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A88290	The starry messenger; or an interpretation of that strange apparition of three suns seene in London, 19. Novemb. 1644. being the birth day of King Charles. The effects of the eclips of the sun, which will be visible in England, 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force, from January, 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares; and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most common-wealths of Europe, but principally in England. With an answer to An astrologicall judgement. Printed at Oxford, upon his Majesties present martch. / By William Lilly student in astrologie.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Wharton, George, 1617-1681. Astrologicall judgement upon His Majesties present martch.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2245; Thomason E288_17; ESTC R200103	40,051	61

The effects of the Eclips of the Sun which will be visible in ENGLAND 11. August 1645. whose influence continues in force from January 1646 to Decemb. 1647. almost two whole yeares and cannot but be the fore-runner of some extraordinary mutation in most Common-wealths of Europe but principally in ENGLAND With an Answer to an Astrologicall Judgement Printed at Oxford upon his Majesties present Martch By WILLIAM LILLY Student in Astrologie LONDON Printed for John Partridge and Humphry Blunden and are to be sold at the Signe of the Cocke in Ludgate Streete and the Castle in Cornehill 1645. To his truly Honoured Friend Master JOHN THOMPSON of the City of LONDON Merchant SIR AS in those more painfull imployments you formerly underwent in Transmarine parts you did with great fidelitie courage and industry for sundry yeers mannage the affaires of our English Merchants intrusted to your care and discretion So now in this your present retirement your continuall Study makes it manifest you act not the part of a young man though your yeeres speake you not aged but like a wise man that ever husbands Time with advantage You enrich your minde with Knowledge Converse amongst Studies and with Authors of wisedome that hereafter you may be more serviceable to your Country as opportunitie shall present you with a fit occasion I shall not neede acquaint the World that you have as we say changed heaven and lived not further then five degrees from the Aequinoctiall yet have you still remained your selfe and twice returned Statu quo bettered by your travells This little Treatise of lesse worth then I wish it I present unto you and desire your perusall by way of Recreation I am not singular in Dedicating a small thing to a worthy Friend Iohn Dee a most Learned man Dedicated his Aphorismes to Gerard Mercator a man famous and they consisted of lesse then sixe sheets Wearied I say with more weighty Studies run over this and the rather because its the first in this kinde ever wrote by any and you can judge whether 't is well or ill done and few else Your selfe have seene it in loose papers from the beginning middle and to the end of it are able to testifie its my owne I borrowed it from no man that impertinent Traveller spoake by Authority who hoodwinked in judgement bleated openly that others performed my Worke yet he never saw me Sir Favour me with as much love in Receiving it humanely as I in Affection tender it unto You and You engage me to rest Your Reall Friend WILLIAM LILLY To the Reader BEfore I speake any thing of that prodigious Apparition of the three Suns in the Elements I will acquaint thee with as rare a Progedy which happened in Cheshire When first our unnaturall Wars began and that it was apparent Warre would be betwixt King and Parliament Sir George Booth Knight and Barronet of a Noble Family in Cheshire and one excellently deserving of the whole Kingdome for his fidelity to the Parliament and without whose countenance our affaires in those parts could not so happily have succeeded this gallant old Knight perceiving that many of his Tennants were necessarily to engage their persons for better incouragement of them he seriously professed unto them that if any Tennant or Tennants sonne of his servant or any other that was any of the lives in any the Leases made by him or any of his Family should casually be slaine in this unnaturall warre in defence of the Parliament Religion and Subjects Liberties that then he would make a new Lease Gratis and insert any younger life in Liew thereof which thing he hath constantly and freely performed ever since to his eternall fame and honour and if this be not worthy of especiall taking notice of I know nothing Nor let us forget the singular valour of his Noble Grandchilde Collonell Booth during the siege of Nantwich against the English Irish But to our owne Discourse If there be any of so preuaricate a judgement as to thinke that the apparition of these three Suns doth intimate no Novell thing to happen in our owne Climate where they were manifestly visible I shall lament their indisposition and conceiue their braines to be shallow and voyde of understanding humanity or notice of common History For full satisfaction of such unbeleeuing Saints I haue produced presidents not one or two but many and those recorded by men of unquestionable Credit When was it knowne that such like unusuall sights appeared and were not the fore-runners of things to come yet seldome regarded before the things they signifyed came to passe I am of this opinion the Heauens neuer send forth any great signes which haue not a particular relation to some great personages for doubtlesse they are the Vniuersall cause God permitting of all things and whilest they produce effects which seeme to haue relation to one onely if he be a Prince it hath an Vniuersall operation for people are partakers with their Princes in their gaines losses vertues and vices and this is the reason why many times our predictions doe not jumpe in that measure of time by us limited for actions are not done by their Agents in an instant dispositions precede them c. Besides great alterations require great influences which when they cause great diuersity in their working happen nor because the influences are diuers but because they are diuerse that receiue them Read me with indifferency and poyse me with an equall judgement I write with no prepared gall no not against Master Noworth of Oxford who borrowes the grosse of his judgement in his last Almanack from my Prophetick Merlin nor am I angrie but pitty that woodden Doctour whether Atheist or Papist I know not that swells with his owne ignorant fancy and sayth he can make it appeare what I speake in behalfe of the Parliament in point of Art ought to happen to their enemies this is one of those purblind Prophets that in corners villifie the Parliaments Freinds and yet they uncontrolled harbour amidst us c. but this thing called a Galenist I let passe untill his capacity can erect a figure c. Many and great are the judgements ready to fall downe upon some great Families of England and Europe but unlesse an Angell nay if an Angell from Heaven should report it nothing will be beleeved an Achan and an Achitophell or faction equivalent both covetous and irreligious and countenancing for byerespects unworthy men have wearied my Pen disheartned the Gentry to our inevitable losse and impoverishment of the poore Commonallty and destruction of those townes so unluckely committed to their charge Let the towne of Leicester be hereof an unlucky president which hath beene these three yeares fortifying and now on the suddain transmitted to his Majesties forces What became of the vast summes of money there raysed why the valiant Gentlemen displaced and men of inferiour ranke exalted who gives any reason unlesse it was purposely done to betray the Towne

Princes after an unwonted manner be deprived of Friends Rule and Dominion by people formerly contemptible scarce dreamed of and which themselves within lesse then a few yeers aimed at no such thing The most Ancient and Noble Families of Europe are declining but especially here not far remote or in England And this Saturn by Retrogradation doth easily declare The Nobility and Gentry who have continued many Generations are now sinking and an inferiour sort of people by plain Legerdemain are ascending but whether to heaven or worldly preferment sub judice lis est The Souldier whom I most honour shall tremble and yet fight for he knows not whom or what as Mars in the seventh House doth manifestly declare Germany that part thereof Some parts of France and my own dear Countrey of England and therein especially Kent Sussex Surrey part of Essex Suffolk and Lincoln and parts adjacent Oxford shall suffer both with Sword Sicknesse Famine Plague if not finall Subversion Shall the City of Rome escape No nor Pamfilio the now present Pope shall continue scarce six yeers without Poison or Opposition I will not say Deposition I omit some Countreys purposely for Infidelity and Ingratitude is to be requited with Blood the sword and not words Some shall notwithstanding their prudence be ensnared without caution I wish cordially all happinesse to the Kingdom of Scotland Nor shall some waspish Antagonists of that Nation against Astrologie cause me to love the Kingdom the worse There 's not yet any probability of a constant Settlement in that Common-wealth Let us expect to hear of some mutiny amongst the Turks and in Constantinople and Faction amongst the Nobles in Polonia I cannot predicate good to the barbarous Irish I am doubtfull Denmark is appointed for a Patern either of Vengeance or Mercy it is it must suffer more and more This prodigious Apparition foreshews to all England a generall Infelicity perhaps to all Europe I mean to the North-East part thereof so situate from London in England A Famine Scarcity of bread and provision for Man is like to be subsequent the Murrain of Cattel infectious and pestiferous Diseases as well in man as in beast and full Plague and half a Plague this yeer and the next not in Villages onely but almost in every great Town of England Horrible persecution of the Nobility and Gentry and indeed the Runaways from our Parliament deserve no lesse and some besides Some superlative Discord with and concerning Religion and Controversies therein Incursions of forreign Princes into their Neighbours Territories Friends and Allies No belief upon earth amongst men Surely the world is not yet at an end But whosoever shall see or have the unhappinesse to survive the two or three yeers next succeeding will wonder at the strange Metamorphosis and Catastrophe of Humane Chances in Christian Common-wealths where Jesus Christ is professed with so much pretended-Zeal but his Doctrine practised with so slender Devotion Nor shall many and those not the least Cities and Towns of England suffer in their private Common-wealths lesse then a new moulding of their present Government Did the wit of man of set purpose studie it he could not finde out so many unnecessary Inventions for present and future destruction as we our selves with premeditated wisedom finde out with intention to salve up all our sores We begger our selves with Wit and destroy Mankinde with Discretion In good truth the City of London is like to be afflicted and now simple George at Oxford holds his mouth wide open with the Plague and some other Pestilentiall or Purse-Diseases c. Do not I see both the Sun and Moon in Opposition to Gemini Their Ships are like to suffer by Fire and Pyracie c. Is not Gemini the Signe descending on the Cusp of the sixth and seventh God blesse their Ships from Sea-fights and Shipwracks And yet methinks there 's one in the world looks high born and in being that would but shall not exalt himself to a Crown Quicunque fuerit ex stirpe Regali si in ejus Radice Nativitatis fuerint duo Soles erit Regibus contrarius c. My friend be quiet thou art not the man thy time is short the Chicken of the West shall prevail Return in peace if thou canst to the Sepulchre of thy not-Kingly Ancestours c. This is part of the little I am able at present to put forth concerning the Signification of the three Suns whose Effects cooperating with the immediate subsequent Eclipse in August shall not determine in lesse time then three whole yeers Dixi. An Astrologicall-Judgement concerning the Effects probably like to succeed the Eclipse of the Sun upon the eleventh day of August 1645 being Munday It s beginning is at 10 ho 17 min. before noon Its Middle is at 11 ho 14 min. It Endeth eleven minutes after 12. The Digits eclipsed are six The Duration of the Eclipse is One hour fifty four minutes To finde when it shall begin to operate and how long the Effects shall continue you must consider The Elevation of the Pole at London which is 51 deg. 32 min. The Semidiurnall time which is 7 hor 3 min. The time of rising of the Sun the day of the Eclipse 4 h. 57 m. The length of the day is 14 hours 6 minutes The Interval of time from Sun-rise to the time of the Eclipse is 6 ho 17 min. Now I say If 14 hours and 6 minutes give 365 days What will 6 hours and 17 minutes If you work it by proportion it will give you 162 days which added to the 11 of August point out the 20 of January 164 5 6 for a Beginning to the Effects depending on this Eclipse The Dignities and Debilities of the Planets stand thus Saturn hath one Debility Jupiter hath Fortitudes 20 Mars 13 Venus 4 Mercury 12 The Duration being 1 hor 54 min. the Effects shall continue almost two whole yeers viz. untill the 16 of December 1647. A short Historicall Narration of some preceding Eclipses and the Effects that thereupon ensued The first Eclipse we finde recorded to Posterity is by Dion Hal. and it was in the yeer of the world 3180 about 767 yeers before Christ It s noted by Historians that Romulus was that yeer conceived and the Kingdom of Israel began to decline Many were the Eclipses which Antiquity took notice of and after most of them some memorable Actions to have succeeded As that in anno Mundi 3235 and 26 of May the Sun suffered a fearfull Eclipse and it was in that yeer Sennacherib King of Assyria departed from the Siege of Jerusalem and had One hundred and fourscore thousand men slain in his Army You may read what succeeded after 2 Kings cap. 19. Anno mundi 3470 and 19 of April the Sun was eclipsed at what time Xerxes went with his innumerable Army against the Greeks and was as valiantly beaten at Thermopylas and Salamine Anno mundi 3621 there was a totall Eclipse of the Moon

and it was onely twelve days before the great Fight betwixt Darius and Alexander and this was upon Saturday the 20 of September The Monarchy of Persia by the overthrow of this Battel vanished after it had ruled Asia 200 yeers Anno mundi 3733 there was an horrible Eclipse of the Sun the 11 of February Who is conversant in History may finde that not long after Hannibal slew fifteen thousand Romanes and Ptolomeus Philopater King of Egypt overthrew Antiochus after which Victory the proud King being insolent entred the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Jews for which he was punished by God and so returned into Egypt Anno Christi 45 some say 47 the Sun suffered an Eclipse the first of August after which followed that sad Famine universall to all the world prophesied of by Agabus Act. 11. But I hasten Anno Christi 807 the Sun was eclipsed once and the Moon twice there succeeded instantly very great Division in the Empire under Charles the Great Anno Christi 813 an Eclipse of the Sun preceded the death of Carolus Magnus Anno Christi 891 after an Eclipse of the Sun the Emperour and Princes of Italy fell at variance and mutually invaded each other by which means Italy was fearfully afflicted for many yeers I finde some remarkable Observations in Plutarch after Eclipses as these At what time Pericles armed 150 Ships and was ready to set sail an Eclipse of the Sun happened which being conceived to be ominous by some Pericles derided the Prognostick But see the words following But Pericles hoysing Sail notwithstanding did no notable or speciall Service answerable to so great an Army or Preparation for which he was deprived of his Charge of Generall c. and fined at fifteen Talents In the Life of Pelopidas you shall read that upon his second Journey against the Tyrant Alexander of Pheres a great Eclipse of the Sun was causing great darknesse at noon-day You may read fol. 303 in Plutarch that Pelopidas wilfulnesse contrary to the advice of some in the Army cost him his life for not onely those that were then versed in Soothsaying but his own Citizens told him That this Eclipse did threaten the death of some great Person like himself c. which his death exactly verified You shall also read in the Life of Nicias That instantly after an Eclipse of the Moon the Syracusians overthrew the whole Power of the Athenians by Sea and he himself and Demosthenes were taken Prisoners and not long after lost their lives During the Effects of a Lunar Eclipse and upon some prodigious Sights in the air Dyonisius Tyrant of Syracusa was enforced to flee and that City after 48 yeers restored to liberty That was no weak Judgement therefore that Mil●as the Soothsayer resolutely delivered upon sight thereof My good friends be of good chear and assure your selves that we shall prosper for God doth foreshew us by this Sight we see that some one of the chiefest things now in highest place and dignity shall be eclipsed He that shall please but to peruse Leovitius de Conjunctionibus Eclipsibus may be more fully satisfied And yet if examples of late yeers work any thing in us we cannot forget that eminent Eclipse in 1639 and in the moneth of May I am sure we were never quiet since It was fully visible in our Horizon We may not forget the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet upon our English Coasts within four moneths after c. In all my reading I finde Solar Eclipses are most ominous to Princes to Authority Magistracy c. and that Eclipses of the Moon do both afflict King and People but most properly incite and excite the Subjects to Arms and the vulgar against his Lord and Master For whereas the Solar Eclipse puts difference betwixt one Prince and another betwixt one State another one Noble-man and another each Common-wealth against his next neighbour a Lunar Eclipse on the contrary stirs up people of more ignoble Condition to strive against their Ministers that have power over them c. The Effects of the present Eclipse prosecuted IF that Sentence of Ptolomey be admitted for truth Lib. 2. c. 7. Quaecunque Stella erratica pluribus dignitatibus utrique loco id est deliquii ipsius hoc sequentis cardinis associabitur Sola dominabitur Which in English runs thus That Planet which hath most Dignities in the degree or place eclipsed and angle succeeding shall be ruler of the Eclipse that is Consider his nature and position how he is well or ill affected and how and by whom aspected and accordingly judge of the Events By which Doctrine we may be bold to affirm that Mars shall principally rule the effects of this Eclipse as having most dominion in the place of the defect and solely ruling the angle subsequent which is the Ascendant If I deviate an hairs breadth from truth I must expect some dirty fool to throw out non-sense in Print against me therefore observe if Cardan confirm not my words Lib. 20. fol. 258. Cum enim idem fuerit Dominus loci deliquii loci sequentis anguli ille prorsus erit Dominus Principalis When the same Planet is Lord of the place eclipsed and of the sequent angle he shall be altogether or especially Lord of the Eclipse To which Judgement Campanella fol. 84 consenteth while he delivers Validior est qui deliquii loco cardinis plus potest And yet in designing the effects of the Eclipse we are to consider the Predominancy and Fortitudes of the rest of the Planets and their mutuall Aspects each to other their position in the heaven signe and quarter for they will challenge something in the Effects as Ptolomey lib. 2. cap. 8 saith Hoc sumitur a natura dominantium Stellarum quae sunt in praecipuis locis earum commixtione inter sese cum iis locis in quibus esse conspiciuntur We ought saith he to take signification of the Eclipse from those Stars that are most powerfull in the chiefest places of heaven and their commixtion one with another together in those places in which they are posited But sith Ptolomey delivers us a kinde of Method we shall willingly follow it in manifestation of the Effects now subsequent Wherein we first consider The Kingdoms Cities or Common-wealths of Europe likely to suffer as also what manner of men be most probably to smart by the Effects In our Figure because the Eclipse is in a fiery Signe the fiery Triplicity is passive viz. Aries Leo Sagittarius In defectibus Solis Lunae maximè insignibus considerabimus locum Zodiaci in quo fuit luminum defectus ei loco juxta Trigonorum distributionem familiares quae Vrbes propter Horoscopum in exstructione aut propter locum quem eo tempore tenuerunt aut propter medium-Coeli in Nativitatibus Principum earum regionum familiaritatem habent cum loco defectus Ptol. lib. 2. cap. 5. In