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A42682	Day-fatality, or, Some observations of days lucky and unlucky penn'd and publish'ed whil'st His present Majesty, the most serenc king, James II was Duke of York, persecuted by the excluding party, and retir'd into the Low-Countries : presaging many great things, some whereof are wonderfully come to pass, and particularly made good, in his peaceable inthronization, and his speedy quashing two notable rebellions, headed by two persons, eminent for military conduct, one in England, the other in Scotland, and by whom greater things are yet to be done.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.	1686 (1686)	Wing G648; ESTC R7283	10,537	13

Day-Fatality OR SOME OBSERVATIONS OF Days Lucky and Vnlucky Penn'd and Publish'd whil'st His Present MAJESTY The Most Serene KING JAMES II. WAS DUKE of YORK Persecuted by the Excluding Party and Retir'd into the Low-Countries Presaging many Great Things some whereof are wonderfully come to Pass and particularly made Good in His Peaceable Inthronization and His Speedy Quashing Two notable Rebellions headed by Two Persons Eminent for Military Conduct One in England the Other in Scotland And by WHOM Greater Things are yet to be done Illi Pax Comes est Comes aut Victoria laeta Peace is His Mate Or if War chance to come It 's His good Fate His Foes to Over-come The Second Impression with Large Additions To which is Added Prince-Protecting-Providences AND The SWANS WELCOME All Written by an Officer at Arms Author of a Book Entituled Introductio ad Latinàm Blasoniam c. LONDON Printed by Alexander Milbourn for the Author And are to be Sold by the Booksellers of London 1686. THE PREFACE IN the ensuing Treatise Pag. 10. I inform my Reader how Lucky the Fourteenth of October hath been to the Princes of England And observing out of Wharton's Gesta Britannorum and the Collections of Others That His late Royal Highness our Present Magnanimous Magnificent Soveraign was also Born upon that Augural Day it made more than ordinary Impression upon me So that I never saw him but I thought in his very Face there were extraordinary Indices and Tokens of Regality But when after his Recess into Holland Those whom I Prophetically Characteris'd Pag. 165. of my Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam exceedingly Tryumphed wishing he might never return nay that he durst not nor would be permitted so to do using moreover opprobrious Terms Indignation made me Print my ensuing Sentiments Which though derided by Rome's Pacquet and the People of that Leven yet among the Better and more Loyal Sort found good Acceptance As will appear in the next Page by a Letter sent me from an Honourable and Learned Knight Things by me forethought and publickly hinted being come to pass my Day-Fatality began to be remembred And One whom I wish very well desiring I would give him Leave to Reprint That and Two other of my small Pieces together I assented to his Request I will Conclude this Preface with the following Metrical Demonstration of my Loyal Well-Wishes Authoris Votivum pro Rege JACOBO Caermen Aureus avulso Primo non deficit alter Aen. lib 6 Constans Corde piusque Anima frugì Generosus Qui facturus erit dìtia Regna Regit Huic esto in Terris Foelix diuturna Corona Aeterna in Coelis altera detur ei Oremus Tanto ne desit Mascula Regi Proles Eximij quae sit imago Patris Ejus posteritas sit in omne Volubilis aevum Sit Regum Series stirps sine fine sua Thus Translated and the Quotation of Virgil brought in to accompany the rest One's gone Another comes welcom to All Resolv'd and Pious Frugal Liberal Whose Conduct make His Kingdoms flourish all Oh! May His Earthly Crown full long endure Before He of His Heavenly Crown be sure Let 's pray So great a KING may live to see A Son who may his Father's Medal be Oh! May Great JAMES His Race for ever live And never fail a List of KINGS to give A Letter from Sir Winston Churchil Knight Father to the Right Honourable John Lord Churchil I Thank you for your kind Present the Observation of the Fatality of Days I have made great Experience of the Truth of it and have set down Fryday as my own Lucky Day the Day on which I was Born Christ'ned Married and I believe will be the Day of my Death The Day whereon I have had sundry Deliverances too long to relate from Perils by Sea and Land Perils by False Brethren Perils of Law-Suits c. I was Knighted by chance unexpected by my self on the same Day and have several good Accidents happened to me on that Day And am so superstitious in the Belief of its good Omen That I chuse to begin any Considerable Action that concerns me on the same Day I hope HE whom it most concerns will live to own your Respect and Good Wishes express'd in That Essay of yours Which discovering a more than common Affection to the DUKE and being as valuable for the Singularity of the Subject as the Ingenuity of your Fancy I sent into Flanders as soon as I had it That They on the Other Side the Water may see 'T is not all sowre Wine that runs from our English Press Day-Fatality OR SOME OBSERVATIONS OF Days Lucky and Vnlucky CONCLUDING With some Remarks upon the Fourteenth of October The Auspicious Birth-Day of His Royal Highness JAMES Duke of York Atavis qui Regibus editus Augustissimo CAROLO Proximus NUM XXVII 8 9. LUC. XIX 42. In Hoc Die Tuo In This Thy Day THAT there be Good and Evil Days and Times not only the Sacred Scriptures but Prophane Authors mention See 1 Sam. 25.8 Esther 8.17 and 9.19 22. Ecclus 14.14 The Fourteenth Day of the First Month was a memorable and blessed Day amongst the Children of Israel See Exod. 12.18 40 41 42 51. and 13.4 Levit. 23.5 Numb 28.16 Four hundred and thirty Years being expired of their Dwelling in Aegypt even in the self-same Day departed they thence A thing somewhat parallel to this we read in the Roman Histories That that very Day four years that the Civil Wars were begun by Pompey the Father Caesar made an end of them with his Sons Cneus Pompeius being then slain and it being also the last Battle Caesar was ever in Heylyn in the Kingdom of Corduba Our Historians tells us That Normandy was Conquer'd from Duke Robert by Henry the First that Day forty Years the Normans had won England A remarkable Retaliation Anglia Nomandiae par retulit England paid Normandy in its own Coyn. Burton's Historical Remarks The Calendar to Ovid's Fastorum says Aprilis erat mensis Graecis Auspicatissimus a most Auspicious Month to the Graecians As to Evil Dayes and Times see Amos 5.13 and 6.3 Eccles 9.12 Psalm 37.19 Obad. 12. Jer. 46.21 And Job hints it in cursing his Birth-day Cap. 3. v. 1. to 11. See Weaver p. 458. The old Rhimes concerning the Scots Erly in a Morneuing In an Evil Tyming Went they from Duubarre Horace lib. 2. Ode 13. cursing the Tree that had like to have fallen upon him says Ille nefasto te posuit die intimating that it was planted in an Vnlucky Day The Romans counted Febr. 13th an unlucky Day and therefore then never attempted any Business of Importance for on that Day they were overthrown at Allia by the Gauls and the Fabii attaquing the City of the Veii were all slain save one Heylyn speaking of St. Peter's Patrimony And see the Calendar annext to Ovid's Fastorum as to the last Circumstance The Jews counted August Tenth and Unfortunate Day for on that