sun Others that they are round clouds shining like the Sun or that they are images of the Sun in a thick and neighbouring cloud in the form of a Mirror But if that collected clouds or multitude of vapours or any Naturall cause produced such rare and unusuall Apparitions Why have we not such Sights oft It s well known such are not usually seen although once in a moneth we do not want plenty of Vapours which if they were so produced might cause monethly or oftner such like Apparitions And besides when these three Suns were seen it was a very fair Sunshine-day a very clear day no Clouds Vapours Foggs or Mists appearing Indeed for seven or eight days before we at London had extreme stormy Weather
Princes after an unwonted manner be deprived of Friends Rule and Dominion by people formerly contemptible scarce dreamed of and which themselves within lesse then a few yeers aimed at no such thing The most Ancient and Noble Families of Europe are declining but especially here not far remote or in England And this Saturn by Retrogradation doth easily declare The Nobility and Gentry who have continued many Generations are now sinking and an inferiour sort of people by plain Legerdemain are ascending but whether to heaven or worldly preferment sub judice lis est The Souldier whom I most honour shall tremble and yet fight for he knows not whom or what as Mars in the seventh House doth manifestly declare Germany that part thereof Some parts of France and my own dear Countrey of England and therein especially Kent Sussex Surrey part of Essex Suffolk and Lincoln and parts adjacent Oxford shall suffer both with Sword Sicknesse Famine Plague if not finall Subversion Shall the City of Rome escape No nor Pamfilio the now present Pope shall continue scarce six yeers without Poison or Opposition I will not say Deposition I omit some Countreys purposely for Infidelity and Ingratitude is to be requited with Blood the sword and not words Some shall notwithstanding their prudence be ensnared without caution I wish cordially all happinesse to the Kingdom of Scotland Nor shall some waspish Antagonists of that Nation against Astrologie cause me to love the Kingdom the worse There 's not yet any probability of a constant Settlement in that Common-wealth Let us expect to hear of some mutiny amongst the Turks and in Constantinople and Faction amongst the Nobles in Polonia I cannot predicate good to the barbarous Irish I am doubtfull Denmark is appointed for a Patern either of Vengeance or Mercy it is it must suffer more and more This prodigious Apparition foreshews to all England a generall Infelicity perhaps to all Europe I mean to the North-East part thereof so situate from London in England A Famine Scarcity of bread and provision for Man is like to be subsequent the Murrain of Cattel infectious and pestiferous Diseases as well in man as in beast and full Plague and half a Plague this yeer and the next not in Villages onely but almost in every great Town of England Horrible persecution of the Nobility and Gentry and indeed the Runaways from our Parliament deserve no lesse and some besides Some superlative Discord with and concerning Religion and Controversies therein Incursions of forreign Princes into their Neighbours Territories Friends and Allies No belief upon earth amongst men Surely the world is not yet at an end But whosoever shall see or have the unhappinesse to survive the two or three yeers next succeeding will wonder at the strange Metamorphosis and Catastrophe of Humane Chances in Christian Common-wealths where Jesus Christ is professed with so much pretended-Zeal but his Doctrine practised with so slender Devotion Nor shall many and those not the least Cities and Towns of England suffer in their private Common-wealths lesse then a new moulding of their present Government Did the wit of man of set purpose studie it he could not finde out so many unnecessary Inventions for present and future destruction as we our selves with premeditated wisedom finde out with intention to salve up all our sores We begger our selves with Wit and destroy Mankinde with Discretion In good truth the City of London is like to be afflicted and now simple George at Oxford holds his mouth wide open with the Plague and some other Pestilentiall or Purse-Diseases c. Do not I see both the Sun and Moon in Opposition to Gemini Their Ships are like to suffer by Fire and Pyracie c. Is not Gemini the Signe descending on the Cusp of the sixth and seventh God blesse their Ships from Sea-fights and Shipwracks And yet methinks there 's one in the world looks high born and in being that would but shall not exalt himself to a Crown Quicunque fuerit ex stirpe Regali si in ejus Radice Nativitatis fuerint duo Soles erit Regibus contrarius c. My friend be quiet thou art not the man thy time is short the Chicken of the West shall prevail Return in peace if thou canst to the Sepulchre of thy not-Kingly Ancestours c. This is part of the little I am able at present to put forth concerning the Signification of the three Suns whose Effects cooperating with the immediate subsequent Eclipse in August shall not determine in lesse time then three whole yeers Dixi. An Astrologicall-Judgement concerning the Effects probably like to succeed the Eclipse of the Sun upon the eleventh day of August 1645 being Munday It s beginning is at 10 ho 17 min. before noon Its Middle is at 11 ho 14 min. It Endeth eleven minutes after 12. The Digits eclipsed are six The Duration of the Eclipse is One hour fifty four minutes To finde when it shall begin to operate and how long the Effects shall continue you must consider The Elevation of the Pole at London which is 51 deg. 32 min. The Semidiurnall time which is 7 hor 3 min. The time of rising of the Sun the day of the Eclipse 4 h. 57 m. The length of the day is 14 hours 6 minutes The Interval of time from Sun-rise to the time of the Eclipse is 6 ho 17 min. Now I say If 14 hours and 6 minutes give 365 days What will 6 hours and 17 minutes If you work it by proportion it will give you 162 days which added to the 11 of August point out the 20 of January 164 5 6 for a Beginning to the Effects depending on this Eclipse The Dignities and Debilities of the Planets stand thus Saturn hath one Debility Jupiter hath Fortitudes 20 Mars 13 Venus 4 Mercury 12 The Duration being 1 hor 54 min. the Effects shall continue almost two whole yeers viz. untill the 16 of December 1647. A short Historicall Narration of some preceding Eclipses and the Effects that thereupon ensued The first Eclipse we finde recorded to Posterity is by Dion Hal. and it was in the yeer of the world 3180 about 767 yeers before Christ It s noted by Historians that Romulus was that yeer conceived and the Kingdom of Israel began to decline Many were the Eclipses which Antiquity took notice of and after most of them some memorable Actions to have succeeded As that in anno Mundi 3235 and 26 of May the Sun suffered a fearfull Eclipse and it was in that yeer Sennacherib King of Assyria departed from the Siege of Jerusalem and had One hundred and fourscore thousand men slain in his Army You may read what succeeded after 2 Kings cap. 19. Anno mundi 3470 and 19 of April the Sun was eclipsed at what time Xerxes went with his innumerable Army against the Greeks and was as valiantly beaten at Thermopylas and Salamine Anno mundi 3621 there was a totall Eclipse of the Moon
to our enemies or by losse of that to prolong the warres another yeare You shall see if his Majesties Providence fortifie not that towne in lesse monthes then we in years It must be discovered who or whom have played the plaine knaves with us or else we shall never be at quiet Many complaine the taxes of that County have exceeded the Incombes of Rent Thus Division willfull Faction a scabbie Sect of covetous Sectaries undoe us and disparage our Parliaments proceedings but let it be remembred his Majesties Pressures first begot courage in us to resist him I hope those Divells that undo us will shortly be found out till then if we thrive its miraculous God grant our Parliament in time may purge the Counties of all Schismaticall who alone doe them more mischiefe then his Majesties Army Discontented that the Gentry are no more respected I will ingage no further at this time It s true we gained Shrewesbury and when the eyes of all Well-wishers looked upon Colonell Mitton a most beloved active and deserving Gentleman to be Governour thereof En Ecce no such thing Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis Time will make us see how we abuse and are abused many can preach that connot fight WILLIAM LILLY Without Temple Bar London at the Corner House over against Stranbridge An Interpretation or Declaration what manner of Accidents may ensue upon the three Suns which appeared in England the 19 of November 1644 it being his Majesties Birth-day by William Lilly IT 's far from my intention to make the signification of this extraordinary Prodigie more ominous because it had its appearance with us on the same day 44 yeer that his Majestie was born and ushers in as it were the actions of his 45 yeer I humbly desire his Majestie would be pleased to take some notice hereof for I conceive he may be hereby much concerned and the rather as he is one of the prime Monarchs of Europe and also in regard it was visible in England a Kingdom of his own and of which he is rightfull Inheritor For doubtlesse over what City or Countrey these unusuall Apparitions are verticall or where they do more manifestly shew themselves those Countreys in a more sensible and perceptible manner shall be capable of the effects attending those Apparitions Nor am I clearly of that opinion many very judicious men both of forepast and present times are That such like Prodigies Comets c. do never shew themselves but as precursors of mischief What greater benefit did ever happen to mankinde then the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ and yet was his coming manifested to us by a Star or Comet c. the like whereof we have never read or heard of And besides we have seen in our Age that if that Comet in 1618 did designe out ill to the Austrian Family as indeed it did yet the Swedes did thereupon thrive and before them Bethlem Gabor Prince of Transilvania attained to great esteem in the world and enlarged his Patrimony I do willingly consent to those words of that learned Physitian of our times Dr Brown in the small but unparallel'd Piece of his Relig. Med. fol. 70. That those noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard to their fellow-natures on earth and that such like Prodigies as these are the charitable Premonitions of good Angels which more carelesse Enquiries term but the effects of Chance and Nature There be many now living can hardly believe there was any such thing as three Suns appeared and why Because themselves had not the sight of them Others will consent such like things might be seen but what should be thereby signified they conceive is beyond Humane Capacity To the first sort of men I say That as Christians we ought to believe the report of one another especially in a matter wherein there 's no danger or prejudice can come either by crediting or not crediting the report or wherein neither Religion or our neighbour suffer scandall or harm c. But I say Many hundreds of uncontradictible credit did behold this We have it also mentioned in many mens printed Pamphlets amongst the rest I hear the witty Aulicus hath glossed thereon Sure I am Britannicus promised some Conceptions which yet are not come to publike view upon that very subject The forme of â—â—e three Sunsâ—â—en in Englandâ—9 November 1644. I will endeavour to give a generall satisfaction and first will produce the yeers wherein formerly long before our time such Prodigies have been seen and recorded and also what materiall Occurrences did immediately or within one or two yeers succeed Which being performed I shall God willing fall upon what effects I conceive shall be instantly subsequent to these three Suns the now-subject of my Discourse IT is recorded that in the One and fiftieth yeer after Christ there appeared three Suns at once and forthwith they joyned in one c. In that yeer Clodomire King of France began to recover what his predecessors had lost Saint Paul was converted Luke writes the Gospel Caractacus the valiant was led in triumph to Rome where a great Famine was the same yeer Anno 66. A Comet was seen and also three Suns In which yeer Florus President of the Jews was by them slain Paul writes to Timothy The Christians are warned by a divine Oracle and depart out of Jerusalem Boadice a British Queen killeth Seventy thousand Romanes The Nazareni a scurvie Sect begun that boasted much of Revelations and Visions About a yeer after Nero was proclaimed enemy to the State of Rome Anno 69. In the East and in the West two sons were seen of the which one seemed weak and pale the other strong and clear In this yeer Jerusalem was taken by Titus and Eleven hundred thousand Jews slain and made away in the Siege Linus was this yeer first Bishop of Rome where we may carefully note a Prodigie was the forerunner of Episcopacie at Rome This yeer Galba is slain by Otho having reigned but three moneths And men suppose that in this yeer the Gospel of Saint John was written at Ephesus From hence I passe untill some later Genturies of yeers for from the yeer 69 to 1103 I finde none recorded in those Authors I have read In the yeer 1103 a Comet appeared in Normandy and not long after two full Moons one in the East the other in the West The Effects that followed instantly were these The son of Henry the Emperour rebelleth against his father A Councell was held in London for reformation of the Clergie I think that Tribe is out of order in all Ages All married Priests were excommunicated by Anselme this was a strict Priest certainly Lewis of France forceth a Restitution of Church-goods sacrilegiously taken This yeer began the long and cruell War betwixt the Polonian and Russian The Venetians obtain large Priviledges of the Emperour Anno 1156 the first of October for three hours there was seen three Circles about
you smart and every one of you taste none excepted the heavie hand of God who will strengthen your Subjects with invincible Courage to suppresse your Misgovernments and Oppressions in Church or Common-wealth Nor shall War cease or the Sword of God leave persecuting you and your Off-springs untill this great Work is perfectly done What will you say if the Almighty is ready to let fall from heauen a new Government quite contrary to any hath hitherto been in the world Here 's threatned an universall Insurrection against you by your oppressed People Here 's either the Deposing Flight or finall Extirpation of some of you at hand Your Viceroys Lieutenant-Generalls shall quake and tremble and prove men of no Courage shall shrink from you in your greatest necessity Your Confederates shall fail in reall Performances and do you more mischief then a professed enemy Your Children shall wander as banished People all over the world die unlamented in strange Countreys while some of your own Generation of set purpose shall bring you in dislike of your vassails Those words are generall A word to my own Countrey of England Verily I am doubtfull there 's now as great Treason in hatching against England as either the Armado in 1588 or furious Gunpowder-Plot in 1605. I am scrupulous for the love I bear to my native Soil whilest I conceive there 's a second Massacre in agitation and yet I faithfully believe we shall really overcome it and maturely and in good sadnesse take lusty Vengeance on the Contrivers c. Are not both the Lights in our Scheam with or neer Cor Scorpii a most violent fixed Star which usually if we believe Antiquity or Experience threatens sudden and violent death else why have we this Aphorism Cor Scorpii cum Luminaribus cruentam mortem aut ex veneno repentinam denuntiat He or she of any great Family that hath either the Sun or Moon or both with this Star in the Radix of their Nativities are threatned hereby either to die some violent death by casualty Sword Gun or Poison Look to your selves here 's some monstrous death towards you But to whom wilt thou say Herein we consider the Signe Lord thereof and the House The Sun signifies in that Royall Signe great ones the House signifies Captivity Poison Treachery From which is derived thus much That some very great man what King Prince Duke or the like I really affirm I perfectly know not shall I say come to some such untimely end What Magistrate soever of Europe hath the Sun or Moon in the place now afflicted his person and estate will be in danger Where the 6 7 or 8 of Sagittarius do culminate he loses his Sovereignty where the same degrees arise in the Horoscope it threatens his life witnesse the King of Sweden c. Great men may and I know will despise these favourable Admonitions Let them so do and afterwards cry Had I wist Here in our Figure we have all the superiour Planets Retrograde as if all the Grandees of the world and every principall man in his kinde should finde vexation enough or as if every State and Common-wealth or Society of men were declining and ready to suffer in one kinde or other Significat etiam morbos populares mortalitates quod ibi morietur Rex Haly Popular Diseases that is abundance of the common people shall die by the Sword Mortality c. And where these afflictions are in most force there and in that Land shall the King or principall Officer die What successe shall follow of Treaties or from or by means of Messengers Commissioners Ambassadours Nuntio's Generall or Provinciall Councels you may read by the positure of Mercury in Scorpio hastening to Opposition of Jupiter The Significator in fixed Signes shew the tediousnesse of such like matters the length of time shall be spent in Embassages Treaties Counsels but was there ever without the immediate finger of God any good Conclusion when the Significators applied by opposition Long deceitfull and painfull Debates slender and impertinent Conclusions Men are employed by some to good intents and purposes but one dash of a Pen one simple underhand-missive of or from a guilty Secretary or male-contented States-man or one scrupulous Tenent of or from an unsetled Separatist hinders and makes void all conclusion of difference by Negotiations and Treaties Whereas formerly Commissioners from Prince to Prince have determined the greatest Controversies ever happened there 's now in the Figure of heaven no apparance of such blessings the Sword being onely intended to decide these consuming Plagues and inveterate Quarrels that either have or shall for some yeers rise amongst the European Common-wealths Blinded shall be the eyes of the wisest discerning men curbed and disheartned shall be the intentions of the cordiall slandered shall be the well-wishes of innocent and harmlesse souls who are not so verball to no purpose as some airy spirits Wars shall be prolonged beyond either the reason or judgement of the wisest States-man now living nay untill the furious Souldier himself is weary The Rainbowe seemed occularly to be amongst the Northern Constellations above the Aequator in that space of heaven where the learned place Serpentarius or the form of a Serpent his mouth gaping wide open and a Crown ready to fall into the Serpents mouth This is the second time within one yeers space that some Princes of Europe have been threatned with Ruine and Destruction if they repent not for the last of June 1644 there were strange Apparitions in the heavens in this very Constellation and now again this unusuall Rainbowe extending it self over the proper Sun and quite thorow the body of the Serpent Let me adde to this The subsequent Eclipse I shall write of hath no little signification in the fortune and persons of Kings and great men Was not our mother Eve deceived by ill counsel given unto her by the devil in form of a Serpent and was not Adam thereby himself mistaken and so his whole Posterity made capable of that punishment he for that suffered and we all by his act It was not Adam it was not Eve but the Serpent It s not Kings or Princes it s not their Queens or Ladies that invent those execrable Counsels so totally destructive no it 's the Serpent it's in plain language such destructive Counsel as is put into them by Serpents that is ill Counsellors It s Mercury in Scorpio its religious men in habit but devils in conditions its men of great Conformity outwardly that deceitfully hatch these hellish Advices I wish in time great men to become themselves for if some good Angel hath hitherto seemed to keep their Crowns their Dominions their Authority from dropping into the Serpents mouth that is from Ruine Approach of forreign Power or Incursion c. yet now as in a little time this Rainbowe vanished and so left the true Sun naked and to recive any impression so questionlesse in a short time shall
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon we consider the place of the Zodiak and those Regions familiar to that place according to the distribution of Triplicities and what Cities at their Foundation had their Horoscope either the place of the Signe eclipsed or wherein either of the Lights at that time were in the degree defective and we also consider if the medium-Coeli of the Princes Nativity then governing be the Signe and Degree of the Eclipse Of all which we shall make good use in its proper time We must also consider those Countreys which are under or properly belong to the second Quadrangle viz. Taurus Leo Scorpio and Aquarius so that upon the matter any Prince or great person that hath his Ascendant Mid-heaven or place of the Sun or Moon in or about the 26 27 28 or 29 of Taurus Leo Scorpio or Aquarius is made capable of receiving good or ill by this present Eclipse Germany France England Denmark Italy Turkie Bohemia Spain Hungaria Moravia stand all subject to the frown of this Eclipse Part of Swedland Polonia Russia Valachia Westphalia Bavaria to all these Kingdoms and Countreys the Eclipse will be visible and these Countreys Ascendants having affinity either in Triplicity or being of the second Quadrangle must participate of the actions more or lesse which may be expected from this Eclipse As to men the fiery Trygon represents men of great Quality of highest Command Remember you great ones that in January last the same Decanate of Leo or the ten last degrees of this present Signe of Leo was afflicted and now the same face of the Signe again the second time all in one yeer Sed quae non prosunt singula multa juvant It s not true in Eclipses as in other things The more the merrier The fewer Eclipses the least hurt More fully of this in the sequele The second thing considerable is De genere Effectum viz. Of the kindes of the Effects IN what manner and kinde the Effects of the Eclipse shall manifest themselves we cannot discern unlesse we know what Planet principally rules the place defective Nam qui Planeta pluribus modis congruit ad utrumque locum defectus ad cardinem qui sequitur hic Solus dominabitur Ptol. cap. 7. lib. 2. What Planet hath most Dignities in the place of both the Lights this is when there 's an Eclipse of the Moon and the Angle subsequent he onely shall rule the Effects or demonstrate the quality of them as whether War Famine Plague c. In our Scheam Mars rules without any contradiction both the defective place and the Angle following he is neer some fixed Stars of his own nature and is in a semi-Sextill if that Aspect be considerable to the place afflicted by which he is the more fortified and made more significant in the Effects Although the Sun and Moon are powerfull in this Position yet consideratis considerandis they are at no time admitted to signifie the quality of the Effects Nam Sol Luna aliarum Stellarum sunt praecipuae causae eventuum Regunt Stellarum dominia dominantium vires aut confirmant aut languefaciunt Ptol. lib. 2. cap. 8. The Sun and Moon are Governours of other Stars and are principall causes of the Effects and sway the rule of the Stars and either strengthen or weaken their forces I may well say Mars is in Libra however he is in a humane Signe if he be in Virgo Figurae adspiciantur in quibus sit defectus in quibus sunt Stellae dominantes unde genus eventuum judicari poterit Ptol. lib. 2. cap. 7. Consider the form of the Signe in which the Eclipse is and wherein especially the Planets having any predominancy are and by that you may judge of the kindes of the effects The Signe wherein the Eclipse falls is Leo a ferall Signe Damnum ex domesticis mansuetis domesticis ad utilitates vitae accommodatis viz. ex bobus equis aliis Men shall receive damage by losse of their domestick tame beasts viz. Horse Ox Sheep so that I perceive here 's like to be great scarcity of these creatures after which expect a direfull Famine Firma sive fixa signa significant fundamenta aedificia Fixed signes intimate the Judgement of this Eclipse will in part fall upon things long since founded and upon Buildings Houses Towers Castles Forts the subversion of many ancient Seats erecting many new Fortifications c. As to men the Defect is in the Mid-heaven the Effects portend matter to Kingdoms Kings to men of middle-age to all manner of men in Authority whatsoever Ptol. cap. 7. lib. 2. Indeed the House of heaven is extremely considerable for it falling in the tenth the Effects shall be glorious famous eminent of mighty concernment published all over the world Mars either in Libra or Virgo must have judgement in this nature Quae habent figuram humanam significant eventus fore hominibus The over-ruling Planets being in Humane Signes Man and Makinde are concerned All which shall be explicated by and by The third thing considerable is Whether the Events of this Eclipse shall intend good or ill COnsideratio vero Stellarum quae praecipuum jus in commixtione habent indicat eventuum qualitatem Which in effect tells you what I formerly repeated viz. That those Planets which in their mixture one with another have most Dignities do shew the quality of the Events It might be easily judged that sith Mars rules the Ascendant and place eclipsed and is entring Libra his Detriment and is naturally an enemy to all good and to man that we must expect but sad Times and in plain terms that we must look for a wofull desolation and destruction of man for the Ascendant signifieth in generall Mankinde or Commonalty of every Nation So then according to the Ptolomeian Doctrine without any Comment evil is to be looked for from the Effects of this Eclipse How to apply all preceding to the present Purpose is now my Task NEc in mixtionibus tantum errantium congressus intelligo sed aliarum quoque similes naturas sive fixarum sive locorum signiferi vel familiaritates cum errantibus supra indicatae sunt Nor do I saith Ptolomey in the mixture of the Planets onely consider their Conjunctions or sole Aspects of what nature soever they be but also the nature as well of the fixed Stars as places of heaven if they consent with the nature and quality of the Planets Si Planeta vincens super Eclipsin sit maleficus significat malum detrimentum An evil Planet ruling the Eclipse he portends evil c. This is also the Opinion of Junctine When I see Aquarius descending in the fourth and the Dragons tail so neer the Cusp of the House and Saturn Retrograde in the seventh a fixed Signe What assurance have I that the most stately Buildings of this Kingdom shall escape ruine or most ancient Cities and