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<P>BRITAINS Royal STAR: OR, An A&s;trological Demon&s;tration of ENGLANDS future FELICITY; Deduced From the Po&s;ition of the HEAVENS as they beheld the earth in the Meridian of <HI>London,</HI> at the fir&s;t proclaiming of his Sacred Maje&s;ty King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, on <HI>May</HI> 8. 10 <HI>h.</HI> 56 <HI>m. A. M.</HI> 1660.</P>
<P>And an Enquiry made into the U&s;e and Abu&s;e of ASTROLOGIE, re&s;olving whether it be convenient to be continued or contemned.</P>
<P>ALSO, An admirable Ob&s;ervation of a Conjunction of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> made in the year 1170. by a learn|ed Monck of <HI>Centerbury,</HI> communicated to the Learned in ASTRONOMY.</P>
<P>Together With an Examination and Refutation of that Ne&s;t of Sedition, publi&s;hed by Mr. <HI>H. Je&s;&s;ey,</HI> concerning Frogs, Dogs, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in his Pamplet fal&s;ly intituled, <HI>The Lords Loud call to ENGLAND,</HI>&amp;c.</P>
<P>By JOHN GADBURY, <HI>Philomathematicus.</HI></P>
<P><Q>Dei igitur alti&s;&s;imi coelum e&s;t in&s;trumentum, quo inferiora agit, impellit regit&abque;.</Q>
<BIBL><HI>Card.</HI> Seg. 1. <HI>Aph.</HI> 58.</BIBL></P>
<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed for <HI>Sam. Speed,</HI> at the &s;igne of the Printing-Pre&s;s in St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard, <ADD>Novem</ADD> 22 1661.</P>
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<HEAD>To the under&s;tanding Reader.</HEAD>
<P>As a te&s;timony of the Affections and good will I we to the Land of my Nativity, I have here adventured to publi&s;h the true intention and &s;ig|nifications of the Heavens toward the &s;ame; having with a con&s;ide|rable portion of pains and care ob&s;erved them, as they weren po&s;ited at the time of his Sacred Maje&s;ties proclaiming, May 8. 1660. in the Palace-yard at We&s;tmin&s;ter. There are two things that have principally prevailed upon me for the compo&s;ing and printing this Di&s;cour&s;e:</P>
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<ITEM>1. The Quiet and Peace of the&s;e Nations, and &s;atisfaction of the people thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The neglect of other A&s;trologers in forwarding &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a work.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>1. The Expectations of the people generally are mounted (as it were) upon Eagles wings, earne&s;tly de&s;iring; and &s;eriou&s;ly wi&s;hing to know, whether Peace and Quietude be like to be continued to us, in the&s;e (of late) di&s;tracted and bleeding Nations. who&s;e wi&s;hes and D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ires, I hope, I have fully and &s;atis|factorily an&s;wered, in the following Tract; wherein I have written nothing but <HI>&s;ecundum Artem,</HI> according to the true meaning of the Heavens. I have not, with gay Flouri&s;hes, guiled over any thing; but taken a ju&s;t Cognizance of the very wor&s;t, as well as of the be&s;t of things.&mdash;<HI>Flatery and &s;yco|phantick Practi&s;es, ought as well to flee the face of a Princely Science, as it &s;hould the Sanctuary of a Prince's Pre&s;ence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The neglect and backwardne&s;s of Arti&s;ts in &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a work, may &s;eem to per&s;wade with many, that things are not likely to &s;ucceed &s;o happily and well as they may expect. But this is onely a &s;ullen &s;ilence in &s;ome of them, becau&s;e they &s;ee no probable hopes of a reward to follow &s;uch an undertaking; and Dull Jades never go well without a &s;pur. In our late times of confu&s;ion it was a hard matter to hold them from &s;hewing them&s;elves Incendiaries to purpo&s;e; then they could make Art &s;peak any thing. But now, although here be a far better ground to pre&s;age <HI>Englands</HI> happine&s;s from, under the Government of his &s;acred Maje&s;ty, this is hardly worth the con&s;idering with them; they will rather, then take notice hereof, hang down their heads like Bull-ru&s;hes, and obliviate their Art. This hath been a &s;econd Argument to Prevail with me for the publi&s;hing this Di&s;cour&s;e.</ITEM>
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<P>What I have here written, and publi&s;hed, I have done with an upright in|tent; not to &s;ow &s;edition, but cement differences; not to &s;et mens brains a madding, but to &s;ea&s;on and compo&s;e them: Not to render any opinion odious, but to rectifie tho&s;e that are over-run with Errours and Mi&s;takes. I am not con&s;cious to my &s;elf of commiting any &s;in herein, either again&s;t the Art I pro|fe&s;s, or the honour of the Nation. I may (I pre&s;ume) be as bold to write truth in the defence of <HI>Englands</HI> peace, and be protected for &s;o doing, as others are to write fal&s;ities and untruths, and publi&s;h them to its prejudice. I may justly expect as good quarter for publi&s;hing a fair and &s;ober peice of Art, as tho&s;e that print Lyes, Forgeries and Libels. I have no de&s;igne at all, unle&s;s it be to pre&s;erve &s;uch that would de&s;troy them&s;elves; and to render the Art of A&s;tra|logie
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(as it ought to be)amiable. I would not be mi&s;under&s;tood; when I plead for <HI>A&s;trologie,</HI> and the <HI>hone&s;t A&s;trologers, I de&s;ire not the propagation of Incantations, witchcrafts, and sorceries, Gaeodemologic, dealing with Angels or spirits, Theurgic, calling up Dic-mie in a Chri&s;tal; with other to be abhorted Devices, and helli&s;h cheats: nor yet the tole|ration of Conjurers, Witches, Magicians, sorcerers, Divinators,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>that under pretence of A&s;trologie have &s;et whole Nations on fire, with their black skill and cunning. Nor &s;hall I plead for any that have can|red the downfal of kings, Nations, Laws and Mini&s;try, Lawyears, and Di|vines,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>from Pictures and Prphecies, which are the highest sorceries that can used; and against which there are very particular and ex|pre&s;s Laws.</HI></P>
<P>I de&s;ire and plead for the toleration of A&s;trologie no further then it is &s;er|viceable for mankind. As, by the <HI>Decubital</HI> and <HI>Critical</HI> parts thereof, <HI>Phy|&s;itians</HI> are befriended; by the <HI>Agricultural</HI> part, the <HI>Husbandman</HI>; by the <HI>Nautical</HI> parts, the <HI>Seaman</HI> and <HI>Navigator</HI>; the <HI>Genethliacal part a&s;&s;i&s;ts each particular per&s;on</HI> with the good and adver&s;e times of his whole life, ac|quainting him (by gods permi&s;&s;ion) when he may with thankfulne&s;s receive a benifit, and when with pious prudence, reverbirate, or at leaft mitigate a mi&s;chief. the&s;e (with many others too long to mention here) I do d fend; there being a Demon&s;tration of the u&s;e, worth and excellency of them; as <HI>Bellan|tius, Cardan,</HI> and sir <HI>Chri&s;topher Heydon,</HI> have largely proved; unto who&s;e works I refer the Readers. But for the beforementioned Villanies, and the Pract &s;ers thereof, they cannot be too &s;everely dealt with; the Ruine of thou&s;ands cries aloud again&s;t them; and every honest A&s;trologer abominates them.</P>
<P>Of my <HI>An&s;wer to Mr. Jeffey,</HI> the rea&s;onle&s;s and fal&s;ene&s;s of mo&s;t of the things by him Puli&s;hed, and his partial Applications thereof, were the main inducements, no di&s;re&s;pect to his per&s;on at all. I de&s;ire to live peaceably and quietly under the Government established; and hold is not a &s;in, but duty, to proy for Kings. I earne&s;tly wi&s;h <HI>Englands</HI> welfare. I envy no &s;ort of per|&s;on in the world, yet am not of every opinion. If Epi&s;copacy be held the &s;a|fe&s;t way for the churches &s;ettlment, and a means to mike <HI>England</HI> happy, I shall not grieve to see it e&s;tabli&s;hed. I e&s;teem full as well of the common|prayer-Book, as others do of their precatory Enthu&s;ia&s;mi. <HI>God pre&s;erve his Maje&s;ty, and the Royal Progeny, and continue the (happily begun) Peace of the&s;e Kingdoms</HI>! Amen.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>From my hou&s;e without Temple|Bar, near Strand bridge John Gadbury.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>AN A&s;trological Demon&s;tration OF Englands Happine&s;s, FROM The POSITION of HEAVEN, At the time of his Sacred MAJESTY King Charles The Second's Being proclaimed King of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>WHile the Moon &s;ets, or keeps beneath the Hori|zon, not a Dog offers once to bark at her; it is her &s;hininig onely that opens their venemous mouths: So while his Royal Maje&s;ty was traver&s;ing the te|dious
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Road of a twelve years Affliction, being all that time debarred the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his proper Birth-right and King|doms, few then &s;narled at him or &s;eemed to expre&s;s their pre|judice, or Curri&s;h Nature again&s;t him, becau&s;e they deemed him then low enough; as low indeed as po&s;&s;ibly his greate&s;t Enemies could have wi&s;ht him, on this &s;ide the Grave. But when by Gods e&s;pecial providence there was room made in the Hearts of his Subjects for him to a&s;cend the Royal Throne of his Ance&s;tors, then behold how viperou&s;ly do &s;everal of his Treacherous Subjects (con&s;cious to them&s;elves of a more then common guilt) in Scandalous and Invective Libels five out again&s;t him, and his con&s;tant and &s;uffering Friends; en|deavouring to di&s;parage his great and honourable Actions, and fly-blow his Princely De&s;ignes and Intentions, Being not a&s;hamed, to the&s;e their Lawle&s;s and Rebellious Devices, to add Trea&s;onable Threats not onely again&s;t &s;ome Honou|rable Per&s;onages by name, but the Government al&s;o. Which Malicious and Chimaerical De&s;ignes of theirs, I &s;hall demon|&s;tratively prove, had not the lea&s;t ground, &s;ave in their En|thu&s;ia&s;tick Brains; and that they are onely meer, empty and idle Conceits, &s;uch as will ever be without that effect they wi&s;h; yet of &s;uch unhappy con&s;equence and import, that will mo&s;t certainly, if long embraced and cheri&s;hed, &s;ink the Ship of the Promoters thereof, and then both may perish together.</P>
<Q><L>Sic ego torrentem qua nil ob&s;tabat ennti</L>
<L>Lenius, &amp; madico &s;trepitu decurrere vidi.</L>
<L>At quacun&abque; trabes, ob&s;tructaq: &s;axa jacebunt,</L>
<L>spumeus &amp;fervens, &amp; ab apice &s;avior that.</L></Q>
<P>Thus Engli&s;hed by one:</P>
<Q><L>I have &s;ometimes a &s;tream of water &s;een,</L>
<L>With little noi&s;e, and gently, gliding on,</L>
<L>Where no Obstruction in their way hath been</L>
<L>But where by Dams of Timber and of stone</L>
<L>Their pa&s;&s;age was deny'd, they in di&s;dain</L>
<L>of being barr'd, &s;well'd, foam'd, and rag'd amain.</L></Q>
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Behold with what a Princely Countenance the Heavens &s;miled that minute his pre&s;ent Sacred Maje&s;ty Was proclaim|ed, by order of this pre&s;ent Parliament; and then con&s;ider, oh ye wilful, ob&s;tinate, yet ignorant Creatures, how vain and un&s;ucce&s;sful, yea, and dangerous, it mu&s;t needs be for you to fight again&s;t the Decrees of the Almighty, as they are legibly written in the Heavens.</P>
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<P>In this Figure, we have the Regal Signe <HI>Leo</HI> a&s;cending on the Ea&s;tern Finitor, and the Royal fixed Star <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Heart of the Lyon, <HI>Secundum Longitudinem,</HI> ari&s;ing therewith; it being the Degree of the Horo&s;cope of his late Maje&s;ty of ble&s;&s;ed memory and the very oppo&s;ite Degree of the A&s;cendent is <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of the long Parliaments fir&s;t convening, <HI>Novemb<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 3. 1640. The Moon is in the A&s;ce|dent, in Conjunction of that Fortunate and Benevolent Star
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<HI>Jupiter,</HI> between the Sextiles of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Venus,</HI> and apply|ing to a Sextile of <HI>Mars,</HI> of whom &s;he di&s;po&s;es in the Hou&s;e of Friend&s;hip.</P>
<P>All which Te&s;timonies, plainly portend a happy, plea&s;ant and durable Reign into his Sacred Maje&s;ty, (or indeed to a|ny King) being at &s;o happy and &s;u&s;picious a time proclaim|ed, notwith&s;tanding all the publick Endeavours, or Clande|&s;tine Con&s;piracies and Conservances of his known or &s;ecret Enemies u&s;ed to the contrary; and ab&s;olute impo&s;&s;ibility of the long Parliament or Rumps returning, which divers wi&s;h, and pray aloud for; and a certain fru&s;tration of all tho&s;e Chimaeras and Enthu&s;ia&s;tick, and Fanatick Fancies and Delu&s;ions, with which the Fifth Monarchy Saints do &s;o vainly &s;olace and plea&s;e them&s;elves.</P>
<P><HI>At &s;i quando a&s;cendens fuerit &s;ignum fixum, &amp; Lundin bono loco Figurae Dominum longo tempore durabit, maxime &s;i fuerit in Leone, vel in ejustriplicitate</HI>: If at the time of proclaiming a King the Horo&s;cope &s;hall be fixed, and the Moon in a good place of the Figure, (<HI>i.e.</HI>) Fortunate in an Angle, or a &s;uc|cedent Hou&s;e, it portends that his Kingdom or Dominion &s;hall remain a long time; chiefly, if <HI>Leo</HI> &s;hall a&s;cend, (which in this Figure it doth) or a &s;igne of the &s;ame Triplicity. <HI>Haly de jud. A&s;tr.fol.</HI> 334. He goeth on &mdash; <HI>Etiam &s;i fuerit in A&s;cendente fortuna, &s;ignificat bonitatem illius Regis, &amp; bonos mores, &amp; bona facta,</HI> Haly ut &s;upra. And if (faith he) a for|tunate Star &s;hall be in the A&s;cendent, it &s;ignifies Goodne&s;s, Clemency, Worth and Ju&s;tice of the King &s;o proclaimed, and intimates him al&s;o to be active and freely forward in good things. I &s;hall &s;pare to Comment upon the&s;e mo&s;t full Texts, becau&s;e I would not be e&s;teemed a Flatterer: But were I minded to be as free in my writing for his Maje&s;ty, as his &s;i|newle&s;s enemies are proud in being liberal again&s;t him, I could hence take occa&s;ion to &s;peak &s;uch things, (and not go beyond the limits pre&s;cribed a Writer) that the reading thereof &s;hould make the Adver&s;aries to the Peace of this (of late bleeding, but now flouri&s;hing) Kingdom, hang down their heads, and blu&s;h at their Adu&s;t zeal, and Cholerick Con|fidence.</P>
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&mdash;<HI>Pone A&s;cendens Leonem, &s;it&abque; Sol tunc in Tauro in de|cima ab A&s;cendente, &s;it etiam Luna in primo juncta Veneri aut Jovi,</HI> &amp;c. faith <HI>Guido Bonatus, pars</HI> 3. <HI>fol.</HI> 480. When you would proclaim a King, (faith he) place <HI>Leo</HI> upon the A&s;cen|dent, and let the Sun be in <HI>Taurus,</HI> in the tenth from the a&s;|cendent, and po&s;ire the Moon in the fir&s;t hou&s;e, joyned ei|ther to <HI>Jupiter</HI> or <HI>Venus,</HI> &amp;c. And here in this figure, You &s;ee the Rules in each Circum&s;tance there of fulfilled &s;o exact|ly, as if Heaven had &s;trove to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the Election of the mo&s;t Loyal Arti&s;t upon Earth. <HI>Ergo,</HI> it mu&s;t be a mo&s;t happy and propitious time for the proclaimig of a King.</P>
<P>Hear <HI>Haly</HI> yet again, &mdash; <HI>Si</HI> Jupiter <HI>fuerit in A&s;cendente,</HI> &amp;c. When <HI>Jupiter</HI> is po&s;ited in the A&s;cendent of &s;uch a Figure, (here he is &s;o, and is in Conjunction of <HI>Luna</HI> al&s;o) he portends the King or Prince that is then proclaimed, to be ju&s;t, prudent, and de&s;irous of the good of his Subjects. And that as he is honoured with Victory, &s;o will he be a great Cheri&s;her and Pre&s;erver of the Laws, and a Lover of all Acts of Clemency and Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>The Sun (faith the Learned <HI>Cardan</HI>) hath &s;ignification of Kings, and the Moon of Subjects; in this Figure both being fortunately placed, beyond peradventure, happine&s;s, from this &s;o happy and glorious Turn among us, mu&s;t emerge both to King and People. The Sun, the grand Significator of So|veraignty, Rule and Dignity, is Nobly fixed in the Angle of Dignity, in the Hou&s;e of the benevolent Planet <HI>Venus,</HI> and Exaltation of the Moon; whence it is apparent that this great Conver&s;ion and Change, will not onely be for his Maje&s;ties happy and peaceable Reign, but the Peoples joy and delight: &s;o happy an Intertexture is it, that in the general, both Prince and People &s;hould endeavour each others &s;afety. Away with tho&s;e Erratique Brains from among us, that wander onely to do mi&s;chief.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash; Grextotus, in Agris</L>
<L>Unius &s;cabie cadit; &amp; porrigine porci,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">a&abque; con&s;pecta liverem ducit ab <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">va.</L></Q>
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<L>&mdash;One &s;cabb'd &s;heep will &s;poile</L>
<L>A whole &s;ome Flock; thus Swine their Friends de&s;ile:</L>
<L>And &s;ickly Grapes by lodging near the &s;ound,</L>
<L>Force them partake of their ne'er-curing wound.</L></Q>
<P>That the Government thus founded &s;hall remain fixed and immoveable, is &s;een by the fixation of the Angles, the prime points of the Figure; but chiefly of the fixed po&s;ition of the Sun.&mdash;<HI>Si &Sun; fuerit in fixis, &s;ignificat durabilitatem &amp; firmitatem longum tempus. (i.e.)</HI> If the Sun &s;hall be po&s;ited in a fixed Signe, he portends the Government and honor there|of to continue firm and durable a long time. But be&s;ides his being located in a fixed Signe, and the chief Angle of Heaven, he is in partile Sextile of <HI>Mars,</HI> the Patron of Vi|ctory and Conque&s;t, who is po&s;ited in the eleventh Hou&s;e; which is an eminent Argument, and mo&s;t clear Te&s;timony, That his Maje&s;ty cannot want a&s;&s;i&s;tance and &s;upport (&s;hould he (which I dare be confident he never will) &s;tand in need) even from the very be&s;t of men: (<HI>i. e.</HI>) from tho&s;e that are mo&s;t active, powerful and skilful in Arms. Nor &s;hould he be any manner of way le&s;s re&s;pected from tho&s;e of the meaner Rank, Quality and Degree: Is not <HI>Luna</HI> in Sextile of <HI>Venus,</HI> who is Lady or Governe&s;s of the <HI>Medium Coeli</HI>? Is not <HI>Mercury</HI> Lord of the eleventh and &s;econd Hou&s;es, in <HI>Gemi|ni</HI> in the tenth, and he &s;imply mo&s;t &s;trong in the Figure? I know &s;ome may be apt to urge a back&s;liding in Friends from <HI>Mercuries</HI> Retrogradation, and the Po&s;ition of <HI>Mars</HI> in the eleventh Hou&s;e; but let &s;uch know, that the Retrogradation of a Planet is no E&s;&s;ential, but Accidental Debility: nor are the Planets retrograde <HI>per &s;e,</HI> but <HI>per Accidens,</HI> as Dr.<HI>Wilkins</HI> hath learnedly and acurately demon&s;trated, <HI>Vide Nem Planet,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Lib.</HI> 2. <HI>Cap.</HI> 10. <HI>p.</HI> 226. <HI>Ergo,</HI> Retrogradation is no &s;uch eminent affliction as &s;ome e&s;teem it; chiefly, if a Planet be e&s;&s;entially dignified, as in this Scheme <HI>Mercury</HI> is Nor is the Po&s;ition of <HI>Mars</HI> in the eleventh Hou&s;e the <HI>prodromus</HI> of any dangers, he being in Sextile of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">. Be&s;ides were it not that there was that happy Radi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tion between the Sun
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and <HI>Mars,</HI> yet the injury his &s;ingle po&s;ition portends, is alle|viated by the benign pre&s;ence of <HI>Venus</HI> in the &s;ame hou&s;e, &s;he being in perfect Amity with the Moon: for it is a known Rule among A&s;trologers, <HI>Quicquid ligat Mars, Solvit ve|nus</HI>: What&s;oever <HI>Mars</HI> by his ill influence, harms; <HI>Venus</HI> by her benevolent Rays, helps. Therefore neither <HI>Mars</HI> his po&s;ition in the Angle of Friend&s;hip or <HI>Mercury</HI>'s Retrogra|dation, can have any evil &s;ignification that is not otherways over-balanced. Yet I will not deny, but the Platique Squares of the Moon and <HI>Mereury,</HI> and of <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> al&s;o, may &s;o far operate upon the over-heated brains of &s;ome, and tho&s;e &s;omewhat religious too, (is not <HI>Mars</HI> Lord of the ninth?) that their Actions may render them mo&s;t unfit to be either tru&s;ted, or connived at: yet I aver, tho&s;e that are the mo&s;t de&s;itous, and mo&s;t powerful to do or act anything a|gain&s;t this mo&s;t happy, and (to <HI>England</HI>) natural Govern|ment e&s;tabli&s;hed, will in their Actions &amp; Doings be mo&s;t &s;ud|dainly di&s;covered, let them in the management thereof weare what kind of Vizards they plea&s;e. Having therefore, an&s;wer|ed the Objection, I re-a&s;&s;ume what was built upon the a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ore|&s;aid Arguments, That his Royal Maje&s;ty &s;hall be a&s;&s;ited and &s;upported from and by Per&s;on of Power, and tho&s;e al&s;o of the mo&s;t inferiour Cla&s;&s;is, <HI>viz.</HI> the Multitude.</P>
<P>And mu&s;t not that Prince needs be happy, and reign ho|nourably and pro&s;perou&s;ly, whom the Heavens ble&s;s, and ho|nour with the A&s;&s;istance not onely of tho&s;e that are of a &s;u|periour degree, but the Multitude al&s;o? I &s;hould think that the enemies to his &s;acred Maje&s;ty (were they not blind) might read their inevitable Ruine in the concurrent Affecti|ons of the People at his Maje&s;ties proclaiming, and Recep|tion! Who ever either &s;aw, read, or heard of a more gene|ral Unanimity and con&s;ent of Hearts and Judgements of all forts of people, then there was at the proclaiming and co|ming in of our dread Soveraign? If <HI>Vox Populi,</HI> be <HI>Vox Dei;</HI> if the Voice of the People upon be the Voice of Gods, how dare any &s;ort of people, upon the Cynical Cinceits or Humours, turn Separati&s;ts and cant the downfal of that hap|py and ble&s;&s;ed Edifice: which is built nor onely upon the
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Suffrages of the major part of the People, but of Heaven it &s;elf? The Learned <HI>Strafford</HI> by experience found, (and it was his dying expre&s;&s;ion) That the breath of the People were the Organs of De&s;tiny. And certainly, that which hath power to abate of the Majesty and Greatne&s;s of the one, hath Potency al&s;o to make another Mighty.</P>
<P>Let me add yet a little further, (for I pre&s;ume I may, and that rationally too, while I have Authority for my &s;upport.) The Arabians in the&s;e manner of Judgements, did make u&s;e of &s;everal parts, as the parts of Fortune; Victory and Nobi|lity, which (you may &s;ee) are all placed in the foregoing Fi|gure, <HI>A&s;pice ad partem fortunae, &amp; ad partem Nobilitatis, quae accipitur in die a gradu Solis in gradum ip&s;ius Exaltatio|nis &mdash; &amp; projicitur ab A&s;cendente. A&s;pice etiam partem Regni &amp; victoria, quae accipitur in die &amp; nocte a gradu Solis in gra|dum</HI> Lunae, <HI>&amp; projicitur a gradu Medii Caeli. (Id e&s;t)</HI> In the Figure of the proclaiming of a King, you &s;hould have re|gard to the Part of Fortune, and to the part of Nobility, which by day is gained by &s;ub&s;tracting the Degree of the Suns place, from the Degree of his Exalation, and projecting it from the A&s;cendent. Behold al&s;o the part of the Kingdom, and of Victory, which both day and night you mu&s;t take from the Degree of the Sun, to the degree of the Moon, and then project it from the Degree of the Mid-heaven. Then for the u&s;e of tho&s;e Parts, examining the &s;ame learned Author, he tells us &mdash; <HI>Si quando he paries venerint in bonis locis &amp; fortu|natis,&amp; cum fortunis, &s;ignificat magnam nobilitatem &amp; hono|rem illi domino,</HI> &amp;c. (i. e.) If when any or all of the&s;e Parts happen to be placed fortunately in the Figure, and with the Fortunes al&s;o, they portend great Nobility and Honour to that Prince then proclaimed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &mdash; Here you &s;ee the&s;e &s;eve|ral Princely parts are po&s;ited in the chief places of the Figure, and the Part of Nobility near the body of <HI>Venus</HI>: be&s;ide, they are all near eminent fixed Stars, <HI>viz.</HI> the part of For|tune near <HI>Cor Scorpit</HI> in the fourth Hou&s;e; and the part of Victory, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> near <HI>Cor Leonis,</HI> in the A&s;cendent or fir&s;t hou&s;e; and the part of Nobility in <HI>Cancer,</HI> nearly in Conjunction of <HI>Ras-Algen&s;e,</HI> a &s;plendid, &s;himing, fixed Stat in the eleventh
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hou&s;e: therefore I pronounce the Aphori&s;m to take full effect It is no mean Argument of la&s;ting honour and happine&s;s, in which the fixed &s;tars are &s;o eminently concerned: For, ac|cording to <HI>Ptolomy, Stella fix a mirabiles &amp; ultra rationem faelicitates tribuunt</HI> &amp;c. The fixed Stars do de&s;igne mo&s;t ad|mirable Felicity and honour, &amp;c.<HI>prol. Cent. Aphori&s;.</HI>29.</P>
<P>The Reader mu&s;t pardon my repetition, for I cannot a|void it here; be&s;ides, I have a warrant from <HI>Cardan</HI> for &s;o doing, <HI>Seg.</HI>4. <HI>Aphor.</HI> 85. <HI>Repetitio neoc&s;&s;aria e&s;t, in hac &s;cientia, vel ob difficultatem, vel ob nece&s;&s;itatem, velob utilitatem ingen|tem, vel obcontradictionem.</HI> Repetition is nece&s;&s;ary in this Science, either by rea&s;on of difficulty, nece&s;&s;ity, exceeding benefit, or el&s;e to avoid contradiction. I mu&s;t therefore (un|le&s;s I &s;hould rob tho&s;e weighty Arguments of their Conclu&s;i|ons which are drawn from tho&s;e parts before mentioned) here again affirm, That hence al&s;o is portended a happy con|tinuation, and convenient duration of his Maje&s;ties reign, and the Government of the&s;e Nations, maugre the mo&s;t malig|nant and &s;ubtile De&s;ignes of the mo&s;t inveterate Oppo&s;ers thereof.</P>
<P>Now, as we have &s;poken of (and we have &s;atisfactorily de|mon&s;trated) the glory and happine&s;s, and the happy continu|ance of this Heaven-favouring Return of our gracious Sove|raign, and Monarchical Government into the&s;e (of late) confu&s;ed I&s;lands; &s;o give me leave to add a word or two concerning all tho&s;e that &s;hall &s;et them&s;elves again&s;t his Ma|je&s;ty by rea&s;on of his happy Re&s;tauration; or again&s;t the Government of the&s;e Nations as it is now e&s;tabli&s;hed.</P>
<P>The Enemies of his Maje&s;ty, and of <HI>Englands</HI> peace, are &s;ignified by <HI>Saturn: Ergo,</HI> they are envious, malitious, co|vetous, jealous, timorous, &s;u&s;pitious, &s;luggi&s;h, &s;ordid and mi&s;tru&s;tful. This is the true Character of the inclinations and di&s;po&s;itions of tho&s;e per&s;ons &s;ignified by <HI>Saturn</HI> When he is ill dignified, as now in this Figure. <HI>Origanus de effecti|bus, fol.</HI>590. when <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> both are concerned (as here they are) in the de&s;criptions of any kind of Per&s;ons,
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he tells us they are <HI>Turbulentos, Seditio&s;os,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>im|mi&s;ericordes, implacabilcs, inftatos, gloria&s;os, vento&s;os, frandu|lentos, tyrannicos, au&s;teros, improbos, inhumanos, fallaces &s;ub|dolos,</HI> &amp;c. And a little, further the &s;ame Author tells us, That if tho&s;e Planets be ill beholding, (as in our Figure) then they &s;ignifie per&s;ons that are&mdash;<HI>Raptores, gra&s;&s;atores, maleficos, con|tumelio&s;os, in&s;idiatores, furaces, &s;acrilegos, &s;epulchrorum viola|tores &amp; &s;peliatores, per juros, omris humanitatis violatores, vo|races,</HI> &amp;c, I&s;hall not Engli&s;h the&s;e words, becau&s;e I would not have the world be any more commonly acquainted with &s;uch a Generation of Mi&s;creants, or that there are &s;uch Crea|tures any where, &s;ave in Hell. We in <HI>England</HI> have had our &s;hare of the Company of &s;uch a Race, for many years toge|ther; many Ages will not weare out the memory of their Actions: They have made greater Impre&s;&s;ions upon the Happine&s;s and Peace of <HI>Englands</HI> flouri&s;hing Kingdom, then ever the &s;urious Planet <HI>Mars</HI> by his being Promittor in a fiery Signe, could make by that loath&s;ome Di&s;ea&s;e termed <GAP DESC="foreign">, in the face of a beautiful Virgin. But I re|turn to <HI>Saturn</HI> again, and to his &s;ignifications, as he is placed in our Figure, becau&s;e he is Lord of the &s;eventh hou&s;e, and placed in the third in <HI>Scorpio.</HI></P>
<P>The Learned <HI>Haly</HI> in this manner of Judgements, &s;eems to decipher the Enemies of a King, and their conditions al&s;o, by the Infortunes at large, as appears by this Aphori&s;m of his: <HI>Siquando infortumium fuerit cadens &amp;:c &s;ub terra maxime, &s;ig|nificat debilitatem, inimieqrum; &amp; depre&s;&s;ionem, &amp; vilem, eorum e&s;timationem, &amp;c.</HI> which &s;onnds to this purpo&s;e in Engli&s;h: If when the. Infortunes &s;hall at the proclaiming of a King be cadent, it fignifies the Depre&s;&s;ion and Debility of hi Ene|mies; portnends their Credit and E&s;timation to be vile, not onely in it &s;elf, but in the eyes of men; ancf this &s;hall hap|pen chiefly when they are cadent under the earth; as in this Figure. Hence it is as clear as the Son. in his Meridian Glo|ry, that all tho&s;e who &s;hall appear to be Enemies, (I would not be mi&s;nnider&s;tood; I mean onely Dome&s;tick Enemies; for. by this Figure I have to do with no other; but from o|ther cau&s;e I dare al&s;o include Forragin Enemies, but dare
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not do it here) I &s;ay, who &s;hall appear enemies unto this Kingdoms Peaces, will al&s;o prove &s;uch unto their own Happi|ne&s;e and Quietude. For let their De&s;ignes be what they will, they are appointed to fall and fail under them; and by pro&s;ecuting their cruel (nay, I may add, accur&s;ed) Purpo&s;es and De&s;ignes, they will never Feable to bring the Brat their Brains have conceived, and begin to grow big of, unto a perfect birth: The Midwi&s;e <HI>Time</HI> become, and will conti|nue their ab&s;olute Enemy and Hater. This very Po&s;ition of <HI>Saturn</HI> in <HI>Scorpio,</HI> in Square of <HI>Mars,</HI> will di&s;cover their weakne&s;s and folly, and &s;o far befool them in their con|trivances, that when they think to be at the mo&s;t likely and probable point of attaining to the Haven of their Wi&s;hes, they will meet their own de&s;truction, and &s;ufferr &s;uch a &s;ad Cata&s;trophe, that will not onely ruine and de&s;troy them|&s;elves but eclip&s;e the Credit Fame and E&s;timation of their Po&s;terities for many Ages to come. <HI>Saturn</HI> you &s;ee is in Quartile of <HI>Mars</HI> his Enemy; hear what <HI>Bethem</HI> &s;ays to &s;uch a Po&s;ition, <HI>Aph.</HI> 10. <HI>Quando Tlanetae&s;t in a&s;pectu &s;ui ho&s;t is, e&s;t ut vix timens ho&s;tem &s;unm</HI>: A Planet in A&s;pect of his Ene|my, is as a man fearing to&s;uffer, or be endamaged by him. And in the 31 Aph. he &s;ith, <HI>Planeta in domo inimici &s;ui, e&s;t, nt vir in domo alterins, inter quos fame advenit odium &amp; ira:</HI> A Planet in the Hou&s;e of his Enemy, is as a man in another hou&s;e &s;ubject to the Ire and Hatred of tho&s;e among whom he is. <HI>Saturn</HI> is not onely in Quartile of Mars, but di&s;po|&s;ed of by him al&s;o. <HI>Ergo,</HI> the&s;e Rules are the more to be heeded.</P>
<P>Let me per&s;wade all you that are the pofe&s;&s;ed and avow|ed Enemies to this Nations Peace and Happine&s;s, to change your evil purpo&s;es, and to turn the, de&s;tructive current of your Treacherous Inclinations; unle&s;s you have a de&s;ire to meet your Mi&s;ery and Ruine in pro&s;ecuting the ill grounded Theam of your in&s;uling and rea&s;onle&s;s prejudice; which is (I unrefeignedly prote&s;t) mo&s;t plainly to be read in the Heavens; and you your &s;elves may al&s;o perceive it by the divers po&s;itive Authorities I cite.</P>
<P>I &s;corn and abominate to &s;ub&s;titute my own Opinion in
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the room of Art; or to wrack and torture the Science I &s;tudy, with unwarrantable Devices, to force and compel it to &s;peak what the, Heavens do not intend or intimate. It is &s;ufficiently known I have made it my de&s;igne all along to detect and di&s;|cover the Errours, Forgeries and Vanities of the highe&s;t A|bu&s;ers of this noble Science in our Age. And &s;hould I attempt any &s;uch thing, or wilfully &s;uffer my Pen to walk either con|trary to, or be&s;ides the Rules of my Art, I &s;hould then be as bad as he, who pretending to abhor Idols, was not a&s;hamed to commit Sacrilege.</P>
<P>Perhaps the&s;e my &s;erious and &s;ea&s;onable Premonitions, be|cau&s;e they are deduced <HI>ex Artis</HI> from the Stars, maybe contemned, neglected and &s;lighted; and my &s;elf for the &s;ame derided, if not detruded, by tho&s;e who are mo&s;tly concerned in them, and ought chiefly to con&s;ider and ob&s;erve them. It is a practi&s;e among the ignorantly re&s;olute in &s;hawing a Fool|hardy valour, rather to run into the Jaws of Ruine, then be wrought upon by the mo&s;t gentle Per&s;wa&s;ions to re|form.</P>
<P>I know A&s;trology. is &s;uffciently under Hatches at this day in <HI>England,</HI> and by tne major &s;ort, of wi&s;e and ignorant, not onely neglected, but condemned, by rea&s;on of the Sychopin|cy, Leidgerdemain, and Grand Jugling of that Arch-Para&s;ite <HI>Merlinus Anglicus</HI>; who for many years together hath been fel&s;ly reputed rhe chief A&s;trologer among us. If f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ttery be the onely di&s;tingui&s;hable Character to know an Arti&s;t by, the general Cry and Commendations will the more ea&s;ily reach him. But if true knowledge in the Art &s;hall take place, I here publickly.maintain, He is not guilty of the tythe of the knowledge that the people have generally believed of him. This may &s;eem &s;omewhat Paradoxial and &s;trange, That a per|&s;on that hath born the Bell I cannot tell how many years in the common Fame of the Nation, &s;hould not be mo&s;t excel|lent in the thing he pretends unto: but it is mo&s;t true, and I dare publickly aver it, That his skill is &s;o mean in the Art he prerends unto, that he knoweth not how to calculate one Stars or Planets place: nay, I &s;hall go further 3 he &s;carcely Knows how to reduce a Star truly from one Meridian to ano|ther</P>
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It is common for the major part of the world, who&s;e judge|ments are un&s;ea&s;oned, to be taken with pretended Flourti&s;hes of skill, whether they be certain and true, or not. <Q>I have heard of a Mu&s;tian who (with his Youth) was p&s;aying be|fore it great number of per&s;ons; and the Youth having ob|tained a little &s;uperficial skill, did with the &s;ame &s;o enchaunt the Ears of the Auditors, that they brake forth into a great Commendation of his rare skill: His Ma&s;ter ob&s;erving this their applau&s;e, came near to the Youth, and &s;truck him on the Ear, &s;aying, Sirrah, If you had been true to your Notes, tho&s;e misjudging-Ears could never have commended you.</Q> So, if that grand Abu&s;er of A&s;trologie have been commmend|ed in all things he hath written, it hath been by un&s;ea&s;oned Judgments, Per&s;ons that were not acquainced with his Wiless and lgnorance. Yet for his &s;ake alone, hath A&s;trologie been hardly cen&s;ured, yea, plainly abu&s;ed, neglected, &s;corn'd and condemned.</P>
<P>It is not A&s;trologie, but Sycophancy, and arch-Villany, to turn tide &amp; tale with every, intere&s;t. An houe&s;t A&s;trologer &s;corns to fawn, ftatter, and write for and again&s;t a Parliament for.200 and l. 100.l. <HI>per anuum.</HI> Is he an able Astrologer that &s;hall trapan the King-of <HI>Sweden</HI> to his ruine, and yet receive from him both money and a Goid Chain? Is he not a Villain rather?. Is he an. hone&s;t Arti&s;t that &s;hall trayterou&s;ly traduce his. lawful Leige-Lord and So, veraign, and call him <HI>Titular King, Pyra|tical Prince</HI>; threaten him with a &s;tab, or poi&s;on? Is he a Eriend to the Scince he pretends, that for a Bribe &s;hall (<HI>&s;ine ra|tione</HI>) doom the. King of <HI>Denmark</HI> to ruine, and the Prince Ele|Etor of <HI>Beandenburgh</HI> to repent in &s;ackeloath and a&s;hes? Is he not a Mercenary Killain rather, that for a handful of earth &s;hall a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate the mo&s;t &s;plendid reputations in the world? Nor dare I esteem him other then a rancorous hearted Wretch that &s;hall aggravate a difference between his own Prince and Sub|jects, or that &s;hall abu&s;e his Royal Majesties Friends by name, as the before mentioned <HI>Merlin's</HI> Brat hath ihe Earl of <HI>Or|mond</HI> calling him arch-Rebel, and indi&s;creet Earl, and threat|ning him with inglorious death; and Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> whom he
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villanou&s;ly stiles Plunder-Ma&s;ter-General, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Thus you &s;ee how A&s;trologie is come to be evilly &s;poken of, and for who&s;e &s;akes al&s;o</P>
<P>A&s;trologie is too Princely a Science to be thus a bu&s;ed! but by the &s;oile and black Actions of this Proditorious Fellow, the Diamond, Lu&s;tre and Beauty of the Art, is the more ex|cellently &s;hadowed and &s;et off. I abominate to threaten or terrifie any &s;ort of men in the world with fal&s;e fears, or in|deed with any at all! Howbeit, I &s;hall endeavour to per|&s;wade all tho&s;e that are wilfully precipitating them&s;elves into the Gulph of Mi&s;ery, Ruine and De&s;truction, to avoid run|ning the Road that leads nece&s;&s;arily thereunto: If the cau&s;e be taken away, the effect of cour&s;e cea&s;eth.</P>
<P>And that I may u&s;e a pertinent and proper Argument to per&s;wade with them, I &s;hall acquaint them, and the world at large, That A&s;trologie is not &s;o vain, &s;o empty, or &s;o idle a &s;tudy, as the ignorance and villany of the beforementioned Per&s;on hath &s;eemed to render it. There is more Worth, Truth, and certainty therein, then the weak &amp; yeilding Brains of Men are generally able to conceive or comprehend: And that may mo&s;t probably be the ground of the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellour's Caution in his Learned and Elegant Speech to the Parliament, &mdash; <HI>That we &s;hould not too much de&s;pi&s;e the influence of the Stars.</HI> <Q>We do not (faith the Learned Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>) reject or condemn a &s;ober and regulated A&s;trolo|gie; we hold there is more truth therein, then in A&s;trolo|gers; in &s;ome more, then many allow; yet in none &s;o much as &s;ome pretend. We deny not the influences of the Stars, but often &s;u&s;pect the due Application thereof: <HI>P&s;eud. Epidem. Lib.</HI> 4. <HI>p.</HI> 194.</Q> And what man of Rea&s;on, will deny the Rea&s;on of this Learned Author? Shall we through a conceited or zealous ignorance, confound the good u&s;e of the Art with the abu&s;e thereof, for the knavi&s;h|ne&s;s of a known Impo&s;tor therein? Are there no Grapes ripe, or fit to be eaten, but tho&s;e that are within our reach? Shall we wilfully damn and de&s;troy all things we are not able to under&s;tand? This were ridiculous, and mo&s;t unworthy
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the Rea&s;on of men! Is there no &s;ober Di&s;tinction to be made between the good Wine and the Dregs? between the skill of an hone&s;t Arti&s;t and the practi&s;e of a Sycophantique Pre|tender? That it is unju&s;t for any to blend or mingle the true u&s;e, with the abu&s;e of an Art, I &s;hall endeavour to &s;atisfie the world, by remembring them of &s;ome few, but admirable examples, in which the true worth and certainty of this ho|noured Science hath to the great credit thereof, been veri|fied.</P>
<P>And to avoid the repetition of tho&s;e famous Predictions <HI>Lucius Bellanticus, Gauricus, Cardan, Spurina, Guido, &amp;c.</HI> (with who&s;e worthy skill, and famous Pre&s;ages, we might fill &s;ome Volumes) I &s;hall relate here onely &s;ome few, but remarka|ble things, forecold by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Syderal Science, of late years, and among us al&s;o.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM N="1">I. <HI>Mr. H.</HI> John&s;on <HI>in his Book called</HI> Anti-Merlinus, <HI>page</HI> 23. <HI>predicted the ruine of the Long Parliament in the&s;e words</HI> &mdash; That notwirh&s;tanding the Parliament &s;hall &s;touri&s;h yet a while, yet in the end they &s;hall be conquered, and brought low; and many of them &s;hall die a death &s;hameful and ignomini|ous, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">II. <HI>Mr.</HI> Wharton <HI>in p. 42. of his</HI> Hemero&s;e, 1653. <HI>predicted the routing of the Long Parliament mo&s;t exactly in the&s;e words</HI>: Mars tran&s;its the Degree culminating in the la&s;t Conjunction of &Saturn; and &Jupit; in the watry Triplicity, which will manife&s;t it &s;elf in one or other grand accident to befal &s;ome, and they none of the meane&s;t in power; but men (if I &s;in not in calling them &s;o) of the fir&s;t Magnitnde: and this by means of the Soldiery, or of &s;uch per&s;ons as are Martially di&s;po&s;ed. And this <HI>(he faith)</HI> &s;hould happen at the beginning of the year. <HI>And behold in</HI> A|pril <HI>O.</HI> Cromwel <HI>turn'd out the Parliament that had &s;ate twelve long years, and upwards.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">III. In the year 1658. I verified theText of <HI>Haly de judciis A&s;trorum pars</HI> 8.<HI>cap.</HI> 19. in predicting the death of Oliver Cromwel Which came to pa&s;s exactly, as was foretold, See
<PB N="16" REF="11">
my Almanack of that year, and page the 11th of the <HI>prog|no&s;ticon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. In the year 1659. in my Ephemeris, I plainly predi|cted the downfal of <HI>Richard Cromwel</HI> from the Text in <HI>fol.</HI> 124. of <HI>Johan: Anton: Guiffus de Eclip&s;ibus</HI>: and the Confu|&s;ions of the (then) Per&s;ons in power, I did foretel <HI>in Nudis verbis</HI>; and that from, the great Eclip&s;e of the Sun, as al&s;o from <HI>Prolomy</HI> and <HI>Origanus</HI> their Aphori&s;ms and Judgements thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. The beginning of the &s;ame year, I publi&s;hed the Na|tivity of the King of <HI>Sweden, viz..</HI> when he was in all his glo|ry; and therein did from <HI>Schoner,</HI> and other Aurhorities, pre|&s;age his death; and in <HI>February</HI> 1660. he did die accor|dingly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. The &s;ame year I publi&s;hed his Royal Maje&s;ty of <HI>Den|mark</HI>'s Nativity, and therein predicted his Recovery from his troubles; and the Peace al&s;o (now confirmed and ratified) between him and the Swedi&s;h Crown. See <HI>Nuncius Astro|logious,</HI> lately printed.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>I &s;pare to &s;peak of the mo&s;t fortunate, happy, and heaven-favouring Predictions that are to be found in my Ephemeris for this year, becau&s;e the Book it &s;elf (and things therein con|tained) is &s;till fre&s;h in each mans memory. Not is it requi|&s;ite for me to take notice of each au&s;picious Prediction my Pen hath been the Author of; otherwi&s;e for one of the&s;e, I could have produced ten. But my bu&s;ine&s;s is onely to prove A&s;trologie u&s;eful and worthy; and that the Predictions thence lawfully derived, ought to be &s;eriou&s;ly and carefully heeded and con&s;idered. Shall we &s;ay that the Lute is a dull In&s;tru|ment, becau&s;e a poor Piper cannot tell what to make thereof? Is <HI>AE&s;op's</HI> Jewel of no u&s;e, bacau&s;e a Cock preferred a Barly|Corn before it? A&s;trologie was never yet condemned by a|ny that under&s;tood it. And that alone pre&s;eves its honour with the ingeniou&s;ly learned.</P>
<P><PB N="17" REF="11">
Neither let any man under pretence of oppo&s;ing A&s;trolo|gie to Divinity, take occa&s;ion thence to give the le&s;s credit unto it. For. &mdash;. If there be a truth therein, (as faith the a|fore&s;aid worthy Author) it doth not injure Divinity: If to be born under. <HI>Mercury</HI> di&s;po&s;eth us to be witty, under <HI>Ju|piter</HI> to be wealthy; I do not owe a knee unto the&s;e, but unto the merciful hand that hath ordered my indifferent and uncertain Nativity unto &s;uch benevolous A&s;pects:<HI>Vide Re|ligio Medici, Sect.</HI> 18. Be&s;ides, Divines them&s;elves have been the greate&s;t Propagators of this Science; as <HI>Junctine, Ficinus, Hartgil, Dr. Gell, Burton, Origanus, Lindholt, Reeves, Swadlin, Carpenter, &amp;c.</HI> And can we in rea&s;on believe or conceive, that they would advance, or &s;et up, any thing con|trary to their own profe&s;&s;ion? Nay, mo&s;t of the&s;e have af|firmed, That A&s;trologie is nece&s;&s;ary in a Divine; for he can|not truely under&s;tand &s;ome places of Scripture without the knowledge thereof. And that was the rea&s;on that formerly in <HI>Egypt</HI> none were admitted into the Sacred Order with|out being competently ver&s;ed in the Science of the Scars.</P>
<P>This being now con&s;idered, I &s;ee not rea&s;onably how the greate&s;t Antagoni&s;ts can hood-wink them&s;elves from the knowledge of Coele&s;tial Influences. Nor can we under&s;tan|dingly conplude, that he which gave vertue to the <HI>Mazza|roth</HI> (or twelve &s;ignes) the Pleiades, Arcturus, and the Stars of Orion, &s;hould refu&s;e to en&s;tamp an in&s;luence proportio|nable upon the re&s;t of tho&s;e glorious Creatures. Nor ought we in rea&s;on to. condemn, &s;light and neglect all A&s;tral in&s;lu|ence or ponrer, for the Impo&s;turi&s;ms of any one either pretending to or practi&s;ing A&s;trologie, any more, then we ought to make light of the Deity, becau&s;e <HI>Caligula</HI> and <HI>Lucian</HI> would nor grant any.</P>
<P>Will any man e&s;teem him Wi&s;e or judicious, that like AE|&s;ops Dog letteth &s;lip the &s;ub&s;tance to &s;natch at the &s;hadow? Is it not a mo&s;t blu&s;h-worthy fault in any that &s;hall catch at Vanities on purpo&s;e to carp at Verities? He puts the greate&s;t Fallacy and Cheat upon him&s;elf, and robs his Rea&s;on of its proper food, that in deri&s;ion and &s;corn of an Art &s;hall hug, cheri&s;h and embrace the Abu&s;e and Impo&s;turi&s;m thereof, on
<PB N="18" REF="12">
purpo&s;e to wound the true u&s;e and worth of it. The Errour of the Arti&s;t is but the Organ of his unwary and imperfect Nature, and no impeachment to the honour of the Art at all. It would be highly unju&s;t in any to condemn the true u&s;e of Phy&s;ick, under pretence of crying out again&s;t the knavi&s;h and unwarrantable practi&s;e of Empyricks.</P>
<P>A&s;trologers &s;eldome commit Errors, except when they (for bribes) turn Para&s;ites, <HI>&amp;c. Amor odium&abque; ne vera eveniant judicia prohibent &s;i quidem minunt maxima, augent minima</HI>; (i.e.) Love and Hate will occa&s;ion great Errour in judge|ment;The one cau&s;erh the Arti&s;t to magni&s;ie things trivial, and the other to le&s;&s;en things con&s;iderable, <HI>Ptol. Cent. A|phor.</HI> 12. The true A&s;trologer therefore ought to avoid running upon, either of the&s;e Rocks, as carefully as he would avoid the giving a fal&s;e judgement.</P>
<P>But I wave this Apologetique Di&s;cour&s;e, and would not in|deed have &s;poke &s;o much here, but that the cau&s;e is &s;o pre&s;|&s;ing; And to acquaint the world, that A&s;thologie is not &s;it to be contemned, but continued, notwith&s;tanding the Abu&s;es of the greate&s;t Pretenders thereunto. I have partly procee|ded thus far in it, to check the vain conceits of Unbelievers: and to a&s;&s;ure them, as there is truth in &s;tarry Influences, and in rhe forementioned proofs thereof, that <HI>Englands</HI> happine&s;s cannot be endeavoured to be undermined, but by the ab&s;olute de&s;truction and ruine of the Undertakers and, Projectors of the &s;ame: and this without Flattery, or by-re&s;pect to any Intere&s;t, I &s;end into the world, there to remain an A&s;tro|logical Truth with the re&s;t of his Fellows, when the Au|thor of it &s;hall &s;ilently re&s;t <HI>Inter Mortuos,</HI> among the Dead.</P>
<P>Let. us but ob&s;erve the grand Harmony between the Fi|gure before going, and-that of the Revolution of the world, <HI>viz</HI> of the Suns intrat into <HI>Aries</HI>; and we &s;hall find, that <HI>Luna</HI> in this Figure is in Sextile to her place in that, and on the place of <HI>Jupiter</HI> al&s;o; and the Benevolent Planet <HI>Venus</HI> Lady of the tenth here, upon the place of <HI>Luna</HI> in that Scheme; and the Cu&s;p of the eleventh of that Figure a&s;cending here in this.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="12">
<HI>From all which au&s;picious Tran&s;its and Radiations, we may once more boldly affirm</HI> &mdash; That Peace and Unity is inten|ded to the&s;e I&s;lands by this &s;o happy Renovation and Change a|mong us: and that there. will be both harmony, concord and a|greement between both Prince and people. And mo&s;t wretched mu&s;t that man, or tho&s;e men be, that &s;hall endeavour to di&s;turb our long-expected, and now growing Felicity.</P>
<P>Thus much I have thought &s;it to publi&s;h upon this occa&s;i|on; pre&s;uming, as it may be of very good u&s;e to &s;ome, it can be of no bad con&s;equence or import to any that love this Kingdoms Peace.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="20" REF="13">
<HEAD>AN Admirable Ob&s;ervation commended to the Learned in A&s;tronomy</HEAD>
<P>HAving an opportunity of the Pre&s;s, I &s;hall, for the ho|nour of A&s;tronomy, pre&s;ent unto the Learned in that Act an Ob&s;ervarion more ancient then any commonly ex|tant, as it was made by one Mr. <HI>Knighton</HI> a Monk of <HI>Canter|bury, An.</HI> 1170. <HI>Sept.</HI> 13. at midnight, and lately di&s;covered by the reading of my worthy Friend Mr. <HI>J.Childry,</HI> who (to the end it might be &s;erviceable to the Lovers of <HI>Urania,</HI> and claim their &s;erious notice) gave me the &s;ame to publi&s;h in the very words him&s;elf met with it, <HI>viz. An.</HI> 1170. <HI>Idibus</HI> Septembris <HI>nocte media, duo Planet &amp; it a conjungi videbaniur, ut qua&s;i una eadem&abque; &s;tella fui&s;&s;ent appareret, &s;ed illico ab invi|cem &s;eparati &s;unt</HI>: In the year 1170. in the Ides of <HI>Septem|ber</HI> about midnight, were &s;een two planets &s;o nearly con|joyned, that they &s;eemed to appear as it were one and the &s;ame Star; but they did &s;uddainly &s;eparate from each other.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Childry</HI> gave me al&s;o a Calculation of this Conjuncti|on from the Tables of Mr. <HI>Vincent Wing</HI> in his <HI>Astronomia In|staurata,</HI> by Mr. <HI>Rich. Fitz-&s;mith,</HI> a per&s;on excellently ver|&s;ed in this knowledge, (by which without trouble I knew the Stars conjoyn'd near <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI>) with which I &s;hall pre&s;ent my Reader. But fir&s;t I &s;hall take the pains to try how near the Tables in my Doctrine of Nativities will an|&s;wer this rare appearance.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>1. For the Suns place to that time given.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Sun; Mid, Long.</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>47</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Apog. Sub.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>47</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Anomalia.</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. &Sun;. 500, 007.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Equat. Sub.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Sun; true place.</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&Virgo;</CELL>
<CELL><HI> 27 d.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>16 <HI>m.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>22 <HI>&s;.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="21" REF="13">
<TABLE>
<HEAD>For Jupiter's <HI>place.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Long. &Jupit;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Aphel. &Jupit;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Node. &Jupit;.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;i.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>deg</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;c.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ig.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>deg.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ec.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ig.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>deg.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ec.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Mid. Long. Aph. S.</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Anomalina. Equ. add</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. &Jupit;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">570, 758.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">ParsCurt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">4.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. place. Node Sub.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. Curt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">570,754.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. &Sun;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">500,007.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Arg. Lat. Reduct. add</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T. A.</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">929,253.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">Add</CELL>
<CELL>45</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. reduced &Sun; Place.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T. C.</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">9,82735.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T.</CELL>
<CELL>58</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">10,21154.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Anom. Orb. &frac12; of it.</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
<CELL>51</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T.</CELL>
<CELL>47</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">10,03889.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Tang. ad Elong &Sun;. S.</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Jupit; true place</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">II 11 <HI>deg.</HI> 16 <HI>min..</HI> 42 <HI>&s;ec.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<HEAD>For <HI>Jupiter's</HI> Latitude:</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>Tagent of Inclination.</CELL>
<CELL>837656</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sine Elogation</CELL>
<CELL>998284</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sine Arg. Latitude</CELL>
<CELL>976164</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>S. C. Arith. Anno Orbe</CELL>
<CELL>4955</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Tangent of Latitude South</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">817059</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>0 <HI>d.</HI> 51 <HI>m.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="22" REF="14">
<TABLE>
<HEAD>For Mars's <HI>place.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Long. &Mars;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Aphel. &Mars;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Node. &Mars;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;i.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>deg</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;c.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ig.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>deg.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ec.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ig.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>deg.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;ec.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Midd. Long. Aphel. Sub.</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL>59.</CELL>
<CELL>38.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Anomalia. Equat. add</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. &Mars;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">516. </CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">591.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>45</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Curt.P.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">1.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. place. Node Sub&s;t.</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>47</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. Curt</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">516, 590.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. &Sun;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">500,007.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Arg. Lat. Reduct.add</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T.A.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">34.19.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">983417.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">Add</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">45.0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Eclipt.place &Sun; place</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T.C.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">79.19.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">927565</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">73.31.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">1052885.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Anom. Otb. &frac12; of it.</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">T.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">32.31</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">980450.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Tang. add Elong.&Sun;.s.</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Mars; true place.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">II 11 <HI>deg.</HI> 14 <HI>min.</HI> 44 <HI>&s;ec.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<HEAD>For Mars's Latitude.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>Tangent of Inclination</CELL>
<CELL>850946</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sine of Elongation</CELL>
<CELL>998276</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sine Arg. Latitude</CELL>
<CELL>922878</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>S.C. Arith. Anom. orbe</CELL>
<CELL>26409</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>-</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Tang. Lat. 0 <HI>deg.</HI>34 <HI>min.</HI>South</CELL>
<CELL>798509</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="23" REF="14">
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="5">Long.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="2">Lat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="2">So the places of them both in Longitude and Latitude are</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Jupit;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>51</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">South. D.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Mars;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL COLS="10">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>58</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>And their difference in Longitude, I <HI>min.</HI> 58 <HI>&s;ec.</HI> in Lati|tude 17 <HI>min.</HI> a thing incon&s;iderable both ways; and remar|kably proves the exactne&s;s of the beforementioned Tables in my Doctrine of Nativities, which are founded upon the Hy|pothe&s;is of the Learned <HI>Bullialdus.</HI></P>
<P>In the next place, I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with the pains of Mr. <HI>Fitz-&s;mith</HI> on this admirable Conjunction from Mr. <HI>Wing's Astronomia In&s;taurata</HI>; which, as it was delivered me, take as followeth.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>The Sun's place.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;i.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">de.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">m.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The middle Motion of &Sun;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Apogaeeon of &Sun; S.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Anomalia remains</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>57</CELL>
<CELL>58</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Equation of &Sun; Eccentrick &s;ub&s;tract</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The &Sun; true place</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><HI>viz.</HI> in <HI>nz</HI> 27 <HI>deg.</HI> 16 <HI>min.</HI> 32 <HI>&s;ec.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="24" REF="15">
<TABLE>
<HEAD>The places of Jupiter and Mars.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Jupiter.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Mars.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL>deg.</CELL>
<CELL>min.</CELL>
<CELL>&s;ec</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL>deg.</CELL>
<CELL>min.</CELL>
<CELL>&s;ec</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Middle Motion</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Aphelion &Jupit;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Node a&s;cending</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Equation of the Eccentrick to be added</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>46</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>35</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Place of &Jupit; from &Sun; in his Orbite</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Reduction add</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Ecliptique place of &Jupit; from &Sun;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Parallax of the Orb from the earth add</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>55</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Longitude of &Jupit; is</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>49</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Latitude South</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>51</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>83</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Hence their places in Longitude and Latitude, is &mdash;
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">d.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">m.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="2">Long &Jupit; &Mars; II</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>49</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">m.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="2">Latitude</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>51</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">South.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>38</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Their Difference in both, <HI>od.</HI> 3 <HI>m.</HI> 53 <HI>&s;.</HI> &mdash; 22 39.</P>
<P><PB N="25" REF="15">
I &s;hall in the la&s;t place pre&s;ent you with a Calculation of this &s;o famous Conjunction from the Tables of my worthy Friend Mr. <HI>Wing</HI> in his <HI>Harmonicon Coele&s;te,</HI> which differ very little from the Calculation thereof by the Tables in my Trea|ti&s;e of Nativities.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>For the <HI>Sun's</HI> true place, Ex Harmoni Coele&s;te.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Time given.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Long. &Sun;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Apog. &Sun;.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;i.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1101</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>60</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>49</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sept.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>D. 13</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>H. 12</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="2">Middle Longitude Apogae<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">on</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="3">Anomalia Remaining Equation Sub&s;tract The Suns true place</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>57</CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2" COLS="4">Logarithm of &Sun; &mdash; 100001.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>55</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4"><HI>&Virgo;</HI> 27 <HI>d.</HI> 16 <HI>m.</HI> 33 <HI>&s;</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="26" REF="16">
<TABLE>
<HEAD>For Jupiter's place.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Time given.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Long &Jupit;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Aphel.&Jupit;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Node &Jupit;.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;i.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;e.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;i.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">1101</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>37</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">60</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>47</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">9</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>57</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Sept.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">D.13</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">H.12</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Mid. Lon. &Jupit; Aphel. Sub.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Di&s;t. &Jupit; &agrave; &Sun;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">508565</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Anomalia Equat. add</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
<CELL>45</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Curt. Pars</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">47</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Di&s;t. curtated.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">501518</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. place Node A&s;cen</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Di&s;t. &Sun; &agrave; terra,</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">100001</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Sum</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">6015019</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Arg. Lat. Reduct. add</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Difference</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">401517</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">As Sum</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">3,77913</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. reduced &Sun; place.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">To Difference.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">3,60357</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4"> So T. 58 d. 32 m.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">10,21324</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="3">Anom. Com Half Sum. Parallax Orb</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2" COLS="4">To Tan. 47 d.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">13,81681</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">10,02758</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">Sum 106.0 Angle Elongation.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL COLS="7">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">Differ. 11.4 Parallax earths Orb</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Jupit; place.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">II 11 d. 17m. 31 &s;ec.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>For Jupiter's <HI>Latitude.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>As Sine Elongation, 74 <HI>d.</HI> o <HI>m.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>9,982841</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>To Sine Angle Comitat. 62 <HI>d.</HI> 57 <HI>m.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>9,9496987</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>so Cotangent Iclination, 0 <HI>d.</HI> 46 <HI>m.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>11,873490</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>-</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>21823177</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>To Cotangent of Latitude sonth 0 <HI>d.</HI> 59 <HI>m</HI></CELL>
<CELL>11,840336</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="27" REF="16">
<TABLE>
<HEAD>For <HI>Mars's</HI> place.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Time given.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Long. &Mars;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Aphel. &Mars;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="4">Node &Mars;.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">m.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ig.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">deg.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">min.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">1101</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">60</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>36</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">9</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>37</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Sept.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>57</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>49</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">D. 13</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>46</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">H. 12</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Midd. Long. Aphel. Sub.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
<CELL>30.</CELL>
<CELL>41.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Di&s;t. &Mars; &agrave; &Sun;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">146270</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Anomalia. Equat. add</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Pars Curtration</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">4</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>49</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Di&s;t. curtated</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">146266</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. place Node Sub&s;t.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Log. &Sun;.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">100001</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Sum</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">246267</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Arg. Lat. Reduct. add</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">Difference</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">646265</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="2">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">As Sum</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">3,39128</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="2">Ecc. reduced &Sun; place</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">To Difference.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">2,66464</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">So T. 73 d. 32 m.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">10,52932</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label" ROWS="3">Anom. Com. Half Sum Parallax Orb.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2" COLS="4">To Tang. 32 d. 25 m.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">13,19396</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="4">9,80268</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">Sum is 105.57 Angle Elongat.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL COLS="7">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">Differ. 41.7 Parallax Earths Orb.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">&Mars; true place.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL COLS="9">II 11 deg. 19 min. 21 &s;ec.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD><HI>For</HI> Mars's <HI>Latitude.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>As Sine Elongation, 74 <HI>deg.</HI> 3. <HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>9,982950</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>To Sine Angle Comutation, 32. 56.</CELL>
<CELL>9,735329</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>So Cotangent Inclinat. 0. 22.</CELL>
<CELL>12,193845</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>-</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>21,929174</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>To Cotangent Latitude South, o <HI>deg.</HI> 39 <HI>min.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>11,946224</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="28" REF="17" MS="y">
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">d.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">m.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">&s;ec.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">d.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">m.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Hence, the Lon-gitude of &Jupit; is II</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Lati|tude</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>South</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Hence, the Lon-gitude of &Mars; is II</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Lati|tude</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>39</CELL>
<CELL>South</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Their Difference</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>I hope the Noble Students in this Study, will con&s;ider of what worthy advantage this choice Ob&s;ervation may be, and not grutch their pains hereon, if hereby (as I believe)they may rectifie A&s;tronomy; &s;ince it is Price enough for the pains of the true <HI>Filius Artis,</HI> if he have but the honour of elevating Art a minute nearer the truth then at the pre&s;ent it &s;tands. And of what Emolument it might prove to this Coe|Ie&s;tial Study, if all Learned per&s;ons would follow the &s;teps of this Reverend Church-man, and communicate all their Ob|&s;ervations of this kind, that in their reading they &s;hall have the good hap to meet with, I need not inculcate. This one Example will (I hope) prove an encouragement &s;ufficient to irritate the more able Endeavours of the mo&s;t knowing in this. Science, toward a Re&s;tauration of what the ignorant world admires, <HI>viz.</HI>The Motions of the Planets.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="29" REF="17">
<HEAD>The Author vindicated from <HI>Lilly's</HI> Scandalous Imputations.</HEAD>
<P>HAving been of late mo&s;t unworthily taxed by that known. Traducer Mr. <HI>William Lilly,</HI> (a common &s;can|dalizer of Kings and Kingdoms) and by his means in &s;everal &s;quirting Pamphlets untruly charged as guilty of that deformed and foul Crime of Ingratitude; He pre|tending him&s;elf (though fal&s;ly) my Tutor in A&s;trologie; I having had the great unhappine&s;s a&s; well as many others) to be, to my co&s;t, formerly acquainted with him: upon which acquaintance, he protends to ground his Scandals. And my being neglective of his S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">omma's, and a mild for bearing to re&s;pond unto any of his Nefarious Forgeries again&s;t me, hath partly per&s;waded many per&s;ons into a belief of his wicked In|&s;inuations. Which to correct with the Soveraign Antidote of Truth, I hold it requi&s;ite to acquaint the world, how I came fir&s;t to &s;tudy A&s;trologie, and unto who&s;e memory I owe my knowledge therein. Which make as followeth.&mdash;</P>
<P>In the year 1652. going into <HI>Oxford&s;hire,</HI> in the way of a grateful Vi&s;it to my honoured Grandfather Sir.<HI>J.Cur&s;on,</HI> who out of his Noblene&s;s was at the charge of my Education; I took with me &s;ome Pamphets as, The Copies of the Times Humours, to pre&s;ent him with. And among the re&s;t, Mr. <HI>Wharton's Hemero&s;c.</HI> for that year: upon fight of which, he was very well plea&s;ed, and began to enter into a Di&s;cour&s;e with me touching A&s;trologie. And (although my knowledge then was but mean therein) I an&s;wered his Demands accor|ding
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to the be&s;t of my skill. In brief, he was &s;o well plea&s;ed with my mean Returns, that he not onely commended my poor industry, but gave me &s;omewhat to encourage me fur|ther; and withal, expre&s;&s;ed a greater re&s;pect and affection to the Art, then Gentlemen in this Age commonly do; And advi&s;ed me (for attaining perfection therein) to the Study of A&s;tronomy; acquainting me, that (which I &s;ince found as true as the Oracle) he who was ignorant of the Motions of the Stars, mu&s;t be &s;o al&s;o in their effects.</P>
<P>Finding my &s;elf &s;o well entertained for that mean mite of knowledge, I was re&s;olved then to make a further progre&s;s therein, and (if po&s;&s;ible) under&s;tand the mo&s;t ab&s;tru&s;e parts thereof. And this my inclination wanted not an ample &s;ig|nification in my Nativity from the Heavens. For I had then operating <HI>M.C. ad</HI> &trine; &Mars;, and this in &Virgo;, the greate&s;t Digni|ties of &Merc;, the true Patron of Arts and Sciences. And upon the Effects thereof, I acquainted my &s;elf with that eminently Learned Mathematician and A&s;trologer, Dr. <HI>N. Fiske</HI>; who, in little time, had &s;o far in&s;tructed me in the whole Art of A&s;trologie, and a competent part of A&s;tronomy al&s;o, that in 1655. I was able to pre&s;ent my honoured Grandfather with an Almanack in Manu&s;cript, which was afterwards printed, and hath &s;ince been annually continued. And in that year al&s;o, I, together with my Uncle Mr. <HI>T.G.</HI> began to reduce the places of all the fixed Stars in the Heavens, as an Emendati|on of the Learned <HI>Hartgil</HI>'s Tables. And the&s;e were prin|ted and publi&s;hed 1656. And in the &s;ame year I published my <HI>Coelestial Amba&s;&s;ador.</HI> In the year 1658. I emitted in|to the world my <HI>Doctrine of Nativities.</HI> In the year 1658 I publi&s;hed the King of <HI>Swedes</HI> Nativity, and <HI>Nuncius A&s;tro|logicus</HI> al&s;o. And in the year 1660. I publi&s;hed my Treati&s;e of Prodigies.</P>
<P>In all which works, my Enemles them&s;elves can't &s;ay, I have done A&s;trologie the lea&s;t di&s;honour, or ca&s;t one blot up|on the Divine Beanty of the fair <HI>&V;rania.</HI> Howbeit, I mu&s;t ingenuou&s;ly acknowledge, that all the&s;e Rivulets are &s;prung from the &s;ource of that great Seminary of the Mathematicks, Dr. <HI>Fisk.</HI> beforementioned: for to him, and to him alone,
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next unto Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance do I owe all my knowledge in Art; and can boldly aver, I never learnt the meaning of an Aphori&s;m from any other man in the world.</P>
<P>I have been acquainted with the be&s;t and wor&s;t knowing in this Science in <HI>England</HI>; and mu&s;t acknowledge, there are more ingenious per&s;ons &s;tudy if privately, then any that pra|cti&s;e it publickiy. I cannot di&s;cover either more Art or Ho|ne&s;ty in our highe&s;t Pretenders, then in the mear vulgar A|&s;trologer. Nor am I able to di&s;cern any material Difference between a fam'd Mountebanks pair of Dials, with a <HI>Non Co|gunt,</HI> and the poor Bill-Po&s;ters <HI>Astra non nece&s;&s;itant,</HI>&amp;c. one|ly this, The one hath quacked under an e&s;pecial Protection from the State, for a bribe of <HI>100 l.</HI> and &s;ometimes <HI>200 l. per annum</HI>; and the other perhaps better de&s;erving, for want of Clyents; is compelled to the cour&s;e he otherwi&s;e hates and a|bominates. I honour A&s;trologie hone&s;tly con&s;idered, but hate the Sycophantick Pretender thereunto. I was more confident when I &s;carcely knew a &sextile; from a &trine;, then now I dare to be after nine years &s;tudy. I have written more of Art, then any man of this latter Age: yet have not preju|diced Kingdoms or Families, or abu&s;ed Kings, Princes. or mea|ner Per&s;ons, under pretence. thereof. I have carefully en|deavoured to e&s;cape <HI>Tacitus</HI> his Cen&s;ure, who re&s;hly con|cludes A&s;trologers &mdash;<HI>Genus Hominus infiduns Princi|piu&s;.</HI></P>
<P>I have had the happine&s;s to read A&s;trological (and &s;till do) to many ingenious per&s;ons, and that &s;atisfactorily, as many ve|ry well know: By which mean, I have much embettered my own under&s;tanding: For, <HI>Decendo di&s;cimus,</HI> by teaching we learn our &s;elves.</P>
<P>And whereas per&s;on, as in&s;olently, as unju&s;tly, rearm me ungrateful, either to <HI>Litty</HI> or any other, I &s;hall de&s;ire them, Fir&s;t <HI>Arguere,</HI> then <HI>Readarguers</HI> fir&s;t, to prove the Crime they object again&s;t me; then, reprove me for it. I acknow|ledge readily, that Ingratitude is the greate&s;t of Crimes a man can be guilty of. And it is a thing &s;o contrary to my nature, that I de&s;ire no longer to live, then to be grateful. And if I e&s;teemed my &s;elf a drachm behiad hand with any man
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in this, I would return him a pound in &s;atisfaction. Nay; the beforementioned per&s;on that hath objected Ingratitude to me, upon my demanding his Rea&s;on, did before Mr. <HI>E.Car|rant</HI> pronounce me (to him) the mo&s;t grateful man in the world. And I am confident he cannot, neither dares he &s;ay, (unle&s;s it it be boa&s;tingly behind my back) that I ever learn|ed a Line in A&s;trologie or A&s;tronomy from him. The later of which I dare, and do here publickly maintain, he knoweth nothing of; no, not to the Calculation of one Stars place, either fixed or Erratique; both which I was &s;ufficintly able to perform before ever my ill Fortune directed me to his ac|quaintance: and how he &s;hould then prove my Tutor, I can|nor in rea&s;on &s;ee. Nay, I prote&s;t freely, (and this without a|ny boa&s;ting, or ambitious lifting up my &s;elf, for I know my knowledge is but mean) I under&s;tood more Art before ever I was acquainted with <HI>Lilly,</HI> then he was ever capable of lear|ning in his life; notwith&s;tanding his great Fame for (doing nothing el&s;e in truth but) deluding the world. I mention not this by rea&s;on of the Difference between him and my &s;elf; for in matter of Truth I &s;o far deve&s;t my &s;elf from Pa&s;&s;i|on, that Rea&s;on might reign as King. Nor would I have a|ny hereby think, that Labhor to learn of an Adver&s;ary; for I have always made that Adage my Companion, whicn &s;ays|<HI>Etemin</HI> fasest, <HI>&amp; abho&s;te doceri</HI>; It is both ju&s;t and lawful for a man to learn of his Enemy. And I &s;hould not refu&s;e so learn of him who hath as arrogantly as fal&s;ly &s;tiled him|&s;elf my Tutor, and hath taught others to cant &s;o, if I conld perceive in him any thing by which my under&s;tanding might be bettered.</P>
<P>But although I &s;hall &s;o far &s;ubmit my &s;elf to the truth; as to bow the knee of my Rea&s;on to any, and &s;hall not refu&s;e to &s;toop to the foot of a Shepherd, if Ingenuity and Rea&s;on keep Court in &s;uch a Cottage; yet I hold it the highe&s;t &s;la|very in the world for any man that is <HI>di&s;cipulus ratiouis,</HI> to &s;ubjugate his Rea&s;on &s;o far, as &mdash; <HI>Jurare in verba</HI> Lillii. I am too Ma&s;culine to believe the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> &s;hall be greater then <HI>Charles</HI> the Great, becau&s;e Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> rantingly &s;ays &s;o; except he give me a better Rea&s;on, then ip&s;e
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dixit; and Authority, then the <HI>Sibyls,</HI> and Mother <HI>Shipton.</HI> Or that we &s;hall have no more Kings in <HI>England,</HI> becau&s;e he Sycophantiquely, and for ba&s;e Bribes, (laying a&s;ide his Art) writ &s;o. I am too great a Di&s;ciple of Art, to betray my Rea&s;on and Knowledge therein, to the by<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ed Intere&s;t of every confident Pretender. And if to defend the honour of Art, and detect and di&s;cover the Trea&s;ons and Chea|ti&s;ms practi&s;ed under it, and lay the Per&s;ons open to the World, that thus notoriou&s;ly abu&s;e it, be to be ungrate|ful; <HI>Sine Apologia,</HI> I de&s;ire to be ungrateful &s;till.</P>
<P>And whereas <HI>Lilly</HI> hath printed it &mdash; <HI>That lay it in my power, I would &s;wallow his Body, and &s;pit his Soul into the Stygian Lake,</HI> I mu&s;t tell him, The Fear is as &s;candalous as the Conceit idle and fooli&s;h: For, it mu&s;t be a Grave of far larger Dimen&s;ions that mu&s;t &s;wallow his Body, had he not e&s;pou&s;ed him&s;elf to Villanies that &s;well him &s;o much bigger then he naturally is. But if he mean by this Charge to &s;et off my Hatred to him by a Sarca&s;m, or Hyperbole, I mu&s;t return him as egregion&s;ly mi&s;taken in this, as he prov'd him&s;elf in the Swedi&s;h Victory, or <HI>R. Cromwel's</HI> continuance: For, I prote&s;t freely to the World, my heart is furni&s;hed with no &s;uch polluted &s;tuff. Nay, I dare be bold to affirm, That were there an occa&s;ion offered me to try my Hatred toward him to purpo&s;e, I &s;hould prove as great a Friend to him, as he is a man, as any of his <HI>Hicks|hall</HI> Jury did in 1654. when he was indicted there for a Cheat.</P>
<P>And whereas <HI>Lilly</HI> is troubled that I have at any time re|ported him a Taylor, I here again tell the world, I do therein but call a Spade a Spade. And he knows I have not onely his own Confe&s;&s;ion, and Witne&s;&s;es yet living to prove it, but good,&s;ufficient and uncontradicted Authority in Print for &s;o reporting him.</P>
<P>If Mr. <HI>Lilly</HI> have ought el&s;e to urge again&s;t me, I &s;hall,
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God willing, as &s;oon as I hear thereof, return him a mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onable, and civil Reply. This therefore &s;hall con|tent me for the pre&s;ent to return in an&s;wer to &s;ome of his scurrilities.</P>
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