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A57689	Astrologia restaurata, or, Astrologie restored being an introduction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars : in four books ... / by VVilliam Ramesey, Gent. ...	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to the iudgement of the stars.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to elections.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Astrologia munda.	1653 (1653)	Wing R201; ESTC R20735	479,753	423

the Ground-work or Reasons thereof for the benefit of the Students therein delivered the better to confirm them in every point thereof as also to satisfie such who shall either enviously or ignorantly traduce or cavil against it By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrology Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Job 38.31 32 33. An constringes delicias Pleiadum aut lora Orionis dissolves induces ne remotiora signa quodque tempore suo aut Arcturum cum filiis suis duces An cognoscis de statutis Coeli an disponere potes dominium ejus in terra c. LONDON Printed for R. VV. 1653. HONORATISSIMO DOMINO NON MINVS VIRTVTE SVA QVAM GENERIS SPLENDORE INSIGNI ILLUSTRISSIMO WILHELMO SEYMOVR MARCHIONI ET COMITI DE HARTFORD DOMINO IN SEYMOVR BEAVCHAM c. Salutem Felicitatem Perpetuam DOMINO SUO MVLTIS NOMINIBVS OBSERVANDO HANC SUAM AD ASTROLOGIAM INTRODVCTIONEM SUBMISSE DEDICAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND Truly Noble both for Learning and Parts VVilliam Seymour Marquess and Earl of HARTFORD Lord SEYMOVR and BEAVCHAM c. Right Honourable SHould I have least hope of merit from your Honour by this my Dedication Having never had the happiness to appear in your Honours presence I should render my self both weak and presumptuous but my comfort is I write to a Person of Honour Learning and Parts who is of that Magnanimity that he will not despise the smallest gift or the meaness of the Giver or the first for the unworthiness of the last Artaxerxes King of Persia disdained not the water a poor man as he saw him pass by brought from a River in his hand and gave him but received it with a smiling countenance not measuring the grace of the Gift according to the value of the Present but according to the good Will and intent of the Giver accounting it no less an act of Magnanimity and Kingly bounty to take small Presents in good part then to give greater And truly though this my mite may seem small proceeding from so mean a hand as my own Yet let me say thus much of this Science which is the chief of these we call Liberal together with ASTRONOMY PHYSICKS and NATVRAL PHILOSOPHY which make up all but one intire Science and of themselves are but parts thereof And not only Aristotle but also all other Ancient and Authentick Writers as doth more appear in the first Book of this Volume as witnesseth Aristotle Lib. 2. Cap. 2. Phis as also further in his Metaphis 6. and 12. and 1. Pol. Cap. 7. and in his 2. De Coelo Text 17. and Lib. De Proprietat element lib. de Mundo cap. 9. and in his 4. De Generatione Animimalium Cap. 10. using in all his Writings indifferently the Name of ASTROLOGER and ASTRONOMER and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and the same for the Contemplaters of Nature in and by this Science are of all Philosophers the chiefest and this Antiquity maketh plain unto us as testifieth the most Ancientest Historiographers who Record that the Priests and Kings amongst the EGYPTIANS the CHALDEANS among the BABYLONIANS the GYMNOSOPHYSTS among the INDIANS the MAGICIANS among the PERSIANS the chief PHILOSOPHERS of GREECE and ITALY and the DRUIDES of FRANCE were all ASTROLOGERS and esteemed by these Nations as the wisest men And therefore fore I say as it is a part of the chiefest of the Liberal Sciences so hath it been still in high esteem amongst the Nobler and Graver sort of People and the more refined Souls in all Ages especially amongst the Chaldeans Egyptians Assyrians Lacedemonians Sydonians Indians Persians Greeks and Arabians for amongst the Egyptians it was not Lawfull for any man to take the Function of Priest-hood on him except he were an ASTROLOGER neither could any be chosen King except he were of the Colledge of the Priests And Rodiginus reporteth that for the prevention of Treason the Nativities of all Infants born therein was brought to the King to be judged on and Dion recordeth the same to be practised by the Emperour Tyberius and in the Prophesie of Daniel we may see that the Monarchs of Babylon attempted nothing of importance without first asking Councel of the Caldeans And the Kings of Lacedemonia suffered none to sit in their Councels but who were Astrologers And amongst the Persians none was admitted to the Crown but who were excellently skilled in ASTROLOGY Wherefore my LORD since this is an ART that hath ever been esteemed amongst the Nobler Wiser Greater Ingeniouser and the most refined Spirits of the World from Age to Age and chiefly Studied Maintained and Upheld by them I humbly presumed to Dedicate this Introductory Part unto your Honour since all these Properties are Naturally Inherent in your Noble Self for t●ue Nobility is the fittest Patron for such Noble SCIENCES neither are they fit to be offered to any but who are really such it surpassing the reach of the ordinary capacity of the World so that my LORD my hope is that if not for the Wel-wishes and Honour the Presenter thereof beareth to your Lordship nor the Antiquity and Excellency of the Thing presented yet your Honour will accept thereof out of the Munificence of your own Innate Magnanimity it being sufficient honour for me to acknowledge my self MY LORD Your HONOURS Most Humble Servant William Ramesey To the Reader HAving before in the First Book sufficiently proved and shewn the validity excellency certainty and legality of this Noble Science and vindicated it from all its aspersions it resteth now I shew thee the grounds and reasons of the Art viz. the Number of the Signs their Names and Natures the Dignities Number and Names of the Planets and the Reasons of all these and what is else most expedient and necessary to be known that thou mayst not be to seek but be sufficiently enabled to answer all opposers and gainsayers thereof in which thou hast also a plain and easie Introduction to the whole Art wherefore thou oughtest to be very well skilled and perfect in every point and part contained in this Book before thou venturest to proceed to the two other subsequent Treatises for otherwise thou shalt never be able to apprehend them the which contrariwise if thou art perfect in this will prove very easie unto thee wherefore that it might be so I have in this place prefixed it Let the benefit be thine or no I am sure the Pains and Labour hath been mine yet now I rest Thy Loving Friend William Ramesey The Contents of every Chapter contained in the Second BOOK being an Introduction to the Iudgement of the STARS CHAP. 1. OF the names and number of the Planets with their several Characters and signification and Nature of Saturn Fol. 49. Chap. 2. Of the signification and Nature of Jupiter Fol. 52 Chap. 3. Of the signification and Nature of Mars Fol. 54 Chap. 4. Of the signification and Nature of the Sun Fol. 56 Chap. 5.

the seventh Also it upon the 2d there were the 3d. deg of Taurus and the 4th min. we are to place the 3. deg and 4th min. of ♏ upon the 8th house because the 8th is opposite to the second and ♏ to ♉ and so of the rest remember still to place the opposite sign and the same degrees and minutes on the opposite house and you cannot erre and thus much shall suffice at this time FINIS AN INTRODVCTION TO ELECTIONS Fully comprehending The RULES of the ANCIENTS IN Electing a Time for any manner of Work Never before made publique in our Mother Tongue But now by the Blessing of GOD for the benefit of all true Lovers of knowledge sent abroad By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrology Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Eccles 3.1 To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the Heaven Sapiens Dominabitur astris LONDON Printed for R. VV. 1653. HONORATISSIMO AT QUE ILLVSTRISSIMO DOMINO DOMINO HENRICO PERREPOINT MARCHIONI DE DORCHESTER COMITI DE KINGSTON APVD HVLL PROCOMITI NEVVARK ET DOMINO PERREPOINT DE HOLMES PERREPOINT Salutem Pacem Felicitatem Perpetuam DOMINO SUO CLEMENTISSIMO HANC SUAM IN ELECTIONIBVS INTRODVCTIONEM SUBMISSE DEDICAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Henry Perrepoint Marquess of DORCHESTER Earl of KINGSTONE upon HVLL Vicount NEW ARK and Lord PERREPOINT of HOLMES PERREPOINT Health and life here and Eternal happiness hereafter MY LORD WHen Your Honour shall consider the reason of this my bold Dedication I know were not Your Honour of a more Noble Spirit then to judge of things by the first sight or glimpse thereof I should have little or no cause to hope of acceptance at Your Honours hands but should rather justly be induced to expect since it is my unhappiness to be a stranger to Your Honour Your frown rather then favour and reprehension for this my boldness But as it was nothing but really Your Honours Vertues which according to the Philosopher are the onely Badges of Honour and love to Learning that was the occasion of this my transgression I humbly presume through them my fault will be venial since the blame is Your Honours and that my self and this my small Present shall finde access into Your Honours favour and Protection The subject of this piece is that part of Astrology or NATURAL PHILOSOPHY which treateth of Elections teaching by the powerful Influence of the Superior and Coelestial bodies how to frame a fit and proper time for any manner of work belonging to the life of Man in a Natural way there being according to that most elegant expression of the chief of Philosophers and sagest of Mortals SOLOMON Eccles 3.1 A season for every thing and a time for every purpose under the Sun And truly it is a peice of that sublime Learning that I fear it will pass the bounds of not only the common and ordinaryest but the indifferent capacities of most men and in some measure put even the most Judicious to seek unless they are true sons or Contemplators of Nature and its mysteries and secrets this for the generality Yet what conduceth to the administration of Physick and Phlebotomy which according to Hippocrates and Galen as I have sufficiently shewn in the 10 Chap. of the first Book of this Volume and the 1. Chapter of the 7. Sect. of this very third Treatise can never be rightly administred without the help of this Art is more easily to be comprehended as also what tendeth to the use of Navigation and husbandry Wherefore since this my fabrick of THE RESTAURATION OF ASTROLOGY or the true Natural Philosophy which is four square is finished now after my great pains and care and brought to light it imploreth Your Patronage and especially this Corner least the unworthyness of the Author may be a means of its fall to the ground without the least notice taken thereof or hope of recovery unless Your Honours Nobility Virtues and Learning be a gracious support thereunto the which if Your Honour be Munificently pleased to grant it will be a perpetual rock unto it and an inexpressible fame unto him whose highth of ambition is to be My LORD Your HONOURS Servant Whilest he is William Ramesey To the Reader READER THou art here presented with the whole Art of Elections which may be very beneficial unto ●ee in many things especially in the administration of Physick using of Husbandry and Navigation for which considerations I have undertaken to divulge the whole Body thereof for herein are the rules infallible yet in others by reason they are to depend on several other considerations which we place as ground-works Note viz. the Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses great Conjunctions and in some measure Nativities they are very intricate and doubful and truly I may say they seldom or never prove true by reason few that undertake the practice thereof understand the fundamentals and ground-works and how to order and dispose of them or will take the pains to consider every particular which is requisite to be seriously pondered and weighed before Election can be made on any particular thing The Authors admonition to the Students in Elections Wherefore let him that presents this Book unto thee advise thee as thou tendrest the propagation of the Art and thy own Reputation not to dare to put any part thereof in practise unless it be I say so much as thou findest tend to the administration of Physick Phlebotomy or using of Husbandry and Navigation till thou art very well acquainted with Nature and canst prove thou knowst the fundamentals and reasons of every particular point of this Science lest thou become ridiculous and odious to the Ignorant and the rural of the World by thy frequent failings which thou canst never avoid if thou knowest no more then what is here verbally delivered or if thou trustest barely to the writings of any man whatsoever for the illiterate by this thy weakness being no wise capable of the mysteries of these knowledges will sooner condemn the Art as imperfect or faulty then thee or thy judgement which art rather worthy reprehension for by the right knowledge of the divine practice thereof thou mayst attain to admirable speculations and rare things For it was far from my intentions in the penning thereof to have it thus abused which thou mayst soon do by basely putting it openly in practise as some have the resolution of Questions and so not only become an occasion of derision to thy self with them but also an ill requiter of my pains and care towards thee and bring this part of the Art if not all under the notion thereof into the contempt of the World the which in it self is good and pure though sublime for there is nothing more certain then that there is a proper time and season for every thing under the Sun A time to be born and a time to dye a

Significators and so likewise any other thing you must supply in this nature for it were both tedious and superfluous thus to make repetition As touching riding of Horses for any Race or to win at such a time fit the Ascendent its Lord the Moon and its Dispositor as also the Planet to whom they are joined also Part of Fortune and its Dispositor and make the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon apply thereunto and then place the Lord of the Hour in the Ascendent at that time he steps out of the stable But if all these cannot be observed place the Lord of the hour to be sure in the Ascendent and fortifie the Moon and place her if you can in Sagittary or in the first half of Libra and look that neither the Lord of the hour the Moon nor the Lord of the Ascendent be in their fall for that denotes the horse shall fall in the race before he come to The End ASTROLOGIA MVNDA OR ASTROLOGY In it's PVRITY BEING A Short but Compendious INTRODVCTION To the Iudging of the ANNVAL or YEARLY REVOLVTIONS O F The WORLD by which AS ALSO ECLIPSES Great CONIVNCTIONS COMETS AND BLAZING-STARS Are Iudged by the ordinary Course and Order of NATURE the general accidents of Countries Kingdoms Provinces and Cities alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs cause of Plenty Dearth Wars Peace Health Sickness alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining to the life of Man in a natural way wherein the Infinite Wisdom of GOD is seen manifestly in the Government of the World by the Influence and constant Harmony of the Celestial Planets and Stars the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by Demonstration of the Inevitable Events of the Heavens so long as GOD upholdeth the order and course of Nature unperverted And the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practisers of what is unlawful By WILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrology Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Tempora Mutantur nos Mutamur in illis LONDON Printed by R. W. 1653. HONORATISSIMO ATQUE ILLVSTRISSIMO DOMINO NON MINVS VIRTVTE SVA QVAM GENERIS SPLENDORE DOMINO MOVNTAGVE BERTY COMITI DE LINDSEY DOMINO DE WILLOVGHBY DE ERESBY ET TO TIVS ANGLIAE SVPREMO CAMERARIO Salutem in Perpetuum DOMINO SUO MVLTIS NOMINIBVS OBSERVANDO HANC SUAM ASTROLOGIAM MVNDAM SUBMISSE DEDICAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE Right Honorable and truly Noble Montague Berty EARL of LINDSEY LORD WILLOVGHBY of ERESBY AND LORD HIGH CHAMBERLAIN OF ENGLAND My LORD DId not your Honours Merits claim this fourth and chief Part of my Labours as Your due I durst not have assumed that audacity as to implore Your Honours Patronage for as I have humbly made choice of the three preceding most Noble Heroes So my Lord lest yet notwithstanding my Fabrick should at length fall to the ground which it must inevitably do unless Your Honour pass by the presumption and unworthiness of the Penner I humbly presumed to crave Your Honours Patronage and support thereof craving pardon for this my Simile being the main pillar on which I desire it should be built and upheld not questioning then but Your Honours Vertues and most Excellent Endowments will adde such a lusture to the whole that the beholders will not question the insufficiency or unworthyness of Me the Author nor further call the thing it self in question but with all assured confidence accept thereof as most worthy and immaculate which in it self I presume to conclude it is how ever my weakness and insufficiency hath expressed it to the World the which as I question not but Your Honours piercing Judgement will discover so I hope Your Honours Munificent goodness will pass over and pardon I must confess my Lord the ridiculous and base Mercenary practises of some that have pretended to the knowledge of this sublime Science hath brought the whole Art into contempt and in question with the ignorant therein and such as are not able to distinguish between the use and the abuse of a thing or the purity of the thing studyed and the corruption of the Student whereby the very word ASTROLOGY under which this most heavenly Science and peece of NATVRAL PHILOSOPHY is exprest is become both odious and ridiculous to most of the rural now living but such is Yout Honors Magnanimity that the Traduced shall not without diligent examination and evident witness be condemned nor abolished Your Honours Presence not making Tradition but Truth and Experience the guide and ground of Your Judgement I shall not need here to speak ought in the behalf of the whole Science which I have endevoured in these my labours to purifie from its dross and feculency since in the preceding Epistles and the first Book I have hinted both at its Verity Excellency and Validity but only of this subsequent Discourse which now after my great care and indefatigable pains being produced I am by an happy gust drawn to this Anchorage and crave Your Honours acceptance and Patronage It is an Instruction to the whole General Part of that Liberal Science which is called ASTRONOMY or ASTROLOGY the which together with PHYSICKS make according to Aristotle 2. Phys 2. Cap. but one intire Science for he throughout all his works indifferently useth the Name of ASTROLOGER and ASTRONOMER and ASTROLOGER and PHILOSOPHER for one and the same and amongst all Ancient and Learned Writers Astrology and Astronomy have been received for one and the same Science though distinct parts or properties as hath been hinted at in the first Book of this Volume and the 2. Chapter It containeth four Sections the three first treating of the Revolutions of the Years of the World and the fourth and last of Eclipses Comets and Blazing-Stars and the great Conjunctions of the Planets by which we are taught how to judge of the order and course of Nature and the Government of the World as the general accidents of the World and the alterations therein the change of Laws Customs Empires and Governments the alterations of the Ayr the cause of Plenty Scarcity Health Sickness Peace Wars c. We may also hereby most manifestly see the infinite Wisdom Providence and Government of GOD in the whole Vniverse by the constant Harmony and Celestial influences of the PLANETS and the STARS whose Portencies so long as GOD upholdeth the order and course of NATVRE unperverted must inevitably prove true and effectual they being never frustrated but by Miracle My Lord this is the ASTROLOGIA MVNDA the Pure Astrology which the Patriarchs and the Antient Fathers studyed and contemplated by which the Babylonians Arabians Syrians Egyptians Grecians Persians and Lacedemonians ruled and became famous and glorious to the whole World and therefore My Lord as being the chief and most exquisite part of these my undertakings I have placed it last that so it might not be attempted by any that are

success joy and gladness Dragons Head Dragons Tayl. Blazing Star but if above Dragons Tayl this felicity shall happen to the Commons And if he be exalted above any Blazing Star when he is in any Configuration therewith men shall generally suffer poverty penury and want anxiety and much misery Jupiter exalted above Saturn Mars Sol. Venus Mercury If Jupier be eaxlted above Saturn when in any Configuration with him he signifies much lamentation weeping howling grief trouble and sadness Above Mars there shall happen much grief and trouble to Men also dammage and loss if above the Sun above Venus Womens affairs and business shall succeed well and prosperously and if above Mercury the Kings Officers shall be increased and they shall have honor Luna Dragons Head profit gain and praise above the Moon Noble and Great men shall increase and abound in honor prosperity and success Above the Dragons Head he denotes all good success and fortune Dragons Tayl. Blazing Star if above the Dragons Tayl depopulations and destruction of houses and buildings above a Blazing Star it signifies that Noble men and such as are in great esteem shall be slain Mars exalted above Saturn Jupiter Sol. Venus Mercury When Mars is exalted above Saturn and in any configuration with him he doth not signifie much hurt or mischief Above Jupiter great men shall agree to take arms and kill one an other Above the Sun Kings and Rulers will go neer to be slain treacherously Above Venus men shall not care much for pleasures neither will women soon conceive with Child Above Mercury quarrels slaughters and discords are signified Luna Dragons Head And above the Moon Earth-quakes and those very violent Above Dragons Head he denotes good success and prosperity and honour to Great and Noble men Dragons Tayl. Above Dragons Tayl there shall happen Combustions troubles and inconveniencies to Men concerning Plants and Vegetables And if he be exalted above a Blazing Star Blazing Star there will happen many slaughters amongst men and they shall delight to sway and bear Arms. The Sun is of that nature and quality The Sun above any of the ●lanets Drag H c. Venus exalted above Saturn Jupiter Mars that by his beams any Planet is afflicted wherefore when he is exalted so above any Planet he is the significator of much evill and mischief excepting Mercury strong and fortified Venus being exalted above Saturn Men shall be perplexed with much grief and trouble Above Jupiter Great and Noble men shall be in a prosperous and happy condition and all things shall succeed well with them Above Mars Women shall willingly use the Art of Generation and soon Conceive and Men shall be troubled in their stomachs through Surfeits and eating too much Above the Sun Sol. Mercury men shall be lavish and expensive Above Mercury men shall domineer and triumph one over another Above the Moon men shall have much joy and gladness Luna Dragons Head Above Dragons Head joy and gladness to Great and Noble men and all prosperity and happiness and they shall delight themselves with young Maids and Virgins Dragons Tayl blazing Star and in Womens affairs But if above Dragons Tayl judge neither prosperity nor good and if she be exalted above any Blazing Star being in Configuration therewith she signifies that there shall be a scarcity of waters and that women shall not be in any great esteem shall miscarry and come to many misfortunes and mischances Also Mercury being exalted above Saturn men shall go about to deceive cheat and betray one another Above Jupiter Kings Great men Merc exalted above Saturn Jupiter Mars So● Venus Luna Dragons Head Dragons Tayl. Blazing Star and those in power and Authority shall increase in health and Honor Above Mars fear and terror shal fall upon men above ☉ Kings and Rulers shal be famous and addict themselves to knowledge and learning Above ♀ men shall addict themselves to sports and the study of Necromancy occult and secret Arts Above the ☽ he signifies joy and gladness and that men shal do wonderful and strange feats Above ☊ there shall be many manifest thefts and robberies above ☋ it signifies men shall be scoffers and jeerers one of another Above a Blazing Star men shall stay and destroy those that are Masters of their Militia and such as are in most eminent and chief command and best souldiers The ☽ being in any Configuration of ♄ and exalted above him Lana exalted above Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol. signifies evill and mischief and that men shall be ill-conditioned one towards another Above ♃ rich and noble men shal encrease in health wealth and honor Above ♂ Houses and buildings shall be destroyed by fire also Earth-quakes and much blood-shed Above ☉ mischief and much evill and take this for a general rule Let her be Significatrix of what you will she ever denotes mischief and misfortune if she be under the Sun-beams Above ♀ Noble and rich Women shall encrease in honour and esteem Venus Mercury Dragons Head Dragons Tayl. Blazing Star Above ☿ men shall be wise shall choose grave and judicious Counsellors and shall make good Laws and wise Acts Above ☊ she signifies dammage to Rivers and Fountains Springs and water-places Above ☋ mortality and destruction to beasts And lastly above a Blazing Star she signifies loss of of substance Thus much of the significations of the Planets when exalted one above the other and above ☊ ☋ and Blazing Stars it resteth therefore now to shew you the significations of them being exalted over one another and also over the Planets and so conclude this Chapter according then to the same order we have hitherto followed we are to begin with ☊ and then of the other two Now if ☊ be beheld of ♄ and ☊ at that time exalted above him Dra. H. exalted above Saturn Jupiter it stirreth up Wars and men shall delight to bear Arms Above ♃ Noble and rich Men shall increase in honour and greatness and all business shall succeed well with them Above ♂ Souldiers and such as carry Arms shall be prosperous in esteem and fortunate Mars It shall also go well with Kings and the Grandees of the Earth when it is exalted above ☉ And if it be above ♀ Sol. Venus Mercury it signifies that Women and Virgins shall be joyfull and merry and that every thing shall succeed well with them in a generall way Above ☿ men shall delight and addict themselves to laying of foundations for Palaces Royall Castles Cities Towns and Villages Above the ☽ Luna men shall have loss and detriment in their substance and goods Above ☋ in this nature it cannot be exalted Dragons Tayl. because as you have heard in the 17. Chapter of the 2. Treatise of this Volume they are but Nodes and can behold no Planet because they have no rayes nor beams but may be beheld by any Planet and