❧ The Progno [...] made for the yeare of [...] God, nowe present, 1576. [...] the Astrologicall iudgement of [...] [...] ters of the yeare, and the CH [...] weather. &c. Written chie [...] [...] Meridian of the Ci [...] of Chester.
By Alexander Mouns [...]
Qui fecit Luminaria magna, [...] [...] tem diei, Lunam in potestatem [...]
¶ Imprinted in Pow [...] [...] yarde, by Richarde W [...]
[...] of this present yeare of our Lorde God. 1576.
| Day breake | Son rising. | Sonne set. | Twilight | ||||
| Ho. | Mi. | Ho. | Mi. | Ho. | Mi. | Ho. | Mi. |
| 5. | 54. | 8. | 4. | 3. | 56. | 6. | 6. |
THe first daye Sunne in Capricorne [...]. grad. Moone in Capricorne 21. grad, Saturne in 26. grad. Sagittarie S.D. Iupiter S.D. 10. grad. Leo. Mars. S.D. 16. Scorpio, Venus. S.A. 28. Sagittarie. re. Mercurit, grad. S.A. 2. Capricorne. re. Caput. 15. grad. Taurus.
☽ New Moone the first daye, at iiij. a clock in the morning, fayre and frostie. The ij. Mercurie. di. in. 2. grad. Capri. Moone orientall vespertine in Aquarie. b. The iij. disposed to snow or colde sléeete. d. The iiij. [...]. winde and raine. p. The v. Venus direct in [...]. grad. Sagittarie, niwing colde with congealed yee. Vigel. ryseth in the euening. d. The vj. This day our Sauiour Christ turned water into wyne. Author Epiphann [...]s. d. The vij. sh. p. The viij. gl. The ix. pp. sh. b.
☽ First quarter the ix. day at b. a clocke 45. minut. in the morning, verie colde enclined to yee or snowe, afterwarde more mylde & still weather. †. The x. d. Caput. S.A. 15. ♉. Taurus, ni [...]ping colde, the North wynde blowes. The xj. pp. sh. b. Sunne in Aquarie ryseth at vij. & 48. [...]un. in the morning setteth at iiij an [...] [...]
[...] [...]e [...]a the b [...]ight [...] [...]or [...]h goeth downe wyth the Sunne. The xiij. d. clowdie and towarde night raynie, or thaw. The xiiij. Neemeni [...]. 19. [...]5.
[...], the [...] aspect of Venus, in [...], or Pisces.
Ill to hunt or hawke, the Moone going to a Planer retrograde in Angulo.
Venus is our bryght mornyng Starre, tyll the thirtie daye of September, and then she is occidentall, and our Euenynge starre, duryng the residue of thys yeare.
[...]am Grafton Esq [...] chamberlaine and Deputie to [...] [...] norable, Robert Earte of Leycester of [...] ders of the Garter and Saint [...] Chamberlaine of the Coun [...] [...] of Chester, &c.
PHILIP MEL [...] [...] an excellent learne [...] that he sent touch [...] [...] stronomie and Ast [...] [...] rable Lords, Georg [...] [...] geros, twoo nobl [...] [...] wryteth on this so [...] [...] prorsus necessariam esse doctrinam, quae [...] astendit. Quam ob causam, & sapiens ant [...] [...] licè doctissimis hominibus qui custodes cr [...] [...] [...]it, vt solis circuitus, & interuall [...], [...]qu [...] [...] uarentur, & mensium spatia, ad solis [...] wordes in Englyshe, are thus trans [...] [...] and founde iudgement, doe well con [...] [...] howe that the same doctrine, must [...] which learning or doctrine, doth [...] teache, the frame, boundes, or mea [...] [...] the iust order thereof. For which [...] antiquitie, gaue publikely in char [...] [...] [...]dians and Conser [...]ors in [...] [...]rning, that they shoulde desc [...] [...] S [...]nne, and that the Equinoctials, [...] be obserued, and that they should [...] the Monethes, according to the [...] [Page] [...] causae discer [...]ndae [...] ei fraenum [...]niecit [...] [...] [...]olloweth. The other [...] diuers men haue somewhat [...] part, I haue in another place, [...]. And albeit the Astrologicall cele [...] [...] of the Starres, be not altogithers [...]ions, and that with great aduisement [...] [...]arked, and the deceytes of false di [...] [...] [...]ed, yet is it most assured and cer [...] [...] [...]ations, and chaunges in the Ele [...] [...] [...]ginall beginning through the starres: [...] light doth beare a great swaye, as [...] body humaine, as also in the incli [...] [...] For to [...]hintent, health may be pre [...] [...] to vnderstande the crasis of the bo [...] [...] [...]derstande mans inclination, is pro [...] [...]. Yea, and those by Arte, and policie [...], in such sort, as Pegasus was gouer [...] [...] [...]hom at length, when Pallas thre [...] [...], he d [...]very well rule and [...] [...]des of P [...]ip Melanchton [...] to the Honorable Lordes and bre [...] [...] [...]res [...]yd. Forasmuch as then (worship [...] [...] [...]ntly appeare vnto you, how profitable, [...]
[...] tweene the full till the Ch [...]nge, the [...] [...] ted in Cancer, Scor [...]i [...], Pisces, or Sagittarie, [...] then at that tyme being cut or sha [...]ed, [...] grow agayne. Betweene the last [...]uatter [...] the Moone yll affected, and in Aries, cariseth [...]
Good to laye the fo [...]dation of a buylding, or [...] [...]ewe frame of any house, the Moone well [...] Tauro, last part of Scorpio, Leo, and Aquar▪
Good to sayle on the sea, the Moone well [...] Cancer, Pisces, Taurus, or Virgo. Beware of [...] Mars, or the fixed starres of the nature of Mars. Also [...] rysing and setting of Arcture, Orion, Haedi, Ca [...] [...] Canis minor, and the yll aspectes of Saturne, are to be auoyded in Nauigation causes.
Daungerous dayes to fall sicke in.
Looke in the priuate Natiuitie, for the signes which Mars or Saturne be placed in thy Radix, or be in quadrate or opposition of them, and if thou fall sicke in any of those dayes, when the Moone is in any of the same signes, it is very daungerous. But if thou fall sicke in any daye, when the Moone is in a signe, which Venus or Iupiter was in [...] the time of the [...] in [...] or [...]
Good to [...]nt the Moone in Aries, Leo, or Sagittarie, in a good aspect of Mars.
Good to hawke, the Moone in the ayrie triplicitie, [Page] [...] [...]alled rysing [...] ap [...] [...] [...]he [...]erting with the Sunne, and Heliace [...] the [...]. We the [...] the [...]neno [...] a [...] [...] [...]des [...]of [...]rauen, [...] S [...]ren in the [...]gh [...] sphéere, for the [...] artike [...] degrées, whosoeuer [...] haue th [...] [...]ce and aden [...]ate motion of rysing in the vi [...] Sphéere [...] him count iiij. dayes hywardes, before their [...]psing in the Almancke, in the ix. Sphéere. As for [...]ple▪ Alpheta the bright starre in the crowne of the [...] [...]eth [...]nth [...] [...]ning, the xv. baye of September, in the Almanacke. R [...]we woulde I knowe when the sayde St [...]re doth ryse truely in the viij. Sphéere [...] [...]ble in the Morning, I number iiij. dayes vpwa [...] from the xv. day of Septēber, videlicer, the xj. day of S [...]er wherfore I say that the xj. of September [...] [...]ysing of [...]pheta for this present yeare.
Item [...] [...]trie of [...] [...]ij. Planets into all the signes of the Zoo [...]act.
Item the Aspects betweene the fiue Erraticall Planotes, and also the Moones̄ chaunge, full, wane &c. and when she is orientall vespertine, in hir most excellent state, not combust, and with Caput, or Cauda Draconis, and with hir North & South belly of hir Dragon, videlicer, with hir greatest latitude septentrionall or Meridionall, being fiue degrées dista [...] from the Ecliptiquek [...] Venter Bor. I meane the North believe, by Venter [...] e [...]ment. M. D. Ca [...]a Me [...] [...] de [...]endent [...]. A [...] [...]erinione [...] ascendent.
Item the iudgement of the iiij. quarters of the yeare. Al [...] when ye Plane [...]ts haue a carpent, videlicet, house, [Page] [...], or h [...]p [...] [...] [...]ge, called [...] haunge of the [...] [...]ing [...] the manor of Ptolo [...] [...] auncient writers as [...] [...]e and bright th [...] dayes [...] compassed with any [...] circle [...] [...]a [...]quarter. &c.
Item in this P [...]nosticatiō [...]or [...] when the Moone is in the bellie of hi [...] the greatest latitude North or Sout [...] [...] que. And by this you may perceyue, [...] cende in hir latitude, which is from [...] to the North bellye of hir Dragon. It childe be borne, it be [...]okeneth much [...] and witte, and he shall be full of craf [...] [...] ceyte, according to the olde prouerbe. [...] ignorans.
Item, if a Childe be horne when the lactea, it noteth that he shall be but of a
The Moone is in Via lactea, from xvi [...] [...] ni, till the seconde grade of Cancer, & be [...] and xiij. grades of Sagittarie, and from th [...] Sagittarie till the seconde grade of Capri [...]
The Moone is in Via combusta, fr [...] [...] Libra till the xv. grade of Scorpi [...].
[...] shall finde the da [...] [...] and sh [...], [...] [...]tentimes, such ch [...] [...] halting, spurte blinde, &c.
[...] [...] ctions profitatie and necessarie, [...]ching Physicke and Surgerie.
[...] [...]e excellent Phisition, in his booke D [...] Regione, affirmeth that Astrologie Phisicke. It wée shall consider (sayet, [...]ghest causes and beings, wée shall finde [...]e the least portion of Phisicke and he Phisition ought to know the Moone, [...]g [...]en in which the Moone is, when any [...] to fall sicke, to this opinion, Galene [...]me booke, which he wrote De spermate. [...]mes in [...]s first booke de speculis & luce,
The Phisition must of necessitie, con [...]he nature of the Planets & Starres, notions, that by such meanes, he maye of diuers diseases, and also of the Creasmuch as mans nature is alterable, ac [...]pects and coniunctions of the superiour [...] [...]nedicine, when the Moone is in Cancer [...]d aspect of Venus and Mercurie, excep [...]rs coniunction, and his Aspects, Iupiters [...]h the Moone, doth féeble the strength of [...] comforteth mans bodie. Also Saturnes [...]aprteth the hamours, hyndreth the [...] the celeritie the [...] not letting [...]ude. [...] and the [...] be [...] the [...]rge & the first, [...] chiefi [...] [...]. The h [...]st and meet [...] let blo [...] day of March, till the [...]g of Piece [...]
Prognostication, for the yeare of our Lorde God▪ 1576. being Leape yeare.
- THis yeare 1576. is accom [...]ted to be from the first beginning of the worlde. 5538.
- And from Noes floude, after the great coniunction [...]ē Saturne, and Iupiter, in imo c [...]eli [...] Ca [...]c [...]r which chaunsed in the seconde Moneth Mathe [...], now called Nouember. 3882.
- And from the destruction of Troye. 2758.
- And from the first games of Ol [...]npu [...] [...] Gréece. 235 [...].
- And from the buylding of Salomons Temple, at Ierusalem. 2065.
- And from great Alexanders death, King of Macedonia, and Emperour of the East Kingdomes. 1900.
- And from the first magnificence of the Turkishe Empire, which began in the yeare of our Lord. 300, 276.
- And from the Conquest of Englande made by willyam Duke of Normandie, su [...]ramed Conque [...]o [...], bastarde sonne of Robert the sixte, and Nephe [...] to King Edwardde the Confessor. which willyam bega [...]ts his raigne, ouer the Realme of Englande the 14. day of October. Anno Domini. 1066. after the battayle of Hastings in Sussex. 5012.
- And from the byrth of Christ. 1576.
- Note that our Sauiour Christ, was borne of a Wir [...] [...]
- [...] E [...]l [...] [...]veth by [...]e l [...]e grace of G [...] [...] of Englande, [...] and Ireland, Defe [...] [...] faith. &c. (whose Ma [...]tie, Go [...] on [...]re [...]e an [...] [...] Nouember, r [...]xt comming. [...]18.
[...] [...]enginning and ending of [...]hery T [...]rme wyth their R [...]es.
[...] Terme, beginneth the [...] of Ianuarie, if it be nor Sundaye, which then is d [...] kn [...]yll the next days after, and endeth the .x [...]i. of Februarye, and hath to are Returne [...], that is to say▪
- Oct [...]bis Hillarry.
- Quind Hillarry.
- Crastino Purifie.
- Ostobis Purifie.
* Easter Terme, begynneth .x [...]. dayes after Easter, and endeth the Monday next after the Ascention day, and hath fiue returnes, that is to saye:
- Quind. Pasch.
- Tres Poschae.
- Mense.
- Paschae.
- Quin [...]y Paschae.
- Crast. Ascention.
* Trinitie Terme, beginneth the Fridaye next after Trinitie sunday, and endeth the wednesday fortnight ofter, and hath foure returnes, that is to say:
- Crast. Trinitatis.
- Octabis Trinitat.
- Quind. Trinitat.
- Tres Trinitat.
* Michaelmas Terme▪ beginneth the .ix. day of October, if it be not sunday, and endeth the .xxviij. of Nouember, and hath .viij. Returnes, that is to saye:
- Octabis Micha.
- Quind Michaël.
- Tres Michaël.
- M [...]nie Michaël.
- Crast. Anima.
- Crast. Martini.
- Octa. Martini.
- Quind. [...].
[...] the xxij. [...] in which [...]ose of necessarie, the [...], and the Ch [...]urgion are now [...] nye election bycause of the present da [...] cient.
- For [...] age betweent the cha [...]
- For [...] the first [...]
- For the [...]g [...] pie [...]non, the Moon, and indifferent, well afte [...] wyth [...]up Sagartarie, Pisces, and Labra.
- For the Ch [...]er [...]cke compiexion, th [...] cer, last part of Scorpio, and Pisces.
- For the Melancholie complexion, [...] bra, or Aquarie.
- For the flegmaticke complexion, the [...] or Sagittatie.
The earthie triplicitie, and the signes and Scorpio, be not allowed to make me [...] day, when the Moone is in coniunction [...] the Sunne, Saturne, or M [...]rs. Also take [...] be made in any member, when the Moon [...] Which doth gouerne that member. As the heade▪ when the Moone is in Aries. the Moone moysteth princ [...]pally mans [...] lye the same part which the signe doth g [...] full of great moysture by the Moones [...] through which occasion of great moy [...] should [...]he made by Iron, great day [Page] [...] or plant [...]wowrd [...], in the wo [...] of the Moone [...] aspect of Saturne [...] the signes of [...] in the lost part of Febr [...], March, [...]ber, and October▪
[...] good tyme to [...]ur downe [...], hee S [...] [...]ials, videlicet from the Sunne the, [...] or the signe of Cap [...]ne, [...] [...]xij. daye. Iune, till the xij. day of De [...] [...] betweene the full Moone, till the last
[...]ections to take Purgations.
tyme is best, and more fitte than Sun [...] [...]lso the wane of the Moone is good. Be [...]arter til the Chaunge, the Moone well [...]us, Mercurie, or the Sunne, in Cancer, [...]o, and Pisces, good to purge fleume. For [...] Moone well affected in Gemini, first [...]d Aquarie. The most coldest and hotest [...], nor yet the tyme when Canis Maior, or the morning, which is about the thirde [...]t, and the fourth day of December, this [...]ur Lorde God. 1576. Also the daye, in [...]e goeth to a coniunction of Iupite [...], is yll [...]tion.
[...] children, the Moone Vacuac [...], and [...] [...] ble, [Page] [...]nd pleasant, [...] Science afore remembred, is, by [...] graue testimonie, [...] noble a w [...]er, as Melonchron was, it shall be but in vayne, and very persteous for me, to adde [...]r this present [...], any more commendation or p [...]yse therevnto. Onely it sufficeth, [...] this little [...]ooke, made for this yeare to come, 1576▪ and dedicated to your Name▪ may be with such friendly [...], [...] accepted, as friendlye [...] profered vnto you, and that it will like you to receyue it good part, this little New [...]eares g [...]t, at any hand as, which is [...]hiefly penned for the Me [...]ban of the Citie, in which you were borne and bredde. And thus but flye yeelding great thanke [...] vnto you, for your curresie and gentlenesse diuers tymes herefore, plertifully bestowed vppon mee: I doe most humbly recommende me to your Worship, wyshing to the same, all ioye and felicitie in God. From my Studie, the first day of Nouember. 1575.