the Moon and the Sun to the Trine of Satuâ—n killed him But now if any unlucky Rogue should ask the reason of his Death what shall we say Say Eâ—ter Mr Trâ—ublesom Well Gentlemen what do ye say what was it killed Frederick III Say Why we say he dyed on the Sun Giver of Life to his own Sextile and Trine of Saturn and Part of Fortune Hileg to the Opposition of the Moon Ha ha ha Pray Gentlemen speâ—k softly or else you 'l spoil Urania's Reputation Now these Directions you will find to be all they can sâ—v for this man's Death and is not this a parcel of miserable Stuff I should have been willing to have seen the estimate Time and then a man might have said something to the Correction of it but without that we are all in the dark And I do believe this Nativity of his to be true as certainly as I believe that of the Lord Strafford Charles Gustavus and the Princess Royal nor will I venture to correct it Charles Tortenson the Swedish General is by our Author said to dye on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn and yet the Moon in the Seventh in Cancer and certainly Hileg if this is the true time of that man's Birth Besides he lets the Ascendent pass Four Directions one after another successively and two of them Lords of the Eighth House and 30 or 40 years after he kills him on the single Direction of Saturn's Opposition He lets Queen Elizabeth outlive the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn notwithstanding the Horoscope is Giver of Life And the Minister page 111. and Sir Robert Holburn and Mr. Hoâ—per the Merchant with divers others and why should this man be thought to dye on it when all these escape James Duke of Richmond and Lenâ—x dyed on the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon and Opposition of Jupiter if you will believe our Author and yet the Moon Hileg in the Midheaven And to add to his Skill in the matter he lets him pass the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun Loâ—d of the Eighth some time before which did not affect him as I can find The Lord Francis Villers is also said to dye on the Ascendent tothe Body of Mars when both the Moon and Part of Fortune are in Aphetical Places the one in the Tenth and the other in the Seventh The Ascendent to the Body of Mars did not kill Charles Tortenson nor the Queen of Hungary nor Charles Gustavus I. King of Sweden nor the Duke of Albemarle nor Dr. Gouge nor John Heydon nor Mr. Eastwood and a many more and therefore I cannot believe it in this Lord's case John Picus Earl of Mirandula is borrowed from Lyndhalt to shew the Power of the Stars and how exactly the Predictions of several Astrologers were verified in his Death who had strenuously wrote against Astrologers and the Verity of their Art On this man's Nativity many had spent their Judgment and all agreed that he could not live beyond the Ascendent to the Body of Mars at or about the Age of 33 years which happened near enough to prove their Pretences as he called them to the Power of the Stars For when he was 33 years of age he dyed as they all agree on the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars and this as Sir Christopher Heydon well observes page 193. while he was wrangling and scolding against Astrology in general and the effects of Directions in particular It is most certain that he dyed on the Ascendent to the Body of Mars c. But whosoever runs away with this Notion and makes the same Prediction on the same Direction in another case may chance to see himself mistaken if he lives to the Time he appoints For I am able to shew you divers Nativities where the Ascendent is Hileg too and yet always the Ascendent to the Body of Mars doth not kill as you may see in Mr. Eastwood's Case page 170. if that is the true time of his Birth he out-lived the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn and Mars in Conjunction near the Pleiades But I something doubt the Truth of that Figure But I judge you all allow that an Opposition is nearly as dangerous as the Body if so then take Mr. Gadbury's own Nativity who did not dye on the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars and yet the Ascendent Hileg There are divers things to be considered before you judge Death positive on such a Direction as they did in Picus's Case and I think I am also able to tell you when such a Direction will and when it will not kill a short Specimen of which I will here give you as an Example in this Nativity which was never mentioned before though it â—ath gone through such hands whose heads are far better furnished than mine is and first see the Figure Now according to the usual Doctrine Why should the Ascendent to the Body of Mars kill He is not Lord of the Fourth Sixth Eighth or Twelfth but in Trine to Venus Lady of the Ascendent and in Trine to the Sun Lord of the Eleventh in his own House in Scorpio and no ways qualified by the Common-Trade-Astrology to be a Murderer and yet for all this you see they predicted his Death upon it And you find he either out of Constraint or Complaisance dyed upon it And yet you may also see the Duke of Richmond did not dye upon the Ascendent to the Body of Mars nor on the Bodies of Mercury and Saturn that came up after it but when the Square of the Moon and Opposition of Jupiter came they did his business But in this Case of Picus Mirandula I dare engage where-ever you find the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars with a Train of Directions attending it as this man had it shall always kill be the Nativity never so vital and strong See the Directions wrought  d. m. y. m.  Ascend ad â–¡ ♄ 30 2 33 00 1496. Ascend ad ◠♂ 32 55    Ascend ad â–¡ ☿ 34 35    Ascend ad ☠☽ 43 34    Now by this short Table you see there is a Train of Directions and not one good one to fall in either to deter their Force or break their Fury And it was not the Ascendent really to the Body of Mars but to the Square of Saturn came up first and yet I have not altered their Scheme a minute in Time yet I allow Mars to be the Poiothanatos We are told That Prince Maurice was cast away at Sea on the Ascendent directed to the Square of Saturn notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg in the Ninth and about that time by Direction comes to the Body of Venus in the Tenth This plaguy Ascendent kills more people than all the other Points of Heaven put together do by Direction and yet the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn did not kill in Francis Lâ—sdiguerius's Nativity though he was Lord of the
year 1642. And yet a little after he says That he did predict his death from the Revolution for that Year Page 686. he says Cardinalis Richâ—lius ab acuta Febre superveniente morbo lâ—ngo quo nonâ—um perfecte curâ—tus â—rat tandem moritur diâ— 4 Decemb. 1642. quâ— Horosâ—â—us Radicalis dirigebatur ad oppâ—sit Jâ—â—is in Octrâ—â— This being allow'd I do from hence infer That Mâ—rinus had no fiâ—â— Principles nor Rules but ramâ—led as most of our Pretenders do now-a-days from one thing to another and if any thing could be found that lookt like a mortal direction though contrary to Rule 't was no matter and if the Readers can but believe all is well and the Trick runs currently In the next place let us compare this with some of his other Nativities and see how these Rays of Jupiter are made use of there for like Causes always ought to hâ—ve like Effects or else Rules laid down to know when they shall and whâ—n they shall not produce such things In the Nativity of Charles Câ—ndren the Ascendent to the Square of Jupiter is not observed to have done any thing of Injury to his Health and yet he is by Morine's Rule Lord of the Eighth as being exalted there Nay his Square fell near the Body of the Sun Lord of the Eighth and yet we see he out-liv'd them both In Monsieur Tronson's Nativity Jupiter is in Conjunction with Venus Lady of the Eighth House in the End of Leo and yet the Ascendent to both their Squares could not kill him and yet they fell in Scorpio a violent Sign and they with a violent Star in Leo that is the Lyons Heart and besides the Direction fell at 50 years of Age. In the Nativity of Monsieur de Bonne Jupiter is in Opposition to the Sun and to Venus Lady of the Twelfth and yet the Ascendent to all their Squares could not or else they would not kill him Nay after all this the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn and Mars could not kill him notwithstanding Saturn was Lord of the Eighth and Mars exalted there which by Morine's Rule are both Lords of the Eighth House What think you of this man Was he not fit to be a Mâ—rshal of France that could bid defiance to all these murdering Stars And yet that peevish Churchman Cardinal Richelieu sneakt away upon the Ascendent to a single Opposition of Jupiter But no matter Morinus doth this man's business afterward with the Moon to her own Square notwithstanding it is a Diurnal Nativity and the Sun giver of Life Can you forbear laughing Well but perhaps you will say In all these Jupiter is neither Lord of the Eighth nor in it and therefore doth not come up to the Point To that I answer You may imagine what you please of the matter but I do assure you Jupiter is the same when he is out of the Eighth as when he is in it And he is no more violent when he is Lord of the Eighth than when he is Lord of the Tenth But because I will please you I will come to the Point in your own way In Morinus his own Nativity Jupiter is wholly Lord of the Eighth House and in Conjunction with the Sun in the Twelfth and yet you do not find that Morinus tells us of any Sickness or other Injury he had on the Ascendent to the Squares of them both which plainly shews that he doth not allow the same Directions the same or Adequate Effects but rambles from one thing to another according as it serves his turn In Philippus Bandeyra's Nativity Jupiter modo Morini is Lord of the Eighth and Dispositor of Saturn and Mars and yet he passed the Ascendent to the Square of Jupiter without dying and after that the Squares of Saturn and Mars too for ought we know I am sure by the true Rule he ought to do it Thus you see by comparing one with the other he doth not use a regular Method nor doth he build his Doctrine on any fixt Principle For which reason we cannot rely on this Say so of his That the Ascendent to the Opposition of Jupiter killed this Cardinal And now to sum up all in a word or two I do tell you I am certain the Ascendent to the Opposition of Jupiter did not kill him and my Reason is Because the Sun is giver of Life in that Figure he gives for his Nativity But perhaps this Nativity may fall into hands more capable than my self to Correct and Regulate it and therefore I will give them the time and Planets places I find in Morinus Cardinal Richeliâ—u was born at Paris on the 9th of September S. N. at 34 minutes past 9 manè 1585. and the Planets Places from the Rudolphine Tables R. M. A. C. 230. 58. ♄ 17 56 ♈ â„ž ♀ 3 17 ♌ ♄ 2 47 M. ☿ 0 50 S. ♃ 10 42 ♊ ☿ 25 39 ♠♃ 0 6 M. ☽ 3 45 S. ♂ 1 48 ♠☽ 19 48 ♓ ♂ 0 19 M.  ☉ 16 19 ♠☊ 6 57 ♠♀ 4 7 M.  Lastly if you will have my Opinion in the matter as to the time of this man's Birth I really think he was born above an hour before this time and then he might dye â—n the Ascendent to the Squares of the Sun and Moon Or else an hour later and then the Sun to the mundane Parallel of the Moon and rapt Parallel of Saturn might do it But I dare not venture on a Correction my self unless he had given us the estimate time which I believe was at some distance from this The next Nativity I meet with is Monsieur Lewis Tronson a Privy Councellor to the French King who was born as says Morinus September the 1st hor. 9 min. 19 manè 1576. at Paris And that this is the true Nativity of this man he endeavours to prove by these four Accidents and Directions following Anno 1617. aged 40 and a few months he had two great Places given him at Court that made him Prime Minister of State for this he had the Midheaven directed to the Body of the Sun and by this I suppose the Figure was corrected Anno 1618. February the 19th he was married he had the Sun then to the Sextile of the Moon by Direction Anno 1626. August the 2d he was degraded and turn'd out of all his Places at Court and was not any more restored he had then the Sun to the Square of Mars by Direction Anno 1642. December the 8th this great man dyed of a Quartan Ague and Fever Morinus says It began the year before and was then a Double Tertian which degenerated afterward into a Quartan The Figure followeth from whence these Directions are wrought set to my Division of the Heavens As to that Direction for his Preferment no man can deny it had he made all things else agree with that Correction but to say the Midheaven to the Body of the Sun gave his Preferment and the Ascendent to
will consider carefully and examine the thing That though the Aspects are made in that Circle they move in yet that doth concern the other â—lanets being directed nothing at all for every Star that is directed to a Promittor whether Body or Aspect meets them in his or her own way so the Sun meets all Bodies and Aspects in the Zodiack and if any of those Bodies or Aspects have Latitude from the Ecliptick he cannot be directed to them in the Zodiack but in Mundo to speak like an Artist because he always moves in that Circle and never out of it and therefore when Morinus talks of directing Jupiter to the Square of the Moon as in the French King's Geniture he there imagines a motion that is not in Nature but only in Conceit for he makes the Square of the Moon to have four Degrees and a half South almost and Jupiter he hath one Degree North and must meet that Square in his own way that he moves in not with four South but one North but if there is any such Direction in Nature as that with 4 Degrees of Latitude it is not to be wrought in the Zodiack but in Mundo and indeed no other way will do it But when he talks of directing the Ascendent to the Aspects with Latitude he quite forgot himself as in the Queen of Poland's Case where he directs the Ascendent to the Square of the Moon with 4 Degrees odd Minutes of North Latitude when the Angles to say truth meets no Rays with Latitude but Bodies and Oppositions all the rest of their Beams are measured by the distance of that Body from the Angles and not in the Zodiack as some fondly conceit and therefore this is not to be relied on in point of Truth but all that I shall say of that is it was a Neat Project and Conception and well managed but no service to the Student And upon this Project is that of Correcting the Aspects formed page 550. which I shall pass by as a thing of little or no use except to increase toil and trouble to the Young Beginners But to say the truth of Morinus he hath in this Sixteenth Book outdone all that went before in Antiscions for he hath there taught the true way of taking them which is with Latitude because they are nothing else but parallel distances from the Tropicks and the Equator and whoever takes them that way and knows how to use them when he hath gotten them will not lose his labour And though they have been of late Condemned as useless by those that did not understand them yet I can assure you they will gratify your pains in your enquiry after truth In the Seventeenth Book he hath discoursed largely and well concerning the Houses Nay he hath talked himself into a belief of their power which overthrows and destroys all his Philosophick Doctrines besides for whatsoever he hath floridly talkt in his Cabala concerning the Houses is no demonstrative proof that they have power and virtue to over-balance the Stars in their operations For Example Jupiter is the great Balsamick Star and the only Râ—borative among them all 't is he that cures the Wounded dâ—ssolves the Chains and Charms of Chronick Diseases destroys the Febrile Ferments and brings back poor Mortals oftentimes from the jaws of Death Nay it is not in his nature to hurt no otherwise than Wine and Pleasures do by Excess and yet for all this if Morine's Doctrine hold good when Jupiter happens to be in the Eighth or Lord of it he is to kill cut murder and destroy all he can meet with but as soon as ever he is out of that plaguy House or his Houses gone from it why then Jupiter is a very Civil Gentleman and your Humble Servant again By the power of this House Jupiter kill'd Richelieu By the Magick and Mystery of this House Mars and Saturn kill'd the King of Sweden Count Walstein and the Dukâ— of Montmorancy if you will believe this Learned Author By the power of this House the Moon kill'd Charles Condren and yet by the power of this House Jupiter though Lord of it could not kill Morinns himself By the power of the Seventh House Mercury and Jupiter being directed to Mars Lord of it gave the Queen of Poland a second Marriage By the power of the Ninth Jupiter being in it and directed to the Body of Mars gave Charles Condren a resolution to lead a Religious Life By the power of the first House in de Bonne's Nativity the Moon in the Tenth being Lady of the first was prime Apheta when the Sun was just within the Eleventh and without question Hileg Thus he endeavours to make the Houses give the Circumstances and Qualifications to all Directions which I can by no means comply with nor believe For I do think that all Directions work according to their Radical Configurations considered with the Birth Education and Circumstances of the Native at that time when they work and shew their Effects And the Division of the Heavens he makes use of is that which is called the Rational and set on foot by Regiomantanus Concerning which I have discoursed at large in the First part and therefore shall say no more of that here This Learned Author hath brought in two Aspects which I cannot call new because they have been observed before in the Writings of other men but one of them is new as to its name and that is the Dodectile which is in plain English a Semisextile consisting of 30 degrees it is a Ray that I have never used and therefore can say nothing in its Commendation but leave it to those that love Novelties more than Truth The other is the Quincunx which he says is Five Twelfths of the Circle and then it must consist of 150 degrees but for these Aspects I never did work any of them in the Zodiack and therefore I can say little either in their praise or dispraise This Quincunx is the same thing in measure almost with that some call a Biâ—â—ntile and they may be wrought either in Mundo or Zodiaco if you will take the pains This Learned Author hath also given us Tables to Aequate the Latitude of all the Aspects in Direction as if we had not Projects enough already to tire our pains and patience without any profit or advantage to the work Just â—o I have seen the Cusps of the Houses wrought to Minutes and Seconds and after all this pains they have erred 6 or 7 degrees in the Cusp it self Yet I do not deny but the thing admits of such a regulation in nature that Morinus mentions but I say it is wholly useless in Directions and that he is mistaken in the motion for the true motion admits of no such thing And besides we stumble at a Straw and leap over a Molehill I wish I could find the man that could follow Nature's stâ—ps without that Regulating Equation and I will pass my word for
Elevation and Sleswick in particular So that I judge that 51 should have been 55 or 56 unless he was born in his Mother's Country at Berlin in the Dukedom of Brandenburg which I do not think he was And therefore I will conclude him born under the Pole 55 degrees 43 minutes He was first Bishop of Bremen elected King of Denmark and Norway in 1648. was block'd up in his City of Copenhagen in the year 1659. by the Swedes and he dyed February 9th 1670. This NatIvity we are told hath not its fellow among the most Illustrious Genitures and for that Reason I think it worth my Consideration and Pains How this Gentleman did get this Nativity I know not and if I ask it will be to no purpose The principal thing that this Author values himself upon in this Nativity is His Prediction from the Scheme and Directions when the King was a Prisoner in Copenhagen that he should again recover his Liberty his Kingdom and his former Honour but if he had given me the Reason for his Prediction I should have been better satisfied in the point for one would think Saturn in the Seventh and the Moon Lady of the Twelfth in the Sixth in Square to the Sun Lord of his Ascendent in the Tenth and Venus oppressed by Mars and Jupiter by Saturn were but cold Encouragements for such an Adventure notwithstanding the Sun was in the Tenth which I know he did depend on Now the first Query that I make upon these Directions of the Midheaven and Sun to the Body of Mars which he says gave those Mischiefs and perhaps they might do it is why should we believe or how could he by his own Rules that these Directions would terminate in Liberty and not in Death For First in Charles Gustavus's case he tells us â—e dyed on the Mid-heaven to the Body of Saturn and his Nativity no more violent than this is there was only one Aphetick Point afflicted by a single Direction and yet that kill'd Here is two and yet this could not do it notwithstanding Mars was with the Pleiades Secondly in the Earl of Strafford there he makes the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn likewise kill and this by Beheading but here the Sun and Midheaven to the Body of Mars go off and give only loss of Liberty and Honour Thirdly Why the Midheaven to the Opposition of Mars should kill the Earl of Essex pag. 45. and the Body not kill this Prince Indeed it is strange to me that he or any man else should think this Doctrine is possible to be received by any man that will not betray his Reason And the same Cant passeth still Fourthly Why should we believe this could give him Troubles and Confinement when the Midheaven to the Body of Mars married the Princess Royal of England page 20 Why should not Mars in this King's Geniture and on this Direction give Honour and Fame because Lord of the Tenth as well as give Marriage in that Lady's because Lord of the Seventh Fifthly Why should we believe the Midheaven to the Body of Mars should give this Prince any Mischiefs at all when we find that Sir T. Mayern had it and gave him nothing at all Now what shall we say to these Contradictions And who is able to reconcile them For my part I cannot nor do I think the Author of them able to do it These are but a few of this kind I could give you many more and perhaps I may so before I conclude Now upon the whole we may conclude That the Midheaven to the Body of Mars by common Practice gives a King Confinement in his chiefest City gives a Princess Marriage gives an Earl Death by being beheaded gives a Bishop Imprisonment and gives a Doctor of Physick nothing at all Well but these things were written and done while this Prince lived and he doth not tell us one Word what he thinks did â—ill him for he lived above 10 years after these Misfortunes and dyed February the 9th 1670. being then almost 61 years of age I doubt this will prove an ugly knotty odd sort of a business to find out a cause for his Death that may agree with these Directions and Figure corrected and confirmed by them and prove satisfactory to the intelligent Reader and to tell you the Truth it makes me Shrug for I am not over-fond of the work whatever you think on it but it must be done and therefore let us to it You know it is their method when a man is dead and they are to sâ—ek a Cause for Death any of the Five Hilegicals serve and an indifferent Direction will do for the most part and I will pursue their own Doctrine in their own way for I know what they can do and say in such cases as these are And to this end we must certainly allow this Scheme without alteration or else all the fine things said by our Author on those Directions of the Midheaven are out of Doors and of no effect I will begin with the Sun The Sun we find on the Midheaven and therefore is to be directed by the Right Ascention and by that motion I find the Sun is got into 9 degrees of Gemini by Direction at the time of his Death to his own Sextile a year and two months past to the Bull 's Eye 3 year past and to the Trine of Saturn wanting eight months What a plaguy thing this is to be so near and neither of them hit exactly had the Aldebaran but hit we would have depended on that and the Sextile of the Sun The Midheaven is got into 8 degrees of Gemini and just past the Sextile of the Sun shall we dâ—pend on that No I doubt we shall not make that pass We 'll go on The Ascendent is by the Oblique Ascention got into 15 degrees of Virgo and there we find the Lioâ—'s Tail shall we depend on that No no they will not believe it and besides that Star riseth with the beginning of Virgo The Pole of the Moon is about 53 and under that Pole she is by Direction got into 21 degrees odd minutes of Aquary just past the Square of Venus Lady of the Fourth Sure that will do or else the Devil is in 'em what believe nothing No no it is too far past a year and a half else it would have done bravely Why then we are undone if the Part of Fortune doth not help us out The Pole of the Part of Fortune as they say is about 25 degrees it s O. A. under that Pole is 24 degrees 22 minutes O. A. of the Opposition of the Moon sine Lat. 84 degrees 32 minutes Ark of Direction 60 degrees 10 minutes which by Nâ—ibod gives almost 61 years Sure this will do without dispute Ay ay this is as clear as the Sun and therefore now let us agree and settle the point The Sun to his own Sextile began his Disease the Part of Fortune to the Opposition of