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<P>BLACK MUNDAY: <HI>OR,</HI> A full and exact de&s;cription of that great and terrible Eclip&s;e of the Sun which will happen on the 29. day of March 1652. beginning 48. minutes after 8. a clock in the forenoon, and ending 17. minutes after 11. in which time the Sun will be almo&s;t totally darkened (as at the Pa&s;&s;ion of our Saviour) and the Stars appear in the Fir|mament in the day time.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an A&s;trologicall conjecture of the terrible Effects that will probably follow thereupon, according to the judgment of the be&s;t A&s;tro|logers: It threatens the fall of &s;ome famous Kings or Princes, and Men in authority&punc; Malice, Hatred, Uncharitablene&s;&s;e, cruell Wars and Blood&s;hed&punc; Hou&s;e-burnings, great Robberies, Thefts, Plundering and Pillaging, Rapes, Depopulation, violent and unexpected Deaths, Famine, Plague, &amp;c.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Joel 2.3.</BIBL>
<P>A day of darkne&s;&s;e and of gloomine&s;&s;e, a day of clouds and of thick dark|ne&s;&s;e&mdash;there hath not been ever the like, neither &s;hall be any more after it, even to the yeers of many generations.</P></Q>
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<HEAD>The true Figure of the Eclip&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>North.</P>
<P>South.</P>
<P>Ea&s;t.</P>
<P>We&s;t.</P>
<FIGDESC>depiction of the solar eclipse (supposed to occur on 29 March 1652) including a sword, withered plant, skull, and crossed bones, all symbols of the death and destruction occasioned by the solar eclipse</FIGDESC>
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<P><ADD>December 5^t^h</ADD> <HI>London:</HI> Printed for <HI>William Ley, at</HI> PAUL'S Chain. 1651.</P>
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<HEAD>A de&s;cription of that great Eclip&s;e of the Sun, which will be on the 29. of March next en&s;uing, 1652.</HEAD>
<P>TAking into con&s;ideration this notable Eclip&s;e, which will be of the Sun, when I con&s;idered with my &s;elf the dire and fearful accidents which may happen unto this Nation, it &s;truck me with a&s;toni&s;hment; yet to give the world &s;atisfaction, I thought good to write (as neer as I can) the true de&s;cription of this grand Eclip&s;e. You have heard of that remarkable dark <HI>Saturday,</HI> which was on the 25. of February, 1598. 'twas much about the &s;ame time of the day that this happens with us in 1652, though many re|member that, yet I am confident not any man living ever &s;aw a greater then this.</P>
<P>And we may well call it <HI>Black-Munday.</HI> Fir&s;t, in regard it hapneth upon a Munday. Secondly, in regard of the effects it bringeth along with it: for this di&s;mall day (wherein the Sun &s;hall &s;uffer a totall E|clip&s;e to our imagination) &s;o dark and terrible it will be, that the Stars will be &s;een at noon day. It &s;hall happen on the 29. day of March next, beginning at eight of the clock, and indore till after eleven.</P>
<P>Now I have &s;hewed you the time, give me leave to tell you of the &s;ad events that come thereby: it is the Precur&s;or of great calamities and mi&s;chiefs that &s;hall happen to the people and places concerned in it, e&s;pecially all <HI>Europe,</HI> and more particularly <HI>England;</HI> this Eclip&s;e falls out in the fiery triplicity in <HI>Aries,</HI> (the a&s;cendent of <HI>England</HI>) and the very degree of his Exaltation, <HI>Mars</HI> having principall govern|ment and dominion their, and in the Angle following the Eclip&s;e, and &s;o is Lord thereof, &s;o that the effects mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be of his quality <HI>(evil) Mars</HI> being an enemy to mankind, and to all things that are good: it is the terrible&s;t Ecclip&s;e that hath been &s;een in our daies; yea it will be a greater then that ominous Eclip&s;e of the Sun
<PB N="2" REF="3">that wil fal out in the year 1654. howbeit never &s;ince the elde&s;t man born did there appear two &s;uch Eclip&s;es in England in &s;o &s;hort a time; and as they are great and terrible, &s;o it is as miraculous an Eclip&s;e, as that was at the time of our <HI>Saviours Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> for that in many remarkable re&s;pects too &s;adly agrees with this; and ca&s;t back your eys upon the Scripture, how di&s;mall a &s;ight was there, when <HI>there was darkne&s;&s;e on all the Land, from the &s;ixth hour till the ninth, and the Vaile of the Temple was rent in twain,</HI> and what horrid calamities hapned to the Jews after that? how were they de&s;troyed by <HI>Titus Ve&s;pa&s;ian?</HI> their Temples de&s;troyed, defaced, and them&s;elves led into captivity? what alterations of govern|ment did there not happen? what blood&s;hed, what murthers were there not perpetrated? how did they embroil their hands in one ano|thers bowells, Father again&s;t the &s;on, and &s;on again&s;t the Father, till there was none left? pray God avert tho&s;e calamities from the&s;e Na|tions, that are under the predominancy of the&s;e ruling Planets; for they pre&s;age (if we may believe <HI>Origanus,</HI> and the be&s;t and mo&s;t learned <HI>A&s;trologers</HI> mo&s;t &s;ad and dire a&s;pects; for it threatens exile, captivity, or &s;laughter of &s;ome famous King, or great Potentate, and men in Authority, &amp;c. and great heart-burning between the common people and their Magi&s;trates and Governours, with lo&s;&s;e to both: what events have blazing &s;tars produced formerly? the death of Kings and Princes, great Plagues and Earthquakes; we have &s;een it plentifully fullfill'd in our time, to the great terror and amazement of this King|dome, and other Nations adjacent; and although there may be a cau&s;e in nature, yet do they (by the will and appointment of God) foretell &s;uch things as are the forerunners of the wrath of God; as the &s;igns in the Ayr, which <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> mentioneth immediately before the de&s;truction of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> and the horrible &s;igns preceding the <HI>day of Iudgement:</HI> do but peru&s;e the <HI>A&s;trologers,</HI> and you find the &s;ad effects of <HI>Comets,</HI> &amp;c. did not there happen in 1631. a great Eclip&s;e of the Sun, and in 45. another Lunar Eclip&s;e, mo&s;t of them hapning in the eighth hou&s;e, termed by <HI>A&s;trologers, domus mortis; Mars</HI> being (for the mo&s;t part) predominant. In &s;uch Eclp&s;es, &s;urely if we would ob&s;erve Gods threatning hand over us, we might &s;ee how God forewarns us by his in&s;truments; nay we may expect military acts of great and fearfull con&s;equences in mo&s;t parts of <HI>Europe,</HI> which &s;hall produce &s;car&s;ity of Doves and bea&s;ts, de&s;truction among&s;t men, and the ruine of mo&s;t &s;tately Fabricks, and a great de&s;iciency of the fruits of the earth; that
<PB N="3" REF="3">there will be great things managed in the world is mo&s;t certain, as to the infinite honor and fame of &s;ome, &s;o to the great prejudice, if not con&s;umption of &s;ome other people and Nations: Affairs &s;hall be acted under the notion of Religion, yet not without di&s;&s;imulation, and that hath been the pe&s;t and bane of all undertakings, when Religion is made the &s;talking hor&s;e to all de&s;igns and purpo&s;es. <HI>Mars</HI> his po&s;ition is in <HI>Taurus,</HI> as his detriment doth te&s;tifie, and under the banner of con&s;cientious reformation &s;hall the &s;word bear &s;way, which is and will be paramount: if it &s;hould be demanded the time when, I an&s;wer, as tho&s;e precurrent me&s;&s;ingers which u&s;her in the beginning of the&s;e ef|fects, we may expect them in <HI>Iune</HI> or <HI>Iuly</HI> this year, according to <HI>Her|mes</HI> in his 33. <HI>Aphori&s;me, Saturno quidem tran&s;eunte ab uno &s;igno in aliud, fiunt in coelo &s;igna de natura ignis,</HI> coru&s;cations and fiery apparitions in the <HI>Ayre:</HI> this Conjunctions doth denote unto us, that the common people in mo&s;t Countreys will u&s;urp Authority, and &s;purn at their Su|periors; but &s;ome mitigation doth <HI>Iupiter</HI> promi&s;e, that though the Sword rule, it &s;hall &s;eem rather ju&s;tly to divide, then ravenou&s;ly de|&s;troy: good grounds will be pretended, Ju&s;tice as well as revenge in|tended in all the quarrells of the &s;word, and vici&s;&s;itudes of things: Let me not be mi&s;under&s;tood, &s;ince nothing promi&s;es any &s;upport to the tottering time-&s;erving <HI>Levite:</HI> the Farmer (I am certain) envies his tithes, and eats his pigs at home; the generall part of the pretend|ed Clergy are male-conlent at the cour&s;e of things, and do not yet &s;ee the over-ruling hand of God, nor will they teach men to aquie&s;ce, but &s;ullenly &s;tir up di&s;content, pretending religious &s;uperlative ends.</P>
<P>Some begin to be a&s;hamed of their Scotch Covenant, which bound them to promote the honor and dignity of the King and his Succe&s;&s;ors, <HI>&s;ubintelligitur,</HI> if they could not &s;ell him for money to promote their own.</P>
<P><HI>Sol</HI> (the Prince regent of heaven) who hath naturally the &s;igni|fication of regality, worldly pomp and glory, is ecclip&s;ed in the very degree of his exaltation, and in the regall hou&s;e of heaven likewi&s;e.</P>
<P>Let tho&s;e tyrannicall powers of the world, who are limited with a <HI>non ultra po&s;&s;umus,</HI> who now culminate in their pride and power, expect &s;o &s;ure an ob&s;curation accompanied with mutation, as not to be avoid|ed: the <HI>Moon</HI> (the Lady of the a&s;cendent) eclip&s;ing the Sun in his own hou&s;e, exaltation and triplicy: doth not this &s;hew and declare, that inferiours, and men of men quality &s;hall u&s;urp and eclip&s;e the glo|ry
<PB N="4" REF="4">of the great and mighty? Let me not be mi&s;under&s;tood, but let this be a caveat to all tho&s;e &s;upreams whom this Eclip&s;e finds with the knotty Scepters of tyranny in their hands, be they Kings or other|wi&s;e.</P>
<P>We cannot deny but <HI>England</HI> is as much, if not more then any other Nation of <HI>Europe</HI> concerned in the effects of this <HI>&s;olar</HI> Eclip&s;e. Lord of heaven and earth what wilt thou do with us, we are in thy hands as a ball to be to&s;&s;ed to and fro: and as the clay in the hands of the Potter, thou can&s;t break us, and brui&s;e us at thy plea&s;ure, if thou do&s;t take from us tho&s;e that &s;it at the helm to guide our poor &s;hip of the Common|wealth, I mean our Members of Parliament, of our Nobles, of our Gentry, of &s;uch as commanded and governed, and &s;uch as have not obey'd; but God thou knowe&s;t be&s;t what is fitte&s;t for us, and teach us to obey thy will, and be content with our Governours &s;et over us; for re|gall Government is very nigh a period in all Nations, by the production of this Eclip&s;e a grandee falls to nothing: many grand Potentates are eclip&s;ed, their glory &s;hall be taken from them, and their honor laid in the du&s;t: the fir&s;t, &s;econd, or third mo&s;t principall or greate&s;t Prince in <HI>Europe</HI> &s;hall die e're 1654. or (during the continuance of the effects of this Eclip&s;e) &s;hall &s;uffer or be &s;en&s;ible of great calamities, intudes and deva&s;tations in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable way, or els the lo&s;&s;e of all, or the greate&s;t part of his ancient patrimony. I much fear, e're time limited for termination of this Eclip&s;es effects, too many will be &s;en&s;ible of our judgement, for all the evills, the &s;word, &s;edition, famine, pe&s;tilence, can do to <HI>Europe,</HI> may be expected from the effects of this Eclip&s;e. Oh that the Princes of <HI>Europe</HI> would learn to be wi&s;e from the book of the creatures, what the will of their God is, before their hou&s;es be left de&s;olate before de&s;truction comes as an armed man. What Kings and Governours are threatned by this Eclip&s;e, which will be &s;o formidable to Europe? 'tis &s;o, that all the Princes in Europe are threatned by it, yea all tho&s;e of the world where it is vi&s;ible and angular, together with <HI>Hogens Moghens, Illu&s;tri&s;imos,</HI> and <HI>Titilado's,</HI> I can hardly &s;ing a <HI>qui|etus e&s;t</HI> to the pre&s;ent times, I wi&s;h I could, I cannot flatter, neither dare I write what I think.</P>
<P>This puts me in mind of that <HI>miraculous Eclip&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Sun</HI> at the <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion</HI> of our <HI>Saviour,</HI> which in many remarkable re&s;pects too &s;adly a|grees with this: For (as to the Po&s;ition of <HI>Ieru&s;alem) Cancer</HI> then <HI>a&s;|cended,</HI> and the very degree wherein <HI>Saturn</HI> is at the time of this <HI>Eclip&s;e,</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="4">he al&s;o then <HI>Ri&s;ing</HI> with the <HI>Horo&s;cope,</HI> and in <HI>&s;quare</HI> to both the <HI>Lumi|naries</HI> as at this time; the <HI>Sun</HI> being then in <HI>Aries</HI> directly <HI>Culminating,</HI> and the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Libra</HI> oppo&s;ing him: A heavy and dreadfull Po&s;ition, it threatens the Exile, Captivity, or &s;laughter of &s;ome famous <HI>King</HI> or <HI>Prince,</HI> and <HI>Men in authority, &amp;c.</HI> Hatred, Malice, and all uncharitable|ne&s;&s;e betwixt the <HI>Common People</HI> and their <HI>Magistrates</HI> or <HI>Governors,</HI> with Detriment, or Ruine to both; the motion of a great Army, cruell Warres, much blood&s;hed, and pe&s;tilent &s;editions, the &s;acking of Cities and Towns, Hou&s;e-burnings, Robberies, Thefts, Plundering and Pilla|ging, Rapes, Depopulations, violent and unexpected deaths, corrupti|on of the Air, putrefaction and &s;carcity of Fruits, Abortive Births, A|cute Feavers, Famine, the Plague, and generall Murrain among&s;t Cat|tle; Pyracies, Ship-wrecks, and great fights by Sea as well as by Land, di&s;contents, murmurings, and in&s;urrections, new Governments, new Religions, new Cu&s;toms, new Laws. In a word, this Eclip&s;e, premon|&s;trates a generall madne&s;&s;e and confu&s;ion to all &s;uch Kingdoms, Com|mon-wealths, Countries, Cities and Towns as are under the divi&s;ion of <HI>Aries, Libra, Cancer,</HI> and <HI>Capricorn, viz.</HI> England, Scotland, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Zeland, Suevia, Polonia, Granado, Bur|gundia the lower, Macedonia, Au&s;tria, Al&s;atia, Thracia, Greece, Saxony, and divers other Nations, (more particularly) the Cities and Towns of Naples, Tetraria, Florence, Padua, Brun&s;wick, Lisbone, Franckford, Vi|enna in Au&s;tria, Antwerp, Oxford, Brandenburg, Con&s;tantinople, Tu|nis, Venice, Genoa, Pi&s;a, Millain, Vincentia, Berne, Lubeck, Magdeberge, Wittenberge, Gotlick, York, S. Andrews, and the I&s;lands of Orcades, and many more, too large for my limits.</P>
<P>The continuance of the effects of this Eclip&s;e, is two years, 25. weeks, odd hours, from the 4th. day of <HI>August,</HI> 1652. untill the 6th. day of <HI>Ian. Anno Dom.</HI> 1954.</P>
<P>The quality of the events is known from the nature and quality of the &s;ign, in which the place of the Eclip&s;e is, from the place and na|ture of the &s;ign where any &s;tationary &s;uperiour Planet is, and from the quality of the &s;ign and places of the Planets, that hath-mo&s;t dominion in the &s;ign of the Eclip&s;e, and the &s;ign of the Angle preceding the E|clip&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Mars</HI> generally &s;ignifieth or threatneth mi&s;chief to all in generall, which &s;hall happen through extremity of drought; particularly, he cau&s;es much war, quarrells and bloud&s;hed, among&s;t men of that life or
<PB N="6" REF="5">kind of profe&s;&s;ion: therefore I expect little peace here, (nor in any o|ther part of the world (where there is war) where the Eclip&s;e &s;hall extend its influence) by fair means or treaty: He excites men al&s;o to many robberies, &s;poiling, &s;acking, and in&s;laving each other, the wrath of Kings and great men, and troubles in generall to all manner or kinds of men: As al&s;o &s;uddain death, &s;ickne&s;&s;es, and the&s;e chiefly, Tertian agues, or Feavers, and this &s;hall be chiefly incident unto the&s;e of younger years, or in their prime or &s;trength of youth; there &s;hall happen much choler and anger among&s;t men, and from men of &s;mall repute, they &s;hall com|mit unlawfull things, and tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the Law; there &s;hall al&s;o happen many combu&s;tions, man-&s;laughters, rapines, thefts and robberies.</P>
<P>His events in the Ayr &s;hall be extream heat, and very warm winds, lightning and little rain.</P>
<P>In the Sea he &s;hall cau&s;e de&s;truction very often to &s;hips, by mixt winds, or lightning, or &s;uch like.</P>
<P>In Rivers he &s;hall cau&s;e a &s;carcity of waters, and the drought of fountains.</P>
<P>And in things appertaining to the u&s;e of man, <HI>viz.</HI> bea&s;ts and vege|tables, he &s;hall cau&s;e a &s;carcity, there &s;hall be much de&s;truction or want of fruit, by rea&s;on they &s;hall be &s;corched up with extremity of heat, or eaten with Locu&s;ts and Caterpillers, or they &s;hall be de&s;troyed by winds, or nipt in the bud.</P>
<P>One word more in generall, <HI>Be wi&s;e therefore O ye Kings, be in&s;tructed O ye Iudges of the earth; &s;erve the Lord with fear, and rejoyce in him with trembling:</HI> for the Sun being in his &s;eat of Maje&s;ty, is Eclip&s;ed of his glory: therefore O ye Kings and Emperors be ye not puft up with high conceits of your dignities and honors, for your Scepters are gone, and Democarcy takes place: your mighty Ho&s;ts &s;hall be con&s;umed by the Sword, 'tis not your Kingdoms nor your high-born blood can pre|vent Gods revenging hand that is upon you, therefore repent in time, le&s;t his Judgements fall upon you, and utterly eradicate you.</P>
<P>A word to <HI>England;</HI> Oh <HI>England</HI> repent thee of thy &s;ins al&s;o, le&s;t God take away the flori&s;hing Go&s;pell, and remove the golden Candle|&s;tick from among you, and give it to a more de&s;erving Nation.</P>
<CLOSER>Soli Deo gloria.</CLOSER>
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