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<P>THE DUTCH Bloudy Almanack, Conteyning The exact A&s;trologicall Predictions, for the yeare of our Lord 1653 Divided into the&s;e particulars.
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<ITEM>1 The Predictions of the Bloudy War between England and Holland, with the &s;ucce&s;s and events of &s;everall Fights by Sea and Land, and the Joyning together of the greate&s;t part of Europe again&s;t England.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 The breaking forth of open Wars with Denmark, and the Bloudy attempt of the King of Scots, and James Duke of York in pro&s;ecution of that de&s;igne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Severall Mutenys and In&s;urr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ctions in England, with &s;ome A&s;trologlcal ob&s;ervations thereupon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Some generull Calculations concerning the Warres in France, Spain and Portugale, with every Moneths ob|&s;ervations of the Revolutions in England.</ITEM>
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<FIGDESC>astrological figure, perhaps used for prognostication</FIGDESC>
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<P>London printed by John Clow&s;e 1653. <ADD>Octob. 19. 1652</ADD></P>
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<DIV2 N="January" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>January.</HEAD>
<OPENER>The great God direct us in his Truth.</OPENER>
<P>_THis moneth begines with the <HI>Sun</HI> or <HI>Sol</HI> in <HI>Capri|cornus,</HI> the <HI>Moone</HI> or <HI>Luna</HI> in <HI>Jeminie,</HI> and there is a <HI>Triue</HI> of <HI>Salturn</HI> and <HI>Venus,</HI> which brings dan|ger to women and children, but the Conjunction of <HI>Sol &amp; Jupiter</HI> doth a little metigate that a&s;pect, and the effects &s;eeme to hav the chiefe&s;t opperation, upon Judges and Lawyers, and where there happeneth a &s;carcity of them, the Influence will be found upon <HI>Jewes</HI> and <HI>Brokers,</HI> in all parts except in <HI>Turkey,</HI> where a Dutch-man came to a <HI>Jew,</HI> or <HI>Broker,</HI> and de&s;ired him to help him to buy a bargain of &s;ilke, and he would give him &s;atisfaction for his paines, the <HI>Jew</HI> thereupon goes with him to a <HI>Turke</HI> which had of that commodity that liked the Dutch-man, and treating about the price thereof, the <HI>Turke</HI> came to make a price, under which he would not go: But the Dutch-man thinking that the <HI>Turks</HI> had been like him&s;elfe and &s;tood not upon bis word, or promi&s;e; &s;wore <HI>Per&s;acramentum Je&s;um &amp;c.</HI> that he would not give &s;o much: The <HI>Turke</HI> not under&s;tanding the Language enquired of the <HI>Jew</HI> what it was he &s;aid. The <HI>Jew</HI> an&s;wered <HI>that he &s;wore by his God?</HI> the <HI>Turke</HI> re|plyed that he would not have further to doe with him that &s;et his God at &s;o low a rate, and layd by his commodity, for which the Dutch-man would afterwards have given the price but could not regaine the &s;ight hereof.</P>
<P>HO<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> mo&s;t horied newes from &s;ea arives at the Hague; if the dif|ferences are not now compo&s;ed betwixt the Engli&s;h and the Hollan|der, a &s;qadron of <HI>Dewitts</HI> will be indanger about this time, &s;ome black de&s;ignes are probably di&s;covered again&s;t the Engli&s;h Commone wealth, and Holland hath cau&s;e to cleave to &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ure friends in alliance the Planets &s;eem not to favour the French with abillity to a&s;si&s;t them in time of danger; It is an ill wind blowes no body good, but the con&s;tel|lations of the heavens bring it not to thee, great news expected from, the Dutch Amba&s;&s;adors in <HI>Denmark;</HI> The Sould<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ers &s;well with fury. Citizens minds ri&s;e high and mo&s;t mens &s;pirits are elevated, and the hea|vens decrees are immutable and I cannot find any good a&s;pects or French
<PB N="2" REF="3"> French Now is the time for Kings to lo&s;e all or win all, and if that King hath not by this time &s;etled a peace with the Princes. the Princes may be glad to offer another Treaty, for fear of an other De&s;igne to be &s;uddenly put in exe|cution, and their minds are in mi&s;erable perplexity, that are trubled with what is like to happen hereafter.</P>
<P>The <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Cancer</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> in a Quarden is as bad or wor&s;e then the former, yet doth gue&s;&s;e this a&s;pect will not be of any great forces in <HI>Hol|land</HI> or in <HI>England,</HI> the wor&s;t I can find unto them is the death of &s;ome of tho&s;e that &s;it at the helm unlamented, many pyracies committed by Sea, great bloo&s;hed in <HI>France,</HI> if the Spaniard have a fight with the French, about this time, he is likely ot prevail, &s;ome great remoraes of an&punc; eminency &s;ound&punc; abroad beyond our horizon; what it &s;hovld be I gue&s;&s;e not, unle&s;&s;e it &s;hould be of &s;ome great Fleet at Sea, it may be onely a re|port of new Levies for the Scots King, in <HI>Denmark</HI> or <HI>Scotland</HI> or both, yet of any place, let not the <HI>Scots</HI> think to thrive this year, <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> &amp;c. are tran&s;cendent with them and before &s;ummer is ended, their Royal Black coats will not dare to &s;hew their teeth, and <HI>Saturn</HI> be|ing pa&s;sing through a Quadrat pre&s;ageth fear, terror, and treachery in that Nation, but the A&s;pect is yet better in <HI>Holland,</HI> if they trouble not the water, or love to fi&s;h in &s;uch, they may live at quiet, but if otherwi&s;e they mu&s;t &s;mart as well as the re&s;t.</P>
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<DIV2 N="February" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>February.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Sol</HI> is this moneth in <HI>Pi&s;cs</HI> but begins in <HI>Aquarus,</HI> which pre&s;ageth good fortune unto <HI>Souldiers</HI> if they can have there pay? <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mer|cury</HI> &s;it in conjunction, and let all deceivers of the People t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ke heed, for oppre&s;&s;ors begin to feele their owne downefall; what &s;hall the Jewes at <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> and el&s;e where, have a M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">care nuder the Sea of <HI>Rome</HI> when they may find protection el&s;e where? All <HI>Europ</HI> is po&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d with a madne&s;s, they meete and con&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t&punc; but the greate&s;t part of them know not for what, and yet in &s;uch meetings every one cryes out, great is <HI>Ap|polo,</HI> and great is <HI>Diana,</HI> though they &s;ee their Temples pulled downe, and that the name of St. <HI>Paul</HI> him&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e cannot helpe it. <HI>Po<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">onia</HI> &s;a&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ages wax deere in <HI>Holland:</HI> many mutenyes are thereatned, and a &s;tand in councell for want of men of tru&s;t, &amp; no marvell when &s;uch men &s;hould be &s;carce among&s;t tho&s;e that have deceived all the world. It is well for <HI>England</HI> in re&s;pect of the Influence that the Sea divedes them.</P>
<P>Yet when I con&s;ider that Jupiter is Lord of the 2d, hou&s;e and thereby di&s;po&s;itor of Sol, and in his revolution Lord al&s;o in the 2 hou&s;e (for Pi&s;ces is intercepted) and di&s;po&s;itor of Venus, Lady of the 4th both in
<PB N="3" REF="3"> this, and the former figurs, &s;he being in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d. in Pi&s;ces her own exalta|tion, I mu&s;t needs &s;ay of the&s;e po&s;itions, <HI>amonae copiam, &amp;o</HI> they denote plenty of corn, fruitfulne&s;s of the earth, and g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eat abundance and plenty in this year if the effects of that great eclip&s;e of the &s;un, on the 9. of March, do not by their violence hinder the&s;e good things that are premi&s;|ed by this revolution from falling on our heads, but as commerce and trade &s;hall increa&s;e, &s;o &s;hall wickedne&s;s and deceit, for Mercury by his weak condition, being both in his fall and detriment in the 2d. <HI>&s;ignificat bnod &amp;c.</HI> men &s;hall give them&s;elves to ignominious and di&s;hone&s;t gain and &s;hall ob&s;erve very little faithfulne&s;&s;e among one another, and indeed this po&s;ition of Mercuty, doth al&s;o &s;ignifie angui&s;h, &s;orow, and increa&s;e of taxes for our troubls, though they are turned into quietne&s;s and peace at home, yet we &s;hall have war abord; for that oppo&s;ition of Sat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rn and <HI>&s;ignificat bellum apparere,</HI> no le&s;&s;e then much fighting and blood&s;hed: but though Saturn our enemy being malicious and the more by rea&s;on of his being in the 2. hou&s;e, (for <HI>auget in octava ma&s;evel<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;uam malitium</HI> yet becau&s;e Jupiter Lord of our a&s;cendant&punc; is much elevated above him <HI>&s;ignifications, &amp;c.</HI> &s;ignifies that we &s;hall overcome all our enemies, Haly tells indeed that this oppo&s;ition of Jupiter and Saturn &s;ignifies, <HI>quod eaunt &amp;c.</HI> it &s;ignifie&punc; there &s;hall be many quarrellings between men and nati|ons, one &s;hall be &s;tired up again&s;t the other, and men of low degree &s;hall quarrel with one another, go to law, &amp;c and indeed it is plain by the late &s;eparation of Luna from conjuction of Mars, that we were ingaged in brous before the beginning of this revolution, and the po&s;ition of Mars threatens their continuacne, but his &s;trength in the &s;cheam promi&s;es pro|tection <HI>qund genus, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="March" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>March.</HEAD>
<P>THis Spring begins with <HI>Sol,</HI> and the ninth of this moneth there hap|pens an Eclips of the Sun 3 minits pa&s;t f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ure of the clock in &punc;the af|ternoon, this happeneth on a Wen&s;day, and if the <HI>Engli&s;h Merlin</HI> can but tell certenly that the fabrick of Heaven will be cloudy, he would Chri&s;ten it <HI>Black Wedn&s;day</HI> as his Brother <HI>Booker</HI> did Munday the la&s;t yeare, but for that you will have a blind excu&s;e thus. Now I &s;hall proceed to the effects of this Eclips, and it maketh no great matter where I begin, &s;eing they afford &s;o litittle good, either to man or b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t</P>
<P>The Lords of this Eclip&s;s are Mars and Mercury, of which Mars of the two is &s;tronge&s;t by odds, and being upon the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;p of the tenth Hou&s;e it is &s;o much the wor&s;e, neither is it ever the better, becau&s;e it is in a male|volent and venomous Sign.</P>
<P>Mercury takes nature of that Star to which he is a&s;pected, which very unluckily here is Mars, both of them being in watry Signs, &s;ignifie ter|rible
<PB N="4" REF="4"> the ha&s;ty furious doings, violent, furious, tempe&s;tuous, de&s;tructive, ve|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ment winds; the Sea will be &s;o dangerous, men can &s;carce pa&s;s it by heea&s;on of &s;hipwrack and Piracies; and judg you what the Land is like to &s;uff<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r, when a couple of &s;uch theeving Planets are Lords of an Ecli|p&s;e: Be&s;ides all this, the Earth &s;uffers by Thunder and Lightning, vehe+ment and violent Storms, Earthquake<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and great gapings of the Earth M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n take &s;uch thinges as are none of their own, which formerly was called Theft, and &s;o tis now if poor men do it; but when rich men do it, then 'tis pillaging, plundering, and &s;eizing on Malignants goods: it in|clines men to rapine, &amp; theft, lying, depopulation; the Lawes changed, and the Prie&s;ts are mad, the Prie&s;thood it &s;elf dyes, and then farewel gen|tle Clergy; the bodies of men are perplexed with hot and dry Di&s;ea&s;es, Coughs, ann Con&s;umption of the Lungs, Vomittings &s;hortne&s;s of breath and Quotidiam Agues.</P>
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<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Aprill.</HEAD>
<P>About the very beginning of march the king <HI>of France</HI> is marching to his own de&s;truction: thou art invaded by a Neighbor-Nation; thou &s;halt, to thy Sorrow, when it comes, know who it is: Neither is the Troubles that is in <HI>France</HI> to be heeded, but the Microco&s;m bears part of it al&s;o: the King of <HI>France</HI> his Soul and Body cannot agree, and the contention is &s;o &s;harp, it is &s;hrewdly to be feared they will part about the letter end of March. or beginning of <HI>April:</HI> A wilde Boar in a blue J<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cket is in the Vineyards&punc; and crops up three flower-deluces at a mouthful, and then farewell thy Monarchy of <HI>France</HI> to Eternity. Ala&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, what will the poor Colledg of <HI>Sorban</HI> do, when the mo&s;t Chri&s;tian King is eaten up with lice I when the Lord took away the Cardinal of <HI>richilieu,</HI> the glory of <HI>France</HI> was gone. <HI>Ae<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ops</HI> Frogs refu&s;ed the Beam, becau&s;e he was patient but when the Stork came, he eat them up. I have little el&s;e to &s;ay to <HI>France,</HI> but only God ble&s;s all the hone&s;t there, and &s;end them their li|berties, and &s;omething el&s;e too. God bl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s hone&s;t people from the Pi&s;ti|lence this next Summer, which I &s;hrewdly &s;u&s;pect will &s;o rage through|out the Dominiions there, which &s;hall force the Colledg of Phy&s;icians of <HI>Paris</HI> to pay the tears they owe to the Tomb of their bani&s;had <HI>Over|citanus.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="May" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>May.</HEAD>
<P>A &s;trange dia&s;ter, about this time or perhaps in the forgoing Moneth is threatned, There be &s;ome men that nothing can &s;atisfie, who would think that &s;uch as have already (and if acc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ion be, will again&punc; joyned in one, again&s;t the Common Enemy &s;hould not agree among&s;t them&s;elves; but either invigh, becau&s;e other men are in greater places then them&s;elves
<PB N="5" REF="4"> or &s;ome other &s;elf-ends are repining yea, and it may be impeaching one another, many piracyes are daily heard of to be committed at Sea. A great battle is likely to be fought in France, where &s;ome King or great par&s;on is like to fal. Something may naturally be calculated from the in influence of the Cele&s;tial bodyes of &s;om further misfortune to the Scots King. either by a fall or a &s;hot from his hor&s;e: The two Eclip&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s in one Moneth <HI>viz&punc;</HI> one of the Sun and another of the Moon in March la&s;t, a|ffoard very much matter to work upon, and invites the Engli&s;h to a re|conciliation in judgement, very &s;trange intelligence comes from &s;everall parts, This is the time that wi&s;emen will do nothing but for them&s;elves&punc; and &s;ay, that there is no rea&s;on that wi&s;dom &s;hould put them &s;elves in danger for fools.</P>
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<DIV2 N="June July" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>June and July.</HEAD>
<P>SOL enters Scorpio, and, and an oppo&s;ition with <HI>Saturn,</HI> certainly this will be a time of great con&s;ultation in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> yet a Quadrat for many dayes with <HI>Mars</HI> &s;ignifies much blood &s;hed in <HI>France Ireland,</HI> and &s;ome other places, &s;ome &s;trivings among&s;t great per&s;ons con&s;equently follows about the nullifying of &s;ome thing formerly de|creed, or had been long in u&s;e: by this time much may be done in order to the equall admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice in &s;everall places where it hath in prat been neglected, then happy are the people that live under &s;uch a Government, yea thrice happy are they, if that a di&s;&s;embling flatterer, or in&s;inuating Para&s;ite, (the wor&s;t vermine in a Common wealth) hath not an office him&s;elf of tru&s;t. or at lea&s;t &s;ome hone&s;t man in great power to &s;peak for him; Its an ill wind blows no body good, but the influence of the heavens &s;eems to be very &s;paring where to be&s;tow. All men will not be of one mind, either in <HI>Holland, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, England</HI> or <HI>Scotland,</HI> although the Sun goes round all the world over.</P>
<P><HI>England England</HI> thou art now at peace; but let him that &s;tandeth take heed le&s;t he fall: there may be another puni&s;hement be&s;ides the Sword coming; Call to mind what God hath done for thee, and then con|&s;ider what a &s;ad thing it is to offend &s;o good a <HI>GOD.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="August September" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Augu&s;t and September.</HEAD>
<P>The Lord defend this people from pe&s;telentious Ayrs, many cro&s;&s;&punc; Sea fights&punc; Pyracies&punc; much bloud, <HI>Charles Stuart&punc;</HI> looks for great matters by rea&s;on of Denmark, and <HI>James</HI> Duke of York, will not care if he loo&s;|eth his deere&s;t bloud to be revenged again&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and what if the people &s;houl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> muteny in many places, at la&s;t we have intelligence from the We&s;t, which rather invites to thanks then mourning.</P>
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<DIV2 N="October November" TYPE="month">
<HEAD><HI>October</HI> and <HI>November.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Winds blow high and a little affrightens, and we are in travell
<PB N="6" REF="5"> both from Scotland, Ireland, France, Flanders, Partugale and Denma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> we hope it will not increa&s;e the murmurings in England, or give way to the landing of any forces in England, the City <HI>Perque&s;its</HI> are &s;till conten|ded for, yet it matters not to me who is Lord Major of London.</P>
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<DIV2 N="December" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>December.</HEAD>
<P>O <HI>Mars!</HI> when wilt thou leave thy cruelty? Its a time cau&s;eth many to lament and cur&s;e War, and its attendants, Rapine, Murder and Ro|bery: Strang divi&s;ions and in di&s;contents will end the year: therefore the people &s;tand fully re&s;olved to proceed one &s;tep higher unto a further Election&punc; divi&s;ions highten our di&s;cords&punc; Bell and the Dragon are &s;till fighting, Righteou&s;ne&s;s prevails not. The Governors peradventure may be taxed for unju&s;tice, yet are they very &s;eriou&s;ly and prudently carefull for the well ordering the <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> and thereupon they &s;eeme to incline to do Acts of <HI>Grace.</HI> The <HI>Portugale</HI> hath many good <HI>Omens</HI> of the keeping and enjoying his Kingdome, though not without labour and travell. In the figure of his <HI>Coronotion,</HI> the almo&s;t degree of the fir&s;t appearance in the year 1618. the vniver&s;all ob&s;ervation is, that two and twenty years after the apperition of that <HI>Planet</HI> Portugale re|gained its liberty, and upon conclu&s;ion of the <HI>Coments</HI> effects, the Eng&punc; <HI>Common wealth</HI> became a free State. All the Angels of the figure fixed, and <HI>Saturn,</HI> who of all the <HI>Planets</HI> is mo&s;t &s;low, being <HI>Patron</HI> of this <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|novation</HI> and fixed in <HI>Aquarius,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n the A&s;cendant, his own hou&s;e; <HI>Jupi|ter</HI> being Lord of <HI>Sagitarus,</HI> and &s;o Patron of <HI>Spain</HI> in his fall and i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the twelf Hou&s;e; From whence it is concluded that the <HI>Spaniard</HI> &s;hall never regain Portugale, yet many dangerous years will befall that State.</P>
<P>And now we &s;hall conclude with a word of caution to France; For we find in the <HI>Nativity</HI> of Cardinall <HI>Mazerine;</HI> that he is likely to be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Thorn in thy &s;ides; and if he outlive 1659; the Con&s;tellations promi&s;e him to enjoy greater honour then he hath at pre&s;ent; and in the end he is like to dye like a Noble-man; either of a Surfet or a Feaver:</P>
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<CLOSER>Gloria Deo.</CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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