retain his Loyalty and Integrity and he did so to the last For being now as we have said with all the Loyal Party left naked and devested of every thing nay almost of his Hope too and his Arms of no longer use to him unless he would joyn with the Rebels a thing he totally abhor'd He patiently and chearfully betakes himself to his Arts of which he had formerly worthily proceeded Master at Queens Colledge Oxon. And rather than not serve the King his Soveraign Lord at all he condescended to write among other things even Almanacks and thereby took occasion to assert his Majesties Honour and Interest and in that contemptible way to make known and enlarge his Authority as much as in him lay to do when he could perform it no longer by his Sword And for his several Loyal Endeavours by his Pen he had soon made way for New Troubles to attend him being for that Cause looked upon as a great Eye-sore to the Men in Power of those Tyrannous Times and had provoked them so far as you 'l find in several Parts of these his Works that they thought fit frequently to seize his Person and restrain his Liberty hoping thereby to restrain his Pen and accordingly clap'd him up close Prisoner in the Gate-house and Newgate sometimes and other whiles in Windsor-Castle in which several to him doleful Places he constantly though like a Bird in a Cage continued singing forth his Ditties of Loyalty thereby remembring the then Ruling Rebels that there was a Lawful King still in Being though God had suffer'd him to partake of a large and dolorous Exile unto whom they all ought to pay their Duty Allegiance as he himself truly did Thus we see that even Prisons the most hated and loathed of Places and a Reduction to the very lowest Ebb of Fortune cannot permute a truly well-grounded and inbred Loyalty nor yet the greatest Temptations of Gold and Glory in such a despised Condition prove an Annulet of Power sufficient to warp or bend a worthy Mind from his Allegiance In this suffering Condition he continued from the Surrender of Oxford which was on June 24. 1646. sharing in the common Fate or Misfortunes of all the Kings Friends feeding upon the Garlick and Onions of the Usurpers Tyranny rather than to eat Quails at the Tables of Rebels keeping a more than Twelve years Lent being little better than a Hewer of Wood and Drawer of Water at the Command of those who in Right and Justice were but his Fellow Subjects I say in this Condition he continued until the most happy and Glorious Restauration of his present most Sacred Majesty which was on May 29. 1660. And when the true Son of Great Britains Hopes appear'd the Clouds that had most enviously so long benighted all Loyal Honest Men began to scatter apace And then our worthy Author among the rest crept out of his Obscurity and received Warmth by those powerful Solar Rays his Majesties most happy appearing had so seasonably scatter'd over the Nation to the acquitting of it from its many years bewilder'd Condition and had a Re-admission into his former Place and Office And not only so but in a short time after He received also an Additional Preferment of good Consequence which Places of Trust he discharged so well and so faithfully that his Majesty thought sit in Consideration of his former Sufferings under and for his Royal Father and particular Services to himself to confer the Honour of Baronet by Patent upon him and his Heirs for ever which Honour his Son Sir Polycarpus Wharton now most deservedly enjoys Thus this truly Loyal Person lived in the Favour of two of the Best of Kings and was thought worthy to be rewarded by them both and died in the Favour of his present Majesty possessed of that Honour and Office the King had so freely bestowed upon him and thought he so well deserved This is a true though short Description of his Loyalty his Sufferings and Rewards And I hope some others that knew him better and are better furnished for such an Vndertaking will present the World with a larger Account of this worthy Persons Original Life and Actions and thereby make amends for my Defects whatever they shall appear to be which would be I confess an extraordinary Delight and Satisfaction to me that have thus meanly endeavour'd to preserve his Memory For I would have a Worthy Good Man no more forgotten though dead then I would have the Sun forget to shine again after it hath left our Horizon in an Evening And when such Persons are suffered to slide to the Shades of black Oblivion unremembred it is no small sign of a wicked vitious and profligate Age. Secondly as to his Learning This our Author was not only Naturally Loyal but was blessed with a great acquisition of Learning too He was both an Excellent Schollar and singular Artist understanding both Languages and Sciences as sufficiently appears by this Miscellaneous Treatise here published which is of excellent Service to all men that are inclined to a Courtship of the Muses So that we may most justly say of this Collection as it is reported once a learned Critick said of Virgils Works viz. That if all the Books in the World were burnt and that only remaining some Vestigia of all kind of Learning might be found therein And that you may know that this is no Romantick Story but more than Fancy or Opinion even a very real and demonstrative Truth be pleased a little to observe with me how many several sorts of Persons and Sciences we shall find obliged by these his Learned Labours 1. If this Excellent Treatise fall into the hands of the Venerable Theologue to say nothing of the near Relation Astrology hath to Divinity as the Learned Dr. Gell Dr. Swadlin and others have most learnedly proved here he will meet with the Original of all the Fasts and Feasts of the Jewish as well as Christian Church so excellently and elegantly set forth and with such aweful Respect to the Preservation of the Honour of God and the Continuance of Sacred things in Vse among us that had he been bred to that Holy Function more could not have been said in so short a room upon that Weighty Grave and Tremendous Subject Sure hereafter such mistaken Clergy-men who have drank too liberally at John Calvins Fountain and thereby imbib'd his Poyson breath'd forth against the Stars and the Magnifiers of God in his Works without either serious Examination or Consideration will cease to Calumniate Astrologers and the laudable Science of the Stars and be brought to confess upon their reading this Treatise that some of them at least believe they have Souls as well as Bodies and do as the Holy Church it self assert their Immortality and hope for Salvation by the Blood of the blessed Jesus abandoning all sorts of Atheism Blasphemy and Imposture 2. Should the Reader hereof be a Learned Physician whose business it is
thought upon that may ere long amaze the unjust Usurpers of his Royal Fathers Birth-right But no more of that this Year I will not trouble my self much longer with this Malicious Fellows Errors and Impertinencies nor with his scurrillous Language belch'd out against an Irish Gentleman who writ an Almanack Printed at Waterford in Ireland I never saw the Book and therefore I cannot judge of any thing in it nor admit of any such thing as Booker pretends to have Corrected him in For I have it from good hands that the Gentleman is so knowing a Scholar that it is incredible he should be guilty of such gross Errors as Booker hath charged him with And you have seen how able a Man Booker is to Correct any body But were I that Manapian he speaks of I would reward him with another Scheme for the future Opposition of the same Planets which happens upon the 20 day of October 1647. at half an hour past 6 a Clock in the Morning Saturn being then in 0. deg 27 min. of Gemini the Ascendant of London and Mars in 0. deg 27 min. of Sagit as appeareth by the Figure which I have Calculated exactly for the Meridian of London because it will much concern the South and West parts of England and that in a higher measure than the Conjunction before treated of doth the Kingdom of Ireland See the Scheme A Labente Anno. 1647 Octobr. 20 18 Hor 4 min 18 sec. Lost meridiem Latitud 51.32 And until the time of this Opposition do the Effects of the Conjunction vigorously extend themselves and then they have lasted 539 days which wants but 8 days of a Year and a half after which time the Effects of this Opposition shall begin and forcibly Operate until their next Conjunction which will happen again upon the 28 day of June 1648. in the 11 deg of Gemini which will be very ominous to some parts of England and especially the City of London For I cannot say the Effects of the Opposition shall cease when the Mathematical Circuit of their Conjunction finishes because that next Conjunction doth likewise happen in the Sign Gemini wherein Saturn is at the time of his Opposition to Mars which will not much differ in signification Although it be a received Truth that the Effects of the Opposition of these two Planets do commonly work more violently and quick Nam diametrae radiationes quemadmodum Tetragonismi mortes repentinas violentas mutationes faciunt congressus vero generalia accidentia And Haly the Arabian in his 8 Part Cap. 6. saith Quod Oppositio Saturni Martis est deterior eorum Conjunctione deteriores ac maligniores significationes demonstrant And indeed this is very Malicious in that they are both unhappily affected and afflicted Saturn being infortunate and Mars out of all his Essential Dignities and otherwise but meanly Fortified Haec oppositio significat quod homines in se invicem discordabunt prosequentur se mutuo odio cessabunt se familiariter invisere detrabet quilibet alteri Haly Part 8. Cap. 25. This Opposition signifieth that Men shall wrangle one with another and shall Prosecute themselves mutually with hatred And they shall forbear to visit one another familiarly And every one shall back-bite or speak evil of another It further praemonstrates great Pestilence and Mortality especially amongst Old Men Many Thefts and Robberies much deceitful dealing and that generally Men shall betray their Trust. That many unjust and unreasonable Taxes shall be imposed under several specious pretences to the undoing of many far worse than that of Ship-money I have taken the pains to set Booker the Scheme rightly for London and if he do not too much play the Fool or the Knave he needs must exceedingly terrifie the People subject to the Sign Gemini wherein Saturn is at the time of this Opposition in the 8. House the House of Death and Venus who is Lady of the 8. House is with the Moon in the latter end of the 2. House where likewise Mars afflicteth The 4. deg of Leo culminates Jupiter is in the latter end of the 10. House but Saturn and Mars do strongly besiege him He is miserably afflicted by their hateful square and is also in his Detriment Look now to your selves you of the Presbyterian-Cut the People are weary of your extemporary non-sence You Judges Officers and Magistrates who have betrayed or forsaken your Master and perverted the Law to serve your own wills expect to render an account of your Actions I unfeignedly protest you are all strongly threatned From the Sun and Mercury expect your comfort or none They cast a Friendly Sextile to Jupiter and they are free from the Malevolents though in the most viperous Sign of the Zodiack The Sun here represents His Majesty of England as being both Lord of the 10. House and Natural Significator of Kings Mercury as he is with the Sun hath signification of the Masters of the Houses of Princes and great Lords and their Secretaries and Stewards And they are both if not only Angular in the Figure This promises well to His Majesty and his Servants and not one jot of ill to Ireland By this time a Man may call a Spade a Spade Let me see the Face of him dare call the Queens Majesty a Traytor But the States have Voted her so for her Love so exemplarily shewed to the King her Husband Is there not one Lord nor Ten Commoners yet ashamed of it Yes some blush others are bold and impudent some stupidly senseless others wrangling away their Lives by strange and noisome Diseases some are threatned by Prodigious Births and those too of their own begetting And what not to render a People palpably accursed miserably and fully wretched Ireland now demands a reason for the Ordinance of the 24 of October 1644. And asks if you will buy any Land there Scotland tells you they have as great an Interest in the King as England and will in some of the Lands too if you will needs In a word we all look back and say Lord what have we done and been a doing for 7 Years Some make Question whether they be awake or in a Dream All Men are at a stand yet still in Action The besotted Crew do quake and murmure say little but think mischievously Furórne coecus an rapit vis acrior An culpa Responsum date Tacent Et ora pallor albus inficit Mentesque perculsae stupent Doth fury blind or greater Power command Is Sin the cause Oh let me understand They silent are Their cheeks are paler made And fears their horror-strucken Minds invade But it is the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars upon the 28 of June 1648. before mentioned will be assuredly Fatal to London and many other places of England I pray God avert the Judgments thereby threatned and incline the Hearts of His Majesties Subjects that as they are or ought to be all Christians so to be of
of Peace concluded with those of Algiers by Sr. John Lawson 28 His Highness Prin. Rupert George Duke of Buckingham and John L. Middleton sworn of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 30 Her Highness the Dutchess of York deliver'd of a Daughter at Saint James's May 14 Qu. Katharine landed at Portsmouth 15 Bonefires throughout all the streets of London for joy thereof 19 His Majesty Prorogu'd the Parliament till February 18 next following 20 His Majesty at Portsmouth 21 King Charles II. Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal publickly married by Gilbert Lord Bishop of London at Portsmouth 27 E. of St. Albans set sail for Calis to wait upon the Queen Mother into England 29 The King and Qu. Majesty came to Hampton-Court June 2. The L. Mayor and Aldermen of London with the chief Officers of the City came to Hampton-Court and tendred their duty to the Queens Majesty 6 Sir Henry Vane Indicted and found guilty of High-Treason 9 Mr. John Lambert the like 11 Both received their sentence but Mr. Lambert's Execution Respited by order from His Majesty because of his Prudent and Civil demeanor at his Tryal 14 Sir Henry Vane beheaded one Tower-Hill Earl of Peterborough being returned from Tangier came to Hampton-Court 22 Rump Officers and Souldiers commanded by Proclamation to deparâ— London and Westminster 28 English Forces arrived at Lisbon July 9 His Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland began his Journey towards that Kingdom 27 Landed in Ireland 28 Qu. Mother landed at Greenwich August 23 Queen Katharine came first to White-hall with great Triumph 24 Exit Jack-Presbyter Nevertheless 27 He presumed to Petition His Majesty for a Dispensation but to no purpose Septem 8 Mr. William Lenthal dyed very penitently 29 Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet His Majesties Lieutenant of the Tower unanimously chosen Lord Mayor of Lon. for the following year Oct. 2 Captain Mynns with incredible Valour took the City of St. Jago with the Castle and Block-houses of the Harbor and six Sail of their Ships riding before it 5 Articles of Peace between His Majesty and those of Tunis concluded by Sir John Lawson 18 The like with those of Tripoli Sir Henry Bennet sworn Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty in the place of Sir Edward Nicholas Nov. 9 10 Several Conspirators against His Majesty seized on and secured in Dublin 12 A lamentable Fire at Tiverton in Devonshire 16 A Proclamation declaring His Majesties City and Garrison of Tangier in Africa a Free Port 19 All the Captives in Algiers Tituan c. who were Subject to His Majesty of Great-Britain redeemed from Slavery by the charitable Contribution of the Right Reverend Archbishops Bishops c. of the Kingdom Dec. 11 Tho. Tongue Geo. Philips Francis Stubs James Hynde John Cellars and Nathaniel Gibs arraigned for High Treason at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly of which James Hynde only Pleaded Guilty and on his Knees beg'd his Ma. Pardon The rest were all found Guilty by the Jury and condem-to be Drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd 22 Geo. Phillips Tho. Tonge Nathaniel Gibs and Francis Stubs Executed at Tyburn for High-Treason 24 One Mr. Gardner executed at Tyburn for Coining 26 A most lamentable Fire in Lothbury London wherein were consum'd Mr. De Laune a Merchanâ— and his Wife and with them 5 or 6 other Persons being all in the House 27 Col. William Legg return'd from Ireland 29 The Russian Embassador had audience of his Majesty and deliver'd his presents consisting of Sea-horse-teeth Hawks Horses Persian Carpets Sables c. Jan. 6 Mr. Edmond Calamy Prisoner to Newgate The right Honourable Geo. Earl of Norwich died at Brainford 14 Philip Gibbs brother to Nathaniel Gibbs lately executed at Tyburn for High-Treason apprehâ—nded and sent to Newgate 16 Mr. Edw. Bagshaw a Minister committed to the Tower for Treasonable designs and practices 18 Phil. Gibbs remov'd from Newgate to the Tow. 24 Archibald Johnston commonly call'd Laird Warreston brought prisoner to Dover having been found and apprehended in France a litâ—le before 26 That great-Souldier the L. Ruthâ—rford late Gov. of Dunkirk created E. of Tiviot in Scotland J. Ireton being brought back from Scilly-Island committed to the Tower Archibald Johnson committed to the Tower for crimes of High-Treason 30 Capt. Mynns with his wonted resolution stormed and â—ook the Fort and Town of Campeach Febr. 13 The Lorâ—s and Commons of Parliament met again at Wâ—stminster according to Prorogation the 19 of May last 19 The before named Philip Gibbs and one Baker another notorious conspirator arraigned at â—he Sessions-House in the Old Bayly who confessing themselves guilty of High-Treason received sentence of Death accordingly 23 Both were executed at Tyburn Mar. 18 The right Honourable Jerame Earl of Portland one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council departed this Life Anno 1663. Apr. 2 Abraham Goodman committed to the Tower for attempting the Murther of his Grace the D. of Buckingham 4 Count de Conniges Ambassador from France made his publick entrance into London 5 He had Audience of His Majesty at White-hall 22 The King and Queen's Majesty arrived at Windsor in order to the Celebration of the Anniversary of St. Georges Feast which began that Evenâ—ng May 12 Capt. Blâ—ke Commander of â—he Lizard received into his Custody Archibâ—ld Johnston to be by him transported into Scotland 26 Col. Robert Overtâ—â— committed to the Tower 29 The Castilianâ— dâ—feated by His Majesty of Portugal in which Fight the undaunted English obtain'd great Honour June 9 The Rusâ—a Ambassador having had his last Audience and taken leave of His Mâ—jesty went away from York-house by Water July 1 The right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon L. High Chaâ—cellor of England Sworn L. Lieut. of the Country of Oxon in the place of that truly Noble L. the L. Viso of Falkland deceased 3 E. of Peterborough â—â—rived at Portsmouth being returned from Taâ—giers 4 Came to Whiâ—e-Hall 5 George Elton a Fifth Monarchy-man and one said to be of the Council of Six in the late Conspiracy committed to the Tower for Treasonable designs and practices 9 Dr. William Juxon late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury was buryed in the Chappel of St. John's Colledge at Oxford About a fortnight after the Body of that great Martyr Arch-Bishop Laud his predecessor in that See was removed from Barking Church near the Tower where he was Canonically buryed Jan. 11. 1664 by honest Mr. Tho. Fletcher to the Chappel of St. John's Colledge aforesaid and there interr'd close by the said A. B. Juxo 11 John Dodington Esq commited to the Tower 15 Alexander Jephson Col. Edward Warren and Lieutenant Thompson Executed at Dublin for High Treason 21 The Earl of Carlisle sent Ambassador to the Emperor of Russia 22 James Son to His Royal Highness James Duke of York was Christned at St. James's by Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London Archibald Johnston Executed at Edinburgh upon a Gibbet 22 Foot high 23 The King and
Qu. Majesties went toward Tunbridge 27 Parliament Prorogued till the 16 of March next coming and soon after the E. of Bristol step't aside Aug. 11 His Majesty removed from Tunbridge to White-hall 15 His Majesty went back to Tunbridge 18 The King and Qu. Majesties both return'd from Tunbridge to White-hal 21 The Parliament of Scotland passed an Act for a National Synod the first that ever was in that Kingdom under the Government of Bishops 25 His Majesties Proclamation for discovery and apprehension of the Earl of Bristol 26 The King and Qu. began their progress toward Bath and lay that Night at thei Wddow Whitfields in Maydenhead 27 At that worthy Gentlemans Sr. Thomas Doleman of Shaw near Newbury 28 At the Right Honourable the L. Seymours 29 Arrived at the Bath Sept. 5 Most Nobly entertained at the City of Bristol whence after dinner they returned to Bath Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York went to Portsmouth 10 The King and Queen dined at that Loyal Gentlemans James Thynns The Lord Mont. Alexander Master General of His Majesties Ordinance in Ireland departed this Life 23 King and Queen Magnificently treated by the Right Honorable the Lord High Chancellor of England at Cornbury from whence they afterwards went to Oxford An Act of the Scotch Parliament whereby is offer'd 20000 Foot and 1000 Horse to be in readiness for His Majesties service whensoever they shall be called for by his Majesty to march to any part of his Dominions of Scotl. Engl. or Irel. for suppressing of any Forraign Invasion intestine trouble or insurrection or for any other service wherein His Majesties Honor Authority or Greatness may be concerned 25 His Maj. with His Royall Highn the Duke of York went to Cornbury where that night they Lodged and having view'd Woodstock-Park 26 Returned to Oxford 30 The Court removed from Oxf. to Wickh Octob. 1 To White-Hall 2 Sir Richard Fanshaw Kt. and Bt. Sworn on of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council 12 A general Commotion designed by the Fanaticks but timely prevented by the great Wisdom and Vigilancy of His Majesty and his most Honorable Privy Council 18 Dyed the Right Honor Sir Will Compton Kt. Mast. Gen. of His Maj. Ordinance in Engl. and one of His Maj. most Honor. Privy Council A Person of so much integrity true Valour and Affability the loss of him can never be sufficiently Lamented Nov. 4. One Blackburn a Clothier of Leeds and one of the precious Saints in the late Rebell being accused of High Treason cut his own Throat 10 A Proclamation for discovery and Apprehension of divers Traiterous Conspirators therein Named Dec. 6 Dyed that Eminent Loyal and renowned Patriot Judge Jenkins at his House at Cowbridge 24 Earl of Tiviot Embarked for Tangier The Jugdes and Justices of Oyer and Terminer began their Journey towards York for the Tryal of the late Conspirators Jan. 5 They arriv at Y. 8 Were arraigned and tryed 17 Conspirators whereof 15 Convicted of High Treason 9 Three more Convicted for the same Crime 12 Two more Convict 16 James Turner well known by the name of Col. Turner arraign'd and Cast at the Old-Bayley for Felony and Burglary Sixteen of the late Conspirators Executed at York whereof two of their Heads sent to Doncaster two more to North-Allerton and the rest pitch'd upon Poles and set on the City Gales in York 19. Three more of them Executed at Chappel-moor near Leedâ— whose Heads were afterwards set on the Tolbooth there 21 Sir Richard Fanshaw Lord Embassador to the Spanish King set out for Portsmouth Col. Turner Executed in Leaden-Hall Street 22. Sr. John Lawson arrived at Portsmouth 23 Sr. Richard Fanshaw came thither also 25 A Fire at Whitehal 31 Sir John Lawson with the L. Ambassador Fanshaw Embarqued for Spain Feb. 20 John Twin a Printer arraign'd and condemn'd at the Old Bayly for Printing a most execrable Libel against his Maj. and the Government 22 Executed in Smithfield Mar. 1 Tho. Brewster a Bookseller and Natha Brooks and a Bookbinder stood in the Pillory in Cornhil and the day following in Smithfield for Selling and Uttering Malicious Scandalous and Seditious books against the King the State and peace of the Kingdom 16 The Ls. and Commons of Parl. met at Westminster according to Prorogation July 27 1663. and adjourned till Munday following 18 Began the Assizes at Appleby where four more Conspirators were indicted for High-Treason whereof three found Guilty the other acquitted 21 Three more such indicted whereof One found Guilty the other two acquitted and Sentence pass'd upon the former Three and the Last found Guilty to be drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd An antient Gentleman a Portuguese lodging in Covent garden most cruelly Murther'd by one Peter Caesar his Servant 24 Three of the Condemned Rebels executed aâ— Appleby Anno 1664. 26 27 A Notorius tumult in Cheapside fomented by the Industry of the Phanatiques whose design was to improve a Ryot into a Rebellion April 3 Mr. Dodington removed from the Tower to Hull Samuel Moyer to Tinmouth 〈◊〉 Smith Overton Hevennigham Millington and Temple to Jersie 4 Count Conningseâ—k the Emperors Envoy had his audience April 5 Edward Bagshaw removed from the Tower to South-sea Castle House of Ls. adjourned till the 18 of April following 6 The House of Commons did the like Paul Hobson removed from the Tower to Chepstow 18 Mildmay Fleetwood and Garland to Tangier 27 Peter Caesar formerly mention'd executed for the horrible murther of his Master The two Houses concurred with the Vote of the Commissioner for the advance and improvement of Trade touching the depredations and Injuries done by the Dutch wherein it was resolv'd that they would with their lives and fortunes assist his Majesty against all opposition whatsoever May 3 The Earl of Tiviot and his party cut off by the Moors near the Jews River at Tangier 15 Col. Richard Nichols Sir Robert Carr and Col. Cartwright imbark'd for New England 17 Parliament Prorogued to the 20 of August following 30 A Proclamation for recalling and prohibiting English Seamen from the services of Forraign Princes and States 31 Sir George Downing arrived at London June 7 A Dreadful Tempest of Thunder and Lightning in and about London 10 His Grace the Du. of Ormond arrived at White-hal from Ireland The Heer Van Gocâ— Embassador Ordinary to his sacred Majesty from the States General at Gravesend 12 Col. Fitz-Gerald with Capt. Spraggs and Captain Victors Companies imbarqued at Portsmouth for Tangier 16. Earl of Argyles Head taken down from off the Tol-Booth in Edinburgh by order of his Majesty and his Son admitted of his Maj. most Honor Privy Council there 25 The Heer Van Goch the States Embassador after two private Audie a formal entry had publick Audience July 4. The King and Queens Majesties treated at Tilbury-hope by the right Honorable the Earl of Sandwich 15 A Proclamation for further Proroguing the Parlia from the 20. of August next the Term of Prorogation
Hearty Thanks of the House be returned to His Majesty for the Care he hath of the Person of his Royal Highneâ—s Also That the Concurrence of the Lords should be desired therein 11. Resolved by the Houses That an Additional Supply of 1250000 l. be given to the Kings Majesty for his present Supply to be raised by a proportionable Addition to the Monthly Assessment to begin from Christmas next Part of Michaelm Term viz. from the first Return thereof called Tres Michaelis to the fifth called Ocâ—abis Sancti Martini Adjourn'd from Westminster to Oxford by His Majesties Proclamation 14. The Dutch Fleet hovering up and down upon the Coâ—st of Margate against which they bestowed some three or four hundred Shot to no purpose and so Sailed off again before they could be called to an Account for the Bravadâ— 25. The Dutch Fleet retuâ—ned into Hâ—rbour Oâ—tob 3â— Sir Tho. Blâ—â—â—â—â—th Sworn Lord Mayor 〈◊〉 London at the outmost Gaâ—e of the Bulwark by the Hâ—nourable Sir Jâ—hn Robinâ—â—n Kniâ—hâ—â—nd Baroneâ— Hâ—s Mâ—jest 〈◊〉 Lieutenant of the Tower by Vertue of His Majestics Commission to him directed for that purpose Nov. 17. Don Patricio Omuledei Resident from the Catholick King had his Audience of Conge from His Majesty being in few days to return for Spain 18. The several Courts of Justice sat in the Schools at Oxford according to an Adjournment made at Westminster to that purpose in pursuance of His Majestics Proclamation of September 26. last 23. The French Ambassadours took their leaves of His Majesty Here Ended this Learned Person 's Chronology of the Acts of Great Britain Place this Hand before the Title of Chiromancy Job 37.7 Qui in manu omnium hominum signa posuit ut cognoscerent opera ejus singuli ΧΕΙΡΟΜΑÎΤΙΑ OR THE ART OF DIVINING BY The LINES and SIGNATVRES Engraven in the HAND of MAN By the HAND of NATVRE Theorically Practically Wherein you have the Secret Concordance and Harmony betwixt It and Astrology made Evident in Nineteen GENITURES Together with A Learned Philosophical Discourse of the Soul of the World and the Universal Spirit thereof A Matchless Piece Written Originally in Latine by Jo. Rothman D. in Physick and now Faithfully Englished By George Wharton Esq Manus membrum Hominis loquacissimum London As it was Printed in the Year 1652. To the Truly NOBLE and Universally Learned My much Honoured Friend Elias Ashmole Esq Worthy Sir WERE it not that in Common Civility I am bound upon this Occassion as to acknowledge my Infinite Obligations to you that being the best Quality of a Bad Debtor and even All a Christian Creditor should expect where the Means of a juster Requital is wanting so to give you an Account of the present Work unto which you first incited Me Yet Sir the Rarity of the Subject and the Gipsy-like Esteem it hath amongst the Vulgar would have necessarily enforced Me to shelter it under the Wings of none but an Absolute Mercurialist That you are no less The Ingenious Works you have already Published The Succinct and Learned Annotations you have made upon some Part of those to â—â—it what I know you have in Design your exquisite knowledge in Arithmetick Geometry Astrology Natural Magick and Physick And in thâ—â—e othâ—r Inferâ—oâ—â— Objects of your Delight viz. Linning Engraving Painting and Musick may and do abundantly manifest I shall not I need not expatiate To instance the particular knowledge you have in â—hiromancy wâ—re but Actum agere in that Astrology â—efore mentioned comprehends the same as here it is apply'd and your self Them both Nor could I glory at all in the Name of a Greater Personage to Patronize this Piece It is not the Blustring noise of an Empty Title or the Frail Support of a Signal Birth only that can be a fit Champion for this or the like Mysterious Sciences Learning is best Fortress'd of those by whom she is most understood I confess her Admirers may wish her Happiness yet they commonly fail her in Extremity And herein I follow the Example of mine Author who made choice of the best Deserving in his Countrey unto whom he Dedicated this Work in the Original That is unto such as were sober and skilful Not to Men that were Mighty and Ignorant or Learned and Malicious Nor yet have these any just cause to complain unless for the want of Ingenuity whereby they are Doom'd to an Absolute Depravation of that whereby Wise Men daily Ascend even to the Presence of God and his Angels I mean the Knowledge of his Works For it is not sufficient we hear a story of God in the Scriptures unless also we read or see him in the large Volume of his Creatures Neither do we Read Him by a bare Gazing upon the outward Form thereof but by a narrow Enquiry and search made into their hidden Nature and Disposition For In the Beginning saith my Author God adorned all things Created with Signatures that so the Mind of an Ingenious Man might delight it self by a diligent searching into the Nature and Disposition thereof and thence boldly acknowledging the Wonderful Works of God and converting them to a right use be chearfully constrained to the Love or Gâ—d himself and to Worship him with all his heart for his Infinite Wisdom and Goodness Let us therefore beheld the Heaven the Stars and Coelestial Signs the Animals Plants Roots Stones Metals c. in and upon the Earth and consider how wonderfully their various Signatures every where present themselves unto us and by a Tacite Language proffer us their Nature and Disposition How exceedingly the Seven wandring Stars Vulgarly called Planets do differ not only in Magnitude and Motion but also in the Brightness and Beauty of their Light How variable an Influence is in each what a Lively Lasting Spirit diversly Disposing Moving Animating Producing Signing and Sustaining these Inferiours according to their different Position in the Heavens and the sundry Complications and Mixtures of Beams occurring from other Stars The Philosophers of old have acknowledged and we shall willingly the same Et in infimis Suprema in Supremis infima There are in Heaven Earthly things in respect of the Causes and by a Coelestial manner and Coelestial things in Earthly but by a Terrestrial manner Whence indeed it is That the Sun the Moon and other Stars are considered in the Earth but that in regard of a Terrene Quality so also Plants Stones Metals c. in the Heavens but this in respect of a Heavenly Nature endued with Life-Intellectual And this was the Reason why Heaven it self was depainted with sundry Images by the Ancient and Holy Fathers And that he who had through his Ingenuity attained thâ—se Holy Mysteries of the World was by the Hebrews truly named Rabbi by the Latines Magister and by almost all other Nations Magus Nevertheless this Name is now so much suspected and hated that some had rather forgo the Gospel it self than receive it again into Favour So wilfully Obstinate Blind
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
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
and in this case especially signifieth the many-headed-monster Multitude such Persons as in January 1641. Tumultuously assembled themselves to the hazard of His Majesties Royal Person to cry for Blood in the Terms of Justice those who through their pretended Zeal to I know not what have brought the Curse of God upon themselves and the whole Kingdom first by slaying the Innocent in cold Blood and ever since by engaging their Persons and Estates in this most unnatural and bloody War against His Majesty The Moon I say who is the natural significatrix of such mean Capacities is in the sixth House very sick Master Lilly and nigh to the Dragons Tail These positions will puzzle and stupifie the mis-guided Commonalty and make them know there 's such a thing as Allegiance More particularly the Sun thus posited and also Mercury being free from Combustion and the Infortunes And the Dragons Head so near the Cuspe ascending Salvationem corporis agilitatem gaudium in Itinere significant bonumque fiduciam applicari ad id quod vult Haly pag. 324. Jupiters position in the 10 House confirms the same Haly pag. 328. The Moon Lady of the 12. and moving betwixt the 8 degree 34 min. and 21 degr 26 min. of Aquarius gives us to understand that His Majesty shall receive much contentment by certain Messages brought him from Foreign Parts and that he shall receive some sudden and unexpected supply of by the means of some that assimulate the condition of his Enemies And withal this comfort that His Majesty shall be exceeding successful in Besieging Towns Castles or Forts and in pursuing the Enemy See Haly pag. 346. Mars his Sextile to the Sun Lord of the Ascendant which happeneth the 18 day of May will encourage our Souldiers to advance with much Alacrity and chearfulness of Spirit to shew themselves gallant in the most dangerous attempts The Ascendant and tenth House being both Fixed Signs tell us That the March shall not be so speedy as is expected but with great deliberation and care of settling the Affairs of the distracted Counties through which His Majesty passeth Yet the great dominion of Mercury doth intimate quick Action about the latter end of June and the most part of July O! what snaffling there will be amongst the Zelots before the middle of November How many days of Humiliation what Fears what Jealousies what Discontents and Wranglings what Murmurings how many Lies and Forgeries raised and dispersed to quicken a dull and dying Faction The next thing in Order which we are to consider is the Sign and degr of the 7 House which in this Scheme is the 22 degr and 21 min. of Aquarius the house of Saturn but Term of Jupiter Saturn being in the 9 House of the Heavens in the end of Aries and in a Sextile with the Cuspe of the 7 house and in a Quartile with Mars Si gradus 7 domus fuerit dignitas ♃ timebitur honorabitur credetur ejus verbis à gente illius Terrae ad quam vadit erit dilectus à gente Terrae ad quam vadit cum gaudio laetitiâ Here by the word Gente we must understand the County or Counties principally aimed at by His Majesty And this happy Reception is further attested by the propinquity of Venus to the Sun as he is Lord of the Ascâ—ndant and in the House of Kings c. Aquarius being a fixed Sign tells us that he shall not quickly remove thence but remain there some convenient time foâ— the settling of some important Affairs and a full reducing of those Counties to their Obedience If any man would be satisfied to what Quarter of the Heavens the design is intended although he may guess something by the Motion which the Army hath already made yet he may inform his Judgment best by considering the Signs of the four Angles viz. Leo Taurus Aquarius and Scorpio which he shall find to be the one half Northern the other Southern and also the Signs wherein the Planets are viz. Aries Taurus Gemini Leo and Aquarius which are all of them except the last wherein the Morn is Septentrional Which will assuredly determine that the Progress and principal Actions of this Army or the greatest part thereof are like to be Northernly inclining sometimes to the East otherwhiles to the West as the Occasions of War require The fourth and last thing to be examined is the 4 House The Cuspe whereof is the 9 degree and 31 min. of Scorpio the most Vipâ—rous Sign of the Zodiack where Mars hath the Dignities of House Triplicity and Decade But is unfortunately collocated in the 12 House of the Figure This position of his ought to fore-warn our Commanders to take heed of some Disaster immediately before His Majesty betake him to his Winter Quarters It seems to be the beating up of an Out-quarter and the surprizal of some few of our Men who value their ease more than their safety I will say no more But I hope the diligence and Vigilancy of our Commanders may prevent the danger And now to sum up all It is most apparent to every impartial and ingenuous Judgment That although His Majesty cannot expect to be secured from every trivial disaster that may befall his Army â—iâ—hâ—r by the too much Presumption Ignorance or Negligence of some particular Pâ—rsons which is frâ—quenâ—ly incident and unavoidably in the best of Armies yet the several Positions of the Heavens duly considered and compared amongst themselves as well in the prefixed Scheme as at the Quarterly Ingresses do generally render His Majesty and his whole Army unexpectedly Victorious and Successful in all his Designs Believe it London thy Miseries approach they are like to be many great and grievous and not to be diverted unless thou seasonably crave Pardon of God for being Nurse to this present Rebellion and speedily submit to thy Princes Mercy Which shall be the daily Prayer of Geo. Wharton Bellum Hybernicale OR IRELAND'S WAR Astrologically demonstrated from the late Coelestial-congress of the two Malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars in Taurus the Ascendent of that KINGDOM Wherein likewise their future Opposition in the Signs Sagittary and Gemini most ominous to London and many other of the South and West parts of England is Mathematically handled The Ignorance Malice Mistakes Errors Insolencies and Impertinencies of Iohn Booker in his Astrological Observations upon the said Conjunction in a late Pamphlet of his styled A Bloody Irish Almanack c. discovered corrected refuted and retorted AND The Author further vindicated from his and Master Lilly's former frivolous false and malicious Aspersions throughout the whole Discourse By Capt. Geo. Wharton Student in Astronomy Ego nec tumultum Nec mori per vim metuam tenente Caesare terras As it was Printed in the Year 1647. To the Impartial and Judicious Reader IT is high time now after so many affronts and such multiplicity of rayling and scornful Language uttered against me in several
silly Pamphlets by that profest Mountebank in Astrology John Booker to vindicate my self from the Calumnies Scandals and false accusations which his unsatiable Ambition and implacable malice hath most wickedly accused me of And thereby I shall discover how much his Envy to my Pen and Person hath transported him beyond the bound of modesty and rendered him incapable both of Reason and Knowledg in the Art whereof he professes himself to be a Master I have in part answered Mr. Lilly in my Prognostication for the ensuing year 1647. And here according to my promise I shall Catechise John Booker and both of them as occasion serves The subject or matter here intended is the notable Conjunction of the 2. Malevolent Planets in the Sign Taurus upon the 12 of June this year 1646. the effects whereof will be in great force untill the 21. day of October 1647. Which Conjunction hath lately been most ignorantly treated of by John Booker in a certain Pamphlet of his stiled A Bloody â—rish Almanack c. and many false observations hath he drawn thence and published not upon any 〈◊〉 grounds in Astrology but meerly out of his invâ—tâ—râ—t mâ—lice and hatred to the Kingdom of Ireland wherâ—by â—â—th that and this Kingdom hath been dâ—luded â—nd Astrology shamefully perverted and defumed In which respect as likewise upon this occasion to free my sâ—lf from his former Aspersions I have published the following discourse wherein the same Conjâ—nction of Saturn and Mâ—rs is more artificially handled and also their future Opposition with a touch concerning the next Conjunction which will happen in the Sign Gemini the Ascendant of London which will be far more terrible and of greater concernment to London and other parts of this Kingdom than the Conjunction in Taurus can be to Ireland I have palpably unmasked his malice discovered his ignorance divulged and corrected his Errors and misapplications of the Effects of this Coelestial meeting If his immodest Language hath any where incited me to too much freedom of speech I shall crave his excuse when he beggs my Pardon for his former Insolencies I hate not his or any mans person but his Sin The method is Rough cast like my self if the matter be better polished I care not I know I shall not please all neither would I some for want of Judgment and come for want of Love and others for lack of Loyalty will condemn me but none of these do I regard It is to the Impartial and juditious I appeal and to their judgment only will I submit And if they please to adventure but their Patience as I have done my Pains which is not a little I doubt not of the issue I have no ungodly ends in this or any other of my writings my Wishes are full as good as John Bookers I wish all happiness to the King and Queens Majesty and the Royal Progeny and an end to the Miseries of this languishing Kingdom I love and wish for the Book of Common-Prayer again that was Sealed with the Blood of so many Martyrs till which be I expect not to see Religion in its purity I delight not in War nor can I pray for an unjust or Dishonourable Peace From my Study in an honest Cavalierâ— houses in York-shire the 10 of Sept. 1646. So saith a true and free born English-man an abhorror of all manner of Treasons and Rebellions one that loveth all manner of Christians and is a great honourer of True and Lawful Parliamenis Geo. Wharton Bellum Hybernicale c. NOT many days before the famous and sometimes flourishing University and City of Oxford was sacrificed as a Peace-offering by some of the more Pacifical Lords and accordingly surrendered upon Articles otherwise honourable into the sacrilegious hands of the Sectaries and Schismaticks of this Kingdom viz. in this year 1646. which is from the Creation of the world 5595. to omit all other frivolous and fruitless computations and Chronologies wherein Booker hath foolishly stuffed and crammed up a malitious lying Pamphlet by him styled A Bloody Irish Almanack c. upon Friday the twelfth day of June there happened a notable Conjunction of the two malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars Which Conjunction notwithstanding it did not manifest it self with any storms thunder or lightning as John Booker prognosticated in his un-sainted state-lying-Kâ—lendar nor hath been the Prodromus of such loss ruin destruction and desolation to the Kingdom of Ireland as is mentioned in the said Pamphlet yet questionless the effects of that malicious meeting have already been notably shewed both in Ireland and in many other Kingdoms and Countries Cities and Towns and upon particular Persons who had any congruency therewith in the Radix or Revolution of their Nativities But to the intent that this barking mungrel may not delude the ignorant with his pedling trash nor detract from or otherwise abuse a whole Nation with his nauseous and menacing expressions I have assumed a liberty of publishing this following Discourse which is void of all Envy Malice or Partiality but freely modestly and sincerely relating whatsoever concerns this Coelestial Meeting according to the Rules of Art and the Judgment of the most approved Astrologers Ancient and Modern Wherein the judicious and indifferent Readers may plainly and orderly perceive the Ignorance and Malice of this trifling Parasite And rightly understand the Nature and Quality of the Effects of this Coelestial Congress when they shall begin to operate how long continue what Nations or Countries are therein principally concerned and how far the Kingdom of Ireland in particular concluding whether or no that so long oppressed Kingdom be ordained for the stage whereon such Bloody-minded Hell-hounds as himself are to perpetrate their Cruelty I will not trouble the Judicious Reader with any Examples of such Events as have formerly happened in England or elsewhere upon the like Conjunctions For that I acknowledge him to have Collected in part But I will first examine the Foundation whereupon he hath raised this so deformed a Structure and accordingly proceed either by adhering to him where he hath stumbled on any truth or in dissenting from and Correcting him where I meet with his Mistakes Ignorance and Malice And first I will Artificially erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus to the true or apparent time of this Conjunction and afterwards compare it with that which Booker hath published for I dare not take this or any other upon trust either from him or Mr. Lilly whereby I shall presume not only to discover his want of skill in this ordinary piece of Astronomy but likewise to benefit some others as Ignorant as himself if any such can be who desire to learn the exact manner of erecting the Figure of Heaven by this one Example for any moment of time out of the Tables of Directions First then we are to enquire at what time these two Planets are conjoyned I perceive that Booker hath endeavoured to follow Eichstadius and
Reason why the Irish may not challenge as much freedom and Priviledge in the enjoyment of their Religion as is allowed the Independents Anabaptists Brownists and at the least a hundred more Sects and Schismes within the Lines of Communication who have Libeâ—ty without any restraint or limitation to exercise their Gifts as they term it both publickly and privately To Preach and Write what they please and even to cloy the Press with â—heir Heresies and Schismes And if we look back upon the Original ground of the Irish Insurrection was it not high time think you for the Irish after they were denyed any reasonable Answer to their Propositions which were sent and delivered in an humble and peaceable manner to the Parliament by Commissioners of that Kingdom who were dismissed hence without any hopes of having their grievances redressed which notwithstanding were far greater and more intolerable than those which the Scots pretended when they clearly perceived so many pernicious Plots and damnable Designs daily inventing against them and with what Acrimony the Roman Catholicks here were proceeded against after the third of November 1640. After so much swearing and forswearing to take off the Earl of Strafford's Head And the Parliament electing a new Deputy of their own mould and metal to be sent over in his stead And His Majesties Person in continual hazard by the frequent Tumults of the Sectarists and Schismaticks Was it not time I say their Nation being thus neglected and threatned His Majesties Person being not exempt from danger and all this occasioned by their own fellow Subjects to associate and unite themselves and to stand upon their Guard for the preservation of their Religion Lives and Liberties And was it more Rebellion in them by the known Laws of this or that Land to raise Forces for the necessary defence of their Kingdom than in the English or Scots to raise so many great Armies that have fought against His Majesty under the pretence of Fighting for him whilst yet there hath been no body to oppose him but themselves I remember a few Verses that were written by some body Anno 1641. they resemble the form of a Petition directed to His Majesty by the considerate Catholicks of Ireland They are pretty ones and therefore I will here give you them as I had them from a Friend MOst gracious Soveraign grant that we may have Our ancient Land and Faith 't is all we crave Your English and your Scots not so content Claim all that 's Yours by Act of Parliament Their Tyranny we hate Confess your Right 'T is not 'gainst you 't is against them we Fight Whilst you were King we were your Subjects Scorn To be their Slaves we 're Fellow-Subjects born Heavens bless your Majesty increase your Powers You being your Self again we still are Yours But to return again to John Booker for I will not lose him yet I would gladly demand a Reason from him in Art for his menacing of France or Spain with vengeance for assisting the Irish Or why the Pope should come in any danger of hazarding his Triple Crown in the Quarrel Unless the States intend to advance for Italy If they do they may do well to transmit the Directory to Rome as the pre-cursor of a new Reformation there But I am afraid Sir Thomas his Courage will cool at the conceit Nor is it pertinent to the handling of this Conjunction for Booker to tell us an old story of the Spanish Armado in 88. or of the Gun-powder Treason 1605. The wickedness of those Devilish attempts are both thought on and abhorred by every true English Christian. Or of what concernment is the Decollation of Mary Queen of Scots Anno 1587. to the Kingdom of Ireland because that when she was Beheaded Saturn was in Taurus as now he is Or of Saturn and Mars their being conjoyned in the Year 1588. a little before the Spanish Armado appeared upon the English Coast Does not John Booker here most wretchedly confound himself Instead of going about to prove Saturn's Progress through Taurus Ominous to Ireland he contrarily produces Examples which prove that Position dangerous to England and Scotland For whatever his meaning be he instances not any one thing hurtful to Ireland in either of those Years And then he robs Sir Christopher Heydon of more than a whole Page concerning the general Occurrences in the World which happened in 88. without any mention made of that most Learned and Judicious Knight And so he proceeds to fill up the remainder of his Malicious Pamphlet with railing at the Irish telling them how they have ever been most Rebellious and Treacherous to the English Nation and have most Barbarously and Inhumanely Murthered many thousand Souls c. But we know of another Kingdom that hath sometimes been more Rebellious and Treacherous than they for less cause But I never heard of any Souls that ever either of them Murthered I speak not this to justifie or maintain any inhumane Action in Ireland or elsewhere for my Nature abhors all manner of Cruelty to the worst of Men I think I could not harm either Mr. Lilly or John Booker in word or deed if I had them in my power but rather use them with all civil respect and courtesie if they were worse than they be nor to countenance Treason and Rebellion That I need not it hath been sufficiently done by a far greater Power But the thing I aim at is to unmask Booker's inveterate hatred to that distressed Nation who if he were but half so Charitable as he is either unreasonable or ignorant he would not attempt to Assassine the Honour of a whole Nation with his Invectives but rather suspend these his rash Censures and wish a happy Union than the confusion of so many Christians The remainder of his Pamphlet tends to the Defence of Astrology wherein he still plays the Thief with Sir Chr. Heydon and of the Planet Venus her appearance in the day time at the Birth of our most hopeful Prince Charles which he saith if she presignifieth any thing was the Miseries of this Kingdom Because saith he it is usual and an ordinary thing for Venus to be seen in the day time I grant him that it is both usual and ordinary but not always at the Birth at Princes It is both usual and ordinary for Saturn and Mars to be in Conjunction and shall we therefore say it presignifies nothing I confess I have not seen any Authors that handle such Appearances nor hath Booker any other Authority than his foolish Fancy for saying she was the Prodromus of these unhappy differences in England But he that shall make inspection into the Positure of the Heavens when Venus was in Apog Eccentrici or in her greatest distance from the Sun shall find matter more than ordinary whereon to fix his Contemplations And I am of Opinion that her glorious appearance at the Nativity of our hopeful Prince Charles did presignifie things not yet
the Reader to consider but thus much with me that if as Sir Christopher Heydon hath said in his unparallell'd Treatise written in defence of Judicial Astrology against Mr. Chambers that Astrology is an Art which teacheth by the Motions Configurations and influences of the Signs Stars and Coelestial Planets to Prognosticate of the natural effects and mutations to come in the Elements and these inferiour and elementary bodies How I pray is it possible that this fellow can Prognosticate rightly of the natural effects and Mutations to come in the Elements and these inferiour and elementary bodies before he be able to Calculate exactly the true motions and configurations c. of the Signs Stars and Planets which you clearly see he is not And I marvel much that Lilly should be no more tender and cautelous of his credit then thus foolishly and frequently to divulge his unskilfulness for me thinks as he knows that he cannot Calculate the Houses exactly either by the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles or which is more ready and built upon the same foundation by the Tables of Directions in Regiomontanus to the degree and minute of each Cusp yet he should have held it a safer way if he purposed to palliate his defects to have set down the Cuspes only in whole degrees and not have published himself thus erroniously scrupulous which he might have done very easily by the Domifying tables without further help But I perceive him so impudent and shameless that he neither heeds nor cares what he does or otherwise he would have been more wary in supputating the places of the Planets For according to Eichstadius whom he endeavours to follow the Sun at the middle of the Eclipse should have been in 56 minutes of Aquarius and the Moon in 56 min. of the Opposite Sign Leo Venus in Capricorn 24 degr 29 min. and Mercury in Aquarius 3 degr 17. min. But this man's dscretion hath put the Sun in 53 min. of Aquarius iand the Moon in 53 min. of Leo Venus in 24. degr 39 min. of Capricorn and Mercury in the 3 degr 20 min. of Aquarius So that he hath erred 3 min. in the places of the Luminaries and Mercury and 10 min. in Venus as may appear to every man that will take the pains to Calculate the true places of these Planets by Eichstadius his Table to the Mean or Equal time of the said Eclipse And in like manner hath he playd the Botcher in his Figure at the Vernal ingress for according to the time therein posited the Cuspe of the tenth House ought to be 13 degr 44 min. of Taurus and the Ascendent 25 degr 48 min. of Leo yet he hath made the tenth House 14. degr 0 min. of Taurus and the Ascendent 26 degr 0 min. of Leo so that he hath committed 16 min. Error in the Cuspe of the tenth House and 12 min. in the Cuspe of the Ascendent nor is he less erronious in collocating of the Planets here than in the former Figure but especially in the Moon whom he hath placed in 27 degree 48 min. of Virgo whereas she ought to have been in 28 degr 14 min. of that Sign wherein he hath mistaken no less than 26 minutes And thus much I conceive sufficient to prove his ignorance in point of Art Now will I also unmask his Errors defects mistakes and mis-applications in matter of judgment I will not meddle with or question upon what grounds Prince Charles left his Native Country of England nor who were the original causes of this his so long absence It is sufficient that Wil. Lilly confesses him to be Enforc'd upon necessity exiled or banished for the honour of the English Parliament I will not enquire further then of the Scottish Papers whether the King be at present restrained from his Liberty as Lilly tells us he is Nor dare I interrogate by what Law of God or Man the King of Englands Person ought to be imprisoned or be disposed of by either or both of the two Kingdoms or by any or all of his Subjects Or whether His imprisonment c. be intended for the defence of his Majesties Royal Person c. and the Liberty of the Subject Or how it can consist with the Honour of the English Parliament to suffer his Majesties Honour thus to lye at the stake and his Sacred Name to be traduced by such Pamphlet-mongers as Lilly and Booker and that Pillory-man Walker without any restraint or punishment Neither do I care whether the Eclipse in Aug. 1645. pre-signified the P. of the Earl of Essex or whether he have merited so much Honour as to have a Statua in Crown Gold erected at the Charges of William Lilly and an Epitaph made and thereon engraven by Martin Parker or Mercer the Scot These things are all beside my Text my intention being only to examine Master Merlin's Astrological discourse and to shew him and all men wherein it is invalid and no more The judgment he hath given is generally deduced from the position of the Heavens at two distinct points of time viz. From the Lunar Eclipse the 10 of January 1647. Suns entrance into Aries March 10. 1647. The Eclipse he makes the first general subject of his Discourse the effects whereof as he tells us may be somewhat put forward by reason of a non-apparent Eclipse in the 15 th degree of Capricorn December 26. 1646. What the Simpleton meaneth by putting forward I know not 't is no term in Astrology but surely I have Put him out of doubt in my Prognostication 1647. that Eclipses are not hurtful at all to those Regions or Cities where they are not visible yet lest the Testimony of that Learned Author therein mentioned should not be enough to convince him of his Folly I shall further recommend unto him the words of Cardanus upon Ptolomy lib. 2. cap. 5. Text 26. if he can Translate them any better than he hath done the first fifty Aphorisms of the Centiloquie they sound thus Ut igitur locus à deliquio affici debeat in Luna duo sunt necessaria Unum quod Luna tunc temporis in hemisphaerio superiore illius loci sit cum Provincia illa concordet signo vel trigono saltem Secundo cum Civitate in solis loco vel Lunae vel Ascendent is vel cum medio Coeli illius qui regit Civitatem ipsam In sole verò necessarium est praeter id quod fit supra terram conveniat locus ejus Provinciae-vel Civitati Eclipsis ipsa appareat Whereby it is clear that unless in a Lunar Eclipse the Moon be above the Earth and likewise on the Sign or at least in the Triplicity of that Sign whereunto unto the Kingdom in whose Hemisphere the Defect happeneth is subject And unless that the Sun or Moon-place or the Sign Ascending or Culminating be also the Horoscopical Sign of the City or Town you live in or enquire after the Effects of such a Lunar Eclipse shall not any way
naming any Author for what he saith And if you peruse it seriously and compare it with the four last lines of the fourth following page you will find him plainly contradicting himself for whereas in his Cabal Judgment he saith that the advance of a Foreign Army or State is certainly determined to Yoke us and destroy the Parliament c. yet there he affirmeth that we shall not be Oppressed with any Invasive or Domestick War And if Invasion were but attempted I beleive it would puzzle us and more than Oppress us But were Astrology the ground of this Judgment of his he might have told us a more probable though not so pleasant a story as he concludes with For let this Cabalist but look into Leopaldus de Revolutionibus and he shall find these words Victor erit qui invadit si Dominus 4 tae vel 7 ae in prima fuerit vel in 10 ae If the Lord of the fourth House or the Lord of the seventh House shall be in the Ascendant or Mid-heaven it signifies that the Invader or Invaders shall prevail against and overcome the Invaded And now Good-man Merlin is not Saturn Lord of the seventh House and posited almost in the very Cuspe of the Tenth If this Aphorism prove true as possibly it may if the Scots and Parliament fall to pieces you must invent other Epithets for the Scots than Prudent Wise and Religious People or else I know what will become of you I will not urge this Aphorism any further as how far it may concern Ireland or France c. lest I be counted an Incendiary but a few Months longer will produce a Miracle c. And for this Cabal Judgment be it in jest or be it in earnest I hold it for no better than a meer Scar-crow purposely devised to deter His Majesties Friends from any longer adhering to him but it is in vain for so much true Policy have that Party that if any design were a foot whereby to restore His Majesty to the Rights of his Crown c. and to regain their own they would not be discouraged in the prosecution thereof upon the reading of your Fooleries and this Sir you may believe upon the Reputation of a Cavalier Lilly If we consider the Profectional Figure of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter we shall find Aries Ascending and the Sun Saturn Jupiter and Mercury all in Cancer both the one Figure and the other as also that of the Annual return of the Sun to his place at the Parliaments beginning promise us exceeding fair this Year c. Wharton I have considered the Profectional Figure of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and find the Sun Saturn Jupiter and Mercury as you say all in Cancer yes and more than that I observed Aries Ascending and Pisces Culminating Venus in Gemini and Luna in Libra And I have made inspection into the sixth Revolution of the Sun to his place at the Parliaments beginning and there I meet with the seventh degree of Virgo ascending and the last degree of Taurus Culminating and that Mercury Lord of the Ascendant is in 12 deg 45 min. of Scorpio sub radiis solis And the Moon is in 5 degr 20 min. of Aquarius in Opposition to Jupiter and Mars who are near unto a perfect Conjunction in the eleventh House of the Figure in Leo and she is also hastening to a Quartile with Saturn in the ninth And I think Sir you will not deny but that Mercury and the Moon are your Senators Significators So that how fair soever you imagine these Positions to promise you I am assured they will perform but slowly you had done well to have shewn us some Testimony of the Peace you mention but as you have denyed us that favour let me instance you one Testimony to cross your conceit You may see Sir that Jupiter and Mars are there also in Conjunction and that in Leo a Sign of the Fiery Triplicity which is far worse than their Conjunction in Cancer for Mars in Leone significat bella contentiones paucitatem annonae in partibus orientalibus erit Mors in hominibus maxime in juvenibus 40. Annorum usque ad 50. in pueris tamen erit hoc fortius It signifies Wars and Wranglings and scarcity of Corn in the Eastern Parts and Mortality amongst men but especially to such as are betwixt 40 and 50 Years old Notwithstanding this shall be most Operative amongst Children And thus fair and no fairer are you promised by the Annual return of the Sun to his place at the Parliaments Commencement if you will credit Bonat Colum. 365. So that you see what ever our Merlin hath endeavoured to gull the People with yet the Heavens speak no such Language they tell us of nothing but War and Strife c. What the Position of Saturn in the 10. signifies in the Vernal Ingress I have publish'd in my Prognostication And if I should grant him what so much he desires and urgeth viz. that Saturn's being in the Mid-heaven should portend some sorrow and affliction to the King yet Albumazar a man of better Credit affords us this comfort Si fuerit domina decimae domus Venus as she is in this Revolution significat quod sequetur ex hac tribulatione prosperitatem atque sublimitatem gaudium atque profectum If Venus be Lady of the tenth House it sheweth that his affliction and sorrow shall be turned into Joy Prosperity Sublimity and Advantage the sight whereof will even break the Malicious heart of this proditorious Peasant Lilly And for the signification of Venus who is under the Sun-beams and thereby much impedited and descending into the eighth though now locally in the ninth it portends a disturbed fancy and a Person not free or much enlarged for the Sun Lord of the 12. and Venus are within Orbs her Debilities promise him no great good Significat enim quod eveniat Regi in Revolutione illa ira tristitia contentio similiter atque timor She as posited is the signifier of much anger male-contentedness and controversie and the Conclusion which is worst of all saith that he shall be in great fear c. of what I am silent Wharton I have told you in my Prognostication that Venus her Fortitudes exceeds the number of her Debilities by 8 and is therefore to be accounted strong and powerful in the Figure so that what Detriment soever her Debilities might promise her Fortitudes being so many more in number do utterly extinguish and annihilate whereby is clearly signified good Fortune and Authority to Officials and other of the Kings Head-Officers and that the King shall prosper in his Affairs So that the Reader may perceive your own Fancy so disturbed and clouded as that you cannot fancy or discern any Sentence or Aphorism that hath any shew in it of good towards His Majesty but endeavour to conceal all things that tend thereunto against your own
proved Mars is the strongest save only the Moon and Jupiter the weakest but Mercury in all the Figure as will appear to any Man that will take the pains to collect the Dignities and Debilities of the Planets respectively in the Figure And therefore he hath good reason to doubt of himself and to suspect the Scottish Nation will become Converts which if they did not we Malignants should have questioned whether they had any Religion or Faith at all But to the matter Mars in the eleventh House presages something else than amicorum inimicitias if you had not abused Guido Bonatus Colum. 571. and in him the whole Kingdom whose words if he had not been interrupted by this unmannerly Clown had been thus Mars in 11 a domo significat paucitatem lucri seu profectus in rebus de quibus speratur utilitas quod cadent in inimicitias amicorum significat diminutionem substantiae desperabunt homines de rebus in quibus habebatur fiducia quibus sperabatur That is Mars in the eleventh House foretells but little profit or gain in those things by which profit was expected and that they shall fall at enmity with their Friends Also the diminution of their Substance and that men shall utterly despair of ever obtaining what they most trusted to and expected This Aphorism carries a great deal of Matter in it in relation it hath to the differences depending and impending betwixt the Scots and the Parliament And therefore it was not held fitting to be published or communicated by our Mysterious Merlin without a Fee The plain English of it is that according to Natural causes it is most evident that the Parliament c. shall be frustrated in their expectation that they shall be much deceived and deprived of the Profit and Commodity which might have accrued unto them by having the King at their own disposal And that for this cause they shall fall at difference with and incur the dislike and enmity of those that were formerly their Friends and Confederates who shall account them no otherwise than such as have forgot and neglected their Covenant with God and Man c. And hereupon they despair of the Scottish Religion because it is come nearer the Kings and of their Faith because they have not so much credulity as to interest them alone in the disposal of His Majesties Person And hence arise new Discords and Contentions and greater Taxes are imposed than ever upon the poor Kingdom whereby Mens Estates are exhausted and consumed and fresh Miseries daily approaching if not timously prevented What he cites out of Haly concerning Jupiter's positure in the eleventh House I have sufficiently Answered and explained before upon the words which he quoted from Bonatus for the same thing And thus far hath Mr. Lilly made his Progress in Preaching Peace and Tranquility to the People to what purpose I have sufficiently declared And now he comes to the Quality of the Year wherein I scorn to detract the least scruple from him of what 's his due but shall agree with him in every thing which he performs but any thing like an Artist though he stumble of it against his will his Quotation of Bonatus Pag. 55. by great Fortune is very true and pertinent whereby is proved a Year of scâ—rcity of Corn and other Provision for the use of Man But the application of his next Aphorism out of Haly is very illicite and ignorant for although he affirm it shall assuredly come to pass in those parts of this Kingdom which lye South-East and full South from London but nothing so violently as in the Kingdom of Ireland I shall prove him here an errand Botcher For if he had understood the Aphorism Saturn ought to be infortunate in alto loco and elevated above all the other Planets or otherwise it hath no signification which he is not in this Figure for although he be weak in his Essential Dignities yet considering his other Accidental Fortitudes he is indifferent strong and powerful so that the Aphorism will not serve for this Position And if you will know the principal ways by which a Planet may be said to be Elevated above another they are three viz. In respect of their Latitude from the Ecliptique Nearness to their Auges Position in the Figure A Planet is said to be Elevated above another according to Ganivetus cap. 1. differ 3. of his Book Entituled Amicus Medicorum who hath greatest Northern Latitude from the Ecliptique Now if we Calculate rightly we shall find Mars Elevated above all the rest of the Planets the Moon excepted for he hath 3 degrees of North Latitude and Saturn's Latitude is Meridional no less than 2 degrees 6 min. So Jupiter hath 0. degree 47 min. of North Latitude Venus 1 degree 10 min. and Mercury 2 degrees 5 min. both South and the Moon indeed hath 4 degrees 47 min. of North Latitude So that in respect of Latitude Saturn is the most depressed of all the Planets in the Figure and the Moon most Elevated next Mars and then Jupiter The next way is in respect of a Planets propinquity to his Auge according to Albohazen Haly in his Comment upon Ptolomy So that the Planet which is nearest the Summity of his Epicycle is Elevated above another which is further removed thence and if we consider here which of the Planets is most Elevated secundum Augem we shall find that Mercury is in Apog Epicicli 12 March Mars is in Apog Eccentr the 14 of March and Saturn is not in Apog Epicicli until the fourth of May following So that this way Mercury and Mars are both Elevated above Saturn And here by the way will I put Mr. Merlin in mind of one mistake in this kind committed in his England's Prophetical Merlin Pag. 78. Where he hath put Saturn transire Apog on 20 Martii Jupiter Epicicli sui superiorem partem 23 Martii whereas Saturn is in Apog Epicicli the 10 of March and Jupiter the 13. So but only ten days Error in each committed The third way by which a Planet may be said to be Elevated is in respect of their places in the Figure as he that is above the Earth is more Elevated than he that is under the Horizon he that is in the twelfth House is Elevated above another Planet in the Ascendant he that is in the eleventh above any in the twelfth and he that is in the tenth above any other in the Figure as indeed Saturn is now And if all the Planets were under the Horizon then that which is nearest to the Ascendant is said to be most Elevated but this is not so much considered by Astrologers as their Elevation in respect of Latitude and of their proximity to their Auges or if it were yet you see there is two to one against Wil. Lilly For Saturn is neither Elevated above all the other Planets in respect of Latitude nor in respect of his Auge and therefore that
but in vain 24. E. Essex and Sir W. Waller joyned Forces about Blewbury and marched towards Abingdon May 25. Stopford taken for the King Latham House relieved 28. Bolton Stormed and taken for the King 29. Essex and Waller divided their Forces 30. Essex attempted to cross the River Charwel at Gesworth-bridge but repulsed 3. Waller to pass Isis at New-bridge but obstructed He demolished Abingdon-Cross June 1. Essex attempts the second time to cross Charwel in several places at once but beaten back with loss 3. King marched with his Army from Oxford towards Worcester 4. Essex passed Charwel with his Army A prodigious Storm on Campsfield near Woodstock 5. Essex marched after the King to Chippingnorton 6. Returned to Burford and there Deputed Waller to pursue the King 11. Dudley Castle relieved by the Kings Forces from Worcester 12. Borstall-House taken by the Oxford Forces 16. Pr. Henrietta Born at Exeter 18. King returned to Witney 22. King at Buckingham 25. Parliaments Forces routed at Colne June 26. Waller in Keinton-field The King at Brackley 28. The King to Banbury where he found Waller drawn up on Crouch hill 29. Waller defeated at Crop-ready Bridge July 2. York relieved by the King and immediately after began that terrible Battle on Marston Moor wherein the Kings Forces were at last worsted and several persons of note slain 6. Parliaments Forces routed at Warmister 15. King with his Army at Bath Qu. arrived at Brâ—st 23. York delivered to the Parliament His Majesty at Kingsmoor in Sommerset-shire 31. Dennington Assaulted by the Parl. repulsed Aug. 1. King with his Army passed Tamar at Polton-bridge in Cornwal in pursuit of the Earl of Essex 25 Lestithiel Castle taken by the King 30 Parliaments Horse fled towards Plymouth Sep. 1. E. Essex fled to Plymouth The Army of Foot submitted to the King 11 Basing relieved by some Forces from Oxford Sept. 12. Ilfercomb surrendred to the King 17 Barnstaple the like 23 Banbury stormed by the Parl. Forces repulsed Oct. 7. Salatach stormed and taken by the King 25 Banbury Siege raised 27 Newbury Second Battle 29 Shelford House Storm'd and taken by the Parliament Nov. 6. Kings Army rendeâ—ouzed on Burlington Green 9 Dennington Siege raised by the King 17 He advanced to Hungerford Parliament Forces left the Field They raised their Siege from before Basing 19 Parahelii or three Suns appeared in London Monmouth regained for the King 23 King returned to Oxford Propositions from the Parliament 26 Book of Common Prayer voted down by the House of Commons Dec. 13. The King by the D. Richmond and E. South sends to the Parl. for a Treaty 15 Helmsly Castle surrendred to the Parliament Dec. 22. Two Troops of the Nottingham Horse taken at Upton by a party from Newark 23 Sir Alexander Carew Beheaded on Tower-hill 24. Sir John Price defeated at Welch-pool by the Kings Forces 28 Mr. Blake's House at Pinnel in Wiltshire taken by a party of the Kings 31 Sir Thomas Fairfax Voted General of the Parliaments Forces Jan. 1. Capt. Hotham Beheaded Sir John Hotham Beh. Lipiat-House taken by the King About this Col. Ludlow's Regiment of Horse was routed at Salisbury 3 An Ordinance for abolishing the Book of Common Prayer and establishing a Directory in the room thereof 10 Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Beheaded The Skirmish at Cullombridge 30 Began the Treaty at Uxbridge Feb. 9 10 11. Weymouth and the Forts taken for the King but lost again in a few days after 15 Rowden House taken for the King 20 L. Macquire an Irish Baron Executed at Tyburn 22. Treaty at Uxbridge ended Shrewsbury suâ—prized for the Parliament Feb. 25. Col. Rossiter defeated near Melton-Mowbray 26 The Northampt. Horse defeated near to Daventry Castle-ditch taken by a party of the Kings from Hereford March 1. Pontfract relieved and the Parliaments Army defeated 6 A Convoy of the Parliaments Horse consisting of about 200 taken at Hawford 7 Major Abercromy slain and his whole party taken and dispersed near to Stratton Audley by a party of the Kings from Borstal 14 Col. Long 's Regiment of Horse defeated and himself taken Prison near the Devizes 15 Col. Brandlin's quarters at Badsworth beaten up by a party from Pontfract 18 Northampton Horse routed near Abthrop Beeston Castle relieved Anno 1645. 25 A party of the Parliaments Horse defeated at Pitmaster Dennington Castle surrendred to the Parliament Worcester Summoned April 1. Parl. Quarters beaten up at Wincaunton 5 Col. Popham's Regiment defeated April 14. High Archal Siege raised 17 Dr. Featly dyed a Prisoner 19 Fort at Notting Bridge taken by the Newarkers but quitted within a few days 22 C. Massey defeated at Ledbury 23 Newcastle Emblin relieved by the King and the Besiegers defeated 24 A party of the K. Horse routed at Islip Blechingdon House Summoned and delivered to the Parliament Col. Windebank shot to Death at Oxford 30 Farrington assaulted by the Parl. Forces but repulsed Gen. Fairfax began his march from Windsor May 7. King began his march from Oxford A Fight at Newbridge 12 Taunton relieved by the Parliament 15 Hawksly House surrendred to the King Chester Siege raised 22 Oxford the first time Besieged 23 Godstow House quitted 26 Evesham taken by the Parliament 30 Leicester Besieged by the King 31 Leicester Stormed and taken Bagworth Colehorton Kirby-bellows and Burleigh quitted by the Parliament June 1. Gaunt-House yielded 2 A notable Sally made out of Oxford Gen. Fairfax raised his Siege there 4 He Assaulted Borstal Repulsed 6. A prodigious Storm about Loughborough 9. Kings Forces worsted about Stokely 14. The fatal Battle of Naseby wherein the Kings Army was totally overthrown 18. Leicester regained by the Parliament A party of the Parliaments Horse routed at Ryby by a party from Newark 27. Highworth surrendred 28. Carlisle delivered to the Scots July 3. Taunton the second time relieved by the Parliament 4. Parl. Quarters beaten up near Bamcroft Castle in Shropshire 5. High-archal Siege raised and the Besiegers routed by the Kings Forces 8. Ilchester quitted by the King 10. Kings Forces defeated at Langport 11. Bridgewater Besieged by the Parliament 13. Burrough-hill Fort in Sommerset-shire yielded to the Parliament July 16. Chippenham taken for the King Welbeck-house surprized by a party from Newark 21. Pontfract Castle surrendred to the Parliament 23. Bridgwater the like 25. So Scarborough 30. Bath also Aug. 1. Torksey-House in Lancashire taken by the Newarkers 4. The Club-men on Hamilton-hill routed by the Parliament 8. Capt. Allen and his whole Troop taken by a party from Belvoire Castle on the Borders of Lincoln-shire 15. Sherb Castle Assaulted and taken by the Parliament 17. Montross defeated the Scotch Army in Kilsieth field near Glasgow in Scotland 20. Nunny Castle surrendred to the Parliament 24. Huntington taken for the King Sept. 2. The Scots raised their Siege from Hereford 6. Parl. Quarters beaten up at Tame by a party from Oxford c. 9. M. Strood one of the five Members dyed 10. Bristol Storm'd and part
Chaplain promis'd fair 28 Gen. Monk at St. Alban's Febru 1 The Rump granted to him St. James's Park during their pleasure or rather their possession of it Their Army order'd to March forth of London to make way for the General 's Forces 2 A Mutiny at Somerset-house 3 Gen. Monk march'd into Lond. with his Army 9 He pull'd down the City Gates and Portcullises by order of the Rump and quarter'd his Army in London 10 Marched to White-hall but return'd soon after with his whole Forces and writ to the Rump to fill up the House c. 21 Secluded Memb. restor'd after which Sir Rob. Pye Maj. Fincher many others discharg'd from their Imprisonm the City order'd to make up their Gates Bonfires ringing of bells in most places in hope of a King and free Parliament Mar. 15 Bish. Wren enlarged 16 Parliam dissolv'd another Summon'd to be holden at Westminster the 15 of Appil 1660. Anno 1660. Apr. 9 Lambert escaped out of the Tower 14 His Majesties most Gracious Letters Declaration dated from Breda 21 Lambert proclaim'd Traitor 22. Taken near Daventry by the hands of Col. Ingoldsby 24 Brought to London and commit to the Tower 25 The Parliament met at Westminster May 1 His Majesties most Gracious Letters and Declaration to both Houses and to the L. G. Monk presented by Sr. J. Greenvil after which there followed many wholsome Resolves in order to his Maj. speedy return to his People who throughout the City and Suburbs express'd their joy by Bonfires Bells and Ordinance from the Tower 2. The like Gra. Letters c. presented to the L. Ma. Alder. and Com. Coun. of London by the L. Viscount Mordant and Sir J. Greenvil 3 L. Montague and the whole Fleet upon reading his Mâ—j Gracious Let. Declaration to them unanimously submitted 5 Easter T. adjourn'd till Quinq Pasch. being May the 8. 7 Charles the I. his Statue set up again in Guild-hall-yard Justices and Sheriffs c. in office April 25 1660. continued and to exercise their office in the Kings name 8 His Majesty with an Univer acclam most solemnly proclaim'd in Lon. and Westmin and so afterwards throughout his Dominions 9 The States Arms so called Order'd to be taken down and the Kings Arms set up in their stead 10 Spanish Prisoners in Chelsy Colledge discharged 11 Somerset-house and St. James's order'd to be quitted of all Lodgers c. 11 12 Ls. and Commons appointed to attend his Majesty began their journey Those from the City the like 14 Whitehall made ready for his Majesties reception His Majesty left Breda 15 He came to the Hague 16 Comm. from the L. and Commons and City of London had audience of his Majesty 23 Gen. Monk at Rochester His Majesty with his two Brothers embark't for England 25 They most happily landed at Dover and from thence went to Canterbury 28 Came to Rochester 29 Arriv'd at Whitehall and this Evening Crown'd the Solemnity of the day with incredible demonstrations of joy for his Majesties so miraculous Restauration June 1 His Majesty went to the House of L. and the D. of York and Glocester took their places there 7 Those Monsters of Men the Judges of the late Murther'd King summon'd by Proclamation to render themselves within 14 days 12 Dyed that Famous Mathematician Mr. Will. Oughtred 15 Commissions at Sea granted by his Majesty or his Highness the Duke of York before the first of May last past recalled 25 Sr. J. Robinson that Constant Royallist made Lieutenant of the Tower July 5 His Majesty Magnificently entertain'd at Guildhall in the City 11 A sad fire in Thred-needle-street 12 Dyed that eminent and most Faithful servant to his Majesty John Lord Culpeper Master of the Rolls c. George Monk created by His Majesty Duke of Albemarle c. in consideration of those signal Services performed by him in Restoring His Sacred Majesty and with him the three Kingdoms to that Tranquillity and happiness they now injoy 13 He took his Place in the House of Peers 18 Earl of St. Albans began his journey toward France 26 The L. Edward Montague who commanded the Fleet at His Maj. Restaur being for that other Eminent Serv. created by His Maj. E. of Sandwich c. took his Place also in the House of Peers 28 Marq. of Orm. the like as Earl of Brecknock Aug. 23 An Ambassador from Denmark 29 His Maj. assented to an Act amongst others for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on May 29 being the Day of His Majesties Nativity and Restauration So likewise to another for a Free and General Pardon Earl of Southampton made Lord High-Treasurer of England Sept. 10 Peace with Spain proclaimed 13 Parliam adjourn'd till November the 6. An Act for disbanding the Army c. Prince de Ligne Ambassador from Spain came to London Henry Duke of Glocester that unparallell'd Prince departed this Life 20 Bishop of London Translated to Canterbury 23 His Majesty with the Duke of York went to meet their Illustrious Sister Mary Princess of Orange Oct. 9 The Regicides Indicted at Hicks-hall 10 Their Tryals began at the Old-Bayly 13 Thomas Harrison one of them Executed according to Law at Charing-Cross 15 Mr. John Carew another Executed in the same place and manner 16 J. Cook and Hugh Peters that Belweather of Sedition executed in the same Place and manner 17 Tho. Scot Greg. Clement Adrian Scroop and J. Jones executed in the same place and manner 19 Dan. Axtel the like at Tyburn Francis Hacker hanged only at Tyburn also 27 His Majesty went to meet his Mother the Queens Majesty Nov. 2 His Maj. return'd with his Royal Mother to Whitehal after her 19 years absence thence with whom came the Illustrious Princess Henrietta her Daughter and Prince Ed. brother to the Prince Elector Palatine 6 Lords and Commons their recess being ended met again in Parliament 8 Council for Trade first met at Mercers-hall 16 Robert sometimes Maj. Gen. Overton Committed to the Tower for Treason 22 Mr. J. sometimes Sir J. Lenthal Committed to the Tower Dec. 4 Earl of Argyle sent for Scotland 8 The Assurance Frigate over-set 24 The Illustrious Mary Princess of Orange dyed General Middleton for Scotland 29 Parl. Dissolv'd and afterwards the Roy. Corps of Mary Prin. of Orange inter'd in Hen. 7. Chappel Jan. 1 Parliament met in Scotland 2 Qu. Mother with the Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria began their journey for France 6 Venner and his Phanatique Proselytes Rebelled but dispersed 8 Sir Arthur Hazlerig dyed in the Tower 9 The Phanatiques again in Arms but all dispers'd Kill'd or taken amongst which Venner their Seditious Ringleader 17 Venner and 19 more of them arraign'd 19 Venner and Hodgkin hang'd and quarter'd in Coleman-street Oxman and Prichard hang'd at Woodstreet end in Cheapside 21 Nine more of them executed in several parts of the City 25 Solemn League and Covenant Rescinded in Scotland Queen Mother and her Highness the Princess Henrietta
Maria imbarqued for France 30 The Odious Carcasses of O. Cromwel H. Ireton and J. Bradshaw drawn upon sledges to Tyburn and being pull'd out of their Coffins there hang'd at the several Angles of the Triple-tree till Sun-set then taken down beheaded and their loathsome Trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallows Their heads were afterwards set upon Poles on the top of Wastminster-Hall Feb. 27 Cardinal Mazarine dyed Mar. 23 Zachary Croften committed to the Tower for matters of High-Treason Anno 1661. Apr. 11 His Maj. being 31 years old washed and kiss'd the feet of 31 Poor Men. 15 He went to Winds 16 Knights of the Garter there Installed 19 68 Knights of the Bath created 20 6 Earls and as many Barons created 22 His Maj. Magnificent proceeding from the Tower to White-hall 23 Charles II. Crowned at Westminster May 7 A general muster of the London Forces in Hide-Park 8 Parl. began in Eng. wherein the House of Ls. were restor'd to their Privileges Parl. began in Ireland 11 The scatter'd Limbs of the Immortal Montross being brought together were honorably Inter'd at Edinburgh 16 Convocation began 17 Eliz. Qu. of Bohemia arrived at London 22 Solemn League and Covenant burnt in London and Westminster and afterwards all the Kingdom over with wonderful great solemnity 24 Earl of Argyle received his sentence 27 Beheaded at Edinburgh for High Treason June 1 Guthexy and Giffen there also executed for High-Treason 7 The Solemn Funerals of Sr. Ch. Lucas and Sr. Geo. Lisle Savagely Murder'd in cold Blood at Colchâ—ster Aug. 28 1648 most Honourably there Celebrated 19 Earl of Sandwich weighed Anchor in the Downs 25 The Ls. Bishops of the several Diocesses of this Realm most nobly entertain'd at Dinner by S. Ric. Brown July 1 L. Mounson Sr. Hen. Mildmay and Mr. Rob. Wallop brought to the Bar of the House and there sentenc'd to be drawn like themselves upon sledges with ropes about their Necks from the Tower to Tyburn 15 Mr. Prin recanted his Sundry reasons c. and the House remitted his Offence 19 L. Commissioner of Scotland came to White-hall 29 Earl of Sandwich before Argiers 30 Parl. adjourn'd till Nov. 20 following Aug. 1 Commissionerâ— from the Parl. in Ireland came to Westminster 13 His Highness the D. of York with several other great Personages highly entertain'd by the Artillery Company at Merchant Taylers-hall 15 His Sacred Maj. the Illustrious Duke of York c. dined at the Inner Temple Sept. 7 E. of Clarendon L. H. Chancellor of England at Oxford 10 Parl. in Ireland adjourn'd till Oct. 10 follow 28 Francis Meynel and Sam. Starling Esq Sworn Sheriffs of London 38 Swedish Embassador landed at Tower wharf where the French and Spanish Ambassadors so hotly contended for precedency Sir John Fredrick Elected Lord Mayor of London Octob. 15 The Learned Loyal and truly Pious John Berwick Doctor of Divinity Elected Dean of St. Pauls 19 The Election confirm'd 20 A Proclamation for removing the Mercats from St. Pauls Church-Yard into Aldermanbury and Broad-street 29 Sir John Frederick Sworn Lord Mayor of London The Dauphin of France born Nov. 4 James Duke of Ormond that truly Honourable and most constantly Loyal Personage made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 19 J. James arraign'd for Sedition and Treason 20 Parl. sat again in which the Lords Spiritual were restor'd to their Privileges 21 1100000 l. Voted for supply of his Majesties present occasions 22 D. of York return'd from Dunkirk J. James sentenced to be drawn hang'd and Quarter'd 24 Hen. E. of St. Albans L. Ambassador Extraordinary from his Maj. to the Crown of France came to Whitehall 25 The remaining Regicids in the Tower Penington only by reason of his bodily Infirmities excepted were brought to the Barr of the House and Lambert Vane and the rest lately sent away Ordered to be sent for back to the Tower Illegal Protections Null'd Praise-God Barbone and Sam. Moyer Committed to the Tower for Treasonable Practices 26 Major Wildman Mr. sometimes Sir James Harrington Mr. sometimes Alderman Ireton and Major Haynes Committed also to the Tower of London 27 Capt. Rob. Holms Committed to the Tower by order of the Council J. James drawn hang'd and Quartered at Tyburn 28 The truly Honorable and no less valiant Gentleman Sir Charles Compton departed this life 29 Col. Salmon Committed to the Tower for Treasonable designs and Practices 30 Dyed the Learned and Reverend Brian Lord Bishop of Chester Dec. 2. Capt. Holms released 3 The noble E. of Peterborow took his leave at Whitehal to go for Tangier 9 His Majesties Forces intended for Tangier Imbark'd at Dunkirk 20 Parl. adjourn'd till Jan. 7 next following 30 Hen. Covâ—ntry Esq Son to the late Famous Tho. Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England sworn one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber Jan. 7 Parliam met again according to the last adjournment Frederick L. Conwallis Treasurer of his Majesties household departed this Life 10 Sr. Hen. Vane and Mr. J. Lambert order'd to be sent for back to the Tower of London The Marquess Durazzo Ambassadour Extraordinary from the Common-wealth of Genoa enter'd London 13 Had his Audience 27 L. Mounson Sr. H. Mildmay and Mr. Robert Wallop all drawn from the Tower of London on Sledges with Ropes about their Necks to Tyburn and having there Threded the Triple-tree back again in like manner to the Tower 30 Earl of Peterborough took possession of Tangier in Africa for his Majesty February 1 The Genoa Ambassador took his leave of his Majesty 7 The condemned Prisoners in the Tower brought to the Barr of the House of Peers 13 Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia departed this life 18 Prodigious Winds doing great mischiefs in most parts 21 Died that most Loyal and Signal Sufferer for the Crown of England Sr. John Stawell Christopher L. Hatton that most Pious and Faithful Councellour to his late Majesty sworn one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council made Governour of Guernsy durante vita and the Reversion of that Government most deservedly Conferred on his son March 16 Miles Corbet John Okey and John Barkstead brought Prisoners to the Tower of London having been taken at Delft not many days before by the care and faithfulness of Sr. George Downing 24. George Withers removed from Newgate to the Tower for his wonted practise of Seditious Libelling Anno 1662. April 3 the most Noble and Valiant Sr. Will. Compton Master General of his Majesties Ordinance Son to that magnanimous Heroe Spencer late Earl of Northamp who so gallantly sacrificed his Life in defence of his late Majesty at the Battle on Hopton-heath Anno 1642. sworn of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 13 Qu. Kathrine Embarqued for England in the Royal Charles 16 Miles Corbet John Okey and John Barkstead received the sentence due to Rebels and Traytors to their Soveraign Lord and King 19 They were all 3 drawn on sledges from the Tower to Tyburn and there Hang'd and Quarter'd 23 Articles
and at least 8000 modestly computed of their men killed and taken Prisoners 16 His Royal Highness arrived at Whitehal accompani'd with his Highness Prince Rupert whose Prudence and Courage in the late Engage Crown'd all his former atchivems 19 2063 Dutch Prisoners brought to Colchester whereof 13 Commanders 20 A Publick Thanksgiving observ'd in London and Westminster and other places adjacent for the late glorious victory obtain'd against the Dutch 21 The Parliam met at Westminster according to the term of Prorogation and was again Prorogu'd to the 1 of August next His Excellency the Count de Molina Ambassador to his Majesty from the Spanish King made his publique entry with great Splendor and Magnificence 22 Was Interred the Body of the most Noble Earl of Falmouth unfortunately slain in the late Fight with the Dutch His Majesty conferr'd the Honour of Knighthood upon Vice-Admiral Mynns and Câ—pt Smith for their Eminent services in that Fight 23 His Excellency the Count De Molina had publick audience 26 Mr. William Coventry Secretary to his Royal Highness received from his Sacred Majesty the Honour of Knighthood and was afterwards sworn of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 27 His Majesty with his Royal Highness the D. of York his Highness P. Rupert his Grace the Duke of Monmouth and oâ—hers of the Nobility arriv'd at the Buoy in the Nore together with her Majesty the Qu. Mother who thence prosecuted her journey toward France his Maiesty taking his leave this night and afterward going aboard the Royal Charles Conferred the Honour of Knighthood upon Rear-Admiral Tyddiman Capt. Jordan Capt. Spragg and Capt. Cuttings for their eminent valour shewed in the late Fight with the Dutch July 2 His Majesty return'd to Greenwich whence he passed by Coach to Hampton-Court 4 A Publick Thanksgiving throughout England and Wales for the late glorious Victory obtain'd against the Dutch 5 Part of his Majesties Fleet set sail from Southwold-Bay towards the Coasts of Holland A general Fast observed in London and Westminster and places adjacent by his Majesties Command upon occasion of the Plague and Pestilence then raging there And the second of August next to be kept in like manner and so the first Wednesday in every month for the future until it pleased God to remove that heavy Judgment 27 His Majesty and the Queen Consort removed toward Salisbury 28 Their Majesties parted this morning at Farnham-Castle her Majesty proceeding towards Salisbury his Majesty to Portsmouth whither he came this day at Noon 29 Her Majesty arrived at Salisbury 31 His Majesty in the Isle of Wight Aug. 1 His Majesty came to Salisbury Parliament again Prorogued to the 3 of October next coming 5 Their Royal Highnesses arrived at York 15 The Receipt of his Majesties Exechequer being removed to his Majesties Honour of Non-such in Surrey in regard of the great and dangerous increase of the Plague at Westminster opened there 16 His Royall Highness at Hull The Dutch Smyrna Fleet and Straits-Men De Ruyters and their East-India return Ships in all about 50 being arrived at Bergen in Norway were by a Squadron of 22 Sail commanded by Sir Tho. Tyddiman most gallantly Attack'd in that Harbour But the Danes having suffered the Dutch to land and plant their Guns ashore to the best advantage of annoying us assisted them by their Shot from the Castle and Forts All which would not yet have served their turn if a strong Gale out of the Harbor had not made our Fire-ships useless whereupon our Ships retired with some loss of Men amongst whom M. Edward Montague and Mr. Wyndham who lost their lives honourably in the service of their King and Country and some 4 or 5 of our Ships disabled But not without some severe Execution done both upon their Men and Shipping 30 His Majâ—sties Fleet commanded by his Excellency the Earl of Sandw set sail towards the Coast of Holland in hope once more of ingaging the Dutch this year 31 A great storm at Sea especially upon the Coasts of Norway which scatter'd the Dutch thereabouts September 1. His Grace the Duke of Ormond Arrived at Waterford in Ireland The Bishop of Munster advancing with an Army against the States General for recovery of Bokelo the Eyler Fort and several other places by them unjustly detained from him being assisted thereto with a great sum of Money by his Majesty of Great-Brit to find them work at Land as well as by Sea Sir George Downing return'd from Holland 3 4 Four Dutchmen of War two rich East-India Ships and several other of their Merchant-men taken by some of his Majesties Navy commanded by his Excellence the Earl of Sandw with the loss only of the Hector a small Flem. Vessel of 22 Guns taken from them in the last War unhappily sunk in this ser. 5 Fires kindled and continued 3 days 3 nights in all the Streets Courts Lanes Alleys of London to correct and purifie the Air. 7 The Holland Fleet joyn'd with the rest of their Merchant-men at Bergen 9 Some of his Majesties Ships encountred 12 sail of Hollanders and took the greatest part of them amongst which were four Dutch-men of War and several others West-India Men and Provision-Ships with above 1000 Prisoners So that no less than 30 Prizes were taken from the Dutch in this Expedition under his Excellency the Earl of Sandwich who had pursued this advantage into their own Harbours had not a most violent storm this very day put the Fleet into some disorder many Ships being thereby separated from the Body thereof 11 His Majesty removed from Salisbury to the Right Honourable the Lord Ashleys at Saint Giles's where he lay that night 15 His Majesty at Pool 17 At Lutworth-Castle in the Isle of Purbeck 18 At Weymouth 19 His Majesty at Portland 20 At Dorchester whence he return'd to St. Giles 21 Thence to Salisbury 23 His Royal Highness set forth from York toward Oxford and lay at Sir George Savills at Rufford that night 24 At Warwick-Castle 25 His Majesty set out from Salisbury toward Oxford where he orrived and met his Royal Highness the same night 26 The Queens Majesty came to Oxford Her Royal Highness began her Journey from York toward Oxford 29 Sir Thomas Bludworth elected Lord Mayor for the ensuing year October 5 Her Royal Highness arrived at Oxford 9 Parliament met at Oxford according to the Term of Prorogation 10. The two Houses â—et and attended His Mâ—â—esty in Christ-Church-Hall â—his Morning where His â—ajesty Entertained them â—ith a most Gracious â—peech which was Seconâ—ed by another from the Right Honourable the L. Chancellour After which â—he House of Commons â—oted That Humble and Hearty Thâ—nkâ— should be â—eturned to His Majesty â—or his great Care and Conâ—â—ct in the Preservation of 〈◊〉 People and the Hoâ—our of this Nation and â—â—at they would Assist him â—ith their Lives and Forâ—â—nes against the Dutch or â—â—y other that should Asâ—â—â—t them against His Maâ—esty That the Humble and