THE WORKS OF That Late Most Excellent PHILOSOPHER AND ASTRONOMER Sir GEORGE WHARTON Bar. Collected into one Entire VOLUME By JOHN GADBVRY Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed by M. H for John Leigh at Stationers Hall and Aâ—â—â—sham Churchill at the Black Swan near Amen-Corner 1683. To all the Learned and Loyal SONS OF THE MUSES But chiefly such as are related either by Blood or Friendship to the late Learned Sir GEO. WHARTON Baronet IS THIS COLLECTION Of his Excellent LABOURS DEDICATED By J. GADBVRY The Unworthy Collector of them To the Impartial and Ingenious Readers of these Learned and Loyal Collections of the Works of Sir George Wharton Baronet Gentlemen THE Worthy Author of the ensuing Discourses was a Person of Exemplary Learning Loyalty Honour and Generosity and his Courage Adventures and Sufferings were so eminent and remarkable in the late times of Rebellion and Anarchy that to express them truly and equal to his Merit would require the Pen of a Plutarch or Suetonius or at least that of One of his more Learned Friends and Admirers whereby his happy Memory might be the more justly and punctually preserved from the consuming Rust of Time which by degrees devours all things whereas it may suffer much by reason of my Inability in Art and want of Materials for such a Performance though I must tell you it cannot for want of Candor and Respect The loss of his Person I esteemed very great as well to his King and Countrey as Relations and not easie to be repaired But that the Muses or Republick of Learning might not be deprived of so great a Son of Science without some Pillar or Monument remaining whereby he might in after Ages be remembred I have thought fit for Reasons hereafter mentioned to make this Collection of the most useful of his Learned Labours and do here transmit them to Posterity for their Advantage and Service Learning and Loyalty were the Twins of his Noble mind which though they were Vertues united in him I shall here speak alittle of them separately and as succinctly as I can First For his Loyalty in our late never-to-be-forgotten Intestine Divisions this our Author being then in the prime of his Years and in a full Possession of a good Estate descended upon him from his Ancestors but with other Loyal Persons discontented at the then growing Rebellion which like an Envious Cloud began to overspread and darken the Splendor of the Monarchy He as I heard himself to express it turns all his said Inheritance into Money and being a Son of Mars as well as of Hermes as his Allegiance and Honour bound him he espouses his Majesties Cause and Interest and raises a Gallant Troop of Horse therewith And as far as he was able opposed the Kings and Kingdoms Enemies endeavouring to settle his Soveraign in his Throne and restore Peace to his bleeding Country But God Almighty sure as a Punishment for our Sins both then and yet of too deep a Scarlet-dye to be quickly purged and rendred white as Wool was pleased to permit the Rebellious Party to prevail against his then most Sacred Majesty and his Arms And this worthy Man with many others became so much a Sharer in that dismal Calamity that after many Noble and Generous Hazards of his Person in Battel he was at the last the Rebel-Party being too powerful totally routed near Stow in Gloucester-shire where the Noble and Valiant Sir Jacob Ashley was unfortunately victor'd and taken Prisoner In which Battel his whole Troop was cut off and himself at the same time received several Scars of Honour which he carried to his Grave with him That good but unfortunate Prince King Charles the First of ever Blessed Memory in whose Cause our Author thus engaged being not alittle troubled as with the unhappy Loss in General so with this Loyal Persons Misfortunes in particular thus sustained in his Service was most graciously pleased in some little time after to confer upon him in Consideration of his just and faithful Services as well as his great Losses an Honourable Place in his Train of Artillery which he held during the Remainder of the Wars He served his Soveraign faithfully the King as bountifully requites his Services Few lose by just and Loyal Services perform'd for Pious and Royal Princes By this alone Example methinks the restless Plotting Non-conformist should learn to be obedient and know Allegiance to be non only his Duty but Advantage since of all Gratitude that which proceeds from Princes is the Greatest the most God-like and obliging But if our Dissenters a Title-Rebellious People pride themselves in and love to be distinguished by if they I say shall in stead of thus signalizing their Loyalty make it their main work to approve themselves such a Race of true Protestant-Christians as a late execrable Book call'd the Life of Julian most boldly but falsely affirms the Primitive Christians to have been I shall for ever cease to wonder at their constant and causeless Murmurings or their mutinous Tenets or Actions since their lost or Planet-struck Passive Obedience is always swelling them into a Malicious Hatred and Provocation against the Government and by degrees if let alone into an Active Rebellion And this their Hypocritical Zeal and pretended Piety we sadly remember was written by them in Horrid Dismal Characters and at large too in our late unnatural Wars and testified to be true with the Blood of many Thousands the Ruine of Multitudes of Families the most horrid and barbarous Murder of the best of Kings and sundry of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy the sad and lamentable Banishment of his present Gracious Majesty and together with him all the Royal Line These were but some of the Effects of the Dissenters Zeal in Anno 1641. began of which Year to do them right they do not delight yea may be ashamed to hear The wretched Consequences therefore of such a Piety all good People have reason to dread and also to be very watchful that they do not permit or encourage the like damnable Premisses to grow up among them For certainly even Turks themselves are more tolerable than such Christians But this Obitèr It having pleased God in his Anger who alone is the Setter up of Kings and the Disposer of Crowns and Scepters to suffer his late Majesty I say to be overcome by his own perjur'd Subjects for they had all sworn Allegiance to him in that most Bloody Rebellion this Loyal Gentleman is thereby depriv'd of that his Majesties said Bounty to him and with the King himself and all the Loyal Party put once more to his Shifts And what doth he now Turn to the strongest side like the Dog in the Apologue who had defended his Masters Goods and Interest as long as he could but when overcome comply and share in the Booty No! He had a Soul too Noble and Loyal for such base and degenerous Purposes But rather like the great Scripture-Philosopher would still
and last Particular laid down by Ptolemy and that is the time of these Events In due search whereof we are to consider the Habit of the Comet in respect of the Sun Cometa Orientalis effectum suum citius ostendit Occidentalis tardius An Oriental Comet doth quickly shew its Effects but an Occidental as this was more slowly And this in the general In Specie saith Cardan quantum temporis requiritur Prolemaeus non dixit Ptolemy hath left us no special Rule whereby to know the precise beginning of a Comets Effects Howbeit Cardan is of Opinion that the beginnings thereof are as in Eclipses deferred so many Months as there shall be inequal hours intercepted between the Comet and the Ascendant of the Figure erected to the middle time of its appearance Yet saith he Hoc unum interest quod semina corum quae pâ—r Cometam significantur diutius proferuntur This one thing is considerable that sometimes the Generation or Seeds of those things which are signified by a Comet are deferred longer And he gives the Example of our Saviour at whose Birth there appeared a Comet in the East which the Wise Men saw and came therefore to Worship him They called it a Star by a common name as well because Comets are called Stars as also for that it was most fair and beautiful and resembling those that usually shine by Night Which Star or Comet saith he pronounced the Seditions and Troubles that succeeded by the Promulgation of the Faith of Christ These many Exiles and Martyrs and afterwards the Kingdom of Peace and Salvation to be established The Author and King of which CHRIST was born in the very Glory of the Comet because it appeared in the East Nevertheless the Effects thereof that is to say the Preaching and Promulgation of his Law the Seditions and Tumults of the People the Persecutions Banishments Deaths Wars and Kingdoms erected in a Christian Name scarce had their Commencement Thirty Years after and persevere until this very day So on the contrary in 1264. there appeared an unhappy Comet in the East extending its Hairs or Rays if we Credit the Story to the Mid-heaven which Comet continued almost Nine Months together Nâ—ither sooner vanished it than Pope Urban dyed After whose death Charles with an Army of Frâ—nch marched against Manfrâ—dus and having Vanquished him possesses himself of the Kingdom of Naples Two Years after the Paeni or Carthaginians invaded Spain and there committed great Cruelty nevertheless they were afterwards repulsâ—d and slam At the same time there were great Tumults raised in Hetruria What followed In the third Year after the Comet Banducar or rather Bandoduchar King of Babylon and Assyria invaded Armenia with a mighty Army Conquered Antioch and committed most grievous slaughters upon the Christians In the fourth Year after the Comet Conradinus the Suevian being Vanquished and taken Captive by Charles Earl of Provence and Sicily and as Aemilius writes the declared King of Jerusalem was Beheaded In the fifth Year Lewis the Ninth King of France passing into Africa was taken at Carthage or as others say at Tunera and dyed of a Flux the greatest part of his Army being first destroyed by Famine and Pestilence Whose Death was no sooner heard of than the aforesaid Charles enforced the King of the Carthaginians to a Yearly Tribute In the Sixth Year the Scythians now called Tartars assisting the Armenians the Assyrians or Saracens being Vanquished and fled freed Asia and long kept it by the consent of the Christians So that the measure of time limiting the beginning and ending of a Comets Effects cannot be prefixed unless as Ptolemy describeth for so indeed they may be conjectured But to adventure on feigned proportions of time where none is in Nature were ridiculous Diuturni Cometae effectuum magnitudinem diuturnitatem stabilemque in perturbatione quam afferunt statum significant Effectus minores minus stabiles minus Diuturni Cometae afferunt Comets that continue long saith Origanus import the Magnitude and continuance of their Effects and a stedfast condition in the Trouble or Aâ—â—iction they bring But such as continue a shorter time lesser Effects and not so durable This Comet continued twenty three days or thereabouts and 't is probable the Effects may continue as many Years but I dare not conclude so For although that proportion should hold true where the Effects of Comets meeting with no obstruction terminate per se their virtue being extinguished like as it falls out in all other Natural Causes Yet when another Comet Eclipse or Great Conjunction supervenes which is of a contrary Nature it everts the Decrees of the former and so eludes us as to any certain proportion of time limiting their Effects Teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus viz. Johannes Baptista Morinus Doctor in Physick and Physician in Ordinary to the Duke of Luxemburgh after his Epistles to the South and North Astrologers for restoring of Astrology Printed at Paris Anno 1628. delivers these six following Articles c. as necessary for the Confirmation and Demonstration thereof by Principles which Articles c. I have faithfully Translated and here inserted in hope some Noble Spirits endued with Ability of Parts and Purse may timely attempt the Prosecution thereof 1. FIrst to Collect from the Histories of several Nations of the World the most Eminent and Notable Changes that have therein happened in respect of Sects Empires Kingdoms Wars Famines Deluges c. with the exact times of their Changes and the true postures of the Constellations and Planets preceding the same 2. To observe the Changes of the Air in respect of Heat Cold Moisture and Drought as also the Winds throughout the whole Latitude of the Earth And then the different places of Longitude in their Natures and Qualities at the same and at several times Erecting Coelestial Figures most congruous for that purpose and to mark well how from thence Plants Brutes and Men are affected and all these Observations to compare one with another 3. To erect the several Nativities of such as dyed not long after they were Born of those that be Sickly or any ways Hurt Blind Lame Ulcerated Wounded Burnt Mutilated c. diligently observing the Parts so affected the which may most conveniently be done in a spacious City such as Paris is where are many Hospitals and Poor People innumerable many Chirurgeons and every day various Casualties 4. By help of the Physicians to find out if possible the Beginnings Species Accidents and Solutions of all Acute and daily Diseases that every where abound Erecting Coelestial Schemes to those Beginnings And that especially at Paris where the exorbitant Practice of frequent Blood-letting does much disturb Natures Motions and Crises in Diseases and very often elude and frustrate the Astrological Predictions of the Ancients concerning them 5. What the Ancient Astrologers have delivered on every Subject the same to Collect and Observe in several by diligent reading thereof and to
of any Person Man or Woman of what Condition soever a Planet weak or strong in the Heavens but the Mount or Hill of such Planet in their Hand will answer it punctually and prove it to be so The Seven most remarkable places in the Hand agreeing to the number of the Planets that are constantly moving in the Heavens 10. Lastly if the Prince or Emperour of the Muses the Poet I mean happen to wander in this Field of Learning he also will be certain to find great Relief and Refreshment There being to be found in our Authors choicest Poems such High Rare and Plentiful Flights of Fancy such clear and curious Strains of Wit such smoothness of Expression c. that for the Subjects therein treated of he will scarce furnish himself any where so well and so happily Nay his Poems do abound not only with great Judgment but with such apt and excellent Characters as well of Loyalty as Rebellion that the nimble Drammatick Poet whose business it is to furnish the pregnant Stage in these our fertile days may borrow hence with Advantage It is indeed little less than a compleat Encyclopedia or Summary of all Sciences And had it not been great pitty that so much exquisite Learning should have been lost by lying scatter'd among Twenty aâ—d more several little Pamphlets and Almanacks wherein both the Memory of this Learned Author and his excellent Works had not only been buryed without the hopes of any probable Resurrection but you see the Learned in all Faculties viz. The Divine Physician Philosopher Chronologer Polititian Astronomer Astrologer Meteorologer Chiromancer and Poet cum multis aliis c. had been deprived of the benefit of so Rich and choice a Treasure It it now time to tell you how I came to concern my self in this laborious undertaking for I 'le assure you so it hath proved much beyond my thoughts of it at the first and also what my Design is in this Collection and Publication which I shall briefly do And herein I must crave leave to tell you that I had the Honour to be very well known to this Learned Author and derived sundry Favours from him as studying some of the same Sciences in which himself greatly delighted which I have freely acknowledged in an Epistle to my Doctrine of Nativities Printed Anno 1658. But his greatest and never-to-be-forgotten Friendship to me was in my late unfortunate Troubles an apt time indeed wherein to try a Friend when I was by the most Execrable of Villains accused as a Traytor to my King a Crime I ever did and ever shall abhor and abominate with my Soul which Misfortune no sooner befel me but I quickly made it known by a Letter to this worthy Person who knew me much better than my wretched Accuser praying his good Word and Assistance to the King on my behalf who wâ—ll knowing my Innocency as to such a horrid Crime wherewith I was charged upon the receipt of my Letter being exceeding Lame of the Gout and unable to wait on his Majesty in Person he was so generous and readily kind as to write a Petitionary Letter to the King on my behalf and enclosed mine to him therein and sent it by an Honourable Hand unto his Majesty an Action which at any time must be esteemed a more than ordinary Favour but at that time my Circumstances consider'd it was so great a One and so signally obliging that I must with Gratitude say He was a great Instrument under God to preserve my Life And that which exceedingly troubled me was that when I had obtained my Liberty I durst not go to the Tower to give him my Personal Thanks so strong and threatning did the Tide of popular Prejudice run then against all truly Loyal Persons for fear of meeting more Swearers in ambush and sâ— prove the unhappy occasion of either drawing a Cloud upon this Worthy Person that had been so kind to me or of bringing my self into another Damned Plot Plots being then so frequently spawned that there was a New one almost every Week Colledge himself who no doubt very well knew tells us of Twenty So that this Learned Person died before I had the Honour to see him after my Enlargement My desire therefore is That this my Collection and Publication of his Works may remain to Eternity as a Mark of my Thanks and Gratitude to this Worthy Authors Memory which I am only sorry I can perpetuate at no better a Rate But the Monument I have here built for him being of his own prepared and curiously polished Materials may therefore be more likely to remain durable to the Honour of his Name and Posterity than any thing I could have added hereunto or yet framed of my self de Novo And it is no small or mean Honour to Astrology and also to the learned Astrologers of which and whom the ignorant Part of the World think so cheaply and enviously that so learned and judicious a Gentleman as was Sir George Wharton Baronet should so many years together be not only a very great and serious Student in it but give his publick Suffrage for it and at the last to Dye satisfied that he knew there was Real Truth in Celestial Influences though they were too frequently abused by Spurii non veri Filii Artis as himself in one of his Excellent Discourses most truly speaks whose Learned Works alone as here published if well weigh'd and consider'd are sufficient to convince the Enemies of Astrological Learning That there is an Absolute and Vnerring Verity lodged in the Art though difficult indeed to be understood None being fit but the Mercurial Columbus to discover the America of this Noble Science Astrologus nascitur non â—it Gentlemen I am Yours And Astrologers Votary JO. GADBVRY Brick-Court by the Deans-yard Westminster October 23. 1682. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK 1. AN Account of the Fasts and Festivals as well of the Jews as Christians with the Original and End of their Institution from pag. 1. to pag. 33. 2. A Learned and Vseful Discourse touching the right Observation and keeping of the Holy Feast of Easter from p. 33. to p. 37. 3. Apoâ—elesma Or the Nativity of the World and the Revolution thereof from p. 37. to p. 46. 4. Of the Epochae and Aerae commonly used by Chronologers and Historians with a brief Explanation thereof from p. 46. to p. 69. 5. A short Discourse of Years Months and Days of Years from p. 69. to p. 90. 6. Of the Planetary Aspects both Old and New their Characters and Aequations from p. 90. to p. 101. 7. Something touching the Nature of Eclipses and also of their Effects from p. 102. to p. 110. 8. Of the Crises in Diseases to find out the same and how to judge thereof according to Durret from p. 110. to p. 126. 9. Of the Mutations Inclinations and Eversions of Empires Kingdoms c. from p. 126. to p. 140. 10. An Excellent Discourse of
which Number is produced by the addition of Twelve and Nine Degrees the Cold commenceth and lasts for the most part until the Sun have separated himself Twenty one Degrees from his Conjunction with him In like manner the Planets which have their Houses opposite when they behold one another by a forcible Aspect as the Opposition or Quartile or Trine do introduce a Memorable Change to Rain or Cold or Heat As if the Sun be in Aspect with Saturn a Cold Peristasis of the Air especially if either of them be in Watry Signs In the Summer time frequent showers but in Winter Cold and Snow So also the Configuration of Mars and Venus do bring for the most part Heat and warm Showers Jupiter and Mercury vehement blasts of Wind. And these Configurations of the Sun with Saturn Venus and Mars Jupiter and Mercury are by the Ancient Mathematicians called Portarum seu valvarum Apertiones Nor must you neglect the rising and setting of the fifteen Fixed Stars of the First and the fifteen of the Second Magnitude Recorded by Ptolomy in his Kalendar For if upon the Days that those Stars rise or set with the Sun there be a New or Full Moon Celebrated or that some Planet of a Conformable Nature with those Fixed Glories shall rise or set with him or some other memorable Constellation that Day happen then may you safely Predict a notable Change of Air. And this is confirmed of Cardan Segm. 7. Aphor. 71. Oportet exortus occasus Heliacos clariorum Syderum observare vix enim fiet nè sub Ortu Caniculae siccitatis morbi non vigeant sub Arcturi occasu imbres And indeed unless the rising and setting of the Fixed Stars did Operate something we should hardly have Rain at one time more than another For as saith the same Author Seg. 7. Aph. 72. Incertus est Planetarum concursus Observe also when the Moon or any of the Planets transits the Angles of the Worlds Revolution and of the Angles of the New â—nd Full Moons for then be sure some Change of Air ensueth according to the Nature of those Planets Moreover if upon a Conjunction or Opposition of the three Superiour Planets either amongst themselves or with the three Inferiours the Moon soon after apply unto them by an Opposite or Quartile Configuration be assured of Rain or Winds according to the Nature of the Planets so Conjoyn'd or Opposed Consider too the Eclipses Comets and other general Constitutions for often-times they augment or mitigate the Special I presume it is not forgotten what vehement and mighty Winds we had in January and February following the first appearance of the Comet in December 1652. and what Incredible Tempests were the two following Years on the Coasts of England France Spain Holland and Germany in the Atlantick Ocean and the Baltick Seas the Owners of the Navies thereby scattered and of the many Ships Goods and Men that were lost and therein miserably Perished have cause to remember Neither do ye wholly neglect the Rule of Eudoxus which Pliny tells of Lib. 2. Cap. 47. viz. That in the space of four Years not only the Winds but all other Tempests for the most part return to what they were before For although that Rule of his depends only upon this Foundation That at the end of four Years next following the Leap-year the Political-year agrees almost with the Astronomical in respect of Time the rising setting and Mediation of the Fixed Stars with the Sun howbeit the Motion of the Moon and the other Planets be far different Yet because the Power of the Sun and Fixed Stars is so great in stirring up of Tempests and the Moon not far disâ—ant from the place opposite unto that wherein she was four Years before it is probable that almost the same Tempests may return I confess I never observ'd it But touching the Mansions of the Moon I do not regard them as remembring what Cardan admonisheth Seg. 7. Aph. 57. Mansiones Lunae nè inspicias est Luna vis à loco suo à loco in signifâ—ro à Lumine Planetis Fixis And these are the Rules I thought fit to communicate concerning the Change of the Weather A Collection of sundry of our Authors most Excellent Poems as they were Printed in several of his Loyal Annual Works IN his Loyal Almanack for 1650. being the next Opportunity of the Press he had after the Bloody Murther of His Sacred Majesty of Blessed Memory Charles the First he hath these several signal sparks of Loyalty following 1. He begins with Liber Lectori Touch me not Traytor For I have a Sting For all but such as love and serve the King I am no Temporist Nor can I brook The Pocket of a Bradshaw Steel or Cook Or any Regicide that liveth I Disdain all Harbours of Disloyalty URANIA is Divine and to be clear I serve no Mortal but the CAVALIER If then thou be'st not one pray let me lie Until thou canst affect as well as buy 2. Under the Table of Kings c. having placed therein K. Charles the Second he writes Let such as Booker cringe unto a State And leave a Blank where I have rank'd a King 'T is far below my Quill to Calculate The spurious Birth of that Prodigious thing For maugre all its Acts and damned Art Still Charles the Second's Monarch of my Heart 3. Under the Table of Terms c. Thus should the Terms begin and end if we Were not controll'd by Traytors Tyranny But since they may adjourn or Vote them down My Rule 's not certain whilst they Rule the Town 4. In January having put the Decollation of His Royal Majesty and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in Red Letters that the Cruelty of those Actions might more eminently appear he writes Behold those Crimson Veins England lament Nay curse the Authors of thy Dismal Fate But dote no longer on a Parliament Nor be Ambitious to be hight a State Since in this Month those Tyrants hewed down In Laud the Mitre in blest Charles the Crown 5. In February Lo here again two Martyrs on a Tree Burleigh and Beaumont basely put to Death That for attempting's Soveraign to free This that he would not Saint-like break his Faith Look to it Wild and Lambert there 's a Season Heaven will Revenge this Blood reward your Treason 6. In March Yet yet the thirsty Saints howl out for blood Brave Gapel Cambridge Hoâ—land all must die The first 'cause he for 's King and Country stood They 'cause they would and yet would not comply They found thy Mercy and fair Quarter Flat Cruelty But Capel is the Martyr 7. In April The lofty Saints their Prowess now to show And make their Fame float with the spreading Main Vouchsafe this Month to let great London know They durst encounter Boys as well as Men. For Lion-like th' Apprentices they slay But what cannot resist is Asses prey 8. In May. Now wise
leave out To save my Ankles from the Prison-gout The subtile Lawyer holds it not amiss He Paraphrase on Ambiguities And though he scarce the Latine understand To write CUSTODES â—n a Texted-hand Why might not I though not for dirty gain Write as he writes Will such Ink ever stain Prinn when he found the Presbyters decay Straight-leaves his scribling-humour to obey What if from scribling too I deign to cease Do I ought more than all that live in Peace Nay Lilburn that Prodigious Combatant Held it not safe perpetually to rant For he once quitted from the dreadful Rope Waves Magna Charta falls a boyling Soap I 've scap't the Halter twice as well as he What if I now resolve to live as free Compounders some not only Pay but Swear Might I not Promise that I would forbear The brave Secluded Member that needs must Revile the Army doom the State to dust Observe him but now he is all to bits How Penitent how patiently he sits The par-boyl'd-Citizen who ne'r would do Scarce what an Ord'nance did enjoyn him to See how obsequiously he trots about To find both Old and New Malignants out The Wary-High-Shooe who so Idoliz'd The Covenant that equally he priz'd It with his Bible Lo but how he bows Before th' Engagement to secure his Cows Now Zoilus tell me whether 't is more fit I Sacrifice my Folly or submit These Times afford few Martyrs and those few Scant would be Martyrs if they could eschew The Clergy heretofore ate all the Cake They still Usurp'd the Glory of the Stake And should methinks if all be true they say Lead us as well to suffer as to pray But now alas their Zeal's congeal'd to Ice Obedience they prefer to Sacrifice And want not Scripture-texts more than enough Which warrant them to Thrash as well as Plough Had FOX but writ his Volumes in this Age His Book of Martyrs had not fill'd a Page England I fear would scarce have spar'd him one Old Latimer to make a Martyr on Indeed they tell 's what New Jerusalem's And how 't is pav'd with Pearls and Precious Gems Blaming us much we freely leave not this Course Clay for a Coelestial Paradise Yet when a doughty Priests unhallow'd Gums Sustain one rotten Tooths-ach how he Fum's And Froths and if a Fever do but strike him What Peasant-powts and pants or pineth like him O for a Doctor then Bridle the Horse And haste the Clerk away He 's worse and worse Alas the Doctor comes not O quoth he Would God restore me but then he should see But what Be sure no mind he has to Dâ—ath The Parson's Heart 's fast chained to the Eâ—rth He blesses Heav'n for 's last Nights Requiem But has no thoughts of New Jâ—rusalem Mistake me not For I include not here The Reverend Doctors of the Holy-Chair Nor yet the meanest of that Sacred Quire Whose Service at the Altar is entire To them I bow and willingly make their's The Tythe at least of all my daily Pray'rs No I intend the thred-bare Motley-Coat Which makes the Pulpit but a Juglers-throat And can from thence t' infatuate Mankind Disgorge both Fire and Water at a Wind Yet were it to preserve the World not dye Ought but his Stockings prate he ne'r so high I say 't is him I mean for he I look Will be the loose-Surveyor of my Book Deal gently good Sir John and do not Quack Live else the Subject of mine Almanack In Hemerosc 1652. this Learned and Loyal Person wrote these several witty Verses following 1. Under the Table of Kings WHen Rome's perverse and giddy Multitude Dissolv'd in Tarquin their Great Monarchy To doom the Act UNNATURAL and RUDE 'T is said A Serpent Barked But when We Dâ—ssolved Ours so were they overcome With Pannick fear both Men and Beasts were dumb 2. Under his Moveable-Feasts Those Feasts were once held Sacred amongst Men Old â—â—lks may live to see them so agen 3. Under the Table of Terms The Law is good and needs no Reformation It takes no Bribes nor sleeps a long Vacation Delays no Suits disdains not to embrace A John-an-Oaks or John-a-Styles his Case Yet since the Pilot's dead and Storms do threat Rocks being near the Wreck must needs be great 4. In February Mars throws his Knapsack by and stoutly draws His trusty Bilbo to prescribe us Laws Jove claims his Priviledge and Mars his Pow'r Both wrangle hard and each on other lowre At length Jove yields and Mars assumes the Chair Votes his own Person Noble Doings Fair. 5. In May. A Zealous Month or so it doth appear Composed all of Love and Bottle-beer But whilst the Shepherd's absent or asleep The Ravenous Wolves devour the silly Sheep London beware of Fire and Beasts of Prey And something else but what I will nor say 6. In October Swords now grow dull and Heads are gravely tost To balance what is gain'd with what is lost To find out how and where the danger lies To estimate old stores with new supplies W' are now at leisure to attend the knocks Of Sir John Levite in his Jugling-Box 7. In November What loud Dissâ—ntion's this we softly hear And dread 'twixt Saturn and his Councellor Who 's that gives back What Jovial Fools are they Must needs Command before they can Obey Dividâ— and Rule is Machiavils Take heed For though he dy'd long since here 's yet his seed 8. In December The first Eclipse next Month doth take Effect And Jove and Mars move now in dire Aspect Whence the Malicious Changeling-Brother-hood Of suiveling Mock-Priests that cry'd out for Blood Shall surely feel though yet they will not see The full-grown-fruits of their Apostacy In Hemerosc 1653. this Worthy Artist wrote these several Verses following 1. Of the Vulgar Accounts Notes and Festivals The Christians of the East and Greek Church do number  Years From the Creation unto this present Year 7161 The Jews Hebrews and later Rabbines 5413 Ergo they differ in their Computation 1748 HEavens direct us what a Difference here 's Full seventeen hundred forty twice four years Whose Râ—ck'ning shall we trust or shall we wait Till some New Prophet rise and Calculate The year That year which Saints in Heav'n not scan Yet needs must be confin'd by prying Man But if nor Jews nor Christians can it find If Plato saw not surely they are blind The Christian Abyssines and Egyptians from the Dioclesian Aera or that of Martyrs 1369 Thus rots that Tyrant And may all the same Who act like Cruelty yet hate the Name The Saracens and Turks from Hegira or the flight of their Prophet Mahomet 1063 The Turks are very Holy in their way They Preach give Alms and most devoutly Pray And live in hope Our Zelots do no more Unless to over-do and ne'r give or'e Had we been born in Turky we should set As great a rate on Rascal Mahomet As Turks themselves If they in England then
We had been all alike Good Christian-Men T is Birth and Education which doth make Religion that which Seals it is the Stake The Astronomers from Nabonassarus of Egyptian Years consisting each of 365 days 2401. They of all others can account the best Yet are accounted of but like the rest The snarling Priest who Numbers never knew More than to tythe his Pigs or whence they grew But like the Ale-wife chalks behind the door And sets even Christ and Moses on the score Gains more belief in striving how to bribe Our Reason than do all that Learned Tribe But know fond Men the Bible was not writ For you to draw Chronologies from it To prop up Faction warrant Breach of Laws Absolve from Oaths and Chain us to your Cause To teach Men Trades or Sciences or Arts 'T was made to rectifie and steer our Hearts Wretched those Souls who thus by you are fed With Tares and Husks instead of Heav'nly Bread From the Death of Alexander the Great 1976. He who Conquered all the spacious Earth Was Conquered himself for want of Breath He that whilst living could endure no Bound Rests now contented with six foot of Ground His Birth his Valour his Exploits and Glory All tumbled in a heap of Doubtful Story Even so at length Great Conqu'rours shall you be Or'e-come confin'd as close as low as he Ten Thousand Armies strength will not defend Your Conquests and your selves must have An End Nor can they yield you Comfort when you die Be'ng nothing but a splendid Robbery Since the Julian Institution 1698 Since the Gregorian Emendation 71 Our State have been Reforming twelve long Years The Church Court Country City Hair and Ears Should they the English Kalendar omit 'T will be forgot when they begun to sit Ages to come who thirst to Celebrate Their Famous Deeds shall find them without Date And know no more when CHARLES or Strafford dy'd Than some When Christ was Born or Crucify'd Perhaps mistake the Persons with the Times Finding so like their Suff'rings and their Crimes 2. Under the Feasts and Fasts What Changlings were the Presbyterian-Crew Who pull'd Old Crosses down to set up New And burnt Christs Picture whilst they did embrace Those Antick Draughts of Calamy and Case That durst adventure on such dangerous shelves As to un-Saint th' Evangelists themselves And leave us not a Festival beside What they so called and had Sanctifi'd But Heav'n is just For lo they 're forc'd to bow The Synod's down and stinking Elders too Only they bark at Moon-shine now and then To witness they are Dogs more like than Men. 3. Under the Kings c. I 've said y' are Gods Who dare you Tyrants call Since Good or Bad y' are his Vice-gerents all But you shall die like Men This I allow For Men must die So did our Saviour too When once the Rulers Priests and People cry Away with him Pilate must Crucifie 4. Under the Table of Terms Lawyers prefer the sharpest Laws as best To keep a Common-wealth in Peace and Rest If so why should those Gown-men Frown and Puff To see the Courts of Justice lin'd with Buff No Plea ere moved as a Sword can do For that or'e-ruleth Judge and Jury too 5. In January Welcom ye pregnant times whilst you shall be As cross to some as they were curs'd to me Welcom Prodigious Births wherein appear No fewer Monsters than are days i' th' year Thrice welcom are ye For y' are none of mine A Poets Issue is A Princely Line 6. In February Disturbed Heav'ns produce disturbed Pates Confused Councils more Confused States A Quarter-witted Clergy half undone Their Grand Impostures clear as is the Sun Whence Giddy Zelots take the Craft in hand And breath a Holy-madness through the Land 7. In the Month of May. Whither an Army now Well! I could say Who 't is will get or who shall lose the day Thrasillus-like inform you who shall prove Victorious in 's Ambition who in 's Love But I am silent Nay I must be dumb 'T is TREASON now to Pray Thy Kingdom come 8. In November The Nation mourns because of Monstrous Oaths Her Scarlet sins cause want of Bread and Cloaths Diseases rage and strongly multiply Our New-Republick's sick and like to die London bewails beshrews her lewd pretence Of begging for a Posture of Defence 9. Where speaking of the Mutations of Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealts he pithily Concludes Thus Changes come thus Changes will ensue Till these Corrupted Bodies change for new And put on Incorruption Men and Things Whole Countries Cities Beggars Princes Kings He who but lately wore a Crown of Gold Crown'd now with Thorns Exil'd or basely Sold He clad in Rags and fed with scraps before Now Thron'd in 's stead and surfeiting with store A Glorious Church and Kingdom but to day To Morrow both the Wolf and Foxes Prey The Learned Lawyer Orthodox Divine Once high esteem'd now rank'd with fi lt by Swine The Hospitable Lord erst fed the Poor And cloath'd the Naked nak'd turn'd out of Door His sorrowing Wife and helpless Children gone To try their Friends perhaps be frowned on And he in 's hoary-age Petition bare Those that his Grooms at best but lately were The Fool in 's Coat the Wise-man in his Chair Th' Indulgent Father and the Hopeful Heir The griping Land-lord and the greedy Clown The glittering Tissue and the gray-friz'd Gown The Rosy-Cheek and the unfurrowed Brow The Freckled Wainscot-Face that Milks the Cow The Flowry Bride girt with chaste thoughts about Will all once changed be their Lamps must out Nay Heav'n it self grows Old and will away It had a Birth and shall a Dying-day All all to Change and Dissolution tend Poor Almanacks ev'n they must have an end In Hemerosc 1654. this Ingenious Person wrote these following Heroick Verses 1. Of the Feasts c. GO ring the Bells let Priests and People Pray I know no Treason in a Holy-Day 2. Over the Table of Kings c. Here stands the Regal Table till it be Convict and Banish'd for Malignancy Under the Kings Call me no more Malignant since the Term Hath Hydra's Head I Hercules his Arm And though no God nor Worshipped at Tyre Remember yet great Jupiter's my Sire Let States and Kingdoms whirle mine shall not fall Except when time is done this Globe and all So Wolf and Lamb salute the first for blood The second to be offer'd for our good 3. Over the Terms Thus may the Terms begin thus may they end As yet we know not what we do intend Under the Terms Friends send your Sons no more to th' Inns of Court But breed them Souldiers Men of loud Report So need they fear no rude Return of words Or Writs nor yet Exception 'gainst their Swords So shall their Terms be never out of Date Nor liable to change but with the State So may they chuse the Trade most Profit brings Set up or Lawyers Priests or Petit Kings
Fra. Windebank Questioned Nov. 12. 100000 l. voted for the Scots 13. Sir George Ratcliff sent into Ireland 16. Bp. of Lincoln enlarged 19. Scotch Commissioners admitted Residence in London 21. Justice Howard assaulted aâ—d stabbed in Westminster-Hall 23. A Commis issued for treating with the Scots 28. Pryn and Burton Triumphantly into London Dr. Bastwick the like soon after Dec. 3. Pryn and Burton complain of their Prosecutors 4. Sir George Ratcliff committed 5. Secretary Windebank fled into France 7. Ship-mony Voted illegal The Judges questioned 8. E. Strafford committed to the Tower L. Ann dyed at Richm. D. Cosens committed 11. Lond. Petit. against Bishops 16. Canons Voted Illegal 18. Arch-Bish of Caâ—terbury sequestred committed to the Black Rod. 19. B. Wren accused of High Treason 21. L. Finch Voted a Traytor 22. He fled into Holland Jan. 23. Goodman a Priest reprieved Pryn Burton and Bastw Voted Innocent and satisfaction to be given them by their Judges 30. E. Strafford charged in the House of Lords Feb. 10. Match with the Prince of Orange propounded 11. Plots suggested 13. Judge Berkly Impeached committed 16. Bill for Triennial Parl. signed which occasioned Bonfires and ringing of Bells 24. E. Strafford made his Defence before the H. of Lords Remanded to the Tower 26. Arch-Bish accused of High Treason before the H. of Lords Ordered to the Tower Feb. Scots first styled Dear Brethren All Books Libels and Proclamat against them called in A Thanksgiving for the Peace with them March 1. Arch-Bishop committed to the Tower 10. Bishops Votes in Parliament null'd 22. E. Strafford's Tryal began Anno 1641. April Convocation H. Fined 15. E. Strafford's Tryal ended House of Commons voted him Guilty of High Treason which was Opposed by the L. G. Digby and others 20. Prince of Orange to London 21. E. Strafford voted the second time Guilty of High Treason by the Commons Bill of Attainder read in the House of Lords where many opposed it 29. Nevertheless the H. of Lords also vote him Guilty of High Treason May 1. King declared himself unsatisfied 2. Princess Mary Married to the Pr. of Orange 3. Thousands of the City came to Westminster crying for Justice against the Earl 5. Protestation taken by the Parliament 6. E. Strafford voted the second time Guilty of High Treason by the H. of Lords 8. Two Bills one for the Execution of the Earl the other for continuation of the Parliament tendred to the King 9. King consulted with the Judges and Bishops Some of the Bishops advised him to pass the Bills The Earl himself by his Letter to the King desired him to sign the Bill of Attainder May 10. Bill for the Execution of E. Strafford signed by the King So likewise that other for continuance of the Parliament which proved the Execution of himself 11. The King by his Letter to the Lords delivered by the Prince sollicited for his Life but in vain 12. E. Strafford Beheaded on Tower-hill 17. L. Goring resigned hâ—s place Master of the Wards L. Say succeeded him Bp. Juxton L. Treasurer resigned his Staff The Office committed to five Commissioners E. of Leicest made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Marquess Hertford Governour of the Prince in the room of the Earl 〈◊〉 Newcastle June 19. Voted thâ—â— the Scots should receiâ—â— 100000 pounds of theâ—â— 300000 l. at Midsummer 1642. the remainder at Midsummer 1644 July 2. Bill imposing the Tax of Pole-money 5. Bishop Wren Voteâ— against Two Bills passed for puâ—ting down the High Commission and Star-Chambeâ— Courts Sir Tho. Roe Ambassâ—dour into Germany Qu. Mother left England and dyed soon after a Cullein The five Judges who had formerly given their Opinions for Ship-money charged by the House oâ— Commons Aug. English and Scotch Armies disbanded 10. King began his Journey for Scotland An Order for taking away all scandalous Pictures out of Churches Sept. 8. Parliament adjourn'd till Octob. 20. A standing Committee consisting of fifty Members appointed during the Recess Octob. 22. Owen ô Conolly discovered the design of the Irish Rebellion Mac Mahon and the L. Macquire taken and secured 23. The Irish Rebellion first brake out the King being then in Scotland Nov. 5. 200000 l. voted to be raised for suppressing the Irish Rebellion The King referred the whole business to the Parliament Marquess Ormond by Commission from the Earl of Leicester and with the Kings approbation made Lieutenant General of all the Forces in Ireland King returned from Scotland Magnificently Feasted by the City King Feasted the Chiâ—f of the City at Hampton Court where divers Aldermen received the Honour of Knighthood Dec. 15. Remonstr of the state of the Kingdom presented to the King at Hampton Court 27. Tumults at Westminster threatning the Bishops 30. Twelve Bishops protest against Popery or any malignity against the State and against such Orders or Votes as had passed or which should pass in the Lords House during their enforced absence Dec. 31. Twelve Bishops accused by the Commons of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower the other two to the Black Rod. Jan. 1. The Irish Proclaimed Rebels 3. Articles exhibited against the five Members 4. King in Person demandeâ— them 5. Houâ—es adjourn'd into London 6. Proâ—lamation made for Apprehending the â—ive Members 7. H. of Commons declared the Kings Proclamation to be â—alâ—e scandalous and illegal Sir Edward Hâ—rbert the Kings Attorney General committed for preferring the Articles against the five Members 10. The King Queen Prince and Duke of York to Hampton Court 11. The five Members Guarded to Westminster by Water 27. House of Commons Petitioned the King for the Militia Feb. 14. Adventures for Irish Land 23. Queen with the Princes Mary her Daughter imbarqued at Dover for Holland King to Greenwich whence he sent for the Prince and Duke of York They removed to Theobalds March 9. Thence to Newmarket 15. Thence to Huntington May 3. Protestation taken by the Parliament 26. Thence to York Anno 1642. April 8. King proposed to go in Person into Ireland Disliked by the Parliament 9. An Order of Parliament enjoyning their Members to attendance 22. Duke of York and Pr. Elector to Hull 23. King denyed admittance into Hull Sir John Hotham Proclaimed Traytor 24. King complains of the Affront 25. Sir John Hotham justified by the Parliament The Lords began to desert the Parliament and go to the King May 12. Gentry of Yorkshire attended the King at York 20. Voted that the King intended to levy War against the Parliament 30. Nine Lords with the King summoned to Westminster June 2. An Order of Parliament requiring the Revolted Members to return by the sixteenth of June Nineteen Propositions sent to the King 10. An Order for bringing in Money and Plate 14. King writ to the City 15. Thirty seven Lords protested in behalf of the King The nine Lords Summoned to appear were for default thereof Impeached of High Treason L. Keeper Littleton conveyed the Great Seal and afterwards himself to the King at