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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42681	Day-fatality, or, Some observation of days lucky and unlucky concluding with some remarques upon the fourteenth of October, the auspicious birth-day of His Royal Highness, James Duke of York.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.	1679 (1679)	Wing G647; ESTC R30405	8,075	10

a matter of which the old Monkish Rhimers were no ways scrupulous It was as ancient as Henry the Sixth or Edward the Fourths time January Prima dies mensis septima truncat ut ensis February Quarta subit mortem prosternit tertia fortem March Primus mandentem disrumpit quarta bibentem April Denus undenus est mortis vulnere plenus May. Tertius occidit septimus ora * Ex re laedo relidit June Denus pallescit quindenus foedera nescit July Ter-decimus mactat Julii denus labefactat August Prima necat fortem prosternit secunda cohortem September Tertia Septembris denus fert mala membris October Tertius denus est sicut mors alienus November Scorpius est quintus tertius e nece cinctus December Septimus exanguis virosus denus anguis The tenth Verse is intolerable and might be mended thus Tertia cum dena fit sicut mors aliena If any object and say deni is onely the Plural I excuse my self by that admirable Chronogram upon King Charles the Martyr Ter deno Jani Lunae Rex Sole cadente Carolus exutus Solio Sceptroque secure Neither will I have recourse for refuge to that old Tetrastich Intrat Avaloniam duodena Caterva virorum Flos Arimathiae Joseph c. because I have even now blamed the liberty of the ancient Rhymers He means by mors aliena some strange kind of Death though aliena signifies strange in quite another sense than there used I shall take particular notice here of the Third of November both because 't is my own Birth-day and also for that I have observed some remarkable Accidents to have hapned thereupon Constantius the Emperour Son of Constantine the Great little inferiour to his Father a worthy Warriour and good Man died the Third of November ex Veteri Calendario penes me Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury that great Man and famous Commander sub Hen. IV. V. VI. died this day by a Wound of Cannon-shot he received at the Siege of Orleaunce E MSS. quodam Glovero So also Cardinal Borrhomeo famous for his Sanctity of Life and therefore Canonized Heylyn in his Praecognita says He made Milan memorable by his Residence there died 1584. this day as Possevinus in his Life Sir John Perot Stow corruptly calls him Parrat a Man very remarkable in his Time Lord Deputy of Ireland Son to Hen. VIII and extremely like him died in the Tower the Third of November 1592. as Stow says Grief and the Fatality of this Day kill'd him See Nanton's Fragment a Regalia concerning this Man Stow in his Annals says Anno 1099. Novemb. 3. as well in Scotland as England the Sea broke in over the Banks of many Rivers drowning divers Towns and much People with an innumerable number of Oxen and Sheep at which time the Lands in Kent sometimes belonging to Earl Godwin were covered with Sands and drowned and to this day are called Godwins Sands I had an Estate left me in Kent of which between thirty and forty Acres was Marsh-land very conveniently flanking its Up-land and in those days this Marsh-land was usually let for Four Nobles an Acre My Father died 1643. Within a year and half after his decease such Charges and Water-scots came upon this Marsh-land by the influence of the Sea that it was never worth one Farthing to me but very often eat into the Rents of the Up-land So that I often think this day being my Birth-day hath the same evil influence upon me that it had 580 years since upon Earl Godwin and others concerned in low Lands The Parliament so fatal to Romes Concerns here in Henry the Eighth's time begun the Third of November 26 of his Reign in which the Pope with all his Authority was clean banished the Realm he no more to be called otherwise than Bishop of Rome the King to be taken and reputed as Supreme Head of the Church of England having full Authority to reform all Errors Heresies and Abuses of the same Also the First-fruits and Tenths of all Spiritual Promotions and Dignities were granted to the King See Stows Annals and Weaver pag. 80. Not long after which followed the Visitation of Abbies Priories and Nunneries and after that their final Suppression This Parliament being the Door of entrance thereto The Third of November 1640. began that Parliament so direfully fatal to England in its Peace its Wealth its Religion its Gentry Nobility nay it s King So verifying the former Verse of the Calendar Scorpius est quintus tertius e nece cinctus A killing day to some or other The Third of September was a Remarkable day to the English Attila Oliver 1650. he obtained a memorable Victory at Dunbar another at Worcester 1651. And that day he died 1658. The first two Occurrences wonderfully accord to the preceding Verse Tertia Septembris denus fert mala membris being fatal to the two Members of Great Britain Scotland and England The third as happy to them both as the same day 1666. was dismal and unhappy to the City of London and consequently to the whole Kingdom with its immediate preceding and two succeeding days viz. the Second Fourth and Fifth of September I come now to Days of the Week Tuesday Dies Martis was a most remarkable day with Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury as Weaver 201. observes from Matt. Paris Mars secundum Poetas Deus Belli nuncupatur Vita Sancti Thomae secundum illud Job Vita hominis militia est super terram tota fuit contra hostem bellicosa c. Mars according to the Poets is called The God of War The Life of S. Thomas according to that of Job The life of man is a warfare upon earth was a continual conflict against the enemy Upon the Tuesday he suffered upon Tuesday he was translated upon Tuesday the Peers of the Land sate against him at Northampton upon Tuesday he was banished upon Tuesday the Lord appeared to him at Pontiniac saying Thomas Thomas my Church shall be glorified in thy blood upon Tuesday he returned from Exile upon Tuesday he got the Palm or Reward of Martyrdom and upon Tuesday 1220. his Venerable Body received the Glory and Renown of Translation Fifty years after his Passion Thus my Authors One thing I make bold to gloss upon His Translation is here mentioned twice Note This is no Tautology of the Historian but the latter Paragraph is a more particular Recitation of the first viz. reference to the time when he was translated into the number of Saints and Martyrs Quando in Divorum numerum relatus as Cambden Wednesday is said to have been the fortunate day of Sixtus Quintus that Pope of renowned Merit that did so great and excellent things in the time of his Government See The Just weight of the Scarlet Robe pag. 101 his deserved Praises On a Wednesday he was born on that day he was made Monk on the same he was made