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A86012	Britains royal star: Or, An astrological demonstration of Englands future felicity; deduced from the position of the heavens as they beheld the earth in the meridian of London, at the first proclaiming of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the second, on May 8. 10h. 56m. A.M. 1660. And an enquiry made into the use and abuse of astrologie, resolving whether it be convenient to be continued or contemned. Also, an admirable observation of a conjunction of Jupiter and Mars made in the year 1170. by a learned monck of Canterbury, communicated to the learned in astronomy. Together with an exaination and refutation of that nest of sedition, published by Mr. H. Jessey, concerning frogs, dogs, &c. in his pamplet falsly intituled, The Lods Loud call to England, &c. By John Gadbury, philomathematicus.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing G77; Thomason E1050_1; Thomason E1050_1*; ESTC R208138	21,859	38

Insinuations Which to correct with the Soveraign Antidote of Truth I hold it requisite to acquaint the world how I came first to study Astrologie and unto whose memory I owe my knowledge therein Which make as followeth In the year 1652. going into Oxfordshire in the way of a grateful Visit to my honoured Grandfather Sir J. Curson who out of his Nobleness was at the charge of my Education I took with me some Pamphets as The Copies of the Times Humours to present him with And among the rest Mr. Wharton's Hemerosc for that year upon fight of which he was very well pleased and began to enter into a Discourse with me touching Astrologie And although my knowledge then was but mean therein I answered his Demands according to the best of my skill In brief he was so well pleased with my mean Returns that he not onely commended my poor industry but gave me somewhat to encourage me further and withal expressed a greater respect and affection to the Art then Gentlemen in this Age commonly do And advised me for attaining perfection therein to the Study of Astronomy acquainting me that which I since found as true as the Oracle he who was ignorant of the Motions of the Stars must be so also in their effects Finding my self so well entertained for that mean mite of knowledge I was resolved then to make a further progress therein and if possible understand the most abstruse parts thereof And this my inclination wanted not an ample signification in my Nativity from the Heavens For I had then operating M.C. ad △ ♂ and this in ♍ the greatest Dignities of ☿ the true Patron of Arts and Sciences And upon the Effects thereof I acquainted my self with that eminently Learned Mathematician and Astrologer Dr. N. Fiske who in little time had so far instructed me in the whole Art of Astrologie and a competent part of Astronomy also that in 1655. I was able to present my honoured Grandfather with an Almanack in Manuscript which was afterwards printed and hath since been annually continued And in that year also I together with my Uncle Mr. T.G. began to reduce the places of all the fixed Stars in the Heavens as an Emendation of the Learned Hartgil's Tables And these were printed and published 1656. And in the same year I published my Coelestial Ambassador In the year 1658. I emitted into the world my Doctrine of Nativities In the year 1658 I published the King of Swedes Nativity and Nuncius Astrologicus also And in the year 1660. I published my Treatise of Prodigies In all which works my Enemles themselves can't say I have done Astrologie the least dishonour or cast one blot upon the Divine Beanty of the fair Vrania Howbeit I must ingenuously acknowledge that all these Rivulets are sprung from the source of that great Seminary of the Mathematicks Dr. Fisk. beforementioned for to him and to him alone next unto Divine Assistance do I owe all my knowledge in Art and can boldly aver I never learnt the meaning of an Aphorism from any other man in the world I have been acquainted with the best and worst knowing in this Science in England and must acknowledge there are more ingenious persons study if privately then any that practise it publickiy I cannot discover either more Art or Honesty in our highest Pretenders then in the mear vulgar Astrologer Nor am I able to discern any material Difference between a fam'd Mountebanks pair of Dials with a Non Cogunt and the poor Bill-Posters Astra non necessitant c. onely this The one hath quacked under an especial Protection from the State for a bribe of 100 l. and sometimes 200 l. per annum and the other perhaps better deserving for want of Clyents is compelled to the course he otherwise hates and abominates I honour Astrologie honestly considered but hate the Sycophantick Pretender thereunto I was more confident when I scarcely knew a ⚹ from a △ then now I dare to be after nine years study I have written more of Art then any man of this latter Age yet have not prejudiced Kingdoms or Families or abused Kings Princes or meaner Persons under pretence thereof I have carefully endeavoured to escape Tacitus his Censure who reshly concludes Astrologers Genus Hominus infiduns Principius I have had the happiness to read Astrological and still do to many ingenious persons and that satisfactorily as many very well know By which mean I have much embettered my own understanding For Decendo discimus by teaching we learn our selves And whereas person as insolently as unjustly rearm me ungrateful either to Litty or any other I shall desire them First Arguere then Readarguers first to prove the Crime they object against me then reprove me for it I acknowledge readily that Ingratitude is the greatest of Crimes a man can be guilty of And it is a thing so contrary to my nature that I desire no longer to live then to be grateful And if I esteemed my self a drachm behiad hand with any man in this I would return him a pound in satisfaction Nay the beforementioned person that hath objected Ingratitude to me upon my demanding his Reason did before Mr. E. Carrant pronounce me to him the most grateful man in the world And I am confident he cannot neither dares he say unless it it be boastingly behind my back that I ever learned a Line in Astrologie or Astronomy from him The later of which I dare and do here publickly maintain he knoweth nothing of no not to the Calculation of one Stars place either fixed or Erratique both which I was sufficintly able to perform before ever my ill Fortune directed me to his acquaintance and how he should then prove my Tutor I cannor in reason see Nay I protest freely and this without any boasting or ambitious lifting up my self for I know my knowledge is but mean I understood more Art before ever I was acquainted with Lilly then he was ever capable of learning in his life notwithstanding his great Fame for doing nothing else in truth but deluding the world I mention not this by reason of the Difference between him and my self for in matter of Truth I so far devest my self from Passion that Reason might reign as King Nor would I have any hereby think that Labhor to learn of an Adversary for I have always made that Adage my Companion whicn says Etemin fasest abhoste doceri It is both just and lawful for a man to learn of his Enemy And I should not refuse so learn of him who hath as arrogantly as falsly stiled himself my Tutor and hath taught others to cant so if I conld perceive in him any thing by which my understanding might be bettered But although I shall so far submit my self to the truth as to bow the knee of my Reason to any and shall not refuse to stoop to the foot of a Shepherd if Ingenuity and Reason keep Court in such a Cottage yet I hold it the highest slavery in the world for any man that is discipulus ratiouis to subjugate his Reason so far as Jurare in verba Lillii I am too Masculine to believe the King of Sweden shall be greater then Charles the Great because Mr. Lilly rantingly says so except he give me a better Reason then ipse dixit and Authority then the Sibyls and Mother Shipton Or that we shall have no more Kings in England because he Sycophantiquely and for base Bribes laying aside his Art writ so I am too great a Disciple of Art to betray my Reason and Knowledge therein to the by●ssed Interest of every confident Pretender And if to defend the honour of Art and detect and discover the Treasons and Cheatisms practised under it and lay the Persons open to the World that thus notoriously abuse it be to be ungrateful Sine Apologia I desire to be ungrateful still And whereas Lilly hath printed it That lay it in my power I would swallow his Body and spit his Soul into the Stygian Lake I must tell him The Fear is as scandalous as the Conceit idle and foolish For it must be a Grave of far larger Dimensions that must swallow his Body had he not espoused himself to Villanies that swell him so much bigger then he naturally is But if he mean by this Charge to set off my Hatred to him by a Sarcasm or Hyperbole I must return him as egregionsly mistaken in this as he prov'd himself in the Swedish Victory or R. Cromwel's continuance For I protest freely to the World my heart is furnished with no such polluted stuff Nay I dare be bold to affirm That were there an occasion offered me to try my Hatred toward him to purpose I should prove as great a Friend to him as he is a man as any of his Hicks-hall Jury did in 1654. when he was indicted there for a Cheat. And whereas Lilly is troubled that I have at any time reported him a Taylor I here again tell the world I do therein but call a Spade a Spade And he knows I have not onely his own Confession and Witnesses yet living to prove it but good sufficient and uncontradicted Authority in Print for so reporting him If Mr. Lilly have ought else to urge against me I shall God willing as soon as I hear thereof return him a most seasonable and civil Reply This therefore shall content me for the present to return in answer to some of his scurrilities FINIS

to force and compel it to speak what the Heavens do not intend or intimate It is sufficiently known I have made it my designe all along to detect and discover the Errours Forgeries and Vanities of the highest Abusers of this noble Science in our Age. And should I attempt any such thing or wilfully suffer my Pen to walk either contrary to or besides the Rules of my Art I should then be as bad as he who pretending to abhor Idols was not ashamed to commit Sacrilege Perhaps these my serious and seasonable Premonitions because they are deduced ex Artis from the Stars maybe contemned neglected and slighted and my self for the same derided if not detruded by those who are mostly concerned in them and ought chiefly to consider and observe them It is a practise among the ignorantly resolute in shawing a Fool-hardy valour rather to run into the Jaws of Ruine then be wrought upon by the most gentle Perswasions to reform I know Astrology is suffciently under Hatches at this day in England and by tne major sort of wise and ignorant not onely neglected but condemned by reason of the Sychopincy Leidgerdemain and Grand Jugling of that Arch-Parasite Merlinus Anglicus who for many years together hath been felsly reputed rhe chief Astrologer among us If f●ttery be the onely distinguishable Character to know an Artist by the general Cry and Commendations will the more easily reach him But if true knowledge in the Art shall take place I here publickly maintain He is not guilty of the tythe of the knowledge that the people have generally believed of him This may seem somewhat Paradoxial and strange That a person that hath born the Bell I cannot tell how many years in the common Fame of the Nation should not be most excellent in the thing he pretends unto but it is most true and I dare publickly aver it That his skill is so mean in the Art he prerends unto that he knoweth not how to calculate one Stars or Planets place nay I shall go further 3 he scarcely Knows how to reduce a Star truly from one Meridian to another It is common for the major part of the world whose judgements are unseasoned to be taken with pretended Flourtishes of skill whether they be certain and true or not I have heard of a Mustian who with his Youth was psaying before it great number of persons and the Youth having obtained a little superficial skill did with the same so enchaunt the Ears of the Auditors that they brake forth into a great Commendation of his rare skill His Master observing this their applause came near to the Youth and struck him on the Ear saying Sirrah If you had been true to your Notes those misjudging-Ears could never have commended you So if that grand Abuser of Astrologie have been commmended in all things he hath written it hath been by unseasoned Judgments Persons that were not acquainced with his Wiless and lgnorance Yet for his sake alone hath Astrologie been hardly censured yea plainly abused neglected scorn'd and condemned It is not Astrologie but Sycophancy and arch-Villany to turn tide tale with every interest An houest Astrologer scorns to fawn ftatter and write for and against a Parliament for 200 and l. 100.l per anuum Is he an able Astrologer that shall trapan the King-of Sweden to his ruine and yet receive from him both money and a Goid Chain Is he not a Villain rather Is he an honest Artist that shall trayterously traduce his lawful Leige-Lord and So veraign and call him Titular King Pyratical Prince threaten him with a stab or poison Is he a Eriend to the Scince he pretends that for a Bribe shall sine ratione doom the. King of Denmark to ruine and the Prince EleEtor of Beandenburgh to repent in sackeloath and ashes Is he not a Mercenary Killain rather that for a handful of earth shall assassinate the most splendid reputations in the world Nor dare I esteem him other then a rancorous hearted Wretch that shall aggravate a difference between his own Prince and Subjects or that shall abuse his Royal Majesties Friends by name as the before mentioned Merlin's Brat hath ihe Earl of Ormond calling him arch-Rebel and indiscreet Earl and threatning him with inglorious death and Prince Rupert whom he villanously stiles Plunder-Master-General c. Thus you see how Astrologie is come to be evilly spoken of and for whose sakes also Astrologie is too Princely a Science to be thus a bused but by the soile and black Actions of this Proditorious Fellow the Diamond Lustre and Beauty of the Art is the more excellently shadowed and set off I abominate to threaten or terrifie any sort of men in the world with false fears or indeed with any at all Howbeit I shall endeavour to perswade all those that are wilfully precipitating themselves into the Gulph of Misery Ruine and Destruction to avoid running the Road that leads necessarily thereunto If the cause be taken away the effect of course ceaseth And that I may use a pertinent and proper Argument to perswade with them I shall acquaint them and the world at large That Astrologie is not so vain so empty or so idle a study as the ignorance and villany of the beforementioned Person hath seemed to render it There is more Worth Truth and certainty therein then the weak yeilding Brains of Men are generally able to conceive or comprehend And that may most probably be the ground of the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellour's Caution in his Learned and Elegant Speech to the Parliament That we should not too much despise the influence of the Stars We do not faith the Learned Dr. Brown reject or condemn a sober and regulated Astrologie we hold there is more truth therein then in Astrologers in some more then many allow yet in none so much as some pretend We deny not the influences of the Stars but often suspect the due Application thereof Pseud Epidem Lib. 4. p. 194. And what man of Reason will deny the Reason of this Learned Author Shall we through a conceited or zealous ignorance confound the good use of the Art with the abuse thereof for the knavishness of a known Impostor therein Are there no Grapes ripe or fit to be eaten but those that are within our reach Shall we wilfully damn and destroy all things we are not able to understand This were ridiculous and most unworthy the Reason of men Is there no sober Distinction to be made between the good Wine and the Dregs between the skill of an honest Artist and the practise of a Sycophantique Pretender That it is unjust for any to blend or mingle the true use with the abuse of an Art I shall endeavour to satisfie the world by remembring them of some few but admirable examples in which the true worth and certainty of this honoured Science hath to the great credit thereof been verified And to avoid the repetition of those famous

Predictions Lucius Bellanticus Gauricus Cardan Spurina Guido c. with whose worthy skill and famous Presages we might fill some Volumes I shall relate here onely some few but remarkable things forecold by the assistance of the Syderal Science of late years and among us also I. Mr. H. Johnson in his Book called Anti-Merlinus page 23. predicted the ruine of the Long Parliament in these words That notwirhstanding the Parliament shall stourish yet a while yet in the end they shall be conquered and brought low and many of them shall die a death shameful and ignominious c. II. Mr. Wharton in p. 42. of his Hemerose 1653. predicted the routing of the Long Parliament most exactly in these words Mars transits the Degree culminating in the last Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ in the watry Triplicity which will manifest it self in one or other grand accident to befal some and they none of the meanest in power but men if I sin not in calling them so of the first Magnitnde and this by means of the Soldiery or of such persons as are Martially disposed And this he faith should happen at the beginning of the year And behold in April O. Cromwel turn'd out the Parliament that had sate twelve long years and upwards III. In the year 1658. I verified theText of Haly de judciis Astrorum pars 8. cap. 19. in predicting the death of Oliver Cromwel Which came to pass exactly as was foretold See my Almanack of that year and page the 11th of the prognosticon IV. In the year 1659. in my Ephemeris I plainly predicted the downfal of Richard Cromwel from the Text in fol. 124. of Johan Anton Guiffus de Eclipsibus and the Confusions of the then Persons in power I did foretel in Nudis verbis and that from the great Eclipse of the Sun as also from Prolomy and Origanus their Aphorisms and Judgements thereof V. The beginning of the same year I published the Nativity of the King of Sweden viz. when he was in all his glory and therein did from Schoner and other Aurhorities presage his death and in February 1660. he did die accordingly VI. The same year I published his Royal Majesty of Denmark's Nativity and therein predicted his Recovery from his troubles and the Peace also now confirmed and ratified between him and the Swedish Crown See Nuncius Astrologious lately printed I spare to speak of the most fortunate happy and heaven-favouring Predictions that are to be found in my Ephemeris for this year because the Book it self and things therein contained is still fresh in each mans memory Not is it requisite for me to take notice of each auspicious Prediction my Pen hath been the Author of otherwise for one of these I could have produced ten But my business is onely to prove Astrologie useful and worthy and that the Predictions thence lawfully derived ought to be seriously and carefully heeded and considered Shall we say that the Lute is a dull Instrument because a poor Piper cannot tell what to make thereof Is AEsop's Jewel of no use bacause a Cock preferred a Barly-Corn before it Astrologie was never yet condemned by any that understood it And that alone preseves its honour with the ingeniously learned Neither let any man under pretence of opposing Astrologie to Divinity take occasion thence to give the less credit unto it For. If there be a truth therein as faith the aforesaid worthy Author it doth not injure Divinity If to be born under Mercury disposeth us to be witty under Jupiter to be wealthy I do not owe a knee unto these but unto the merciful hand that hath ordered my indifferent and uncertain Nativity unto such benevolous Aspects Vide Religio Medici Sect. 18. Besides Divines themselves have been the greatest Propagators of this Science as Junctine Ficinus Hartgil Dr. Gell Burton Origanus Lindholt Reeves Swadlin Carpenter c. And can we in reason believe or conceive that they would advance or set up any thing contrary to their own profession Nay most of these have affirmed That Astrologie is necessary in a Divine for he cannot truely understand some places of Scripture without the knowledge thereof And that was the reason that formerly in Egypt none were admitted into the Sacred Order without being competently versed in the Science of the Scars This being now considered I see not reasonably how the greatest Antagonists can hood-wink themselves from the knowledge of Coelestial Influences Nor can we understandingly conplude that he which gave vertue to the Mazzaroth or twelve signes the Pleiades Arcturus and the Stars of Orion should refuse to enstamp an insluence proportionable upon the rest of those glorious Creatures Nor ought we in reason to condemn slight and neglect all Astral insluence or ponrer for the Imposturisms of any one either pretending to or practising Astrologie any more then we ought to make light of the Deity because Caligula and Lucian would nor grant any Will any man esteem him Wise or judicious that like AEsops Dog letteth slip the substance to snatch at the shadow Is it not a most blush-worthy fault in any that shall catch at Vanities on purpose to carp at Verities He puts the greatest Fallacy and Cheat upon himself and robs his Reason of its proper food that in derision and scorn of an Art shall hug cherish and embrace the Abuse and Imposturism thereof on purpose to wound the true use and worth of it The Errour of the Artist is but the Organ of his unwary and imperfect Nature and no impeachment to the honour of the Art at all It would be highly unjust in any to condemn the true use of Physick under pretence of crying out against the knavish and unwarrantable practise of Empyricks Astrologers seldome commit Errors except when they for bribes turn Parasites c. Amor odiumque ne vera eveniant judicia prohibent si quidem minunt maxima augent minima i.e. Love and Hate will occasion great Errour in judgement The one causerh the Artist to magnisie things trivial and the other to lessen things considerable Ptol. Cent. Aphor 12. The true Astrologer therefore ought to avoid running upon either of these Rocks as carefully as he would avoid the giving a false judgement But I wave this Apologetique Discourse and would not indeed have spoke so much here but that the cause is so pressing And to acquaint the world that Asthologie is not sit to be contemned but continued notwithstanding the Abuses of the greatest Pretenders thereunto I have partly proceeded thus far in it to check the vain conceits of Unbelievers and to assure them as there is truth in starry Influences and in rhe forementioned proofs thereof that Englands happiness cannot be endeavoured to be undermined but by the absolute destruction and ruine of the Undertakers and Projectors of the same and this without Flattery or by-respect to any Interest I send into the world there to remain an Astrological Truth with the rest of