Bucks separating That from its Neighbour Oxfordshire whose Dust hath been scarce laid above while Oxfordshire below hath been glutted with Wet § 15. That these Considerations exclude not the Heavens even from hence is manifest because this Diversity of Habit or Proneness thereto is bottom'd on the difference of the Influence Celestial and its Reflexion For if the Solar Heat be of any Concern in this Affair the Reflexion and Refraction of the Ray by which the Heat is multiplied and advanced are not to be overlook'd See the Astronomia Optica for this matter if the common Burning-glass be not Evidence sufficient The Vale reflects and refracts the Beams being the grosser Air the Head of the Mountain for the Descent is reckoned into the Vale reflects less being Drier and Purer Thus the Pendle in Lancashire a high Hill which when a Cloud sits neer the Top always gives a sure Watch-word for Wet approaching as Camden also takes notice is accounted for the Hill not as the Natives will have it in their false Hypothesis breaking the Cloud but rather ripening it § 16. This disposition of the Air to Wet c. is yet more evident where there is a concurrence of the Premises as where a Place happens to be situate neer a Hill together with a River The Acroceraunii are neer the Sea the Sierra Leona not far from the Ocean Heidelberg and Triers have Rivers and Hills for their Neighbours the former being hemm'd in round as they say with Hils only on one side open § 17. This Observation begets another concerning the Winds and its Difformity in respect of the Point of the Compass from whence it blows In several parts of the world from Sea-Journals I have observed the contrary Points possess'd For in the year 1662 Apr. 9 in England the Wind was found Southwest and at Madera North-East In the year 1668 May 1 the Wind at London Northerly under the Equator then was noted a Southern Blast § 18. Yea and in respect of the Temperature there is a confess'd Difformity in the same species The East-wind Dry with us but in most parts of Italy Moist Cardan in Ptol. lib. 2. yea at Virginia saith Captain Smith § 19. The West-wind moist not so in Italy § 20. The North-wind in most places dry and fair therefore call'd Boreas and Argestes in the Netherlands Cloudy and Moist as Fromond saith he hath found by long Experience § 21. The South warm and moist in most places in Holland notwithstanding it oftner brings Frost than the North-west saith the Learned Isaac Vossius § 22. The Ground is the same viz. the Difference of Places from which they breath The South-wind is serene in Afric saith Pliny good cause why It blows from the Desert and the Sands and the dry North is there Rainy because it blows from the Seas all Winds as the abovesaid Author de Motu Marium c. hath taught us which blow from the Sea are warmer and from the Land are cooler § 23. Here a concurrence of Circumstances makes work also the Circius the North-west Wind so pernicious to the Gascoigners as elsewhere the Huracan ows its Extremity not to the Mountains only as Scaliger will have it but to the Seas also which just on the North-west side spred into a vast Bay as I may call it between France and Spain the situation of Gascoign § 24. But what because of these proper peculiar Dispositions is there no Footing for Science because oft-times we may discover a Showre shadowing a Village afar off when the rest of the Hemisphere is bright and serene are all Pretences to a Prescience grounded on Nature delusory and impossible When Rain falls in one place is there no nexus in nature which may warrant us to pronounce it falls also elsewhere And again is not the Heaven as often wholly clouded the Air close gross heavy setled for Wet extending it self through the whole Hundred Riding County or Counties yes verily a little Intelligence will acquaint us that seldom any Rain considerable happens in one determinate place but the like happens elsewhere Eastward or Westward to the North or the South with difference only in the time or measure Niceties hereafter to be enquired § 25. The like may be said for Wind Frosty Air Remission of Cold Heat Drought Serenity seldom confin'd to one place and therefore may be called General Constitutions § 26. The more rare Constitutions General are Those who produce Lightning Thunder Hail Fog in as much as These more visibly are forged as I may call it in the Mold of the Place yet we find several Dayes wherein Lightning and Thunder have not been confined to one Quarter several dayes wherein Fog though it chooses to nestle in a by-Vale yet sometimes it spreads it self like Egypt's Darkness and hovers over a whole Province § 27. However it may be it is not to be passed by that in case of failure if a Fog for Instance happens not in several Quarters there is something cognate to it a little Frost perhaps or thin Overcast Where Thunder is not heard as in other places there may be found soultry Air angry Clouds sometimes fiery Trajections and Passant Meteors at Even Yea Hail it self which most rarely hits in several places points to cold Rain or Snow which are but one Remove with chil Evenings observable elsewhere § 28. To General Constitutions even in a positive sense so called the World can be no stranger which so often hath felt raging Tempests whose Fury hath by Land rooted up Trees demâ—lished Edifices which at the same time have caused fatal Shipwrecks and vast Inundations Arguments that will extort Confession from us That such General Constitutions are no more to be denied than prevented Oft I say hath the World with impatience felt droughty Summers sharp pinching Winters wet unseasonable Summers Harvests such as brought a fear at least of Penurie Security or Plenty doth evince a Generality of the Airs Constitution as to a Kingdom or Country upon which account we justly are upon Tempestuous Winds concern'd for all that navigate on the Seas that are neer us whether British or Irish § 29. The State of the Air doth not as most think depend on the shifting of the Winds but contrary the Wind alters or shifts according to the Alteration of the Air Hence I find that even in those places where the Brize is constant and perpetual yet when the Weather alters the Wind shifts there is a priority of Nature in the Constitution it self in respect to the Winds that attend it § 30. When it is said therefore that the South-wind brings Rain or the North-wind driveth it away understand it of the Constitution as the Cause of both reckoning the Wind only to be a Sign only or attendant on the Effect The North-wind drives away Rain i. e. Rain is driven away while the North-wind blows and that only for such a Country Palestine c. but not all places universally as
and prepare to meet him Memento homo quod pulvis es must not be abolish'd § 93. The Truth of this Hypothesis appears from the continuance of 112. Pestilences and from their Prodromi Feavers Fluxes c. 'T is a ruled case amongst us That the Small Pox growing more Rife than ordinary bodes some worse Distempers ensuing If in the Spring then the Summer is feared If in the Summer then the following year is suspected And this is fairly accounted for with us who put up the Aspect for two year nay for more A Pestilence may last I do not say Rage Four Years on the Account of ♄ and ♃ It did so The City of London was not absolutely free for 8 years together There Dyed above a 1000 per Annum each of those 8 years In 1643. indeed it reaches but 996. IV. of them viz. 1641. 1642. 1643. 1644. are imputable to our Aspect Only the later part of 1644 takes in the next Malignant Congress of ♃ and ♂ CHAP. IV. Of Saturn and Jove Appendix to the Precedent Chapter § 1. We must do right to our Aspect before we part the want of Princed Diaries amongst us for 40. or 50 Years at least is a great Desideratum 2. A Summary of all the Years of this and the last Century that are concerned either in whole or in part in the two Chief Aspects of ♄ and ♃ 3. The Difference of the troubled State of the Air found in any of the Years aforesaid whatsoever Minor Aspect shews it self must be ascribed to this Transcendent Aspect 4. Manuduction to the use of all our Diaries premis'd to illustrate the Influence of our so great Aspect 5. Our Planets Calm and Silent when they lye in close Quarters Hence Stoeflers ignorant and unhappy Essay at the Prediction of a Deluge when all the Planets met in the Watry Sign ♓ An. 1524. whereas Planets distributed to their several Posts can Drown or Burn the Inhabitants of the Earth A Notable Story from Purchas of Fire and Deluge in the Years 1542. 82. Good meaning Men may be fully mistaken in the censure of Superstition ♄ and ♃ the Longest and Lustiest Fingers in Nature 6. Presentment of our Aspects most notable Influences in a continued Series of some time at least judged convenient for the comparing of Later and Former Aspects as they may concern us in England 7. Produced therefore from our plain Annalist for the Years 1562. c. and the ☌ there found 8. From the Year 1570. c. and the ☠there found 9. From the Year 1582. and the ☌ there found 10. The Influences of the ☌ of our Age An. 1682. not sparingly related from our own Collections 11. The Years introduced are found strangely to agree in Comets Flouds Lightnings Pestilences though our Years relating to the last as to Pestilences have been to us in England happily exempted Consent of the Habitable part of the World as to Inundations notorious about the entrnace of 1682. as Thuanus heretofore had noted in his time 12. Mr. Stow's Notes of what happened in the Years 1591 92 93 c. may be probably a kind of Speculum to let us see in some measure what may happen to us seven Years hence in 1992 93 94 95. 13. Warning given for a touch at Monstrous Births 14. A View of Frosts and Droughts relating to our Aspect 15. Some Years infested with Vermin Whether it ever rained Locusts at Constantinople 16. A Conclusive discourse about Parelia their relation to this Aspect saving the Cartesian Supposition 17. Monstrous Hail 18. Farewel to Comets c. He that can tell Twenty must be convinced 19. Exact Enquiry establishes knowledge 20. ♄ ♃ many times mischievous and unsupportable a Consideration of Damps resumed upon Cardan's Story 21. Our Aspect has a hand sometimes in Armies Aethereal as in monstrous Rains 22. As Superstitious as we are we don't undertake to reduce all Prodigies to the Visible Heavens Not the Phoenomenon of Crosses falling upon Garments nor every Incredible Monstrous Birth 23. Monstrous Births that are more usual are justly ascribed to the Heavens particularly to the Aspects of the Superiours 24. Not only Corporal Disturbances but Distractions and Disturbances of mind are found not created but heightned under this Aspect This is seen in Distracted People Turbulent Spirits yea and False-Prophets Proof by Appeal to History 25. Conclusion with a Fore-tast of the second part and a Rule or two to judge of the Weather to stay the Readers Stomach § 1. SOmething more is to be said of this Aspect but what is fit to be said is no small Quaere with me for shall ♄ and ♃ 's Aspect be my Great yea Tres-Grand Argument and shall I speak least to it I should have afforded it a just Diary what I found meet to do for some of the Rest and not put off our Aspect with a Fragment or two which it cannot take kindly at my hands But what could I do if the Tedder of the Configuration reaches us as in our Theory it seems to do to 4 or 5 year and that with a just Claim Could my too free and profuse way of Transcription copy out so many Years and insert it here Alass that would yield a Specimen but of one Aspect He must observe a second Revolution at least who means to draw either new Conclusions or establish the Old Some such thing is wanting to the Celestial Philosophy some such Volume I mean that should give us 4 or 5 Revolutions from Kepler Kyriander and what British Observations could be collected toward half a hundred years or more if our Age were yet so happy I please my self much with the Fancy how suddenly the Celestial Knowledge would be advanced if our Ancestors defect herein could be made up by some private Re-search or Voluntary Contribution for for a right use made of it I question not as long as the Theory is innocent though novel and so many Learned Men amongst us that believe a God in Heaven and his Glorious Providence The Truth is I once thought upon just Motives omitting the Fair and Calm Constitution to exhibit a Compendious View of the Aspect in all its Shapes and being aware of the Prolixity I thought to correct that Fault by the mixture of some not unprofitable Observations as I went but being not so far enamoured with my Attempt it dyed in the Birth Must I leave then this Momentous Aspect uncultivated unregarded Nay I shall give the Reader at present some Directions how to make use of the Former Observations for the Benefit of this present Aspect Let him be pleased to View what follows See 't is no less then a Summary of all the years concerned from the Fountain-Head of our Collections and when he has viewed them let him mark what I say § 2. A Summary of all those Years from the beginning of the last Century where ♄ and ♃ ☌ or ☠according to our Sentiment hath to do ☌ A o
take the same notice of Dayes extraordinary Dies quidam apud Belgas our Neighbours of Brabant pluviarum atri infames sunt saith Fromond Meteor lib. 5. and he names us one viz. IV or July which he saith they call S t Martin the Dripper quem S. Martini bullientis aut pluvii appellant This Day I find not in every Kalendar but in our English only and not without the Inclination specified Fromond would have pleasured us therefore if he had named the Rest § 6. But the old Verses help us June VIII S. Medard's day Humida Medardi pluvias lux usque minatur And such dayes amongst us are St. John Baptist June XXIV St. Peter's Eve XXVIII Mary Magdal July XXII who is therefore said in the homely Country Proverb to wash S. James ' s Shift while dripping S. James himself saith the same Dialect Christens the Fruit. Add such are St. Bartholmew August XXIV St. Simon and Jude Oct. XXVIII with the day following XXIX the Powder-Treason Novemb. V. c. § 7. All which Dayes being Festival or notable for the Annex of some Mart Fair or other Solemnity could not chuse but come under notice with their Character § 8. Nor have our Ancestors given us days obnoxious to Moisture only we find other Constitutions also noted St. Mark 's day April XXV with his Neighbour St. Walburg's April XXVII and St. Philip and James are marked with an Obelisk for dangerous times of nipping Winds and Blasting Nunc caret aura fide nunc est obnoxia ventis saith one Verse and again Si friget segetes subeunt plerumque perîclum St. Margaret July the XX noted for Thunder Reboat mugitibus Aether St. Matthias for uncertain Air in this remarkable Distich Matthiae glaciem frangit si invenerit illam Ni frangat glaciem tum mihi crede facit As the Satyr thought it strange that a man should with the same breath blow hot and cold so the character of this Day seems as strange § 9. Yea the returns of Constitutions are not always confin'd to single dayes but to series of Dayes whence it comes to pass that some peculiar Dayes in this affair pass into Critical enabling to pronounce somewhat concerning the future Harvest Vintage or Winter for what have we to do with the frivolous Observation of the XII dayes in Christmass as if they were a compendious representation of the Months in the Year or with the Prognosticks on St. Paul's day sure no one Day can give crisis for a whole Year but for a month or a week a shorter term it may Four dayes then there are whose serenity gives fair hopes of a Vintage Vineent Apr. V. Vrban May XXV Assumption Aug. XV. and what Origanus interposes St. Bartholmew Aug. XXIV For Winter Purification Feb. II. and Cathed Petri Feb XXII are also Critical If it be fair on the former of these Major erit glacies post festum is in every bodies mouth if in the latter it freezeth the same constitution holds a Fortnight Again Rain on Mid-summer day speaks fears of a wet Harvest if on July II. Visit B. Virg. wet must be expected for a Month saith Origanus though the old Verse speaks more cautelous Si pluit haud poter is coelum spectare serenum Transivêre aliquot ni prius antè Dies If on St. Swithun's day the cry of England is it rains 40 dayes after if on St. Martin's day in Novemb. XI a wet winter is portended saith the Verse vid. Alsted Vranom p. 490. yea there is one critical Day recorded in Aetius the Physician 's time and that must be many hundred years ago concerning the then first day of Decemb. on which if it rained for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it held on for 37 dayes Petav. Vranolog p. 421. § 10. Some that shoot without aim may abandon these Observes for superstitious as that of St. Swithuns in Mr. Parkinson's judgment is but where there is Experience and innocent Reason there is no ground for superstitious conceits § 11. For the Experience we have said the most of these dayes were Festival and so observable for the annex of some Solemnity and thence came in the publick Experience for the reason we shall give it in due place in the mean while asserting the truth of St. Swithun's crisis for some dayes after more or less which the Vulgar made a shift to call fourty to hold good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Kalendars have it and That 's enough CHAP. V. The Sun the great â—ight justly admired Notwithstanding alone He is not the absolute cause of Heat no not of the Seasons of the Year or the Constitution of the Day Chance excluded An Objection solved § 1. THis is enough for Demonstration of the Fixed Returns of the Weather and those Returns father'd on the Heavens by reason and consent universal Now in the Heavens what but the SUN can produce these Effects in their respective Periods the Sun being so regular a Mover that some have scrupled to call him a Planet § 2. And who goes to debar the Sun of his due let not us that contemplate the Heavens be guilty of it Let Theologie it self teach us that the Sun is a great Minister the Light and Life of the World without it no difference of Clime or Season no Spring no Summer no Autumn All Time would be Winter Horrid Winter the Sea a Mountain of Ice the Land a Flint and Darkness would usurp his old Dominion over both But sure God hath amongst thousand of other Stars made the Sun appear and commanded him to run an eternal Race in his great Olympiques This Commission as if conscious of the Infinite God he jollily executes and Nothing in the Universe is hid from His Heat At his Rise the Morning-Cloud vanishes the Fog dissolves and the Dew gently exhales Toward Mid-day he bringhteth the Air into a chearful Saphir and guildeth the Borders of the very Clouds with a costly limbus All the Earth basketh in his Light while the Clay is calcin'd by his Heat When he pleaseth he imprinteth his Face on the Roscid Cloud and decircinates the Iris with his Pencil He draweth the Waters as through an Alembick and gageth the Depth with his Beam The Current of the Seas observe his Tekupha's and flock All to the place of his Residence Where he keepeth Court is the greatest conflux the Stream makes hast to kiss his feet He raiseth Thunders in his vertical strength and gives fire to the Priming of his Clouds He raiseth a gentle Brise in the Aestival Morn and fanneth the Husbandman in the cool of the Evening When he mounteth he banisheth the Frost and confineth it as by the power of his Spell to the Ends of the Earth The Flowers of the field open for his Entertainment and the Birds of the Air observe his Night-watches they give a signal as from their Watch tower and chaunt their Reveille to the Sons of the Night All the
as Fog or Clouds though dispositions to Rain help to bring forth absolute and compleat Moisture § 50. To a Moyety therefore we are arrived in the days and that is enough to prove the Aspect not to be indifferent They are as Powers of Fifty to the Motion of an 100. So 't is an even Wager it Rains on One of the 3 days concerned And if any should be so toy some as to engage against such an Event in his Favour let me ask Who shall decide the controversie in case a Showre in Prospect be discerned when possibly it Rains not upon the Spot nor as the Wind may sit is like to do Or suppose that the Air looks suspiciously when we have reason to believe it rains or dews within the Verge of our Horizon and in this case in my Judgement the Wager is not absolutely and necessarily lost seeing no Astrologers or Others will profess always to engage that it shall Rain upon his Rivals Head No he he takes his measures from the publique the Country round about if it reigns on the Neighbourhood the Heavens have done their Do and so hath the Aspect § 51. Now the Fatal Paralogism of the Adversary is this He when he sees not such frequency of Activity as he requires concludes that there is None As if because there is not the excessive proportions of 60 70 80. c. towards the Motion of a 100 Therefore there is no Activity or Force at all in the Agents Whereas a Motive Power even at 40 30 20. hath a considerable Force or Strength towards the Effect although it be not commensurate to 50 60 c. Aspects have no Force because they miss as nay more often than they hit Gassendus himself so reasoneth But 't is hard to conclude that an Aspect hath no Force when the objection confesseth that there is some and that brings its Effect almost nay every whit as often as the contrary For what else I pray should make the Success aequiponderate with the Failance Is it not abominable to conclude there is nothing of Weight in one fill'd Scale where it aequiponderates with the other If an Aspect should contribute beyond the Moyety to 70 or 80 times and fail only 30 or 20 times would not the inclination be confess'd Well then if it contributes but 50. is the inclination abolished Put case it contributes on this side the Moyety but 30 or 40 times it is a great way distant from nothing Five Pound is Weight though it be not Fifty and Ten Pound is Weight though it be not an 100. Five Pound is not Weight of it self to crack a Nut shall I therefore infer it hath no Pressure or Ponderosity toward such Effect Common Experience refutes it Some outward Force or Impulse may be indeed necessary but the less is requisite as the Weight is the greater The Learned should have discerned the Inclination though but Partial and not absolutely denyed but considered once and again since nothing is more reasonable in their own Opinions than the dependencies of the Inferiours on the Superiours and never left searching of these Truths of which themselves upon Examination had found some Glimps § 52. More we could say but it seems creeping to desire what is not down right Rain to be accepted A close Day suppose or a Lowring Heaven and yet the jolly Wagerer let me tell him many times seeing the Air to Overcast and Lowre and put on her Mourning Vail doth not know well what to think of it and could Wish he might draw Stakes so near doth a Prognostick approach the Truth even when it comes many times short Only this I think may be proposed that regard may be had not only to the Sums of Rain Wind singly or jointly computed the commonly assign'd Effect of this Aspect but also to the Disjunctive whether Rain or Wind seeing they oft times take their turns and are not found always accompanying each other So a careful Observer may enhanse the Sum of the Influence by accession considerable No less XLI Winds without Rain being noted in this our Table and so the Sum will lash beyond the Moyety to the undeniable rates and proportions the Adversary being Judge § 53. Now as we are not fond of this Disjunctive neither so have we no reason to forego it since I will tell you Gassendus discoursing against our Pretences degrades our Professors below the Beasts of the Herd seeing the Prognostick from the Notes of Birds and Beasts are more infallible saith he than that of our Pretenders Now these Natural propensions so invidiously commended which are natural Complaints rather than Praedictions of a Symptom present not of an Effect Future let the Reader mark as infallible as they are hold only in this our Disjunctive They do not determinately say Rain but indeterminately Rain or Winds as we have from Captain Smith learned before § 54. However for the determination of this Disjunctive to Wind or Rain or both seeing it is justly expected we should speak Categorically in this matter we say that there may be found Rules in Art for that or for Nothing In the mean time we gain some little Credit to an Aspect because it is confessed that a single Aspect would then not be unworthy of regard § 55. Nor yet have we drained our Table It bears as if it would give some Light further viz. to the determination of the Wind. Let us see the Sums being collated we shall find that this Aspect apt to cause Winds is apt also to determinate them to the West and to the South rather than to the North and East which thus I make out I take the Cardinal Winds and their Complications making VIII points of the Compass to serve our turn and adding the Sums the account lies before you thus East 38. N. E. 25. S. E. 12. West 36. N. W. 27. S. W. 56. North. 46. N. E. 25. N. W. 27. South 56. S. E. 12. S. W. 56 75. 119. 98. 124. So that the inclination is least to the East more to the North more than that to the West and to the South most of all § 56. Here I lament I had not the accomodation of the Pyxis or any Horizontal Plate divided into more points of the Compass though I see not that Natural Knowledge requires so exact a Pyx as Navigation useth because I boggle at this that I find the North Cardinal point gives more instances than the West To me 't is a great Secret the cause of the North-Wind how no Planetary Aspect except the Jovial was ever dreamt of for that Cause But the North appears when many times ♃ is ingaged in no Aspect therefore of that hereafter § 57. Let no observer ask me why of all the Winds the South-East least frequents our Horison Scaliger I remember tells us for France that 't is a rare and nice Wind so here with us in England Hereafter not here we shall tell whether we are able to answer
April 21. Dir. 65. May 15. Retr 66. July 14,15,17 Dir. 68. June 11. Dir. 16  Octob. 1. Retr 1670. May 12. Dir. Aug. 27. Retr 71. April 30. Dir. Aug. 9. Dir. 72. July 7. Retr 76. May 24. Dir. July 25. Retr  27.  Sept. 6. Dir. 77. July 7. Retr  8.  78. May 21. Retr July 18. Retr Aug. 3. Dir. 79. July 17. Retr 80. May 6. Retr July 3. Dir. 81. Aug. 13. Retr 82. Aug. 6. Retr The Norimberg Diary makes braver sport but we need it not § 50. Even Keplers Ephemerides brings us An. 1622. April XXV ventus pluit Fulgura An. 1623. Jan. V. Aestus tonuit VII Calor Fulgura venti Aug X. Tonitrua ventus magn Pluv. XI Tonitru Grando multa XII Tonitrua continua An. 1625. Fulgura Matutina Detonuit cum Imbre July V. Nebula Pluit Fulgura Aug. XXI Aestus tempestas XXII Tonuit Pluit An. 1626. Jun. XV. Imber Tonuit Pluit XVI Aestus procella Pluvia Larg XVII Nebula Tonitrua Pluvia Aug. 11. Aestus Procella Tonitrua An. 1627. Aug. XVIII XIX XX. Imbres Tonitrua Aestus vapidus Noctu Tonitrua An. 1628. May I. III. IV. Aestuosum tonitrua XXV Iris. July IV. Nebula Aestus tonuit pluviae continuae An. 1629. Jun. XV. Grando Tonitrua § 51. This may serve for a Tast and when I was so far entered I remembred withal the Limits of his distance from the Sun and this use I made of it that whatsoever Effect the Sun is guilty of our Planet must have a special hand in it for he is always found in the Sun's Company and therefore must be suspected when any mischief is done The Instrument that we most frequently use is most Ministerial Verily in 5. or 6 years Scrutiny I saw that of all the 28 gr which meet out the distance of ☿ from ☉ there is not one of them but is found to raise this Tumult though with some difference and if there should be any Secret in that in time I hope it will be made out The difference then is thus After the exact Conjunction the distance of gr 2 6 8 12 14 15 17 18 20 21 23 25 26. And this whether ☿ be before or behind the Sun of the two the rather before it § 52. The next Instance must be Earthquakes for I shall never forget Ptolemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he some instances we have met with too many to be baffled in perusal of Weekly Papers from the Empire beside what in the late turbulent Hurrys flew up and down our Metropolis And we are in a fair way having laid this for a certain Rule That whatever causes the Thunder yea or Storms is apt to cause an Earthquake more or less Not for that the noise of the Thunder shaketh the Earth and maketh the House to Tremble as what every hurrying Coach can do but because the Subterranean Vulcans are imitated in their supposed Shops at the same time as the very Cyclops are that while in hast of their Work Hence Kepler fancyed the Earth to be an Animal sometimes sweating sometimes shaking by the Impressions and Commotions of the Ambient Aether as may be seen in his accounts of May and August 1621. and 1629. § 53. But is it likely any whit probable such a squirting Planet as ☿ a Lacquey of the Sun who seldom shews his Head in these parts as if he was in Debt not responsible for any such great Production We may cease to wonder being to be ordered by our Sence and Reason rather than by our Conjectural Presumption Besides let ☿ be a small Lucid Globe his Conjunction with the Sun I hope is not of small Consideration Make up the defect of the one by the sufficiency of the other § 54. Is it certain then that our Aspect is able to raise a storm or Peal us with a Showr Then 't is certain that he can blow up the Subterranean Fires An Aetna Vesuvius Hecla in Sicily Italy Friezeland 'T is now above an 100 years that our Mariners had experience of this Truth Hecla flaming was always a Sign of foul Weather Purch p. 817. ad Annum 1610. Well then for Earthquakes do we not always or for most part find Foul Weather Storms Lightning either upon the Spot the place which Heaves and Trembles or in remoter parts we shall shew some Instances from whence we learn the Great Power of the Heavens over the Earth confessed by the Soberest men who do not despise these Instances Let what Thuanus hath left upon record be read in Court ad Annum 1557 where after the mention of Tybers prodigious inundation Sept. 14. another at Florence another in France he adds these Words Eadem rerum facies plerisque Nos per Europam eodem anno quasi occulta quâdam Caelestis ordinis confessione lege consensione etiam in remotissimis Orientis partibus fuit nam apud Sinas in Sanuari à regione tanta diluvies ex proximis montibus defluxat ut Lacum ingentem effecerit quo VII Urbes absorptae sunt Pecudum Mortalium ingens numerus periit puero unico tantum in trunco arboris raro fortunae beneficio servato Thuan. p. 278. 379. § 55. Now the most indubitable Original Fund and cause of Earthquakes are those vast Fires Subterranean which work and wamble in the Bowels of the Earth and break out many times where there is no vent always without fail where there is or near the time of the Earth's Tremor The want of this consideration made the Worthy Kepler and those which follow him to run to an Occult Cause Subterranean for his Meteors when he was at a loss for his Caelestial Causes when as nothing is more plain and less lyable to exception then that the Subterranean causes Fires or other Evaporations are subject to and naturally do observe and obey the Causes Caelestial § 56. Howbeit let the Reader expect with all his prejudices so he will be pleased to examine what comes now to be proposed in that business of this Mercurio-Solar Meeting I don't know but I find such an Accident as an Earthquake in Basil December Anno 1533. three times it was shook in that Month. Once if I may guess and the reason of my guessing I will shortly tell you must be December 11. when there was a ☌ of ☉ and ☿ and what if ♂ opposed we are not about the Denyal of our Kindred Other Aspects must be taken in too but that ☌ ☉ ☿ is one Again Anno 1538. Jan. 20. the same Swiss-Town shook with an Earthquake ☌ ☉ ☿ ☿ being if I mistake not scarce 9 degrees distant In September again Anni ejusdem a Famous Terrae-motus mentioned by Fromondus die 27 28 29. the distance of our Planet is 7 degrees Yea since Italy shook as Fallopius notes for 15 days together a ☌ ☉ ☿ must happen amongst 4 or 5 of those days Come we to England in the year 1551. we find our
1603 and 1665. Note Thirdly that when a ☌ ♂ ♀ happens twice or thrice in one year the Greater is the Probability of some Mal-Influence though not always God be thanked raging Lastly that whatsoever is by these Presents imputed to ♂ ♀ doth at no hand acquit if within Prospect ♂ ☿ § 56. Well then Anno 1500. to begin so high we meet with Pestilence abroad nay at home in the beginning of the year Though it concerns the Physitian to observe even Forreign Pestilences because of the Consent of the parts of the Universe too apparent to be denyed here as well as in other Cases ☌ May 29. in ♋ and this Pestilence of 30000 slaughter'd began before May as may be observed from our Chronicle the King going then into Flanders to avoid it Anno 1506. Sweating Sickness 2d time Stow ☌ Oct 9. ♠29. Anno 1511. Pestilence Fracastor apud Dimerbr ☌ May 5. ♊ 6. Anno 1513. March 26. ♉ 29. August 6. ♌ 20. A double Aspect The Pestilence at London Stow. Anno 1515. In October ☌ ♎ 21. Morbus Epidemicus Paradin upud Gam 2 32. Anno 1517. Sept. 9. ☌ ♎ 5. Sweating Sickness from Lammas to Michaelmas Stow. Anno 1522. Pestilence at Rome Kircher A Plague Ubi Aves nidos reliquerunt Gemma 249. which notes the Spring time the time of the Aspect Anno 1528. Sweating Sickness ☌ Aug. 24. ♌ 24. The Time appears by the adjournment of Michaelmas Term. Anno 1541. June 19. ♊ 27. Pestilence at Constantinople Kircher Anno 1543. Pestilence at London Stow ☌ in May ♂ ☿ in June Hot in August or September it was It began probably in May or June Anno 1549. Morbus in Pannonia quo Serpentes in H. corpore nascebantur Gemma 1 100. ☌ Sept. 10. ♎ 9. Anno 1551. ☌ Aug. 3. ♠27. Sweating Sickness at London and ♑ 8 Dec. 23. The Aspect repeated Anno 1558. May 8. ☌ ♊ 7. Later end of April c. Mortality among C. Towersons Men on the Coast of Guiny Hakl Yea at Astracan in Russia a colder Climate Pestilence of 100000. Hakl in Jenkins Voyage Note Aspect repeated in Sept. ♠9. And in City and Country here in England Quartan Agues so rise that there wanted Labourers for Harvest Stow. Anno 1564. ☌ ♂ ♀ ☉ Sept. 30. ♎ 13. Pestilence Thuanus Anno 1577. ☌ July 8. ♌ 10. atque iterum Nov. 30. ♠10. Epidemical Distempers in Spain Tavardilla Italy Germany c. Linschoten Anno 1581. Sept. 10. ♎ 12. Novus Morbus Lanenburgensis Dimerbrock 22. Anno 1584. May 20. ♉ 7. Pestis furiosa Quercetan apud Dimerbr Anno 1586. April 7. ♈ 20. at St. Domingo in Febr. Calenture and Pestilential Feaver Anno 1588. Febr. 21. ♈ 1. at Java on this very day Febr. 21. Complaint of Sickness from the Heat of the place Cavendish Anno 1592. Aug. 21. ♠o. Pestilence at London Michaelmass Term kept at Hertford Crast Anim. Stow. Anno 1594. July 12. ♌ 16. The Pestilence which Raged Anno praced rasted this year also Bell's Account of the Bills of Mortality Anno 1602. Octob. 17. ♠15. Pestilence in Holland and Zealand Anno 1603. Febr. 12. ♓ 16. and Aug. 4. ♋ 20. Pestilence about Lond. Bp. Andrews Sermon before the King Aug. 20. the Aspect doubled Anno 1607. May 10. ♊ 18. In princip Iunii saith the Journal Gusts Rain Calm Sickness made us return Northward Yea London April 30. had though the Total was under 50. 14. Parishes infected Bells account Anno 1609. June 26. ♌ 2. and again Dec. 3. ♠15. Parishes infected on June 25. Ten and Twelve even on December 3. Bell's Account Anno 1613. Sept. 13. ♎ 18. Pestis Lausannae Hildanus apud Dimerbr Anno 1622. Oct. 4. ♠19. Pestilence at Amsterdam C. Graunt Anno 1624. Aug. 23. ♠5. Sickly year Graunt Anno 1626. July 12. ♌ 20. at Amsterdam Graunt Yea Kepler tells us of the Plague at Lintz in the Siege time Mense Augusts ☌ ♂ ☿ Anno 1628. Sept. 2. ♎ 5 at Amsterdam Graunt Anno 1630. Flux Summer Pestilence at London This belongs to ♂ and ☿ the time of whose Aspect was the Greatest Total Ball 's Acc. Anno 1632. Nov. 25. ♑ 3. Sickly London Graunt Anno 1635. Aug. 5. ♋ 24. Pestis in Germ. Belgio Gravissima Dimerbr 1 3. Anno 1637. ♋ 9. June 23. Though the Years precedent were very Pestilential yet this year was not free Verily June 29. brought in the Highest Total viz. 130. Plague also at Constantinople and Prague Anno 1641. April 12. ♊ 18. and June 10. ♋ 25. and Dec. 6. ♠21. In April 12. Parishes infected 3. June 10. 13. and December 2. 17. Anno 1643. Octob ' ♠6. at London at this time of October was the Bill highest viz. the First and Last Week which ended Octob. 26. Account Anno 1645. Octob. 12. ♎ 20. London Where September 24. was the highest Total viz. 175. Parishes infected 43. Anno 1647. Aug. 10. ♎ 11. Nov. 10 ♠15. at London where August 12. brought 209. and Nov. 2. 120. Anno 1648. May 25. ♉ 16. Plague in Africa and Valentia in Spain Kircher Anno 1652. Febr. 26. ♈ 11. Plague at Cracow and sickly time in England C. Graunt To give some account of this Note that in September this Year ♀ was Stationary and in October but gr 5 distant in ♠Anno 1654. Jan. 30. ♈ 7. March 23. ♉ 15. October 5. ♠23. at Copenhage and our London Sickly Graunt The Aspect repeated Anno 1656. Aug. 24. ♠8. Great Pestilence at Naples Kircher Anno 1658. July 13. ♌ 23. and October 28. ♎ 28. Sickly time Graunt Anno 1665. Cannot be yet forgotten Our Aspect was repeated July 17. ♋ 2. and strait again Aug. 30. ♌ o. On July 17. the Bill brought 1000. and August 29. 6000. All which if I mistake not helps to conclude the Great Question de Origine Pestis and teacheth us that it is from Heaven The Diligent Physitian at Nimeguen scruples to allow an Aspect of ♄ and ♂ and ♂ but we are so unreasonable as to challenge more than that Aspect though more Notorious than others And we desire this our Table may be examin'd as to those particulars First Do not the Aspects agree with the year 2. Doth it not keep touch too often with the Revolutions immediately Succedent As in 1543. 1549. 1551. 1584. 1586. 1588. c. 3. Doth it not agree to the Month Nay 4. sometimes to the Height of the Pestilential Fury See 1637. 1641. 1643. c. 5. Are not the Winter Months infected also when the Aspect comes in December or January c. Next are not those years molested where the Aspect returns Again is it not so all the World over No man can doubt that hath seen 1665. go over his Head but that this Aspect with all its Circumstances was a sore Knot in that Celestial Whip which here we are not engaged to consider § 57. Yea from hence we may discern if any will
place 1596. July 9. St. N. A Comet ♄ and ♀ in princip ♠1607. Sept. 15. St. N. A Comet tho' is was 9 Months belongs to other Configurations yet note ♄ in ♑ and withal where ♎ is strangely possessed a lucky Planet in ♑ will help to forge a Comet but this by the way See A o 1560. likewise A o 1569. then that of A o 1652. A o 1661. Feb. 3. St. N. 1625. A Comet Jan. 26. St. N. observed by Schickard Kepler ♄ ♀ in princip ♠♓ Thus was I willing to examine Epigenes his Doctrine who ascribed the Genesis of Comets to our Planet and you see not without reason Seneca therefore was too wife a Man to attaque Epigenes hereabouts Note always that this Draught is concerning ♄ only engaged with the Inferiours ☉ ♀ ☿ with the Superiours ♂ and ♃ he will shew yet further Power And now let us consider his Malignancy if any there be what hand he may have in irritating Epidemics Pestilences c. For I hope he is more moderate as to that yet while joyned to the Inferiours then elsewhere 1508. Pestilence Dimerbr 156. ♄ ♀ in ♠July ☿ in ♠August 1510. In Gallia Dimerbr 159. ♄ ☿ in ♎ mens Sept. ♄ ☿ ib. 1514. Pestis Dim 59. ♄ ♀ in ♎ mens August 1517. Sweating Sickness from Lammas to Michaelmas Hen. VIII Stow. It belongs to ♃ ♂ yet ♄ ♀ were opposed in Tropical Signs down to the midst of July 1521. Great Death in England Hen. VIII Stow 514. ☉ ♀ ☿ opposed by ♄ in ♒ July princ of Aug. 1522. Pestis atrox Romae As the year before in England so now at Rome ♀ ☿ ☽ opposed by ♄ in ♒ in the Month of July Note a Pestilential face of Heaven 1525. Winter Mortality at London Howes It belongs to ♃ for Oct. Nov. c. but the first Indisposition might well be in Sept. ☉ ♀ ☿ opposed by ♄ in ♈ Are not our assigned Caused consonant for in 1521. ☉ ♀ ☿ are opposed by ♄ in ♒ as here in ♈ And if 1526. were somewhat infected as Fallopius witnesses we have ☉ and ☿ at least in September opposed to ♄ in ♈ 1568. Pestis crudelis we shall find in ♄ ♂ 'T is true as to June and July Months But ☉ ♄ ♀ in August are concerned and ♄ ☉ ☿ for September 1540. Great Mortality Ague Flux Pestilence Stow ♄ ♂ in ♎ for June and July ♄ ♂ ♀ for August ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♎ for September 1551. Sweating Sickness at London July 12. ♄ we shall find with ♂ 't is true but in July he also opposes ☉ ♀ then ☿ again and again And note ♄ in ♒ for Dangerous it seems in those years where the Estival Planets in a knot or immediate succession face him in ♌ 1556. Feavers whereof dyed many Aldermen Stow. The like is noted in an Old Ephemeris belonging to a Prelate in those times Episc Orcadens And ☌ ♄ ♂ is pointed out as the Cause but that ☌ enters not till November Yet there is a ☌ ♄ ♀ begins in July holds all August as Stationary in September and October to say nothing of ☉ and ☿ in those Months 1567. July Pestilence Lovain Gemma ♄ ♀ were opposed in mens Julii ♄ ☉ ☿ in August and September 1577. Bruno Callicus sive nova Moraviae Lues Dimerbrock ♄ in ♑ ♀ in ♋ Stationary all July and August 1578. Lisbone Biennii spatio 70000. interiêre Untzer We shall have have it under ♃ and ♂ but ♄ 's place in fine ♑ ought to be observed since ☉ ♀ ☿ face him in June ☉ and ☿ in July which cooperate with the beforesaid Congress of ♃ and ♂ 1580. Novus Morbus Luneburgensis ♄ is in ♒ again and opposed ♀ in June ☉ ☿ in July of ♄ 's being in ♒ we have spoken before 1609. S. Pestilence in London Other Aspects may give account of the preceding Mortality But for September S. N. we have ♄ in ♒ opposing ♀ and somewhat of ☿ 1610. Some Infection in London Bristol August St. N. ♄ in ♒ opposed ♀ ☉ and ♀ in ♌ 1630. Some Infection London ♄ circ princip ♠and opposing ♀ in ♉ holds all March April May ♀ Stationary ☉ coming to the scrap in May and June Then or before that other Aspects take place 1636. London Pestilence began in May. ☠♄ ♀ in Tropique Signs In June ☉ and ☿ are opposed by Saturn CHAP. XII ☌ ☉ ♃ Conjunction of Sol and Jupiter § 1. The Planet ♃ unanimously defin'd by the Antients to be temperate 2 3. And yet a Thunderer as the Two other Superiours Remphan The Character for the Planet is not a Greek Z. 4. His Hue promiseth Lightning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5 6 7. Defined to be Warm and Moist yet sometimes he is busie with the Cold. 8. A Favourer of Drought 9. Content with a Misle or Drisle or Showr only coasting the Country 'T is wonderful when it rains in one place and not in another yet that Objection doth not rout Prognostique 10. Philosophy gives account of as wonderful things 11. Moisture and the Restricton of Moisture must come from several Principles 12. Frosty Morn under ♃ ☽ as under ♄ ☽ 13. Eichstads Suffrage for the Cold of ♃ ♂ 14. The Satellites may have Influence with Jove but not hinder his Relation to Cold. A warm Gleam rebated may yet actuate a chill Exhalation proved by the Freezing Experiment with Salt and the cracking of a Bottle immerged in the Depth of the Sea 15. Light the Spirit of the World in no need therefore of any Inherent Frigorific in the Planets 16. The Antients drew their warm Character from the ☌ of Jove with Sol. Which 16 17. is Warmer than the Opposition 18. Retraction of the Thesis which makes Jove the Cooler Planet 19. The Diary 20. Jove of it self a Warm Star 21. Ponderous and Violent 22. His Lightning scarce Innocent 23. How ♃ is Cold what Evidence for it 'T is not any natural Emanation of the Planet but wholly Accidental 25. Paralogism retracted 26. ♄ is colder but neither is he intrinsically such 'T is Accident here also and Restraint or Desertion 27. Whether ♃ be Parent of the North Winds or Serenity 28. Evidence of the Premises 29. ♄ appears not Cold but in case of Desertion notwithstanding his Distance 30. Difference of Frost 31. Jove seems after all to be a back Friend to Moisture 31. Some Sollicitude in observing this Planet § 1. THe Aspect of Jove with ☉ and the rest hath bin deferred to the last because we are the First that I know of have ventur'd on the Paradox to assert this our Jove to be a Planet of some cool Influence as well as the Famed ♄ The Sentiments of the Antients is generally that He is Temperate Ptol. Lib. I. Cap. 4. 20. Lib 2. Cap. 9. on which account they reckon him with ♀ and ☽ a benefique Star 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of their Temperateness
11. Warm Rain ante l. ante noon per tot very H. wds S. S E. 12. Rainy à Sun ort ad o. wd higher raging with rain p. m. E. m. S. o. W. vesp 13. Bright a. m. coasting showr in the South and W. 2 p. S W. 14. Frost mist rain 1 p. 5 p. 10 p. Lightning and Thunder Aches N E. m. S E. o. S W. â—n 15. Open and windy day 1662. Nov. 6. â™ 24. Oct. 28. Fair m. showr 3 p. S W. 29. Rain b. d. W. 30. Drisle 7 m. open fair cloudy Sun set S W. 31. Fog bright day warm wind E. Nov. 1. Frost m. fair cloudy p. m. rain 7 p. Ely 2. Rain 1 p. c. S E. 3. Bl. clouds m. Rain a 9 m. ad o. Sly 4. R. hard a 5 m. ad 1 p. Sly 5. Fog cloudy Nly 6. Close m. p. wind S E 7. Close p. m. rain towards n. c. S W. 8. Open warm clouds fly low R. S W. 9. Fair m. cloudy 1 p. and some rain clear n. Sly 10. Cloudy Iris 8 m. storms of wind and rain 8 p. Sly 1674. Nov. 10. â™ 28. 1. S. E Misty dark chill wind and offer 4 p. wet ab 8 p. ad 10 p. Barometer sink fr. 14. ad 20. 2. Some wet 9 m. o. 3 p. 7 p. much R high wind a. I. S. 3. S W. Showring h. wd o. so Sun occ S W. S E. 4. Fair m. p. overc misty n. Aches 7 p. S W. These 4 days high wind on the Coast of England 5. N. Frost bright cold N W. 6. Foggy frosty clear above Aches 11 p. E. 7. N E. Close fog rain 10 m. showr 1 p. 5 p. N. Indispos 8. W. rain m. fog warm R. 3 p. and wetting 9 p. 11 p. 9. W. Rain 6. m. foggy clearing p. m. Aches 11 p. Indispos 10. Foggy no frost clearing close Aches 11 p. Nly 11. N E. E. Fog some rain m E. some wd Aches vesp noct 12. Dark fog offer twice p. m. wd p. m. N E. 13. N E. Some wet ante L. clouds flying Aches 10 p. cold freez n. 14. N. Foggy die tot wd p m. S W. cold frost ice night 1663. Dec. 9. â™ 26. Nov. 29. Close 30. Rain n. close day W. Dec. 1. Misty m. close E. 2. Mist rain m. p. m. m p. ap 9 n. W. 3. Rain m. close d. high wind 9 n. S E. 4. Rain m. rain 9 n. 5 p. S E. 5. Rain hard 3 m. close a. m. wet a 2 p. high wind ad 7. N. 6. Fr. sleet a 6 m. 2 or 3 fleeces of sn h. cool wd N. 7. Sn. freezing die tot sn 10 m. N. 8. Frosty m. dropping 8 n. windy S 9. Fog close wd s moisture a. m. Sly 10. Fog cl ose moistning damp Wly 11. Fog close dampning windy Wly 12. Fog close moistning wdy cold S E. 1675. Dec. 12. ♑ o. 3. S W. Fog fair close m. p. S W. 4. Dark mist close wind S. S W. 5. Fog dry Hysterical fits Aches W. 6. Mist frost close m. p. wd some rain 7 p. H. wd W. Aches 9 p. 7. Close dark warm Wly vesp Aches 9 p. High wind 10 p. 8. Stormy wds 4 m. rain 7 m. H. wd open S W. 9. Fog cloudy m. p. offer 10 n. wd N. 10. Rain a. l. so 2 p. 8 p. H. wd n. Children complain 11. Rain a. l. windy warm R. 2 p. Lightning vesp S W. 12. Dash of rain fair mist windy W. 13. Much rain 5 m. dark windy rain 2 p. h. wind at n. Boys sicken S E. 14. Rain midn 2 m. 7 m. high wd very warm tempestuous n. dash 8 p. 10 p. S W. 15. Close wet p. m. Aches 10 p. S W. high wind n. 16. Very warm dark winds m. Powring rain 11 m. Aches S W. 1653. Jan. 4. ♑ 24. 26. Mystyish n. misle N W. 27. Misle m. some frost at n. 28. Fair s wind S W. 29. Rain l. freez and mist at night 30. Fr. mist cloudy windy at night 31. Clouds high wd S W. Jan. 1. Mild fair windy S W. 2. Rain-like s wds s clearing S W. 3. Wind and rain p. m. somet freez S W. 4. Fr. clear s wind windy wet n. S W. 5. H. wind cold rain s freez 6. H. wind rain so Sun occ S. 7. H. wind s snow sleet S W. 1665. Jan. 8. ♑ 29. Dec. 31. Frosty windy offering Nly 1. Freez m. open and warm Comet seen W. N. 2. Frosty windy Comet seen clear N E. Nly 3. Frosty windy noct tot snowing a. m. N E. 4. Frosty snow cloudy s sn 7 p. N E. 5. Vehement frost freez pot by the Fire Comet seen and ice upon the Thames Nly 6. Vehement fr. Comet seen Sly 7. Vehement frost Thames frozen red clouds at n. 8. Frost mist Sun so warm as to melt snow freez and fog at n. S. 9. Frost hard mist N. Ely 10. Hard fr. mist open s bl clouds 4 p. S E. 11. Vehement frost Thames even frozen fair S E. 12. Hard frost giving p. m. freez at n. but cloudy N E. 1677. Jan. 13. ♓ â—â— 4. H. wd dash of rain 3 p. warm n. 5. W. Windy somet overc warm S W. 6. W. Rain 10 m. p. m. 8. vesp N. mind 11 p. W. 7. Tempestuous noct tot prac H. wind rain W. Gout extreme 8. W. Rain circ 3 m. ante Frost with ice freez in shade but cloudy and fog at n. Gout extreme 9. Cloudy windy drisle m. wind and rain 1 p. drisle 6 p. Gout Two Meteors 9 p. S. 10. H. wind noct praec drisle drisle m. Tempestuous die tot Meteors 3. near ♌ â™ 11. W. Clear cloudy R. 11 m. 2 p. apace 8 p. Gout 12. Harmful tempest noct tot s rain 3 p. 6 p. 8 p. W. 13. W. Fr. very high wind storm hail 2 p. 4 p. Rain 8 p. 14. H. wind fog open Gout W. 15. W. Cloudy rain a. l. s rain vesp and H. wind 7 p. Gout Aches S W. 16. W. noct frost fair dry W. 17. W. Very hard white fr. and fog m. so at o. with Rain so 7 p. Nly Indisp 1654. Feb. 7. â™’ 29. Jan. 29. Fair some wind S W. 30. Clear mistyish sleet S V V. 31. s clouds Feb. 1. H. wind W. s freez windy n. s l. wet N. 2. Bl. frost high wind very cold some snow 3. Black fr. snow-like freez hard 4. Fr. bustling cold winds N. 5. Fr. some snow ante l. N. 6. Fr. cloudy rain-like thaw N. 7. Showrs so at n. 8. Some rain dropping at n. S. 9. Dropping at n. freez h. N E. No wind 10. Fair cold freez h. at n. S. 1666. Feb. 13. ♓ 4. Feb. 3. Fr. clear bright Summers day o. snow m. p. p m. n. W. 4. Hard fr. ice clear d. open m. bl Skie very cold freezing at n. Sly 5. Cloudy m. before Sun rise 6. Very cold Sun shine open fine Summers day R. 6 m. 7. Mist cold overcast scarce any Sun shine
Asterisms Constellations in the Firmament that are Malefique as Ptolemy hath most truly deliver'd down to us § 59. As for Eclipses if they happen near a Pestilential Season before or after I think some use may be made of that Concurrence but for any determinate Cause or so much as Sign of Pestilence with Cardan's leave I understand not But Aspects Aspects of Superiour Planets they are our Scourges Have we not said there is some Sickness or Mortality yea and that for the most part within Europe somewhere or other almost every year § 60. How it comes to pass in one place rather then another Were we able to answer it is not here to be treated Why the Sweating Sickness here in England should begin A o 1551. at Shrewsbury April the 15. and not seize the City of London till July 12. is a Question seems to be above a Mortal Resolution In like manner that Notable Catarrh Epidemical in the year 1580. noted in no worse an Author than Calvisius which in June invaded Sicily In July Rome In August Constantinople and Venice In September Germany and Hungary in Octob. Pomerania In November and December Denmark and Swedeland and is a Noble Enquiry fit for a Council of Philosophers and what if I should say with the safety nay with the advantage of Religion and the awe of a great Creator may be adventur'd upon in our Theory § 61. But let us observe what is more obvious First that no Sign Celestial is free not ♉ nor ♠All the rest come under the Notion of Tropical and Equinoctial Signs which we cannot help it no more then we can help our Mortality have their Danger But let not the Womanish Spirit of any be cheated by an Equivocation For a Sickly year doth not signifie the XII Months trouble there 's respite most commonly IX Months in the XII nor doth it signifie an Universal Distemper Nor 3ly do we pretend to wasting Plagues every year God be praised for Italy it self is free from such Plagues many times 20 years together Nor 4ly are these Signs or Aspects dangerous but at times If they fall about Aestival or Autumnal Months Nor then neither 5ly Except assisted by the Addition of Powers equally Noxious A Tropical Sign hath its Virtues and Abilities as well as its Inconvenience They are warm and Comfortable They guild the Air and ripen the Fruits of the Earth and the Equinoctial Signs of themselves are temperate and wholsom The Air is never so fine as when the ☽ for Instance passes ♠or ♓ And much more may be said to get a good Opinion of these Discourses But again lest we may be too secure Let the World know that no Sign is Free Yet of All the Tropique and Equinoctial Signs are most notable Here in Sickness as before in Tempests Comets Earthquakes Next pray note how sure we pretend to be yea how manifest is our Pretence from certain years see I pray among many others that of 1540. with all its Brethren That of the Catarrh A o 1577. And before That of the Winter Plague A o 1518. 3ly That those Observations must go to Sea as well as serve us on the Shore For the Scorbute or whatsoever Malady reign'd on Ship-board is comprehended under these Rules Even the Line it self is not unwholsome unless there be some Distemperature above it I speak of a Sickly time The Line may dispose to a Scorbute in this or that Individual but the Line may be passed safely and Free from a Scorbute Epidemical as I may call it except as before excepted So we may term it a Healthy Spring although here one and there another be seized with an Ague 4ly Observe how Universal is the Celestial Influence when by Capt. Grants Observation our own dear Country shall many times have grudgings of a Distemper at what time other more remote Cities shall suffer under Pestilence Visited I might have said for God's hand it is but yet this very Observation also shews that God doth not scourge by New preter or super-natural means whatsoever my well meaning Physician imagines Dimerbrock de Peste Prob. 1. whom I leave to be confuted by the Learned of his own Faculty from his Medical Principles and Experience which are in my short Sight plainly against Him § 62. For if the same good Man had seen our Evidence he would not have condemned those Learned Christians Mercurialis Sennertus and others for subscribing to such Pagan Principles as are here advanced assuring our selves that there is nothing hereby taught contrary to Law or Gospel rightly and soundly understood though perhaps the Solution of these Knots and the Explication of those Authorities are not so proper for an ordinary Understanding In the mean while That we may answer his Astrological Argument about the Nimeguen Plague 1635. and 1636 We say that he confesseth there was a ☌ ♄ ♂ in Sept. and that in ♌ Pray revise our Table and see whether it sounds well that ☌ ♄ ♂ in ♌ which if it be any thing is a Natural Cause can be the proper Harbinger to a Preter-Natural Poison for so he calls the Pestilential Poison Next we say That he confesseth there was a ☌ ♄ ♂ in ♠Oct. 20. 1636. Do you hear ♠and in an Autumnal Month October Yea but then it began to decline I answer if it had not been for that ☌ it would by Gods Grace which must always come in Causes or no Causes have declined sooner It began to decline then a Fortnight ago I warrant it was at the Height Then was ♂ in the Very Tropique of ♑ within 8 degrees of ♄ in the same Tropical Sign § 63. And whereas with some Plausibility he presseth us with new Diseases unknown to our Ancestors which have broke out de novo into this Plaguy Age Hoc nostrum ulcerosum seculum whose Causes were not created at the beginning Such the Sweating Sickness A o 1436. the Venerial Pest A o 1556. the Hungary Distemper A o 1566. the New Plague at Moravia A o 1577. New Diseases at Lunenburg 1581. c. So presumptuous do we seem that we profess to lay out the Causes of these from God and the Stars the Celestial Scourges Witness our precedent Table where we mention one or two of these Plagues But how easie is it to deny this Inference they are new therefore Preternatural For certainly if Curable by Natural Succours they are Natural If the Remedy happily found out for these Distempers were not preter-natural neither were the Diseases so to be accounted I shall not stick to allow that the Divine Power may and doth sometimes Punish miraculously as in some Judgements as Story saith of Perjur'd Men such as have expressly challenged the Divine Power to do its worst if they attest a Falsehood And I shall acknowledge that Gods Hand is more visible in a Disease incurable or a sudden Death then otherwise yet I cannot allow them to be All preternatural I acknowledge Gods Arm
Snowing As before A o 1625. Dec. 14 15 16 17. the same Now for Five Febr. 23 24 25 26 27. Stormy Rainy and Sleet § 36. 'T is easie to parallel this out of the Table of the Storms recorded long before last Century For even A o 1526. we meet with extreme Darkness for 10 days A o 1597. Aug. 17. Our English Fleet were disperst so that they met not till September 5. A o 1598. Jan. 8. lands the Seamen having indured many Storms A o 1615. Octob. the 1. after much Sea Troubles had Sight of Land Nay on Sept. 9. 1598. the Weather was sad and Stormy that in Two Months they had not one Fair day Time was when we thought 50 days too much when it rained so that Corn failed with us in England 1526. and yet our Aspect or Table is yet more unmerciful for in some years with some interruption more or less we often meet with 3 Months Disturbance July August September 1547. and A o 1548. May June July Add Sept. Novemb. Dec. 1557. and 1577. June July Aug Sept. 4 Months A o 1578. So when Gemma tells us that Totius Anni status A o 1562. was infested with Tempests and Storms our Aspect of ♃ and ♂ shall answer for the first 5 Months found twice in the same Sign in that while But may I not mistake non Causa pro Causa I answer not well amids such Testimony I le reach you but one Instance The 50 days Rain when Corn failed we scruple not to assign to our ☠as a Cause Nor will any man else when he sees the Bodies concern'd lodged in ♊ and ♠not excluding the ☠of ♃ and ☿ but we assert our Aspect to make one and a great One and that so confidently that by this we dare convince Lycosthenes of a slip who post-pones that wet Spring to 1528. because there is no such drenching Aspects appear in that after year of which Slips there are too many saving the great usefulness of the Design But I do not pretend to convince all by Astrology Concluding there are more obvious means by comparing other Records c. However this slip I evince by this Method § 37. The Length and the violent Starts of this Aspect being considered we need not wonder if we find prodigious Inundations too often under it where among others that at Home and in Holland A o eod though not the same Month and our Home Inundation in Somersetshire at the beginning of this Century will never be forgotten by the places concerned § 38. Now shall not we who pretend to great things say somewhat to That in our following Table First and miserable deluge in Holland where so many Towns were swallowed up tops of whose Turrets to this Day peep out of the Water I know not on what account omitted by some Annalists where 100000. People were Drown'd I am not such an Atheist as to magnifie second Causes to the prejudice of the First In my Philosophy They illustrate his Glories not Eclipse them I would advise therefore some of our beloved Neighbours of the Low Countries to watch the Caelestial Positions of that time in particular there is a concourse of our two Superiours in ♠Especially if about the beginning of Nov. which they may know is apt to Floods For in this year 1521. ♃ and ♂ are found in ♠the one in the beginning of the Sign the other at the End And is not that First according to our Principle And again is there any other Aspect near that is Considerable And yet again This being not our Only Instance in ♃ and ♂ as we shall see Who knows but a little insight in Astrology may save 100000. Lives § 39. The Next dire Inundation at Rome where the waters were Raised the depth of the Longest Spear They may please to take heed of a Congress of the Planets in ♎ if two of the Superiours be amongst them for so we find a ☌ ♃ ♂ in the beginning of ♎ not without assistance when their Inundation happen'd and Lo about a Month after what with Winds and Rain Nov. 6. such another Floud Ut Telluris obratae Clades pecorum homines interit us non satis describi possit saith Gemma Flouds by ♃ ♂ § 40. Anno 1521. Nov. 1. Dire Inundation in Holland 72 Villages drowned Fromond Met. Lib. 5. Stow ♑ 11. ♂ 24. ♃ 1529. June 14 Basil in Switzerland Rains continual and Flouds remembred by a Monument Lyc. ♌ 22. ♃ ♒ 16. ♂ 1530. Octob. 8. Inundation of Tiber at Rome Mizald hor. noct 11. Nov. 1. Deluge in Holland and Flanders Gem. 1. 183. Grimston ♎ 9. ♃ 7. ♂ supra in ♂ ☿ p. 249. 1532. Nov. mens Inundation in Zealand Mizald. Surius ♠16. ♂ 4. ♃ ♎ 23. ♀ ♂ ☿ p. 249. supra 1551. Marpurg Jan. 10. Great Inundation breaking down the Stone-Bridge of the Country Lyc. ♊ 22. ♃ 29. ♂ Add ♀ and ♃ in ☠Febr. 20. Inundation after the ☽ recover'd from the Eclipse lasted almost two Months Peucer 385. ♊ 21. ♃ ♋ 1. ♂ 1556. April 23. Bruxels Tempest of Hail harmful and Flouding at Lovain in the mean time fair Weather Gemma 2 30. ♉ 12. ♂ ♠2. ♃ add ♊ 12. ♀ 1557. Sept. 10. In Languedoc Thunder Lightning Hail and Floud upon it which was not in Memory of Man Gem. 2 31. ♃ and ♂ in ♠E Paradino Sept. 14. at Rome and Recorded Thuanus And so at the East-Indies 1571. Lovain Febr. 5. Great Indations Gem. 2 68. ♒ 28. ♃ ♓ 6. ♂ 1579. Febr. 10. After a deep Snow continual Rain a long time so that Westminster-Hall was Floated Stow ♠12. ♃ R. ♉ 18. ♂ 1607. Jan. 10. Vast Inundation in Somersetshire after a great Rain and Spring-Tide in some places 20 Miles in Length How 's Calvis ♓ 7. ♃ ♈ 2. ♂ 1627. Sept. 10. Danubius ripas egressus Kepl. ♠26. ♃ ♊ 4. ♂ Die 18. Rock Wasser Kyr 1629. Octob. 2. Westminster Hall floated ♑ 27. ♃ ♋ 11. ♂ Floud in Holsatia High Spring Tide Chilorey Transact 2063. Yea and Mexico 1168. Jan. 23 24 25. Norimberg Much Rain and Wasser Fluth Kyr ♠4. ♃ 19. ♂ 1649. June 17. Rain all Night High Flouds ♠16. ♂ ♎ 9. ♃ 1627. Sept. 9. In Franconia nube rupta tanta aquarum vis decidit ut in aliquot pagis domus eversae homines cum armentis submersi c. Calvis To these we add which have escaped Collection A o 1528. June 14. Floud at Basil in Switzerland Lyc. 538. ♌ 22. ♃ ♒ 16. ♂ A o 1547. Aug. 12. Cataracts and Flouds ♓ 9. ♃ ♠1. ♂ ☿ 1555. Sept. 21. Westminster-Hall floated Stow 22 23. Childrey ♠27. ♃ 29. ♂ 1670. March 10. Inundation Childrey Transact ♒ 9. ♃ ♌ 23. ♂ 1571. Dec. 17. Inundation at the Rhine in Nemetibus at the Rhine in France ♓ 16. ♃ ♠26. ♂ Thuanus 1579. Octob. 14. Sea swell'd How 's ♎ 22. ♂ ♠19. ♃
Earthquakes at the Indies run so many leagues yea and at home as the last in Oxfordshire shall run in a Chanel as it were as far as Barbary the Convulsion must lie deep and contracted into a less circumference that it may diffuse it self to the greater § 68. Here we must take notice of one instance supplied from Van Helmont That Helmont who under the name of the Schools makes nothing to run down all Philosophers before him for that saith he no Exhalations nor Vapor nor Sulphurous Spirit hath any thing to do in the Earthquake but only some Fiend or Cacodemon is employ'd by Commission from Heaven Now the Vesuvii and the Aetnae the several Vulcans flaming round about the World and the indisputable affinity between the Earthquake and the monstrous Eruption which the Schools teach might have kept Him to rights For 't is not any Levity or a Wind enclosed but a vast Nitro-Sulphureous Spirit of incomprehensible Force that striving within her womb discomposes the Earth To this he presently comes upon us and asks us First Is there a vein of Sulfur c. throughout the whole Low Countries for all Holland Trembled and Flanders to boot I answer there may be for all that he knows Agricola perswades that the Subterranean Fires are as copious especially in Maritime places where Earthquakes mostly appear and this is witnessed by Sulfureous Stench which hath been observ'd whereever the Vapour gets vent Yea as some have deliver'd a dis-colouring of the Air as it were by sulfureous Fumes Nay 't is beyond as it were for wherefore do the poor Birds fall to the Earth But that being taken giddy by such suffocating Steams 2dly He cannot intend sulfur refin'd and depurate then by his own Principles he must allow Sulfur to be every where in every compound Body or in their Matrices the places where they take their being Every Peble is constituted of so many Grains of Sulfur and our Castle-Goal we see betrays its constitution by perfect yellow sume mixed with the darker Soot Every thing then will melt hath Sulfur in it and what will not melt in those all-dissolving Heats of the Subâ—â—ranean Furnace The Earth will melt like Wax and run many 2 Mile in a fusile constitution and yet we speak at large for if it be a Bitumen of any kind or color if it be Pitch if it be Naptha if it be Coal 't is Sulfur to us whereever there 's Mineral or hot Baths or Medicinal Waters or Metals or Quarries of Stone there 's Sulfur and Salt c. So that 't is in vain to anatamize the Regions of the Earth to the Centre and assure us there 's no room in the Globe of the Earth for He hath offer'd nothing that I can see why the seat of the Tremor may not be where he acknowledges the Mineral for there besure are Oyls Sulfurs Salts Mercury and Earths and Juices and whatsoever wants a name and one of those impatiently contrary to the other nor is He ignorant of it but confesses that if the least drop of Water falls upon Metal or Marchesites melted they fly about like mad with incredible Antipathy Consonantly some Stories say that in one of our Hiatus's there was observed Water in the depth of the Cavity in Stow. He asks 2dly why the Concussion is so transient quickly past tho' it returns by fits Oh to that I say that the Planetary Positures as they require Critical places so they watch their Critical Hours Did not this T. M. happen at Midnight He asks thirdly why the Earthquake in 1640. and that of threescore years before happened both in April I could ask him why his Angel or Devil chuses to scare us That Month Yet we say that the Spring is the time of the year and seeing it happened that there were but 12 days difference between that of 1580. April the 6th the time that I believe Mechlin trembled as all England did and 1640 It manifestly shews that these Earthquakes come under the Philosophical Rules He asks 4ly what extraordinary heat was found there to shake the Earth at those precise times which was not found in the Intermediate years adding that that night was a very cold night with a Chill North-Wind and much Snow the day before How say I doth a Chymist call for a sensible Heat to all wondrous Operations Nothing more against his own Experience who tells us in one place of his fellow-Travellers Shoulder burnt by the Suns imperceptible Heat as he passed over the Alps as plainly as if he had been stung by Gantharides and teaches us in another 1 ounce of Salamniac mingl'd with 4 ounces of Aqua Fortis shall break the glass presently and how but by an invisible Eâ—halation And what great heat there is in the Ingredients separate He knows best An Exhalation you see by his own Confession can make a strong glass fly in pieces But I answer the Schools call it Heat they should say Influence or his own Gas which takes place in cold Weather as well as Hot. As we see and feel oft-times the Influence of the Heavens opeperate upon our Bodies while that Heat is not discerned by our Sensories There may be Communication between Homogeneals Fire and Fire Aetherial and Subterranean when there may be no Communications between Fire and Earth I mean our Corporeal Organs Yea I come closer to the matter and say that Planetary Warmth in a remiss degree as in Weak and Calmer Earthquakes may actuate Cold as well as encourage the Grosser Warmth may stir the Nitrous Spirit as well as enflame the Sulfury Particle for it is necessary that 's more than probable that all such immane Violence must be founded upon those Hostilities of Nature which we call Antipathy When we are agreed about this then I 'le point at the Influence with my Finger and shew him our Aethereal Heat in ☌ of ♄ and ♂ at the first Earthquake and a ☌ of ♃ and ♂ at the Second And these Aspects in Critical places which do not occur every year 'T is well if they meet in 12 in 30 and even then if they want any one requisite the Effect is blank We grant him that the final Cause of the T. M. is the awe of the Divine Menace And upon this account whatever others think I value our Theory being engag'd in matters of so ponderous concern But we do no think that the Divine Power acts immeditely in those Effects which are Periodical and have their Revolutions though they be strange We dare not grant the Creation so imperfect that the Divine Power which made the Universe acts as much without a created instrument as with it But this 't is for Wise Men to lay aside the consideration of the Noblest Parts of the Universe so overlooking and setting at nought those Wonders of the Aether the Fixed Stars and Planets to run higher into Heaven or lower into Hell to borrow Angelical Spirits from thence to make up the
unhappy when he teaches there is nothing in the Sign 65. The Floud of 1642. in Holland justly refer'd to our Aspect by Kyriander but no Anticipation will pass 67. Flouds at Northampton 69. The late Flouds of Holland described from the French 69. The late news of 20000 Carcases floating makes the Author affectionately wish that those who are in Power in the Low-Countries would find a Professor of Astronomy obliged to Study our Theory 70. ☠of ♄ and ♃ brings as many Comets as a ☌ 71. Earthquakes heard of once in 10 years 72. The stupendious Aspect once more admired ♄ however fancied Old and Decrepit is a high and mighty Planet 73. An. 1554. Three Earthquakes An. 1563. It Thunders at London and the Earth quakes at Island An. 1612. T. M. upon the Land while a Stormy Christmas wracks 60 Vessels in one Spanish Port. An. 1632. Kyriander ascribes Vesuvius's Flames to our Aspect An. 1638. No greater evidence for any Conclusion in Nature An. 1642. Anticipation once more rejected An. 1643. ☠of ♄ and ♂ must not exclude the Aspect of ♄ and ♃ 74. c. That the Superiour Planets cause Earthquakes is no news Pliny teacheth it from the Babylonians Notes upon the Chapter in Pliny 75. Pliny's Testimony for the Cardinal Signs a great Truth with other notable Notes concerning Earthquakes 76. Continuation of the like Notes 77. An Earthquake may last 40 days nay a year or more by fits with the reason 79. Inundations and Earthquakes oft-times go together by the Antient's confession 80. Inundations Earthquakes Comets Pestilences hang all on one Thread Objection answered 81. Our Aspect malignant as to Health 82. The best Phisitians consent ♄ and ♃ are more to be suspected than any other which makes some Astrologers venture to predict a Pestilence the reason why our Aspect seems to be most suspicious 83. Some notion of Dominion in the case Cardan bids us enquire into Eclipses to little purpose 84. c. Evidence of Aspects Malignity The Sweating Sickness An. 1563 Vicinity strongly suspected even beyond the Tedder of 30 degrees An. 1623. 1643. Two or Three Pestilential years together united under our Aspect 85. Whether ♄ and ♃ are malignant without the Aspect of ♄ and ♂ 86. Aspects of the same malignancy in less Diseases Agues Variolae Scorbutes 87. c. Distempers more or less correspond to the revolution of our ☌ and ☠every twentieth or tenth year 89. Comets c. attended with s Distempers 90. The Kings of Englands entrance upon their Reign doth not usually much less always introduce a Pestilence as Phanatiques chatter 92. Some good News to lay the Objection which saith I make every Xth. year Dangerous 93. Pestilences may hanker about a City 3 or 4 years § 1. WE are arrived at last through many a weary four Step by Sea and Land not without the Divine Assistance to the Plus grand Aspect of the Two immediate Superiours ♄ and ♃ They are Planets of Stately Slow and Majestique Motion they caress not one another every day the Globe of the Universe knows They meet but once in 20 years If there be no Mystery in that beside the Majesty of it for Princes meet but seldom I am fowly lost For can a small Revolution of Nine or Ten Moons of matter produce a Man and does the God of Nature in a Sydereal Revolution of Twenty Years produce nothing What neither off nor on Well is it if it doth not produce a Monster both in the Macro and the Microcosme For tell me you that believe I speak not to others that all things were made for the Interest of Humane Nature what can be the end of the Divine Counsel suitable to so great a Risk of such extent I cannot find any thing in any moveable whatsoever where Motion is made for Motion's sake The Sun and the Sea the Wind the Blood Ebb Flow Breath Circulate Decline Advance for the execution of some Ministeries which they perform by the way There is work for them to do besides Dancing Their Motions are to be weighed and felt as well as measur'd It grieveth me to see Learned Men talk of Pressures of Air and thereby solve Problems concerning the Ocean's Ebb and Flow. There is little hope that ♄ and ♃ shall be allowed any Influence for Pressure is not Influence when it is denyed to the Moon the Image and Reflex of the Sun They seem to me to deny the Action of Light and Heat And I would fain know what else is Active whether or no the Motion of the Waters cannot be apparently accounted for without those Lifeless Hypotheses of Bulk and Weight I speak only of things which are Lucid. Alass Alass there is many a sad Transaction to be performed by these our two Instruments of the first Mover ever to be ador'd before the return to a second Conjunction Many a Terrible Token seen and felt in the World before they can get off many a Prodigious Frost Drought Dearth Pestilence c. which have seized the World and lasted also while senseless Men have been swept away amidst all their dangerous self-indulgency and the Security under an unhappy Principle § 2. This Aspect I must repeat again is a Tres-grand Congress of Mighty Bodies spreading its Wings from East to West and hovering over us for a year or two 3 or 4 nay almost 5 sometimes before they get clear of one another So Two great Ships on the Main on a foul meeting endanger all the Passengers § 3. I am not of their Mind I must own who perswade this grand Conjunction portends all the Changes Political or Natural that happen in the World within its Revolution for that Evacuates the intermediate Configurations divesting them of their Influence the ⚹ □ △ ☠of these very Planets all which have their several Stations yea and differences of Influence Some more forcible others less Nay rather Of those great Events natural which are proper to the Aspect and consider'd by themselves the Greatest which probably can happen within the space of XX. Years falls within the time or term of a Signal Aspect i. e. about two years or somewhat more before and after what we call the precise Conjunction Or ☠which is next the ☌ in all its Virtue and Efficacy though the Square we have seen is a Dame too except an Artist say that by ☌ He means the whole Risque excluding no Aspect and then I am content § 4. This we shall prove from our History for though we have dinn'd the Readers Ears with nothing but Comets Earthquakes Pestilence c. as proceeding from the Minor Aspects we must know that ♄ and ♃ have their Hours a Jurisdiction I mean and Territories which belong to them where we shall meet with as much Mischief as in any other parts So there is most harm done in the greatest Parishes § 5. Here We have order'd it so that what belongs to our Aspect comes to be presented by it self having
the Augmentation of its Force then in its Diminution though alike gradual But for Sickly Times I don't find that as many Distempers or to speak plain Pestilences succeed the Aspect as go before it How it is in the Arabian or other Climes I know not but consulting Escuids Table which is the Compend of Albumazar I find Erit Mors inter homines when our Aspect haps in ♌ under ♄ 's Dominion and the same Mors multorum Hominum with greater Men when ♃ has the Dominion Cardan bids us enquire into Eclipses two years before or a little more Nay he will give us an Example of a great Pestilence at Milain A o 1524. which followed the Eclipse in Aug. A o 1523. I turn to the year 1524. and there I find another cruel Cause of a terrible Pestilence what d' ye think Our very ☌ of ♄ and ♃ He tells us of ☿ with ☉ unfortunate in the ☠of the ☽ c. and ♂ respecting ♄ and ☿ from ♠I tell him Frustra fit per plura even if what be said were all unquestionable § 84. For our Evidence we will not vapour and run back to the Incarnation as we seem'd to do in the Comet which method indeed was only a Mercurial Finger if any shall delight to Travel on the like Design We will come nearer Home and content our selves with the beginning of the former Century where the first ☌ which appears compleat is found in ♋ 20. June A o 1504. what Sickness do's attend Gemma answers for Brussels Pestis Virulenta A o 1502. Again A o 1505. in Flanders Gem. 2. 249. and our Sweating Sickness the second time in London A o 1506. saith Stow. Note that in June 1502. ♄ and ♃ are both in ♊ in 1505. both in ♌ in 1506. within Terms This for the first 1. The Second Congress of our Superiours after 20 years past in the year 1524. ♓ 10. for the year 1524. we may remember Honest Cardan has furnished us with one example from Milain and before that A o 1522. Kircher informs us of a cruel Pestilence at Rome our Planets being within Terms in April at least and October which instance being far from Solitary gives us just Cause to suspect that the Vicinity of ♄ and ♃ even beyond the Tedder of 30 gr is of dangerous signification which is confirmed presently from the Winter Mortality noted in London A o 1525. where our Planets are 10 degrees distance but secretly link'd together by their mutual Approaches to the Equinox even on ♃ 's part not here to be treated of 2. The third meeting of ♄ and ♃ in September A o 1544. about ♠27. Here is Pestilence at London again in the Month of July as Stow informs our Planets within 20. degr distance 3. The next meeting is found in the end of ♋ Aug. 1563. In the year 1562. a Strange Murrain of Cattle says Gemma This was in the beginning of the year and our Planets were out of Bounds only in Oct. I find a note of Variolae Morbilli Small-Pox c. with another Murrain it should seem But in A o 1563. a great Plague in Germany saith Untzer our City of London not escaping that time Add A o 1564. Pestilence at Brussels says Gemma at the end of the year Yea A o 1566. the Strange Plague in Hungary within the Terms of our Planets or not above 4 degrees excess 4. The Fifth ☌ happens about ♓ 20. April 1583. and we meet with a new Disease at Lunenburg July 1581. as Dimerbrock informs us Now though the time of the year does but border upon our Aspect and ♄ and ♂ answer for the Distemper yet we have said that even bordering years are dangerous upon the account that though our Planets be without their Bounds or Limits yet they may be fetch'd to life again as it were by a Third Planet stepping in between the Extreams and a good shift too as we see practised before § 14. of this Chapter for verily both ☿ and ♀ from the opposite Quarters do so face ♄ and ♃ that they unite them for the present and force their Contribution to the mischief This I do not mention for lack of Instances for we find a furious Pestilence in 1584. but because I see 't is of great concern in my Judgement to solve the appearances often occurring 5. The 6th ☌ happens about Christmas A o 1603. in ♠10. And here we meet with a Pestilence in London as it pleased God so to order it in the first year of K. James the first of that Name any one may see it was our two Planets ♄ and ♃ in the hand of the great God unless all we have said hitherto is Vanity by the New Star and the Frost that followed the year ensuing proper Attendants on our Aspect which I hope we have made out and can further evince it by running back into past Centuries yea or Chiliads of time Note here again A o 1604. while London was clear saith Stow other Cities Villages and Towns Corporate were extreamly visited 6. Go we now to the year 1623. and observe the Congress in the beginning of ♌ in the Month of July Threescore years ago is within Memory when our City smarted under the farewell of our Planets in ♠We know to what great purpose we have before observed the Equinoctial ☠of ♃ and ♂ in the hottest time of this Visitation but we are not bound therefore to put out our Eyes or say we do not see that this grand Fatal ☌ or Positure of the two Supreams by commission from Heaven doth conspire with the like fatal Positure of the Third Superiour We will not anotomize the year but we may discover the Footsteps of our Aspect by the Droughty Summer noted in New England A o 1623. Purch IV. 1866. by the Fire-ball that was seen all Germany over By other Meteors mention'd also by Kepler A o 1624. not to forget the Maculae Solares which Hevelius has left upon Record were more frequent in that year than ever any he met with 7. All this while we forget the ☠of ♄ and ♃ at Midsummer 1513. in the beginning of ♠and ♉ at what time England labour'd with its Metropolis says Mr. Stow. We take no notice of those Distempers mention'd by Fracastorius A o 1511. or that strange Murrain mention'd by Fernelius Quae Solas Feles corripuit 8. In the next ☠we find Pestilence in France A o 1534. mention'd by Valeriola apud Dimerbrock 9. The next ☠we hear not of But that of 1573. before Midsummer in ♠and ♉ Gemma will tell us for his Country lasted two year A o 73. 74. the cure of which he discourses And may we not say the New Star in Cassiopeia is a Concomitant of this ☠Yes even as the New one in Serpentarius was of the ☌ 10. We shall name but one ☠more in the 36th year of Q. Elizabeth A o 1593. which is
acknowledged for a Pestilential year in this City § 85. Well it seems our Aspect may be Pestiferous with the help of his Neighbours It may be enquired whether without his Fellow-Martial-Aspects I fear we shall find it absolutely so Let the Reader Judge Some Pestilential or Sickly Years seem for a while to appear when ♂ is conjoined with neither As perhaps A o 1502. when a Pestilence raged at Bruxels and 500 perished in a Day the ☌ of ♄ and ♂ fell off betimes viz. in the Month of May before probably the Pestilence began But behold we see a ☌ of ♄ and ♃ then enters so there is a ☌ ♄ and ♂ preceding and ☌ ♄ ♃ following A o 1505. ♄ and ♃ preceding ♄ and ♂ come not in till the end of August A o 1543. an ☠♄ ♂ prevails and falls off in May but ♄ and ♃ hold their own To speak therefore as I find seeing 't is rare to find a ☌ or ☠of ♄ ♃ without such an Aspect of ♄ and ♂ We may not possibly pronounce upon the whole year without reckoning in the Martial Aspects which if they precede may dispose or co-operate to the common Nusance The ☌ of ♄ and ♂ in a Spring yea or Winter Month February suppose may alter the matter and corrupt it followed by an Aspect of ♄ and ♃ How much more when they are Plaited and Breaded together in the same Twine and at the same Hour as it oft-times happens § 86. 'T is easie to note that we may proceed in the same Method in the ☠'t is enough we have pointed at it but for Brevities sake we abstain as we do much against our Will Concerning Agues Fluxes Small-Pox Scurveys which are taken at Home and Abroad by Sea or by Land when the greater Plagnes don 't appear 'T is long ago I remember it still when in a Droughty January and February the Small Pox was rife in the County of Oxford it came into my fansie the ☠♄ and ♃ compleat in February might be the under-Cause reasonably imputing the unseasonablenss of the Weather to have Influence upon the Malady and casting about me I suspected the Planetary ☠to be the Cause of the Dry Constitution then which nothing is more certain whether we repect Drought or Malady § 87. If then what between the ☌ and ☠we should find every XXth Year more or less should prove with us in England if not Pestilential yet a Sickly Year vice versa Then I say we should believe in Astrology Nay God forbid we should have such Cogent Commanding Evidence for then it were as certain as a Mathematical Principle But what if our Evidence Flutter near such a place shall we not think it hath a Nest thereabout Try we our Home-Spun Annals from the beginning of the Last Century and let us visit the ☌ and ☠that we may see how they stand affected to us English They are unkind at the best but let us believe in our Principle no further then we find The ☌ § 88. First then A o 1504. ♋ 20. in June our Planets meet in ♋ 2. the year 1503. was a Dry Summer saith Stow. No Rain notable from Whitsontide to our Lady-Day in September And A o 1506. before Planets are gotten clear off the Sweating Sickness assaulted us a second time 1523. Next A o 1524. in ♓ 10. in February Now A o 1521. was a great Mortality in London and other places of the Realm beside a Dearth This is on one side of the ☌ and again on the other side A o 1525. Those two Years were very Sickly so that Michaelmas Term was adjourned and the Christmas kept in the Countrey 1544. Third A o 1544. in Sept. ♠28. A great Pestilence at London whereby Michaelmas Term was adjourned to St. Albans this very year 1563. Fourth A o 1563. in ♋ 28. Plague and Pestilence first at New-haven and then after in London of which Dyed 23372. whereof of the Plague 17404. this very year Stow. 1583. Fifth A o 1583. April in ♓ 21. The year 1582. brought forth a Comet May 15. The Year 1583. Earthquake in Dorsetshire and if none with us it brought a Plague elsewhere and that a furious one The ☠1513. So A o 1513. the ☠in June in ♠and ♉ 7. A Great Mortality of Pestilence is noted in England and about London especially the very same year wherein the ☠happened It may be to some purpose to note the Drought ☠in Febr. ♑ ♋ 21. A o 1534. No News with us of Sickness howbeit for the Aspects sake we must note that other places saw Comets and Earthquake A o 1554. ☠in July ♓ ♠29. Now A o 1551. a matter of a year before as we observed the same distance in the Conjunction A o 1523. Sweating Sickness in the North parts of England and London On the 12th of July it was vehement it kill'd in 24 Hours or less Note that the Comet in 1556. appear'd within the Verge of this ☠A o 1573. ☠in June ♠♉ 22. Earthquakes A o 1571. 1575. a New Star A o 1572. with a Great Winter and Dearth Heavens burning twice As it brought forth all these so no Plague did we hear of A o 1593. ☠in May ♑ ♋ 22. Plague in London of which several Aldermen are noted to have dyed Of all Diseases 17193. of the Plague 10695. 1603. Sixth A o 1603. Decemb. ☌ in ♠9. Another New Star Pestilence in London whereof in One Week in July Dyed 857. of all Diseases 1103. This was but one Week Nor was 1604. quite free for in that year Dyed of the Plague 896. Plague also noted in Ostend c. 1603. 1623. Seaventh ☌ in ♌ 6. A o 1623. The great Plague Year within remembrance whereof Dyed about 3000 in one Week in August viz. from the 11th to the 18th Preceded A o 1621. 1622. with a great Frost 1643. Eight A o 1643. February ♓ 25. Now in 1642. Dyed of the Plague 1824. And in 1643. 996. 1663. Ninth A o 1663. October ☌ in ♠13. This Year and the following were as to London Healthy but abroad not Several Comets appeared in and before 1665. at the mention of which we tremble And though it may be pleaded our Aspect was dissolved yet it was no wide Dissolution at the Heighth not above 9 degrees expired so true is my suspicion of an Enlargement of their Boundary Note Small Pox Jan. 1664. and Meazles rife in March following 1682. Tenth A o 1682. in October in ♌ 19. ☌ The year 1681. was none of the Healthfullest I will not dispute there was some Pestilence but without dispute the Sums of 400. 500. yea 600. per Week are not desirable Sums Surely from May to September there past not a Week under 400. A o 1613. ☠♓ ♠12. Sept. and A o 1612. ♓ ♠28. August the years were clear of the Plague as by Bell's Account appeareth Inundations we meet with
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