This being the last and greatest ☍ of ♄ and ♃ I in­tended at first to write of, and of none of the precedent: I call it the last, because there will not be another al­most this thir­ty years, the next ☌ inter­vening: I call it the greatest, because they are both [Page 6] with great and eminent fixed Stars of the first magni­tude, viz. Saturn with the Basilisk, or Lions heart, Iupiter with Fomahand, and therefore this requires the more diligent speculation, and the more exact dis­quisition; and therefore before I begin, it is not amiss to see if it may be parallel'd in by-gone Ages; and this is very difficult, if not impossible, to be done, by one who hath so little time to read Histories as I have: that which comes nearest to it in resemblance, happened anno 1434. at which time Saturn and Iupiter made an Opposition from the latter ends of Leo and Aquary, about which time appeared a most terrible Comet, and so there may do now for ought that I know; nay I verily beleeve, there will sometimes this year appear such a Comet as will amaze the beholders. Kind Coun­trymen, let this be one Article of your Faith, That the Eternal God of Heaven and Earth shews nothing in vain: When God shews Wonders in the Heavens a­bove, and Signs in the Earth beneath, then is the time approaching when he will pour out his Spirit upon flesh, when he will bring his people out of Babylon, or Confusion, which you will, and make Ierusalem the glory of all the world. But to proceed:

In the same year 1434. the Venetians and Floren­tines made War against his Holiness the Pope, and might have done glorious things had their principles been good, for away run his Holiness, as fast as a Hare before a kennel of Hounds, and was glad at heart (I'le warrant him) he could scape so: A general Council was held at Bazil, as there is at Ratisbone, at the wri­ting hereof, where the Pope permitted the Bohemians to receive their Sacrament in both kinds, whereas both [Page 7] before and since the Priests drink up all the wine them­selves, and leave the people almost choake with their breaden God: But here came all the mischief, after­wards these Princes, when they had [...] the Pope out of S. Peters Chair, like a company of mad Dogs, or Bedlam men, fell out, and went together by the ears one with another. The truth is, I cannot stand relating Histories: An ☍ of ♄ and ♃ seldom happens but it signifies Kings and Magistrates shall be deposed, expe­cially such whose Kingdoms are under the Signs which the opposing Planets are in; neither did I ever read of such a memorable ☍ of ♄ and ♃ as this is; it is worth the noting, that such an ☍ should succeed such a strange and not to be parall l'd ☌ as the last was, accompanied with such a formidable Eclipse of the Sun, as this will, in the same sign, and near the same degree where Saturn is at the ☍.

The Pope begins generally to be hated throughout the world, and 'tis but time; the fall of Rome approach­eth, but not this year: I could almost afford to be afraid of a dearth of Corn and Cattel, by reason of the ex­ceeding intemperance of the year, one way or another, as Ovid saith;

Now too much drought annoys, now lodging showres Stars smitch, Winds blast, the greedy Fowl devours The new sown grain, Rintare and Darnel tire The fetter'd Wheat, and Quitch that through it spi [...].

[Page 8] It were well if our Parliament would take some course that there might not be so much Corn spent in waste, it being easie to be proved that there is more Corn drunk down in strong Liquor in one day in Lon­don, then would suffice the poor a week, perhaps a fort­night; all which lies in the power of our State to a­mend, by making an Act, That Brewers should not brew their bear so strong: neither hath any County to my knowledg yet so much as petitioned them about such a business, so tender (over the left shoulder) an rich men toward the good of the poor: Let me intreat the present Parliament to Eternalize their Names to posterity in performing so good, so righteous a work, that it may be said of them hereafter, they have done something toward the good of this Nation; in so do­ing the poor would not want bread, neither could that beastly sin of Drunkenness rage in this Nation as now it doth: and let me tell them this, and I will tell them but the truth, It would be a work more acceptable in the sight of God, then seven years fasting and praying: I would to God they would read at their leasures Isa [...] 58. 6, 7, 8. Is not this the Fast that I have chosen? [...] loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the [...], to let the oppressed go free; and that ye [...] every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to [...] house? When thou seest the naked, that thou [...] him, and that thou hide not thy self from thine [...]? Then shall thy light break [...] as the [...], and thine health shall spring sorth speedily, [...] thy right [...] shall go before thee, the glory of [...] Lord shall be thy rereward.

[Page 9] [...] for this present ☍ it happens in [...] eighth House of the ♂, if the received sigure of the ♂ by the Rudol­phin Tables be true; and therefore it [...] to [...], and those no mean ones neither; let time tell you who they be, that will speak [...] when I may [...].

But that we may be a little clear in this, let us see what [...] of the world are under Leo and Aquary, Taurus and Scorpio, for in all probability the ☍ will bite hardest upon them.

Under ♉ aro, Russia, Polonia the great, Ireland, Lorrain, [...], Helvetia, Rhetia, Franconia, Parthia, Porfia, the Islands of Cyclades, Cyprus, and the Sea. Towns of Asia the less. Of Cities and Towns, Bononia, Sena, Mantua, Tarentum, Sicila, Parma, Brixia, Tigure, [...] Nantz, Lipsig, Posnania &c.

Under ♌ [...], Gallia, Togata, the Alps, Italy, Sicity, Apulia, Bohemia, a part of Turkey, Phaenicia, Caldaea: Of Cities and Towns, [...] Syracusa, Rome, Ra­venna, Cremona, [...], [...], Prauge, Lintz, Cremisum.

Under ♏ [...], Norway the higher, Bavaria, Comage­na, Capadocia, [...], Mauritania, the Kingdom of Fesse, Gethulia, [...]: Of Cities and Towns, Algires. Valence in Spain, Trapezant, Vrbinum, A­quilia, Pistorium, [...], Forum, [...], Messa­na, Vienna in France, [...], Francford upon Odar.

Under ♒ is, Amazania, [...], great Tartaria, Valachia, Moscovia, the South part of Swediand, West­phalia, Mosel, Piemont, part of Bavaria, Aethiopia, Sogdiana, Media, Arabia the Desart: Of Cities, [Page 10] Hamborough, Breme, Monsterrat, Pisaurum, Trent, Ingolstate. These, and as many more as God pleases, are like to suffer in the effects of this ☍; I could al­most afford also to be afraid of France, because it hath always suffered upon such like Oppositions as these.

But to proceed; It threatens War and Bloodshed both in the Eastern and Western parts of the world; Let such as traffique to the East and West Indies have a care of themselves, there [...] danger enough, and let them remember I told them of it; but that which may give England some cause of joy amongst so much sadness, it will go near to send many Oppressors to take a supper apud inferos.

Saturn in the Eleventh before the Counsellors of Princes, and makes them prophecy as truly as Zedochia did when he made him horns of Iron, and wonderfully exhausts their estate, so that Princes will know what it is to want money, [...] well as Plebeians. Besides, another mischief will come in the neck of the former, Princes will be subject to break their Leagues one with ano­ther, and use pernicious, sly and subtil practises, to the undoing of others first, and themselves afterwards. I would willingly do the Princes of Europe some good, if they were but capable of [...] it, not to give too much credence to the flattering Proposals of Embassa­dors. I hope I shall prevail so far with our English State, as to put them in mind of the old Proverb, All is not Gold that glisters; let them remember I told them of it.

We find Saturn in this ☍ to be in ♌, which in the Zodiack bears the emblem of Majesty, and near the most royal Star of all the Zodiack, Cor Leo: It would [Page 11] make a wise man admire what ♄ should do there, he having no more right to the place, then a Plowman or a Coleheaver hath to a Crown. When Naples made [...] Allianello, a Fisherman, their Governor, there was a Commonwealth sweetly governed; and so will Saturn carry himself in the [...] of this ☍: such [...] will rise up to rule Kingdoms, as will per­form their places not with a spirit of righteousness, peace, and just judgment, but with rlgor, power, and impudence; not counting godliness great gain, but gain great godliness; not counting covertousness the greatest evil, but the greatest good. Let us also remem­ber, that the ♂ of ♄ and ♃ was in the sixth House of this figure, and Mars in the very place of the ♂; whence for all that I know there may Wars ensue it, especially in such places as are under the sign ♓; such are, [...], Calabria, Portugal, Galitia, Normandy, Garo­mantes, Lidia, Pamphylia, Egypt the higher: [...] Ci­ties and Towns, Alexandira, Hispalis, Compostellae, Worms, Ratisbone. Besides, ♓ being a Sea sign, Pira­cies will be very frequent: the plain truth is, all Eu­rope will be together by the ears; and if you look up­on them and upon Bedlam, you would know no differ­ence, but only one is bigger then the other, such a mad­ness possesses their heads.

I had almost forgotten poor Iupiter, and yet I should be loth, according to the custom of the world, to leave a man in his extremity: Iupiter is in the fifth House, but makes but ill-favored sport, neither can be merry in the House of pastimes, because opposed by Saturn; I am afraid it [...] Abortion, or hard labor to women with child, let them labor to prevent it in time.

[Page 12] Mars and Venus in ♂ in the Sixth [...] many dis­eases arising from whoredom; indeed I am afraid the [...] pox will be as [...] in London this year, as ever it was [...] London was a City.

The Moon is upon the [...] of the nineth House, which signifies such Religion as the present times [...]; and in [...], though with the [...], and head of [...], as though the Clergy should be [...] about this time, or rather horn-mad, and run upon such [...] designs (as they know how) [...] should bring all the Nation into trouble [...], and them­selves to the Ax or the Rope at last. Our own [...] record, that Cardinal [...], when the Pope was dead, wrote to the King [...] France to make him Pope, and if he would not, he sent him word he would make such a russling amongst Christian Princes, as should make all Europe [...]. Gentle Clergy, be not angry with me, he was a man of your own Coat, and if you follow his steps, you must expect his reward, which what it was you are not ignorant.

In this figure the Lady of the Tenth applies to the Lady of the Ascendent, having lately passed the Lord of the Nineth and Twelfth; as who should say, the underhand dealiugs of the Clergy will be made manifest to the people, and they will be willing to be Priest­ridden no longer, nor pay so much mony for a few words that [...] nothing: and [...] all [...] read this, take notice what I say; this year is like to prove a dark and dismal year to the Clergy.

It were worth the knowing, when these times [...] probably like to have an end, when England may ex­pect to see better days: This [...] us see if we [Page 13] can prove by rules of Art, and so we will conclude this [...].

That the last ☌ of Saturn and Iupiter signified a change of Government throughout the world. [...] tells you in his Book [...] [...] Mundi; it signifies, saith he, some new kind of Government to come into the world: Aslo Mr Lilly in that admira­ble piece of his, his Prophetical Merline, pag. 27, 28. gives you these very words: Let the inhabitants of Europe in general observe, that as this [...] is in an aquatical sign, so the effects proceeding from thence will be such, and of such like quality and opera­tion, as sire is to water, or water to sire: sor as water [...] and abateth the extraordinary hotness of sire in Natural operations; so this Conjunction [...], that what [...] is now, or hath been illegally ob­tained, by any Prince against his Vassals, or by the Nobility and [...] against their [...] in the [...] siery or cōmanding, times (when will and plea­sure were positive Laws) shall now by the effects de­pending upon [...] Conjunction receive a [...] or abatement of their [...], [...] and oppression, pro­portionable to the quality of the [...] or [...] of former [...]. [...], Diff. 2. Chap. 1. Cum [...] in [...] vel signis [...], [...] vulgi & mediocrum [...] corum cum regibus in ordine; Viz. When mutation or change of any of these [...] is either in [...] or [...] signs, it [...] estate of the common or mean man to be equal to that of Princes: An [...], if judiciously observed, and [...], not [...] from [...].

[Page 14] This is [...] real truth, and will in due time be [...] manifest so to be, for the Government must come in­to the hands of the people after the Lord hath prepared them for it, and then everlasting Peace, and [...] War is like to be in England: This time [...] long ago looked for, but it pleased not God that good man should live to see it.

Let us see now what time we may conjecture by the Rules of Astrology in sulfilling this so great a matter.

That the last Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter foreshewed it, we told you before; neither is it in the least [...] to me, but that this and the other Op­positions will make way for the effecting of it, though not without some difficulty: [...] when, that [...] thing LIBERTY, which is that all honest men [...], when shall we see that, you say? This happily may be in consultation about the latter end of Ianuary, [...] when Iupiter cuts the place he was in [...] his last Con­junction with Saturn. A hopeful time for England may assuredly be expected in March, 1655. when the Sun meets with Iupiter in Aries, but [...] brought to perfection before the [...] Trines of Saturn and Iu­piter. I am curbed for want of paper: The rationality of the whole Art of Astrology, whereby a Reason of such Prognostications as these are may be drawn, I hope will shortly be printed by my special Friend [...] William Freeman, Practitioner in Physick in Bedford.

Of the Eclipse of the Sun.

TWo Eclipses of the Moon happen this Year, though but small ones, which want of paper [Page 15] [...] me to omit, and shall only treat of one great [...] of the Sun, which I do [...] natural, [...] the Priest told his people of the last Eclipse; The E­clipse, quoth he, is natural, and therefore can have no such ill effects as the Astrologers tell you of. God help his Calves head; Is not meat and drink natural, [...] yet doth it not nourish? Is not poyson natural, and yet doth it not [...]?

The truth is, all Eclipses work by [...], as I could prove Philosophically, had I paper; but I must come close home to the business.

I shall give you a double Figure of the Eclipse, both of them for the Meridian [...] London; the one from the Tables of [...], the other from Vin­cent Wing's [...] Caleste; I hold the first to be the [...].

In point of [...] here is 21 min. dif­ference; for my own par­ticular, I ra­ther assent to the Tables of [...], then those of our painful coun­tryman, Vin­cent Wing. If I should [Page 16] say it would be a great E­clipse, I shold srighten the City wives, and therefore I must not absolutely tel the truth, you shall see how big it will be whē it coms: I take not upon me the part of an A­stronomer, to shew how many digets will be eclipsed, which is very probable will be almost all but of an Astrologer, to [...] what the [...] will be; and what they may probably be, I shall give you my Iudg­ment, as far as the paper will [...] me, for [...] intend to [...] no more of this [...], neither shall you find me to say one thing, and do another.

The Lords of this [...] [...] and Mars, be­cause they [...] both [...]: [...] [...] of the [...] Angle, busie in the [...] House [...] prayers: If [...] to the [...] Astrologers, [...] will take that Planet [...] be Lord which [...] most [...] at the time, Mercury without all dispute of [...] story will have the [...], [...] whom [...] [...] because both [...] are [...] between [...] of Saturn and Mars, I must acknowledg only [...] two [...]; and [...] [...] doth but [...] [Page 17] the [...] of other Planets, and carries the signification of that Planet ho was last joyned withall, till he meets with another, which here was Saturn, and therefore he rather increases the [...], then mitigates it.

There is a Regal fixed Star within the rays of this Eclipse, which some call the Lions heart, and o­thers the Basilisk, a very [...] fixed Star, [...] ho­norable; he knows well how to give great honour, and knows as well how to take it away again; he is of the nature of Iupiter and Mars: You may re­member I told you before that Eclipses did harm by privation of good, and not by position of evil; if so, [...] Cor Leo take away honour as well as give [...], why may not this Eclipse do the like?

In the next place let us see where the Sun is eclip­sed; if you take it vulgarly, it is in the second face of Leo, where it signifies great [...], and much damage to persons of quality, both Kings and Magi­strates: But if you take it according to [...] Asterism, it happens then in the first face of Leo, in which are many fixed Stars of [...] suffocating [...] pestilential na­ture, it there signifies great [...] of Corn and Grain; indeed a famine is to [...] feared, the death of some certain famous Prince, or if [...] not his life, he loseth both [...] and Treasure.

Also consider, that [...] Sign in which the Eclipse happens is both fixed and violent, [...] shews both violence and durability of the [...]: As for the [...] subject to [...] of [...], they are the very [...] which [...] before [...] subject to the [...] of the ☍ of [...] and Iupiter, [Page 18] therefore I shall not stand to name them again here; and if you do but cast a serious eye upon the [...] you may [...] a mighty harmony between them, which will mightily increase the evil influence of both.

To go about to [...] whether the influence of this Eclipse will be good or bad, is a thing [...]; for what good can be expected, when the great light which God made to rule the day, is eclip­sed [...] the bodies of Saturn and Mars? Be­sides, it [...] a question to me whether any Eclipses [...] good [...] not.

The [...] it happens in is the tenth House, which is [...] and [...] of the Heavens, the [...] of [...] rule, and dignity, the highest [...] and amongst [...] gives signification of Kings, Prin­ces, [...], and indeed such men as these wil [...] be subject to the influence of this [...]; for indeed Spica Virginis upon the [...] Aicendant [...] promise some good to the common people, or at least [...] much of the evil [...] the Eclipse as to them [...].

As for the Lords of the [...], there is no question to me [...] Saturn and Mars will bear the [...]. Let us see in the next place what they [...] and if joyned [...] be the [...], the [...] are rather like to be worse then better [...] Authors speak of. I shall [...] only upon the [...] of Origanus, as wanting paper to write down what other Authors say: [...] Saturn, saith he, be Lord of the Eclipse, he corrupts the fruits of the Earth, [...] reason of excessive cold, and [...] diseases in the bodies of men, Consumptions, and wastings and [Page 19] pinings away of the whole body, occasioned by some [...] of Rhume: [...] I [...] Saturn in Leo cannot chuse [...] bring [...] detriment to the vital spirit, and that may [...] be the reason why those that have written of Mathematical Physick say that Saturn in Leo, if [...] be [...] of [...] sickness, uni­versally afflicts the whole body; [...], so [...] as here, he drie up [...], causeth Fluxes, Quartane Agues [...], [...], Lamentation, Mourning and [...], great [...], especially of aged people; [...] to [...] life; death of Cattel, [...] are for mens use, [...] those [...] which [...] with [...], and man by [...] of [...] when they are killed will be sick also; he [...] up a [...] misty corrupt and [...] Ayr, [...] of a cold [...], misty, foggy Winter to come, with dark [...] Ayr, with abu da ce of Snow, [...], [...]: neither [...] he [...] all his mis­chief [...] the [...], the [...] bear his share al­so; there he [...] up sudden and most [...] Tem­pests, manifold Ship [...], difficult and dangerous [...], the Sea keeps not his [...] banks, and great [...] Rivers [...] be expected; he [...] eatens destruction [...] of [...] by [...]. or other such like [...]; he [...] de­struction to grass and [...] by [...] sloods; he threatens destruction to Corn by blasting, violent [...] of hail, and furious [...]: Let such as in­habit those places which [...] Leo, I told you what they were in the ☍ [...] Saturn and Iupiter, Ita­ly, Rome and Bohemia are some of them; let them, I [Page 20] say, take heed lest God visit them with the Sword, Famine and Pestilence all at one time: And let Hol­land also take heed, for God is making inquisition for the innocent blood they have shed, by beginning a causless War, not only refusing to strike sail upon our Seas, but falling upon us in our own Harbors. But of this more by and by.

It is time now we leave Saturn, and speak a word or two of Mars: I must speak something of him, though it be very [...] I shall speak but little good; generally he causeth corruption by his excess in dryness, and especially when he is in a [...] sign, as now he is, being in a [...] teering sign like him­self, he [...] up war and [...], [...], [...] risings in Nations, and that which is the effects of them, imprisonment, banishment, hanging and head­ing; Kings and Magistrates will be mad, and their Subjects stubborn; Towns and Cities will be be­sieged, taken, and fired; Great men will be suddenly arraigned, condemned, and beheaded; men will be [...] to acute [...], corruption and eruption of blood; violent deaths [...] threatened, [...] to young men, both untimely and suddenly; Kings and Magistrates will be much given to [...], violence, injustice and injury; and if any ask when they were ever any otherwise, let them take notice that [...], so posited as here, shews a great aggravation and [...] of their [...]: Men will be exceedingly [...] to violence, injury, robbing and killing of men, plundering and firing of Towns and houses, Law­suits and Duels: In the Ayr he stirs up extraordinary heat, sultery hot weather, [...] and infections [Page 21] winds, much thunder and [...], whirl winds, and [...] dry [...]. [...] cannot be yet out of your minds I am [...] what an [...] succeed­ed his [...] Lord of [...] 1652. and then he was in Taurus, an [...] sign, and therefore you may [...] by that what you may expect [...] he is in Leo, which is a sign both siery and violent.

In the Sea he [...], [...] occasioned sudden and [...], by reason of inordinary gusts of [...] and [...]: In Rivers he dries up [...] fountains, corrupts and [...] the water, he signifies a [...] of corn, and [...] of grain, wasting them by his pernitious [...].

The truth is, this Eclipse will [...] as close to the skirts of Italy and Rome her self, as ever a mans skin did to his back, and go near to be the bane of both, as I have often told you before in divers writings of mine: Only one memorable thing I shall here quote; it is the opinion of the [...], that the Turk is the Antichrist, not the Pope; and therefore Iames Gaf­farel in his Unheard-of Curiosities, treating of the [...] of the [...], shewing when the Turkish Empire should fall, he gives his judgment, that it should fall in the year 1655. the very same year in which in my opinion Rome it [...] shall fall.

But before I give my own [...], I must premise [...] line or two. As there is a Trinity in [...] in the [...], so hath there been a threefold Administra­tion of this Trinity to [...] sons of men since the [...]; one before the Flood, one after the Flood before Christ, and another since the days of the [...] of Christ; each of these [...] Administrations had [Page 22] its several time of [...] or darkness. First, Be­fore the [...] you may find how [...] came [...] it, Gen. 6. 2. The sons of God [...] the daughters of men that [...] were fair they took them wives of all which they chose: then said God [...] shall not always strive with man, &c. Secondly, [...] Flood, the confusion came in at the [...] of the Tower of Babel, which indeed [...] confusion; the History is well known to all, though [...] Mystery understood by few. Thirdly, That we are in confusion now since the Incarnation of the Lord, is [...] to all that have but the least knowledg of themselve; but how this confusion began, or how far it extends, [...] not so readily answered; it is probable it might come in under the first Pope, whose name (I take it) was Gregory; but when we shall get out of it, is the next disquisition.

It is not altogether unknown to me by divers [...] grounds both from the first building of Rome and from the several Chrisis that have since, accord­ing to that time of building or making it a City, hap­pened to it, that 1655. will be a fatal, if not a final year to it; and if our spiritual confusion had its rise thence, [...] is more then probable to me, I have great hopes of liberty, and clear light to walk in it also, so soon as that is destroyed.

I [...] I conceive there are some things yet to be fulfilled before its fall, for the Lord Christ shall destroy the man of sin by the brightness of his [...], and the Iews whom the Lord hath [...] for their iniquity must first be gathered together. (Be [...] and patient, Beloved Iews, the time is not [...] [Page 23] off; when ye see the Star of Iacob appear in the East, lift up your heads; it is in vain for us Christians to look for happiness without you.) And you fellow Christians and Brethren, let me [...] you often seriously to read Matth. 24. and see what comfort you can pick out of it.

This is most certain, that both the last ☌ of ♄ and ♃, these three Oppositions of Saturn and Iupiter, and the last Eclipse of the Sun, and the Eclipse we now treat of, are not to be parallel'd since the days of Christ, nor perhaps since the world stood: they all manifestly shew a change of Government throughout the whole world: and if there be ano­ther Government yet to come [...] the ANCI­INT of DAYS, spoken of by Daniel, uppear, I may be mistaken; but if otherwise, as is apparent to me both from the Book of the Scriptures, and from the Book of the Creatures, his coming may be during the effects of this Eclipse; if you read but heedfully the second Psalm, you see there some reasons for it: Only let me request two things of you:

• 1. Do not imagine a hideous coming of Christ in your minds; make not riddles of God and Christ, and every thing else in Religion: indeed it is that which most of your Priests train you up in; he will come in such a way as you little expect him to come in: ne­ver spend the time whether he shall come in Person or in Spirit, these are [...] for children to talk of: I dare not write all is revealed to me in the point, for I am forbidden; yet this I say, he shall come as [...], a Saviour; as CHRIST, [...]; [...], God with us.
• [Page 24]2. Tye not up your selves to a strict expectation in respect of time; the effects of the Eclipse continues two years and a half, with some advantage; neither doth it begin forcibly to operate till August 1655, for the last Eclipse 1652. will first make an end of working: The best advice I can give you in this case, is this, Look diligently into your own selves, and li­bor to know your selves very well, there may you find the unity between you and the Godhead, and having found that, you may know what you shall [...] both in this world, and in that to come. But I must [...].

A general Iudgment of the Year 1654.

'TIs confes­sed, the figure of this Revolution is generally ill, yet worse by far it would be, were not Iupiter & Ve­nus better dig­nified then the rest of the Pla­nets, and ther­fore are doser­vedly to be accounted the Lords of the year. [...] [...] a temperate ayr, and North winds, yet sud [...] are very temperate, by which both living [...] and seeds are strenthened and preserved. [...], [Page 25] although she be much impedited by her neerness to Mars, yet we may conceive some hopes that she will something moisten his heat and dryness, that the [...] may not want water in that [...] which it hath done the two former years: this hope may have a further ground, from Iupiter, being in a watry sign; and from the Pleiades, being stars of a tempe­stuous watring quality, so [...] the cusp of the As­cendant; and [...] from Venus her [...], being a moist and Sea Star, placed upon the very cusp of the As­cendant.

But let us see a little particularly what the signifi­cations of the Planets are, as they are constituted in this Scheam; and let none be angry if I begin with the [...], I my self being a Commoner.

The Significators of the Commonalty are twosold, general and particular; generally the Moon signifies the Commonalty, particularly the Ascendant and its Lord: If you look to their particular Significatrix, which is Venus, you shall find her very strong angu­lar, and in her own house occidental, but slow in motion, neer Retrogradation, very neer the body of Mars; and the Ascendant it self is something [...] ted by the Pleiades in it: Truly if I would write what I think to be truth, I cannot but guess a safe, though troublesom condition to the Commonalty; it is a year wherein they will much stand upon their priviledges, by doing which they will incur much displeasure, many troubles and many adversaries: I desire my Brethren of the Commonalty that they would make no [...] this year, they will exceed­ingly be subject so to do, [...] yet experience tells [Page 26] them, that tumults are usually bitterness at the latter end to them that make [...].

I am straitened for want of paper exceedingly; I must speak a word or two of the Moon, who is the general Significatrix of the people, and therefore the more to be heeded.

If the Moon be weak and [...], as she is here, and apply to an infortune, and that infortune be fix­ed, as here she doth, she signifies an evil state to the people, and detriment in their businesses, want [...] food, but little gain, many infirmities in their bodies, and no fewer hinderances in their occasions: indeed I am afraid their rash attempts will go near to [...] many of them in prison this year, and then they [...] be very stayed men; if they suffer for well doing they will have the more comfort. If that [...] to which the ☽ applies be Lord of the eighth [...] from the [...] of the ☽, as here he is, it signifies [...] mortality amongst the people; and if it be Mars, [...] it is now, the [...] shall come of heat, and [...] of blood, although ♀, who properly [...] diseases incident to the year, seem to speak otherwise.

As for Kings and Magistrates, Sol their [...] is in the twelfth house, which is the house of [...] enemies, calamity and imprisonment; let them [...] to themselves in time, und tell them I gave [...] warning of it. If the Sun be weak, and in an evil [...] at his entrance into ♈, the power and state of [...] and Magistrates will decrease, and they will do many and evil mischiefs to the people under them; [...] men wil be regarded never the more for their [...] nor noble men for their Nobility, but [...] [Page 27] common people will rise up against their Lords and [...], thus saith Haly, let them verifie the truth of [...]. I confess here are few receptions to mitigate these evils, here is none at all to help Kings and Ma­gistrates, there is one which may give some succor to [...] Commonalty, which is between the ☽ and ♂; happily the Souldier may take part with the [...], if they do, I cannot help [...].

Let us now come to a particular scanning of the rest of the Planets, and so conclude. Saturn in the [...] house infortunate, as here he is, tumbles down Kings and Magistrates from the top of hope to the bottom of [...]; he consumes the fruits of the Earth by blasting and mildew; he sows Darnel a­mongst the Corn, and makes the [...] coally; he [...] away the lives of many children, and makes such as do live stubborn.

If ♃ be in the [...] house fortunate, is [...] he is, the Nations of that climate shall get profit by their enemies, and much gain, freedom and propriety, by [...] of [...] and imprisonment; Kings and Magistrates [...] have time enough to think on what is past, and occasion enough to repent of their op­pressions at leasure.

Before I proceed any further, take notice of [...] general rule which is to be observed in all annual Iudgments, none excepted.

• 1. The estate of the common people is always to be enquired after from the Moon.
• 2. The estate of Kings, Princes, [...], and Noble men, from the [...].
• 3. The estate of Scribes, Merchants, education of [Page] children, and such as study Arts and Sciences, from ☿.
• 4. The estate of Iudges, Priests and Lawyers, from ♃
• 5. The estate of all Souldiers, and such as [...] Kings and Kingdoms, Magistrates and Nations [...] danger, is to be enquired after from Mars.
• 6. The estate of old men, Husbandmen, and such [...] till the Earth, is to be enquired after from Saturn.
• 7. As for all womens matters, and such as belong to delights, joy and feasting, we must have an eye to ♀.

If then Priests and Lawyers be signified by Iupiter, you shall find Iupiter just reformed, and coming out of prison; mock not, you may happen to sind the Iudg­ment true enough.

Mars in the [...] signifies much fear and dam­age to the Nation by [...] of their Enemies; but truly my own opinion is, the fear will be more then the harm, Mars is so near Venus: [...], much con­tention and quarrelling will be amongst men, but the best is, as good words will butter no parsnips, so [...] words will not break a [...] head.

Venus in the [...] health to mens bo­dies, and joy to their minds: but seeing Venus is so neu Retrogradation, falling retrograte before she touches the degree ascending, I suppose she may well be taken to be in the twelfth House, which if so, she signifies almost all the evil to women that can be imagined; many whoredoms, contentions and quarrellings, [...] of liberty and good name, besides other [...] for loving the under-sheet better then the distaff.

Mercury in the Twelfth signifies much quarrelling between men and their children, and their servants.

[...] Moon in the [...], the Nations [...] [Page 29] that sign in which she is (of which England is one) shall be continually brawling and quarrelling, nothing [...] falling out one with another, as though that were the only way left to thrive.

Sol in the Twelfth [...], that the Kings and Ma­gistrates of that Climate, of which England is one, shall be exceedingly hated by the people, because they do them much evil, and lay such grievous Taxes upon them.

Lastly, Consider, that so many Planets being in the [...], and the Lords both of the Sixth and Eighth there, as also the Lady of the Fourth, many [...] like to be committed this year: It will be very dif­ficult to [...] out the causes of diseases which happen in this Revolution; only my hope is, [...] Sun in the Twelfth will bring to light such as deal either in [...], or invocation of evil Spirits.

An Explanation of the three [...] Tables.

The use of the Tables is very easie; For when you know the day of the Month under the Month, over against the day you find the age of the Moon, which being sound, look it in the Residue of the Tyde Table on the top, and underneath it over against the place you have the hour and minute when [...] is full Sea. For example: The [...] day of Ianuary the Moon [...] 23 days old, which if you search in the Residue of the Tyde Table, you shall find that the Moon when she is 8 days old, and when she is 23, maketh [...] sea at London, 24 min. past [...] of the clock; and this she doth always, if neither Winds nor Land Floods, &c. [...] for take notice, that it is [...] so exactly to shew the time [...] high water in Rivers of [...] indrouth, as one may in Sea [...].