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A92283	Strange newes of the sad effects of the fatall eclipse happening the 29th of this March, 1652. Also a prediction of the future fate of the king of Scots: Likewise an old prophesie (never before extant) referring to the Prince of Conde (now in armes against the King of France) positively determining what will be the issue of the said Princes attempts. With the direful effects and prodigies (probably) to be expected in the aire on Monday 29 March, 1652. With other remarkable things never before published. / By N.R. Student in astrology.	N. R., student in astrology.	1652 (1652)	Wing R57; Thomason E655_24; ESTC R205966	3,263	8

Strange Newes of the sad effects of the fatall Eclipse happening the 29th of this March 1652. ALSO A PREDICTION OF The future Fate of the King of SCOTS Likewise An old Prophesie never before extant referring to the Prince of Conde now in armes against the King of France positively determining what will be the issue of the said Princes attempts With the direful effects and Prodigies probably to be expected in the Aire on Monday 29 March 1652. With other remarkable things never before Published By N. R. Student in Astrology Bright Sol's eclips'd the nine and twentieth day Of March and we black-Monday call it may To King and Prince to Peer and Potentate Within few months it shewes a dismall fate It also in a dolefull tone doth sing The Prince of Conde's actions 'gainst his King LONDON Printed for Richard Harper at the Bible and Harpe in Smithfield 1652. Strange newes of the sad effects of the fatall Eclipse happening the 29 th of this March 1652. OR The direfull effects and prodegies probably to be expected in the Aire on Monday March 29. 1652. what time the Sun shall be almost totally Eclipsed Also a Prediction of the future Fate of the King of Scots and a prophecy never before extant referring to the Prince of Conde and positively determining what will be the issue of the said Princes attempts c. AS the Stars of Heaven are the most excellent Characters of the Divinity Power Wisdom and glory of their Creator in that they are written and ingraven by the finger of God himselfe the father of lights so the least of Gods workes are very considerable and worthy of our chiefest regard David infinitly admired at them and declares the doome of those that dispise them or dis-regard them Psal 28.5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord nor the opperation of his hands the Lord will destroy them and not build them up Did not God make the Sunne the Moon and the Stars did not he set them to rule the day and the night did he not appoint them for signes and seasons and can that be a signe which signifies nothing St Origen tells us Coelum instar libelli expansi est notis Syderum omnia futura in se Scripta continentis the heaven saith he is like to a book laid open containing all future events written in those glorious Characters of the Stars But to the businesse Solar Eclipses have been ever fatall to Kings Princes and States and their Dominions and to all manner of Authorities and men in power setting one King one Prince one State one Great or Nobleman at variance with another this Eclipse that wee are to expect on Monday March 29. 1652. falls out in the fiery triplicity in Aries the ascendent of England in the very degree of his exaltation Our present Gubernators who have transmografide Monarchy into a Free State must not esteem themselves exempted more then other States from the effects thereof that remarkable Eclipse of the * When the Son of righte●usnes suffered on the crosse Sunne when there was darknesse over the face of the whole earth may fitly be paralelled with this many gods for so the holy Ghost is pleased to stile Rulers shal suffer infamous deaths Soone after this Eclipse we shall generally finde men mad to undoe themselves the Prince of Planets the eye of the world and the glory of the heavens is Eclipsed just upon his throne the fight whereof will terrifie all mortall eies for we shal see the Stars shine as in a winters night and in all probability strange and wonderfull signes such as our fore-fathers never beheld in the Aire to the astonishment of all mankind Bella sonat sonat arma minas sonat omnia martis All the evills the sword sedition famine or pestilence can doe to Europe may be expected from the effects of this Eclipse it is the greatest that we have had in England this many centuries of years The Sun 's eclips'd in 's Throne and ●ryes aloud O Kings why being mortall are ye proud Your Scepters gone Democracy takes place Your Hoasts shall fall by th' sword before your face As if that all the furies did conspire To set the rude Plebeians hearts on fire ' Gainst sacred majestie and to pull down Each royal head that 's circled with a crowne There are many I beleive that would willingly give halfe their lives to know the future Fate of the Scots King at present as it were an exile from his native clime I am sure no man more compassionates the infortunities of that Star-crossed Gentleman then my self let his condition be a lively example to those whether Soldier or Magistrate who rule over their Fellow-Commoners let them know that their greatnesse being built only upon the uncertaine breath of that suspicious humorsome and skittish beast the People is very uncertaine and subject to various vicissitudes But it were extream arrogance in me at least I should be sure of such a censure positively to predict his future condition and therefore I shall only give you an old prophecy fathered upon Baudensis and attributed by him to the present King of Scots which is this Great * K Iames. J. thou peaceful King thy first issue Inclines to War Plague doth the next subdue A * Charls 2. Lyon feirce sprung from the Northern shoare Shall bring from deepest hell and waves that roare A blasing Army he shall men ore run Cities and cattle yea the Moon and Sun Shall be remove and father-like the least Make highest and give lawes to the weake West The famous Ambrose Merlin as is observed by our English Merlin as he calls himself Mr. Lilly Nine hundred years since though of many wise men approved no better then the story of the Knight of the Sun or him of the Red Rose prophesied of the Second Charles thus Nidificabit in summe rupe totius Britani He shall build his nest in the cheifest Rockes of all Brittaine Importing that he shall betake himselfe to some mountainous Island or Country belonging to his lost Dominions But I shall passe from him to him viz. into France and a while converse with the Prince of Conde Were I intended to dilate my selfe in relating the wofull calamity which shall within this halfe score yeares seize upon the French Nation I might write a large Volume thereof and tell them that present Prince of Conde whom some report as religious as a Turk shall vexed for the losse of his Generalship and not being countenanced by the King equally with his ambition attempt to ore-turn and alter the whole frame of Government the unruly Nobility adhering to him shall by their civill dissention occasion the ruine of that famous French Monarchy it was prophesied long agoe that the time of this mutation should be when a certaine * Capistranum D. of Florence is of late turned Protestant Duke of Florence turned Protestant pray peruse this Prophesie by some thought to be Grebners the words are very ominous and these REx Franciae depelletur á suis finibus á propriis subditis exercebit enim in eo tyranidem in gentem contra Ecclesiam Christi instigatus ab Episcopis pontificibus c. Verum cum fuerit amotus falsus solus relinquetur in exilio ab his in quibus erat confisus in fine autem secundi incursus hoc fiet sic pendet clipeus in stipite In English thus THe King of France shall be driven from his owne Coasts and Confines by his own Subjects for he will exercise very great Tyranny against his Subjects and the Church of Christ being instigated and stirred up thereto by the bishops and Romanists who shall seduce him and betray him traiterously with bribery of mony but those misdemeanours hee doth shall seeme to bee done in favour of his Kins-men or Allies but when he shall be removed and false man shall alone be banished or all alone in exile apart from those he confided in these things shall come to passe c. I shall give you one Prophesie more more dreadfull and more positive then the former never yet extant which is this A Prophesie of the fall of Monarchy in France occasioned by the Rebellion of the Prince of Conde c. FRance hear and tremble when thou seest Thy young King dote upon a * Mazarine Priest And in each City and each Town The Miter pearch above the Crown Then wring thy hands and weep and cry For thy destruction draweth nigh Then * Conde C. shall with outragious force Make himselfe strong with foot and horse And though self-ends do thrust him on And not a Reformation As some shall thinke hee 'l give that blow Shall lay thy Pompe and pride full low He but begins a worke which shall Finde its perfection in his fall Jehovah means for to translate Thy power O King into a State Paris shall run with streames of blood And Shrubs grow where once Cities stood All this the Prophet doth divine Shall hap to thee ere fifty nine This inevitable destiny attending fertile France and so many mutations hanging over the heads of mankind we may justly conclude that the day of Doome is not farre off and every day expect when one Orbe shall contend with another and the fixed Starres in motion runne faster then the wandring Planets the Seas rising levell with the mountaines Till night destruction ruine calamity and eternall darknesse conclude all these miseries FINIS