1666 the Sun came to the New-Star and the Moon to the Opposition of the said Star and then was London burned London is under Gemini and the Opposition fell in Gemini also Anno Domini Ascenda Directed M C Directed New Star ☉ Directed ☽ Directed 1618 ad â–¡ ♃ ad ☠☿ â–¡ ♀ ♂   1620  1603 1603   1622  □ ♀ ♂ 1603    1624    ad ☿ ad ☠☿ 1625  ad ☠♄    1628 ad â–¡ ♂ ad â–³ ♃    1629 ad â–¡ ♃     1632  ad ☠♂ New Star    1633  ad ☠♃    1640 ad â–¡ ☉ 1603     1649  ad â–¡ ♂    1650  ad â–³ ☿    1651 ad ☌ ♀  ad â–¡ ☿   1654 ad ☌ ♂ 1603     1656    ad ☌ ☿ 1603 ad ☠☿ 1603 1660    ad ♄ ♃ ad ☠♄ ♃ 1603 1662 ad âš¹ ♄ ad ☉ â–¡ â–¡ ☽    1666    ad ♂ New Star ad ☠♂ new star 1667 ad ☉ ☠☽   ad ♃ ad ☠♃ 1671 ad âš¹ ♂     1672 ad âš¹ ♃     1673    ad ☉ ♀ 1603 ☠☽ 1675     ad ☽ ☠☉ 1603. Anno Dom. Ascendant M C New Star ☉ ☽ 1981 ad ☿  ad â–¡ ☿ ad â–¡ ♀ ad â–¡ ♂ 1683  □ ☿ 1603 â–¡ ♂ 1603 1603 1684  △ ♀ 1603 ad â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1603   1686  △ ♄ ♃ 1603 ad â–¡ ♄   1691  △ ♄    1692    ad â–¡ ☉ â–¡ ☽ ad â–¡ ☉ â–¡ ☽ 1694   □ ♂ New Star   1696  ad â–³ ♂ â–³ New Star ad â–¡ ♃   1697  ad â–³ ♃     ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ 1619  ad â–¡ ♀ ad â–¡ ♂   1640 ad ♄ 1620   ad â–¡ ♀ â–¡ ♂  1648 1627 ad â–¡ ♀ â–¡ ♂ 1603    ad new star and ♂ 1630  ad â–¡ ☉ it â–¡ ☽    1631   ad â–¡ ☉ â–¡ ☽ 1635 ad ☿  1638 ad â–¡ ☉ it â–¡ ☽    1649 ad ♃ 1650 1658 ad â–¡ ☿ ad â–¡ ☿    1651   ad â–¡ ☿   16  ad â–¡ ☿ ad â–¡ ☿ 1666 ad ☿ 1603. 1664 1682  1603 1603  ad â–¡ ♂ 1603 1683  ad ♄ ♃ 1603  1671 ad ♄  1684   ad ♄ ♃ 1603   1686  ad â–¡ ♄  1678 ad new star 1674 ad â–¡ ☉ â–¡ ☽ 1687   ad â–¡ ♄   1689 ad â–¡ ☿ 1603     1691 ad â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1603   1679 ad ♃  1693  ad â–¡ ♂ New star ad â–¡ ♂ New star 1686 ad ☉ 1603  1694  ad â–¡ ♃ ad â–¡ ♃   1695    ad â–¡ ♂ 1603  I shall conclude with the words of Spineus in his Catastrophe mundi where he saith Take heed all you Kings of Spain and France you Princes and Potentates of Italy behold and dread the Sign that is sent down from God viz. the Mock-Star of the Year 1604. let down in the Fiery Triplicity to provoke Wars and Conflicts by 7 Aph. 34. Rebellions Treasons Desolations so that all Men living shall be naturally inclin'd to shedding of bloud for every immoderate Coâ—stitution of the Stars brings Death amongst old and infirm People but in others violent events and cruel destruction of young men or their utter ruine Oh! how many Changes of Kingdoms Oh! how much lamenting and bewailing the condition of disgrace Oh! what sorts and difference of dangers and troubles are to be feared what unspeakable great and grievous Villanies Oh! what turbulent and damnable Seditions Oh! what unlooked and unhoped for mischievous kinds of death Oh! what exalting of wicked and reprobate Men the troubled Stars of Heaven do belch out Oh! what wretched and indigent Persons are every where extolled and the rich oppressed and impoverished How many Subjects and Servants shall rule whilst Kings and Masters shall obey What Princes shall be thrown out of their Dominions Oh! what insolent Drunken and Luxurious Men who shall have the Habit of Whoredom What inventers of new and unheard of Lusts Buggeries Gluttons Murtherers Cruel Deceivers and Traitors and Thieves without cause such as shall deride torment and tear in pieces and kill with very vexation all Men that be endued with Prudence Knowledge and Wisdom but they shall be of a constant mind and although these things shall be fierce after the year 1630 yea more fierce after 1650 yet shall they be most terrible and rigorous after the year 1660 God divert the evil that is yet further portended from the effects of this New Star from the Kingdom of England for since the Year 1660 there hath been a great deal of this production come to pass and a great deal more there is behind which not only England but France and Spain and Italy and Germany Holland Scotland and almost all the whole World in one measure or other within this 20 years will be sensible of viz. Wars Plagues Famine and cruel destruction of Mankind with the burning of Towns and Citys And so much may serve or the Judgment of the New Star CHAP. V. Of the Comet that appeared Anno 1618. OF this Comet hath Mr. Lilly treated of in his Prophetical Merlin therefore I shall not undertake to write my Judgment thereon because the Effects are already past only write down the Ephemeris thereof and the Figure of the Full Moon following that from thence and the effects that be past we may be able to find out a true measure of time for such like Prodigies which cannot be done without Examples for the Ancients have given us but very little light therein The Comets place at Full Moon following which was Nov. 21. at 12 b 15 m. P. M. 1681. The Comet first appeared about the 11 day but was not seen by every one till the 18 day from which time the Ephemeris begins Month days its day motion G. M. its motion in Longit G. M. Declination G. M.  Novemb. 18 3 20 20 0 â™ 10 20 S. 1618 ad â–¡ ☿ 1623 Novemb. 19 3 0 16 30 â™ 8 35 S. 1619 ad ☠new Star 1572 Novemb. 20 3 35 13 0 â™ 6 10 S. 1620  Novemb. 21 1 30 9 25 â™ 3 30 S. 1621  Novemb. 22 1 30 7 55 â™ 0 35 S. 1622  Novemb. 23 1 30 6 25 â™ 02 00 N. 1623 ad â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1623 24 1
and Sagitarius at which time the Danes began their Monarchy and the next time Saturn and Jupiter came in Conjunction in Virgo which was 50 Years after then came the Narmans and upon this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagitarius 1603 then came Scotlands King to be King of all England Scotland and Ireland and thus you see all beginnings as to those Grand Affairs hath had their end upon Conjunctions in Signs of a contrary nature So many Planets posited in the Sign of the Conjunction separating and applying considering also that the Conjunctions of Mars the Year following first with Saturn and then with Jupiter both near the place of the great Conjunction and in Opposition of the Ascendant of London these may induce us to conceive that some more than ordinary effects are to be signified by this return of the Superiours into the Fiery Triplicity Vide Edling I say more than perhaps hath usually happened from any or most of those that have preceeded since the Creation of the World and that amongst other places London and generally the whole Nation is herein concerned thus much Mr. Edling and there is hardly any living but what are sensible of the truth of these Predictions But there is yet many more notable Transactions to happen in the World from the effects of this great Conjunction for bycorporeal or double bodied Signs do signifie or operate most upon Men and those of the Highest Rank viz. Kings and Magistrates and Rulers of Kingdoms or Commonwealths therefore the effects will be found to operate both upon Matters and Persons of both Church and State and seeing that whatsoever had its Rise from any Eminent Configuration of the Superiour Bodies must also expect to receive a great Suppression and Molestation from its contrary and it is the Opinion of Spineus in his Catastrophe mundi that as Mahomet had his Rise from the Influence of the Watry Trigon so from the effects of this Restitution of the Superiours in this Fiery Trygon it being diametrically opposite to the Watry shall that Religion receive great batement and molestation and in page 25 of that Book from the Influence of this Conjunction Mahomet shall be destroyed then shall follow an Universal Peace and a general Empire of Christians or the Faith of Christ more enlarged throughout the World Thus much Spineus But before all these things be compleated the Christians shall be at Wars one with another and shall give encouragement to the Grand Turk to invade Europe and he shall pass through all Germany and France and Italy and part of Spain almost to the ruining of all Christendom after which he shall by the Divine Power of God turn Christian after which he shall destroy the Dregs of the Church of Rome and shall settle a General Peace throughout the known parts of the World Neither is the Judgment of Mr. Lilly upon this Conjunction to be slighted viz. That God will restrain Monarchical Pomp and reduce all to an Aristocratical Mediocrity both in Church and Sate but before this be effected Omnia nutu unius regentur as Cardan long since Predicted after which God will give so long a Peace and such Tranquility to the Earth as she never enjoy'd the like In the mean time saith he as Saturn Jupiter and Mercury in the Scheme are in the 12th I conceive that privately by Lyes by Treachery by seigned and dissembling Treaties and Ambassadors and by the Policy of a Jesuitical Faction all over Europe the True Protestant Religion shall infinitely be distressed and the Heavenly Intentions impedited and all those Countries that profess that Opinion shall be exceedingly molested by so secret a Compact of Villains and false hearted Traitors lurking in the bosome of Princes as that many will think Popery and Papism shall return to its old Seat in every Country but that will never be in our Kingdoms for Jùpiter being in his Chief House cannot but in fine overcome and the rather because he receives the Sun and Mercury in the Ascendant which shew God will miraculously by the means of some young Prince or Commonalty of People discover and bring to light the close Mysteries of those Plots that from the year 1603 until almost 50 years be expired shall involve all Christendom in most bloudy Broils nay till the year 1699. Anno Domini Ascendant Directed MC Directed The Place of ♄ and ♃ Directed ♂ Directed ☉ Directed 1605    ad ⚹ ☿  1607    ⚹ ♄ ♃  1611     ad □ ♂ 1620 △ ♂ ad ☿    1621 ad ⚹ ☿     1622 ad ⚹ ♄ ♃ ad ♄ ♃    1624 King James dy'd  ad ☠☽ ☌ ☉ ☌ ☿   1625  A Plague  Et ⚹ ☉ △ ☽ ⚹ ♀  1631 ad △ ☽ ⚹ ☉  ad □ ♂   1636 ad □ ☿     1637 ad □ ♄ ♃  ad □ ☉ ☽ in the figures of the new Star 1604.   1640    ad △ ♂ 1642  ad ☉ ☠☽ ☌ ☿   1644      1648 ad ☠♂ King Charles the First Martyr'd    1650 ad △ ☿ King Charles the II. Crown'd in Scotland    1651 ad △ ♄ ♃  Worcester Fight   1652  ad □ ♂    Anno Domini Ascenda Directed MC Directed ♄ ♃ Directed ♂ Directed ☉ Directed 1658 ad △ ☉ ad △ ♀ ad ⚹ ☽     1662     ad ⚹ ☉ ⚹ ♀ △ ☽ 1664   ad □ ☿ ad ☌ ☿  1665   ad □ ♄ ♃   1666    ad ☌ ♄ ♃  1670   ad □ ☉ □ ☽ □ ♀   1672     ad □ ☿ 1673   ad □ ♂  ad □ ♄ ♃ 1680 ad △ ♂     1682 ad ☠☿     1683 ad ☠♄ ♃ ad △ ♂    1684    ad ☉ ☠☽ ♀  1685  ad ⚹ ☿    1687  ad ⚹ ♄ ♃    1690   ad new star in 1572.   6191     ad □ ☉ □ ☽ □ ♀ 1699   ad ☠☿  ad ☠♂ 1700 ad ☌ ☽ ☠☉ ☠♀  ◠□   Anno Domini ☿ Directed ♀ Directed ☽ Directed 1611  ad □ ♂ ad □ ♂ 1623 ad ☉ ☠☽ ♀   1630 ad □ ♂   1640  ad △ ♂ ad ⚹ ♂ 1642  ad ⚹ ☿ ad △ ☿ 1644  ad ⚹ ♄ ♃ ad △ ♄ ♃ 1660 ad △ ♂   1662 ad ⚹ ☿ ad ⚹ ☉ △ ☽ ⚹ ☿ ad △ ☉
21 20 40 25 30 42 49 1661 â–³ ☽ 22 20 25 26 45 43 25 1662  23 20 10 28 10 44 39 1663 â–³ ☽ 25 19 30 30 35 46 41 1664  30 18 50 33 30 49 9 1665 ☠☽ New Star 1372 Mr. Lilly and Mr. Edling doth allow a year for a day of the Comet 's appearance then this Comet should continue its effects till 1675. but here I allow a year for all the days it was seen and that was but 14 and at the end of 14 years there did appear 3 more Comets this Comet hath been treated of by Mr. Lilly in his Almanack 1654. and Mr. Edling in his Treatise of the Conjunction 1663. and therefore I shall forbear to write my Judgment thereon only note thus much that upon the 19 day of December the Comet came to be in Trine with Jupiter that being the 9 time that the Comet had been observed for these 9 days I do allow 9 years which being added to 1651 makes 1660 in that very year did the King come in the reason I add it 51 is because the first day serveth for the year it appeared in and again upon the 30 day the Comet came in Opposition io the Moon and to the place of the New Star 1672. that being the 14 day that the Comet was observed which 14 years being added to 1651 brings us to 1665 in that year was London affticted with a great Plague and the year after London was burnt the reason that this Comet should shew so much evil to fall upon London it had its first appearance in Gemini the Ascendant of London in Opposition to the great Conjunction 1603. and New Star 1604. and in that year also did Mars in the great Conjunction 1603. come to the place of the Conjunicton of Saturn and Jupiter it self CHAP. VIII Of the Conjunction Anno. 1663. 1663. Octob. 6th day at 8 h 6 P. M. ☽ a ☠☉ London 1663 October 20th at 10 h 56 P. M. ☽ a ☉ â–¡ ♂ London For Example In the Full-Moon preceeding the Conjunction 1663 is Gemini 26 51. to which answers in the Latitude of London 21 h. 33 and in the Full-Moon preceeding the Conjunction 1682. Capricorn 11.0 to which answers 14 h. 58 of time in the Latitude of London now by reason substraction cannot be made and 24 h. H. H. H. 14 58 with 24 added is 38 58 from which substract 21 33 the difference of time is 17 25 which being turned into Minutes is 1045. that being divided by 20 giveth 52 15 for the measure of time for a year and according to the Nature of those Aspects as the Ascendant and Midhaven meets with such shall the Accidents be the speculum of the direction from 1663 to 1683. Anno Dont Ascend Directed M. C. Directed  1664 sd â–¡ ♂ 1603 ad â–¡ ☿ â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1603  1665 ad â–¡ ♂ â–¡ ♃ 1652 ad â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1663 A War a Plague in London  ad â–¡ ☉ 1604 ad New Star 1604  1666 ad â–¡ ☉ â–¡ ☽ 1663 ad ☠♂ 1603 London burnt 1667 ad ♄ 1052 ad ☠♂ 1652 A War still  △ ♄ ♃ â–³ ☿ 1603 â–³ ♄ ♃ New Star 1604 Chattams business 1668 ad â–¡ New Star 1572  Peace with Holland 1669 ad â–¡ â â–¡ ♀ 1603 ad New Star 1572  1670 ad â–¡ ☿ â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1603   1671 ad â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1663 ☠♄ ♃ 1663 1603   □ ♄ ♃ New Star    1604  A Comet 1672 ad â–¡ ☉ 1603 â–¡ ☉ ad ☠♄ ♃ ♂ New Star 1604 France Invades Holland and England  1652 â–¡ ☽ 1652   1673 ad ♂ 1603 ad â–¡ ♂ 1603 Wars with Holland 1674  ad â–¡ ♂ 1652 Scarcity in the North   □ ☉ 1604  1675 ad ♂ 1652    ad â–¡ ♃ 1652   1676  ad â–³ ♄ ♃ â–³ ☿ 1603    △ ♄ ♃ 1663  1677 ad ☿ 1663 ☠☿ ad â–³ ☉ 1603 â–³ ☿ A Comet  1604 â–¡ ♄ 1652 1603   New Star 1572   1678  ad â–¡ ☿ 1603 â–¡ The Plot break out   ♄ ♃ 1603  1679  ad â–¡ ☉ 1603    ad â–¡ ♄ ♃ ♂ â–¡ New Start 1604  1680 ad â–¡ ☿ 1603 ad ♂ 1603 A Comet 1681 ad ♄ ♃ 1603  An Inundation in Holland  ♄ ♃ 1663   1682 ad ☉ ♀ 1603 ☿ 1604 A Comet This way of directing the Ascendant and Midhaven will find out both the Time and Quality of the effects the Conjunction doth signifie the place also if the position of the Aspect at the time of the Conjunction be considered as for Example in the year 1672. the Ascendant met with the Quartile of the place of the Sun and Moon in the Figure of the Full-Moon 1603. and the Quartile of the Sun and Moon at the Full-Moon before the appearance of the Comet 1652. now the square of both fell in Virgo now the places under Virgo are Silesa and several other places belonging to Germany in this year did France enter Germany and has made great devastation upon the Rhyne and the Moon is the Gubernator of Holland and the Ascendant meeting with the Quartile of the Moon and did not Holland that year feel the smart of War also and in the year 1673. the Ascendant met with the Body of Mars and the M. C. to the Quartile of Mars the Quartile fell in 69. and the Body of Mars in Libra Alsatia and Austria are under Libra with a many more places and ever since these Places have selt the like Calamity for some years A many more Examples might be produced but by reason this Conjunction is at an end and a more remarkable one approaching I shall rest silent as to that and haste to that which is more Material to our purpose onely note thus much that Mars at the time of the sellebration of this Conjunction was in or near 9 Degrees of Leo the very Cusp of the 12th the Full-Moon preceeding the appearance of the New Star 1604 which Stars place fell near the place of the Conjunction 1663 and Mars also was Lord of the 9th in that Figure and was placed in the 3d. of the Full-Moon preceeding the Conjunction 1663. and in the New-Moon following Mars is placed in the Ascendant from hence should all the Actions of this last past 19 years be wholly of the Nature of Mars viz. Wars House-burning and Plagues and seeing he is Lord of the 9th of the Appearance of the New Star 1604 and 4th also this doth shew that all his Actions should be under a shew of Religion CHAP. IX Of the Comets that Appeared 1664 and 1665 and that of 1671 and 1680 and 1682. THat which did follow the Conjunction that was
1665. but I could never get an Ephemeris thereof the first Comet that was seen in the Year 1664 was by all that observed it to be a Saturnal Comet viz. of a Saturnal colour and the Comet 1665. was of the nature of Mars and the Comet 1671 1 was of the nature of Saturn and Mercury and the Comet 1680 was of the nature of Saturn and so is this last Comet that appeared 1682. I would have the young Artist take notice that this last Comet had its beginning about the middle of Cancer but was not begun to be observed till it was entred into Leo and it has been observed to enter Scorpio before its disappearance CHAP. X. Of the Probable effects that attend these Comets in General COmets hath always been known to be the Antecedents of Tragical Events and Astrologers have endeavoured to give us Rules to Judge the Quality thereof First By its motion in the Sign of the Zodiack whether it be Direct or Retrograde Secondly By its Magnitude and Colour and Thirdld by the part of Heaven unto which their Stream doth point I shall say but little of the Comets 1664 and 1665. Nor of the Comet 1671 2. Most if not all the evil that was presignified by them being all by-past for had we not a devouring Plague 1665. As also a War with Dutch and French and in the year 1666. was not London almost destroyed by Fire had we not also an Invasion by the Dutch in Kent and sustained great loss by them besides the great Calamity a great many more parts of Europe had about those times and after the appearance of the Comet 1671 2 had we not a great Scarcity in the North Parts of England as also a War with the Hollander Did not the French and English Invade Holland to the loss of a great many Men and Towns And has not that War been prejudicial to Germany ever since who is he that is not sensible of the many brave Towns that has been destroyed by that War to the undoing of a many thousand Families And what Man is he that dare presume to say that Comets are not the Premonisher to Men-kind of some more than ordinary Judgment to fall upon them for their sins But such hath been the secury of our Ages that unless the Judgment falls upon them so soon as these Signs of Heaven appear they cannot be made to beleive that those Signs signifie any thing at all but let those rest themselves as they beleive secure but let them remember that security dwell next door to destruction For should any one have said to any of those People dwelling upon the Ryne in Alsatio in the year 1670. that they should have so many of their Towns destroyed by a Forreign Invador they would hardly a believed you but did rest themselves as secure as we or any one could do but this by the by the Comets of whose effects we have had little or no many festation as yet is the Comet that appeared 1680 and the Comet that appeared the while we were a Writing hereof Now the Comet that appeared 1680 did first appear in the Morning on the 7th day of November in or near 6 deg of Libra but was not seen to any purpose till it appeared in Caprieorn and did continually appear until it had moved into Taurus and near the 20 degrees thereof it disappeared Now Authors tell us that the Motion of a Comet out of one Sign into another doth manifest also an Hostile Motion of an Enemy from one Region or Country into another Now by these Comets viz. 1680 and 1682 manifests the beginning of more Wars and the sorrowful effects subsequent unto those Wars viz. the flight of many from their proper habitations banishment of others death of great Men of the World poverty and want to others suddain terrour or astonishment to all sorrs of people unushal Tempests obscure Weather many Shipwracks great store of Snow in its Season great Floods and mighty Inundations and forasmuch as both the heads of these Comers was of a Saturn Colour from whence may be expected Plagnes and Famine to a great many places great Frost and Snow Now as to principal places that is like to be sufferers in these calamities are those places that both these Comets passed through and those places that are under those Signs that Rise all the time that both these Comets was visible now the Comet in 1680 passed through Libra Scorpio Sagitary Capricorn Aquaries and Pisces Aries Taurus now while the Comet passed through Scorpio and Sagitary it was so near the Sun that it could not be seen there for those places are the least concerned in the effects of this Comet And during the time of this Comets appearing every Evening Cancer and Leo did Ascend therefore those places under those Signs must expect to have a great share if not the greatest of the Calamity that this Comet doth signifie Under Libra are Austria Alsatia Livonia Sabandia Delphinat Dastrina Caspia Thebaida Sundgova Cities Lysbon Friburgh Spiers Frankford upon Menc Halum Suenorum Heilbran Frising Vienna in Austria Antwerp Under Scorpio Norway Bavaria Matagony Catalonia Cities Algiers Valentia in Spain Messana Vienna in Holland Gaunt in Flanders Frankford upon Odor Sagitary Spain Dalmatia Sclavonia Hungaria Moravia Misnia Cities Toledo Studgard Rotenburg Buda Gascovis Capricorn Macedonia Albania Bulgaria Greece Mascovia Lituania Saxony Hussia Cities Oxford Mechlin Berga Brandenburg Vilna Aquares Muscovia Sweadland Westphalia Mosel Piemont Bavaria part Cities Hamburgh Bremc Trent Salizburgh Ingolstaec Pisces Portugal Galitia Normandy Cities Alexandria Hispolis Rhemes Vorines Rutisponc Under Aries are England France Germany Selesia the Highest Polonia part Burgundy Denmark Cities Naples Capua Ferrara Utrecht Crackow Taurus Russia Sweadland North part Lorraign Franconia Ireland Cities Banonia Mantua Nants Leipsig Some of which Countries the War is already apparent what is remaining the next 20 years will make manifest Neither can it be expected that any of the places should undergo all the Calamities that this Comet is the premonisher of some places shall suffer by War others by Plagues others by Famine for the Comet will opperate variously upon various places When this Comet first appeared it appeared in the very places of Mars in the great Conjunction 1603. and Mars at the time of the Comets appearance was in Virgo in Quartile to the Sun in that Conjunction hence may War be expected Mars is Lord of the grand Seigniors Nativity and he afflicts Sagitary and Gemini and Pisces therefore those places will be the first that suffers by War and that by the great Turk the last Comet that appeared had its beginning about the middle of Cancer and passed through Cancer Leo Virgo Libra and ended in Scorpio and during of this Comets appearing in the Evening Aries did ascend therefore those places under that Sign shall be the greatest sharers in the Calamities that this Comet doth foreshew viz. Wars Plagues and scarcity of Grain
Ecclesiastical Affairs he portends great Superstition Idolatry Hypocrisie Monkery Jesuitism and all the several Orders of the Church of Rome and he doth signifie all manner of Debauchery and Baseness under Religious Pretences all manner of Sects Schisms Heresies Jewish Superstitions and Ceremonies Unto Mankind in general he threatens great and difficult labour poverty and want to many he afflicts the Body with tedious Infirmities and Diseases as the Consumption in the Reins and inward parts ill and noysome Vapours from whence proceed a Plague Hectick Fevers destruction of Rheum Quartan Agues and such like Diseases as are not easily remedied by the most Skilful Physician he afflicts the Mind with sorrow and fear of lamentable trouble as also Banishment and long imprisonments And as to natural things he portends great want and scarcity destruction of Cattel Corn and Fruits Famine and Mortality unwholesome Airs cold cloudy misty soggy Weather and long and tedious Frosts As to the Sea he signifies Shipwrack and great damage by ruine and decay of Sea banks from whence comes great Inundation of Waters great scarcity of Fish and Fowl that belong to the Waters Of Persons he signifies those of superiour Rank and Quality because he is the highest of all the Planets and moves the slowest and he doth seldom apply to any Planet therefore he signifies great Princes and stable Monarchs but in the general he signifies the laborious Country men Husbandmen Farmers Yeomen c. And in this Conjunction he signifies a deceitful sordid pernicious sort of People who will inhabit in the Court of Princes and Kings who will undermine and subvert the more wholesome purposes intended but I say all these sort of People shall suffer great loss of their Estates and shall obtain in the room thereof unexpected Slaughters Imprisonments Banishments and the like The last time we had Mars in Conjunction of Saturn in Leo was the 10th of August 1650 the December following we had a Comet appeared and I have good reason to predict the appearance of more Comets before 1683 be over let any one but look into the Annals for 1653 and 1654 and they will find what followed that Conjunction 1652 but seeing that the effects of this Conjunction of Saturn and Mars can't last but for two years and Mars being swift in motion at the time of the Conjunction even so shall all that is portended by this Conjunction be as swift in motion viz. Armies shall run like Lightning over a great many Countrys of Europe and shall bring more under subjection in 2 years than any Armies have done for this ten years last past and forasmuch as Christianity was first preacht by Christ our Saviour under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and now Mars being in Conjunction in this Sign with Saturn and having of the greater power will afflict Christianity with the Sword more than ordinary At the time of this famous Conjunction we find Mars newly entered into Virgo in Quartile to the great Conjunction 1603 and moveth but slowly from whence the evils signified by Mars to be of long continuance viz. War and Bloudshed Virgo is held to be sign of the Conjunction before the coming in of the Normans and Mars hath not been in Virgo in neither of the Conjunctions since 1603 therefore may more than ordinary events follow the more because Mars before the second Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter January 1682 3 will pass the Quartile of Saturn and Jupiter 1603 and also the Quartile of Saturn Jupiter and the New Star 1604 and the Quartile of Sol and Venus and the Opposition of the Moon 1603 and comes to the Conjunction of his own place 1603 and all before Saturn and Jupiter meets the second time let but any one consider the position of Mars the first time the two Superiours meet and they will find cause enough to dread the evils of Mars Now Mars being placed in the 9th from the Conjunction 1603 and meeting with the Quartile of Mercury Lord thereof first all those places that are under the gubernation of Mercury will feel the smart of the influence of Mars now because Mercury is posited in Sagitarius in the great Conjunction and Mars casting his Square there out of the 9th of that Conjunction those places shall feel the heavy effect of Mars viz. Wars now the places under Sagitarius are Spain Dalmatia Sclavonia Hungary Moravia with abundance of more Countrys and Cities that are under the position of Sagitarius for their Ascendant these places must expect to have great Calamity some of them shall suffer by Invasion others by Plague others by Famine and a great destruction of Mankind in general Mereury generally signifies all manner of Arts and Sciences as also Merchants these sorts of Men must expect to be great sufferers by the power of Mars viz. great Storms from whence comes great Shipwracks Mercury and Gemini govern Flanders part of England and Lumbardy Brabant the Dukedom of Wertenburgh London Corduha in Spain Bruges in Flanders Mentz and a many more places that are not yet attributed to Gemini in these places may expect to have Commotions for Mars is the stirrer up of Wars damnable Seditions Tumults Insurrections the frowns and indignation of Princes towards their Subjects caused by Mars he being Lord of the 11th and 12th of the great Conjunction 1603 and is placed near the Cusp of the 10th of that Conjunction he doth by the Positions represent Noblemen that should be in great favour of Princes but are great enemies of the People in general if we place Gemini upon the Cusp of the Ascendant we shall find the Tory Mars to be placed in fifth in Quartile to the Sign Ascending he being Lord of the 12th and in his last Conjunction with Jupiter in Leo he opposed the 10th what can we expect from hence but that Mars should act like a Tory as he is among the Stars setting all together by the Ears and that now publickly in those places under Gemini and he will be as well rewarded for his pains for Mars is placed in the Eighth the House of Death of the Full Moon preceding the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 if we place Aries upon the Ascendant we shall find both the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars and Jupiter and Mars and Jupiter fall all of them in the 6th in Quartile to the intercepted Sign Taurus in the Ascendant and the Sun Lord of the 6th having lately suffered an Eclipse in the 6th all these will cause both the great and small Cattle to suffer by Diseases to the detriment of the Country Farmer that lives in those Countrys subject to the Sign Aries the more because Mars is in Quartile to the second if we consider the place where Mars casteth his Opposition we shall find it to be in Pisces and Pisces is assigned by Astrologers to govern Portugal Galitia Normandy with the Citys of Rhems Worms and Ratisbon and many more places this
in 23 Degrees of Leo at which time Saturn and Jupiter are in the Ascendant this foreshews the loss of the great Cattle viz. Horses and Cows because the Moon is Lady of the 12th the Vulger People shall have great losses as to their movables for which they shall grow discontended and shall be desirous of changing of their Laws and Governours in hopes thereby to better themselves there will be also a second Eclips of the Moon on the 28th day of July at eight in the morning at which time the Sun Saturn and Jupiter and Mercury will all of them be in the 11th and Mercury hasts to the Quartile of Mars the Eclips falls in the 5th and doth declare the ill success of Embassadours the abortion of Women with Child it also declares some strange Catastrophe or change to happen in those places under Aquares Leo Scorpio and Taurus The many Oppositions of that Saturn and Jupiter meets withal a little before their second Conjunction January Doth deolare the unsetled condition of the vulger People and that they fear some great Calamity falling upon them whether a Plague or otherwise let time declare about the beginning of May Saturn and Jupiter makes their last Conjunction in Leo a little before which the Sun meets with the Quartile of both Saturn and Jupiter in or about 14 degrees of Taurus this will afflict a very great Person of Europe that has Leo Ascending it will fling him into a great many troubles it threatens the Death of some of his Children loss of Honour and Esteem in the World London Repent and be humble for God's angry Sword is almost drawn against thee if thou escape from a Plague in the year 1683. then will England be happy the many directions that fall this year bring me to mind what Mr. Lilly writ the year 1656. in Verse In the Year of Eighty Three Great changes there shall be In England but long are that Poor Merline Sleeps In his Grave secure poor England weeps Left he no Heir Oh! unhappy Man That this obscured Riddle can Unfold No. In this year 1683. the Comet that appeared in 1680. comes to the Quartile of the Moon in Taurus and the Quartile of Mercury 1604. the Comet having passed through Capricorn and now is entred Aquares The places subject to this Comets influence is Russia they shall be much afflicted with the Sword and Fire Sweadland will go nigh to be at War with their Neighbours and shall suffer much by it Lorraign Holvetia Franconia and a many more Countries in Germany shall suffer by War and Famine their People shall many of them dye by the Sword now shall the Austerian Family be much afflicted for the Princes of Germany will be unfaithful to him and by their discention shall cause a Martial Prince to take advantage against him to the disadvantage of the Empire and the Death of many of the Inhabitants if we confider Marce's long Trancit through the Sign we may predict that those Lands under Aries will be great sufferers that is France Germany in general Polonia Burgundy Denmark and England in France we may expect to hear of the destruction of the Natives by treachery if I mistake not my Judgment there will go nigh to be another Massacre if not timely prevented the poor People shall suffer for a time but not much longer for the common People shall joyn with some of his Nobles and shall cause a Rebellion in the very Bowels of France before which be over that Monarch shall repent his being ruled by the Church of Rome in the persecuting of his Protestant Subjects Flanders and Brabant and the Dukedom of Luxenburgh shall find great trouble with Souldiers and the People of those places suffer very much they shall be forced to fly from their Habitations they shall have their Houses burned by an insulting Enemy Italy the Comet comes now in Opposition to this Ascendant thou may rest yet a little while in peace but hardly tell the year 1683 be over this Country must expect to have but lean Crops of Corn a great Plague will rage in the City of Rome and a Fire of War will go nigh to break out that will not be quench't for some years Austrea Alsatia Spain Dalmatia Hungary all of them will go nigh to suffer this year by barrenness of the Earth and searcity of Food sit for the nourishment of Man-kind the Hungarians are at the writing hereof in Arms against the Emperour and have joyned with the Turks they shall this year prosper in their War with the Emperour they shall gain all Hungary to themselves before 1683 be over In the Figure of the Full-Moon preceeding of this Conjunction the Ascendant meets with the Quartile of the Sun and Moon in Capricorn the Sun is Lord of the 8th House this doth denote a mortality to those that live in those places under Capricorn that is Macedonia Albania Greece Muscovia Cities Oxford Gant in Flanders Brandenburgh the more because the Comet of 1680 passed through Capricorn and there met with the Opposition of Saturn Lord of the Ascendant We likewise have the Mid-heaven by direction of the Conjunction 1682. to the Quartile of Saturn and Jupiter and Quartile of Mars 1682. and to the Conjunction 1683. these are worth our noting for if the Mid-heaven represent Kings and Princes and all Magistrates that Govern Towns and Cities then all of these shall find great trouble and vexation in their Government some of them will be called to an account by their superiors and go nigh to come to an untimely end other viz. Kings shall find their Subjects ready to rebel against them in short all of them shall find great distempers in their Government the vulger People will be inraged against them for some thing that they have acted against the Commons good SECT II. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1684. IN this Year Mars Lord of the 10th of the Full Moon following the great Conjunction 1603 is come by direction to the place of the Sun and Venus and to the Opposition of the Moon the Sun is in Sagitarius and so is Venus and the Opposition falls there also this is like to be a Year of much Action as well as the last Mars as he is Lord of the 10th Represents Generals of Armies Kings Princes Colonels Serjant-Majors Captains and Governors of Towns and Forts and Soldiers in general all these sort of Men shall find great opposition by the Commonalty in general there Actions will grow odious to the sight of all Men and will make them endeavor to mend themselves by a means contrary to the former ways the Sun discovers all the Villanies that has been acted for some Years past many of them are brought to publick Justice that hath been the Actors now the people begin to be unanimous in all their proceeding finding their former Error against all those that hath been the Authors of the mischief that which was Treason in the
beginning which will continue now until almost all Italy is lost which will be in 3 or 4 years after this yet is poor Oxford afflicted that City will find what it is to have a Comet appear in their Sign but be thou patient when thou hast been tryed thou wilt appear like burnished Gold it is in vain to contend with so Potent an Enemy as thou hast to deal with this being all the hath to boast of that her sufferings are not alone There is a Family in Europe that had its rise to greatness about the Year 1344 that Family now will find a downfal for ever the Name of Percys had their Original about the year 1067 under a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Virgo and the Conjunction in Pisces 1642 3 brought that Name and Family to nothing SECT 16. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1698. IN this year we have no Directions of the great Conjunction only we have the Mid-heaven of the appearance of the New Star 1604 to this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 we have also a famous Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in 18 degrees of Aquarius in Opposition to the Conjunction 1682 and 1683. There is also a famous Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in 22 degree of Scorpio August 29 we have also two Eclypses of the Sun the one in Aries England's Sign the other Libra The first falls March the 31st at 7 of the Clock at Night in 21 degrees of Aries not visible The second will be September the 24th at 4 of the Clock in the morning and therefore not visible it falls in 11 degrees of Libra there is all the second Quadrate of Saturn and Jupiter this year Saturn is in 19.28 of Aquarius and Jupiter in 19.28 in Scorpio This is like to be a year of much action for now Saturn transites the Conjunction 1682 by an Opposition and Jupiter by a Quadrate great shall be the effect of this Quadrate it threatens Italy with no less than Confusion and a total subversion of the triple Crown although it may not be fully compleated this year yet this year sets a great say to it the Sea shall swell with great Navies of Ships and there shall be great Sea Fights England thou shalt have a hand in it thou shalt be victorious Now France's Power is brought low the late War hath destroyed thousands of his Subjects few or none of them but hath suffered to purpose through the pride of an insulting King and the envy of the Roman Clergy the vallant Tartar receiv'd a great Thunder stroak but if you will look for the Bolt you must go to Ireland The Eclypse of the Sun in Aries destroys the Sheep and Hogs it denotes the Death of a Woman of great note and also lamentable woe to most men and in Libra denotes the Death of Kings and Nobles it stirs up Sedition and Trouble about Customs and Priviledges it is the Fore-runner of a Famine and those places under Aries and Libra are most concern'd SECT 17. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1699. THis year we have the great Conjunction 1603 comes by direction to the Opposition of Mercury and the Sun to the Opposition of Mars and Venus to the Opposition of Mars and the Moon to the body of Mars also and we have the New Star 1604 comes by direction to the Quartile both of the Sun and Venus besides the effects of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Mars last year and the Opposition of Saturn and Mars this year Besides we have no less than 4 Eclipses this Year The first will be an Eclypse of the Moon on March the 5th day at 8 of the Clock at Night in 26 degrees of Scorpio visible The second will be of the Sun on March the 21st day about 8 of the Clock in the morning in 11 degrees of Aries The third will be an Eclypse of the Moon on August the 30th near Noon in 17 degrees of Pisces The last will be an Eclypse of the Sun on the 13th day of September about 11 of the Clock in the Morning in 1 degree of Libra and much about the time of this Eclypse there happens the Opposition of Saturn and Mars which will aggravate the effects thereof Great will be the Action of this Year those Villanies that have for many years been kept as a Secret will now be made known to every one All Nations will be troubled with Rumors of Wars every Religion preparing Armies Traffick prohibited both by Land and Sea the Main Sea shall hugely swell with mighty Tempests so that the Sea banks in many places shall overflow their accustomed bounds Inundations universally every where now Holland look to thy self terrible Sea Fights will be this Year occasioning the water to look more red than the Red Sea the water turned to Blood War and Blood shed over all the Earth one Nation shall send so many Men to the Wars that it for a time shall seem to be desolate of Men in the Eastern part of the World a whole Army shall be destroyed by Fire from Heaven with their Wealth and Treasure There shall also be a great drought and want of Water and the Earth shall be so parched that there will be no food for Cartle Great Plagues and War shall cover the whole face of the Earth and so destroy Mankind that there will not be sufficient Labourers to get in Harvest and the Vermin shall so destroy the Fruit on Trees that all be barren a general Famine and Dearth of Corn will overspred most Nations of Europe so that Thousands shall starve for want of Bread yet at the last we have a Sextile of Saturn and Jupiter each of them being in their own House Now shall one appear suddenly a great Conquerour the World filled with the fame of this Man who shall all of a sudden give Peace to all Europe Oh! Happy time SECT 18. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1700. IN this year we have the Ascendant of the great Conjunction 1603 by direction to the body of the Moon and Opposition of the Sun and Venus There is also a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Pisces December 29th day we have also two Eclipses of the Moon The first will be on February the 26th day about 6 of the Clock in the Morning in 15 degres of Virgo visible The second will be on August the 18th about two of the Clock in the Afternoon in 6 degrees of Pisces This year will produce no great matter only every Nation is endeavouring to settling it self now is Rome destroyed and the downfal of the Seat of Peter the Conversion of Turks and Jews soon follows Religion truly preach'd universally over all the World a general Peace no more Treason or Rebellion for a great many years every Man now possesses his own Vineyard our youths grow up to Mens Estates old Men live their full years England thou shalt rejoyce as well as other Nations in the many blessings God affords you annually FINIS ADVERTISEMENTS ARts and Sciences Mathematically professed and taught by the Author John Holwell Philomat at his House on the east side of Spittle Fields over against Dorcet street next door to a Glaziers viz. Arithmetick Geometry Gaging Surveying of Land Trigonometry Navigation Astronomy Dyalling Geography Fortification and Gunnery and Astrology in all its parts He also Measureth Building and Surveyeth Land for any one having the most Experience in Serveying of any Man in England He hath also ready for the Press and will shortly be made publick a small piece of Dialling called Clavis Horologie wherein shall be shewn how to make all manner of Regular Dyals and how to reduce all Irregular Dyals to Regular Forms by means of a new Latitude and new Declination And also a Table of Altitude of the Sun for every hour of the day in the beginning of each Sign from one degree of Latitude to ninety and their Application for placing of the Furniture on all manner of Dyals however situated with the manner of making the Dyals that was in the Kings Privy-Garden with a many Varieties that were never before made publick A Sure Guide to the Practical Surveyor in two Parts The first shewing how to Plot all manner of Grounds whether small Inclosures Champain-Ground Wood-Lands Mountains and Dales by the Semicircle Plain Table and Chain As also how to find the Area or Content thereof with the manner of Protracting Reducing and Dividing the same and also how to Inclose a Mannor lying in a common Field with the drawing of a perfect Draught or Map thereof and how to deck and beautifie the same And likewise how to convey Water from any Spring-Head to any appointed place The second shewing how to take the Ground-Plot of any City or Corporation As also the Mensuration of Roads High-way and Rivers with the manner of making a Map of any County or Kingdom The like never before extant By John Holwell Philomath