Winter from before the Feast of All Saints till after Twelftide with great and deep Snows and sometimes Rains a Late Spring the Wind continuing N. and E. till after the Ascension with sharp Frost and Snows June 7. Hail and Rain at Tocester in Northamptonshire whence Flouds whereby 6 Houses were born down c. many Sheep drown'd lying in the High Hedges where the Water-Flouds left them the Hail square and six Inches about About Lammas Dearth at London A o 1574. July 9. At the Isle of Thanet A Whale shot himself on Shore ho. 6 p. Length 22 yards Any Man might have crept into his Mouth Sept. 4. Storm of Rain c. Nov. 6. Two great Tides in the Thames the First by Course the other overflowed the Marshes Nov. 14. About midnight following strange Impressions of Fire and Smoak out of a black Cloud in the North noct seq that in all parts it seemed to burn with marvelous rage the Flames did double and roll one on another as in a Furnace the Flames rose from the Horizon round about and met over head Nov. 18. Stormy and Tempestuous out of the South specially after midnight till next morning I have not known the like from any Quarter says our Annalist A o 1575. Feb. 14. Cold and Hard Frost after a Floud which was not great Great numbers of Flies and Beetles came down the River of Avon at Tewksbury a Foot thick above the Water Feb. 26. Between ho. 4. 6 p. m. Great Earthquake in York Worster Gloucester Bristol Hereford July 30. Great Tempest of Lightning and Thunder wherewith in divers places Men and Beasts were stricken Dead Great Hail also 6 or 7 Inches about Sept. 26. In the City of London A Woman deliver'd of four Female Children who followed all in Health and good liking their Deceased Mother who died a Month after which whether I had reason to transcribe will be seen toward the Close of our Papers I must observe that they were conceived if not born under the Aspect A o 1576. March 5. In the Night a great Flaw of Wind from the N. W. ruin'd a Tilt-Boat with 31 Persons one Boy excepted July 4 5 6. The Fatal Sessions at Oxford where so many Men were destroy'd by a Damp. We have referr'd it to ♄ ☿ and we abide by it as a parcel-Cause but we are willing to reduce it also among other notable Causes to our ☠for 't is certain 't is a Borderer ♄ ♂ are within Bounds and ♂ opposing ♃ delivers up ♄ also linked with it 'T is no little matter that kills 500 Persons by a Breath A o 1582. May 13. Comet hora 10 p. descending in the N W. the Beard streaming S W. Aug. 12. Lightning Thunder Whirlwind with hail fashioned like Spur rowls two or three Inches about in Norfolk beat the Corn flat to the Ground rent up many Trees and shiver'd them into pieces or writh'd them like Wit hs the Top of Henden Church was lifted up 5 Webs of Lead ruffled up together like so much Linen Cloth 1583. Jan. 13. Blackmore in Dorsetshire a piece of Ground of 3 Acres removed from its place 600 Foot Octob. 10. Caster in Norfolk a Fish by Force of the Easterly Wind driven ashore whose Tayl was 14 Foot in Breadth Summary of the Occurrents happened at or about the last ☌ ♄ ♃ 1682. and seqq from our own Collections § 10. 1611. April 1. Romae Septentrionem versus Cometa major Lucidiorque nupero qui Neapoli visus est Die 22. Ex inferiore tractu Albis Ruricolae queruntur ex anni siccitate grandem scarabeorum invalescere numerum qui delicatum arborum florem abradit Dioecesis Bremensis tristius conqueritur de inusitato Murium numero qui segetem radicitus abradunt Rela◠Colon. Num. 37. May 3. 13. Lately an Earthquake in Zealand and Meteor of an extraordinary bigness for 3 Nights in Amsterdam Horizon Die 5. This Night following a great and general Bliting Wind the Walnut-Trees felt it Middlesex Die 20. Hurricane lately at Barbado's Die 22. St. Johnston's Hail Rain Thunder and Lightning unusual circa 5 p. T. M. for a quarter of an Hour Benskins Intelligence Die 27. Drought not within memory Engl. Die 30. Near Lancaster Lightning and Hail as big as Walnuts for two Hours damaging the Corn. June 18. About a week ago Rained Wheat in Dean Forest Die 13. Oxford lately happened Lightning c. which fired a House Die 16. Dolphins sporting in the Mouth of Severn 17. Ferrara Thunder Hail Earthquake 20. Lime A Vessel put in which felt a Tempest of Thunder Rain and Lightning never the like 20. Lately at Lyons in France terrible Earthquake 29. Dorchester within two Miles a Globe of Fire falling among a Tuft of Trees burnt two or three to Ashes July 3. Sheerness Whale lately seen in the Mouth of the Thames 5. West-Chester a Man stroke Dead with Lightning 6. Chichester about 3 m. Trumpets sounding a Charge c. Thunder c. 16. Hamburg Plague broke out at Magdeburg 23. Friburg Thunders Armies Squadrons Battalions c. 25. Thunder bolt clove a Woman in 4 parts a Man had no hurt 26. Portugal Row near Hide Park Thunder 8 m. shook the House so till 11 m. T. M. in Lorrain 6 Stately Houses destroyed St. Colombs Church suffered by Lightn Aug. 9. Francofurti ad Viadrum Locustarum pestis 11. Lues epidemica Dresdae in reliqua Misniâ 16. Jersey Comet SW ante 5 m. with a Train of 3 yards 27. Whale in Flushing taken 30 Foot long Nevis in India occid Hurricane Two Bristol Ships lost 4 or 5 at Antigoa Sept. 6. Meteors seen in Moor Fields with a Stream 6 Inches broad 13. Vesuvius burns for four days T. M. in Naples two Shocks Gazet. Numb 96. 14. Lues Epidemica in Calabria 16. Pestilence continues at Hamburg 20. Great Storms of Hail then Swarms of Flies for 3 Hours pass'd Eastward with the Wind. Octob. 2. Hurricane at Jamaica 6. Comet lately appeared in ♒ 13. swift in motion 10. At Falmouth for some Days Very Stormy Weather so at Harwich 16. Plague in many parts of Spain seems not yet to be decreased 23. Star last n. with a large Train but the Clouds hindred 29. Dreadful Storm at Dover Rode 30. Portland Dismal accounts from several places of this Stormy Weather Nov. 2. Weymouth such a Floud from the continued Rains that the Ways are hardly passable 4. Near Lincoln Lucid Circle in the Air like a Rainbow reversed 6. Deal a Zeland Vessel cast away in Tempest 10. Westchester Monstrous Fish lately taken like a Crocodile Domest Intellig. 13. Plague not quite ceased at Magdeburg 29. Sickness lately broke out in Barbary 30. Violent Storms since day 26. at Hague ruin'd part of the Fortification at Narden Dec. 10. Hague Strong S W. Wind broke up the Banks and laid 2100 Acres under Water 8. Falmouth many Shipwracks Decemb. 15. Summer Weather and much Thunder p. m. 21. Gopenhagen Waters
Observers of the. ☽ do aver not only Mountains but Waters also placed there which cover all the darkish parts of the Lunar Globe and why may not God fill the Rest of the Celestial Bodies with a suitable Spirit The different Colours both of Planets and Fixed Stars do more than probably argue a difference of Spirit lodged in them 'T is not impossible but some of the Heavenly Bodies may partake of the Cold Spirit in common with the Earth as the Subterranean specus partakes of the Warm Spirit the Fires that rage there in common with the Heavens § 63. What Mines of Sulphur may be lodged in ♂ what Treasure of Nitre or Camphire or Quick-silver may be in ♀ or ♃ the Expiration of Camphire even flaming cools a Room Who can refell this with any better Argument than a Smile What know we their Internal Constitution Where were we in the day of their Creation that we should pronounce of their Natures but by their Effects If thus it should be how facile how explicate is the Solution of this great Question Celestial Bodies though Lucid though Fiery may have some of them a cold Emanation and at their opportunity they may cause a Winterly Weather not only by their chill Emanation from above but by the consequent Attraction of the Cold here below as all Homogeneous Bodies naturally observe one another § 64. Verily we seem to flutter neer some Truth when the Scripture it self seems to teach us so monstrous things as Waters above the Heavens placed there wot you what but for the tempering of Celestial Heat or some worse because unknown reason Ger Voss de Idololatr II. 39. and our own Learned Gregory beside the Jew and Ancient Christian what may there not be contain'd in the Celestial Bodies Seas or Mines if there may be Elementary Bodies in the utmost Circumference of the Heaven Our narrow Imaginations cramp the Planets as far as the Distance diminishes them to sight not daring to look into the vast Continent of those unknown Orbs which it may be are as little Homogeneous as the Globe of the Earth which seems a Globe of Dust and similar Mold to those that have not descended into the heart of it to those that have not viewed the Fossiles the Minerals Metals concrete Juices Subterranean Fires c. 'T is clear that the Planets are not made only for Reflexion but also for Modification of Light and Heat And Light if there be any Connate Spirit in the Lucid Body is apt to convey the Radiation as the painted Glass transmutes its Colour along with the Beam that shoots through it the variety of the Colour we must say again doth argue a difference of Spirit and Confistence as in the Yolk and White of an Egg is manifest § 65. But ♃ may be cold as the ☽ is moist no Waters no Lakes no Seas supposed by extrinsecal Denomination We say 2 ly then who knows but that Light and Cold may have kindness one for the other T is a great Speculation that is before us When I was arrived in Philosophy so far as to hearken to the discourse of the Spirits of Natural Bodies to which by Assent and Experience Universal all Activity belongs and finding that what they call Spirits were for the most nothing but igneous parts of the Compound I justly cry'd up Avicen the Physician who owns the Elements Actual Existence in the Composition as the Existence of Fire among the rest but when I was advertised from so great Authority as my L d Verulam who somewhere tells us that amongst Natural Bodies there is found a Cold Spirit I confess I was at some Loss as to the stating the Question Affirmative every Spirit being the Actuous part of the Body Attending farther therefore to what was proposed concerning Heterogeneous Mixtures found in the same Body by reason of which the same Vegetable or Mineral may be qualified sundry wayes as in Salt Pepper Opium c. consisting of a Hot and also Crude Spirit subtilty weaved together I began to admit of a cold Spirit or rather having admitted it to guess the Reason or its Activity as borrowed from the vicinage of the warmer Corpuscles as if a Spirit were nothing else but the Igneous Particle incrusted in the Body as if the Spirit were Active upon one account and seemed Cold upon the other For Cold it self at least in comparison of Heat is but a dull and slow Quality that it may be a great question whether setting aside its Figure and Gravity it hath any pure Activity of Influx or Emanation or no for the Pressure it makes by reason of its Gravity or Figure is not Activity of Emanation such as is found in Fire This it owes to Warmth perhaps So that if God should annihilate the Celestial Warmth there would be no Elevation or Emanation of a Cold Spirit all would sink and lye flat upon the Surface of its Cold Earth as in a most unlively Chaos Hence it may be before God was pleased to make the Light or Heat Celestial the Spirit of God is expresly said to move on the Face of the Waters to keep them in their serviceable and therefore Natural Fluidity which otherwise would be sullen and put on their Icie unpliant and unserviceable Rigor For the Subterranean Fires too much made of by some cannot so much as considerably supply the want of the Celestial since 't is notorious that on the top of Aetna itself there lies all the year a continual Snow § 66. The Heat then of Celestial Bodies may be such a friend to the Activity of the Cold Spirit as to raise it from its Centre and keep it up in suspense as under the Poles it doth toward the generation of Wind Snow Mists Clouds c. what the Northern Voyages sufficiently testifie testifie I mean concerning the Heat that is many times felt there amidst the very Mountains of Ice In this case Cold first acts by Corporeal Contact and Gravitation of Those Bodies that wade in the Atmosphere That 's one way § 67. But again the same Agent that raises that Exhalation may if it be incouraged hurry and drive the Cold Atome and impart a forced Activity to it as in the generation of Hail may be seen and in all cold Winds and especially on those signal times when Frost and Ice is found on the ground the Sky having been Cloudy by the piercing of a sharp Wind busling all the Night before That 's a second § 68 But sure Cold appears not always under a forced sometimes with a proper and Natural Activity being quick and agile penetrative and pungent like the Fiery Atome entring the Body and following the Leading Atome with a vehement Nisus into the same not by Gravitation only because then there would be but little Frost within doors where there is little Gravitation yea all Congelation would begin at the top only when as in Vessels of Wood and Metal the side and bottom of
which it seems also by the same unanimous Voice to belong to this Body Ptolemy makes it out by a fetch of his own but be that attempt of his passable or not the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is true 3ly I have been curious to observe the Aspects of ♄ and ♃ each with the ☽ and I find Frosty Morns and other Tokens of Cold even as often under the Later as under the Former I tryed also in Keplers Nine Years Diary and I found Nothing but Agreement It will be said and so it will prove in the Aspects of ♂ with the ☽ I answer Nay Let any make Experience who hath Observations by him or for Want of them in Keplers Diary § 13. We want some Authority to back us now there being Few or none who tell us that he hath a Chill Influence Yet we are not altogether Destitute of that Experienced Eichstad's Suffrage who though he tell us pag. 38. ♃ and ♂ are hot yet he tells us pag. 40. that some Transits of ♃ cause an East Wind and a Cold Air at least by Night and a bright Air by Day But more home a little before that even the Aspect of ♃ and ♂ sometimes being Mediocre Gelu because of the North-Wind that accompanies it So much doth Ptolemy's Fetch stand him in stead § 14. What have we to say but this leaving the Mystery of the Satellites if they have Influence considerable as I believe they have none no more than a new single Star in Cygnus suppose hath but that Jove singly considered with or without those Attendants though he be Warmer than ♄ doth not abandon his Interests in frigid Impressions since Warmth it self when dull'd and rebated by the Affluence of the contrary is not wholly bound up but may and doth exert its Power according to its Stint in exciting the chill Exhalation Thus in the Freezing Experiment the mixture of Salt with the Cold Water helps to Congelation the Salt invigorating the Cold of the Water and so conglaciating the Snow To which I refer the other Newer Experiment wherein an Empty Bottle stopt close and sunk a while in the Depth of the Sea-Brine returns again either with a Crack or Flaw or with the Cork forced into the Neck of the Bottle So great is the Condensation of the Air as I reckon from the Coldness of the Water invigorated and actuated by the salt Ambient Spirit § 15. How to unriddle this better I know not for I am not fond of a Heterogeneous Principle lodg'd in the Planet though 't is suitable enough to the Gopernican Subtilty to make a Luminous Planet Fraught with store of Heterogeneous Emanations Cold and Moist Nitrous Sulphurous yea and these reaching not 2 or 3 Miles but 2. or 3000 Miles if the proportions assigned to the rarefaction of late take place which maketh Air to exceed Water in rarity 1000 times according to which a misle of Vapour or Fume may be extenuated into some hundreds at least Yet least I should be forced to make use of the same Hypothesis in the Fixed Stars who emit all the way a Warm Emanation as certain as they do Lucid One For a Frigid Efflux I will not undertake only say as you hear that Light or Heat from such a Body so distanced so circumstantiated may have some Interest in the Cold Atome Cold being not caused as Astrologers define from the meer absence of Aspects but often from the presence of such determinate Aspects of ♄ and ♃ or as we may after learn from the Planetary Bodies Position in relation to the Fixed whether they be mutually among themselves Aspected or not I said at the beginning that Light was the Spirit of the World and the Learned Isaac Vossius I see since is much of that Mind § 16. The Truth is the Antients as I have reason to believe drew the Character of Jupiter from their Observation of the Conjunction only and therein I confess most to an end he is found Warm and Moist and the reason may be because in Conjunction with the Sun he becomes Diurnal and so partakes of the Additional Steams of those Celestials which always attend the Sun As a Man is always warmer in a Croud Six Five Planets may be Four must be above the Horizon at Noon when Conjunction with Jove § 17. Nor is this all for Joves Motion in Conjunction with the Sun is more deliberate and slow-paced than in Opposition c. thereupon he may seem to imbibe a greater share of the Solar Warmth then by a further distance § 18. To this Effect some years ago I have disputed but what say Second Thoughts since They say that the First besure is the Certainty of Prognosis wavers not for ♄ is cool and ♃ many times in a Cold Fit and the return of that Fit comes under Cognisance But then I find by what follows that I may be obliged to retract any Superiosity in this kind given to Jove as if he was cooler than ♄ for albeit Jove doth play his part as often for Frost even as ♄ perhaps yet Jove is a much warmer Star and Cold only by accident which is far a more facile and smooth way of Procedure Here we will first consider from the Experience of the Diary the Warmth and settle that and then for the Cold afterward The Diary in this place seeing a Controversie is to be decided thereby hopes to be more welcome then ordinary ♃ ☉ Diary The Hyemal Part. A o 1661. Oct. 7. ♎ 24. Sept. 26. H. wd mist m. sometimes showrs S W. 27. Windy a. m. and clear stormy wd and frequent showrs cold d. 28. H. wd s showrs m. cold cold and windy die tot S W. 29. Sad rain a 3 m. ad 9 m. clear p. m. cold n. W. 30. Fr. cold s drops showr o. fog n. S. Oct. 1. Showr 6 m. cold L. showr vesp S. W. 2. H. wind cold showr 2 p. Lightning much and Th. 8 p. ad 10 p. then violent Hail Harm done by Lightn E. N. 3. Fog warm cloudy even E. 4. Warm close mist m. ad 11 m. Ely 5. Clear m. p. and warm fog fall n. E. 6. Suspic some wd cool m. warm N E. 7. Clear m. p. fair warm misty vesp N E. 8. Misty a. m. warm cloudy E. 9. Cloudy m. p. dry s wetting 11 p. 10. Fog cloudy warm colder p. m. S W. 1673. Oct. 11. ♎ 28. 2. H. Frosty lowring m. p. Aches S W. 3. Fr. m. windy and wetting 1 p. S W. Armies in the Air at Posen in Poland seen by 1000 of Spectators 4. Frost m. lowring 4 p. cold and Winterly-misty Great T. m. in S. Domingo Gazet. 127. 5. Frosty ice m. Wly frosty day 6. Wind and rain a. l. warm dropping 2 p. S W. Aches 7. Frost ice at Putney showr 3 p. 9 p. 8. s frost fair mist winterly Air. N. 9. Frost close foggy a. m. wetting 10 m. p. m. Sly 10. Wetting o. some Rain a. L. S.
an Earthy Exhalation The Air considered All Meteors reducible to Heat and Cold as their Efficient the Nicety of their Degrees An account of the Natural Prognosticks of Weather they all prove that Heat is the cause of Rain and the Heavens Dominion over Moisture Concerning Hail Snow Mist Lightning Comet Blasting No phaenomena casual Wind its cause is not rarefaction or condensation but celestial Impulse The Body of the Heaven as distinguished from the Stars signifies nothing § 1. MEteors Real whether Aerial or Subterrranean as to their Cause Material consist of Water Earth Simple or Compound Fire and their Expirations these in the depth of the Earth those in the heights of the Air as far as the reach of the Atmosphere § 2. For that the Earth also is resolved into Exhalation is evinced from the Thunderbolt yea from the Nitrous and Sulphureous Ingredients into the wild-fires Celestial Lightnings Add the forementioned Rains of Stones Ashes Corn c. nay every Fog is so fuliginous as to bear witness a Fog which sometimes casts it self into Threds or Ropes and by the warmth of the Sun furls up into Gossamere § 3. The Body of the Air seems not to be the Resolution of Terrestrial or Watry Exhalations but is rather distinguished from Both as their Subject or medium even as the Water is distinguishable from its Impurities or from the saline Spirit that inhabits the Ocean § 4. For the whole Expansion Aerial and Aethereal is one homogeneous Body differing only in Warmth or Cold Purity or Impurity according as it is nearer or remoter from the Earth and Water § 5. Of it self as it seems neither hot nor moist nor cold c. but capable of all § 6. So distinguished is the Air from the Water that Neither can be converted into the Other the four Elements vulgarly called being as I deem Incorruptible in as much as although God the Creator was pleased as Moses seems to say to make the Air out of Water yet it may be true notwithstanding that no Natural Agent can turn it back into the same § 7. Meteors Real as to their Efficient Cause are naturally reducible to Heat or Cold and their Activities Frost Snow Hail to the later Lightning Rain Clouds to the former § 8. Winds also have no other Aeolus § 9. Here it is to be remembred that degrees of Heat and Cold are of a minute and nice disquisition our grosser Sensories being not always competent Judges for we see Rivers in depth of hardest Winters reserve some Heat where Fish subsist and scalding Liquors admit some degree of Cold as when their Aestuation is calmed by a little cold Infusion and yet remain scalding still § 10. As nice also may be the consideration of Dryth and Moisture for as the Coals of dry Fewel taken from the Furnace burn quick and bright so from moist Fewel they glow obscurely as if they were not as yet rid of their pristine though adventitious Moisture § 11. Warmth is the instrumental Productive of Cloud and Rain This is witnessed by the Southern Winds which bring Both by Thaws in Winter which are always cloudy seldom dry by the ingrateful Savors most hot against moist Seasons beside the convincing testimony of the Thermoscope § 12. The Survey of the usual Prognosticks of Rain from Fire Water Animates Inanimates do all argue the same Original of Rain viz. Heat Celestial and its Consequent Moisture with the secret Impressions of Both on the Creature § 13. In Animals the usual Noises observed against weather as in the Raven the Crow Cock Goose Owl Peacock the Pimlico in the Hist of Virginia a Bird so called from her note too sure a Prophet saith Captain Smith of Wind and Weather Swine Frog c. their crowing screaming croaking c. argue not any miraculous Divination in the Creature but only protest the sensible disquiet and alterations that are felt by them at such times Haud equidem credo quia sit Divinitùs illis Ingenium aut rerum fato Prudentia major Verùm ubi Tempestas c. Vertuntur speciès animorum the Poet himself was so cunning Georgic 1. § 14. Further arguments of such Alterations are the Water-fowls leaving the Element flocking together or betaking themselves farther into the Country the poor Earth-worm creeping from his bed the flying or springing of the Loligo the Cuttle-fish they speak of the playing of the Dolphins in the waters all not brooking their own Element That and their Bodies being alike disturbed § 15. To say little of their Stomachs or Appetites extraordinary Birds coming late from Feed yea the contemptible Fleas or Flies more notably stinging i. e. biting or sucking are hence reckon'd for Presages § 16. The forced motions and postures of Creatures argue the same as when Cattel are seen skipping odly up and down indecorâ lasciviâ as Pliny calls it as if twitch'd or pricked by some shooting or ach in their Limbs as vexed by some pain tearing their Litter § 17. Which pains some Creatures endeavour to help the Beast licking the Hoof or against the Hair the Bird picking and pruning its Feathers some perfusing themselves with water or flying so neer the Swallow and Sea-mew 'till they dew their Wings point the House-cat washing her Head with her moistned Foot the Oxe snuffing aloft into the Air all as it were for refrigeration-sake of their Bloud or Spirits cooling the little Feavers perceived therein § 18. The poor Ant hiding himself or removing his Eggs the Shelfish sticking close to the Rocks or ballasting it self with Sand shew a kind of natural Prudence but no Prophetick Divination in as much as first they find the Alteration of their bodies before their Instinct teacheth them to provide for the consequent § 19. And as to Presages from the Water whatsoever the Ancients speak of the murmuring of the Sea at hand or the noise on the Shore side the bubbling or swelling of the Sea without noise witnessed by all Sea-faring men the appearance of the Froth broken or divided these all betray the Dominion of the Heavens on the Water and a disturbance rais'd by the Celestial Warmth § 20. Verily the Dominion on the Water is as large as that seen in the Air the Prognosticks from Animals being grounded principally on the Alterations of their Natural Moisture And if any Presages are drawn from Plants as the Bristling of the Trefoil c. hither it may be reduced § 21. I do not mention the Sweating of Wals or Glass which may arise from the continual Appulse of the moist Atome floating neer the chill superficies but Plinie's Instance from the Larder when a Dish which hath been used at Table leaves a Sweat on the place whereon it was reposited argues some consent of the Ambient's moisture with the moisture of the Esculent on which account also Wood swels Wainscot cracks Viol-strings snap asunder and we also as other Animals no better nor worse are disquieted with the Excrescencies of our
Feet swelling and shooting against Weather yea the Paroxysmes of the Gout and sundry other Ailments observed in the Hospital of our Bodies remember us thus of superior Alterations § 22. Yea farther all the Prognosticks taken from the Fire it self do note which may be strange some Dominion over Moisture the â—elestial Action terminating not on the Flame so much as the Fewel or the Body inflam'd hence comes the little diminutive sparkling of the Candle the spitting of the Fire from under the Embers the puffing and murmuring of the flaming Coal the concretion of Sparks and Knots in the Snuff Lucernarum fungi the Adhesion of Embers to the Hearth of the Live coal to the Pot-side all betokening some Alteration of the Moisture which betrays it self by concretion of things contiguous or by that little sparkling at the approach of the Flame which at other times burns quiet and cals for no Observation He that pleases may consult Aratus Virgil Pliny Plutarch of the Neotericks Fromond Vossius de Idololatr § 23. Rain and Wind therefore for they are not often severed or their existence to Warmth § 24. And 't is manifest whether Hail reduceth it self being the congelation of Rain As for Snow 't is of a nice crasis strangely consisting of a congeal'd vapour and some little degree of a warm Spirit which helpeth to resolve the continued congelation and make it fall into wafers § 25. Hence what is commonly observed whensoever it snows the Air remits of his rigor and again the greater is the Fleece the warmer is the Air and more bordering on a Thaw § 26. Next the Mist also belongeth to Cold seeing it is a vapor part moist part fuliginous congel'd just as the breath of our mouth by the Cold of Winter is a visible Mist Mists therefore do not arise from the Rivers brink as is commonly reckon'd but the Vapour which before rose invisibly being congel'd descends and by continual aggregation or conflux puts on a visible consistence § 27. Lightning and Thunder need no Herald to derive their Pedegree from Heat Celestial § 28. Comets Celestial have their consistence also from Expirations Celestial taking it for granted that the Sublunar consist of Expirations Terrestrial mingled with Celestial and inflamed thereby § 29. Blite and Blasting in some cases proceed from Heat as when Fruits are prejudiced by Lightning or burning Winds such as the East-winds are reckon'd in Holy Writ § 30. Again it oftentimes proceeds from Cold and Hoar-frosts as Pliny rightly with our Husbandmen define happening with us about May June yea in April March whensoever the Spring is obnoxious to the injury by its unhappy forwardness § 31. Of all these there is not the least piece of a Phaenomenon that is casual in respect of the Heavens though the Learned Kepler can allow it but the Heavens are conscious of its Original § 32. Nay as we shall see there is not the least puff of Wind though a Reflexion of a Blast indeed may be termed Casual but is Heaven-bred if we speak of the direct issue § 33. Howbeit so great and various is the inconstancy of the Winds especially with us on Shore that the Knowledge is abstruse and difficult though neither so pure a Contingent but that it may be lur'd to the Rules of Art § 34. Seeing Wind that we may come to its Definition is nothing else but the motion of an Earthy dry Exhalation and that moved not by Condensation or its own Gravity but by Impulse from Celestial Heat § 35. Some great Authors philosophize otherwise That Wind is made by Rarefaction and a Condensation succeeding the Air condensed tending downwards and acquiring its violence by the heights of its descent But 1. wheresoever it hapneth that there is such Condensation as in Clouds Dews Mists hazie Air Frosts there would be always some sense of Winds stirring but many Clouds and hazie days are calm yea nothing is more husht oft times than a Frost or Mist or more still and silent than the Dew 2. Winds are indifferent to all Seasons Winter Summer to all Weathers to all hours of the Natural Day none have their Quietus'es from it not Sun-rise nor Sun-set Mid-day nor Mid-night it owes not therefore its Existence to Rarefaction and Condensation seeing all Hours Seasons are not indifferent thereto for in a Cloudy day what place is there for Rarefaction In a bright hot Summers day what condenseth 3. Here let the Etesian speak hath not benign Nature provided that refreshing Air for the Aestival Heat and doth not it rise at 9 in the morning when the Heat increaseth and cease again at 4 in the Even 4. Whatsoever may be said in Spring and Autumn for the vicissitudes of Rarefaction and Condensation how comes Winter which even hath its denomination from Wind to be so unquiet when there are no such sensible vicissitudes Nay how doth Wind rise in Winter nights It cannot be said that the Night condenseth what the Day hath rarefied Alas the Day was all benummed in Frost and the windy Nights often introduc'd a Thaw How doth the colder Season rarifie how doth the warmer Season condense 5. Upon this Hypothesis the Wind would blow to not from the Points of the Compass and to many Points at once viz. coming from the Sun as from the Centre for the Air even as Water rising up in a Conical tumor when rarefied upon the recess of the Sun while it condenseth and recovereth its Gravity must needs fall indifferently from the vertex to all parts of the Circumference where it is not hindred i.e. to the East North and South at least if not to the West but the Wind blows not several ways at once nor is confined in the least but tends indifferently from the Sun aud to the Sun and on each side of the Sun through all the Points of the Compass § 36. Again Condensation can give no account of the Winds violence no not the thousandth part of its rage and fury as when it is known to rift up Trees demólish Buildings for admit the descent of Air to be as forcible as the descent of Water though there is some difference sure especially if Air be rarer than the Water by a 1000 degrees yet this will not prevail for in Noah's Floud it self the Cataracts of Heaven did not beat down the Trees as appears by the Story § 37. 'T is said that all Heavy Bodies the further they descend the more violence they acquire this is true in Bodies that have their fixed Dose of complete Gravity disproportioned to the medium as in Stones Metals c. and this by virtue of their Generation but in Condensation 't is otherwise the Body is not condensed at an instant all at once but at leisure and by gradual alteration Proportional thereto must the Gravitation be and as the body condenseth so must it subside in the same measure according as the Applications of the Causes condensing are gradual for as for instantaneous
take the same notice of Dayes extraordinary Dies quidam apud Belgas our Neighbours of Brabant pluviarum atri infames sunt saith Fromond Meteor lib. 5. and he names us one viz. IV or July which he saith they call S t Martin the Dripper quem S. Martini bullientis aut pluvii appellant This Day I find not in every Kalendar but in our English only and not without the Inclination specified Fromond would have pleasured us therefore if he had named the Rest § 6. But the old Verses help us June VIII S. Medard's day Humida Medardi pluvias lux usque minatur And such dayes amongst us are St. John Baptist June XXIV St. Peter's Eve XXVIII Mary Magdal July XXII who is therefore said in the homely Country Proverb to wash S. James ' s Shift while dripping S. James himself saith the same Dialect Christens the Fruit. Add such are St. Bartholmew August XXIV St. Simon and Jude Oct. XXVIII with the day following XXIX the Powder-Treason Novemb. V. c. § 7. All which Dayes being Festival or notable for the Annex of some Mart Fair or other Solemnity could not chuse but come under notice with their Character § 8. Nor have our Ancestors given us days obnoxious to Moisture only we find other Constitutions also noted St. Mark 's day April XXV with his Neighbour St. Walburg's April XXVII and St. Philip and James are marked with an Obelisk for dangerous times of nipping Winds and Blasting Nunc caret aura fide nunc est obnoxia ventis saith one Verse and again Si friget segetes subeunt plerumque perîclum St. Margaret July the XX noted for Thunder Reboat mugitibus Aether St. Matthias for uncertain Air in this remarkable Distich Matthiae glaciem frangit si invenerit illam Ni frangat glaciem tum mihi crede facit As the Satyr thought it strange that a man should with the same breath blow hot and cold so the character of this Day seems as strange § 9. Yea the returns of Constitutions are not always confin'd to single dayes but to series of Dayes whence it comes to pass that some peculiar Dayes in this affair pass into Critical enabling to pronounce somewhat concerning the future Harvest Vintage or Winter for what have we to do with the frivolous Observation of the XII dayes in Christmass as if they were a compendious representation of the Months in the Year or with the Prognosticks on St. Paul's day sure no one Day can give crisis for a whole Year but for a month or a week a shorter term it may Four dayes then there are whose serenity gives fair hopes of a Vintage Vineent Apr. V. Vrban May XXV Assumption Aug. XV. and what Origanus interposes St. Bartholmew Aug. XXIV For Winter Purification Feb. II. and Cathed Petri Feb XXII are also Critical If it be fair on the former of these Major erit glacies post festum is in every bodies mouth if in the latter it freezeth the same constitution holds a Fortnight Again Rain on Mid-summer day speaks fears of a wet Harvest if on July II. Visit B. Virg. wet must be expected for a Month saith Origanus though the old Verse speaks more cautelous Si pluit haud poter is coelum spectare serenum Transivêre aliquot ni prius antè Dies If on St. Swithun's day the cry of England is it rains 40 dayes after if on St. Martin's day in Novemb. XI a wet winter is portended saith the Verse vid. Alsted Vranom p. 490. yea there is one critical Day recorded in Aetius the Physician 's time and that must be many hundred years ago concerning the then first day of Decemb. on which if it rained for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it held on for 37 dayes Petav. Vranolog p. 421. § 10. Some that shoot without aim may abandon these Observes for superstitious as that of St. Swithuns in Mr. Parkinson's judgment is but where there is Experience and innocent Reason there is no ground for superstitious conceits § 11. For the Experience we have said the most of these dayes were Festival and so observable for the annex of some Solemnity and thence came in the publick Experience for the reason we shall give it in due place in the mean while asserting the truth of St. Swithun's crisis for some dayes after more or less which the Vulgar made a shift to call fourty to hold good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Kalendars have it and That 's enough CHAP. V. The Sun the great â—ight justly admired Notwithstanding alone He is not the absolute cause of Heat no not of the Seasons of the Year or the Constitution of the Day Chance excluded An Objection solved § 1. THis is enough for Demonstration of the Fixed Returns of the Weather and those Returns father'd on the Heavens by reason and consent universal Now in the Heavens what but the SUN can produce these Effects in their respective Periods the Sun being so regular a Mover that some have scrupled to call him a Planet § 2. And who goes to debar the Sun of his due let not us that contemplate the Heavens be guilty of it Let Theologie it self teach us that the Sun is a great Minister the Light and Life of the World without it no difference of Clime or Season no Spring no Summer no Autumn All Time would be Winter Horrid Winter the Sea a Mountain of Ice the Land a Flint and Darkness would usurp his old Dominion over both But sure God hath amongst thousand of other Stars made the Sun appear and commanded him to run an eternal Race in his great Olympiques This Commission as if conscious of the Infinite God he jollily executes and Nothing in the Universe is hid from His Heat At his Rise the Morning-Cloud vanishes the Fog dissolves and the Dew gently exhales Toward Mid-day he bringhteth the Air into a chearful Saphir and guildeth the Borders of the very Clouds with a costly limbus All the Earth basketh in his Light while the Clay is calcin'd by his Heat When he pleaseth he imprinteth his Face on the Roscid Cloud and decircinates the Iris with his Pencil He draweth the Waters as through an Alembick and gageth the Depth with his Beam The Current of the Seas observe his Tekupha's and flock All to the place of his Residence Where he keepeth Court is the greatest conflux the Stream makes hast to kiss his feet He raiseth Thunders in his vertical strength and gives fire to the Priming of his Clouds He raiseth a gentle Brise in the Aestival Morn and fanneth the Husbandman in the cool of the Evening When he mounteth he banisheth the Frost and confineth it as by the power of his Spell to the Ends of the Earth The Flowers of the field open for his Entertainment and the Birds of the Air observe his Night-watches they give a signal as from their Watch tower and chaunt their Reveille to the Sons of the Night All the
take it that Cold cannot be said to be such 1. Because though it be necessary upon the removal of Moisture I must understand the Subject to be Dry yet there is not the same necessity that on the Removal of Heat I should apprehend the Subject to be Cold. Hence some Philophers have it may be not absurdly defined the Air to be Neither of its own Nature being the Subject and Receiver of Both. 2. Privation may be allowed a principle of Generation but not of Constitution but Cold is a Constituent as in Metals Glass c. ingreditur opera Naturae Hence a sudden Heat violates the Consistence of the Glass whereas a Privation may be removed with Safety and Innocence 3. Cold is Active Penetrative Expulsive of its Contrary even as Heat Active and Biting Penetrative through Glass it self where neither Air nor Moisture can be transmitted whose Action is so like that of Heat that sometimes we take it to be the very same For a Cold piece of Iron seems to burn the Hand if the Sense of the Touch not the Eye be witness Expulsive of the Heat even Natural Heat This is seen in Freezing of Beer or Wine where the Spirits driven out of their Cells retire to their Centre In the freezing of Fruits which upon a milder Constitution suddenly putrifie the Spirit being not able to recover its former Mansion by reason of the disorder created Add the Gangren'd parts of Man's Bodies in cold Countreys c. the crumbling and scaling of Brick and Stone in Frosts that are extreme c. § 48. 4ly a Spirit is no Privation Cold is a Spirit of such a Figure saith Democritus and not very absurdly for the benumming operation of Cold curiously attended betrays not the pungencies of the Pyramid proper to Fire but the Contusion of a Cubical Figure which is the figure assigned to the Earth but that Cold is a Spirit may be proved because some Bodies enjoy a cool Spirit Vegetables as the Rose Minerals as the Nitre and all Infrigidation is performed by transfusion of a Spirit as Rooms are cool by strewing of Herbs Flags and Aspersion of sweet Water Vinegar c. Wines in their Bottles are cooled by immersion into Water the Water transmitting the Spirit suddenly through the Vessel This Spirit is evident and awakened by the Motion certainly if Heat be a Spirit Cold is also a Spirit and if the South-wind warms by the introduction of the One the North-wind chills by the accession of the Other and so much for the First the Nature of Cold. § 49. For the second we deem that the Earth is rightly assigned for the primum frigidum and this may be gathered from the very situation it obtains in the System of the World viz. the very Distance from the Spheres of Heat being as good as in the Centre of the Sphere of the Fixed even in Copernicus his Hypothesis For though Cold be no Privation yet 't is not altogether becoming the Order of Nature that Opposites should have an opposite place and be at local as well as at formal Distance God hath not placed Heat at one of the Poles if he had sure he had fixed the Cold at the Pole opposite Giving him therefore the liberty to place it in the middest of the Globe the Frozen Zones must quarter on each side as far distant as they can and that is tantamount to Diametrical For as to the Subterranean Fires by Natures great End placed in the Earth they can put in no Caveat to our pretence seeing they cannot belong to the Nature of that Element though therein contained no more than the Vegetable or Animal Seeds that lie couch'd in the same The same is to be reckoned of Hot Earths Lime c. They conclude not the Earth of its own Nature indifferent to Cold or Heat no more than hot-Hot-waters artificially extracted or Hot Baths for the Nature of the Water conclude any such indifferency But that Cold is an Earthy Spirit whence shall we more evidently conclude but from the consistence of Ice Ice hath a terrene Consistence therefore it depends upon a terrene Spirit For such cognation is there between the Consistence and the Spirit actuating that a man may safely conclude the one from the other The Vegetable Spirit is of the same Nature with the Plant the Metallick Spirit with the Metal the Fumid Spirit with the Odour the Earthy Spirit with the Earth We confirm this by consideration that all Petrification is by intrusion of a Terrene Spirit as in Wood and other things metamorphos'd by petrifying Streams is confessed And what is Ice but Water petrifyed Add that Ice becomes fixed by Incraâ—â—ations so Cold fixes or stanches Bloud by incrassating of the parts Hence the cold Spirit or Corpuscle dilating the Body as in liquor congeled in Earthen Vessels bursts the Vessel and the Hand benummed with Cold is more swoln and gowry than in open Weather § 50. Further Metals or Minerals which are the coldest Bodies are of a Consistence Earthy as Stone Lead Iron yea Quick-silver though a strange Body is the Colder because it is so dense for we may safely allow an Earthy Spirit in it notwithstanding its Fluor as well as in other Metals which at least when melted are fluid So much it seems to have of Earth that though it be fluid we see it moistens not the whitish Hue I hope is no hinderance since sundry Earths are of a Cretaceous colour § 51. Again every Stupefactive Spirit is Terrene every Cold Spirit is Stupefactive For what I pray is Stupefying but Congeling the Cold Spirit stanches Blood by Congelation Thus Dioscorides speaking of all Earths used in Physick saith they are Cold and Stupifying all Narcoticks quatenus talia will be found invested with such a Spirit Opium c. the History of the Torpedo it self I believe will prove it Yea the Greatest Observers that have been curious in this point declare that as according to the common Presumption Heat tends upward so the Cold hath a tendency downward a Heavy Spirit it seems then to be Earthy § 52. But whether this Spirit be Saline or Nitrous or of Quick-silver is none of our interest to define 't is somewhat too nice a discourse to be so particular Saline or Nitrous are All Earthy and it may be not so much different § 53. Here I confess our Discourse is strongly checked by some of the Noblest Observers who scruple to admit any prime Recipient of Cold as not necessary there should be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all Qualities for there are None assignable say they for Gravity Figure Motion Colour Sound c. To the Vindication therefore of such a Principle let me crave leave to distinguish first of Qualities then of the Prime Recipient and say first that in all Qualities whether Powers Natural or their Sensible Objects Heat Cold Humour Siccity Light Colour c. as also Qualities more Material such as consist in the
several Texture of Matter Density Rarity c. we must carefully distinguish between Them and their Privations the rather because the Philosopher saith rightly that the same Sense is Judge of both for t is no reason to look for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Privative Beings but only of Positive Thus it will be vain to look for a Prime Recipient of Siccity the Fire being dry and the Earth also and neither owing that Quality one to the other because being a bare carentia and Absence of Humidity all Bodies so deprived must aequè primò rejoice in that Denomination Thus I take it is Rarity nothing but a Privation of Density Softness of Hardness Smoothness of Asperity Fluor of Solidity Friability of Viscosity Leanness of Fatness total or partial Privations For the Prime Recipient though it be commonly a certain species yet 't is not always so § 54. There are Properties which follow the Genus as All men must confess such are the known Properties of Quantity Figure Place Motion Time Gravity Colour Sound Figure I say for if Quantity be such a Property then Figure must also however it be called Quality or otherwise a Property of Corpus solidum Then Motion for be the principle of Motion what it will Matter or Form or Finiteness of Nature 't is plain 't is a common Generical Attribute to which it is annexed we may call it corpus or if you will substantia finita Then for Gravity we have a General Recipient for That whether in the new Philosophy which reckons All Elements to be Gravia as tending to their Centre Fire it self seeming to tend upward only on this account or in the more stale Philosopby which makes Earth Water Air Gravia in comparison of Fire I say according to the one the Prime Recipient of Gravity is corpus Homogeneum supposing the Heavy substance out of its place and corpus Opacum according to the other understanding it here as opposed to Luâ—id in which sense Air Water Earth are opacons and therefore Gravitating as being destitute of That Spirit which tendeth upward We say the same of Colour that corpus opacum but as distinguish'd to pellucid or Diaphanous is the Prime Recipient of it Colour being nothing else but a nice mixture of Light and Opacity Yea for Sound it self we give a prime Subject and That is corpus Spirituosum it being the Spirit that is the Subject and Vehicle of the Sound § 55. These things being premised I say that All Qualities truly so called positive Beings not privative have necessarily their Prime Recipient in the Species or the Genus at least Heat Cold Humectation Tast Odour All Sensible Qualities have their Prime Recipient it being hard to find Humectation where there is no Water Cold where no Earth Tast where no Salt Odour where no Oyl Light and Heat where no Fiery Spirit And what do we say of the Second Tactile Qualities Crassitude Solidity Density Hardness Roughness The Earth no doubt is the Prime Receiver of them All so that where there is Solidity and Density there is Earth as Plato saith even in the Stars themselves For Viscosity unless we say 't is a Compound Complicate Quality ex pingui arido and so get off from the necessity of assigning a Prime Recipient as there is no Prime Recipient of Tepor and mixt Colours so otherwise we may nominate a Gluten to supply That place with the same liberty as the Chymists name Sulfur and Salt for if it be said that there is no such species in which this quality inheres no more is there any species of Salt and Sulfur the Prime Recipient of Savours and Odours they are Generical Natures common to all Sapid and Odorate Bodies § 56. Surely unless some Recipient be admitted both in Active and Passive Qualities the Family of Nature will be at a loss The several Tribes of Hot Cool Sapid Odorate how manifold soever in their Natural Colonies must needs depend on some prime Propagator as all Families do § 57. I will not say this is in imitation of God himself and his Communications Nature being nothing else but a Sciagraphy of Divinity who being a Creator hath ordained a Generant communicating Essence and Gifts and Graces Himself being of them All the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 58. And truly when upon a just Induction made we may find a prime Subject for all the Active Qualities truly stated as Light Heat Cold Humidity c. why we should not seek for prime Subjects for All the rest which are absolute perfections of the Subject in which they dwell I see not seeing the Fabrick of this Great Universe though it be abstruse yet it is such as doth incourage Enquiry not discourage it by the Mutual dependance of Causes the Second on the First and the Third on Both the Creator being admirable not only in the Number but in the Order of his Creatures To find Fire in Fish-bones Rotten wood Tasts in Dews as well as Plants and Minerals Stenches in Mists as well as Puddles and All through the communication of the same prime Subject incourages a Modest Enquirer and brings him to the knowledge of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the prime Cause of All. § 59. Neither is the prime Generical Recipient to be thought an Empty Notion as if Universal Natures subsisted only by the Operation of the Intellect and did not exist à parte rei for certainly They are guilty of the Empty Notion that make a Nature not We that find it Surely the Individual borrows all its Reality from the Species unless his Essence be a fiction and the Species in part from the Genus the One is a Modification of his Vniversal the Other a Difference and thus far for the second Enquiry § 60. Now thirdly what Relation a Body Celestial may have to Cold if Cold be a Terrestrial Emanation is the next Enquiry seeing Reason as Cardan confesses makes them All without difference warm even ♄ it self if he be Luminous Resp The Nature of the Planet is to be estimated not from his Magnitude only and Distance and Light and Colour but much if not chiefly from its Consistence and Spirit if any there be that inhabits it § 61. Their Bodies of their own nature are Opacous but they are Pervious too This is known for certain as to the ☽ it is full of Cells and Concavities of a vast Penetration for otherwise neither It nor the Rest could so visibly so potently reflect the Solar Incidences As to the Spirit all that believe the Sun to be of an Igneous Nature as 't is high time we should come so far do resolve that there are Mines of Sulfur in the Sun which minister an Eternal Pabulum to the Flame as the Mines do to our Hot Baths This is so certain that the Assertors of the Maculae Solares know not what else to define them but Sulphureous Fumid Exhalations issuing from it § 62. Again all that are Curious
the Water is usually as soon congeled as the top it self § 69. Let us see whether Light have no Energie in this matter Surely if any thing may be entitled to what Philosophers call the Spirit of the World This is it the smallest and most Active Body in the World in Motion confest to be Instantaneous in subtlety incredible and absolutely incomprehensible The vast Activity of Flame is seen in the force and swiftness of a Ball discharged from Cannon c. in the prodigious Eruptions of Earthquakes but Flame it self comes short of Light as to Activity as far as the Sphere of Calefaction as we have said is narrower than that of Illumination An Inch of Flame if it multiplies it self but in one straight line to the Eye at three or four Miles distance of how rare how subtle Particles must that one single Ray consist But when that Lucid Inch as all Luminous Bodies spread themselves Spherically shall send its Beams through 10000 Lines so far protended even as many as the Eyes which can be imagined to be placed in all differences of Position I say it argues the Light to be for subtlâ—ty of Essence and swiftness of Motion for the One follows the Other incomprehensible Hence I may argue thus The most actuous Substance in the world I value not whether the Peripatetick allows any such Notion or no is the Spirit of the World But Light is such Ergo. Light or Heat One of them is but the Premises rightly consider'd it will be found that since Both are Active Light hath not its Activity quatenus of kin to Heat but Heat rather quatenus Luminous From hence doth Heat learn to shed it self into a Sphere of Warmth round about because it is of the same Nature with Light but Light is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of that Quality and indeed of all Activity at least as much as uses to be imputed to Heat because in the Competitorship for Sprightfulness we find one so infinitely surpassed by the other § 70. This Discourse supposeth Light to be a Body and may well do so for very many Arguments not to be produced here seeing 'tis enough that the Peripateticks I hope can produce no Accident whatsoever separable from its Primitive Subject or any Migration of the one without the other the Power of Matter and Eduction thencefrom are meer Words educed out of the power of a Verbal Philosophy § 71. But then for its relation to Cold before we speak of That we must consider that though the Light and Heat be substantially the same Spirit yet for Doctrines sake especially being different Objects of the Sense they must be said to differ specie even as Air doth from Water though in the most probable opinion it differ only from it by a vast rarefaction or Attenuation just as our Light from Heat on which account it may be true to say that Light is the Author of some Action in Nature which Heat is not for the Heat and Light differ only in tenuity or rarity and density the Seat of Fire being neer the center of the Luminous Sphere while purer Light is neerer the circumference the Sphere of Illumination being so Vast the Circumferential parts of the Spirit of so incredible Subtlety must of necessity be denuded from all manner of Heat real and sensible that whatsoever is ascribed to the Spirit so attenuated may in no wise be thought reasonable to be ascribed to any thing else such a vast difference interposing So that it may not follow notwithstanding the Identity of the Spirit that if Heat be contrary to Cold Light must also be deputed to the same Contrariety Hence there is made way for a reconcilement to amity with the Cold Spirit the Contrariety being removed § 72. Now that Cold hath such amity and acquaintance with the Luminous Spirit I prove because Cold is an Active quality Active by way of Emanation Thus in Stone-building that Room is the cooler for the walls sake the Emanation from thence infrigidating the place but if it be so active whence hath it this Activity we answer from the universal Luminous Spirit implanted in it This is confirm'd because Cold is not only active in it self according to its measure as Light is but it resembles also the manner of the Activity Doth Light cast it self into a Sphere Cold also hath its Sphere its narrower Sphere indeed of her Activity Place it in the Centre and all Parts shall feel its Influence so do all things imitate or rather express the motion of the Universal Spirit § 73. Nor can it be otherwise imagin'd since into the most deep recesses of the Earth 't is believ'd the Light of the Sun pierces through the Opacous Body giving Life and Spirit to every Mineral there in his kind Then what Influence the Heavenly Light hath on the Animal and Natural Spirits all the World seeth how cheerfully and briskly our Spirits behave themselves in a serene Season How dull and cloudy in close Air what alteration our Bodies find at night how torpid our Limbs and given to heaviness composed for sleep and darkness A little Light we see raises us wakes us calls for the Spirit to the Circumference cheereth the sick is welcom to those that are frighted with Spectres and Phantasms the Day salutes us All and bids us good Morn The Morning Cock chants not but upon warning given by the Light The very Vegetable Spirit in Darkness is a sleep Darkness I mean of the Time not of the Place a great Argument for our Conjecture Hence the good Houswife gives no leave to broach her Liquor in the Night-Season Add that the subtle mixture of the Cold Spirit delights in the white Colour Frost Snow Ice Hail Nitre Quick-silver but Whiteness partakes of the Light by which I do not say 't is visible in dark but disposed to more visibility than other obscurer pieces Hence we answer an Objection because in the dark recesses of the Earth no Light is perceptible Resp The Spirit called Light or Heat is Innominate of it self is only termed Light in relation to the Sense so that we must not conclude the Non-Existence of the Spirit from the Non-apparence because more is required to the one than to the other We see not the dancing Motes in the Air but where the Sun discovers them howsoever they frisk continually by us no man by Night sees the Lightsome Ray of the Luminous Body if it run parallel to the Eye Nature hath not given us Senses to perceive all possible but all convenient Objects no Microscope reaches All things that are really existent § 74. As to Cold then who knows not that the Brightest Night in Winter and most Star-light are usually most Frosty Dixeris Coelum esse frigidum saith Kepler who raises the Objection to which he gives little Satisfaction nay that the vehement Congelations are found about Day-break § 75. All this concerns every Planet in the Heaven not the Sun it self
surveying the Sum of Cold Nights in the New ☽ I find amounts to 55. but viewing the Nights at the Full I find but 48. which difference if it seem not wide enough it may be made wider by considering that even the Frosts of the Full are less absolute than those of the New with abatement and limitation of some Frost which occurs more frequently in the Full. To say nothing of the Snow which appearing also most frequently at the Full argues some Lenity in the Beams Take one observation more the Cold Nights at the Change run higher in the Year than the Cold Nights at the Full. For Anno 1676. at the New ☽ in April I find a Frosty Night crusting the Water with Ice But it will be hard I believe to find Ice in an April Night at a Full ☽ The like I may say of Frosty Mornings in the Month of May I find One in the New but None in the Full. § 17. 'T is strange you 'l say that the Inter-Lunium should bring more Warm Days than the Full because every body sees that it is the Dark Side of the Half-Luminary which is turned towards our Earth all Shade is cool now the ☽ by her Shady-side Skreens the Light and Heat from us and reverberates it upward To this we say 't is true that the ☽ turns her Illustrious Side from us and therefore must be Cool But how Not absolute There is a considerable Warmth flies round on all sides like Sparkles from an Anvil and the repercussed Heat is sufficient for all Operations Natural to quicken and encourage them as in the Lunar History appears Yet we are not driven to say or believe that the ☽ is pervious especially as to sensible Heat but we can solve all Operations of Nature depending on her even while under the Inter-Lunium by this that the Ray repercussed or reflected in the perpendiculum is redoubled and so requital is made for the aversion Observe 2ly that the ☽ is much nearer to the Sun in the ☌ then at the Diametral Opposition the Full ☽ is brighter than the New ☽ but she plays at a greater distance from the Sun In the New ☽ she lies between the Sun and the Earth In the Full she lies on the other side of the Earth twice as far from the Sun so hath the Wisdom of the Creator moderated the Universe and the parts thereof that what they want in Length shall be supplyed in Breadth as I may say If the Luminous side of the ☽ had look'd toward us as in the Full the Heat would hâ—ve bin too near Nature would have bin scorched with too great Annoyances instead of Luminaries Therefore in the New God hath pleased to reverse the ☽ making her as a Skreen or Fan to it self In the Night therefore when he hath removed it at such distance that it will not burn we can afford to see the Luminous side towards us and partake of its moderate Warmth and Influence But we have answered fully to the quaere why Novilunar Days are more and more often Hot than Plenilunar not only because in the Day time when the ☽ is at Full she acts in her farthest possible distance in the Hemisphere of the Antipodes but because in the New ☽ she acts in consort with the Rest She is not only nearer to our Vertex but she acts with and among all the other Planets that are abroad in the Diurnal Hemisphere The Full ☽ being solitary for the most part without such Company which company is not bound to observe her Motion the Sun is the Prince whose Motions they mostly attend § 18. What is sometime a Problem in natural Philosophy How the Breath of our Mouth seems warm to our Hand when it lies near the Mouth and cold when removed at further distance Is usually resolved thus That the Hand lying near the Mouth receives the Breath warm from the Larynx and the Cavitys of the Mouth but at further distance the Breath in mixed with the cooler Ambient Air and so refrigerated therewith which by Agitation seems the Cooler The same solution applyed to our Lunar Aspects is not improper The Full ☽ is at greater distâ—â—ce from the Sun than the New and therefore her Rays are more engaged in the Cold Vapours of the Atmosphere and upon that Account must give place to the New ☽ as to the Day But if we compare them in point of Warmth in the Night though she be at the same distance from the Sun yet she is nearer us and upon that account the Plenilunar Nights may be warmer § 19. Shall we pursue this comparison in other Instances and see whether it be worth our while if any observation can be raised which brings Light or Use with it The two Tables lye thus  ☠☉ ☽ ☌ ☉ ☽ Cold Frosty Days or Nights 56. 65. Clâ—se or Lowring 56. 67. Pregnant Clouds   Fog 23. 38. Mist or Hazie 36. 48. Hot Days 11. 28. Hot Nights 5. 5. Rain Moisture 103. 89. Lasting or Violent 47. 35. Rain at N. 52. 30. Wind at N. 13. 9. Snow 14. 8. Trajections 4. 20. Warm 32. 38. Winds 44. 56. Storms Gusts 68. 43. Wind Change 0 29. Thunder 4. 4. Lightning 0. 0. Hail 9. 4. Halo 5. 0. Iris 1. 0. Fila or Gossamere 1. 0 Cold Winds 0 6. Dark gloomy 0 15. Strip't Clouds 0 2. § 20. Here pray view the difference between Wind Rain Fog And if I mistake not we have laid the Foundation to clear up the difference For Rain Snow excluded the new ☽ brings 125. the Full ☽ brings you 150. Quere here how comes it to pass if the New ☽ as we pretend be warmer and Warmth is the cause of Moisture that the Full sheweth fairest for Moisture Shall we answer on the grounds that we have laid that Warmth is but One Parent of Moisture there must be another Parent for the Birth viz. A competent measure of Cold which Competence being found in the Full rather than in the New the Full ☽ must exceed in moisture Quaere the 2d time how comes it to pass if the New ☽ as we pretend be warmer and Warmth is the Cause of Wind that the Full ☽ blustereth more than the New Answer as above The Wind hath two Parents Active and Passive A competent degree of Cold the passive Parent the Full ☽ before its warmth being furnished with that Compotency is Cruder and Windyer then the New § 21. And this is confirmed stiffly from the excesses of Violent Rains Storms Winds which abound under the Full rather than the New because where the Contraries chuse to meet there will appear the greater Hurry § 22. Once more then how comes it to pass that the New ☽ produceth Fog more frequent than the Full Say that the very Nature of a Fog proclaims the absence of the contrary I mean the Cold. There is both Warmth and Cold in the Constitution but they are in remiss degrees they make a
as I remember is happily observ'd by Ofhusius But if this will not be admitted as sufficient and responsible for some violent Effects shewing themselves what if I should observe that in a manner all Aspects seem to be equal whether Diametral or Angular Wherefore as in the ☌ there is an imaginary or rather a Virtual Opposition since the Heaven is Circular and shews an opposite point affected so that you have no single Aspect then contra an ☠is a virtual Conjunction So is it in the Rest Bring in a Square of ☉ and ♀ One of them to the Meridian and the Square is doubled For there is a Quadrate Oriental and Occidental ♀ posited on the Meridian makes a right Angle with the Sun in the Horizon and another with the point in oppositio Solis Doth not then our Sextile Oriental suppose by the same Reason make a △ occidental and back again a △ in the East constitute a Sextile in the West § 27. For what pains and indispositions we had noted with their Obelisk here also as in the Quadrate how duly I had noted them I cannot speak but how truly they are noted I can So the Sextile is a Critical Aspect I see as well though not perhaps as much as the Quartile And what should hinder us to assert an Antient Truth and so witnessed by the Learned Physitians who tell us that in Critical Days Quartus est Index Septimi Now as the Seventh day is the One so the Fourth Day is the other even our very Sextile I know there are other Irritations of Aches and Pains in our querulous Bodies besides these Lunar Aspects viz. the Rises and Obits c. of the Planets so posited co-incident with these Aspects which I am not certain the Physitian will allow though they exert their smart Influence at a minute howbeit if they like not to admit of that I am bound nevertheless to witness to the Truth which they deliver § 28. We close up this Chapter with an Answer to Gassendus who though he dar'd not deny an Efficacy to the Sun and Moon consider'd as Luminaries yea though he acknowledged it rational to believe that their Efficacy is advanced or abated according to the increase or decrease of their Light yet he hath no kindness for these Luminaries so united and confederated by Aspect for saith he why should not the same be said of ♀ who we know now by the Telescope runs through the Series of the same Phasis as the ☽ doth ⚹ □ △ For answer I could tell him 't is enough for a Mortal Astrologer if he make use of all that is visible I say all that is presented by the Natural though non-arm'd Eye The Spectators of the Heavens are rightly entertain'd by what appears on the Theatre without prying into the attiring Room No man speaks against a curious inquisitor into Nature by Telescope or Microscope I applaud the invention but there may be ill use made of it when we search after hidden in the neglect of Obvious Truths Secondly though I could ask whether Gassendus hath calculated these Aspects and found them void or unactive or decipher'd them only for us that we might spend our Verdict Besides that the Quadrates of ♀ are consider'd under another Name viz. when she is enlongated from the Sun by the same token that she contributes to Warmth Yet where is the Angle we speak of Alass Her furthest Elongation never sets her upon the Meridian while the Sun is on the Horizon A Semisextile is her utmost Aspect as to us When ♀ descends as low as the ☽ in Orb as vast as the ☽ or ♀ Orb then Gassendus shall see what we will say till then the Influence of her Phasis is not so considerable but what a just Science may overlook as Anatomy doth a Capillary Vein or Glandule which is not necessary in the subsistence of the Body and therefore may be spared its consideration § 29. He tells us more that if the ☽ hath Influence upon the Earth so may the Earth on the ☽ Will it not then be time to consider that when we remove into that Colony No man pretends to prognosticate the State of the Air for the Man in the ☽ be the ☽ never so habitable 't is less than the Earth and so 't is fitting the Earth should be considered before it The plain enquiry with us is whether the Fire warms the Hands Now to perplex this Question by a more curious Problem whether Fire works on Fire is a new way of Philosophy Nor can I justly infer that Fire was not made for that use because perhaps it was made for some other Service in Nature If the Earth hath Influence on the ☽ how much more the ☽ on the Earth If it hath no Influence on the ☽ it makes not against us For the Rain which makes the Meadows green and the Corn-Fields fruitful makes not the Wilderness fruitful nor doth it sweeten the Waters of the Sea § 30. This rub being out of the way it may not be amiss to remind us that great Enquirers bear Testimony in other terms to this Aspect For where is it that I read that the Fifth Day of the ☽ after long observation is feared by Mariners for stormy Verulam hist of Wind art 32. par 17. So saith He. The Fourth rising of the ☽ ibid. Now one if not both these are the Sextile Aspect And if what I pretend of the Later Sextile holds its own then the Seamen may observe together with the Fourth and the Fifth the twenty fifth day of the ☽ 's age especially those who are resolved to learn no further Better is it to observe the ☽ alone than to abandon all Astrology Who knows but the small ☽ touch'd at before by Linscoten and Drake may belong to this Aspect more properly rather than to the Change CHAP. XVIII Comparison of Lunar Aspects § 1. The Synoptical Table of the Lunar Aspects compared 3. The greater warmth of the Later □ △ ⚹ apparently infer a Lunar Warmth 4. More Frosty days in the Former than the Later □ △ ⚹ 5. So more morning Frosts on the same ground 6. Astrology demonstrates 7 8. New Moon brings more hot days than the Full. So the Second Quadrate and Sextile a probable reason why the Trine doth not the like The Later Sextile brings more hot days than all 9. Difficulty and Charge in perpetual observation of Trajections Second Sextile brisk as any Aspects seem not wholly devested of Influence though under Hatches 10. For Lightning c. Second Trine is a busling Aspect The Sextiles favour Corruscations 11. Lightning may sometimes flash in greater or lesser Arches of the Skie according to the different extent of the Lunar Aspect 12. Aetna not unjustly imagined in the Lunar Globe 13. Full ☽ and △ most stormy 14. ☠and △ shifters of Wind. 15. The Changes shift not Wind so oft as the Full or First Quadrate 16. For Rains and excesses of
by heat Celestial some there are I grant besides the Story couched under the Tale of Phaeton as Eusebius records it § 7. Nor do the sad Revolutions of Pestilential years always perplex the Inhabitants of the more intemperate Climes the more indebted is the World to a Gracious Deity that Infinite Intelligence that moves the Spheres in such Harmonions Measures whose harsher notes are often interrupted by Pauses and Respites yea and a more equal mean not too High nor too Low Besides that we who live in more Temperate Climes are often refreshed with Rain and Moisture and fann'd with cooler Winds issuing from those priviledged places the North parts those Purlews of Heaven where Planets in their greatest Amplitude never yet dare shew their Head where Clouds obnubilating the Face of Heaven shall skreen the Sun from us and cool Water shall be cast into our Faces least we faint § 8. But here 's the inconvenience now we are apt to question all Authority of our Fore-Fathers because God hath seated us better than those Nations whose great Observers have testified the Truths they have experienced But can we believe no Truth but what we smart under Must we not be convinced of the Pestilential Infection till we are snatched away by the Contagious Converse I have known some so sceptical but they got nothing by it If Truth be a Stranger to us as sometimes 't is 't is a part of Civility to own and entertain a Stranger as knowing not of what descent he may be Must I be uncivil to a Person because I am not known to him Who is so happy as to be acquainted with all Truths He must be sure of all Perfections and have lived in all places who can pretend to it Say we then what is ♂ to us How Powerful is his Ray or Aspect § 9. Truly the same perhaps as with the Antients a hot and dry Star the Antient definitions run most upon Drought and make no mention of Rain scarce we had that it seems under ♀ and ☿ and scare the Arabs Table speaks of Dryth throughout every Sign multus calor Siccitas acris only ♠excepted and there he will allow us a little moisture Album apud Escuid § 10. Now though there be some necessity of asserting ♂ to be Friend to Moisture as before we have pronounced Lib. 1. c. 9. § 31. Seeing experience gives it in our Latitude at least yea seeing the Elevation or Mamareth of ☉ above ♂ brings a competent Moisture though the Elevation of ♂ above ☉ they will have to be droughty in the Arabs Table lastly seeing Ptolemy himself excludes not all Wet but supposed Violence of Wind and Dashings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is his Word which must imply some Violence as in our Lords Parable of Rain Floud when joyned with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to say nothing of Thunders which draw in Wet also yet this notwithstanding I must not deny that even in our Dropping Northerly Latitude ♂ appears still a drying kind of Planet as the Course of Nature goes and Art requires no further abounding I mean many times with more days of dry than wet For take our Martio-solar Table and compare it with our Home-Evidence of ♀ and ☿ and the Observations shall seem as if they were taken in different Climes a Dry and a Moist a Northern and Southern 'T is a piece of Entertainment to observe the difference For view our next large Table too large but that it is in order to settle the Notion and Definition of this Signal Aspect where some difficulty meets us and you shall find Dry Close Weather and Fog and Heat prevail only sometimes again it makes a start into a Storm or Dash with High Winds or Thunder but scarce to equal the Moiety of the many days comprised in the Table or if so far be sure from the Foecundity of ♀ and ☿ who have got the name for the moist Aspects and if our Tables be not vain deserve it § 11. But I can never be brought to say as dry as ♂ is that He is absolutely dry that he resists Moisture or contributes to Serenity I find him so often at a close Air which dry though it be betokens his Months Mind to something of Moisture though he must not as Providence will have it always accomplisht it § 12. For verily when we meet with an express droughty time as An. 1667. where the Trees in the Gladsome Month of May looked of a Fueille-de-Mort-Colour So An. 1669. when Rain was desired in June yea the last year Anno 1684. when all the Leaves in Summer time hung shriveld on the Trees when poor Cattel were at their Christmass Fodder the scorched Grass presenting all the bald places of the Earth I find no fault in our Aspect but the same Remora or Suspender of Moisture viz. ♃ and ♀ in the Sign immediately preceding in both the Former years and the immediate Vicinity of ♄ ♃ Anno 1684. as will be declar'd in due place so that we may solve it thus Dryth and Serenity when the Aspect is not assisted Dryth with an aptitude to Storm when it is prohibited by some counterpoise § 13. For an aptitude to Storm must be allowed to ♂ and for all as I know its prime natural Influence seeing we are willing and can easily solve the contrary appearances mostly taken notice of by the Antients because of their Hot and Dry Clime and the like § 14. For we must remember that ♂ is a slow-paced Planet and goes along with the ☉ near upon as ♀ doth so that within 5 degrees of each side of the ☌ and I could not allow less he spends a Month at least before he is unconcerned with the ☉ Now ♂ and ♀ would be little Furies if every time they met with the Sun they should nothing but drench the World with washing Rains or hurry the Atmosphere with Stormy Winds or set the Air on Fire with Meteors for a Month together Providence hath wisely ordered that in that Interval there shall happen variety of the Constitution and State of the Air for Her great ends unless perhaps a Fixed Month we think of but the Month which we consider is vagrant and runs through all the Seasons of the year as in the Table will appear § 15. How Dry Bodies as all Lucid Bodies are should produce Drought is no hard Problem But our Celestial Bodies must be consider'd not by themselves as in the Aetherial Region for there they produce nothing but dry Effects Comets suppose c. suitable to their Emanations But they must be consider'd as Instruments to move the Inferiour Regions of the Air filled with Vapour and Exhalation and so dry though they be they can produce moisture somewhat like a dry thaw after a hard Snowy Winter produceth a Floud § 16. Hence I surmise that ♂ himself under this Notion of an Instrument is not the occasion of Drought but as destitute of Able Friends or impeded by
☌ gr 3. ♂ ☿ gr 8. Aug. 14. Wind very great Snow half a foot deep p. 72 ☌ gr o. From August 24. ad 28. very much Wind a fear of the loss of the Bark p. 72. ☌ gr 4. Aug. 30. Surge of the Sea stroke in and the Boat swam Sept. 1. Great Winds N E. great Storm we lay at Hull every Sea overlooking our Poop p. 73. ☌ gr 7. ♂ ☿ gr 5. Anno 1579. Sept. 9. North-East winds making us take in our Sails till the end of the Month. Hakl p. 744. Vol. 3. ☌ gr 4. In September and October great winds and Flouds without rain at Newport Bedford Chester c. Howes 686. Anno 1583. Dec. 1. By contrary winds we were driven to Flimouth Hakl p. 134. Vol. 3. ☌ gr 5. ☌ ♉ ♀ ☠☿ 9. ☌ ♄ ♃ Dec. 18. By fair weather driven to Falmouth Hakl 16. Anno 1586. Febr. 23 Bristol very great Storm Hakl Vol. 2. p. 282. ♂ ☿ 11. March 28. Earthquakes mentioned at large in the East-Indies Anno 1518. May 1. Tempest of Rain and Thunder with alteration of Tides and Currents Purch p. 1. V. 2. ☌ ☉ ♂ ♄ May 10. Storm from the West day and Night Mr. Candish in Hakl Ed. 2. 822. ♂ ☿ 6. May 16. Very stiff Gales Id. as much wind as the Ship could bear Ib. ♂ ☿ May fine Tempest which scattered the Spanish Fleet How 's p. 1. ☌ ♄ ♂ Anno 1590. July ab 11. ad 22. Calm and exceeding hot neer Cuba Hakl V. 2. p. 240. Nay in Germany and Netherland Eichstad Cat. Anno 1594. Month of August Hot and Fair Howes Ingens Calor Eichstad Sept. Great Rains which raised high Waters in Surrey and Sussex upon which the price of Corn rose Howes ☌ ♂ ☉ ☿ Anno 1596. Eichstad notes great heat ☌ ☉ ♂ Oct. 15. Oct. 11. At Nova Zembla it snowed so hard that they made a May-pole of Snow Hakl 3. p. 492. Anno 1598. Princ. Thames almost froze ☌ ♂ ☉ Dec. 1. it thawed Dec. 18. gr 4. Anno 1603. March 12. Great Storm Purch part 4 p. 166. ☌ gr 4. ♂ ☿ April 28. Storm no Ship able to live Lib. 3. 192. May 3. Another sore Storm the Seas shook all our Iron Work Anno 1605. Mar 29. Wind blew hard at Virginia Cap. Smith pag. 117. ☌ Partil June 11. Ingens aestas Eichstad Anno 1607. July 26. Ingens calor Eichstad Anno 1609. July 24 Most terrible Tempests Purch p. 1. 1733. ☌ gr 10. ♄ ☠August 7. So much wind we were hardly able to keep the Shore Purch Lib. 3. p. 229. ☌ gr 5. ♂ ☿ Anno 1611. August 12. vd 27. Much Winds with Calms and contrary winds with a great Current Purch P. Lib. 3. p. 267. at Gardafeu ☌ ☉ ♄ gr 14 13 12 10. cum ☠♄ Sept. 21. For 6 days the wind against us which forced us to the Leeward N. Lat. 10. with Strong Current Purch 3. 278. ☌ ♂ ☉ gr 2. Octob. 2. Much rain Ib. ☌ gr 1. Sept. 2. Lao. S. 24. gr Between Cape Bon Sper and Madagascar we found no Westerly Monsons but contrary Ely Winds with extream Storms Rain Thunder and Lightning C. Saris. Purch 334. ☌ gr 9. ♂ ☿ 7. Sept. 10. Lat. So gr 17. Strong Current Wind N E. 334. ☌ gr 6. ♂ ☿ gr 2. in ♎ princ Sept. 11. Lat. So. gr A Storm Ib. the Storm continued with more Wind in the Night than the Day ut 5. Sept. 12. A Storm Ib. complaint of the Current See if ☌ ☉ ♂ be not vertical Purch Sept. 16. Strong Current So 17. ut supr Sept. 19. Extream Current suffered them not to stir notwithstanding a fair and desirable stiff Gale Ib. Lat. 16. So. usque ad Octob. 3. ☌ gr 3. ♂ ☿ 11. Anno 1613. Octobris mense many Chasms seen at Prague and Vienna Calvis December 7. Lat. N. gr 33. Very much Wind and Storms at N W. ☌ gr 8. Lat. 38. there we left the great Current Purchas Anno 1616. Jan 3. The Wind rising we put to Sea Purch 901. Jan. 10. 20. Lat. gr 53. Great Stream went South-West ☌ gr 2. Jan. 13. 23. It blew so hard we were forced to take in our Top-Sails Jan. 14. 24. About Evening it calmed and that Night we drave forward with a very hard Stream Thousands of Whales Jan. 15. 25. Latit 55. Stiff Gale Jan. 16. 26. Latit 51. A flying Storm out of the West Jan. 17. 27. Very cold Hail and Rain ☌ gr 3. ♂ ☿ 8. Jan. 4. Frigus recte predictum Herlino Anno 1618. Mart. 7. A Flame over the Pallace in Paris ☌ gr 2. supra March 12. A terrible Earthquake in the Indies April 15. At Mecha great Heat that men could not endure any Cloaths not so much as Linnen ☌ gr 7. April 21. Extream Heat with a Storm of Wind off the Shore Thunder and Lightning vehement but no rain Purch p. 624. ☌ gr 7. ☌ ☿ gr 7. Anno 1620. April 20. A Tast of the Tornados North Lat. 8. Purch 723. ☌ gr 7. ♂ ☿ 11. May 9. We cross'd the Aequator we would have cross'd it more Easterly but the Current and wind would not permit Purch 1. 723. ☌ gr 2. June 18. Pluit largissime continues Kepler ☌ gr 2. Anno 1622. June 18. Tempestuosum aestus Kepler ☌ gr 4. ♂ ☿ Partil July 1. Very dark day Showrs all night die eodem Fulgur Pluviae July 15. Near the Ladrones the Tuffon from the South broke two Calbes ☌ cum ♄ ♂ Purch 2. p. 1853. ☌ gr 5. July 19. Great rain July 20. Imbres crebri tonuit Kepler Anno 1524. August 18. In Norico ripensi Squalor Thunder exceeding hot and dry M. S. supra ☌ ♀ ☿ ☌ ☉ ♂ Anno 1626. Aug. 28. Chasmata ☌ cum aliis ☌ gr 5. Sept. 13. Ventus serenum mirante Keplero Anno 1628. Nov. 6. Parelia ☌ gr 4. Oct. English Fleet at the Isle of Re met with much Tempest Howes 1044. die 15. ☌ gr 10. ☿ 8. Anno 1633. Vesuvius burns several years after Transact 968. March 6. Cometa Lanceae Instar Calvis ☌ gr 4. Anno 1635. April 6. Rain and High Winds ☌ gr 4. ♂ ♀ gr 11. April 17. Tempestuous Winds and Rain April 19. Very turbulent Winds M. S. May 18. Hot and dry ☌ gr 2. ♂ ☿ gr 4. Anno 1637. June 15. Thunder a Souldier slain by it at Cassels Kyr ☌ Partil June 20. Halo Solis Kepler June 1. Earthquake in Tours ☌ ☉ ♀ ☌ ☉ ♂ gr 5. Anno 1639. July 24. Frost and cool Aug. 3. Iris Lunaris Kyriander Anno 1641. Aug. 25. and 26. Thunder Kyriander ☌ gr 3. Anno 1643. Oct. 3. Fiery Meteors in Breslaw ☌ cum ♃ Anno 1648. Jan. 5. Chasms in the N. M. S. ☌ gr 3. Anno 1650. Vesuvius Burns Calvis April 29. Formidable Thunders Rain near Leicester especially M. S. ☌ gr 3. § 41. The famed Violence of this Planet will be best apprehended when we have seen
a Fortnights experience at first Introduction Their Latitude above Gardefeu Again anonother Captain Sept. 21. nearer the time of ☌ ☉ ♂ which happened Sept. 27. ♎ 13. For 6 days together the Wind against our will forced us to the Leeward toward Shore with a Strong Current Lib. 3. Cap. 12. § 1. p. 278. After we had got clear of these dangers we found the Current to carry us to the Northwards Thirty Leagues when we thought we had pass'd but Fifteen Ib. Oct. 10 11 12. we found our selves to lose more and more every day by the Current Ib. Latitude by Judgement 70 Leagues above the Mozambique Third Captain near Madagascar or St. Laurence Isle Sept. 10. Lat. South gr 17. A strong Current setting South-West having a stiff Gale we could not but have run these 24 Hours 24 Leagues but in the Evening we made to the Island about 4 Leagues off Sept. 11. We were carried by the force of a Current to the Southward almost a degree Southward Sept. 13. The Current very strong against us Sept. 19. We steered North-East but by the extremity of the Current we were carryed to the Southward so that we were 10 days and could not get to the Northward notwithstanding we had a reasonable stiff Gale Lib. 4 p. 335. Sept. 21. The Current did set exceeding strongly to the South-West by West c. Sept. 22 23. We laboured to get rid of the Current Octob. 3. We came to an Anchor after much Trouble by Currents p. 336. That the Cause is from over-head the Seamen themselves suspect some have said it is the Full ☽ Purch p. 192. Others have said at times it is the New ☽ And they who expect to get clear of them by Alteration of the Latitude the depression of the Pole-Star and the like I can make it very probable that here at this year in this Latitude considering in what Sign our ☌ is celebrated in an Equinoctial Sign of ♎ and this over an Equinoctial Latitude that our ☌ of ☉ and ♂ doth trouble the Waters Especially when the Tables furnish us with the like Evidence at the same ☌ ☉ and ♂ in a different Month and different Latitude Anno 1612. Add a Third Testimony from a ☌ in January in another difference of Latitude we felt a great Stream saith the Seaman And a 4th Anno 1620. May 9. the ☌ being found May 16. 'T is out of road to pursue it further here If it proves thus it will become our Seamen to be no Strangers to Conjunctions to know a New ♂ as well as ☽ and the ☌ of ♂ and ☉ with them Yet let no man think I appropriate it to a Martial Aspect but I look upon ♂ as one of the Celestials which moves the Sea And if so then by Galilaeos his favour there will be no need of moving the Earth for the Flux of the Waters To the ☉ ☽ and Stars it belongs which seems to be proved from hence For if a part of the Heaven move a part of the Sea a Current then the Whole moves the whole § 49. And let no man object ♂ his unreasonable distance in my first Instance viz. of gr 14. for that Four Nights time terminates nearer to gr 12. 10. which we proclaim aloud to be a Legitimate distance such as doth strengthen rather than invalidate the Influence of the Application as we have said before before ever we dream't of such use to be made of it But then secondly we have nearer applications of ♂ to ☉ in the other 3 years yea in the very same No let us rather see by this how the Celestial Bodies irritate the Waters Beside the additions of moisture which they lend the Waters they put them into a Heat and a Ferment and make them run over as I suppose Both Tide and Current which are aloof from Shore Ordinary and extraordinary come to pass by a Fermentation see something of this Feb. 11. 1680. III. Tides in 5 hours on our Home River § 50. To conclude as the Heavenly Bodies operate on the Elements so do they one upon another to all seeming I mean as the Sun seems to be eclipsed Histories note and Astronomers also take notice that the Sun it self suffers labours and looks pale Nec prosunt Domino saith the Heathen Much ado hath been made from before in Heathen time with the Maculae Solis nay Spots are observed now with a delicate curiosity in the other Planets The Learned Ricciolus bids us be gone with our Astrology as if all the Changes of the Air were to be imputed to the ☉ alone with such Maculae or without Injuriously and Unhappily The First because 't is plain or may be plain that the Sun alone or ☽ cannot be the Causes of the Changes of the Air or Seasons of the year The Second because these Spots are the Products I speak probably again of those very Conjunctions and other Aspects which He with others proscribes This the kind Reader will give me further time if need be to make out § 51. Take we with the Character of the Aspect ☌ ☉ ♂ is apt to Heat and sometimes even in these Northern Climes to Dryth but more frequently to Lowr Bluster Rain gentle or dashing sometimes to Hail which though it be rare is more frequent under the Martial Aspect than in other Aspects In a weaker Condition it admits against its will a Frosty Season 'T is apt to colour the Clouds rising or setting with the Sun It is voic'd and truly for some malignity of Influence upon our Bodies whether which is to be noted it be Summer or Winter Hot or Cold as to Frosty Seasons with a little Help it uses to cause some Relent or to bring Snow CHAP. V. Opposition of Mars Sol. § 1. The Opposition and its Diary 2. The Breviate of the Diary 3. ☠☉ ♂ more cold than ☌ ♂ ☉ 4. Because ☠in general is cooler 5. Because the ☠☉ ♂ is shorter liv'd 6. ♂ in Perigee helps to smart Influence yet he is but solitary and therefore not so brisk 7. His Thunders in Summer do not hold in Winter 8. Ninety one days of 118. either Rain or Wind or Heat In frosty Seasons ♂ sits uneasie 9. Fog and hazy Air. 10. A Tempest given a Philosopher may know the Hour of the day 11. Forreign Table 12. ☌ and ☠of a like Influence for the Main 13. Maculae Solis 14. Thames stows thrice in 9 Hours 15. Suddain motion of the Mercury in the Barometer 16. The Dismal dark Sunday 17. Frosts are not to be ensured under ☉ ♂ 18. Why ♀ in Perigee is sometimes seen § 1. Conjunctions we have consider'd but this is the First Opposition which comes in our way the Lunar excepted We will present its Table because of its use yea because it is short and not clogging ☠♂ ☉ ad intervall hinc inde grad 5. 1653. ♠8. 25. May 6. III. Cloudy windy S W. IV. Showry windy S
sometimes are at a Platique distance and thereupon seem to have less Interest seeing we know not but nay it begins to appear now I imagine that a 10 12. gr distance or thereabouts are requisite to a more potent Influence than on the Partile Howbeit let it be divided amongst them and let the Platique be Equal in great Motions at least of Air and Earth Here I should say something to the paleness of the Solar Body those Changes which are counted prodigious and prove the Heavens Subject to Generation and Corruption but we are only upon a hot Sent of this Arcanum it may be we shall come to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have we not said something before also § 39. A Word or two about Currents as before in the preceding Aspects some Experience we have met with in this Quarter and are willing to present the Reader Anno 1605. June 1. Mighty Current violently brought us among the Mountains of Ice Hall's Voyage Purch p. 816. June 11. Fresh gale made the Seas high by reason of a Mighty Current which sets through the Straits Ib. ☌ ♂ with ☉ ♀ c. Anno 1609. June 3. Currents held us strong out of S W. North Lat. 58. Hudsons 3d Voyage to Nova Zembla Purch 582. gr 12. June 11 Current from the Northward deceived us 10 Leagues of our account N. Lat. 51. gr 10. cum ☌ ☉ ☿ Anno 1611. Oct. 10 11 12. a Current Downton's Voyage neer Zacotora cum ☉ ♂ gr 8. Purch p. 278. Oct. 22. Current Westward Ib. gr 2. Nov. 1. Afternoon we met with a Current C. Guarda de Fuy gr 3. cum ☉ ☿ 5. Current put us short 60 Leagues Purch 280. gr 5. cum ☉ ♀ and ☿ An. 1662. Dec. 29. Great Current to the Southward C. Limbery's Diary N. Lat ' 36. gr 7. cum ☉ ♂ Anno 1663. Jan. 9. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 28. gr ' 1. cum ♂ ☉ die 14. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 21. Id. ☉ being near the Zenith 18. Hindrance by a Current gr 3. cum ♂ ☿ Anno 1665. July 18 19. Help of a Strong Current Lat ' S. 22. near the Tropique gr 1. ♀ Stationary Aug ' 11. Great Current to the Southward Lat ' 37. Southward 12. 13 15 Currents 17. A Current deceived us by 73 Miles Lat ' 37. Southward 23. A Current deceived us 109. Miles since Aug. 18. ♂ ♀ gr 2. 24. A Current 25. Current of 18 Miles 26. Current of 34 Miles 27. Current set West by North South Lat ' 34. Sept. 1 2 3 4 5 Currents These are Currrents with a Witness § 40. Mr. Fournier in a particular Chapter concerning those Currents enquiring into the Cause tells us it is a very hard thing to assign it And as others before him refers it to the ☽ This we get by discarding Astrolology and the Influence of the other V. and yet stand dayly in need of them I do not commend these Disputants who when they could not find out an Aetherial Cause for some wondrous Effects in our visible Heaven refer'd them to the Empyreum But I confess I wonder that the Learned thought it bootless to overlook the Visible part of Heaven the Planets and their Configurations Men shall never give an account of these Great Questions if they deny our Influences no more than they can of the Magnet denying it efflux the Question is so gravelling And I hope Copernican's will not undertake it suposing the Motion of the Earth could give account of the Flux and Reflux Which Mr. Fournier hath shewn is not done yet by Galileo There is no medling wtth the Solution of this Phaenomenon by such a Principle The Currents are not Uniform nor perpetual as I am informed by my knowing Friends and I am glad on 't Glad of any occasion to make men enquire into a True though disgraced Principle The Motion of a Trough cannot make the Water boyl and swell in the Free Ocean The ☽ answers to all the variety of the Tide and the Planets to all the Variety of the Current How comes there a great Current Dec. 21. 1662. I will point you First to ♂ ♀ but 7 gr distance to ☉ and ♂ but 1 gr distant I will point to ☽ entring upon its Change her meeting with the Sun yea and ♂ also The ☽ will be allowed us especially if a New ☽ But why then a Strong Current Aug. 23. 1665. Will a Square of ☽ do it alone No ☌ ♂ ♀ within 2 degrees We have noted the Causes in the Diary all along ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ in the Zenith ♀ Stationary § 41. And Let me note here some Diversity of the Platique and Partile Aspect here it may be the Later conduces most forcible to this Effect when as the former may contribute to the Change of the Air I mean those which are accompanyed with Turbulency because such State of Air is more universal and unconfin'd then a Current seems to be The one is ty'd to a certain Elevation the other may reach from one Pole unto the other But I define nothing § 42. We are to treat next of Flouds whose Praediction if it may be reached is a matter of moment to the Publique He that makes inquest into the Cause may consider that they do not all arise on the same Spring some are Subitaneous the Product of 24 Hours or a less matter others rise by degrees and Steal upon the Land they invade by additional Portions And some I may call mixed such whose appearance is sudden and yet were gradual in their production I mean those which upon a sudden Thaw of much Snow successively fallen on the Days precedent render a large quantity at once in Water In this case the Enquirer is not to consider the precise day of the Overflow but to look back some Weeks more or less that he may if he can determine or at least take in the Time in which it fell Beside that some Flouds are caused they say in maritime Countryes by the Swelling of the Sea and by tempestuous Winds driving the rarified Brine over its Banks Such were those of Oct. 14. 1579. c. Surely in that of 1608. there are no gluts of Rain mentioned by Cambden And our Wonder may be confirmed when as we shall meet with Flouds which are said to have happened without any apparent Cause as if Overflows were to be distinguished some whereof had some again had no Cause apparent But the distinction must on no hand pass for having made some Diligent search into all that I could raed of 100. in number I found that they all admirably agree with the same Celestial Cause with very little variety of the Species from whence I am ascertain'd there is seldom an apparent Floud without an apparent Rain somewhere though not a drop falls perhaps in our Division for who knows not there are Topical Rains as well as Winds which will descend Secundo Flumine and betray the Injury
lowring in some quarters N W. 28. High wd flying Clouds and darkish S W. 29. Rain Sun or showring clearing at n. S W. 30. Fair storms of rain inconstant S W. Stormy wind p. m. and driving rain H. wind at n. Sept. 1. Showrs high wind at night S W. 2. Tempestuous a. l. Rain misty H. Halo at n. S W. N W. 3. Fr. fine m. some gentle showrs Ignis faticus at n. S W. 4. Clouds fly low rain thunder S W. N W. 5. Some coasting showrs N W. 6. Lowring some showrs thunder S W. 7. Frost bright low mist s showry S W. A o 1656. Sept. 8. â™ 96. Ab Aug. 25. ad Sept. 29. 25. Wind n. till 3 m. then calm cold wind rise 26. Overc. a. l. N W. mistyish Clouds fair N E. 27. H. winds offering high wind at n. N E. 28. Windy cloudy S E. N E. 29. Overc. blew mist S E. N E. 30. Close m. 31. Overcast m. N E. Sept. 1. Close S W. cool showring Ely 2. Close m. p. and cold Ely 3. Close cold Ely 4. Wind and showrs about o. blow away N E. 5. Thick mist m. Hempen clds little yet variable 6. Wind rise blackish clouds S W. 7. Close faint blackish clouds S E. 8. Some little showring o. store of Rainbow Lond. N E. 9. Close flying clouds lowring A flash of Lightning N E. 10. Close red clouds Ely at Sun acc N E. 11. Close lowring some wd N E. 12. Red m. fr. mist flying clouds N E. 13. Frost mist falls 8 m. flying clouds 14. Fine rain a. l. so after Sun ar rain 4 p. S W. 15. Rain a. l. wind cold cloudy N W. 16. Some drisling Sun occ N W. 17. Overc. m. clouds fly low N W. 18. White clouds some little gathering at n. W. 19. Some misling open 10 m. reddish clouds Ely A wide Halo 20. Fr. blew mist Halo S V V § 12. Saturn had never been known for a Cold Influx but by his Aspect and First with the Sun Now t is a pretty Problem how ♄ mixing with the Sun a Glorious Fiery Furnace should so easily Juggle as to practice Cold by such a Congress As Cardan faith He can be only less warm than the Sun and that a less degree of Warmth compared with a greater is absolute Cold As in Water of a low remiss Warmth saith he cast into a boyling Pot it allayes the wambling of the Liquor in Ptol. Lib. XII § 13. No question but ♄ is higher than any of the Planets because he i sooner discover'd upon the recess of the ☉ than those which are near I would it were as wellagreed how high he is how many Semidiameters of the Earth he is remote from us 'T is no question also but this height of ♄ helps or contributes to get him the Name of a Cool Planet and seems to favour those no mean Philosophers who explicate Cold by the nature of Privation or a less Agitation of the Spirits in or from that which is denominated a Cold Body compared to the agitation of the Spirits in the Warmer But besides that this Notion seems not to agree with Coldsharp Wind where the chill Spirit is more agitated than the Spirits of the Bloud or Organ 'T is all one to us whether it be Yea or Nay yet since we have said the Cold is a Spirit an Effluvium as what Body hath not sudden not always distinct and gradual in its Operation but both sudden and painful Now Pain is Solutio continui and therefore Cold must penetrate and separate even where no Wind is sensible and Expell the Contrary Spirit which accordingly retreats and is repell'd thereby The Touch of Brass Silver in cold Weather will force us to withdraw our Hand and for the Repulse of the Spirit who hath not seen a Cold Plate laid on the Neck stanch the bleeding at the Nose For Cold is an Enemy to Heat of which Enmity the Spirit is sensible and resists For whereas 't is said that Cold constringes the Pores I rather think it is the Animal Spirit shrinks from the approach of its Enemy first and then Nature shuts up the Avenues to hinder entrance § 14. 'T is to be considered also that Cold strikes up to the Head from the Sole of the Foot though well Shod and Arm'd against it if we walk on a Marble Pavement which shews one would think some Activity upon the Organ of Sence at some distance as a Torpedo benumming the Fishers hand on Shore when the Fish is in the Stream And for refrigeration sake to mix a cool Spirit with Wine we immerge it in Water or lay it in Earth There is a maniiest Penetration of the Cool Spirit where the case of Less Agitation will scarce hold for the Glass Bottle it may be is as cold as the Earth or Water either § 15. Now therefore that it repells the Spirit appears that after the handling of Snow the Sensory is Warmer because the Bloud returns with advantage to those Extream parts from whence it was driven there is a Perception in Nature and Contrary doth smell its Contrary To this purpose I remember long ago in a hard Winter where our Colledge Ale for that was our Liquor being conglaciated into a Capacious Vessel upon a Thaw never returned to its self but was found so much insipid Ice with this difference only that in the Center there was lodged about a Quart of much Stronger Liquor than any was put into the Câ—sk A manifest Evidence that Spirits being besieged by the Ambient Frost retreated thither as to their Cittadel The like is to be observed in Fruits which upon the Solution of great Frosts are known to putrifie because the proper Preservative some would call it the Balsannick Spirit of the Fruit is dislodged by the Cold so that the Warmth returning finds nothing there but the Carcase of the Apple M. Rohault an ingenious Cartesian meeting I see with this Objection confesses there is a destruction of the Nexus and Site of the Parts and what Parts can those be but the Spiricuous Add likewise the Instance of Mortification of the Members of our Body so ordinary in Muscovy and other Countries which could not be if the vital Spirits did not retire from the surface and return again not of a Sudden but by degrees Namely if upon their approach to Fire they lay Snow as the Story goes upon the part affected to prevent the fam'd Putrefaction § 16. I must not be long in this dispute only this I say we cannot shew a Corpuscle in the Privation which darkens the Air c. But in a great Frost we can shew the Cold Atoms Fluttering about us For in a Frosty morning the pruinous Atoms lye floating in the Air and the Traveller gathers them in his Frosty Locks oft-times hoary before his time we can guess also of what size the Atome is and that it inclines to Gravity we can tell to which of the Poles it is fled
very dangerous Storm ☠gr 22. Virginia 17 18. Blew hard ☠gr 16. 1589. Sept. 16. Store of Rain noct preced E. of Cumberland much Lightning nocte 17. Great Fish Ibid. Die 25. Great Tempest Hakl 2. 159. Oct. 2. Two Men slain with Lightning ☠♊ 1. 1591. April 7 Rainy Three Spouts ☠♊ â™ May 3. Terrible Gust with Lightning tore our Fore-Sail ☠in Tropic gr 6. 23. Cruel Gust of Rain 8. Fog and Tempest 10th Great Storms dispersing our Ships Hakl From April 18. to May 10. Furious Winds Purch 3. 1139. ☠in Tropic gr 8. distant May 13. ad June 10. Nothing but Tornado's we could not keep our selves dry Three Hours Hakl 103. ☠in Tropic Sept. 30. Cruel Storms as if the Sea would have swallowed the Isle Tercera Linschot ☠♊ â™ gr 5. distant Corvo Sept. 11. ad 14. Storms Unparalell'd Purch 3. p. 1629. ☠in Tropic gr 8. distant Near Silly Octob. 6. Winds and Rain gr 11. ☠Circ Octob. 11. Extream Storms ☠gr 14. ♋ â™ 1595. April 13. Thunder Lightning Die Paschatis stored with Rain yet very Cold ☠♌ gr 7. distant 1596. Aug. 23. Store of Lightning and Rain 24. Blows hard ☌ â™ 14. gr ☽ 30. Boistrous South-Wind and great Snow Sept. 4. Blows hard 7. Wind high Purch 1175. 8. Very Dangerous Storm Waves as high as the Top-Mast ☌ ♌ gr 20. 1597. April mens Cold Showrs 6. day Foul Weather stiff Winds 16. Foul Weather ☠♠gr 8. dist May 2. Storm foul Weather and great Winds 7. Foul and Snows hard ☠♠gr 15. dist May 24. Great store of Snow ☠♠gr 15. dist 1598. Aug. 7. Disjectae Naves Tempestate ♄ ☌ in ♎ vide ♃ ♀ London Sept. 5. Harmful Thunder ☌ ♎ gr 11. Dist Circ fin Sept. Many high Winds and Rain Octob. 8. Admiral lost a Boat and a Man ☠vel VC 1599. April and May Cold and Dry ☠in ♋ and ♈ May 2. Sudden Gusts of Wind about this time of the year are very Fruitful with Storms of Thunder and Lightning terrible and dangerous Purch I. p. 148. Our Misen was broke and split in the middle Pyrard's Voyage Purch 114. To II. ☠♠♉ 1602. Sept. 20. Tempest terrible ☌ in â™ fine gr 7. dist Inter Oct. 3. 31. Tempest and Current to the South ☌ gr 16. 1605. May 27. Blew hard C. Smith p. 19. ☠♊ â™ gr 6. distant Virginia June 11. Cold Snow and Hail ☠in fine ♋ gr 6. dist 1606. April 1. Much Rain 7. Great Storm 26. Much Stormy about a Fortnight ☌ gr 28. Distant May 4. ad 14. A Storm ☌ gr 26. dist sive SS July 24. Rain and Fog 25. Blows very hard all Night ☌ gr 26. August 4. Wind Rain very high Sea 10. Marvellous high 30. Blows very much gr 8. dist in Tropic 1607. Jun. princip Gusts of Rain 11. 6 or 7 Whales ☠gr 6. dist 14. Snow much Wind. 15. We lay at Drift ☠♑ gr 4. dist 99. Rain and Fog 23. Hard Gale great Rain as in England 25. About Noon Three Grampoises ☠in Tropic gr 4. dist 28. Hard Gale 29. The hardest Storm in the Voyage ☠gr 11. 15. A Mermaid Die eod VII Whales and Propisces ☠♑ ♋ gr 17. dist 10. Procella Imbres 13. Still Gale ☠gr 6. July 12. More Porpisces than before 14. Very much Rain and East-Wind 16. Rain and Storm ☠♋ gr 10. G. de Aguilla 18. Tempest and great Cold. Arthus 20. Grando mixta Ton. Fulgur Arth. ☌ gr 18. ☠♋ gr 22. 26. Tanta vis ventorum ut aliqui Umbilico tenus Aquis institerint Arthus ☠♋ gr 26. 14. Frost and Snow ☠gr 27. April 2. Mighty Storm for 6 hours ☌ in â™’ Ab April 4. We lay driving to and fro in the Sea ☌ growing all the while May 2. Hard Storm at South ☌ gr 7. dist 1608. June 2. Thunder and Lightning Vide supra in ♃ ♀ 5. Great Showr of Hail Kent July 26. Thunder Lightning Rain 1609. July 24. Storm unparalell'd 27. Corpo Santo's 1612. April 12. Wind blew hard N W. ☌ gr 9. 1615. Aug. 11. We labour'd to get to Land 14. Much Rain Thunder Lightning Indian Mosque split with a Thunder bolt ☠♈ ♎ gr 19. 20. Wind blew the white salt from off the Sea ☠gr 12. August mense c. Boisterous Winds Mâ—â—son not steady ☠in ♈ ♎ 22. Winds Impetuous while the ☽ was under the Earth ☠gr 11. 23. St. No. At Rio de Tumba in the West Indies Storms Rains Thunders haunted them till Sept. 13. that they could not find the Isle Coquez in 5 degrees Spilbergen in Purch 1. pag. 84. ♈ 27. ♄ ♎ 9. ♂ Ab. Aug. 19. ad 24. Blew very hard Storms and Thunder ☠gr 13. Sept. 3. A great Sea but little Wind E. ☠gr 4. 10. Much Rain and a Corpo Santo Foul Weather followed the Sea racked our Ships Sept. Water as white as Milk ☠gr 1. dist 23. Thunder Lightning ☠gr 12. distant 1616. April 6. Rainy and Smooth Water ☌ gr 24. 10. Blew hard a great Showr 16. Tornodo's from all parts of the Compass Stinking Rain ☌ gr 15. May 3. Many Tornado's ☌ gr 6. distant 1617. Aug. 25. Water white ☠gr 22. 1618. April 21. Storm Wind Thunder ☠gr 23. May 1. Storm for 3 Nights June 10. Foul Weather ☌ gr 7. in ♊ princip 1619. Sept. 27. All Night Tempestuous terrible Thunder and abundance of Rain East-Indies Purch 1. 660. â™ 10 ♂ ♊ 22. ♄ ♃ opp ♀ gr 10. ☉ gr 5. Octob. 1. A Night of Wind Rain Thunder and Lightning as either before or since I never saw â™ 13. ♂ ♊ 22. ♄ 1602. April 20. Tornado's ☌ gr 17. July 9. Storm great Extremity ☌ gr 17. in ♋ princip 26. Tempest terrible abundance of Rain 27. Stormy and dangerous ☌ gr 22. 28. Ad Aug. 1. Wind increased still Streights Nov. 19. Great Tempests ☠gr 18. 1621. Octob. 22. Venti furentes Kepl. ☠♑ ♋ gr 18. Streights Nov. 19. Great Tempests ☠gr 18. 1625. March a 22. ad 24. Pluit die nocteque ☠sive VC Kepler April 27. Fulgur Matutinum Kepl. ☠gr 7. May 8. Chasma Kyr ☠Partile in ♌ â™’ 18. Hail Snow lb. July Mense I observ'd it Thunder'd no less than 15 days apud Kyr ☠gr 26. June 11. Terrible Thunder Kyr ☠gr 13. 1626. July 3. Pluit noct tot ☌ gr 27. dist 7. Frigidae Pluviae multae 23. Procaellae Tonit Aestus cujus causam ignorare sa fatetur Keplerus ☠gr 18. 31. Tonit largi imbres ☌ gr 12. 1627. May 21. Ton. Cataractae ☠in ♠♓ gr 7. distant 1628. Sept. 7. Nimbi Grandinosi ☌ in ♎ gr 3. distant 1629. May 3. and 4. Cataractae illuvies prodigiosa demoutib Sudeticis Kepl. ☠♈ ♎ gr 13. distant June 14. Saeva Tempestas ☠gr 19. 19. Fulgura minacia ☠gr 29. 23. July 3. Tonitrua Crebra p. 348. ☠♎ 16
to do with the Picture for that the ☽ in ♒ is not yet ascended § 73. Add to these a few from our own Observation A o 1656. Sept. 22. Yarnton near Oxford Semicircle with Rainbow Colours 9 m. ☌ in fine ♠as before A o 1555. So near was I to have seen a Parelium but it was not my Lot A o 1662. Nov. 10. Lond. Iris ☌ in print ♠A o 1678. July 22. Two Rainbows ☌ in ♊ gr 5. distant besides Halo's Lunar Sept. 20. 25. A o 1556. Sept. 29. 1658. and Nov. 2. 1656. § 74. Admit also these from Kepler A o 1621. Aug. 16. Halo ☽ ♋ 17. ♄ ♑ 1. ♂ A o 1623. May 14. Parelia cum Halone Solis die 15. Irides A o 1621. Jan. 7. ♋ 1. ♄ ♑ 25. ☿ ☠May 15. ♋ 5. ♄ 26. ☉ ☌ July 13. ♋ 13. ♄ ♌ o. ☉ ☌ A o 1623. May 30. ♑ 16. ♂ ♌ 2. ♄ ☠A o 1625. Sept. 20. ♓ 27. ♂ ♠9. ♄ ☠A o 1626. July 8. ♌ 17. ♂ ♠12. ♄ ☌ Sept. 4. Iris ante ortum Solis ♠19. ♄ 24. ♂ ☌ A o 1627. June 16. ♠22. ♄ ♈ 17. ♂ ☠A o 1628. Aug. 14. ♠23. ♂ ♎ 9. ♄ ☌ A o 1629. Aug. 26. ♎ 1. ♂ ♎ 10. ♄ ☌ Parelia May 14. 1623. cum halone Solis die prox ♒ 9. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ ☠§ 75. It will be said these distances are too unreasonable we may comprehend what not at so great a Liberty The answer may be that 't is not perpetual There are some Neighbourly distances 2. For all as I see the greatness of the Distance conduceth to the Effect provided 30 degrees be not exceeded For to paint a Sun or a Lucid Globe in the Water as the Parelium may seem to be requires many a Ray issuing from Arches of a Circumference some less some greater which Suspicion of mine will be found true if we go no further then attending to and comparing those very Instances Jan. 17. and May 15. 1621. Sept. 20. 1625. But we hast This is not a place for it Only this by the way if we were to treat of the Parelia purposely we see we should here also find the Tropiques and Equinoxes § 76. Sol Pallidus noted in Kepler's Diary whatsoever it signifies is not much different from the Halo c. the Causes and Distances of those Operants are near alike First Nov. 20. A o 1621. ♋ 20. ♄ ♒ 8. ♂ April 1. A o 1629. ♑ 3. ♂ ♋ 28. ♄ May 15. A o 1627. ♠21. ♄ ♓ 24. ♂ June 11. A o 1627. ♠23. ♄ ♈ 13. ♂ April 29. A o 1625. ♒ 19. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ ♄ and ♂ in some Signs I find conduce to a Mystiness as may be observed by our Domestique Diary if ☉ Pallidus be no more nor the Coelum Sanguineum twice met under Territories of ♄ and ♂ the matter is not much though not unworthy of a Remark Octob. 13. 1625. Caelum Sanguin and before that Sol Sanguin April 24. 1623. ♑ 4. ♂ 28. ♄ § 77. This it may be runs higher than we imagine for of Old in the former Century we meet with in April 1547. Universal News of Sol darkned for 3 or 4 Days die 22. c. That it was a prodigious Spectacle throughout all France and Germany some say Britain though our Chronicles are silent noted by Calvisius and Fromond from Lycost and Fritschius when Writers do believe that the ☉ was close Mourner for the Prince Elector Fredrick being taken Whatsoever the matter was that which we regard at present is the place of ♄ ♑ 5. contributing to the Phaenomenon and ♂ in ♊ fine not much above 5. grad dist from a compleat Opposition ♂ I say near ♋ and the ☽ also opposing ♄ in the beginning of ♑ I thought it once had been a Flaw in Calvisius's Chronology that he could not give an account of a Vernal Eclipse of the Sun in the 7th year of Xerxes Anno Christi Nat. 478. for I reckoned there could be no Solar Obscuration otherwise except miraculous but I see there may be some rarer Phaenomenon of this kind from Natural Causes besides a proper Eclipse such are produced by Kepler Epit. Astron § 78. For the Maculae Solis whether they be distinguished from the former Obscurations or not I have a few stragling Instances I don't mention that of March 25. April 5. because the distance is of gr 20. Nor that of May 19. 29. because the distance is of gr 17. Yet a fond Man would mark the Identity of those distances especially when there haps a third and who knows how many more § 79. But I produce May 1. 1625. and June 8. a noted space for the Month wherein our Aspects sweetly reign in ♌ and ♒ I produce 2dly the Month of June 1642. where some Learned Men have ventur'd to teach that the Months was Cold because of the multitude of the Maculae which rebated the Solar Heat Then which there cannot be a greater Demonstration of our Principle for we have here ☌ ♄ ♂ under the Equinox which will give a shrewd Essay to tinge the Sun with their Impressions but there is a Triple Conjunction Flush of Three in ♓ They the Three Superiours which say we can aid the Multitudinem Macularum yea and the Cold too For what Communication of direct Rayes is there between the place of the 3 Superiours and the Place of the ☉ ♀ or ☿ That is the True Cause of the Cold and He may set his Heart at rest who thinks to find any new Principle from the aculae or any thing that concerns the Sun in its solitary Capacity These Instances from Ricciolus I produce 3dly Sept. 1643. S. N. the most of that Month is taken up by ☠♄ ♂ alike tripled though as before in the Conjunction I shall only point at a Spot which came into Play die 14. S. N. the place of ♂ in ♎ 1 of ♄ in ♈ 5. you see how near the Opposition This Macula afterward saith Hevelius was divided into many and on day 19. they met again in ours only in Unam iterum co aluêre and whether this day appears not to be the day of the precise Aspect The 4th of June A o 1614. a New Macula appear'd and held out 6 or 7 days within 3 days of the precise ☌ in ♈ 18. when the soul Weather screen'd it from the diligent Observator when that 3 days after the Weather was fair the same Macula was seen again and not without a Partner Hevelius Appendix to his Selenography § 80. For a Farewel to ♄ and ♂ It would not be convenient we should take leave of our Forein Diary till we have noted the extremity of some Constitutions and the singular accidents therein mentioned To find Hurricanes yea Tuffons Storms which are termed unparallel'd incredible beyond the reach of Nature The Truth is Hurricanes and Tuffons especially come with such Violence that ordinary Nature stands amazed at
10. Ventus Vehementiss id in â™ and ♉ 20. Die 13. Boistrous as might be and Rain id Die 16. Ventus longe Vehementiss 1550. Aug. 5. Tuffon near Laubin Fritsch ♊ 9. ☌ 24. ♃ Add ♋ 6. ♀ June 11 12 13. Stormy that those which were on shore durst not return Lat. 65. Hakl 314. â™ 27. ♃ ♊ 18. ♂ Die 18. Wind Northerly constrained us to go back Ib. October 5. Lat. N. 41. Very foul Weather with Winds Rain Towerson Hakl 129. â™ 26. ♂ ♑ 2. ♃ Die 16 17. Near the Isle of Wight Great Storm Towerson Hakl p. 130. ☌ in ♑ 4. Nov. 10. Russian Embassadors Vessel cast away on the Scottish Coasts the Embassadour scarce escaping Stow ☌ in ♑ and â™ 25. ♀ ♑ 8. ♃ 1558. July 15. Hurricane through a great part of France quo tempore exacte Novilunium fuit Gem. Hakl ♌ 23. ♃ â™’ 2. ♂ Die 15. Near Volga great Storm at S E. Jenkins Hakl p. 350. ☠♌ â™’ Aug. 13. Caspian Sea Storm from the East for 3 days we thought we should have perished Hakl p. 351. 1562. Jan. 21 22 23. Horrida ventosa Tempestas Gem. ♈ 24. ♂ ♉ 22. ♃ Again March 11. ☌ in ♉ 26. Totius anni status Tempestatib ventorum procellis infestus Gem. 2. 37. ♃ with ♂ in Signo eodem ad Maii finem usque cum ♀ ☿ usque ad June 1668. October 9. Extreme Storm for every Hour we feared Shipwrack Hawkins in Hakl p. 556. â™ 21. ♂ â™ 9. ♃ 1576. July 1. Much Wind we spoon'd before the Sea So die 8. again Hakl 618. ♑ 23. ♂ ♌ 15. ♃ 1577. Nov. 30. Two Barks Company lost by Tempest and Fog Hakl 3. p. 39. â™ 12. ♂ 22. ♃ Die 30. A Surge of the Sea took the Master of the Gabriel over-board Hakl 3. p. 72. Sept. 1. Storm very great every Sea over-raking the Poop Hakl 3. p. 72. Frobisher â™ 12. ♂ 22. ♃ Die 23. Coasts of Cornwal very foul Weather Frobisher â™ 22. ♂ 26. ♃ Octob. 16. Great Storm W. S W. within a days Sail of the Isle of Wight Towerson Hakl 2. p. 51. ♎ 2. ♃ 11 ♂ Nov. 13. Sir Francis Drake departed from Plimouth and next day was in great danger his Mast broke Arthus p. 8. ♎ 7. ♃ 29. ♂ 1578. Jan. 20. Friesland cover'd with Snow Frobisher Hakl 3. p. 752. ♓ 25. ♂ ♎ 5. ♃ July 2. Storm carryed the Ship in the midst of the Icy Mountains Hakl p. 40 41. ♈ 1. ♂ ♎ 6. ♃ Julii Mense Snow and Hail Frobisher p. 48. ♃ and ♂ opposed and not wholly the Distemper of the Country as Frob. imagines July 26. Terrible Tempests with Snow we could not open our Eyes nor hand the Ropes Hakl 1. 42. ♊ 9. ♃ ♈ 17. ♂ Aug. 31. Outragious Tempest separated M. Frobishes Fleet continued a long time the Fleet met not till Sept. 20. The whole Month stormy Hakl 3. 44. and 92. ♈ 13. ♂ ♎ 16. ♃ Sept. 1. Lost Anchor and Cable Hakl Nov. 1. Terrible Tempest Purch I. p. 42. ♈ 13. ♂ â™ 2 ♂ and ☌ ♂ ☿ in â™ 1579. Febr. 4. ad 8. day Snow two Foot in the shallow Stow ☌ in ♉ 13. Octob. 1. Sea swell'd Merchants lost their Goods on Shore many drowned Stow 686. ♎ 22. ♂ â™ 19. ♂ 1580. July 2. Wind blew very much great Fog Hakl 1. 469. Die 23. Very much Wind Rain and Fog Ib. Die 27. Snow all Night and much Wind. Aug. 2. Very much foul Weather P. M. nocte tot Die 5. Rain and very much Wind c. Die 13. Blew very hard great store of Snow We lay Hakl 171. Die 15. 16. Windy and Rainy Sept. 2. Winds variable at all points of the Compass so much Wind in this Night we lay at Hull near Foulness Sept. 5 6 7. Very foul Weather Hakl 1. p. 474. Happy the Ship in Harbour ☠♊ â™ princ Die 23. 27. Norway very much Wind with Rain and Fog Hakl Ib. ☠ut supra Octob. 1. ad 7. Very much Wind and Vehement Blasts Foul Weather especially the 4th when our Cable broke Nor is it possible more Wind should blow Hakl 1. 475. ☠♊ â™ Octob. 17. ad 22. Mediterranean Sea Horrid Tempest Prosper Alpin Africi Venti eo tempore flare soleâ—t procellosi lb. Octob. 8. ad 24. Flouds Catarrhs Fog Rain 18. Dec. 3. So much Wind that we could bear but our Fore-Course Hakl 16. ♊ ♂ â™ 24. ♃ Die 27. Snow all Night with much Wind. 1551. March 7 8. Procellosa Navigatio Alpin Purch ♊ 22. ♂ ♑ 4. ♃ April 5. ad 11. Very great Winds and Storms Purch 1. p. 1411. ♃ and ♂ in ♑ and ♋ 1586. June 12. Great Tempests sever'd Fleets Arthus Occid ind p. 8. ♊ 6. ♂ 24. ♃ June 13. Virginia an unusual Storm for 4 days Hakl p. 746. ♊ 8. ♂ 25. ♃ Great Billows and Showrs Liusoh p. 373. A 16. ad 29. Many Tempestuous Storms Hakl Ib. ♊ o. ♂ 25. ♃ July 7. Whirlwind takes up the Water Hakl Ab Aug. 28. ad Sept. 1. Lat. 50. Two very great Storms Hakl p. 785. ♋ 10 ♃ 26. ♂ Sept. 6. ad 10. Mighty Storm which unrigg'd our Ship Cable broke so that we expected to be driven on Shore Hakl 786. ♋ 22. ♃ ♌ 8. ♂ Sept. 3. Long Voyage unhappy Cavendish apud Hakl Very great Storm lost the Sight of the Pinnace which Pinnace never returned Hakl Ib. ♋ 11. ♃ ♌ 2. ♂ July 8. Tempest Winds Seas bellowing ♊ 24 ♂ ♋ o. ♃ Die 9. A Corpo Santo Ib. 1588. Sept. 2. Tempest cast part of the Armado on the Irish Coast where many Ships perished Purch 109. ♌ 14. ♂ â™ 2. ♃ Sept. 8. Plimouth Terrible Storms tearing Sails Oars How 's 813. ♌ 18. ♂ â™ 4. ♃ 1598. Jan. 1. ad March 14. Stormy Weather ☠♈ ♎ cum ♀ in ♈ Sept. 14 15. Storm Hakl 294. ☌ in ♎ una cum ☉ 1595. June 20. Foul Weather Stow ♈ 21. ♂ 14. ♃ April 18. Furious Tempest broke Cables and lost Anchors Hakl p. 582. ♈ 1. ♃ 6 ♂ 1590. Octob. 5 8. Blew hard Purch ♎ 24. ♂ ♉ 8. ♃ Die 18. Great Storm and Cold â™ 3. ♉ 0. ♃ Die 31. Great Snow â™ 12. ♂ ♉ 4. ♃ Nov. 13. Foul Weather great Snow Purch â™ 21. ♂ ♉ 8. ♃ 1597. June 21. Isle of Blank much Wind at E. Hakl 3. p. 195. ♉ 5. ♂ ♊ 4. ♃ Die 24 25. Plimouth extreme foul Weather Purch Die 26. Blew hard from South July 19. Earl of Essex Fleet from the Azores 60 Leagues from Plimouth driven back by a Storm of 4 days Howes p. 783. ♉ 26. ♃ ♊ 10. ♂ Aug. 1. Wind hard Waves hollow Die 1â— Storm Purch 1. p. 709. Die 17. English Fleet dispersed with many Storms and foul Weather ♊ 14. ♃ ♂ Sept. 5. met at the Azores How 's 783. Die 28. Wind blew hard Octob. 14. great Storm danger of drowning Purch 3. 1212. ♊ 15. ♃ ♋ 8. ♂ Oct. fin on the Coast of
2. then besure ♃ ♂ are within Terms also note his ☌ with ♀ would be scarce Innocent But this is not all To see that our Aspect will be owned as we have more then once observed the Aspect which entred about the middle of Aug. runs through ♋ ♌ and falls not till almost August enters again conecting the Pestilences of those years and twisting them into one Thrid though the Winter perhaps be a little more Slender and the Aestival more Cable-like in my mind who Plead for co-existence of Causes with Effects This is considerable others may enjoy their Principles where I poor Grosse-Test can find no Footing Alass Who can walk upon the Water 1649. Sickly London Graunt ☌ ♃ ♂ in July c. That is too pat I list not to speak of the Pest at Amsterdam and Harlem because they fall not under any Aspect of the Superiors For as considerable as they are they do not exhaust all the Doctrine of the Causes of Pestilence over-head They are to be produc'd in a Planetary Tract rather Only this agrees and suits with what is before deliver'd that on September the 27th which proved the Highest Week we can point out one that is guilty and scarce flies for the same A □ though not ☌ ♃ ♂ 1658. Sickly City in London Grant I want the Weekly account here and perhaps there is no need of it ♃ ♂ together in ♋ at the beginning of Summer which least they should cool in June and July are renewed by a deputy Congress of ☿ instead of ♂ ☿ Stationary or Retr we have said is as Malefique as any ♂ of them all 1661. In ♄ 's Table it may be objected that the Bill did not start up in to 500. c. till ♄ and ♂ were expired be it so But have we not said even now that ♀ Stationary is equivalent to ♂ and that is entred upon a ☌ with ♃ before the Start and lasts till ☌ ♄ ♂ comes in at October who are met in ♠But that ☌ is innocent in comparison of what we advance ☌ ♃ ☿ Stationary in ♠the highest Week whose Total was 600. Aug. 27. under the said ☌ ♃ ☿ Stationary 1665. There remains A o 1665. A 100000. Persons more it may be than are born in a years time throughout England I am not pleased with Aug. 1690. nor perhaps July 91. nor May c. 92. but I hope London will never tast the like There were Councils of War and Parties and Ambushes and Retreats 't is a wonder to see the Military Discipline There were ♄ ♀ in Tropic ☠in May. There was ♄ and ☿ in the same ☠There we had ♄ opposing ♀ ☿ both Stationary in June Do you hear or understand our Terms There was ♄ ♀ opposing ♀ ☿ still Stationary in July where ♄ got into Opposition with ♂ and now the Thousands are blown up into a Swelling Total ♃ ♂ inflames the Mortality Bill to 7000. when ☠♃ ♂ mingles which begins according to us in the midst of Aug. In September ♃ ♂ with ♀ holds up the Malignity And Oh unhappy but too true observation at the time of the ☠think you the Bill was at highest after it pleas'd God it decreased And How many think you Even 1800. in the next Week because the Aspect after the Congress is Weaker in the Recess than in the Access as in other cases hath bin said but the succeding Week proved not so the measure of abatement was not half the former Sum to shew it is not the Declension of the Sun only or the Time of the year in general for then it would have abated in Proportion but 't is some other more particular disposition of that Woful year 1665. Howbeit in the midst of October it remitted by 1800 again in ☠though still yet upon leaving the Aestival Sign ♌ which Signs Aestival are the Life of the Death the Vigour and Sting next to Sin is the cause of all Here I observed that if it had abated a 1000 per week by Novembers midst there should have been but two hundred or say 3. or 460. Funerals but in the midst of Nov. we find 1300. and the following 900. because in my opinion the Aspect was not disengaged till that time Then it was and lo the Week was content with a pretty reasonable and ordinary Sum of 500 and odd To them be it who make ill use of these Discourses who can believe a Prime Cause and yet admit no second or will not Worship him unless he acts by Miracle No man seems to magnifie the Deity more than an Enthusiast but the Sober Principle resisting no Light Loves and fears God as He is and as he shews himself not ridiculous either to Christians or Heathens Thus doth the Pestilence walk in Darkness the Sickness destroys at the noon day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not two Evil Angels as the Talmudists yea the Chaldee Paraphrase Septuagint consenting but the Striking Influence Diurnal Nocturnal Those Arrows from Heaven that fly by Day and Those Mortal surprizes that ensnare us by Night whence the Psalm is called a Song of Evil Occurrents for as the Prime Cause makes his Sun to Shine on the Just and the Unjust so he makes his Planets and Fixed Stars to burn us where he pleaseth For no body tells us that in Contagious Diseases Nights are more easily passed than the days the Celestial Influence being equal as in the Chasme Motion of the Seas Tempests and Earthquakes is apparent Where upon I was apt to think that Those Hebrew Doctors for their imperfect Notices of things increased by a glimpse perhaps of the Wasting Spirit in the Word there used might construe it of Spirits which was to be interpreted of Influences So I say that whatsoever Truth there may be in the Jewish Glosses of That and other Places in Holy Writ seeing it owns a Destroying Angel and Evil Angels are more busie not only in Temptations but also Ministerial Executions of Wrath I must whatsoever becomes of Tempests not be engaged to discharge our Influences The year 1665. was generally noted for a Dry Misty year if the Influences caused that Constitution they had a hand in the Malady Currents under ♃ and ♂ § 69. For Currents c. I am aware that I may seem like a Horse used to the Road and cannot get out but when I consider that I do hereby advance a Stock toward the Discovery of the Cause whether Celestial or no I shall find some Mitigation of Censure Here we have but a few to trouble the Reader as 1609. Febr. 19. High Water at London-Bridge when it should have been Dead Low Childrey p. 95. ♉ 10. ♂ 11. ♃ 1616. Aug. 7. Calm and strong Current ♠18. ♃ ♋ 4. ♂ ☌ ♀ ☿ 1618. Dec. 19. Great Current fell the Admiral in danger of Shipwrack ♠4. ♃ ♎ 2. ♂ ☌ ☉ ☿ □ ♄ ♃ 1620. March 5. A Current ♈ 13. ♂ 19. ♃ May the 8. A
Febr. 22. March 15. April 17. but before that from May 22. to Aug. 2. when They come within 8 degrees in Summer Months where the Aspect doth not seem so much for our turn the Critical Position as it uses altering the Case Well it will yield us the more Instances under the Style of Heat Moisture Storms c. Yet even here we meet with the German Diary Frost at the end of May Hart Reif Cool Weather yea Cold on June 21 25 27. with Snow or Clouds ready for Snow if I read the Dutch right Kait Wind Schnee Wolken so hard is it an for Aspect in the Various Changes of the Celestial Motions not to shew its Teeth See Kyrianders Diary § 18. But the next ☌ of 1662. is quite for our turn and the next 20 years after too much for our turn when first that of 1662. brought Cakes of Ice in the Thames at the end of November December's beginning about a Fortnights time and Renew'd then a 2d time at December's end at what time the River was scarce passable At it again A o 1663. where extreme Frost and hard Winterly Weather in the Close of January brought much Ice a third time upon the River when besides Frosts in the mean space appear'd Cold and Chill Winds pinching the Spring at the end of March April too was much upon an Easterly Wind by the same token that my Memorial tells me on May 2. I saw ♄ and ♃ within two degrees I suspected something even then that they were some Cause of that Constitution following whatsoever I thought of the Cold preceding The Truth is the Aspect lasts all the year within 8 degrees Compass and Tokens thereof may be discerned in its Cold Influence I mean in the Frost of Aug. die 11 13 20 21 22 28 29 30. in September October December § 19. But That of 1682. according to my terms of grad 8. begins about July 10. and ends not till a year after Aug. 24. 1683. By my Notes I find a Cold Night in the midst of July 1682. yea and Frosty Cold Pinching Mornings besides the Day time August 3. and 4. and so Signal was it two Months before Christmass that I remember according to my Notes Gentlemen got on their Upper Coats and Cloaks in spight of the Cuerpo mode to defend their Shoulders from the Cold. But in November of the year 1683. There There began the Winter which told us a heavy tale and lasted with a small Interruption of 4 or 5 days till the New ☽ after Candlemass 1684. That is the Winter under which we groan'd a Twelve-month after whose farewell had a Sting for bringing a dry Summer after it a Badge of ♄ and ♃ when they are not master'd the Markets forgot their Plenty of Flesh and Fish the later being kill'd by the Frost and the former by the Drought Cattle being pinch'd in their Pasture the poor Vegetable perish'd scarce a Sallard to be seen the Grape intercepted and the Artichoke destroyed Rosemary and Bays became new Exolick Plants This was the Winter that clos'd up the Thames and made it Terra Firma when his Majesty of Happy Memory being Sollicitous for Ice at the end of November before was told His Swans would have Ice enough before that Winter was over the Wizard intimating That Frost which upon the Position of ♄ and ♃ he saw would be so severe The Truth of it is the Planets are not within the compass of 8 degrees Alass we stated that number for Rudiment and Introduction sake we confin'd our selves to it at first only to introduce not to exclude the greater Distance Know therefore that at this ☌ They were both in ♠above twice 8 degrees distance and the better Artist must consider them both nearer and further the one sometimes at other times the other taking place And it is no News for thus we find in Keplers Diary Forty years ago when the two Planets met in ♌ Honest Kepler is at a loss for the reason of a Cold Winter especially of the Hyemal Cold in March 1621. Alass Good Man how doth he turn every Stone How doth he conjure for it out of the Earth but it answers not The Superiour Aspects have been in Play for two year before as we could prove from his own Annotations the short is March proved so Cold that it minded the Goodman of his Country Proverb which counsels the Old Men to put on their Swords to defend them from the sharp Assaults of the Air. ♄ and ♃ are but 10 degrees distant but he not dreaming of such Martialists hath recourse to the Nature of the Month. But what is the Nature of the Month 'T is he himself who asks the Question and 't is a worthy Question Quae potest esse natura partis anni aut quae est substantia temporis what Body hath time which is indued with such Working Faculties 'T is the Sun Characters a Month in specie and the rest with the ☉ characters it in individuo He imputes it to the melting of the Snow on the Alps which causeth he saith those Cold Winds which bring the Winter Frost But why is it constantly so every March There 's Snow on the Alps every Winter We find not A o 1621. A o 1622. 1623. 1624. we find ♄ and ♃ A o 1626. we find no such thing again As for the rest we must remember there are other Cool Aspects of ♃ besides ♄ and ♃ Nay 2ly I could never disgest the pretence of Cold Winds from melting of Snow Flouds and Waters I understand and a Crude Air but that melting of Snow on the Mountains should cause Frost and Snow in the Valleys I pretend not to understand For Wind formally consider'd rises not from the moistned Earth nor falls by its own Weight the Cold is its own Property which it lendeth and borroweth not Again in Snow its self Air relents how much less does it Freez when the Snow Thaws Motion is the Formality of Wind but Motion requires an Application of a new Cause There is Master I grant in the Atmosphere Plenty when Snow melts as there is in the Bellows deducted but there wants an impulse an Aspect a Constellation as we have defin'd it at the beginning to make a Wind. § 20. Now why may not I look back into the former Century I do amiss in sparing the Labour in the year 1563. 1564. you shall find a Frost parallel to that of ours 120 years after about Christmas as with us it was unsupportable the Ears of the Poor their Hands and other parts gangreen'd the Nut the Pear the Peach the Rose-Tree the Vines all but Root utterly extinguish'd Death of Man and Beast Dearth of all things folfowed Gemma Cosmoc 2 44. And would you know now where our Planets were You will find them upon the matter in the same places One in ♌ the other in ♠then and Both in ♠now ♄ being but newly entred § 21. Pass we now from
even beyond a Quincunx profess their inclinations but the distance is too wide nor is it our interest to prove our Planets to have a Natural tendency to such Excesses yet because the Reports are so large p. 613 614. we refer them to the ☠♄ ♂ in ♌ and ♒ and to the Planets in ♋ in ♋ I say of which ♃ is the chief § 52. I need not force in any Instances the Rhine will bear Witness A o 1553 June 19. to such Excesses endamaging all the Cities I think for they say They were infinite that are situate near its noble Stream Take Notice if you please of ♃ and ☿ 's Congress but withal note that ♃ and ♄ are in Oppositional Quincunx ♌ 4. ♓ 4. Lycosth 616. Yea in Aug. A o 1552. Die 13. Budissina Peucer's Native Country felt the smart of a Cataract they call it a piece of a Cloud a Spout they would say that drown'd all for the space of 2 miles with 30 men lost Peucer p. 340. A strong ☠of ♄ and ♃ with other Planets to back him or seeing we have heard of the Phrase before now to make a Conspiracy Sooner or later doth not vary the Species a Spout there is a Floud which the Seamen describe to be a Cloud with a Tail like a Serpent drawing the Waters in a Smoak or Mist and wherever it falls Wo to the Sea-farer Hakl Vol. 2. p. 106. One of these in Aug. XXVII Another Octob. XX. p. 110. In the First a Partil ☠of ♄ and ♃ in the second X. degrees distance § 53. A o 1564. Sept. 20. Our Thames overflowed and drowned much Cattle Let any man look into the Ephemeris and take notice how many of the VII are in ♎ IV. of VII yea or the 20. day V. reckoning ♈ to its opposite Sign A notable Instance of what we have asserted about Equinoctial Tides and the Raising of Water by Rarefaction which our late ingenuous Theorist of the Earth considered not when concerning the Floud he affirmed there was no Water in Nature sufficient for it § 54. A o 1565. in January and February at Lovain the River Dilia overflowed in that Prodigious Winter which scarce ended before April The later of these Febr. 11. did much harm Gem. 2. 42 43. ♂ and ♀ are in ☌ we have said before but so is ♃ and ♄ which hath Influence not only on that over-long Winter but also in the excess of Snow or Rain according as they were provok'd § 55. The next ☠lands us on 1573. in ♉ and ♠upon which account the years concerned are famous upon Record Comets Flouds Pests Why I tell you the New Star in Cassiopeia as sure as you are there is the Offspring of ♄ and ♃ Let me dispatch the Flouds and I will prove it But Oh the Flouds If it be but that at Lovain Jan. 8. 1573. where the Waters rose upon the Thaw above 17. Cubits high so described by Gemma by ruining of Houses Trees Bridges Mills Pillars Floating of Beds Trunks and all manner of House-hold Goods Consternation and Shrieking of all Sorts and Sexes that it brings a cold Steam upon the Heart of the Reader so prodigious that an Astrologer though he be allowing the Snows and the Thaw and all that still wonders at the Cause and offers at some Fermentation which he imagines to arise from the mixture of snow-Snow-Water c. A Point which ought to be consider'd but neither so was he yet satisfied He might have been satisfied had he consider'd the pure fermenting Power of our Aspect opened by the Appulse of ♂ and ☽ for there was neither Change nor Quarter in respect of the Sun if he had consider'd the Reach of our Aspect which is confess'd in in its Partile Estate to cause Flouds and Inundations which it concerns us to know for the Relator himself was almost drowned in common danger though the Floud coming by day God be thanked not above 8 or 9 were lost § 56. But there is more Wo yet In the same year and in Summer time in the beginning of July it self a Deluge happened not in one City or so but the Country it self Holland with Frieseland were plagued Inaudita Clade Gem. 2. 167. where the Learned Man tells us that the New Star in Cassiopeia was at that time abated of its Greatness and Splendour yea but ♄ and ♃ were under no abatement They were in a ☌ Partile not above a Month before we must not dare to mention the Pleiades engaged between them But so it was whether our Planets signifie any thing or no that we in England heard of a harmful Floud at Tocester by a Storm of Hail and Rain June 7. which gives us a little tast what was the Constitution of the most part of June which raised such Flouds there and elsewhere Let the Reader be pleased to consider and he will allow something to our Alms-Basket especially when there comes a 3d. or 4th Inundation in West-Frieseland as rueful and as masterless In the mean time let me tell him my Opinion that these and other such like Attentendants of the New Star are manifest Indications of its Nature Homogeneal to that of the Bearded Comet which will we nil we are too oft attended only with such Retinue § 57. We hear of no Flouds till about the next ☠which makes me remember that the ☠is better at such Tragical Sport than the ☌ and first with our selves A o 1594. we meet with Rain very sore for 14 hours April 11. which is an unlucky Prologue to what we hear of May 2. great Water-Flouds in Sussex and Surrey June also being as much a Trespasser as May Nor does it cease in July though it please God to send a fine August Both one and the other were the effect of our Aspect even the Rain from ♒ and ♌ as well as the fine Weather to see what Providence can do though it return to its wet again the Month following where we reckon a double Influx of ♄ and ♃ yea and of the rest too in their proportion a generative Faculty of Wet when all Requisites are supposed and a Spirit communicated to that Wet whereby the Moisture is Proud and Swelling apt to clime and outrun its bounds As the Bubble in a smart and warm Showr is a Sign of a Spirit which starts up and carries with it a Film of Water Fatter than ordinary Least any should say that seeing we like Gemma's Philosophy of some Ferment in the Waters we should therefore deny that our Planets were not contributers to the Moisture as well as the Tumor which we must assert they do But our Tres-Grand-Aspects are not so easily got off for A o 1595 the Scene lies in Germany the Rhine the Maes the Maene the Neccar the Danow all with one consent obey their Superiours and make such Work about Colen Mentz Francfort worse than they did A o 1573. of which before at Lovain c.
Many Carcases here Floating which we heard not in the former the Maes in one Night swelling thirty Foot and the Rhine thirty nine § 58. And did I not say deservedly that these are GREAT Aspects For I hope the Reader is almost convinced by this time Are they not GREAT Bodies and as Great CAUSES that move over our Heads The effects of them are such that we should not believe them though we saw them as the Poet said of Troy Victamque quamvis videat haud credit sibi potuisse vinci So Dire so Amazing that our Infidel-Will begins to question the Maker of All as if he could not find in his Heart to be so extremely severe with his Sinful Creatures It preaches to me a Religious sence of him that makes the Seven Stars and Orion yea ♄ and ♃ also and calleth for the Waters of the Sea and poureth them out upon the Face of the Earth as the Prophet seasonably preacheth if Flouds be meant I am concerned for my Neighbours of the Low-Countreys I have offered some Items before to take heed to the Heavens over their Head For 't is Childish to call a Noble Science Superstition if it leads you to the Knowledge of the Creator The Saints and Prophets of Old were not so peevish We may safely go as far as they Suppose they knew not the Niceties of the Microscope and therein come short of us They knew the Glories of the Fixed and the Erratique and therein they went beyond us § 59. The next we meet in princ ♠A o 1603. Here we gladly see that we find some respite Except we shall go far toward East-Indies as the Bay of Antongil where Sir J. Laurence and his Fleet Wintering found A o 1601. c. much Rain and great Flouds overflowing the Country Purch Tom. 1. p. 101. To the drinking of which Waters he imputes the Flux that troubled his men being not wholsom as in most places saith he in those hot Countries ♄ and ♃ are entred for Jan. and Febr. 1602. though ♃ falls back afterward It makes no noise to meet a high Tide one or two about this Winter with us But will not a Spout be considerable Aug. 17. a Whirlwind taking up the Sea Purch 2. p. 813. A Great Spout powring out of the Heavens in the Island of Malaca Or a Tide higher than in 40 years before Childrey in the Transactions pag. 2065. These are some Symptoms of our Dead-doing Influence and we are glad we have no more to produce This was the Conjunction § 60. But the ☠in ♓ and ♠A o 1613. cannot wipe her Mouth she is guilty on Record of what she cannot wash away since in Thuringia chiefly yea and Bohemia Saxony Austria and France the Corn was lost by Hail and Lightning and many Inhabitants together with their Houses were lost Calvis This happened on May 29. while ♄ and ♃ were 15. grad distant § 61. This is for Europe and A o 1613. But the East-Indies A o 1614. in the Month of Aug. a greater Floud than has been seen in 29 years which drave away Salt Hills and Towns saith Purchas and many 1000 of men and Cattle The place is call'd Narsa par Peta while a Neighbouring Town had about 4000 Houses wash'd away the Stone-Bridges as finely built as Rochester-Bridge which were three Fathome high above Water proved three Foot under Tom. 1. p. 326. Hath ♄ and ♃ nothing to do in Flouds when 29 years ago which must be 1585. there was a Floud and a Congress of our great Celestials and this years August she ☠lay but at XII grad distance § 62. I have not been so punctual in describing Earthquakes because I love not whatsoever the Reader may miscollect I delight not in the Raven-Notes that do befal Recitements at large of those Subjects which I am engaged to treat of for Who desires to be reckoned a oaleful inauspicious Bird Only here in Flouds I am the more particular if by any means can I procure an awful Esteem and not a slight contempt of the Divine Hand yea and if I might consult the Interest of Mankind so far as these Papers will reach to give them some little Glimpse or Insight into eminent Dangers for though every Patient cannot be his own Physician yet nothing hinders but that a Nurse by some Notes attentively hearkned to may get some Skill in Medicine § 63. I am weary of multiplying of Instances and yet my Journeys end being in prospect I cannot sit down We have not heard much of the Diaries of our Century Let us bring the Floud home to our Doors Threescore years ago then Kepler tells us of two Inundations of Danow within one Week of 1622. with the Bridge broke and the same force 〈◊〉 in June anni ejusd where Kepler recurs to his Subterranean Cause thereby forsaking his better Principle In June he refers it mostly 〈◊〉 the Appultes of the ☽ Five Lunar Oppositions happening within 24 hours How manifestly doth he own the Planets Situate in a Posture easie to be irritated Five of them within 20 degrees All in ♋ amongst them as Supream ♄ and ♃ gr 15. Lo what a shift the poor man is put into by his dis-favour to our Solid Principle He found the whole year violent and for the Solution of that Grand Problem he is forced to bespeak his Subterranean Cause without which and that must last as long as he hath need of it viz. the whole year point blank he tells us the Constellations of Heaven could not effect so much What a great Man had he bin too great if he had not stumbled at this in his way Oh! that I understood the Constellations as well as he did the Motions c. But he proceeds Nihil hinc situm in Natura Signi There 's nothing in the Sign no not in the Sign ♋ Let any man Judge who hath attended to the mention of the Sign If it comes in our way we will again remember the Reader In the mean time will not our Cause assigned which persevereth the whole year throughout in the Sight of all Men an swer better than a Cause in Hugger-Mugger of which no man shall ever hope to give an account I hope it will But I must not dwell here for 64. The ☠A o 1633. in ♠and ♊ scapes not Kyriander helps us here April 24. 1633. Grosse Gewasser saith the Dutch But higher than that in the beginning of October Gewaltige Spring-flutên Ergiessungen in Holland and Zealand In the former year is grad 6. distant In the next grad 24. distant and withal ♃ in ♋ There we have met with Kepler already who made us believe there was nothing in the Sign toward a Found when the the very next Instance tells us that there is Gevaltige Spring fluten We have but 3. or 4 more and we have done 65. What does 1642. the ☌ in ♓ A man would wish ♄ and ♃ far enough and they are of the farthest
remote of all the Planets if it be true what the Diary says that on November 14. November is a Flouding Month Umb diese zeit in Hispanien am Fluss Ebro ein grosser regen und ergiessung einkommen daruber an die 4000. Soldaten elendiglich ersoffen And about the end of November from the River Poo a terrible Inundation of Waters wherein many Thousands of Men were drown'd in Italy Kyr This Kyriander acknowledges to be from ☌ ♄ ♃ in ♓ so far he is an Astrologer But what shall he do The Partile ☌ comes not till February next year Oh! but it is an Anticipation of ♄ and ♃ which Philosophy I have pityed already not derided for he who reads these Stories can be in no laughing Vein My Heart aked for fear I should meet more of these uneasie Narratives and I Divine I think I should find the like in the Netherlands Jan. 4 1642. where the Diary tells us that such a Flouding time hath not been observed as men judge for many 100 years before whereby I believe they note the monstrousness of the Phaenomenon shall I call it rather than consult the Universal History of the World I have reason to believe our Reports to be as true and may be as great some of them and how great in the mean while is the Cause the Cause from whence they Spring So that now our Heart is hardned and we can take notice of a Grosse Wasser yet again in December 1643. § 66. That ☠in the next decade 1653. brings no Flouds with it unless you will reckon that in Glocestershire at Dodminton June 20. mention'd by Dr. Childrey p. 66. for the Truth is Those were dry Years in which nothing hinders but there may be an Anomalous Floud or Glut of Wet in some places and I am glad of it § 67. For all as I see the ☌ of 1663. is the like I meet with Violences of Fiery Meteors c. but no Flouds can I set Eyes on if there be any 't is our Gain If not Admire with me the all wise disposition of the Heavenly Motions which are made not only to Punish at the time appointed but sometimes to give us respite 'T is the Divine goodness to send no Flouds where he pleases to order a Pestilence In wrath he remembers Mercy Howbeit my Diary upon perusal informs me that even there A o 1663. May 5. There arose Flouds at Northampton A place it seems more apt for such Waters then others And see Febr. 28. 1673. we had News of great Flouds at Thoren Thuringia in Germany on the breaking up the Ice But not only so But in Summer beside a Spout seen to break at Harwich near Land-guard-Fort Jan. 24. 1673. Flouds for certain in Oxfordshire and Bristol not the like for many years with great Loss say my Observations There remains but of That 1682. for whose sake we waded so far or else we had let down our Sluces § 68. The ☌ of 1682. The First is from Iceland Great Flouds in most parts This is Sept. 29. ♄ and ♃ grad 7. distant ♃ in ♋ 17. to meet again with good Kepler who was wiser From Waymouth such a Floud that the Waves were scarce possable Nov. 2. ♃ is where he was Dec. 18. at Dinnot in France Before that from the Hagâ—e 〈◊〉 by a strong Wind broke the Banks and laid 2400 Acres of Land under Water Dec. 10. and from Copenhagen the Sea by reason of a Storm rose so high that it is the Wonder of the Age saith my Intelligence and hath done great Harm But this year being expired I would the Aspect would be satisfied with this Hearken to the French Account From Bruxels This is but t'other day Jan. 27. St. Vet. Vingt cinq des principaux Villages de Flandre aut estè sumbergez From Amsterdam Des dommages extraordinaires que les vents les de hordemen des eaux ont causez en Flandre dans le Brabant en Hollande Zealand Quelques Uns asseurent que ces dommages à nostre ègard montent a plus de cinquante Millions We can see only the Steeple le Clocher de la Ville de Tolen de la ville de Bommene c. c'est le plus triste spectacie qui se soit vû de puis plusieurs siècles Where is ♃ but in ♋ higher than he was before nearer the Tropical Height in ♋ 11. before he was in ♋ 17. In May our Domestique Intelligence tells us the Country is so floated there is no Travelling no access to London Travelling Coaches perished At Deal the Sea overwhelmed the Banks Drowned much Cattle May 16. 1682. News also from Scicily of Torrents breaking down Trees Villages destroyed by the Flouds May 28. Gazet 1742. July 7. with us at Shropshire much Dammage at a Village 7 Mile from Boudley the Floud run in from Jan. 30. to July 4. the like not within Memory Floud also 6 Mile from Coventry In Aug. 18. there was a Water-Spout near Harwich in the Shape of the Monument at London-Bridge mounting up in the Air then fell down with a most incredible force made the Sea smoke Thompson's Intelligence Yea all the time of the Dreadful Adamant Frost Remember and Jan. 1683. 84. 'T is for certain by Merchants Letters that there were great Rains and Flouds in the Guadalquivir the River in Andalusia § 69. We shall now have done for A o 1684 Sept. 10. we hear of Flouds in Leopol Russia In Nov. 9. St. N. A Floud neer the Isles of Oberon Rhee Broage beyond Memory of Man as we have it in the extraordinary Relation from Germany I acknowledge that there were strong Aspects heretofore noted mix'd with our great ☌ in some parts of this Drowning Season but the Astrological Reader must do right and with me acknowledge the Line of the ☌ stretch'd over these 3 or 4 years Those Countries therefore which shall think it worth the while must watch these great ☌ s and their Mixtures Nor would it be an unwise part if amongst other Learned Professors at the University of Leyden or elsewhere there were a meet maintainance order'd for a Professor of Astronomy mixed with Astrology if any should fancy such an Union of Science to give some it may be more than probable warning of such Infandous Cataclysmes Pictures and Assurances of Noah's Floud that at least the life of Thousands may be saved For as I remember we had an account of twenty thousand Carcases Wreck's of Mortality Floating on the Remorsless Deep Upon which account if it be Feasible 't is worth the while but I must leave it to discretion These Papers shew I hope that our Speculation is not a Vanity since the Flouds hold on and keep pace from Month to Month and from year to year with our violent Conjunctions Mark that They hold and keep pace starting out at their Opportunities in the Winters yea in the Summers I do acknowledge there may be Flouds when our Aspect
so high that 't is the Wonder of the Age. 30. Great Flouds in the Country 1682. Jan. 13. Turin Comet appeared like that last year yet more dreadful 16. Furious Tempest noct tot die blowing down Tops of Houses and Chimneys without Rain Amsterdam Inundation there tres difficile reporter says the French 17. Very high Tide in the Thames over all the Bushes 18. Inundation near Holland 3 Inches higher than A o 1670. at Brill Rotterdam c. many People and Cattle drowned 21. Inundations in Ireland Connaught c. 25. Inundation of Danow higher by two Foot then it was 35 years ago 31. Stockholm yesterday within 10 Miles T. M. very Terrible for half an Hour Feb. 6. Winter Weather blowing Raining and Snowing near Salisbury but near Andover no sign of it 12. West Riding in Yorkshire Snow Knee-deep in 24 Hours time at Worthington Tides have altered to the amazement of the Seamen March 6. Comet at Mosco 19. Plymouth small Vessel cast away 7 Passengers drowned and at Dunkirk Storms destroyed their Sea-Work blowing down several Houses in the Town and part of the Steeple killing 6 Men. 22. Tides at London Bridge thrice in 12 Hours flowing 7 Hours from 2 p. April 1. Trees blasted 29. T. M. in Hungary destroying Houses and burying the Inhabitants May 1. T. M. at Paris in the Night 2. At Deux Ponts Basil c. 4. Hereabouts in Berkshire Trees torn up by the Roots others torn in pieces Corn shared as if 't were mown Standford Wadely Newbery Wantage 13. Brussels Storm of Thunder and Lightning demolished many Stately Buildings 16. Doncaster T. M. inter horam 2 3. mat 12. minutes 29. Hague weather so dry that all the Ground lost by the Inundation is recovered 31. Lime Great Storm with Rain and Thunder caused several Ebbings and Flowings in half an hours time At Evensham in Oxfordshire Hailstones and terrible Lightning tore up Trees c. June 3. Dunwich Hail such as hath not bin known for several years past 14. Mortality of Cattle continues in the North parts of Scotland 15. Durham Hail Thunder and Lightning destroying Corn. July 11. Anjou Dreadful Tempest turned several Villages of that Province Topside-turvy Aug. 6. Not far from Hereford two Houses consumed by Lightn 11. Plague rages much at Algiers 15. Plague rages at Halle 300 dying each day Loyal Mercury 319. 16. Vessel riding at Anchor in Dartmouth Port the Main Post Fired by Lightning 19. Comet in N W. 8 p. a Tayl of 3 Yards fere This Comet seen at Tunbridge day 16. Sept. 23. Gravesend Tilt-Boat cast awaytand several drowned so other Boats on Thames 27. Feavers up and down the Country about Northampton Octob. 5. Exceter a Child born with two Heads Relation Printed by Will. Davis Octob. 7. Destructive Feaver Mortal to many in 3 days specially in intemperate Bodies § 12. So far our various Intelligence ceases various indeed if I had reported all If Half this were true 't is enough to shew the just notion I have of the Superiors ♄ ♃ What then if there be scarce three mis-reports in the whole I was going to say I know the main to be Truth may we not then usefully compare our Years of the Later Century viz. 1562. with this 1682. upon the Evidence they give Is there no similitude of Influence discernable of 1582. with our 1682 Our Collections are more exuberant than Stow's and good reason for he wrote a kind of Annals and We Diaries which are destined for the Record of Influences This Consideration being allowed compare Those Years together as to Comets Flouds Lightnings Earthquakes the Comfort is we cannot match them as to Pestilences the more are we indebted to the Great Moderator though some parts of the World we see were visited with Epidemick Distempers We have hitherto escaped When we have made our Comparison then we may please to note the Close of the Year 1681. and Entrance of 82. do put us in mind of That Consent of the Parts of the Universe so long ago as we have said observed by Thuanus in his time when Holland Germany Ireland yea all Europe as is elsewhere noted complain'd of Inundations Some Conspiracies Planetary are confin'd to a Province only while others again extend themselves through the whole Empire § 12. Now though I would give occasion to none to act Stoefler and make himself ridiculous by vain Predictions Yet it must not be denyed that if a Year past and gone be found upon such reasons to represent and repeat a preceding year in a Floud in a Hurricane Rural Earthquake Monstrous Birth or some such rarer Event Why may not the next Aspect of our Supremes be interpreted for the Future where we can find a Precedent to compare it by I confess the demand is Reason and to shew I like it though Divinatory Philosphy unless grounded on a manifest experience is rarely precarious nor can I say I pronounce upon a laborious Examen of particulars yet in general and by a confuse Light I may say that the years of Q. Elizabeth 39. c. i. e. the year of our Lord 1592 93 94 and part of 95. are a kind of Speculum whereby we may read something which may succeed 6 or 7 years hence A o 1692. 93 94 95. ♄ and ♃ being near the same Signs as in those years of the Queen Not that I would have any make false Apprehensions and by the Multiplying Glass of his Fansie think the years will be nothing but Tempestuous c. But that there may some of the same Events revolve again in those Years be it Comet Huracane or some Distemper as hath been already hinted § 13. But what have we to do with the mid-Officers of a monstrous Birth If that be not a Freak a midwifery I much marvel I confess 't is usual with those who advance a Principle to draw it and stretch it with some violence to make it speak to every Case and 't is a Fault E. gr to introduce a Magnetism or a Vortex with our Learned Countryman Gilbert or Des-Cartes when there is no need We will see whether we are guilty very suddenly but we have something to dispatch first by way of perusal of our former Chapter concerning some Instances found there § 14. As to the Frost we have said a little circ pag. 447. c. But by way of Appendix we may know the other Frosts are in these Papers produced to whose Extremity ♄ ♃ did conduce § 15. The Pareliu we have met with before in the Aspect of ♄ ♂ pag. 394. in a competent Catalogue which no doubt in some certain Situation at least cast their Luminous Influence upon the Celestial Imagery we find it so in the Iris and we must admit it here For as we have given a hint in those of May 3. at Zurich A o 1523. that ♄ ♂ are concerned so we wonder if ♄ ♃ be not alike concerned when of 15 Instances 9 shall be found