the Names Genus Species efficient and final Causes of all Comets c. from p. 140. to p. 184. 11. A Discourse teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus from p. 184. to p. 189. 12. The Cabal of the Twelve Houses Astrological from Morinus from p. 189. to p. 208. 13. An Astrological Judgment upon his Majesties March began from Oxford May the Seventh One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Five from p. 208. to p. 222. 14. Bellum Hybernicale Or Irelands War Astrologically Demonstrated from the late Celestial Congress of the two Malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars in Taurus the Ascendant of that Kingdom c. from p. 222. to p. 272. 15. Merlini Anglici Errata from p. 272. to p. 311. 16. Multiplicatio effectus Siderum secreta ex Cardano from p. 312. to p. 321. 17. A brief Account of the Causes of Earth-quakes from p. 322. to p. 324. 18. Sundry excellent Rules shewing by what Laws the Weather is governed and how to discover the various Alterations of the same from p. 325. to p. 331. 19. A Collection of sundry of the Authors most Excellent Poems as Printed in several of his Loyal Works from p. 331. to p. 415. 20. Gesta Britannorum Or a succinct Chronology of the Actions and Exploits Battels Sieges Conflicts and other signal and remarkable Passages which have happened in these Dominions from the Year of Christ 1600. unto the Year 1667. from p. 416. to p. 514. 21. XEIPOMANTIA Or the Art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the Hand of Man by the Hand of Nature c. Together with a learned Philosophical Discourse of the Soul of the World and the Vniversal Spirit thereof from p. 514. to the End of the Book A SHORT ACCOUNT Of the FASTS and FESTIVALS As well of the JEWS as CHRISTIANS With the Original and End Of their INSTITUTION IT will not I hope be denyed but that as God by his Extraordinary Presence hath Hallowed and Sanctified certain places so they are his Extraordinary Works that have worthily advanced certain times for which cause they ought to be with all men that Honour God more Holy than other Days The Times so advanced are The Festivals and Fasts of the Jews Christians Of the Jewish Festivals and Fasts Some were Instituted by Divine Authority The appointment of Men. The Jewish Festivals Instituted by God are First The Sabbath or seventh-Seventh-day in every Week so called from the Hebrew Scabath which signifies a day of rest or a time set apart for Holy rest which day God consecrated to his Worship because He thereon rested from his Work of Creation The end whereof was I. Civil and Oeconomical for the ease and refreshment of their Bodies whose strength had been Exhausted by Labour Sex diebus facies Opera tua septimo autem die quiesceÌ„s ut quiescat bos tuus asinus tuns ut respiret filius ancillae tuae peregrinus Exod. 23. 2. Ecclesiastical for the worship of God and meditation upon his Divine works 3. Spiritual 1. As being a Type of that Spiritual Rest whereby we should cease from the works of the World and the Flesh that God might work in us by his word and Spirit And 2. as shadowing unto us that endless rest which all of us hope to enjoy with God in the World to come II. The Neomeniae or Feasts of New-Moons Celebrated the First day of every Month initiating with the New-Moons which was Instituted in memory of the Light Created by God to the end 1. That by this means his People might be alienated from the Superstitions and Idolatry of the Ethnicks who subjected the Months to the Planets Stars and Signs Caelestial and know that God is the only Lord Governour and Moderator of the Stars and Signs themselves and consequently of the Months and Years and Time in general And therefore give unto God the greater thanks who ordained all these things for the use and benefit of mankind 2. To Typifie mans Renovation by the Illumination of the Holy Spirit which is still required of all the faithful Nisi enim homo per Spiritum Dei renatus fuerit regnum Dei videre non poterit III. The Third ordained by God is the Pasch or Passover so called from the Hebrew Pasach or as others read it Phase which signifies to leap or to passover or beyond This was Instituted Anno Mundi 2447. and celebrated from the Fifteenth day of the First Month Abib called afterwards Nisan to the Twenty First day of the same inclusively that is for Seven days together Yet so as that the First and Last thereof viz. the Fifteenth and Twenty First were held more Festivous and sacred than the rest These Seven days were likewise called the Feast of Azymes and the First of them the Pasch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because that thereon the Paschal Lamb was eaten 1. To câ—ll to mind and as it were consecrate to Eternity Gods miraculous deliverance of the Israelites from their Bondage in Egypt 2. For a sure testimony of the perpetual Mercy and Power he would shew to his People 3. To Typifie Christ Jesus and our deliverance perfected by him IV. The next Solemn Feast instituted by God is that of Pentecost so called from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but termed by the Hebrews Schesuothe that is the Feast of weeks because celebrated after the Seventh week from the former Feast of the Passover as may be seen in Exod. 34. Levit. 23. and Deut. 16. But it truly signifies the Fiftieth Solemn and Festival day from the Second of the Azymes in which sense St. Luke takes it Acts 2. where he saith Cum autem compleretur dies Pentecostes and Chap. 20. Speaking of St. Paul festinabit saith he ut si quomodo posset Pentecosten ageret Hierosolymis By this name also are meant all those Fifty days betwixt the Second of Azymes and the Fiftieth Festival day And so the Author of the Vulgar Edition understood it who renders these words of Acts 2. in the Plural Number viz. Cum complerentur dies Pentecostes c. It is also called Festum Primitiarum from the First-Fruits or the Bread Offer'd which was made of the new Fruits Exod. 23. This Feast was Instituted 1. In memory of the Law given by God on Mount Sinai the Fiftieth day after the Israelites departed out of Egypt 2. That by the Ceremonial Oblation of two Loaves made of the New-Fruits to the Lord men might be admonished they received all Fruits and so all things else for preservation of Life from the bountiful hands of God and be also excited to beseech God not only for a blessing thereupon but also to make a sanctified use thereof 3. To Typifie that Pentecost wherein Christ after he had ascended proclaimed the Law not that which was written in Tables of Stone but in the Heart and mind the Law of the New Covenant that happy day on which the First-Fruits of the Holy Spirit
the very Sabbath of all his Labour in the work of our Redemption The Sixth Sunday after Easter is called Exaudi from the Entrance of Psal. 27. Exaudi Domine vocem meam c. After which doth succeed the Solemnity of Pentecost so called because the Fiftieth day from the Resurrection of Christ. It is vulgarly called Whit-Sunday or White-Sunday from the Catechumens who were cloathed in White and admitted to the Sacrament of Baptism on the Eve of this Feast But Verstegan says it was Anciently called Wied-Sunday that is Sacred Sunday for that Wied or Wihed signifies Sacred in the old Saxon. Which Festival as it was of old Celebrated by the Jews the Fiftieth day after the Passover in memory of the Divine Law promulgated on Mount Sinai so is this Fiftieth day after Easter by all good Christians to commemorate the Mission of the Holy Ghost thereon which is the only best interpreter of the Divine Law Next the Feast of the Holy Trinity bearing the Lords day following which was instituted by Gregâ—ry the fourth who held the Episcopal Chair Anno 827. in Honour of the Holy Trinity The Thursday next after is the Festival of the Body of Christ commonly called Corpus-Christi day which Urban the fourth Bishop of Rome instituted about the year of Christ 1264. The Sundays following this of the Holy Trinity are all of them called according to the Numeral order whereby they succeed Trinity Sunday until the First of Advent Lastly the Four Lords days immediately preceding the Nativity of Christ are called the Sundays of Advent ab adventu Domini in carnem and were instituted by the Church to the end that from the First of them until the Nativity of our Saviour our minds might be prepared to a sober life and a pious Meditation of his Birth then approaching Parate viam Domini reclas facite semitâ—s Dei nostri And these are the Christian Solemnities or Holy days rightly called Moveable The Fixed or Stative are they which notwithstanding they fall upon divers dayâ— of the Week yet do they not Change but always fall upon one and the same day of the Month and so have a Fixed and certain 〈◊〉 in the Calâ—ndar Of this sort are The Circumcision of Christ the Epiphany and all other the Feasts of Saints and Marâ—yrs â—xcept the Movable before recited The Circumcision which is the first in the order of thâ— Calendar in Commemoration of the Mystery of his Legal Circumcision when He who was the Truth and Substance did at once fulfil and take away the Type thereof The Epiphany or Apparition or the Feast of Twelfth-day after Christmas so called and celebrated in Memory and Honour of Christs Manifestation or Apparition made to the Gentiles by a Miraculous Comet or Blazing Star by vertue whereof He drew and conducted the three Magi or Sages commonly called the three Kings who upon sight of that Star came out of the East into the Country of Palestine or Jewry to adore him in the Manger where a Twelve-Month after Christs Birth they presented him with Myrrhe Gold and Frankincense in testimony of his Regality Humanity and Divinity whereof Prudentius in the following verses Hic pretiosa Magi sub virginis ubere Christo Dona ferunt Puero Myrrhae Thuris Auri Miratur Genetrix tot casti ventris honores Seque Deum genuisse Hominem Regemque Supremum Which are thus excellently translated by Dr. Edward Spark in his Primitive Devotion The Wise men here Choise Treasures do dispense To Christ and Mary Myrrhe Gold Frankincense While thus astonish'd at this glorious thing A maid at once to bear God Man and King Or from the Holy Ghost's appearing in the Shape of a Dove at his Baptism thirty years after for this sixth day of January was the day of his Baptism and therefore it is also called by Alcas Cyriacus an Arabique Manuscript of Astronomical Tables in the Arch Bishop's Archives in the Oxford Library as the Learned Dr. Hammond tells me The Feast of Epiphany or Benediction of Waters The Vigil whereof was of Old called Vigilia Luminum and the Ancients were then wont to send Lights one to another This day was anciently celebrated by the Romans in Honour of Augustus Caesar for the conquest of Parthia Egypt and Media which were thereupon added to the Roman Empire wherefore the Church willing to change that Solemnity for a better instituted this of the Epiphany in the room of it The testification of his true Incarnation was by the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin when Jesus was presented in the Temple and proclaimed by Simeon and Anna to be the Messiah This Feast was instituted by Justinian the Emperor Anno Christi 542. Saint Matthias who being one of the Seventy Disciples was after the Ascension chosen Apostle by Lot in the room of Judas the Traytor He Preached the Gospel in Macedonia and coming afterwards into Judea was there first stoned by the Jews and thâ—n beheaded after the Roman manner Anno Christâ— 51. The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin is kept in remembrance of the time when the Angâ—l Gabriâ—l declared our Saviours conception or Inâ—aâ—nation by the Holy Ghosâ— Saint Mark the Evangelist who Penned the Life Acts Miracles Deaâ—h and Resurrection of our Saviour He was the first Bishop of Alexandria where he Preached the Gospel and so all over the bordering Regions from Egypt to Pentapolis At the same Alexandria in the time of Trajan he had a Cable-Rope tyed about his Nâ—ck by which he was drawn from the place call'd Bucolus unto that other call'd Augets where he was burnt to Ashes by the Furious Idolaters against whom he had preached Anno Christi 63. and buried at Bucolus Saint Philip and Saint James both Apostles and Martyrs The first of the City of Bethsaida who preached the Gospel in Phrygia and converted the Eunuch Candaules He is said by some to have sent twelve Disciples into Britain for conversion thereof But at length the Painims laid hold on and Crucified him at Hierapolis about the year of Christ 53. The later viz. Saint James the lesser Son of Alpheus the Author of that excellent Epistle bearing his Name who was for his Wisdom and Piety surnamed the Just. After the Ascension he was Created Bishop of Jerusalem where when he had govern'd that Church for thirty years space he was first stoned and afterward placed on a Pinacle of the Temple from whence he was precipitated and then lying with his Thighs broken and half dead lifting up his Hands to Heaven knocked on the Head with a Fullâ—rs club in the seventh year of Nero. The Feast of Saint John Baptist son of Zachary and Elizabeth and who was of the Tribe of Levi of him that shewed us the Lamb of God the Son of the Father which taketh away the Sins of the World who nevertheless was beheaded by Hâ—rod the Tetrarch at the request of Herodias the Relict of his Brother Philip Anno
the year as through the Gate into the Hall or from Two-headed Janus looking back upon the end of the past and the beginning of the following year February à Februo that is to sacrifice because then the Romans sacrificed to Pluto who is also called Februus and to other Infernal Gods for the Souls of their Ancestors which Ovid 1. Fast. seems to intimate At Numa nec Janum nec avitas praeterit umbras Mensibus antiquis addidit ille duos And thus were all the Months of the Numan year ordained and so the year it self to consist of unequal days in honour of an unequal number accounted of as sacred by the Pythagoreans excepting onely February which had an equal number of days allowed iâ— lest if all of them had run either by an equal or unequal number they should have made a like consummation And hence arose this disposition of the Months Jan. 29. Febr. 28. Mar. > 31. Apr. 29. May 31. June 29. Quint. 31. Sext. 29. Sept. 29. Oct. 31. Nov. 29. Dec. 29. Wherein although Jan. and Feb. were put before March and so March not made the First but the Third month yet nevertheless Quintilis now not the 5th but the 7th retained still the name Quintilis as did also the other following months in their order But when Numa observed that by this quantity of the year which is Lunar and conformable to the Graecian year the Sun returned not to the same point of Heaven he reduced and accommodated this Lunar year to the Suns Motion by an Intercalation of a New Month consisting of 22 or 23 days which afterwards the Romans called either February-Intercalar or Mercedonian and which once in two years they intercalated by turns lest March should be removed from the beginning of the Spring or that more years should be accounted from the building of Rome than justly the true quantity of the year would allow of But although this kind of Intercalation so restored the Numan year which without it was meerly Lunar to the Suns course that the Equinoxes and Solstices were in a manner fixed to the same months yet when afterward they observed it somewhat exceeding the true and natural Quantity of the year and that the Arch-Priest whose business it was to correct the Intercalation had often-times intermitted it and either out of Malice and Favour whereby any man might be rid of or longer continued in his Magistery or the Renter of the Tribute or Customs or other publick things either gain or lose by the Magnitude of the year several ways depraved it it fell out that Anno V. C. 708. after the Numan year had been in use 670. compleat years the Correction made by Julius Caesar was received For Julius Caesar the first Monarch of the Romans having learned the Mathematicks at Alexandria observed that yet there was almost 10 days and 6 hours wanting in the Numan year to the full compleating of the Solar year and by the advice of Sosigenes the Mathematician whom after his overthrow of Pompey he brought with him out of Egypt to Rome he added those ten days whereof to January Sextilis and Decemb. two days but to Apr. June Sept. and Novemb. each of them one whence Jan. Mar. May. Quint. Sext. Oct. and Dec. had 31 days and the rest Febr. excepted which had but still 28 30 days as you may read in Macr. lib. 1. Saturn cap. 14. Therefore presently in the first year of the Julian Ordination not only Quintilis which was afterward called July in honour of Julius Caesar the Dictator had 31 days assigned it but also the month Sextilis which was likewise called August in honour of Augustus The words of the Senate you may see in Macrob. citato loco And hence came it that the Civil Roman months were numbered as at this day according to the Verses April terdenos Jun. Septemberque November Uno plus reliqui viginti Februus Octo At si Bissextus fuerit superadditur Unus And although the year hath since been Corrected by Gregory the 13th Bishop of Rome yet do the order of the Months and the number of days continue the same in the Corrected that they did in the Old Julian year they differing only in this that in the space of 400 years the Julian Account exceeds the Gregorian by 3 Intercalations or 3 days as before you have heard Moreover these Roman Months are divided into Calends Nones and Ides The Calends be the first day of every Month from which the days are reckoned backwards calling the next day preceding pridiè Calendas Januarii They are called Calendae or Kalends quasi Colendae because in old time they were used to sanctifie the first of every Month in honour of Juno according to that of Ovid Vendicat Ausonias Junonis cura Calendas Or they be called Calendae of Calo to call because the common people were called or convocated on the first day of every Month to hear the number of Nones The Nones be certain days placed in every Month whereof the most hath but 6 and the Month that hath least but 4. They begin at the Ides and end at the Calends and take their name as some say of Non because during that time the Romans sanctified no day to their God as may appear by Ovid Nonarum tutela Deo caret c. Or they might be called Novae by reason of the renovation of their Images every month or Nonae à Nundinis from their Fairs or Markets because the number of Nones limited the duration thereof in every month Lastly the Ides so called ab iduando which in the Tuscan tongue signifies to divide do part every month in two and are a number of 8 days following the Nones according to the order of the Calendar and the Verse Octo tenent Idus menses generaliter omnes Now as the first day of every month is called Calendae so the Nones in the 4 months March May July and October are the six days from the Calends or they fall upon the 7th day of those months but in all the other Months they are the 4 days from the Calends or happen on the 5th day of every month And the 8 Ides do fall upon the 8th day from the Nones All the other days being accounted by an Inverse order from the Nones and Ides of their own and from the Calends of the following Month are noted with the number of days by which they antecede the Nones Ides and Calends All which is manifested by the following old Verses Prima dies mensis cujusque est dicta Calendae Sex Nonas Majus October Julius Mars Quatuor at reliqui dabit Idus quilibet Octo Inde dies reliquos omnes dic esse Calendas Quas retro numerans dices à mense sequente The Syrian or Syro-Chaldaean months as used by Albategnius Alphraganus and at this day by this people agree with the months of the Julian year in number of days and manner of Intercalation but â—â—ve
the Registers and publick Notaries those Letters were confusedly written as one word the first sillable whereof was the Dipthong AE and had a declination assign'd it It is likewise by some called Hera but very corruptly for so the Spanish Dictionary of Antonius Nebrissa wherein it is made to signifie a Monarchy So Hera Mundi Hera Christi Hera Ordinationis Julianae and generally any other time computed from the beginning or rise of an Eminent and Illustrious Nation Religion or Sect is called Hera Now forasmuch as the business and benefit of these Epochae or Aerae is that the times past may thereunto be compared and applied as to a term prefixed I have here accommodated the Reader with the most Illustrious Epochae observed at this Day when they Commence how they agree and may be reduced to that of our Saviour the most Famous of all amongst Christians in limiting and determining of their Affairs for that such as be rightly instructed in the principal Intervals of years do best understand the differences of times which are Various and reap far greater profit in the Histories they read A view of the more notable Epochae EPOCHAE Anni Period Julia. Mens Perioda Juliana 1 January 1 Mundi Creatio 765 January 1 Aera Olympiadum 393◠July 8 Urbs condita 3961 April 21 Epocha Nabonnassari 3967 February 26 Obitus Alexandri Magni 4390 November 12 Aera Chaldaeorum 4463 October 15 Aera Ordinationis Julianae 4668 January 1 Aera CHRISTI DEI 4713 Calend. January  EPOCHAE Anni Christi Mens Aera Martyrum Copcitar 284 August 29 Aera Turcica Hegirae 622 July 16 Aera Jesdagirdica 632 June 16 Aera Sultanica 1079 March 14 Aera Gregoriana 1582 October 5 The Julian Period albeit but feign'd and invented by Scaliger through a continued Multiplication of the three Cycles of the Sun Moon and Roman Indiction used in the Julian year is Registred among the most Famous Epochae as being the Vehiculum by which we are safely carried through a Series of years This Period commenceth 4713 compleat years before the Common Aera of Christ or in the 4714. inchoate before his Nativity Therefore the first of January in the year 1657. Old Stile begins the 6370. year of the Julian Period the First whereof is Bissextile The Epocha or Aera of the Worlds Creation falleth out in the 765. year of the Julian Period which was Bissextile 3949 compleat years before the Birth of Christ. juxta Historicam veritatem wherefore the year 1657 is the 5660. Current year of the Worlds Aera Sed haec tamen incerta juxta varias Chronologorum sententias immutata Besides The Greek Church numbereth from the Creation to Christs Aera 5508 compleat years and begins it in the 5509. Current from the Antecedent Calends of September Therefore the year 1657. Current of the Christian Aera beginneth the 7165. current year of the World according to the Grecian Account The Latin Church according to Eusebius doth reckon from the Creation to Christs Nativity 5199 years counting from the Julian Vernal Month of March. And therefore the year of Christ 1657 is the 6856. year from the Creation which must as I said be computed from March for that according to this Account the Months January and February belong to the year 6855. The Jews Hebrews and later Rabbins do number from the Creation to the Nativity 3761 years beginning their Account from the first day of the Month Tisri which then agreed to the seventh of October in the Julian year And therefore the year of Christ 1657 is the 5418. year from the Creation according to their Account The Aera of the Olympiads or the first year of the first Olympiad began in the Summer of the 3938. year of the Julian Period in the 3174. year of the Creation Therefore the first year of the Christian Aera agrees to the 766. Olympiad Current or the 4. year of the 194. Olympiad which began the Summer before Therefore the Summer of the year of Christ 1657. began the first year of the 609. Olympiad This Epocha of the Olympiads is so called from the plains of Olympus nigh to the Temple of Jupiter Olympicus in the Country of Elis not far from the City Pisa and the River Alpheus where the Certamina ludicra or the Olympique Games were first instituted by Hercules Alemenus Anno Mundi 2757. in honour of this Jupiter Quibus homines Ethnici saith my Author ad immortalium Deorum cultum ad vires exercendas excitati sunt The Judges therein being the Citizens of Elis. After Hercules his Death these Games were discontinued for more than 400 years and until Prince Iphitus renewed them Anno Mundi 3174. and caused them to be Celebrated every fifth year The Epocha of Romes Foundation agrees with the 3161. year of the Julian Period April 21. being Paliliorum Urbis Romae Natale Festum with the 3197. year from the Worlds Creation the 3. year of the 6. Olympiad and the 753. current year before Christ. Therefore the year 1657. April 21. old stile began the 2410. year from the Foundation of Rome The Epocha of Nabonnassar the most ancient and famous of all other Astronomical Epochae took beginning with the Death of the King in the 3967. year of the Julian Period the 3203. of the World the first of the 8. Olympiad the 6. of the City and the 747. before Christ. Therefore the year 1657. July 5. New Stile but June 25. Old Stile begins the 2406. current year of Nebonnassar This Nabonnassar is not the same whom the Arabians Hebrews and some late Mathematicians amongst which Andreas Argolus is One following Alphonsus do meerly I suppose for the similitude of the Names call Nebuchadonosor or Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon For by examining the Interval of the 423 Egyptian years between the Empire of Nabonnassar and Alexanders Death with some famous actions during that time amongst the Jews and other Nations according to the Sacred and Profane Histories we shall find that Nabuchadonosor was 140 years after Nabonnassar Besides Funccius Bucholcerus Buntingus Colmannus and others especially Reinholdus Tab. Prut believed him to be the same with Salmanassar King of the Assyrians But Scaliger Calvisius Christmannus and Origanus conclude him for either that King of Babylon which 2 Reg. 20.12 is called Baladan the Father of Berodach or Mardochempadi as Ptolemy calleth him or else that King which Scaliger by this name calleth the first in the Dynastie of the Babylonians which revolted from Artica King of the Medes and erected a New Kingdom wherein he reckoneth Twenty Kings until Cyrus King of the Persians The Radix or Epocha of Alexander the Great which the Arabians call Aera Philippi began the 4390. year of the Julian Period the 3626. of the Creation Nov. 12. the 425. of Nabonnassar and the 324. Current before Christ. This Epocha was used by Hipparchus Ptol. Theon Alexandrinus in Canonibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Albategnius The year 1657.
noble Strafford Yeomans Bowcher And Kemish in cold blood resign to Fate The Surrey Suppliants too they basely Butcher As trivial Objects of their Rage and Hate Their Blood cries still aloud may it 〈◊〉 so Till Heav'n Avenge it on his Barb'rous Foe 9. In June The Loyal Kentish-men are Murdred next They would Petition for and have a KING What disobedient things were they that vext And so disturb'd the States new-modelling Petitioning's the Birth-right of the Saints They must be heard but will hear no Complaints 10. In July So Tomkins Challoner and that brave soul Francis Lord Villiers in this Month expir'd The cause the Kings A crime most deadly foul 'Gainst those poor Creatures which the Crown aspir'd Nor do those Saints distinguish Cruelty 'T is Justice right or wrong how e're we dye 11. In August Who loves true Worth and grudgeth it to pay A Tear for Valiant Lucas and stouâ— Lisle Or why behoâ—es it not that praâ— Their blood may not submerge this sinful Isle His Mercy 's Murder Honour breach of Trust Good God reward him as he 's base thou Just. 12. In September The last of Treaties in this Month begun And promis'd fair until the Men of War Dreading a Pecoe surpriz'd our Rising-Sun And dragg'd him to th' illegal new-found Bar Of Bondage The next Treaty they shall see Will be through Halters at the Gallow-tree 13. In October What Blood was shed at Basing after they Had spent their Fury with their pois'nous Breath And wanted strength unto their wills to slay But promis'd Quarter let the harmless Earth It fell on Witness may it ne'r forsake That Tincture untill Heav'n enquiry make 14. In November Next Kniveton's Life their Rage must satisfie For meer Obedience to his Soveraign's Will Who sent him Messengers yet like a Spie They take adjudge him and his Blood they spill Did ever Turks or Pagans violate The Law of Nations like this Lawless State 15. In December Stout Pitcher's Murder'd Carew who did praise A Servants Treachery unto his King Lo for reward his servant him betrays Unto the Block a bloody offering What grief it was that when he did return It could not be but by a shameful Urn And for a Conclusion to this Heroick Piece of Loyalty he writ the following Epistle by way of Post-script To the High and Mighty the Tyrants Triumphant at Westminster Gentlemen I Cannot call you since you drench'd your Hands in His Blood who was the Fountain of all our Earthly Honour and Happiness the Life and Light of the Land Hoc scelus Abyssus ex Abyssu natum Nor Country-men who have so Nero-like inhumanely ripp'd up the Bowels of your Natural Mother and exposed her Nakedness to the view of the pitiless World Si hi Sancti qui Scythae Si hi Christiani qui Cannibales For certainly none of you are of the right English race in that all of you degenerate so far from the true English Nature Facta haec Anglia olim nec Sancta nec Ethnica novit Or if you be the most Prodigious Monsters that ever the Earth groaned under In whose proditorious breasts the Spirits of all expired Traytors by a kind of Pythagorical Tâ—ansmigration are inclosed Let after-ages impose a Name suitable to your Merits for surely this cannot In the interim it shall suffice me You know whom I speak to and that I speak what I know From Year to Year I have fore-warned you of Judgments threatned and impending for your horrible Impieties And though I had been silent yet methinks the general Fate of all Rebellions especially such as this is that sums up all Itâ—ms in this Total The Barbarous Murder of Gods Anoynted had been enough to inform what you might trust to but that 't is too apparent we are wheel'd about to those times wherein Sacriledge is counted Reformation Rebâ—llion Devotion Murther Justice and Traytors Consecrated Saints and Martyrs Vis proditoria nomine vocatur Novo Angligena Virtus I have cordially wish'd and seriously begg'd you would have returned to your Pristine Obedience As the surest step to make your selves your Children and all of us happy But I found your Consciences were sear'd your Souls flatter'd with Ambitious dreams and charms of heightned Pride had mounted you Icarus-like too near the Sun which ever goeth before Destruction And indeed you have not been more Turk-like tempted with success in your Actions from which you still concluded though very weakly that GOD owned your Cause than Heaven hath been Merciful I may say in tempting you with so large a time of Repentance But sithence you have despised the Mercy and neglected the Opportunity it is to be feared the Mercy and time of the Mercy are both forfeited For I will not search into the secret Will of God So far as 't is manifested either in his Word or Works shall satisfie me And by their Rules if I understand either your Common-wealth together with your selves are even now falling to nothing This I write in Charity to you to the end that although you have no hopes to escape a Temporal yet your endeavours may be to avoid the Eternal punishment due to your Wickedness And that 's as much as can be desired or pray'd for by SIRS The Admirer of your Treason and Tyranny George Wharton For the writing of this Almanack he suffered exceedingly and was by Imprisonment made incapable of every thing that might probably assist him through his Earthly Pilgrimage And was now so closely looked after that he durst not write again neither could he be permitted that Liberty until it pleased God to put it into the Minds of his Adversaries to release him upon promise to live quietly And then in his Almanack 1651. for his Peaceable living he most Ingenuously Apologizeth thus TO you owre Criticks that By-standers are Viewing the Gamesters playing foul or fair And by the stroaks of your defining Will Save whom you fancy those you do not To you grave Chair-men whose attentive ear Hears all you can believes all true you hear And think the Roy'llists cannot real be Until a Rope conclude their Destiny Send I these Lines To let you understand I live as well b' Example as Command And that what e'r you judge herein amiss Conformable to your own Practice is The Prelates quit their Sleeves of Lawn and all The Hierarchy their Coats Canonical And live disguis'd as if they were none such That e're laid claim to Tithes or Christian-Church Why may not I as well disguised be As they or rather their Divinity The High-born House of Lords themselves submit Their Persons Honours Magazines of Wit Sure I who am but dust and ashes then May do as much as those Almighty-Men The new-conforming Garter-Knight that erst Hung's Watchet-Ribbon o're his amorous brest Thinks it far better now the King is dead To lay 't aside than lay aside his Head Why may not I some Crimson Lines
Qu. Majesties went toward Tunbridge 27 Parliament Prorogued till the 16 of March next coming and soon after the E. of Bristol step't aside Aug. 11 His Majesty removed from Tunbridge to White-hall 15 His Majesty went back to Tunbridge 18 The King and Qu. Majesties both return'd from Tunbridge to White-hal 21 The Parliament of Scotland passed an Act for a National Synod the first that ever was in that Kingdom under the Government of Bishops 25 His Majesties Proclamation for discovery and apprehension of the Earl of Bristol 26 The King and Qu. began their progress toward Bath and lay that Night at thei Wddow Whitfields in Maydenhead 27 At that worthy Gentlemans Sr. Thomas Doleman of Shaw near Newbury 28 At the Right Honourable the L. Seymours 29 Arrived at the Bath Sept. 5 Most Nobly entertained at the City of Bristol whence after dinner they returned to Bath Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York went to Portsmouth 10 The King and Queen dined at that Loyal Gentlemans James Thynns The Lord Mont. Alexander Master General of His Majesties Ordinance in Ireland departed this Life 23 King and Queen Magnificently treated by the Right Honorable the Lord High Chancellor of England at Cornbury from whence they afterwards went to Oxford An Act of the Scotch Parliament whereby is offer'd 20000 Foot and 1000 Horse to be in readiness for His Majesties service whensoever they shall be called for by his Majesty to march to any part of his Dominions of Scotl. Engl. or Irel. for suppressing of any Forraign Invasion intestine trouble or insurrection or for any other service wherein His Majesties Honor Authority or Greatness may be concerned 25 His Maj. with His Royall Highn the Duke of York went to Cornbury where that night they Lodged and having view'd Woodstock-Park 26 Returned to Oxford 30 The Court removed from Oxf. to Wickh Octob. 1 To White-Hall 2 Sir Richard Fanshaw Kt. and Bt. Sworn on of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council 12 A general Commotion designed by the Fanaticks but timely prevented by the great Wisdom and Vigilancy of His Majesty and his most Honorable Privy Council 18 Dyed the Right Honor Sir Will Compton Kt. Mast. Gen. of His Maj. Ordinance in Engl. and one of His Maj. most Honor. Privy Council A Person of so much integrity true Valour and Affability the loss of him can never be sufficiently Lamented Nov. 4. One Blackburn a Clothier of Leeds and one of the precious Saints in the late Rebell being accused of High Treason cut his own Throat 10 A Proclamation for discovery and Apprehension of divers Traiterous Conspirators therein Named Dec. 6 Dyed that Eminent Loyal and renowned Patriot Judge Jenkins at his House at Cowbridge 24 Earl of Tiviot Embarked for Tangier The Jugdes and Justices of Oyer and Terminer began their Journey towards York for the Tryal of the late Conspirators Jan. 5 They arriv at Y. 8 Were arraigned and tryed 17 Conspirators whereof 15 Convicted of High Treason 9 Three more Convicted for the same Crime 12 Two more Convict 16 James Turner well known by the name of Col. Turner arraign'd and Cast at the Old-Bayley for Felony and Burglary Sixteen of the late Conspirators Executed at York whereof two of their Heads sent to Doncaster two more to North-Allerton and the rest pitch'd upon Poles and set on the City Gales in York 19. Three more of them Executed at Chappel-moor near Leedâ— whose Heads were afterwards set on the Tolbooth there 21 Sir Richard Fanshaw Lord Embassador to the Spanish King set out for Portsmouth Col. Turner Executed in Leaden-Hall Street 22. Sr. John Lawson arrived at Portsmouth 23 Sr. Richard Fanshaw came thither also 25 A Fire at Whitehal 31 Sir John Lawson with the L. Ambassador Fanshaw Embarqued for Spain Feb. 20 John Twin a Printer arraign'd and condemn'd at the Old Bayly for Printing a most execrable Libel against his Maj. and the Government 22 Executed in Smithfield Mar. 1 Tho. Brewster a Bookseller and Natha Brooks and a Bookbinder stood in the Pillory in Cornhil and the day following in Smithfield for Selling and Uttering Malicious Scandalous and Seditious books against the King the State and peace of the Kingdom 16 The Ls. and Commons of Parl. met at Westminster according to Prorogation July 27 1663. and adjourned till Munday following 18 Began the Assizes at Appleby where four more Conspirators were indicted for High-Treason whereof three found Guilty the other acquitted 21 Three more such indicted whereof One found Guilty the other two acquitted and Sentence pass'd upon the former Three and the Last found Guilty to be drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd An antient Gentleman a Portuguese lodging in Covent garden most cruelly Murther'd by one Peter Caesar his Servant 24 Three of the Condemned Rebels executed aâ— Appleby Anno 1664. 26 27 A Notorius tumult in Cheapside fomented by the Industry of the Phanatiques whose design was to improve a Ryot into a Rebellion April 3 Mr. Dodington removed from the Tower to Hull Samuel Moyer to Tinmouth 〈◊〉 Smith Overton Hevennigham Millington and Temple to Jersie 4 Count Conningseâ—k the Emperors Envoy had his audience April 5 Edward Bagshaw removed from the Tower to South-sea Castle House of Ls. adjourned till the 18 of April following 6 The House of Commons did the like Paul Hobson removed from the Tower to Chepstow 18 Mildmay Fleetwood and Garland to Tangier 27 Peter Caesar formerly mention'd executed for the horrible murther of his Master The two Houses concurred with the Vote of the Commissioner for the advance and improvement of Trade touching the depredations and Injuries done by the Dutch wherein it was resolv'd that they would with their lives and fortunes assist his Majesty against all opposition whatsoever May 3 The Earl of Tiviot and his party cut off by the Moors near the Jews River at Tangier 15 Col. Richard Nichols Sir Robert Carr and Col. Cartwright imbark'd for New England 17 Parliament Prorogued to the 20 of August following 30 A Proclamation for recalling and prohibiting English Seamen from the services of Forraign Princes and States 31 Sir George Downing arrived at London June 7 A Dreadful Tempest of Thunder and Lightning in and about London 10 His Grace the Du. of Ormond arrived at White-hal from Ireland The Heer Van Gocâ— Embassador Ordinary to his sacred Majesty from the States General at Gravesend 12 Col. Fitz-Gerald with Capt. Spraggs and Captain Victors Companies imbarqued at Portsmouth for Tangier 16. Earl of Argyles Head taken down from off the Tol-Booth in Edinburgh by order of his Majesty and his Son admitted of his Maj. most Honor Privy Council there 25 The Heer Van Goch the States Embassador after two private Audie a formal entry had publick Audience July 4. The King and Queens Majesties treated at Tilbury-hope by the right Honorable the Earl of Sandwich 15 A Proclamation for further Proroguing the Parlia from the 20. of August next the Term of Prorogation