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\ OL L E C T I O

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C O L L E C T I O N

NATIVITIES.
G E N IT U R E S;
V I Z .

Princely, nr Phyfical,
nr O f fliort Life,
Prelatical, >e Mercatorial, >< O f Twins,
Gaufidical, jL Mathematical, jc
isre.
WI T H

ManyUieful O B S E E t V A T I O N S o n th e m ,
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Practical Concernment
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4 I A O M

6 H M A T I K O ' S

Peninet ad fidem <& diligsnliam Arologot um, omnium quanum.e,i po-.efl rrincipum, Ducum, Comilum
l^obilium, Confulum, prescipnarum quoq-, Theo.ogorum, Epijeopo'um, Conliariorum, 'Mcd;cbrum, Gmhuras
nquirere : Non ehim magna folnm modo laus est , priori confulta eX'encntia de ips infpteie aliquid dicere :
led publica quoque fata ex eoiumfalutependent.------- Orig. de Etfeft. fol. iz .

tJWaii 29. 1661. Imprimatur.

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Worthy Perfons,
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WHO S E

GENITURES
Are made publicis in this Work*

John Gadbury
VViiheth Health ,

and increafe o f Days

Happinefs in their Studies , gy-c.


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T o the
I n t e l l i g e n t

and J u d i c i o u s

R E A D E R S.
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Lthough the Judgements and Humours offome


Men , be oppoiite to . every ferious Perfor
mance j whence they aflame an unworthy L i
berty of Taxing and Traducing what they
do not underftand 3 and envy that in others,
themfelves are ignorant o f : yet in this my
Appeal to you, I cannot but expedt much
fairer Quarter, and a far jufter Verdidt on my
prefent Pains, from your more fcaiond Breafts ; fince as the Ig
norant , fo the Intelligent, always judge like themfelves.
There are three forts of Perfons that feem moil of all to oppugn
this Noble A r t ; v iz . The Seeming Religious , the Politique, and
the Ignorant.
TheFirft of which, (having a Zeal againft i t , but not accor
ding to knowledge ) endeavours to render it repugnant
* Atflazza Franchl,
to Divinity, and to the Scriptures j and deemethitas
is a. Fruit growing on
Mortal to Religion, as your A m azza Prancbi * is faid to Mount Libanus , or
Lebanon,_ o_
f which i f
betotheChrilfians.

any Europeans eat,they


fall into fucb Vifeafes whereof they He j and thence it is Called 3 The Death ofckriftians, Vid. Litbgovre
Travels, Part 5. pag. 191.

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43

The

The Epiftle to the Readers.


~ * Tue Second, would make it dcitru&ive to lnlticucion , Educa
tion, and all good Policie, for the Preiervation of Men and Kingdomes?
_
reii^^^&nclude it an ImpoftureV or elfe an
V'ab^Jnte Piejgrpf VVitcfoerafc 5 and therefore proteft againft
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v a l t i f o d g l i .thefeitveral O bjections have been anfwered,
-r'oy^r-':.and dyeisp-yec- finee we have Dwarfs grown, up among. us:,;
:^^hftandu^n the Shoulders o f orformer GiaffclikeQypAfm;*
Ip&llCtor theft^fake,s),^%Qhd to them again* - ^
w>okf

7j* kS S *
i# ^ Aftrologie were repugnant to Divinity, or to the OraS ob/c-clesof G od , the Scriptures; Divines.ihemfeives would not with
itor,anjwc- fUch ardour have been the onelj"Promoters thereof, and the moil
rtd'
induftrious therein, as they in all Ages have been. For it is high
ly contrary to Reafon, to believe any Man (much lefs him thf c is
learned ) viybvtfd advanceltliac whiefo any way thwahs or oppofts
him , his Siudy , or Intereft. Befides, i f there he clTruth in Ajt?o2iniumhjtiot D ivinity , buraj;her becomes related to ft.t ,
Med. *g' for b j l$w mv^hjbe mo^njicre LsofJruth ip any thiiW*- jo much. j
then#r<p: is it^hpto Divihily 5 ii^fteadof oppo^ng j is moil .?
rea qy t Yhake nands therewith. I fhall hot here malte a Diftinlion between the Religmu and the w ife , as the learned Mr. Hart*ohtsTP
aSiesil hath done * : howbeit , they that fuppofe Aftrologie repugeftbe fixednant to Divinity, are not in the number ( I fuppoie ) "of the-SV
Stars* Hgioufly Wife.
I he Kingly Prophet fings , P fa lm i9 . Werfel. The
Heavens declare the glory of, God , and the Firmament jheweth his handyworky &c. And nauft not he then be a moil refolute and perverfe
Adverlary , that fhall brand Aftrologie , which treateth of the
Power oi die Heavens and Scars , tor being contrary to D i
vinity?
SwadihiT ? Many things ( faith a learned Divine * ) I heretofore did beDivinity Cf lieve againft Aftrologie, and was perfwaded thereunto from its
no Enemya N am e, Root 3 and End 5 but upon a juft Examination, I retradt j
becaufe (faith he) / finde the Afirologer neither an Inchanter ,
andiv. cc witch , or Dealer with Familiar Spirits , &c, nor yet to meddle with
cc MagiaDemoniaca 5 and other Magia\ read of none , but what is
<c called Divina , Mathematica , or Phyfica5 none of which I conic ceive will any wife Man fay is unlawful 5 and therefore I give my
cc Vote for the Legality of Aftrologie.------- And the Reafons that in duceme hereunto, are the very fame which perfwaded me to
the contrary, (1.) Their Name * the Hebrews call the Stars
M a alothy of N a za l , which fignifies Influere:. and the Rabbins
cccall them Meharim^oiSberety which fignifies M inifirare: whence
<c that Axiome allowed by all Men, A (fra non necefsitant * fed
inclinant.

The Epijilc to the Readers. '


cc indinant. And therefore by the Stars may the Aftrologer pre dil Mans Inclination and Manners 5 which if good, "may be

cc heightned by a holy Ambition 5 if bad , may be prevented by


<c good Education.-----(2.) Tiie Root, ir was not Idolatry, bur
cInnocency j Adam in Paradife was the Father of this A r t ; and had

cc he as well obferved the Star of Knowledge for the Direction of


cchis W ill , as the Tree of Knowledge ior the pleafmg of his
cc Fancie, he had not yet been banifhed. It was not Idolatry, but
ct Obedience , upon wiiich this Syen was grafted, when the Tree
cc was almoft withered: Abraham the Friend of G O D , and Father
<c o\ the Faithful, was no Step-Father to Aftrologie, i f we believe A n-

tiquhy. It was not Idolatry, but VVifdome, from which this


cc Art got Life, afrer it long lay bleeding: Solomon, the wifeft'of
Men , veas the heft Aftrologer the World ever entertaind ! And why
cc were the Priefts of Egypt forbidden the Study of all other Arts,
cc and yet permitted to Ifudy Aftrologie ? And why do the Aracc bicks call their Aftrologers Cachiu, wiiich comes of Cobu% which
c fignifies a Prieft Z Surely it is to tell the Aftrologer, that though
Ccthe Presbyter may be his Enemy , yet the Prieft may be his Friend , and
callow his Art lawful j not onely for the Root of it, bural{o(3.)
cc for the End of it y---- -which cannot be injurious to God , becc caufc the Aftrologer confefteth ,----- Sapiens Dominabitur Aftris.
Thus far (and farther) this learnedDoUor. Yet a little more : we
have another learned Divine among us, who makes it a Doctri
nal Observation, - That it is our Duty to ftudy the Heavens , and to
be acquainted with the Stars * . The learned Ptolomy affirms in the
beginning of his A In agef t , ------ Hanc unam Scientiam efje viam , ac
femuam ad Sciendum Drum altifsimum. This equally conftdereJp,zx^
plainly cvinceth Aftrologie not to be contrary, but confonant to,
Divinity, and to the holy Scriptures,
2.

That Aftrologie (hould be repugnant to Policy , Laws , Fnfti-ThePoiitic^

9 fiction, Education, &c. is as impoflible as for it to be oppofice tooppafermDivinity: it may indeed be helpful unto them all, but no way^wercrf
hurtful unto any of them. 1 do allow with the Obje&ors, that
the Laws are good and neccifary, as they are intended to bridle
the wild and corrupt Pafliohs of Men 5 and no more to be faulted,
when they mifs of tneir right and proper end, then Wine is, when
icinaketh a Man drunk. Albeit, I muft acquaint him, that
the Stars haveiuc ha Power over the Manners and Minds of Men,
that they order anddifpofe them into fuch a frame , that when
they fhall meet with Laws or Ihftitutions contrary to their
Nature and Inclination, r e y efteern it the higheft Happinefs
to break and contound them. Hence it is, that Jayls and Prifons
are conlkandy turniihed with variety of Offenders 5 notwrithHanding many are taken thence continually , either toBanifhment or Death, or ocher lefs Puniihmenc. And therefore it was
that

The Efifile to the Readers.

iilTe i?htliac So^on * 5 *n l^e Acneman State , commanded , i hat their


c/Soionf* Lajv Should be always applyed to their Manners 5 and not their Man* strChcift. ners to the Law. And as a learned Knight * obfcrves , although
Defence of
Laws and Inftitutions under which vve live , be never fo good
Aftrotogy, and commendable, yet the Adverfary might as well profels to
sm.

fayl againft the V Vinde and Tyde , or to make a barren Soyle fer
tile , as to imagine that Laws or Inftitutions will be of any force, ,
without a Natural Propcnfion to that wherein we areinftru&ed,
or unto which we ought to be fubje& and obedient.

Now certainly Aftrologic, which fheweth the Reafon why


good and wholefome Laws and Inftitutions mils of their right
End and A im , cannot be thought Anti-Politic k 3 or Antt-Nomical j but may rather be efteemed oi good Ufe unto the Politici
an , in framing and forming Laws and Inftitutions fuirable to
the Conftitutions and Inclinations oi the People that are to be go
verned and inftru&ed by them. Had Attrologie been an Ene
my to Policie and the Laws , & c . AuguBm the Emperour would
never have been fo great a Friend unco it , as to have ftampedthe
Signe yj> Capricorn (tt being the Ascendent of his Nativity ) on his
Coyn, and advanced the fame tnbis Enfigne or Standard 5 as faith my
*svchrift. Author * .
Nay , fo eminently honourable was this Science
Hey Qn with Tiberius , as Tacitus and Dion teftifie , that he learnt the
fame oi Thrafillus at Rhodes , and afterwards brought him over
into Rome, honouring him above all Men , and attempting no
thing without his Advice. If then the greateft Politicians
have had fo great a Refpeft unto , and Honour for this Science ,
it cannot reafonably be conceived contrary to Policie, & c .
Then for Education 5 which in the thoughts of all ingenious
Men , cannot be held at an undervaluable Price , it being the very
beft of Ornaments to Mankinde. Beyond all queftion, itprofiteth very much s but then it mutt meet with a fit and proper Sub
ject. Every Man is not a Socrates $ nor have all Men a Power to
mafter or bridle their Affections and Paflions. I grant ( in a
juft fenfe ) A wife Man may rule the Stars: yet are therefew fo pru
dent, either by force of Nature or Education , but muftfubmic
( in a great meafure) to the Energie of Coeleftial Influences.
And although the Stars do not abfolutely neccifitate the W ill,
yet they fo ftrongly incline it, that the Effects of Nature are com
monly feen beyond the force of Education. W ere Education
of force fufficient in all refpe<5ts to better Nature, we fhould
have nofuch things as Injury or Injufticein the World, where
Education meets with an apt and proper inclination , like a skilful Lapi
dary, it polifbeth Nature, and prefents the World with a Comparative M i
racle. But, where it meets with a morofe or violent temper , it is but a
Slave to Pafsiony and makes the Native more miichievous and

cruel.

The Epijlle to the Readers.


cruel.
In us. ionic Men come to play me Viliams and Trea
chers with che greater Dexterity and Courage 5 and, ulingEducacion as a Bawd to their corrupt Defircs and Pleasures , co
lour their unworthy ACktons at tne more confident rate, and
make their great eft Villanies and Cruelties, matter of Sport and
Paftime.
None will deny, but N E R O was moft excellently well E ducated ; yet what unheard-of Actions is he recorded to have
done , when once he came to the Government of the Em
pire ? Although Tarim in many placesot his Hiftory, fpeaketh but meanly of Aftrologers 5 yet in this very Example ,
he hath (hewn himfelf fuch a Friend to their Predictions,
that he celtifieth on their behalf, That they before-hand did affure Agrippina his Mother of his Cruelty , &c. And this power
of a Natural Propenfity was not onely plain in Neroy but apparent
in Galha, Caligula, Dio^yfim 3 and others, that were diligentlv inftruCtod by moft excellent and learned Tutors 5 and yet afterward
returned to their Natural Improbity, and became foul Moniters of Men.
Thus we fee of what Force Education is , when it concurreth with , or contradi&eth a Natural Inclination and Tem
perature. Nature may be bettered t>y being joyned to Educa
tion 3 or Difi-ipline; but that withoucNature, or contrary to
i t , is Deficient 3 and of no more ufe , then if a Husband
man (lioulu Till Barren Ground , of which he can reap no
Profit.
It is not onely the Poet, that is Born , and not Made 5 bufPera nafthe Politician , Divine and Lawyer , &c. of which the followinggtur noa
Treatife affordeth many and eminent Examples. It will there
fore plainly follow, that Aftrologic may be of good ufe to the
Politician, in making known the Natures, Temperatures and
Inclinations of Men : For, they are not onely diftinguijhed,
dtfcoveredfrom the Predominancies of the Planets at their Births * .

vancement
of Learning/fl/.jfs,

3.
To the Ignorant Obje&or, ( although he rather deferve a*fe igwW hip , then a Reply) I anfwer (firft) in worthy C a r d a n * e b} e.
words: - * Stulti negligunt & contemnunt Aftrologiam, &c. And// ***
the Reafon why they do fo, is, betaufethey underftand itnot.*Segmenr.
I f the Fool in his heart thinks lightly of a Deity 5 nay, deny aj^ xA^ho
God 3 Aftrologers muft not be troubled, if in Words he abufe * 4*
both him and his Science. This Adverfary, of all the three , is
the moft intolerable : for Reafon cannot prevail or perfwade
with him 3 what his Folly fuggefts unto him , ( let it be never io
b
a-

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The Epijile to the Readers.

Endeavours > he will encourage me to make a lurcher Progrefs in


this Sciences not onely for his, but the Worlds fatisfa&ion :
Unto whofe good, and to Aftrologies Honour, / am feriouily de
voted 5 and ihaU fo continue, whilft/am

icom my Study in Alderfgateflrceti again!! the Half Moon.


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J O H N GADB'tMLT.

T A B L E
O f thefeveral

NATIVITIES
Publiftied in this B o o k !
W ith their Number and Page readily how to find them
All thofe with a Star at them

are of Terfons living.

In the Firll: Part.


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ip . Sebastian King p
34. *pictts Mirandttla-^o
2. Alexander ?
of Portugal
5 3 3 <j. Christie mm K. ?
tJMagnus
* 2o.
^ Gufiavsts Adolphus 31
of Denmark^
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3 Henry 6. of England 6 21.
Emperor ofGcr- >
*$6.Prince of Orange <j3
4. Henry 8.
8
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5 3 3 37. rprivcd Maurice $$
j. Edward 6.
p 22. Lems
of p
%$.Elebor of Saxony <5<5
<6. Queen Mary
xx
France
5 34 39. Maximilian 1. 58
7. Queen Elizabeth 12 23. Carolus Guftavtu 3 5 40. Maximilian 2, 59
8. King James
14 * 24. King of Denm. 37 4 1 . Duke o f Savoy 61
King Charles 1. 1 ^ * 2 5. King of Spain 38 42 Lefdiguerius
1 o.Dake of C loticefter 1-7 * 26.Lewis 14.Kingl
S52,
I I . Lady Elizabeth 18
of France
^39 43. M .A . Columna 63
iz.tprincefs Royal ao 27. Prince of Spain 41 ;44*DutchefsofSfortia64
I*.'Duke of Rich- >
*28. Charles Gfuftavus^z 4%'DenJohnoffAH.
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29. **/0/ Strafford 43
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1 4Henry2,of France 2 3 3o.
of
4 ^ 46. D .of Buckingham 66
1 %.Hery^of Frances 5 *3 1. King of Poland 46 47. Duke Hamilton 6y
2 6-Henry..ofFrance z 6 32. Carolus L.Tor - 7
48. 'prince Charles 68
2 7 .- A w ,
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69
Hungary
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50. Duke of ^ Ib e-P
le Medicos 29 3 3.2. Fr. Villiers 49
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In the Second Part


Numb.
pag.
I* A Lexander 7. 7?
77
3. Sextus 5.
78
4. Clementi
79
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6. Gregry I .
81
7. Erafmui %otcr-1
elamas
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5. P hit. Melar. Elhon 83
9. Martin Lather
84
10. P*r Bembus
8 <j
n . Card Richlieu 86
u . Card Mazarine 87
1 3.
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l^.Bifhop Hall
91
i %. Btfhop ejMprton 9 2
1 6. Bijbop Vfber
96
* 1 7 . Dr.Gell
98
18 Dr Hammond pp

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1 9 <jWr. Gregory 101
ao. Mr Gataker
102
21 *(Jtfr. Bentham 105
*22. MnCoppe
106
2 3 .2 )r. Gouge
107
24. (JAtr, Crooks
109
-S* e/i MimtterX
of Cambridge * 1
* 26. Dr. Sybbalds 113
* 27. M r, Childrey 114
* zS.Mr.MackerveJh 1 5
* 29. TWr. ydughan 117
* 30. yir. Morgan, 118
31. M . T~. Cicero 119
32. Judge Reeves 121
3 3. J)r. Br island 122
34. SfV P. Holbmn 124
Cornel,Agrippa 125
, 3 6,S\rTheoA.Majern lb.

Numb.
Pag.
37. Gajfer.dfu
j 26
SB. Dr. Fisk.
12 7
39. A/r. Stepkjns j 29
^40 Dr, Starkly 130
* 41 Dr.Harrington 131
4 42. Dr. Tyntms 132
* 43. Dr. Laford 133
44. >Wr. Turner 134
* 4 $.M r. Blynman 135
* 4 6 - M r. Heydon 136
* 4 7 * M r. Beale
137
*48. CJMr. Rogers 138
* 49. M r. Basi on 139
50. (JMr. Culpeper 140
Oliver CromweTs
145
'Richard Cromwels 151
Majjiamello's
155

In the Third Part.


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Pag. [ Numb.
Pag.
17 .D r .L e Heve 1781 * 35. Mary Sawyer 197
Jr
%9 18. Mr.Cjrefkam 179 j * 36Mr.BatesChild 199
2. Sir Chrift.Heydonio 1 ty.Mr. Mallet
180 37* 1 7 *w7*
' 200
3. Sir Will. Wittipoll 1 6 1 * 20. Wr. Booker 181 38. 2 7 w
. 201
4. Maj. Strangways 162 * 2 1 .M r . Wing
18 2 39- i 'Twin
202
5. Sir John Reynolds 1(53 2 2 .4 /r. Saby
183 4Q. 2 Twin
203
* 6.0/. Hmchinfon 165 *23. M r. Mills
184 4 1. i Twin
204
* y. MapXS.Lambert! 66 * 24. Mr. Collins
186 42. 2 Twin
' 205
* 8. Captai B ray 169 *2 5 . M r. Ley burn 187 43. JeA Fletcher *Ibid
9*
Softwood 170 * 26. M r. Lilly
188 44. Flint Barret
206
* 10 .Mr.Ricbardfonryi * 27. M r. Blackwel 189 45. Charles Chttin . 208
C l u t A Genaa-'s ^ * 28. The Authors 190 46. Bar ah Sing v Ibid
I Merchant
5
29. Filins Authorls 391 44 7 . 1 7W0
_ 209
i1 2.-/bfr. Hooper
174 30 Benj.Gadbury 193 48. z Twin
',210
* 13. ./Wr. Woolfey 17* 31. Mary Martin 194 *49. *4 Gentlewoman* 1 1
14. Regio- Montanmxj6 3 2.
Tryonne
19 <j * 50 A Dwarf _ 2 ia
1 %.Eraj.Rheinholdus 177 3 3Mr.Callys {fhild Ibid
6. Trapeztomius
Ibid j| * 34.Clem,Bareford 196

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In Fifty Iiluihious

R A D I X E S
Being o f eminent Ufe to the induftrious Students
In the

Genethliacal Part
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A S T R O L O G I E .
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W i t h fomething touching the W o rld s Nativity*.


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ta--. i whj ^4rt ftjould be excluded the Cognisance of Nativities} or of


Kings and States I cannot fee j fnce Predictions according to Precepts of Are j f 9r
many ^Ages known and approved %have beenfound fo true, Pr. Geii Stella Nova*

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Colle&io Gcniturarum:

CO LLECTIO N
O f divers

Choice Nativities.
Something touching thef everal Opinions of the Worlds Nativity.

fcOqueftion the Worlds beginning*were to depart from


* the Heaven-like and pleafant Path of Chriftianifm>

and to run into the confufed and dangerous Road of


Atheifra: and for any Man to endeavour to confine
the fame to any limited certain time, (considering the
uncertainty of Hiftory and Ghronologie ) is every
whit 3 without doubt * as ridiculous and erronions;
yea, perhaps * as great and unwarranted a Prefumption.
Some Authors (and thofe mofl eminently learned) have fixed the timeof
B
the

C ollectio

G enit urarum:

ry

the Worlds beginning upon the Summer-Seafon ; at which time the Sunentrid th e RegahSigne Leo, which of AflroLogers is cermedhisidoufe, or,
Pj^!wherein.b(^i$.inoft principally dignified. " And o f this Opinion was the
fimou^ Mercator, who , in his Chronologie, feemeth to render many R e l
ions thereof, which fome have thought Demonfirations.
This Opinion (as fomeconjedlure) was hrll conceived arrpjigthe'Priefts
o f gyiti who having obfervd the River iSfilm to overflow bcrcxhe fu n
nier Sothice', ( vik a lttl before the tim above-mentiorid) ~adordit for
a god ; and eiieemed the time o f its Inundations for an infallible beginning
of Divine A&ions in things creared.
.. The^Arabians and Egyptians were generally of Opinion That the World
w psplated in Autumn , when the ilutirious Lamp of ijieaven entred the
if the quinonal Signe Libra. And chofe W o Her
ndwned Authors Jofephm and'Oali'ifitts, feem very much to aflenc to this
their Opinion ; urging both Reafoa and Scnpcure for the proof thereof.
Nor did the learned JunBinus fault this Opinions but rather approved there
of as appcar^by Wi^Spec.^Aftrol. Tom- i . _fol. 6 6 o .
^
r
Others are 0/Opinion tp^jh^WOrld was made in the Spring-ini
upon- that veiiy cjjayrtBe' Sun was phced in the very Degrs dipiis E x a lt i
ons
in-nineceen Degrees o l Aries. - So Petites de Alidcocon&udth
foL 102. and with himagreeth the learned Author of the abovefaid Figure,
nsyou may read in the before-cited JunBintes. Some have thought Virgil
to be o f this Opinion , by reafon of chat eminent and lofty Fancie o f his*
Lib* 2. of his Georgickj :
JSfon alios prima nafeentis origine Mundi,
IllHxijfe dies aliumve habuijfe tenorem
Crediderim. Ver iilud erat, Ver magnus agebat
Orbit, & Hibernit pafeebant flatibns Euci,
Cum primant Iticem pecudes hanfere viritm^
Ferreaprogenies duriscapat extttlit arvie ;
Immijfdf}fcr,t Silvis, & S/dera Clo.
Which Words are not more elegantly written by Virgil, thenEngliihed
by the Polite Quill of his learned Tranflator, Mr. JohnOgilbye^ thus :
Sure I believe, whenfirfi the World iras made,
Sofhone the day ; andfach bright CondaB had.
That teas the Spring j the Spring makes all things fair !
And blu[hing Eurus did cold Tempefis fpare.
Then Cattle bred : in ttnplow'd Fields began
Firfi to appear, that Iron Race of Man :
ivilde Beafispojfeft the Woods, and Heav'n the Stars.
-~ M?> Swan, m his Speculum (JMandi, pag. 36. and in his- Calamus
W^r,.;Pao'.10* after much Difcourfe concerning the WrWs Creation
pmeih to this onclufion : That (notwithfianding the ftrongefl and beft
. .,0bj^61ions to the contrary J . the World began at th Spring-time o f the
c year ; and that on the fourth day of the firli week,the Sun was in the fourth
.? >egre of AriesJ .which fourth day according to the Julian account, (faith
c he.) Was on the twencyTeventh'day o f April: onwhichd'ay the Sunwas
created and fet in the Firmament of Heaven.
^ t|rhefe (.in.brief ) are the feveral Opinions concerning the Worlds CreaijiQn'' in refpeibcf time : but bow near or how far wide they are of the
Truth

(A Colle&ion of divers choice Nativities*

>

Truth i let Reafcmjc felf be Judge. DWme Plato , in his Dialogue of the
Sou! "pfoFeiTech g e e l| tha(r he knew nothing of it ; and chat the very Con
templation rhereY fed made .him blinde. Socrates calls thofe men that
bufethimfelves i#-chCTr Difcourfes or Difputes. concerning .the Wbrids O riginal,' Mads andnconfiderate. And indeed the Knowledge o f this My-;
defy s being onely competent to God that made the World s deceivechl
rhe Generations of Mankind in-their Difquifitions and.Scrutinies after
ir. - '
1
i. .
,
^ '
If the Saviour of the World as he was Man/ Or the Angelsof Heaven
knew hoc rhe'-End of rhe Worlds why fhould (or with what hopes can) we
endeavour t6 acquaint our felveswith che Cradon 6r Beginning of ic ?
Buis alas ! in thisj as inocher deep Myfleriesj :

The gods our Mindes do muffle up in flouds.


I fhlall fpare tofpeak here of che.vaft and irreconcilable Differences of
the Computations of Years,that I fihde both Hidory and Chronologie co abound with ; but to ihun the Cehfr o f Scepticiim s I will willingly and
freely deliver my Opinion concerning the Maccer in queflion, thus : I do
believe ( with fptato ) that the World had a beginning s and that God was
OnoiBfji;, Tamni, nr'p r Sau) the Creators Make Cj and Father of this good-;
ly and to be admired Frame ; yet am o f Opinions that He madeicineicher in
rhe Springs Summers or Autumns but in all: forit is impoifiblethac one Seafon fhould be univerfat or predominant in all the World at once ; efpecially
if weconfider the Differences o f Shadows, and:the Diveriities and Conflict!-'
tions of Clymates : unlefs we fhould underflafid the fame per Synechdochen,
de parte promo* ut Tetium pro T)omo ; ' a part of- the World forche whole
W orld, and fo confine the Conceit to the Land o f Judea onely. But this
were no lubjugate our Reafon,and lay our Underftatidings in Shackles. For
(faith Dr. Brown) as the Queftion is generally and in refpet of the whole
Earth propofed s it is with manifeil injury unto Reafon in any particular de
termined, Vfeud. Spid.fol. 241. And, i f I fhouldturn Querift, and defire
ro know under what Elevation of the Pole the Figure o f the Worlds Crea
tion could be ere&edi that ic might elate to all Meridians exafly, I fuppofe
it would trouble the greateil Defenders offuch OpinionSs to return any fatiffaiory Anfwer. Let us therefore credit this truth
---- That the World
had a beginning, but the time thereof unknown to the wifeft o f Men ; and
to let the Figure or Scheam thereof, that it fhould relate to all Elevations
above this earthly Globe, is abfolutely impofiibfe.

B 2

Nero

ctft vera Neronis3(CiichCardanm)NccJ\fiX


nivt (tntilior quant hac
Qcnitura geftis moribus
. ac fortune Neronis qui
favitiain FratremiUxorem> tJMatrcmt in omtes
dcnifj 'Urhem ixcendio
corpus fiupris ammum
flagitiis j omnia cruenta
nece fadaviti &c. This
learned Author faith
moft true,--------- Snow
doth not more refemble
Snowjthen this Nativity
the Actions Manners
and Fortunes of this
prodigious Prince : and
it is not to be doubted
but Cardan's C h a r te r (thoughbrief) did exaftly correfpondboth with
his body and Minde.
His harfh Inclinations Temperature Manners and O u e k ie , are well
depainted and moft lively rep re fenced by this Figure of his Birth: for it is
(indeed) a Scheam fo crofs that it denotes the perfon born under ic of Difpofition fo ftrange and prodigioudy mifchievous that the very work of Men
cannot poffibly be acquainted with greater.
: For to fignifie thatmonftrous and horrid Aft of his > cowards his Mother
j 4grippina> (for that was her Name) here is c Mars in Oppofition of Jupiter
Lord of the tenth Houfe, zvAMtrcttry Lord of his Afcendenc in exaft Qpartile to the Moon ; (who ever generally hath Signification of Mothers, if the
Learned in the Syderal Science may be credited of which there is no doubt)
and this hateful Afpeft happeneth from Angles and from Cardinal Signes*
Arguments moft eminent to denote a Matricide: Y e t I remember to have
read one that terms his murthering his Mother an ingenious Cruelcy in him,
his end being to determine the Cabinet of his Conception. Vide Pfeucograph, jinthrop, propefinem
The Quartile o f the Sun and Saturn from Angles , made him not onely
hated by thofe whom he by Prerogative Ruledbut inclined him alfo to com
mit things worthy o f Hatred and Difdain. In the Black Lift of his Aftions,
it is not to be forgotten that he did not onely murcher his Mother but firft
committed Inceft with her: then he poy fond his Brother; killed his Sifteritt-Law; deftroyed his Wife cpoppta (being great with Childe) by a K ick;
burnt Romei and rcjoyced at the fight of the Flames. Cum multis aliis. A f
ter all which unheard-of Cruelties and bloody and inhumane Afts he was
by the Senate proclaimed an Enemy to the State: Upon hearing o f which,
he became his own Butcher ; and in the thirtieth year o f bis Age killed himfetf, as fay Calvijius and Ifaacfott: But Cardan faith ic was in the thirty fecond year o f his Age $ unco whom I rather aftent in that the Direftions for
degrading him and afterwards for cutting off Life > then happen : Which
Direftions were the Moon to the Conjunftion of Mars and Oppofition of
Jup'iter who was Lord of the tenth Houfe: which were moft apparenc Tellimones in Arc, both o f the Dilhonour he underwent, and prodigious End he
came to.
Thus much for this Nativity,
^Alexander

A ColleSfiori o f divers choice Nativities.


Rediting the Au
thority Of cjplH-*
tarch we (hall
fin de that this Heroick
ami Magnanimous Prince
defcendcd from the
Loyns of cphiltp King o f
tftfacedon> begotten on
the Body of Olympia* a
young Maid , who lived
in the Ifland of SnmothraciaiZnd at fome time
after was married to Phi
lip: yet the learned Plu
tarch feemeth to differ
in the time of this Nati
vity from Lyndholt ; for
he recordet h Alexander's
Birth to be on the hxcti
day oF the moneth Hecatomiaatt, (i.e.) July ; whereas you fee Lyndholt not onely prefumrch, but
aflerreth it to be at t'^e above-noted time in the Figure. But letting pafs
the Er. ours and Uncertainties o f Chronologic we will firii examine how
this Figure repreients this illuilrious Natives Perfon, Inclination anckConditions ; and fecondly, how it agrees with the time of both thofe eminenc
Accidents,, his Coronation and Death.
> ,

Firti for his Perfon & c. He was of Middle Stature ; which is very
well fignified by the Pofitions of t e Lord of the Afcendent and the Lumina
ries in Signes of Brevity. He was ( as the Author oF his.Life avers ) Titenecked ; (i. e.) he held his Head upon one fide : which Deformi y is plain
ly ieenby Satumbis Pofition in Taurus'xn Azmene and Pitted Degrees, he
being Lord o f t he Afcendent. Befides, if ( as Hermes laidi ) V^tnus adorns
that part of Mans Body fignified by rhe Signe wherein fhe is pofited at Bkthj
then Saturn (being an Enemy to Nature) muff neceffa. ily deto'm.that pare
repretented by the Signe in which he is found j chiefly if he be Lord o f;the
Afcendent, and in iuch Degrees as Saturn is .here. He was alfo very Cholerick and Hally ; which is notably proved bv rhe Moons being in Conjun<5Hon vVith .Mars, &, And his Ambitions Courage, Magnanimity) and great
Spidt ) is confpicu.ofly e\ idenced y the Pdfition of Caput Draco is in A fcendente , in ch.Horofcope, an i Saturn (Who is Lord thereof ) bis etng'ifi
Trine to the Moon and Mars ; together .wirti the Location o f the Sun in the
Exaltation of Juptter* in Sextile to them alb Thus you fee,this.Figure) and
th leverai Cnnfigurations of rhe Stars therein exatly cVrfpond with the
Description of this eminent Natives Perfon Inclination and Conditions, as
related by the Author of his Life.
Secondly 1 fhall.obferve how ic agrees with the times <?Fhis Coronation
3ndT)*arh ; andwha't D i etins thofe Accidents may be caufed by. Trrii
'forihis Coronation ; which feems admirably well to be fignified by (be oc
cur fe of the Mid heaven to the Trine of Venus > who is.ih Conjuniion
(Platickly \ wii h the Benign Planer Jupiter in the feyench Houle and he
Xord of the Tench which happened near the one and twentieth year of his
A g e ; at which time this Princely Native received the Royal Diadetp.. ; ,
Secondly,for his Death: whico Accident Was well denoted by the Moons
Progrefs to the Qua rtile o f Mercury; Lrdf the eighth Houfe, which'hapB
pened

o l l e c t i o

eniturarum

: Or,

pened in the eighth Houfe in Libra , and the Promuto7 or the Evil ported
in Cancer Retrograde j the Moon being Hylech in his Nativity , and Mer
cury Anar eta.
And iris an Evidence fufficientin Art,that he was poyfoned, (although
Plutarch zn.d.0.avors to excufeic } becaufe the Dire&ion was celebrated iti
foobfcure a Houfe or part of Heaven, and the Moon betnginConjun&ion
o f CMars , in rhc Houfe of cMercury , whom you fee is Retrograde in the
iixth Houfe of the Figure. And the matter feems to me the more clear, and
fully confirmed, by Olympias his Mother, her making a Difcovery thereof
fix years after, and cauling divers Perfons to be put to Death for the
fame.

28^. 40.

W'

Hen I confider the


curbulencieand unfetlednei'sof
thisj Kings Reign , I
begin to conclude our
lace miferable Times
no W onder: for this
King came to his Fa
thers Crown ac two
moneths old; and ater he had reigned th?
(pace of nine and thir
ty years, was by the
Earl of March degra
ded and kept a Prtfonerin the Tower o f
London twelve years,
whereat the Tail he
was murcbered by R i
chard Duke of Glocejler. Sir RichardBaker faith he was a Pious Prince,and
one of fo gentle and mild aDlfpofirion, that few men could equal; and he
.gives one remarkable infiance thereof:--- when being in hie greattfi ejMifcrits md Afflictions f one rudely ftrjjtkjoim, he gently replycd>- Forfooth, yo 'it
wrong your fe/f morejthen me, tofirike the Lords ^Anointed!
'
Upon November the 6. 1.429. being aged eight years, He was crowned
Kingat Wefttmhfiex i the Mid-heaven was then dire&ed adTrinum Luna .And near ten years o f Age > be was crowned King o f France at R aru; the
Afcendentthen came to the Body of the Moon by Direfiion. .
Being aged twenty four years, he was married to that illuftrious La6y,. Margareti Daughter to che Duke of Anjou ; a Princefs o f moft Mafculine. Resolution and Courage , as is eminently feen by Mars his being in
Scorpio in the feventh Houfe, in Sextile of Venus in the Tenth : he had then
the. Afcencjent dire&ed to the Sextile o f Jupiter, who is Radically in Trine
and Reception o f the Sun.
When this great Prince was aged thirty nine years, he was captivated by
the Earl of March, and by theconfent of the People degraded of his King"fbip, and afterwards fent Prifoner to the Tower of London ; the Mid-heaven
was

A CoUe&ioti of divers choice Nativities.

was then directed to the Quartiie of the M oon, andiuddenly after to the
Q2.artile of Mars ; and the Afcendenc nigh about the fame time* to the Oppoiion of Mercury.
On the 2 1 of May, 1643. being then aged fifty one years, and after his
being twelve years imprifoned, he was murtheredby the Hand of Richard
then Duke of Glocefter: the Alcendenc was then dire&ed ad Quartilum
Saturni.
Sir Richard Baker faith, Although he was a Pious Prince, no Enterprise
of War, where-ever he was prefent, did prorper with him* as if it had been a
Defiiny attended him. Had this learned Knight but been acquainted with
A(lrologie3and confidered that the Moon had been in Oppofition of Mars in
his Nativity,and this from Angles; and Mars (which fignified his Enemies)
the moft potent Planet in the Figure, he might have concluded it a Dettmy
indeed* and very hard tobewithliood. The Reaforis of his Captivity are,
Venus, Lady of the Horofcope, in Quartile of Saturn -1 Jupiter, Lord o f the
Twelfth, in Quartile to the Afcendent: and, thirdly, Luna in Oppofition
of Mars, from fixed Signes and Angles. Which later being confidered to
gether with the Moon her being inter Vleiadum , which are violent fixed
Stars, denoted his violent Death.
Thus much for this (Jrcat (yet moft 'Unfortunate ) Prince his Na
tivity.

* a M E 3H

e H

a * * 3M aH M N 0

M E3 N a M B a f t

Henry

olle

CT i o G

eniturarum

: Or,

His Nativi
ty is the
very fame
that the learned
Cardan hath in La_ 14.59*
tine printed to the
H e n r y the 8.
World long fince
King of England
among his twelve
&c. born 1 4 9 1,
Genituresjand may
very probably be
106.401.
A .M .
the true one s foe
Sub L r . j i d . 54 m,
this illutf rious Na
* Tl ad 0 .
tive was a penon
of a very high and
lofty Fancy and of
a Spirit interiourto
none: which is admir bly Well Signi
fied \ y the Lumi
ni ries ^eing por
ted in Angles, and in Cardinal Signes, and the Lord of the Afcendenc being
located in a Regal Fiery and Imperii us Signe.
One pretending to Aitologtein England*aboutfourteen years iince,prefents us wich the fame Figure out of ( 'ardantu ; and tellech his Readers
That this Princely Native was cruel, and that his Cruelty w jS (ignified by
Mars his being fo near rhe Afcendenc: buciris obvious to all that have eyes
this confident Pretender was miiiaken for Mars is above,five Degrees dianc from the Afcendenc md in no Afped: of the Moon and Mercury : Er
go he can have nothing to do in the Signification of this Princely Natives
Inclination or Manne s. If he were inclined to Cruelty it fhould (in my
Opinion;-) beoccafioned rather by rhe Lord of the Afcendenc his being po
liced in Leo-, in Oppolirion to Saturn a cruel Planer. But eJMcrcury 1eihg
in Sextile of Venus and {he inTtine to his Afcendent fhould make hitn
more Debonair, Courteous and Gentle , then Cruel, and of a Temper moft
worthy to be beloved.
Although this bufie Aflrologift, miftaking a Non-caufe for a true Caufe,
be pleafed to account him C ruel, yet he cloaths him with fuch Epichets, that
don or belong to a cruel Perfon : viz,. We mu (ftys he) acknowledge him
to be thefirfl that permitted the Gofpelto be preached: - And we have caufe
to account him a brave man that dur inthofe times oppofe a rroud infulting
Clergie &c. ----- And the Englij never had any Prince of that largenefs of
heart nor any that did fo great matters. Sir Walter Rawlctgh indeed gives
but a bad-Char her of this illulirious P in ce ; and it is probable upon his
Credit fwhich.in fome things I efteem worthy, chiefly in inch where Prejudide bearethnotthe fvvay ) 'the'befbre-meridoned pretended Artift hath en
deavoured to ftretcb his A r t to make that fay the fame with this Noble
Knight. Had hi* Nativity (hewn him fo vile as Envy hath endeavoured to
render him > I fho- Id have relyed upon Sir Walters Authority ; but finding
hisGenirureco diflenr , 1 (ball rather endeavour to preferve the worthy
efteem that learned Knight Sir Richard Bakgr hath of him.
His Manners Temperature and Inclinations, are tobe judged from Mer
cury's Significations; and he (being in Trine of Luna and Sextile of Ve
nue and in Sextile of the Afcendent alfo) according to Origattus > Fach ingenii

/ v * #1,,

% vc>"

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.


fenii acumene, Exccllentcs, Studiofos,~Dolrinarum Capaces, Dodles, Sagaceiy amiqua & Secreta in lucem revocantest Vafroty folertesy cautoty bene conjeciames i & cum dexter itate omnia facientes y &c. And that Prince thac
parcaKes of fuch illuftrious QailkiesjcaanotCwichouc Envy)be termed Cruel*
The lame Gentleman cells us further Thac the Moons being in Q ,of
is one Argument of his having many Wives, or Wenches, & c . buc he is as
far diiia nr from Truth in this, as a is diftant from a ; for the 5 is in
not D of $. The Quadrate ofi t Lord of the fevench with c?,and the Quadrateofihe Luminaries, together with U s to the Afcendent, might very
well portend the unhippy Jars that happened between this Princely Native
and his Queens coniidering therewith, the 2>her being in Y j the Houfe of
<?, and in tne Weft Angle, and in S of
The Caulks of this Heaven-favouring Prince , his changing his Religion,
and endeavouring a refining thereof, following the Seeps o f Luther and
Calvin y rmy ( A(trologically) be referred to the Quadrate Afpeit of If, and
S i and the Pohrion of (audit Draconic in rhe Ninth.
He Reigned 39 yeats over Great Britain 5 and lived until he was 5<5years
old, and upward, viz,, until January the 28. 1547* at which time the Af
cendent was direfted to the Square o f f t ; upon the Effects of which Dire*
&ion, this great King expired.

* 3* 57*

Have taken this


Nativity from,
the Learned Ephemeridift - Matter
John Stadtus, in 'foU
i^ .'o f his Introdu
ction to his Ephemerides.
This Kingly Na
tive received the
: Crown o f Great Bri
tain at ten years of
Age, viz., on Janua
ry 28. 1547- ( ac
: which time K.ffeniS.
expired ) he having
then the Afcendenc
directed to the Body
o f .51. Lady o f the
Houfe of Honour,
Dignity and Supreme Power* He Reigned foie Monarch of Great Britain
fix years and five monerhs: after which time he died, being in the fixteenth
year o f his A ge, and labouring under the'malicious Influence of three moil
cruel Dire&ions: Firft, the Afcendenc to the Body of ft, (who is Lord o f
the fixth Houfe in this Genicure) as may more plainly appear i
,
deg. tain.

i/ffcentioObliqua Saturni
^ifeentio Ohliqua Jlfccndentis
drertt Dirc&ionis

I 59. 41*
1 4 3. $7.
I <> 44*

Secondly, he had the Sun to the Q of S ; as hereby is evident


p

The

Circle

IO

ollectio

eniturarum

: Or,

Circle of the Sun being 17. his Oblique Afcencion is -------- Proof is thus:
Afcentio Obiqua Martis
Afcentio Obliqua Solis .

209.2 6, The
deg, mi.
224. \6.
209. 26.

Arcus DireSlionis
14. 50.
Thirdly * the Moon directed ad Oppofitum Martis * happening upon the
Cufp of the fixch Houle* of danger equal to the other :
Defcemto Obliqua CMartis
296. y i,
Defcentio Obliqua Luna
279. 54.
t/ircui'DireBionU
16, 57.
The fame Author that trifled with King Henry-the $th his Geniture, hath
been (to little purpofe) bufying himfelf with this likewife ; and tells us;---That the Pleiades Culminating * and four Vianets being in their Detriments or
Falls, (although in Truth there are but three of them which fo fuifer, viz,,
the Sun* Moon and $ ) together with V s being in the Afcendent of this Nati
vity* might well give caufe tofufpett this King fhould neither live long* or have
any qttietnefs in his %eign. HU Reign* Xwillingly grant, was fomewhae cii.fquieted and troubled ; and indeed * he did not live very long : but he mull:
needs be an incompetent Art ill that {hall refer this to the fore-mentioned
Arguments in his Nativity. For King Henry the fecond and third of France,
and divers other Princes and meaner Perfons* have had as many Planecs de
bilitated in their Nativities , and neverthelefs have, out-lived this Princely
Natives years. And that glorious Prince * of ever famous memory , King
James of Englandfizd. the Pleiades Culminating* and d1and "hin of $
Lady of the tenth FXoufe, upon the Cufp thereof * (fa rworfe then the Pleia
des Culminating ) and yet he was lyable to nofuch Jnfortunacies.
The eminent and true Aftrologtcal Reafons of this illuftrious Natives
ihorc Life, and troublefome Reign, are thefe : The Quadrate o f ehe Lumi
naries from Tropical and Equinoctial Signes ; and 3 Lord o f the Afcendent
being in exact Square of T* from violent fixed Signes, cf being in a malitious
place o f the Heavens. Nor is V s prefence in the Horofcope always a Tellimony o f ihortLife; chiefly, if he be fortified , as in this.Nativity he is,
viz,, by the prefence of $, A of %, and o f 3 his Difpofitor.
. Had this Pious Prince but miffed the cruel Directions before-mentioned,
inWhich, the three principalHylechs are concerned,and the Quartiles of the
Luminaries, and of & and 3* not been fo Parcil, he might have lived as long
as moft Kings that ever Reigned in England, and have Reigned quietly too,
'Notwithstanding V s prefence in the Afcendent, or the Culminating o f the
Pleiades.' 111 Pofitions are bad, but ill Directions are the furefl Tokens of a
ihort and troubled Life.
I cannot here omit the falfe Play that Gajfendut ufeth toward, Afirologe rs
at large, and Catdanus in particular, about this Princes Geniture: For (faith
he) -Cardan predicted that King Edward ould be very fickly in the 23 , 24,
and 25 th year of his Age 5 anfyet (faith he) the Records of England affureses
that hs died in the 1 6th year of his Life : And immediately after fubjoyns
this fcoffing Quere ; O ! if Cardan had had the luckjo haveforetold that, this
King ould fall into fame dangerous Dlfiempcr in that year therein he died,
what joyswhat triumphswhat quacking would there have been amongAfirologers?
But is k n o t a very great Argument that Gajfendu* either never read Car
dan,
by halves, and with Prejudice ? forbad he read him impartially,
as an Author ought fo be read, he would never have abfed him* by relating
what put of him ferveth as an Occafion (though weak) whereon for him to
faen-his Cerberian Fang. Cardan , it is tiiie, fuppofing theHorofcope of
this

A Colle&ion o f clivers choice Nativities.

this Prince-: Birch to be che latter Degrees of V, lah, ^tjcemtens au .-,atnrnum pe-ventt in amis 2 3. A'ienfibm p. diebus 2a. Et tunc animi Cr carports
langorem patictttr which are but the Natural Effefts of fuch a Direction.
Buc fardan , fuppoing apoili lity for himfelf to erre in the Afcendencof
this Kadi*, chufeth rather to relie upon the Diredtions of the Luminaries, as
appearech by thefe words out of him :
Deduxi (faith he ) poftmodum oppojitum <$ad D hoc modo, at pracipit Tto- Card, m
Iambus & fait dlftamia par 1 <j. min. 7, qua Ji jungatur parti Septttagefma
R.
fecunda, pertinget oppojitum & ad 7) , in annis 1 q. menfibujfa 4. quo tempore &ng, p i*>
imminebant infidi -i d Jervis propriis & Periculum Vitae. Eodem tempore pervenit ad S> hoc modo in annis 14. completis paulo plus. Hoc igitur tem
pore exprejfe imminebat periculum amijfionis etiam regni rebellionis canfa , &c.
Where you lee that (fardan did predict danger of Death, and of Rebellion alfo ; and although both were true, Aftrologers have neicher boafled nor
bragged thereof, nor needed they indeed ; the Art being demontt rated by
lo many eminent Examples : buc we fee Cjajfendushath cracked and quacked
(vvorfe then the weakettof Empericks) and altogether of a Falihood, onely
to colou- his Hncred againft Aftrologers at the more fplendid rare. And lec
me cell zllGaJfenduffes, chat had Cardans Supportive Alcendenc of this
Princes Genicure been true, the Judgement he gave thereon had not been
fub;e<5t tofo rAh Genfure : howueic, Aftrologie isfufficiently verified,and
Gajfndta proved an infuhing Lyar, by Cardan his predi&ing Danger to the
Life of this Prince in the year he died.
By this piece of Forgery, you may eftimare the Truth of his Quirks and
Quibbles againft Noftredamc arid Morims 3 and all others* whom r.e labours
Tooth and N aylto render Infamous, Contradi&ious, always miftaken, & c .
I ilvUl leave the whole to be cenl'ured by the Learned ; and requeft the Difciples of this lying Impoftor, (for fuch be was, to fay no worfe of him) to re
metube v >.he Orators words, -Qmfemel verecundia fins tranperit, turn bene
tr gxaviter impudentem ejfe oportett He that is bnce gone beyond the bounds
of Truth and Mo<jefty,ic behoves him chemto grow impudenc to purpofe,and
to lye beyond all line or meafure. Mendax femel,mendax femper prafuntitun
24 9 - a

A 1 Here are dir

'vers eminent Reafons in AilrOlogie,


that this is the true
Nativity of this
great Queen.
Firft to fignifie
the lofcihefs of her
Ilefolutipn , great
Spirit, Stridinefs arid
Rigoraufnefs in G o
vernment, wefinde
h Lord of the Afcem*
dent in Sagittarius,
it fierjy, imperial and
commanding Signe,
and iri\na'ture qpite
contrary to him; and
___ ______
'
the Moon in <P to it,
nearly from'Angles : perhaps a more then' -ordinary Reafori of the grand
Troubles and Vexations that then were life in England concerning Re
ligion.
Secondly*

JL

12

oliectio

eniturarum

: Or,

Secondly* the Parvicy or Smalnefs of this illutlrious Ladies Horour, Eitimadon,Eame and Repuce,by reafon of the Perfecution of Peifons for matter
of Confcience in her Reign,is eminently difcovered from the exat Square of
(S' to the Sun and in the Afcendenc, in the Dignities of U ; and this from
Bi-corporeal Signes, S being near ^/iIdebaran, a fixed Scar of the firfl Mag
nitude, oi moil malignant influence. Howbeic, I {hall not be fobold, asothers have been impudent> and lay the blame of all (or indeed any) of the
Blood flied in her Reign,at her Door,as if ihe were the original Caufe there
o f : for it is obvious in Atlrolcgie, that the Clergie were the eminent Occaftoners of that tedious continued unhappinefs ; which began long before ever ihe came to the Crown* Doth not % oppofe D, and chat from a fiery
Signe ? And is not 6 in O of and 5 j who are in 6 in X ? May not a
wilful and a flubborn people precipitate themfelves to Dethu&von, but their
Governour or Govemefs mull needs be Tyrannical and Cruel? It were
moft monftrous to conclude ocherwife.
When the Afcendenc came to the^f of ,this illuftrious Princefs came to
the Crown of Great Britain ; viz., in the year 1553. being then aged near
37 years : a Direction very pertinent for fuch an Accident.
Suddenly after, viz., in 15 <54. this eminent Lady was married co Prince
Philip of Spain: (and as a Remembrance very common o f that inter-marri
a ge, we have a Coyn that paifeth among us with thehffigies of Philip and
Mary :) this Accident was caufed by the Suns Direction co che A. of $.
This eminent Nacive died five years and a half after ihe began to Reign,
being then aged above two and forty.
_
deg. min.
Afcentio Obliqua Martis* camCircub
393. j.
j 4fcentio Qbliqa Solis >
,
3 yo* 4 6.
\j4rcui <
DiretHonis
42. 19.
And this pire&Lpn hath apt Signification thereof. Upon the very day fhe
expired, viz.. .November 1 q.^i-jS. the 2> was in D to the Ts Radical
place,and in ,cP to che placeo f ^Promictor in this cruel Direction. The
yvas then in exa& o f V s Radical place , who is Lord of che Afcendenc ;
and h was in Par tile to the Afcendent of the Radix : all which;were of
dangerous corifequencejin' regard of themalittous Dire&ion then operating,

11. 6-

Tk l O f t
AV / | ftrologers
i l l that have
pblifhed this ex
cellent Princefles
.^tivicy formerly,
were riocofioufly
miftaken : for they
make vf ( a-; cold ,
dull, earthly,, femi
nine Signe) to afcend on the Eafthgle at Birth ;
- when every oiie ,
that hath left any
thing in print be-- Ffinde them concer
ning this magnani
mous Lady, report
her to have been a

A Cotteciiim of devers "choice Nativities.


moii Maculine-ipirkeo Pimceis ; endued with a higbilofcy, and xmdaitnred
Refolucioa* One cimfejred not tir*: Face or Fury o f any Man. Which
..P/ihcel)jQjirme|/ are nioi'excllht well portended by the Regal Signs
Sagittari rtorQfcpantv.; at.the. time of her {Mrat inco che World ; and J u
piter* I-ord thereof, his Polir ion therein, (though Virtually and Locally in
duodecima domo) the Degrees all-ending being the Dignities of the Pianse
tJMars.
: <r..:u
One in EagfanMome years fmee, pretending to prefenc unto the World
this.illaiiriou Qaeehs cru ; Nativity, tells his Readers,that fhe died when the
Attendent came to che Pleiades byDireHon : and after a confident manner,
(afcif it had been impolfibie for hitnto (rave erred) he fubjoyns thefe words]:
--------- *1 knowita TRjtifoK (f-irh he) whyf a (kottld have he agry with any
A ft rologcr that fatild have faid>- tjMadartti abouttheftxty ninthyear of your
A get the A f rendent comes to tfo~Pletades>-which denotes not onely [tckjefts toyour
yperfo 3 batdift'nrbanco in your Government. But I know no Re afon bue
that ilie might well-have been angry ar any one breaming her with fo falle
a Fear : for fhe muft have lived many more years then fixey nine, before ever rbac Diretion could have happened. But befides, if it could have
touched in her Life-time*, and at the fame time that mifiaken Perfon would
have-bad ic> there is no Aftroioger that I know of, (except himfelf) thac ever averred fuch a Direion to portend Death : for the Pleiades, chough
appearing to us but as feven Stars, are fourgreac Confteliations, containing
i%6 Starsin number, thit are ( by the Aftiftahce of good Optical Glaffes)
to be plainly feen ; and to which of thefe the Afcendenc fhoutd 6e directed
to have fuch a fatal Effect, ( for fure he intends not all at once) requires his
better Explication. Bur I pafs by this, as a point coo nice for an Ignorant lit
Agronomy.
To prove this Nativity the true one, I {ball vrifi it by thefe three grand
Accidents which happened to this eminent Princefs in her Life-time : Viz,
1. In the at year of her A g e , fhe was imprifoned, and laboured undet
many Crofs and Afflictions : fhe had then operating the Sun ad Quadraturn Saturni, and this in the ninth Houfe ; exactly denoting the Caufe for
which fhe fuffered, viz.. Religion.
2. In the 25th year o f her A g e , this illuftrious Native, was crowned
Queen of Great Britain, &c. and at this rime the Afcendent was directed
ad Trinum Solis 5 the onely Patron of Honour and Soveraignty.
3. Being 69 years o ld , (he died : at which time fhe had the Afcendent
diredled adQttartilum Saturni , in Ariete 5 a Signe thac Saturn mofttnifchievoufly hates.
In the Revolution! 1 Figure for that year, there was a ConjnnSiion o f the
rwo Infortunes in th oppofice place of the Moon in her Nativity a and the
Figure it felf nearly in Quamle to thac at Birch ; the Lord o f the Afcendent
was in the Eighth , and the Sun was falling into the fixth Houfe : And the
very day o f her death , viz. 24 of Marchi 1602. the Sun and Mars were
in the place o f the Direction,and the Moon was in Quadrate Afe& of them
both.

13

Have Calculated
and Reduced the
Suns place in this
Nativity* by the Ta
bles in my DoZtrwe of
Nativities; and the
Planets places I have
taken from the learnedStaaius his Ephemerides for that time
given* having had re
gard ter Reduction.
Without the true
place of the Sun* it is
impolfible to fet the
Figure righc ; and
the
Confideradon
hereof negleiled, oc
casioned one among
us ( fame fourteen
years Since ) to erre no lefs then a Degree and a half in the Mid-heaven and
fourth Houfes* and a Degree in the Afcendentandfeventh Houfes* and (by
confequence) the fame in all the reft of the Figure : and yet the time given
is the lame by which I have corre&ed this Nativity* and the Poles Elevation
the fame alfo.
Here are feveral eminent Arguments of Acquisition of Honour and Dig
nity : as a ( i .) The Sun being in exa& to the Afcendeht from the tenth
Houfe : (a.) The Moon in Partile X- of %, who is in d of Pars Fortunes in
rhe fecond Houfe : (3.) $* who is domina decimal Lady o f Soveraignty in
this Genitqre,Is Culminating with divers eminenc fixed Stars* and this in her
own Dignities * thence calling a A to the fecond Houfe : (4.) The Lumi
naries are in a ilrong Reception each with other, and the Lord of the Afcendent is in the tenth Houfe* in d of > calling a to the Afcendent.
But notwithftanding thefe eminent Arguments of Soveraigntywhich were
truly verified in this prudent and Princely Native * his being veiled with the
Crown of Great Britain & c. fie had many Difficulties attended his Reign,
as our Chronicles exprefly mention. I fhall not trouble my felf to enume
rate them here* but fhall acquaint the World, they were vy6Uportended by
$ her Pofition fo near , and in perfeft Q of h arid & , and 0 and ? their
being in D o f U (Lord of the Seventh) from Cardinal Signes.
This Kingly Geniture was chiefly verified by thefe grand Accidents fol
lowing:
Firlbhis Coronation, he being aged near 37 years; which was occafioned
by the Afeendencs occurfe to the Body of i^and o f 2>, juft coming upon it.

Oblique Afeemion of %
Oblique Afcevtion of the Horofc.
The A rk jtf Direction

deg. mitt.
18 1. 37.
36. ay.

Secondly, the Powder-Plot 5 ccccafionedby the Afcendents occurfe ad


Quadratum Mercurii, in the 39th year of his Age.
Oblique

A ColieSion o f divers choice Nativities.


Oblique /ifccntion of 5
Oblique A f cention of the Horofcope
T lx &4 rkj>f Direction

deg, min.
1 84. 8.
1 4 5 .1 2 .
3 8 .56.

Thirdly, bis Death 5 which was fignified by the Suns DiredUon to the Bo
dy o f Tiwith Laticude the Son being Hylechvx this Nativity : which hap
pened in his 60th year of Age.
Oblique
cum "Lau
Oblq. Afc. Q fub Circ, Z^degi
The Ark.of DireSiiqn

140. 12.
80. 33.
559. 35?.

Some ignorant Artifls have Parafitically printed it, that this eminenc and
famous Prince died by Poyfon : which fuggeftfon , as it is moft untrue, and
fcandalous to the memory of an eminenc Peer late of this Realm (whofe
Nativity was too fympathetical with this Kingly Natives , for the perpe
tration of fo prodigious a Mifchief andMurther) ic is alfo purely anu-Attrological, and not to be read in the Heavens at the time o f this great Kings
Birth; which were it true, mull needs have been found there.
% is Lord o f the Eighth in this Nativity, and in ~ in exadfc ^ of 2>, and he
friendly difpofes of and 5 in his Exaltation: and although he be in to
them, it being from fortunate places o f the Heavens ic is rather a Fortitude
then a Debility,and therefore can no way denote a violenc Death. UoLord
o f Death, (faith Origanus, fol.730.) denotes the Native to expire ab angina,
Peripneumonia, Apoplexia,Convuifionib$u capitis,& Stomachi doloribut,& quotqttot d pulmonum pervtrfa conjlkutione & pervcniunt. But by Poyfon it is ab
solutely impoflible.

His incompa
rable & macchlefs Prince as
he did inVertue excel
moft o f th'e Kings o f
England chat went be
fore him ; fo he did exceeed them in Informnade and Trouble. Di
vers Kings have Seen
privately mimhered,or
iirangled ; but never any publickly murchered*
and this under the pre
tence of Juftice, from
the Death of our bleffed
Saviour > until this
Princely Cedars Fall.
Thefeveral Verificati
ons of this remarkable
Geniture, and the particular Calculations thereof at large I have in a partcalar

*5

16

C O L LEGTI O G

e n

IT U R A K. U M ' Or,

cutar Treat, iie handied,and long iince publiihed co the World : 1 fhall there
fore forbear to do what 1 have already done , and refer the defirous Readers
to that Piece , which contains a brief Hiftory of oar late Confufions ; and
entitu'ed The'Nativity of the late King C H A R L E S Aftrologically per
formed,^LC.
r,
,
Yet cor.iidering this Book may be common when that may be fcarce , I
fhall (for the fatisfa&ion of thofe that have not ieen that Rook) demonftrace
this to be the true Nativity of this Martyrd and Murtherd Prince , thus:
---- In the, 2 5th year of his Age, he was crowned King oGreat Britain, and
fuddenly after was married unto the Daughter of King Henry the fourth of
France ; The tjliedium Cceli was then directed ad Tritium Luna, in the An
gle of Dignity. This Princely Native in the 29th year of his Age, had the Mid-heaven direiled adOppoJrtum Solis ; and then he diifolved his Parliament.
Inche 38 th year of his Age* the Scots pretend Reli'gidh; and rebel againft
him* though their lawful Soveraign : Then was the Moon under the Diredlcion of the Body of Saturn, both with and without Latitude.
In the year 1-641. being the forty firft year o f his Agerbe fummoned anonother Parliament, and they conteffd with their King for the Militia j & c .
and chen (by reafonof Si&aries, and their divers pretended religious Out
cries and Complaints made again ft the Biihops) his Miieties and Sorrows be
gan to encreafe to purpofe : The Afcendent was chen directed to the Qua
drate of Venus Lady of the tenth Houle,and che Mid-heaven at the fame time
to the Quartile of Jupiter.
When he was 46 years oldihe hazarded his glorious Perfon in the Scotiih
Army3 and expe&ed fafety among them; but they, to their eternal Difhonour, fell him to the EngHffi Army, who kept him clofe Prifoner: The Afceridenc was then dire&ed ad Contrantifciusn Luna , and an ill Revolution ;
befides, the malignant Planet Saturn was then tranliting his tJMedium Cceli.
Being aged 48 years, he was bafely butchered under the pretence of Jufticeand L aw , by his ownSubje<$ts ; his Head being cutoff by aVizarded
Villain, upon a Scaffold before his own Palace-Gate: The Afcendenc was
then dire&ed to the D of <$. All which things you will finde more fully and
particularly handled in the Difcourfe before noted.
Afcer this unparalleld and prodigious Tragedy was a&ed , the Regicides
allowed fome Loyal Perfons the Liberty to Inrerr his Corpfe: Which was
done at windfor, in a Coffin of Lead* with this Infcription upon it j
C

K in g

o f

S n g la n d .

A worthy Perfon Handing by at the fame titne,threw this Dyftich into the
Vault with him, relating to his innocent fuffering:
Hon Carolus Magnus, nec Carolus Quintus;
Sed Carolus Agnus, hie jacetintus.
In Englifiathus:
Hot Charles the Fifth, nor Charles the (Jreat, liethere;
Charles the Lamb l A Prince without a Peer.

Henry.

' A Collection of divers choice Nativities.


204. 3

Snry, Duke
of Gbeefier j
third Son to
('harles the firft3Krng
of England, was born
at the time within
written3at^;r<? bully
London.
If I may take the
Liberty to fpcak
freely and accoroing
to the Rules o f Art
it is one of the moft
unfortunate Nativi
ties s for a Perfon of
Princely ExtraiVion,
that ever I beheld;
and yet I have feen
fome hundreds o f illuftrious Genicures.
For herein we finde the three fuperiour Planets Retrograde and Jupiter
Lord o f the Afcendenc under the Earth in Capricorn , which Aftrologers
term his F a ll; then the Luminaries are in Conjun&ion ( befieging poor
Mercury) upon che Cufp of the eighth Houfe, the moft unfortunate pare o f
the whole Heavens : and all of them indire& Quartile to the tenth Houfe
and in Oppofition to the Second.
The fortunate Planets are in Opposition from Angles and Cardinal Signes,
and the Infortunes in perfedt Conjunction in che fecond Houfe. I fpare to
urge the Aphorifms Authors afford us for the true underftanding of fuch Poficions their Significations being eafily underilood by the meaneft Arcift:
all chat I fhall urge is this : When this Princely Native was in a probable
Capacity of attaining Dignicies fuicable co che Honour of his Birch Death
fnatchd him out of tne W orld and in the 20th year of his Age , cropt this
lovely Flower before he was fully blown to the unexpreflible Grief o f Eng~
land.
I was, I confefs, once o f Opinion that the Sun or Moon could 110c be Hylechi if policed upon the Cufp oif che eighth Hcufe ; and thence was in good
hopes this hopeful Prince might have lived paft the Sun to the Oppofition
of che Inforcunes : but experience hath caughc me otherwife as by this fol
lowing Demonftracion appears :
deg. min.
Oblique Defcent.
C. L .
163. 3 3.
ObliqueDefcention of 0
143. ip .
The 'Ark^of Direction
20. 14 .
And at the fame time the Sun was nearly dire&ed to the Oppofition o f cT>
fine Latitudine. This famous Prince being ill o f the Small P o x the Phylians let him Blood, as I have been told , three times; which together with
his Diftemper, brought him cofuch a pafs for vveaknefs,thac in very few days
after(notwithftanding the beftCordials they could devife) he died* I fhould
judge this fad EffeCf o f Blood-leccing, might occafion our learned Phyfitians
to confider, Whether Phlebotomy be a call proper to a per foil in fuch a Diftemper and if fo, whether in this Clymace* The Phyfitians were Learn
ed and Loyal but this Princes Face moft Cruel.
F
Rcvolmio

17

C o u e c t i o . G e n i t u r a r u m *. Or, _
N this Revolutio
n s Figure , the
malignant Planet Tj
is policed in the Alcendentj and the S in
exaft Q to the Radi
cal and Revolutional
place of <$ : ihe alfo
feparates from <S his
O i and applies to the
D of $ > Lady of the
Bighth herej and to a
D of lio Lord of the
Afcendent of the Ra
dix. And ac the fame
"time in which this
.Princely Native fir ft
. fickned j the Afcendentwas direft ed to
the Body of the
>
and D o f d in the Revolution ; which was at the beginning of September,
1660. And on the 13 th day of that Moneths this Princely Native ex
pired.

His eminent La
dy was the fecond Daughter
unto Charles the Firft,
King of Great Britain *
and to demonftrateic to
be her true Nativity , I
have verified it by Acci
dents both eminent and
confidetable.
Being aged feven
years, the Afcendent
came to the Quadrate
o f the Moon byDireftion ; ac which time
this illuftrious Lady had
the fad misfortune to
break her Thigh by an
unhappy fall ; and ac
the fame time fhe was
very much afflifted wirh
the Jauridies: Which two unhappy Accidents, were very aptly portended
deg, mi.
by the before-faid Direftion. Its proved thus;
Afcentio Obliquct Lttne
198. 4a.
AfcemioObliqua Korofcopi
19 1. 36.

/Irens Direttims

6.

A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.


lhave heard itcredibly teported (by pcrlons which very well knew) tuac
this young Lady was generally very lickly ; and the Report is no way im
probable : for here is one Infortune in her Afcendent, and the ocher in exait Quartile to i t ; and both the Luminaries are in Quadrate to it alio, and
this from the fourth Houfe. But it was alio reported of her, that notwithiianding her Aifii&ion of Body , yet in the Intervals of Healch > ihe would
difeover a mo(f Princely Difpofidon o f Minde : for in moil things ihe was
very Ingenious, Witcy and Apprehenfive. She was very curious in her Difquificions after Novelties, and expreifed very much Delight therein; as in
deed moil perfons do, that have 3 in any good Afpeft of g ; chiefly , from
the Afcendenc and chird Houle. She loved Poetry and Oratory , and de
lighted much in Quaint Language : and this is no Wonder at all ; for (he
harh 3 in of g in the Afcencenr, and in Reception o f his Difpofitor j and
$ in band Reception of g . All which are Arguments of a iharp andaitive
Fancie.
As you fee a great many Arguments o f a ihort Life in her Radix, fo (to
fhew the Scars are not void of Influence) (he accordingly died Young , be
ing not full fifteen years o f Age when ihe expired; the Afcendent being
then direited to the Body of g in
deg. min.
oyifcemio Obliqua <? t^Mxrtis S. L .
206. 18.
Afcentio Obliqua Horo[copi
1 9 1 .3 6 .
Aretes DircEtionis
14. 42.
She had been iil two years before, having laboured fo long under the Af
cendent
g cum hatitudine, & Soils ; and underwent many Miferies and Troubles from the time of her facred Fathers Murther, until Septem
ber 8 . 1 6*o. on which day ihe died, "h vyas than in exait <P to the 5) in her
Radix, and nearly in f to her , and to her Afcendentrj the 2) being that
day in 6 of Tj, Lord o f the Fourth in her Geniture > and S in exadt <P to the
Afcendentofche Revolution.
T T E re vve findethe
A l fiery Planet- g
in the Afcendent -, in
exa6f o f % Lord o f
the Sixth in^ th-Ra
dix, and he here in the
eigHtfi Huf1; and
the pfited kt <P to
the Afcendent at
- Birch, and the almoft
Degree thereof upon
the Centre o f the
eighth Houfe in the
Revolution : befides,
h Lord of the Afcen'deHt:-fieie,isr ipcP to $
Lady ^FtheEigfith,and
o f 3tord o f theftirth
Houfe. Antk'husypu
may behold the^fignal
Concurrencie there is
between Revolutions and Radixes; byconfidering which, anArciftmay
(with pains) predi#, what fome account impoilible , viz,. The time of any
Natives Expiration.
The

ip

22

ollectio

enit urarum

: Or,

5 in X , befiegedof T* and c?> isaneminenc Tefiiinouy of a D a n ilin this


Princely Natives Speecli: and had not the Moon call her friendly Rays thi
ther that fad Portion might ( for ought I can perceive in the Figure elfe to
affill) have occaiioued an abfolute Dumbnefs. I have heard feveral emi
nent Perfons relate That this honourable Native was but meanly furniihed
with Elocution ; and that when he fpake earnestly he fpake with much diffi
culty & c . yet his Llnderftanding and Incelle&uals were firm and good; and
that he was of Apprehenfion quick and ready. It is the Opinion of the
learned (Jardakusi that Tz with may impede the Speech but yet they make
the Native of Fancie profound.
Having laboured long of a tedious lingering Confumption this Princely
Native in the forty third year currant of his Life upon the 30 of tJMarch*
16% expired there being then cwo unfortunate Dire&ions operating to
gether 'W*. the Afcendent to the of the 2>> and to the <? of }{.> both with
and without Latitude and this from fixed Signes.
1, The Afcendent directed ad Quartilum Luna.
deg. min.

Jlfcentio Obliqua Luna.


^Afcettio Obliqttct u4fcendentis

340. 46.
298. 6.

Jircuf Diretlionis

42. 40.

2. The Afcendent dire&ed adOppofitum Jovis.

deg. mi.
340. 12.
298. 6.

"*.......... Jlceniio Obliqua cP Jovis


^/tccntio Obliqua Afcendentis
t/Ircjis Direiopis ; ,

. 42.

Hut befides theie two Directions the Sun was nearly under the of 5 in
the fixth Houfe near violent fixed Stars; and for the year of Death he had
the Re volution-following.
He Angles of the
Figure are Car
dinal 1 and ( moft o f
them) violent Signes.
Lord of the Afcen
dent in the Radix in
the Radical place p
Tz: ^ in D ; and <?
and ^ nearly in : to
; the 2>s Radical pla^e:
the 0 and the .2) in 4
in the Afcendent the
one Lord f the Sixth
(and Eighth of the Ra
dix)^ and the^thec La' <dy /of *ch'e Fourth in
this Figure ; Argu
ments moft dange*
rous.
.
- :
And upon the day
of tn s 1 rincely Natives Death the Moon was in the Revolutional place of
d

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.


db and oppofite co her own Radical place. cf.Lord of che Eighth, was in exail of li. Lord of che Afcendenc ac Birth j and chis from the prime Angles
of the Revolution ; the Moon was then affo applying eoa hateful Quadrare
of hThat much for this Nativity,

30?. ?S-

Shall not fland to


give you any large
(Aftrologicat) Ac
count of the Aclionsj
Manners^ & c. of this
moil eminent Prince;
but refer you to the
Hifiory of his Life for
char. But this 1 fhall
acquaint the ingeni
ous Reader , That it
was no hard matcer,
or prediction impoifible > for the learned
Cauricits to forecel
the Dearh o f this
Princely Native by a
Wound in his Head ;
and this to happen in
the forty firfi year of
his A g e: if it be confidered,that the Sun was in 'V' (a Signe reprefenting the
Head) and fquared both by Mars and Saturn, (who are Competitors in the
difeoveryofthekind o f Death this iHuftrious Native fliould die^as being both
of them effentially dignified in the Eighth) and oppofed by J u p i t e r Planet
pofited in the S ix th a n d all from Cardinal Signes : and that in the year Of
his Deaths the Afcendenc was directed co the Quadrate Afpe&of Mars,DiCpoficor of the Sun.
Now the learned Gauricsu having taken pains in the. Genifure of this
great Prince 3 (and that five years before he died) did* like a good Arriits
(and Ckrifiian too ) forewarn him by feveral s.idvifoes , to forbear running
at the Tilt 3 ( the grand Exercife then in ufe ) in the forty firft year o f his
Age ; for chat the Scars did then threacen a Wound in his Head i which
would caufe either Blindnefs or Death : which Prediction was molt remar, kably fulfilled in the fame year, and by the fame ACtion before noted ; for
as he was running at the Tilt-with the Earl of Montgomery , a Shiver of- his
Lance pierced into his Head , through the Vizard of his Helrrjetj of which
Wound he, according to Gauricm's Prediction died.
But now , if any Ihall Quefiion how Gauricw could hit fo right of the Exercife this illuftrious Prince fliould loofe his Life b y ; or whether Particulars
of fo rare Signification and Portent can be read in the Heavens or Stars : I
anfwer: Gattricut did not predict the kind of Exercife by which Death
ihould comeslut the time of Death onelyjby the Stars. The kind of Deaths
his Reafon led him to confider of 5 Tilting being the onely Exercife then in
ufe> as was before remimbred. So that to mix Reafon with Art j is not un
worthy the belt of Arcitts ; and indeed without fo doing 3 a Man can be no
good Altrologer.
The

23

*4

o l l e c t i o

e n i t

u r a r h m

: Or ,

The Direction that cutoff Life, was this :


deg. min.
7 6. \6.
3<j.

A f centio Obliqua Mar tie


AfccntioObliqua Af:e ftdentis
Arcus DircElionis

40. xS.

Temp. DireEbionis fccundum 7


Naybode Infiitutum
$

A.
40.

D.
324.

H.
7.

At which time this eminent Prince expired.

N the Figure of this


Princely Natives
lying down , the As
cendent is the oppoiite place of Mars in
his Nativity; and the
Seventh ( qua Marti
adfcribitur, /cut A fcendens vita , Argot
faith ) is the place o f
Mars and Hercules.
Saturn , Lord of the
Afcendentjis inQuartile of Mercury,Lord
of the Afcendenc o f
the Radix * and near
the Radical place o f
the Moon.The Moon
is m Quartile of Vcmts from the Sixth ,
and Venus, Lady of the Fifth,iignifying Pleafures, is Peregrine in the Eighth.
Sol, Lord of the Eighth, in the Eighth , (i. e.) within five Degrees thereof*
Argol fays, D platice Oppofta c? & ambo in via laEtea, quod ocults mceant. I
allow they are in the Milky-Way both of them ; but the Moon is not in Pla,tique Oppofidon to Mars : howbeic, there are other dangerous Teftimonies without it.

f
i

Gajpendtts is fo much miftaken, as to tell his Readers, that it was (not this
Henry, but) Henry the third o f France that died of fuch a Wound, as is be
fore noted: but that is as true as the reft of his vain and fruitlefs Cavils againft either Aitrologie at large,or the learned Gauricus in particular. _What
pity is ics that a witty Man ihould be wilfully vain, and cauflefly captious !

yy
:i:n oa i

...j

Henry

A ColieElion of divers choice Nativities.

His
is the
f
Figure chae
1Argol ( in
his Book de dlcbtts
Criticis ) prefehts
uswithjfor the N a
tivity o f this illuftrious Prince. He
pretends principal
ly to correct it hy
the time of his
Death s and to
prove it agreeable
to the time there
of, he tells us, the
Dire&ions which
occafioned
that
Mortal Accident,
were (i.) The Afcendenr ad Q in
VZ\ ( a) % ad Sexttlttm c? i ( 3.) the D ad & tjMartis. %ifum teneatis
amici l
That either of chefe Dire&ions are o f Energie fufficient to kill , we may
as foon believe, as that the Sun is in our Antach or Antipodes* when iris high
Noon, with us ! Did ever any Afirologer before, aver that fuch Dire&ions
which are naturally fortunate , cbuld kill ? If they have , I mult acknow
ledge it beyond, not onely my Reading, but Reafon. However the miftake
came , ^Argol himlelf is o f a quite different Opinion, in his <J>tol. <parv.
dCib.3. lately piiblilhed.
Had Argol in, head of t 7 deg. 4 min. given 25 16 deg. 30 mln. in the Afcendent,
would then have been placed in the eighth houfe o f the Hea
vens, and the Alcendent (in the thirty eighth year o f this Princely Natives
Age currarn) had come (as without doubt it did) to the '<Pof T* by Directi
on 5 and this in
> the Detriment of Ti, and the moll malignant and con
trary piace to him in the Zodiack. Which Re&ificaEion, I refer to all inge
nious Artifts to coniider.
degi mm.
s/4fcemlo Obllqua Tj
12 1. 4a.
A f :entio Obliqdn Afcendentis
84 *7*

zArciii DlrcBlonls

37. ay.

Which Arch,adcording to Nay bodes Meafure o f Time,gives 37 A.^ y 1. D.


11 H. and at tnat.time this eminent Native was Gain by one James Clement
zjaceblne.

Such prodigious Miflakes, as this o f ArgolSihzth given the greateft occa


sion to the Adverfaries of Aftrologie , to befpatter and blemiih i t , as they
commonly d o: whereas you fee the Errour is, Non ex Sclentla imbecillltate,
fed profejfomm 5 Not from any incercainty in the Science , but Negligence
and Weaknefs of the Artifi.
To prove this Corre&ion of mine yet further, I fhall add another Acci
dent by which it is confirmed, viz his Coronation ; and chat was admi
rably well fignified by the Afeendents occurfeto the
o f the Sun by p irediion.
H
Oblique

2*5

ollectio

eniturarum

Oblique /ffcentionof %
-
Oblique Afcention of the Afcendent
The j&rk^of Direction

: Or,
deg. min.
107. 14.
84. 17 .
22. 57.

Which being turned into time, according to Naybode , gives 23 A . 103 Vo


20 H. at which time this great Prince was Crowned.
If any Perfon ihall demand why this Princely Native fhould die a violent
Death : I anfwer, That, by my aforefaid Rectification: the 2) is Lady o f the
Afcendent, and in of the cruel Planet ft, who is Lord of the Eighth, and in
the Eighth, from fixed Signes. Secondly, <$is in the fourth Houfe, in Qua*
drate colj. in the Afcendent, from Cardinal Signes. Thirdly , all the Sig
nificators of Death are near violent fixed Stars. And the Stars of the -Ar
cher defcend on the eighth Houfe, they being of the Nature of the Sun,and
6 ; and fome of the fame Nature are near ft in the Eighth. The 5 is near
Caput tjlteduft and the Pleiades^fhe having five Degrees of South-Latitude :
which Stars are of the Nature of ft, $ and !{.. ;
Thus much may ferve for the Correction and Amendment of Andrew A rgol's Errour, and for the Redemption o f the Credit of Afirologie, in the G eniture of this eminent Prince. The day he died , the D was in exaCt to
the Afcendent o f his Nativity, and cf was in cf to the 2) therein : & was alfo in of the Sun that day, and upon (or near) the D-place o f the Dire&i*
on. Thus much for this Geniture.

12*. 2 1.

Anting
the affifiance
here , that is requi
red in fuch a Nati
vity,! ihall content
myfelfwith the Au
thority of Argel a
dedleb. Crit. Lib.z.
p.3 where he pre
sents us but with
one Accident by
which it is verified,
viz That of this
Princely Natives
Death.
The
Radical
Reafohs o f a vio
lent Deathshe fays,
are thefe, viz Lu
nafolitaria cunt inf-

perante Saturni prope occidenialem angulum la Quadrato JUfartls junill cum


Liauda Draconic Pleiades In Olava , ambo Luminaria in Jignis violcntis nec

contiguis : Venus domina Afcendentic, & OBava> in domo Martis peregrina.

And thefe are not inconfiderable Arguments of a violent Death , but very
pertinent

A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.


pertinent and proper- to fignifie the fame. It is moft true, chat this illuftrious Prince was (lain by chat bloody Villain Raviliac3 on May 14. 1610. at
which time the Afeendenc was dire&ed to the Quadrate Afpeift of T?, Lord
o f the fourth Houfe in this Nativity.
,
deg. miti.
2 71. 46.
215. 21.

Afcentio Obliqua Saturnl


Afcentio Obliqua Afcendentis
Arcus DireElienis

%6. 2*.

Which Ark o f Direction turned into time, according to the learned Naybodes Meafure of Time , gives 57 years , 88 days, &c> which wants but a
very fmall quantity of time to agree exa&Iy with the before-mentioned Ac
cident. The 2) was aifo directed ad Oculum Tapiri , in the eighth Houfe ;
a Diretionmoft dangerous.
I fhall in the next placeprefent the Face o f Heaven under which he was
a(faulted and (lain 5 which happened on May 14. 4 b.sfm . P. M . 16.10.
as by the following Figure may appear.

/ X
[. /

9 %7.
X 10.3 6

< x;

Jnfultus in Henricum 4. anno 1610.


M ay 14 . 4 h. 48 m.
<? cJM.
Sub Elev. Pol. 48.

'V

2>ElSaddf2.

x
ZS9' % i - ' V
**>

% * /*

T the time o f this


Kingly Natives
Death , we finde,

Venus Domina A fcefi


denti* > ac Ottava domm inter procellofas
Pleiades Confiituta,
(flombiffta, & in Qua
drato SaturnidrM artis ; Domina ctiam
Afcendentis Nativitatis. tJMars ad locum
Saturni in Radice ;
dr in Antifcio Afcendentium ; & Cauda
Draconis ad locum
t^Mercurii pro proditione, dr Luna st(jfercurio defluii ad Satur**& (he.) Venus La

. _
dy o f the Afeendenc,and eighth Houfe, is Combuft, and confticuted amori
the violent and cmpeftuous. Stars, called the <pleiades ; in Qnartile o f Sa
turn and M arly (He is alfe Lady of the Afcendent o f the N ativity, the Fi
gures being nearly ope. Mars is near the Radical place of Saturni and in
Antifcion to the Afcendent : The Dragons Tayl is near the place o f Mer
cury 4 ( argiiing the Treachery by which he loft his Life ) and the Moon defluxing from a Quadrate o f <jMercury> to a Conjunction of Saturni all of
them being moft dangerous Tranfits and Portions. Thus muchfor this emi
nent Geniture.

Aunes

a8

ollbctio

eniturarum

: Or,

His eminent and


illuftrious La
dy , was the
Queen o f Vladiflaus ,
King of Hungary hi Bo
hemia ; and had Ifi'ue of
her Body, Male and Fe
male fifteen Children
viz,, four Sons and ele
ven Daughters $and di
ed in travel of the hxteenth Childe.

The Names of her


four Sons and years of
their Births are thus in
order
1.
2.

Maximilian*
Ferdinand)

3.
4.

John

born

Charles>

I 40.

The Names o f her eleven Daughters,nd the feveral years of their Births,
are thus inorder:
1.
2.
3.

liz,abethj
Anna*
Mary)
4. cMagdalen
5. Katharine
s* born in the year
6 . Mleonor,
7 . Margaret)
{?. Barbara*
9.- 1irfula
Helena)
\
1 1 . Joanna,
J

r i $ 2<5.
I 1528.

1 i 532*
* 533-

4 1 5 34.
153^.
1 539
15 4 1.
^543-

And o f the twelfth Daughter, but fixteenth Childe {he died in Travel, at
the City of Prague, anm Domini 1547- being then near forty and four years
o f A g e : The Afcendent came then to the Body of Saturn in Cancer (a place
moil fatal as having fignification of the Breaft, & c. ) by Direction ; who
is tlje true Anareta, or Deftroyer of Life in this Nativity, he being Lord o
the Vighth Houfe therein.
' ' deg. mhu
ij
^/ffcentio Obtiqua Saturni, eft

77. 38;
Afcentio Obltqua AfcendemiS)eft
34, 1 7 ,

A rcus DireElionis

43* 21.

Which according to Naybodes Meafure of Time, gives 43 years,' 359 days.


The Manner or Quality of this Ladies Death,is not obfcurely made known ;
for

A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.

for che D is locally in the Fitch, thcrtce cafting thexal O co chs Aiccndcnc;
and (he difpoles of Tz Lotd of che Eighth * and is going alfo to a Quadrate of
cf, a Planet in the Afcendent. Secondly, %Lg'rd of th Afcendent, is in the
fifth Houfe, in d of ? and both of theii in of c?, Whois in d wich OcaIw Tdttrt a violent fixed Star o f the firft' Magnitude. Cainerarins , from
whomlhavethis Nativity , makes
in Sexta, \t)omicUio fenerir, in U>
Dontus Domiaornm, to be anotherTeBirrony of the Quality
o f this PrinceiTes Death : but we in oiir daysido not allow imaginary Points
to emit Rays.
:'
The Arguments o f Fecundity or Ffuitfulnefs are the 5) in d of 5 and $ in
the fifth Houfe, and all of them in of if., a Prolifital Plane in a Prolifical
Signe and 1?. his carting a % Afpe& to the Afcendent.

S i. y7.
1His
emi
nent and
illuftrious
Princefs>was Queen
to King Henry 4.
o f France i fufna
med the Great; and
Mother to the moft
il lulftiousrHenrietm
Maria, Q^een^of
Great Britain the
Widowed Queen
of King Charles che
, firft of ever glori
ous memory.
She was born at
the time within
written ; and in
her Life-time fubje<5t to. many noto-/ .
lions Scandals Ca
lumnies and Reproaches& c . and was egregiouily injured and difhonoured
by the unbridled Tongues and Palfions of the Vulgar as well as of their Lea
ders1v'tx>. the diifenting Clergie.
That the latpgr frfduld be as Goads and Thorns irkthe fides of her Honour
Repute and Good Name, is plainly to be feen by that eminent Sdtellititfm o f
the Planets in and near the ninth Houfe ; and the D being in the Houfe o f
I t in <P o f c? in che Ninth alfo. And that the Rabble-Rout, che Multi
tude fhould cherilh and believe what Reports and Scandals the others
ihould broach and fet on foot, is confpicuoufly evident from the D her be
ing in (P. of <? , $ and $ from double-bodied Signes; arid from her being io
near her South Node, called of the Greeks K*TM0/*'a>r, or Cauda Draconi*^
in m in the third Houfe ; as alfo from the cruel Planet
his calling a mali
cious Q to the Afcendent from on the Cufp of the Fourth.
This great Queen was moft unfortunate in her Relation, although die
was the Daughter o f a King, Wife of a King, and Mother of Kings ! which
is eminently fignified by the D o f "ft to the Afcendent from the Fourth , and
che S her being in d with 13 in the Third, and in S to 6 Lord o f the Thirds
I

Neither

qc ?

3o

ollect

io G

enit urarum

: Or,

Neither the Happinefles or Misfortunes that attended this honoured La*


dies Life ihalU trouble either my felf or Readers with: a Confutation or
Confirmation thereof, cannot reaionably be expe&ed from me. W hether
ihe were better then , or fo bad as , the Trampet of Fame hath proclaimed
her, I leave to the Artifts of after-Ages to confider; who, by beholding her
Geniture, w ill be drawn rather to pity then condemn her. I (hall onely fay
thus much: That notwithlianding the many prodigious Calumnies , Re
proaches and Vilifications her whole Life was interwoven with , (by which,
as Vercue and true Worth are rated, (he may be deemed undeferving and
guilders o f all Opprobiescaft upon her Name and Honour) yet (he went to
the Grave in a full A g e, wanting not much above three Solar Revolutions
o f the bell of Perfons whereas the Wicked live not out half their days,
The Direction upon whole Effects ihe expired, was the Afcendent (Giver
of Life in her Nativity) to ther<P of 0
.
deg, mitt,
Afcentio ObliqUA cP Solis ^
238. 20
^
Afcentio Obliqua Afcendentis
172. $7.
Arcus Dire&ioms

6%, 23*

Which according to Valentine Nay bodes Meafureof Time, gives 66 years,


12? days , and happened in the beginning of her 67th year currant: ( i. e.J
in the year o f our Lord 1642. viz,, fuddenly afrer fhe returned from Engand.
That much may faff ce for this eminent Queens Nativity,

BASTIATE*
the illuftrious
King of Por
tugal , died a violenc Death, o f two
Wounds which he
received in his
head, inhis expedi
tion to tAjfrick. .*
and this in the
flower and prime o f
his Youth; being
aged but twenty
four years,or there
about.
The Reafons in
Afirologie for a
violent Death in
this Princes Nati
vity, are (as Argol
truly faith) Mars turn Sole in figno humano , cum tejlimonia Mercurii domtni
Oftava Occidentals j Luna in Oppofto Soils, Mortis % & Mercurii: [ H e
might have noted their calling a to the Afcendent alfo, chiefly the S>and
? ) Venus Domina Sptima [ ubi Pleiades] cum Cauda Draconis , See, (i. e.)
d* Lord of the Afcendent in of the O in a humane Signe 5 and of $, who is
Lord of the Eighth,and Occidental: the 2>in Oppolition o f them all, ail catt
ing-

A ColeBion o f divers choice Nativities.


ing a to the Afcendenc: $ Lady of the feventh Houfe , ( upon the Cufp
whereof,, the feven Scars or Pleiades are policed) in 6 wich y , and in to
Ol Lord of the Fourth ; and "h locally in the fourth Houfe. Which Argu
ments very notably denote, not onely a violent Death, but the kind thereof,
viz,, his being flain by the Hands of Men. Aiars cum Solent wfauftumt out
Lunar quadrato afpe&u* ant Oppofito adfpicit, in ftgrns humanist ftgmficat vo
ces in feditiombus civilibus* am interficiendos ab hoftibus , faith Ptol. Lib. 4.
fol. 239. & evilly beholding the or 2> in any Nativity from humane
Signes, denotes Death to the Native by Inceftine Divilions,or Civil Broyls ;
or that he ihall be flain by the Hands of his Enemies. The Lord o f the
Eighth in 6 of c? in a humane Signs, always declares Mortem ah bomtne
per Arma, &c.
The Dire&ion chat truely occafioned D eath, was the Afcendent to the
of Tj.
Afcevtio Obliqua SaturnL eft
273. a j.
Afcentio Obliqua Horofcopi
248.55.
Arcus Dlrettioms

24. 30.

The time at which this Kingly Native expired, viz,. oti^Auguft 4. 1578
5 h. 21 m. P. M . ismoft eminently worth the conlidering ; for then the la

ter arc o f yp afcends , and Tj upon it, it being the Radical place o f & ;
alfo is to & , Lord of the Afcendenc at Birch: the D then upon the very
Gufp o f the eighth Houfe, in <? to Tjs Radical place ; and $ Lord of the
Eighth , in both Figures is in <Pco the Radical places o f c? and the ; and
the in & to 5*s Radical place, and upon the Moons place alfo. Which
dangerous Portions and Traniics, concomicating fodire a Direction, might
very well portend Death.

I96 . 43.

The lefs won


der at Cattftnus ( the Jefuite) his quarrel
ling at Aflrologie,
from th Example
o f this War-like
Perfons Nativity,
fince Ifinde Aflrologers themfelves
as little agreed up
on the true time o f
his Birth, as tbac
o f his Death. A r
got de diebusCriticis> Part 2. pag.^p.
tells us , he was
born near th
time, as in the Figure is noted : but
Mr. J. Swan, in his
Spccttlttm Munditfol, I03. avers chat he was bom (not Q i^ eJ.i^ bu t) upon
the'

31

3*

ollectio

eniturarum

: Or,

the laft day of November the fame year. Argot* in this* comes neared the
Truth,and may therefore be the more credited. But although */irgol be
credited in the Birth-time o f this Potent King, yet in his Death he was
much miftakentfio lefs then a whole moneth ; for he reports it to have been
upon October 16* 1632. when the Ga^ets or News-books of the particular
year in which he was (lain , (as my felf have feen in Italian , in the Hands of
* Francis my worthy Friend Mr. F . B. * j report it to have been on November 16.
Bernard, 163 a*
This, and other fuch Misfortunes in the Genethliacal part o f Aftrologie,
fhew it in as much want of its Hiftory, as any ocher part of Philofophy , ( as
a learned Perfon o f this Nation, in the year 1653. complained ingenioufly
of) it being the onely Via Regia* the Kingly Way, to its Perfe&ion.
To prove this the true Nativity of chis great King, Obferve,
1. He dame to the Crown of Sweden* See, being aged 14 years; and then
the Afcendent was dire&ed to the * o f % , and a o f T>
2. He made War upon VrnJJta, and went himfelf in Perfon > being aged
3 2 years : Medium Cceli came then by Dire<5Hon to the S o f the 2>.
3. He wars againft theEmperour , takes Franekjort; and by his means
poor Germany for many years together was made ( Sedcs Belli) the Seat of
W ar ; and this even to its Ruine : The was then directed to the Body
of $.
4. Being aged 38 years, and having laboured for a year > (and more) im
mediately before his Expiration, under many Misfortunes; as well was por
tended by the Mid-heavens occurfe to the Quartiles offe and H.-, ami to the
Body of c?. But the DireAion that ufiaered in his Death, was the to the
^ of Ti in the eighth Houfe, and to the o f cf, Lord of the Fourth.
Proof thereof:

A fcentloO bliq . cPTi


sA fcentio Obl 'icy* Solis
Arcus DireBionis

deg, min,
349.1 6, Afcentio Obliq. c?
3 1 1, o. Afcentio Obliq.

deg. min
349- 24
311. o.

38.16. i/ ircu s Dire&iovts

38. 24.

Then the which, nothing can be more plain to portend his Death.
The Arguments of a violent Death, are, (1.) Stars o f a violent nature Horofeopating and pofleflmg the ojjpofite Angle : ( 2. ) If. Lord o f the Afcen
dent in cP of Ji* and o f d* in violent fixed Signes : (3.) Th with Stars
of a Malfique nature. /4rgolmakes another Argument of- Luna prope
Caput Medufcc fervata Latitudine but he is miftaken ; for although Caput
Medttfa have 22 deg. o f North Latitude from the Ecliptique, yet th 2>is above 2 %deg. diftant from him, her Circle of Pofition confiderei Howbeit,
he may the better be excufed,becaufe the other Teftimonies are fufficienr.
I cannot cry out with Argot, Digna admiratione eft hac fatalis hora ! be
caufe I know it n o t; neither in truth did he : but the day o f his Expiration
is worthy of Admiration enough l for then was the upon the very degree
of <$, in cf to U Lord o f the Afcendent, and in to his Radical place. A
day moil ominous l as indeed to this potent and mighty King it proved.
Frederick^

A Coile&ion o f divers choice Nativities,


301. 31.

33

A;

T
the
time wi ch
in writ
ten as ic is com
monly received among Ailrologers*
was this illullrious
Emperour born : ,
andic is very likely
to be the true time
o f his Nativity >becaufe ic fo notably
agrees with che
Nature * Manner
and Quality of his
Reign? & c . For?
firft i he was ina
ctive and remifs ;
and by reafon
thereof* his Reign
was but obfcure :
(1. e.) comparatively foonely; (Cor he was hqc fo obfcure* but that he was
taken notice of * and by all European Princes acknowledged to be Empe
rour* drc.} TheReafonof his Inactivity, and o f not making fuch a buftle
in rfae World as foine of his PrecieceiTors* is very fignificantly feen from the
Sun * Moonand cJMercury , their Oppofidon to Saturn Lord of the tenth
Houfe* (vr*. the Houle of Honour * Eminencie and Dignicy ) and he Re
trograde upon the very Cufp of the fame ; as alfo from .Mercury * Lord o f
che Afcendenc, his being Com buil; and the Moons Oppofidon to c Mars*
who is in Conjunction of Cauda Draconts in che tenth Houfe : nor is the
Quartile of Jupiter and Mars meanly to be confidered herein.
Secondly* although his Reign was (C o m p a ra tiv e ly ) obfcure* yet ic was
Moderately * Quiet and Peaceable; which is Angularly well denoted from
the Sextile of the Sun and Jupiter * and the Pofidonof Pars Fortuna in the
Afcendenc; and the Moon * Saturn and Mars* calling friendly Afpedts
thereunto.; and from T^etms her arifing into che fame. And for Perfons (let
them be Illufirious or Mean) that have unfortunate Genimres* to concent
themfelves with Moderation * Lthe Golden Mean \~\ is no lefs Vertue and
Honour* then for fuch that have the moil Noble and Propitious ones* to aim
at* and atchieve the very higheft o f Things.
As this eminent Native lived peaceably * fo he died a quiet and natural
D eath: Which fome may wonder at 9 by confidering the before-mentioned
Configurations. But * if we confider Saturn ( who is wholly Lord o f the
Eighth) his being policed in fopricorn, we fhall finde that he fignifies* not
a violent* but a natural Death* according to Ptolomy Lib. 4. Cap. 1 o. Quadrip. Tz Mortis prafeftui) obittts efficit poji diuturnos morbosy Pthy(in* Rheuma*
tlfttjosy dr fibres cum rigore: Item per aJfeCilones lienis hydropicas (Jolieat*
%Jteriue *ffeiones, & quotquot ex frigoris multitudine conjham *and of a longlingering tedious Difeafe, he did die. The Direction occafioning it > was
the Afcendenc to the Body of the Sun.
deg. min.
zAfcemio Obliqua Solis
8o. a*
Afcentio Obit qua Horoftopi
31. 31.
zArctti Directions
K

48. 31.
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It is eminently worth the notings that at che lame cime chis Princely Na
tive expired viz,. on April z. 1657. S. N . 4 h. Marat, cJWarswzs upon
the oppofice place o f the Suns Moons and of the Dire&ion alfo ; and the Ra
dical place of Mars then afeendedon the Eattern Finicor : the Moon, was
then in Oppfitinof the Afcendent of the Radix and pnto Venus Lady of
the fixth Houfe in that Figure.
Upon the Day of the Revolution that year , Mars wastranliting the Ra
dical place of the Moon s and the Moon lately feparating. from an Oppofttiori of Saturn 3 Lord o f theEighchs in the Radix.
' Thus much for this
Nativity*

His eminent
King was
Son
to
King Henry the 4.
and Father o f the
prefent King o f
France > and Bro. ther to the illullrious 3 and of late eminent fuffenng >
Qoeen of England*
He was born at the
time within writtens and died in the
Moneth o f April,
1543. being fomewhat above4i years
old.
It hath been con
troverted
very
much s Whether this eminent Native died a natural or a violent Death,
Some will have it that he died a violent Deaths viz,, bypoyfon : Otherss
that he died a natural Deaths viz,, o f a Fevers & c . ^ But his Nativity doth
feem (tomes and I have no reafon to be partial herein) to fide with the Re
ports and Opinions o f thofe that affirm he died a violent Death s ( and that
byPoyfon.)
For (1.) Saturn is Lord o f the Eighths and he pofited in Scorpio, aSigne
violent, malitious and poyfonous. (2.) He is there in exa& Quartile of
Mars, a violent fiery Planet s and his Difpofitor. (3.) The Moon ( Lady
o f the Horofcope ) is going to the Body o f one s and Quadrate Afpeft of the
other (4.) A violent Star upon the fixth Houfe 3 and the Lord thereof
Combuft ; and the Sun and hes boths are in Quartile to the Afcendent from
Cardinal Signes. (<y.) The Moon is in via Combufia. Thefe are eminent
Arguments o f a violent Death.
The kind of Death is apparently enough to be difeovered 5 for Saturn be
ing Lord thereof s and pofited in a violent venomous Signe s denotes ( as I
urged before) Death bypoyfon. See Cardan, Seg. 2. Aph. 108. Origaurn confents to the fame Opinions fol. 726. de Ejfetlib. Albubater fays s I f
Saturn be the alone Significator of a violent Death, he denotes Death by Poyfon,
And he faith furthers The Lord of the Eighth Peregrine, andajfiltted of Saturn
l
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A Collection of clivers choice Nativities.


or Mars , he being in Cancer , Scorpio or Prices, the Native {ball die by the
Sting, or Venoms of a Serpent or elfe by <Pqyfon. Thefe Aphorifms ! have
tranflaced ironxAlbttbater and printed thern inmy Dottrine of Nativities
Parc i . 01.148*:
This Kingly Native laboured under many Misfortunes* both of Body and
Minde , five years together before he departed this Life ; as was moft no
tably and aptly fignified by the Aicendencs occnrfe to the Body o f Mars abouc five years befbre, w ^ in r h e 36th year Gf his Age.
'
*
deg* min.
AfcemioObliqssa d Martis
107. 50.
Afcemo Obliqua Afcindcntis
7 1 . 4^.
,
Arose DireBionis
^
36. yv
But cheDire&ion which occafioned his Death was the Afcendent to the
Quartile o Saturn Lord o f cheEighch ; it happened in Leo a place chat Sdturn fo eminently hates.
deg. min*
iAfcentio Obliqua Saturni
1 12. 28.
Afcintio Obliqua Afcendemis
i-Z iiir
Aren* DireBionis
40. 4 3 .
Ac the rime o f this great Kings Expiration the fiery Planet <$was upon
the Afcendenc of his Radix; a Tranfic very dangerous in regard it is his
Detrimentand he then in to T2> whole .Q.wasthe Promittor of Death !
% was in Y i in co the and ljo and & in D of them both. AH which (to
gether with his bad Revolution) were Arguments eminently prodigious, and
remarkably pertinent to the time and manner o f this Princely NativesDeath;
chiefly, as being cqncomicated by fodire Dire&ioiis.
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go. ig .

Have already publilbed chis pro


digious Prince
his Nariviry at large,
under the Title of
Merlinit* Vcrasc ; at
what rime Aftrologie (b y reafon o f
him ) was in danger
o f an utter and una
voidable Difparagement.For this Prince
being engaged wich
moft Princes in Eu
rope , ( fo lofty and
great an undertaking
Spirit had he) the
more politickly ( as
he thought) co bring
_
his Defignes about,'
he bribes a Qjjack in Aftrologie with a Gold Chain, to prediit him Victory
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and Succefs over his Enemies from the Stars: which unfortunateBribe* (for
fo ic proved both to the Astrologer and to himfelf at lalt) procured fuch kind
of Predictions from his Aftrolpgers Pen . that Afirologie'and Reafon were
never in the leall acquainted with. For the Sibyls and Mother Shipton>8cc.
are conjured out o f their Graves to aflfift tHe Swedifh Kmg for the Gold
Chains fake ; and he is promised to be greater then Charles the Great and
that he is ordained to Kick^and Cuff the Hogens. of Holland) and to make Wil
liam of Brandenburgh repent in'Sackcloth.andAfhes : that' he Jhall beat the
Dane out of his Khgdom%ad write himfelf Rex Dania? I Ore. (Rare Gipfeelike Aitrologie ! ) The ftrongeft Purge thate'ver Phyfirian gave) never ex
pelled fo much Filth) as did this his Gold Chain.
Seeing Aitrologie fo bafely abufed* and this Princely Native fo befiattered
by his Altrological Parafite ; for the Redemption of the Arts Honour! prin
ted this Kings Nativity j as well to acquainc this Prince how he was abufedi
astooppofe the Forgeries and Impoflibilides of the Abiifer of him : where
in I acquainted the World with his Death; which happehed as exactly as any thing in reafon could be expected. Veritas Odium parit 1 got no Gold
Chain for my Labour.
In J une 1654. this eminent Native was Crowned Klngot Sweden ; Queen
(fhrifiinai the Daughter of Gufiavus Adolphus, then furrendring her Govern
ment unto him : he had then operating the Medium Ceeli ad 6 Jovis , by
Direction.
deg. min.
Afcentlo ReEla d Jovis

Afcentlo %eSta Mcdii Ceeli

--

'

Arcus cZ)ireCliems

ia i.2 9 .

9 0 .19 .
3 1 .1 0 .

Which turned into time3 according to Nay bode , hits the time of the Acci
dent very nearly.
Being aged fomewhat above 37 years) on February 13. 1 6%g. he died :
he had then operating Medium Ceeli ad Corpus Saturnl ; a Diredionvery
dangerous.
deg. min.
Afcentlo ReSIa Saturni
12 7. 24.
1
Afeemio%eta tJWcdii Qotli
90 .19.
k/trem Direftionis

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5.

.And at the fame time the Afcendent * Mid-heaven * and Part of Fortune>
were direded to the Terms o f cJWars, near violent fixed Stars. But above
ally there happened a little before his Death) a great Solar Eclipfeinthe Ra
dical place of his Sun, and oppofite place of his Moon 5 as die certain prodromtts of his Exit. And happy it was for him * that his Lifefo exadly en
ded with his Honour Dignity and Creamers: for you muft know* the Mid
heaven to the Body of Saturn* in his Debilities efpecially) is a never-failing
Argument o f the Shipwracking of the Natives Eflimation and Power. The
Figure it felf pronounces him a Perfon prodigious 3 and all Europe knows it
to be true.

rinnt

A ColleSlion of clivers choice Nativities.

Aving pub
lished .this
great Kings
Nativity in a Book .
by itfel>entituled
Nttnctut Aftrologicus ; at what time
the Difference be
tween him and the
Swedifh King was
at the higheft; ic
will be unnecefl'ary
for me to treat
largely hereof again : however
knowing that fu
ture Ages may be
defirous to be ac
quainted with fo
glorious a Nacivi.
tyj by which Aftrologie it felf hath been fo eminently confirmed, I have thought fit to mention
it here and fome Notes upon i t Jeff the Tyranny o f Time ihould obliviate
that leifer Book wherein I firft primed ic. For when the true Aftrologet
ihall read the Story of this mighty Prince arid compare it with this his Geniture he mult of neceiTity receive it with a Welcome of Admiration !
there beingamong the be ft collected and aioft choice Nativities o f Princes.
not a more illuftrious Figure o f Heaven to be found.
When the King o f Sweden twice invaded this Princely Native , and for a
long time together blocked him up in his chiefeft City , Copenhagen having
once by Treachery took him Prifouer ; then had this King both the Sun and
the Mid-heaveri under the cruel Directions to the Body of & as I fhall thus
prove :
i. <) ad Corpus Aiartis.
deg. min.
*Afcetio ReSta d & efi
2.
.
Q/ifcentia Refta Solis
7 * 17
Arcus Dirctlionis

48. 4 5 .

Which according to Najbode^ gives 49 years and 20 days ferb ; and hap
pened on September 4. 16 %2 . .
%. Medium Cali ad d
Afcemio %eEbad Mortis
Afcentio Refta MediiCceli
Arcus VireBionis

deg. mitt.
56. 2.
6. 32.
4 9 * 30.

Which gives in time 50 years* 8 i days and commenced onjune 8* 1 6%$


The firft captivated him and the fecond blocked him up clofein Copenhagen,,
andftraicned him much. His Condition in truth > was .very low at thefe
t,
rimes;

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times ; and all men in Reafon yeilded him an abfolure Iolt Prince : yet nocnocwithftanding Vox Populi,the Clamors and Noifes of all lores,I refolvedto
confidcr his Nacivicy 5 and finding ic fo Princely and glorious a one as you
may fee i and obfervingalfo that his Hopes and Aififtance (Iw ricen ow
Aftrologically) was ftronger then his Dangers and Fears ; (i.e.) $ Lady o f
the eleventh Houfe was better fortified then T*Lord of the Seventh; I advencured to publiih the fame ; and therein aflerted, That heftcttld overcome
his Enemies ; and That notwithftanding this great Kings (th en) prefect
Misfortunes he fhould recover all his former Greatnefs and Glory ; yea > and
m,re then ever he loft. And behold ! in the year 1660. his Kingdome was

made Hereditary, which before was but Elective j and he overcame his vio
lent Adverfaries, according to my Prediction exactly. And in page 38. of
Nunc. Aftrol. I laid down this Axiome, with which I fhall conclude : That
as this renowned Per{on obtained his Dignity and Greatnefs honourably > and
hath with much Magnanimity Courage and Reflation kept and maintained
it 3 even in the greateft o f Dangers j fo he is likely to keep and prefer ve it to the
end of his Life , and to die Quietly Peaceably and Honourably, pojjejfed there
of. Thus much for this Nativity.

Have not alte


red this Geni
ture
above
twelve minutes in
time from the ternpus Eftimatum gi
ven ; and prefume
it to be the onely
true one of this
magnanimous and
great King,becaufe
ic fo exa&ly accords
with many eminent
and remarkable Ac
cidents, which have
happened to him
already.
i. Being aged
2 ? yearsviz., in the
year 1630. he was
moft miraculoufly preferved from Burning : near which time, (Jpafledby
his Afcendenc j tanda little before, there happened a of Q and T*in the op
poste Degree of <?. Befides thefe dangerous Tranfits,there was then ope
rating the Mid-heaven to the d3of 5 and the Afcendent to the Body o f 1
with Latitude, by Direiion ; and the Sun and Ti both policed in fiery Signes.
a. In the year 163 3. he was in great danger of Stabbing ; and then he
had the Afcendent directed to the Body of Tz without Latitude : 1* then paffed over his Radical Afcendent, <$ having led the way a little before.
3. In the year 1649. beino then aged 44 years, this illuftrious Perfon was
invaded byVery fharpand qefperate Fever,& c. which had nearly ended his
Life ; and beo'ifd all hope, had, but that the benevolent Planet i was then
ufpti the Afcendent,in * t o one of the Directions that then happened : The

Directions

A Collection o f clivers choice Nativities.


Diredlions were the 2 co the of d1, and the Mid-heaven to his cP.
4. In the year itff^.and 51 year o f his Age, the War happened between
him and Oliver Cromxvel,xhzn Pronedtor of England, about the Indies: there
was then in force the Sun ad Ocular Tanri, to the Bulls Eye, a violent fixed
Star , byDiredtion; and 0 adOppofttam Solis, to the Suns P from violent
Signes : very aptly andrrudy fignifying that (to England ) molt unhappy
Quarreljl fo term it,becaufe his Majelly o(Spain is,by the Heavens,ordained
a Friend, and not a Foe, to England. Hath he not the Sun in Y > Er.glands
Horofccpe ? Is not his Afcendent and his 2, and , all in & co y ? This
Nationmay be happy in his Friendihip, but cannot gain any thing by being
at Enmity with him. And I fliould think,that although Qromrvel and he could
not agree, becaufe the Sun in his Geniture, was in the place of <$in this Na
tivity and S in this, was in the place of the Sun in his Radix, & c. yet Eng
land and this great King may naturally and friendly unite, for the beforementioned Reafons.
%. In the year 1659. this King made Peace with France , andfuddenly
after married his Daughter to the King of France : the Afcendent was then
dire&ed co the of ? , Lord of the Severn h in this Nativity , and the 2 was
then directed ad Sextilam Solis. I need not verifie this Regal Geniture fur
ther, for thefe feveral Tedimonies are fufficienc.
This Princely Native within Iefs then two years hath the Afcendent dire&ed ad Corpus Jovis; and within lefs then tour years , the 2 diredted ad
Sextilam proprium, and AFedittm Cxli ad Trinum Veneris: Before which
time , he will ( in all probability ) regain much of whac he formerly lo ll;
and be in a moil profperous and flourifhing EUate. The 62 year of his Age
will be dangerous in refpedt of Health; for then the Afcendent will be diredted ad Qaartilnm Martis.
The greateft Kings, as meaneft men, mttft die !

162. 18.
ith much
pains and
trouble I
have gained this prefent King of France
his Nativity ; and
have verified it by
thefe following Ac
cidents to be th tru
one.
1. This Princely
Native being aged
between nine and ten
years,, he had the
Small Pox: the Sufi
was then direted;to
the p o f the fr.y
Planet cf,Lord of th
Afcendent.
2. Being aged atout 13 years,many Troubles began to arife in France ; the Prince of Conde

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oppofed the King , and the City of Paris ihuc their Gates againit him ; but
fide with the Prince of Conde, and permit him and his Army to pafs thorow:
the Pretence was to eclipfe the Pride and Power o f Cardinal cJHaz.arie,
but it is moii certain the King felt the fmart of the Rebellion, and had then
the Mid-heaven dire died to ,the O o f d .
Afcentio Reta Q d
Afcentio ReftaAiedii Coeli
Arens Dir eftionis

174. 40.
162, 18.
12. 22.

This Mifchief was violent, and lafled not long: for fuddenly after, the
Mid-heaven was directed to the Body of 5 ; and by ihePolicie and Prudence
o f this Kings Council, all things were fee inftattt quo priue*
3. Being aged 20 years, viz 1 6<j8. in May and jane, this eminent Prince
was accofted by a violent Fever, & c. the Afcendent was then diredledto
Cor Scorpion#, a violent fixed Star, with Latitude; d then (by Tranfit) was
upon the Radical place of the D; and there was a very ill Revolutional Fi
gure that year.
4. When this great Prince was 21 years old , he was married to the In
fanta of Spaivyi happened in the beginning of the year itftfo.the Mid-heaven
was then direfted to the^f of the 2), and g , both having Dignities in the
feventh Houle.
A f cerni Rea Veneris
Afcentio Rea Afedii Coeli

Arcus Direftioni's
Then the Mid-heaven to the

21.28.
of the 2), followed prefently upon it.

Afcentio Rea Lana


Afcentio R jfta CMedii (foeli

deg. m
184. 44.
1 62* 18.

/rcm Direionis

22.

7.6.

Upon the Influence of the firft of thefe, the Match was propounded ;
and upon the Operation of thefecond,it was confirmed; and the King wenr.
in perfonto fetch his Queen from the Frontiers o f Spain, where his Maje
lly of Spain was perfonally prefent.
This prefent year 1 66 o. toward the later end thereof, this Princely Na
tive was fickly ; I conceive it occafioned chiefly from theeffe&sof that
great Solar Eclipfe, November the 4. 1659. near the Afcendent of his
Nativity. It is very probable that Ti being Stationary in 1661. near or up
on the fame Degree may more unhappily difeompofe him ; chiefly , by
reafon of the ill Revolution this year affords: For T* is in exaft <P to the
Afcendent, and the 3>in the Fifth , lately feparated from his in 6 of Cor
Leonis , and in Cl to the Afcendent. The Figure is nearly oppolite to that
o f the Radix; and the Lord of the Afcendent, and Eighth of the Radix, are
in d in the Sixth o f the Figure. From dangerous Surfeits , the Stone, and
Treachery, let this great Prince pray to be delivered this Year, and then he
may be moft healthful, & c . until the Afcendent comes to the Body o f & ;
which wilihappen in the one and fortieth year of his Age.
Prince

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^i

The Latitude of the


Planets.
ni.
43 South.
o_ North.
^Soutn.
o . North.
o<

N this Nativi
ty* neither o f
the- Lumina
ries or Horofcope
are befriended by
the Beams o f the
Fortunes ; & is in
<? of the Lord o f
the Afcendent*and
he policed in che Houfe of Death. I therefore adjudge this Princely Native
but o f ihorc Life ; and this the rather* becaufe the Luminaries are in
each to other* and 5 , Lord o f the Eighths beholds the Afcendenc with the
lame malicious AfpetT:, from tn, a violent Signe.
For the time of Deaths I conceive it may be about the fifth year of Age ;
becaufe* near that times the Afcendent will be dire&ed ad Quantum Mcrcttrih Lord of the eighth Houfe j as may appear thus:
deg. min*
z/4[ccntio Obliqsia Mercurii
Afcentio Obliqna Horofcopi

3 32. 4 1 .

327 2 3

tir e tti DireEtionis

18.

Which w ill according to Naybodes Meafure o f Time * happen toward the


Jacte? end of the fifth year of this Natives Age.
I would not have any to milunderftand me In this Predi&ion; and fhall
therefore premife* That I do not maintain, or plead for* a Scoical NecelTtcy;
or pofitively conclude that this Prince will then d ie; becaufe Life and Death
are in the Hanos of God, and he can fhorten or lengthen the fame as himfelf
pleafes: I aver onely rhis, that according to Natural Caufes * he will be in
very great danger of Death about the time of his Age mentioned : and 1 have
known in feveral Childrens Genitures* the fame*or like Arguments attended
with vhe EfFedts I fear willbefal this Princely Child.
Thus much for this
Nativity.
P O S T - S C R I P

Tw

ince the Writing of this, ( and Licenjing the whole Book^alfo) we have had
News /England* that this young Brince, on N o v.i. Stilo Novo* did de
part this Life ; wanting (it [cents) fomefew days of acconaplifhingfullfiveyears
of Age. Which ineonfiderable Err our * (for it is no other) cannot * I fttpfofej
beget any ill thought of A(lrologie in the Breafts of the ingenionjly Learned ; but
rather convince the Antagonist thereto, of its Certainty and excellent Vfc_
M
Charles

4 *

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* 9 ?4 *
7 &* Latitude of the
Planets.

North.
South.

North.
t/fturn in the
Atcendenc of
the Nativicy
of this Princes in Q
o f the s and he in
P of Sidrc. are Ar
guments of a fhorc
Life ; chiefly becaufe "h is Lord of the Sixths and in the Afcendenc,and 6 Lord o f the Eighths
in cP to it* and in of the Ds and P of the .
Thisprefenc year i <55i. he labours under the Afcendent to the Body of
T* with Lacicude s by DireAion j and may poiflbly combat with the Evils it
portends indifferently well he having no dangerous Revolution this year :
but in the year 1 66%. at what time he hath the dire&ed to the of & ,and
Afcendent to Tifme Latitttdine3and the nearly to the i of T^s all by DireUon s he may be in great danger of Death 3 fhould he this year efcape: for
he hath then a moft dangerous Revolution indeed and h will be nolefs then
twice Stationary upon or near the Suns place , and many moneths together
upon its and in D to the Afcendent,

ad Corpus T* cur Latitudine


a d Corpus \ fin c Latitudine
D e(centro Obliqua
D e f e e vt io Obliqua O tfarts
uircus DircBonis

deg. min.
i6%. 48;
*57 * 59
5. 54.

3.

y.

deg, min.
318. 44.
3*<5. 518.

The to the O of Tj, happens fomewhat latter but the Revolution


for the eighth year currant a is a moft malicious one 3 as is by the Figure
thereof feen.
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43

N this Figure the op?


police, place of the
j and Quadrate place
. of
js.Horofcopical' ;
and $ Lord of the Afeendcnt here, is in 6 of
cT Lord of the Eighth of
th e;Radix, in the feventh Boufe ; and Tj is
nearly-returned to the
Radical place of the s
both being in & to the
Afcendenc herein* they
being with a violent
fixed Stars called Cor
Scorpioni* : the Figure
it felf is in exai O to
that of the Radix. I
Will.HQt b.e fo prefumptuouS; as to determine
the end of this Pcinces Days in this year but according to the Canons of
Aerologie > I may lawfully fay he will be in great danger of*Death * -.and
that by reafonof the before-mentioned Directions concurring with fo dan
gerous a Revolution.
.

His is the
Nativity of
the Lord
Deputy o f Ireland ;
and doth agree exadUy with the Ations of his L ife , and
Manner of his Death.
He was a Perfon of
mod
admirable
Pacts; a great. Gounfeller States-mans
and Politician; and
therefore highly en
vied by fuch as came
fhort of his worth.
He was a Gentle
man fo fignally accomplifhed, chat our
facred Soveraign i
King Charles the
firft, (who without doubt beftof any Man knew him ) in his
as heis bemoaning the unfortunate end of the Earl 3 and his own mifliap in
confenting to his Deaths writes thus: I looked upon my Lord of ScrafFord as
a Gentleman whofe great ibiliues might make a Prince rather afraid then
afljamcd

N T T U R A R U M 5 Or,

N the day of his


Revolution for
that years he had the 3
in th e oppofue pla cc s
OjEcEt'e > 3 and & tn
the Radix; and in the
Revolutionfor the
Figure for that years
year of Deaths
the Radical place of T?
i6co .~
attended and <$ Lord
ftfov.XQ.Xzff.
o f the Eighth was in
p.
exait thereunto
Sub Lar.<j idf.3 zw.
from.
the
fourth
a v'ac.Curfus'i ad O
.Houfc ; the 2>jv ~'s al
cP^iio with O cuius Xamri,
a violent fixed Star.
Ac the Moment o f
his Death 3 the Radi
cal place of Cauda
________________________ _
Dracoais afcended >

and Vi in exacfc <P


thereunto., the and d being in cP to the Afcendent of the Revolution. A ll
which feems to intimate his Life to be taken away by Treachery > as to this
day is (fill believed by many. And it is no new thing for Perfons s whom
Envy cannot fufliciencl.y bleftfifti or hurt in rheit Lifes to be falfty andtreacheroufly dealt with at their.death.
- '
7 he Brightefl Sun , the blackjft Clouds doth ratfe,
mThe Arguments of a violent Death, are, the Luminaries in d of <?, near a
violent fixed Star. ( 2 . ) The , 2> , and Lord of the Eighths in violent
Signes. cf in
afflicting the Lights in any Engliih great Perfons Nativity,
is little lefs then fatal to his Honour, Life and Fame.

Ohn Cafimlr s
King o f *pola nd & c.in the
ytar 16 $$.and part
of 1656. was vio
lently forced out
of bis Kingdom by
the undauriced C*~
toIms Gultave then
King o f Sweden
and this in fo
ftrange and mira
culous a manner,
the fuddennefs of.
it confidered, that
it amazed
the
whole
Chriflian
World l But the
, King o f Sweden ac
laft (beingintoxi
cated

Coilecion o f divers choice Nativities.


caced with Vitory and Succeis ) ttrivmg to get more Honour, ana greater
Advancagesagainii this (then) unfortunate King ; and iinprovidencly en
deavouring to grafp coo mttctr, -behold i he looleth all ; and in the year
was coaUy routed ouj , and deveied o f ali he had gotten from the
King oi-Poland .* and then tir exiled King Cafimlr enjoyed his own Territo
ries and Power again.
:
For to iignifie this great Kings (then ) Misfortunes, he had the CMedlunt
Cet* ckreed ad C3TD, and the H&rojcope ad Saturni ; cwo Directions
moftutiforcunaoe ^'the one falling in the eleventh Houle , ^rgaing the Ina
bility'* We&knef&'and' BackWarduel's of Friends ; the Other in-the fecond
Houle,denoting Lofs and Detjrution of his Ettate* & c .
Forcofignifie his hidden Recovery again from thofe unparalleld Preju
dices, he had-fuddenly after the Afcendnc directed ad $ cum, & fine, Latleading and ihe Radically pelted,in 5 > her own Houle : a Diredtion molt
hrippy and fplendid indeed ! and fo it proved. Beiides, the King of Sweden*
Fate was now declining, a si have ellewhere remembred and by fufficienc
Arguments evinced. ;
Atid lince that * his M ajeftyof Poland hath had the Afcendenr directed
adCvrpm -Jotes , cum ' & fine Latitudine ; which by reafon of his having at
the fame time the D dtcksad , and 11 his cranficingtheoppofite place
o f the Direction, and of % and $ a lio , hath not had thofe glorious and fplendid Effects yet, that naturallyattend iuch a Diretion , or as fhortlyhemay
( by Gods blefling ) have therefrom. % is Lord of the Tench in his Radix,
and che Direction happens in the third Houfe. Why his Honour, Dignity
and Territories may not be enlarged with thetaking in of Tome NeighbourDominions , ( perhaps the Swedes Kingdome ) .1 fee nor. In his nexc years
Revolution* be bath the Moon on the CM- C . of the Radix , in of Cor m,
and in A of and , and it with the Q in the Radical place o f the Moon ;
intimating a year of honourable Adfion unto him - and an Increate o f his
Power and Grteatnefs. It is an admirable Revoluciona! Figure.

Ehold rhe Revolu


tion for tbac year
he underwent his grand
Troubles >. Firlhhere
is S from the Twelfth
of the Radix , but Se-.
venth here, in of
both the Luminaries,
and U Lord of the Ele
venth in this Figure:
then here is the Moon
in
of the Sun and
ligand going to an cP of
and 5 , from Signes
Cardinal and violent:
then have we h Lord
o f the Tenth, in exa&
<P to the eleventh
Houfe, and nearly in
to ehe Afcendent and
the in the Fourth. A Figure exactly portending, the Mifchiefs this great
Ki ng then underwent, being considered and compared with the bTorefaid
Directions.
Caroliti

47

C o iiE C T io

e n i t u r a r u m

: Or ,

N this Figure the 2


s returned- precifely co her Radical
place > and is in o f
^ Lady o f the Afcendents but Lady of the
Eighth in the Figure
of the Radix ; the ve
ry Cufpof the eighth
Houfe thereof being
afcending in this
Scheme. Beiides, &
here oppofes the As
cendent exadlly ; and
\ i Lord of the Afcendent of the Radix is
in Q o f
and ih ein
the Radical place of
c?. All which Argu
ments exa&lv porten
ded the prejudice he
underwent being confidered as the fad Concomitants of fo fatal a Dire&ion.
The Arguments o f a violent Death inthisNativicy, are, ( i .) X>in D o f
<3 from Angles, (a.') Din 6 of Cor Scorjioms. ( 3 . ) ^ in exa& <f of the
. And it is to be obfervedj in any Nativity whatfoever, where the Lumi
naries are affli&edby the Infortunes chiefly from Angles, a violent Death
- is threacned to the Native and he feldome efcapes the fame.

112. 4 1.

His honour
ed Native
was ( be
yond
peradventure) a Eerfon mod
ingenious, and o f a
large capacious Underflandmg, as 3 in
<{ of
under the
Earth., aptly de
notes; chiefly by
theic being, policed
in s, the greateft
.Dignity of:^ a^nd
in & co. tbeCf-Jofo{cope, See Guido
Btoaiuffars 5 vft*
707.. and my Jp0-

ttr'we

pars 1. foLpcr. .
Few Genitureshave had the like Fortune as this great Natives hath had;for
this

A Collection of clivers choice Nativities.

5*

this hath been under the handling of the moli ableAlirologers the World was
ever acquainted with,if we may believe that renowned Perfon Henricas Ran\\ovlta in his Treatife ot the Certainty of Allrological Predictions, fo/. 97.
where he mentions che Prediction of Pic tu's Death by feveral Aiirologers by
Name s in thefe Words : jaunts Piatt MiranduL& comes ? edidt Urum aduerfut Aiirologos .* hi (inter quosfttertint Bellantins Senenjis-t Aniomts Sirigat us Florentinus > dr Angelus de Catajlivis Carmehta ) ut ^Artem veram
Oitenderentj ilium annum dtat is 33. non tranfgreffurum pradixerunts e x D tre&ione zAfcendentis ad Afartem > quemadmodum ex feriptis bine inde edit is
conitat. (i. e ) John Picus Earl of Adirandola , wrote a Book againit Alirologers ; and they (among whom were Bellanthtsof Siena, Antonins Sirigarus a Florentine , and Angel of fiataflive a Carmelite ) to prove their
Arc to be true, predicted that the faid Picus fhould not live pait the 3 3 year
o f his A g e, from the Diretion of the Aicendent to Mars : as is evident:
from whac they h ive w;iccen in Relation thereunco. That learned Knight
Sir Christopher Heyden, mentions the fame thing , thus : Picus being fore* told by three Aiirologers, that he ihouid noe live above 33 years , ^as Lucos Gauricus,md others,do wicftels) yet Battering himfelf with a falle Com fort, as if he could wrangle away Death by wricing againir Aerologie,while
he fought to prove the Arc vain , his own Death concurring exactly with
the time foretold by the Aiirologers , confirmed it to be true ; and more
actually contuced rhac which he had written againit ir, then if all the world
c belides had confpired to anlwer him. Def. Afirol. />. i p j .
But Moniieur Gajfendus is foconfident as to deny this truth, vis,. That che
Aiirologers predi&ed PicusDeath exactly , as to the cime : and yet faith ,
If BeUantita came i'o n ear the matter therein, he might eafily conje&ure
* Picus to be no long-lived Man,from his weakly Conltiturion, continual La6 bou:s of Minde & c . When it is more then probable * chat BeUantius
knew nothing more of tj>icM> then by his idle Wrkings, (be not angry I fo
term them ; for Whoever Writes agaiAll a thing he doth not underitaneb
writes idlely ; but Picus did fb, Ergo, & c .) and the Schemeof ' is Nativity i
Ergo, there couidbe n fuch Confederacy as Gajfendus moil dif-ingenuoufljr
inlinuares. And he would not be well pleafecMhouid an AHrb/oger call the
fame reproach upon the Cures pretended to be performed by Men o f his Profeflipn. But behold the great Juliice of the Heavens l Gajfendus that quar
relled at Aiirologers for lb certain and fpkndid a Demonstration of their
A r t , had, by an Allrologer , vis,. Johannis Baptift* dJfyforinus his own
Death predicted from his Nativity, long before it came to pafs, to make him
amends for his ignorane and credulous Confidence.
Tallow Picus a.difcreet, prudent and learned Man : But Bernards on vi*
dit omnia. For not with banding his great Parts, both natural and acquired*
o f which before 1 have rend red R'eafons 5 yichis ra (briefs was fuch, that he
would ( Agripfk- like ) oppofe even the bell of things ; as is obvious by the
Moon being in Oppoiicion to cjfars, and both in Quartile to Mercury
and Saturn. Which Arguftfcrtcs are fufficieht to Retrograde (if hot con
found) the Sagacity of the wifeft o f Men.

Chrlfiiernus

ollectio

enit uraeum

: Or,

23. 1 6.
Have prefenred
to publick View
this Princes Geniture , as much tor
the rarity andllrangenefs thereof, as to
help make up my
number o f illuLtrious
Nativities.
Herein we find the
Regal Signe V afcending,and both the Lu
minaries in a
Afpedi to each other ;
the being in , the
Ds Houfe , and % s
Exaltation ; and the
-in
the Houfe of
5 ; both the Fortunes
befriending and for
AH which were Arguments of an illuiirious Geni-

tifying the Horofcope:


ture.
JBut that which is ftrange herein,is,that he being a King,fhould be expulfed
his Kingdom, and fubject to Exile for the fpace o f ten years; and afterwards
to be detained in Prifonnot lefs then twenty fix years more. But this is no
Orange Marvel at all neither, if his Nativity be auely fcanned and confidered : for here we finde thv , Lord o f the Afcendent , pofited in the twelfth
Houfe,the Angle of Imprifohment, drc. there in <4 of c?,Lord of the Tenth.
Nay, although lj. be a Fortune, yet he being Lord o f the Eighth, and pofi
ted in the Afcendent, is no fingular good Pofition. The in O of 5, Lord
o f the Eleventh and Third Houfes, denoted the Inflability and Negligence
of his Friends and Relations.
Lord of the Seventh, being fironger then
the , Lord of the Afcendent > and in to him from Cardinal Signes, is
an Argument of his being at the Mercy of His Enemies. A t what time he
was expulfed his Kingdom, the D was directed ad Quartilum Martis* Lord of
the Tenth, he being then agedfomewhat above 4a years.:
In the year 15 <59. faith %ttKtKoviusChriftiernus 2. trlum Boreal!am
Regnornm quondam Rex , nempe Daniaj Suecia* ac Noruvegia, dr Carols $.
ajfinis in captivitatedn qua per annos 27. detinebatttr}propter tyrannidem, quam
exercuit erga Nobiles fiibditos.,Obiit anno 77. quern aliquot menfibtts excejferat die 25. Januarii anno 15 59, De Ann. Climadt. fol. 169. on January
a*, being aged near, 7$ years, (an Age copfiderable efpecially for a Prince
to Uye fo long, and enjoy fuch crofs Fortune ), he died : The Afcendent was
then diredied ad Corpus Saturn!.
t~
I
&4 fcentioObliqHa<& Batumi
Afcemio Obliqua Horofcopi
%/trcKs Virctttoms

deg. mw.
1 9 1 .1 0 .
1 1 3* 1
77.

.1

Revolution

A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.

53

TN this Revolution
we .finde & come
to the Radical place o f
the > and the 9 in <$
of % Lord of the
Eighchin to the Afcendenc and in o f
T* Lord of the Sixth
who calls the fame
malitious AipeCt to
the Afcendent: a Re
volution moil dange
rous in refpeCl of
Life 5 arid this the
rather the Figure be
ing nearly the fame
with that of the Ra
dix.
Upon the day he
died the Sun was in
the Revolucionai place o f the 9 and in cP cothe Afcendent of which he
was Lord. The 9 was in her Radical place and "b and c? in d3from Angles
and both of them in exaft to the Afcendent of both Figures.

3- *7

The Latitude of th
planets,
deg.

Ti i
William of Najfawt
prince o f Aurange
born 2>1 <?5o .Nov. 4.
8 A. 5 * *P.M .
Sub JEIevationePoIi
5 2 deg,
9 & 5 ad 1|L.

South;

s ; Notthl

South.

2> North.

His illuftrious Prince


was Son
unto the late deceafed
PrincefsRoyal ,
eldeft
Daughter to Churls
thefirft, late King
o f England ; and
had the Unhappinefs to Ioofe his Royal Mother December the 24. 1 666. ( (he being then
comeover mta England to viiit her Royal Brother our facred Soveraigny
King harles the fcond & c . ) he having then the Mid-heaven directed to
the Q of ti > and the Sun nearly touching the Scorpions Heart by Dire
ction.

C o x l e c t i o . G e n i t u r a r um - Or,
The Eclipfe of the Sun in November 1659. being upon the Suns Radical
place in his Genitive , argues Infelicity and Trouble unto him a although ic
be lb long pail.5 chiefly, becaufe the cruel Planet Tj is now paffing over the
Suns place , and his being thereon near five Moneths together. 1 wiih the
Death of his illulfrious Mother occafion not coo much Grief and Anxiety of
Minde unto him ; and pray G o d to prefervehim from the Treacheries
an:i Confpiracies ( of all kinds ) of thofe amongwhom he abides. His Re
volution is moll malicioufly unfortunate > and nearly the,fame with that of
the Princefs his Mother.
The learned Origan faith, if <S fiiall come to the place of the Sun in. a Re
volution, ic fignifies, Triftitiam* labores t ac hfirmitafesy calldas>& c . Et
vet occtdet, nut accidetur, ftserit in gno violento ( he is fo here ) ad mortem
u f j ; laborabit fol. 7 86 and for T1 to be there alfo is every whic as dange
rous.
,
Behold the Figure !
His Revolution is
noc onelyevilin
T
regard of the dange

cn\
y.
Reuoltttio Solis ad
fmdttm Radicis>
1660.' Novemb 3.
18 .46 nu *p, CM-

Lac. 52 deg. and


Longit.Amfierdam,
2) a d5 & ad vac.
i
Ok
ST

rous Returns of h and


(S' but becaufe they
are both infefiing
both the Sun and the
Angle o f Life cherein* and $ Lord o f the
Eighth, his being in
6 of them all. In
all my Practice I ever obferved that Re
volution dangerous
in which the Lords o f
. the Sixth and Eighth
Houfes were conjoyned in the Afcendenty or with the Sun
& c . here they are
exa&Iyfo.

The two Directions before fpoken of, are thefe:


fid Cor Scorponie,
Defcentio Obitqua cordis m
*DefceHtio Obliqna Solis
Areas Direftionis

deg, mwi
2 2 8 .4 1.
2 1 7 .4 1 . '
,'. w
XX. 0.

Afedii Ccell ad Sfittirm.


Afcent to ReUa Q T2
Afcentto Rett* Aicdii Cedi
Arcus DireUionis

deg, mb',
13. 25.
3* 57*
9 . 28

Thus much foe this Princely Geniture.


Prince

A CUeSiion o f divers choice Nativities.

5?

His
illuttrious Na
tive,Prince
iJMttttrice, (leccnd
Son to the King of
Hungary and Bober
t*ia ) was born ac
Cttfiria, and at the
time within wcic-^
ten.
This eminent
Prince being aged
twenty one years*
and upward* viz,,
anno 1642. came
into Englattdi and
obtained a ve y
confiderabfe Com
mand over the
Forces of King
Charles the Firft, his Uncle i He had then operating the Sum to the Trine o f
t? by Direction* and the Trine ofT* Lord of the Afcendenc alfo ; and ac the
fame time cne Afcendenc directed ad Sextilnm 'jovis . three Dire&ions o f
admirable Significations.
B ing aged near 28 years, viz., in the year 1648. this great Prince ob
tained a Generals place at Sea: the Afcendent was then direded to the
o f the and $.
Aged a little above thirty years, viz., in the year i d j t . as he was coining
from the Weft-Indies, the Ship he was in was caft away ; and he, by rhac
unfortunate Accidenc, drowned: The Afcendent was then diredied ad >adratttm Saturni 5 and this from Cardinal Signes, viz,* V and 35, and there*
fore the more dangerous.
Afcno Obliqua O Saturni
Afcenilo Obliqua Horofeof i

deg. min,
360, 4.
33 o. jl,

z/irctes JOlreBons

29. 57#

As he then laboured under a moft Malignant DireHon, fohis Revolution


fot that year was none of the beli 3 as by the Figure thereof may appear.

Rivoluti*

C o l l e c t i o G e n i t u r a r u m i-

O r?

N this Figure the


Radical place (or
near ic ) of Tz aicends
the Horofcopej and Tz
here. Lord of the
Eighth thereon, be
ing in 6 o f <?, who in
the Radix is policed in
the eighth Houfe; the
Horoicope of Birth is
t heCufp of the Eight h
in this Figure : the D
is returned to her Ra
dical place ; and both
the Fortunes are in
to each other; a more
dangerous Revolution
cannot well happen.
The Arguments of
a violent Death are*
( i .) The Pofuion of the Luminaries in violent Signes: (a.) 'calling a n
to the G and Afcendenc from the eighth Houfe, he being in4 violent Signe:
(3.) The Lord of the Afcendenc and Lady of the Eighth.wich violent fixed
Stars. For the kinde of Deaths w a. by Waterside. Let it be coniideredsthat
the 2>j and Tz Lord of the Afcendent, (whofe proved Anaretam this Geniture) are in Watry Signes: (a.) (Sian Infortune in the Eighthais juft entring
an Aquatical Signe * thence afflicting the and Afcendent; (3.) A W atry
Signe afcending in the Revolucionsand Tz and in Conjun&ion therein; and
the Moon near her South Node a in exa& Quadra ce of the ninth Houfes fhe
being returned to her Radical place.

Vgft&tes Ele-

tor o f Sax
ony a that
great Prince,was born
a4* \ y
n. /
at the time within
written ; and had a
Geniture as Princely
AnguHtu Saxoni&
v <
as any of the Princes
Elcltor , Tfafcitur
o f his time,that ever I
anno i%z6m^uln^o.
yet faw : for here we
/ *
1 7 h. 38 m. *P. M .
have the Kingly Signe
Sub Eleyatione Poli,
SI Horofcqpating,and
50 deg. 38 ml.
the Sun in that Signe*
^ From Qriganns.
y
in exa& -X- to 14.,'a for
tunate Planet, policed
in the tJMed'tttm //.
N\ %
A
The Moon is locaced
\ Nv y r
Sy V
upon the very Cufpof
X.l.Vf.
\
\ /
\ / *
the Houfe of Soveraigncy, in her Exaltacion and although (he b ; in of the Sun, neither fhe nor the Sun are any
way
li

\ s

'V

A ColieSIion of divers choice Nativities.

57

way afflitfced by che inforcunace Planees: and toaucieunco the Lxcellcncie


hereof, the Moon is in ftrong Recepcin of Ventu, who is in Sextile of che
Horofcope ; and all che Planees are above che Earth.
In the year 1^86. on February n . Sc. Vec. being aged 59 years 5 fi*.
moneths, and eleven dayr, he died o f an Apoplexie. Jupiter is Lord of che
Eighth a and he denotes Death coche Native, ^ b angina 3 Peripneumonia>
G/ipopIexia, (JonvitlJiombwcapitis 3 & Stomacki doloribus, Sic. VideOrig.
pa.3. fol.730.

Ac the time he expired , he had no Direction fave the aMedjam Cceli,


and the Moon to Cauda Draconis , and to feveral Scars of Hercules , they
being o f the Nature of Saturn. Nor was the Revolution for that
year ccmflderahly dangerous, as here following may be feen : there mult
therefore be fome fecrec Operacin more then ordinary in Saturns dou
ble Return; chiefly , a Revolucin be any manner of way Malevo
lent.

Erc is nearly
the Cufp of
the Fourth amen
ding ,
arid the
Moon is in exatt Quarcile there
unto* Jupiter and
Saturn nearly re
turned to their
Radical places ;
the latter o f which
is in Oppolition o f
the Lord o f the
. Afcendent
from
the fixch Houfe ,
both being in violenc Signes ; the
Moon is alfo in
Oppofitiori o f the
Suna Lord o f the
,
Afcendent
at
Birch; and ^Mercury , Lord of the Eighth herein is in Platick Quartile to the Afcendent. Howbeic, this is not o f power fufficient to kill* ex
cept we allow that double Return of Saturn to be more dangerous then
ordinary. Uniefs that great and terrible Eclipfe o f the Sun , ( as Leovitius calls it) which happened a little before this Revolution began, viz,.
on id p ril rhe 1 pch , fhould fpend part o f its EfFetts upon the Life of this
Princely Native , ic happenning exattly upon the oppofice point of the
Afcendent.of this Revolution. *Tis a new Enquiry (Iconfefs) in A Aftrologie ; yet not fo idle , that I fhould fear to commend it unto
the ferious Student, as a Matter inoft worthy his fertous Confideration and Patns. I fhall ( perhaps ) more fully have ftudied it , before
I have accomplifhed my Second Part of the Collett ion of Nativi
ties.

T h eD iy this illuftrious Native died, viz,, on February 11. t

the t>
was

58

ollectio

eniturarum

; Or,

was in Conjunfion of Saturn, in Saturns Radical place, in thefixth Hufe


of this Revolution, and the Sun was in Conjuncin of Mars and Mercury,
and Quartile of Jupiter in the fourth Houfe thereof* Jupiter being Lord o f
the Eighth in the Radix, and in it in this Figure.

Hac Etnperout
or
Prince
that
ihali
have the Sun andS*tttrnin Quartilefrom
Angles a and cJMars
and the Moon in the
fame AfpeC from fix
ed Signes; and lliall
have nothing good in
his Nativity , fave a
Trine of the Sun and
Mars by Reception ;
mighc well fay with
this greac Prince,That
i f any man kevs> the
weight of a Diadem,
he would never /loop to
takf it up.
The learned Ranz>ovius, fol. 345. faith 3 he died in the year i * i p . on January the 12. he
being then aged fixty years : he had then the Moon (if we confider ihe hath
near five Degrees of North Latitude ) direCed to the Body o f Saturn , and
this in the fourth Houfe. And had Origamu hue removed his Afcendenc
but a fmall matter, and in ftead o f z6 Degrees o f Virgo, made it 28. the Afcendent ( which muft in this Nativity be Hylech ) would have come at the
fame time to the (Quadrate of M ars, Lord of the eighth Houfe. Bur Origanttt minded not ( it appears ) fo much the true Correction o f the Schemes
as the Signification of Saturn in Capricorn in the Fourth 5 who being in
Trine of Jupiter, and no way afftiCed of Mars, fignified thofe rich Mines
and Quarries he is reported to have been Mailer o f ; and by means of which,
he encreafed his Power. Origantu then treating of the fourth Houfe onely*
his Obfervation was the more considerable > and he the lefs to be blamed for
not corre&ing the Figure.

A Collection of divers choice Nativities,


3 **I.2
*6*8
4
3
332.
.i12
lo
R lC ANUi
prefencsus
with this
Figure for the true
Nativity of this
great Prince; and,
Naf".tJMaxim'iliato the purpofe he
nut * II. Imper. Ro
cites it : it is not
man. anno 1^27.
improbable, but ic
A u g .i . 11 h. 4 rW.
may be the true
*P-M .
one.
Lat. Vienna? 4S d.
He * treating of
From Origanus,
the fifth Houfe,
notes it for a Geniture o f great Fecundicy * becaufe
the Moon and Ventu are in the fifth
Houfe* and Jupiter
in a Prolifique
Signei m Sextile not onely to the Cufp of the fifth Houfe, but nearly of pel
Mu therein. My Author faith* he married Mary, Daughter o f Charles the
Fifth* and by her had four Daughters * and nine Sons 5 whofe Names and
times o f Births* hegiveththus:

I.
2.
3.
4.
5*
6,
7
8.
9*
lo .
ii.
12.
13.

Anne, Nat. 1 ^49. Nov. i . 11 h. P. M .


Ferdinand, Nat. 1 5 <ji . March 27. 3-0m. P. M .
<3^0dobbin, Nat. 1 ^ 2 . July 18. 7 h. 30 w. P .M .
ErneJim, Nat. 1553. June i f . 2 h. P .M .
Elizabeth, N a t.i 5^4. June *. i 0 h. 30to. P .M .
Mary* Nat, 1 5 * * . yme 27. 3 h. A . MU
CMatfkids, Nat. i s 57. February 23* 11 6. 30. P . Mi
Maximilian, Nat. 1558. October 12. 9 6 . A. M,.
Albertw, Nat. 1559 November 13. gh. 3010. A* M.
tVenceJlaus, Nat. i f 6 1. March 9. 16
30#. A . MFredericks Nat. a 56a. June 7.x, 30W. A . M. -
Nat. 15 64. February 19. 9 fc. 30 . P . M ,
Charles) Nat. 1 $6*. September 27. y f . 30,*. A-M

The Arguments o f his Soveraignty , are* (r.) D in A to the ^fcerident


and tenth Houfe * and her being in Reception of f t , Lord o f the Tenth.
(2.) The* the natural Significator o f Greatnefs, is (imply the moft firong
in the Figure, and he cafts an amicable Afpe to the Afcendenc. (3.) 1J,is
very ftrong * and in Sextile o f ft Lord of the tenth Houfe ; he is alfoiri*
Lord o f the Horofome fmall Reception of tjfia rs, who is in Sextile o f
icope.
The o f the and ft , and the fame Afpeft of the 2>and % , together
with the Pofition of the & in the firft Houfe, and the his cP to the Tenth,
might well denote a troubled Life and Reign.
Ffert.Eantxjoviu* faith he died on October the 12. 1 <76. being then aged
49 years, and fomewhat above two moneths: at which time <$was upon the
oppofite place of the , in Q o f
his Significator.
I f this be the true time o f his Birch, he died upon the ad n U* by Diredtiori j

6o

ollectio

enitura rum

: 0ry

re&ion; having Come two years and upwards before laboured under the i>
ad d & 3 & O a ^ D cun* Latitudine. Buc being non particularly allured,
that the Hocofcope hereof is right , I fhall requett the Aftrological-Reader
to confulc it with other Accidents, if fo be he can obtain any : until which,
for my own part, 1 Anall reft facisfied with what Origams hath done, be
lieving the Sun to the Qiiartile of U (h e being Lord of the feventh ) in a
ClimaiSterical year, may occaiion Death.

N this Revoluti
on the Moon is
in the
Radical
place of Saturn,
and both afcend
the Horofcope r
Mars> Lord of the
Afcendent > is on
the Cufp o f the
Sixth in the Radix,
and in the Qua
drate place of the
Sun, and the Moon
in her own Qua
drate place. Buc
above all , there
happened a greac
Eclipfe of the Sun
in Oppofition of
the Afcendent o f
the Radix , at the
beginning o f the year. All which coniidered,together with the before-men
tioned Dire&ions, are Arguments eminent enough o f the Fatalnefs of the
year unto this Princely Native.
On the day he expired, there was no eminent Traniit ; but the Moon was
in her Radical place, lately feparaced from the evil Afpefts o f"h , % and <?.
But upon the day he fickned , viz,. September 1 8. the Moon was in exat
Conjunction o f % , Lord of the Eighth in the Radix and in Quartile o f If*
Lord of th Sixth , (he being Lady o f the Afcendent o f the Radix*

X,!V

*Thm much for this

Emanuel

A Collection o f divers cl/oice N a tiv ities.

biis is the Na
tivity of a
Princ that
died at fix years of
Age i vtk*. on Odoir the 3. 1638.
.The Moon is Lady
of the Horofcopetfnd
in Leo 3 pofitedin exa& Quartile Of
t er 3Lord o f the Sixth
and in the fame A fpe<5f of Saturn3 Lord
of the eighth Hoi|fe.
k
JM ats from the
Fourth p cafts a mali
cious,Qua rrile co the
Afcendenc ? and he
being in Conjian&iOn o f Candii Draconis, makes his Afpe& the more mifchievous.
Thefe are Arguments o f a ihort Life in any Nativity. Argol is pieafed
to make the Cadencie o f Sol , and Saturn 'Tirine to the Afcendenc two ocher Arguments o f a ihort Life : but I underftand not how Trine-Afpefts
cah .be any way nnfiortunate, though of the evil Planets unleft w e virili make
the Oppoiitions of the Benevlencs fortunate. Nr yet that the Suhcari
fuffer Debility by his Cadencie in the third Hoiife it being the fecohd An
gle of the third Triplicity and honours each Native with the Friendihips
o f Men and Kihdred 3 &c. as may bfeen -by th Cabal Of-the Twelve
Houfes,; Printed by my learned Friend Captain GiorgcWh*rtott3 in his C4ietidartum BcdefiaSticum 16^9. But there are Arguments fufficient with
out thefe > o f a (horc Life to this illuftrious Native ; and Arc need not be
forced.
"The DircetionsThat occafioned h is Deathi were-che Afndentrf^fi^Mdratmu e J M a r t a u d the Moon f abfqueLatUudittC > as fich Argol) ;fb
the Q u a d r a te of Jupiter , L o r d o f th e fix th H o u fe ; an d h e re in , th e t r u e Sfe*
nificacor o f D'rfefes b u t t h e Moon was th e n ( -cum Latitudini ) ttodcf
the S q u a r e of t e * * b y Direbtioh, and he L o r d o f
' ;

tratto

m w rT v

62

w .

C o L U C T I O

G'E N I

T.fi A

ru m

Xgol hath
-%lec down,
but few of
this Princes Acci
dents ; three is the
mofti viz,, (1.) In the.year?
1 00.: he was ele
cted Vice-Roy in
Delphian* j he, had;
- then the Afcen-;
dene ; dire&ed to'
the Ancifcion of;
cj^farsi and Jupiter ]
. all -that. year in
Tripe of his Sun.
( yj4 mo 1 Top.'
he was made Mar
ital o f France5 and
, had then the $im:

Fran. Lefdiguerlus
Magnat,Comejlakilis Francia born
: 1 ^43 M anll 31.

VT'
XT
-fr>
V
>rs
0#

: a i h. z m . CP, A/.
Sub Lacic. 4$ deg*
From ArgoL

/ V > -c
y * < > .
_ j

Or,

directed ad Sexttlum ijtfe r ctir li 3 Dominai eA fcendextlu'

.'.

rC3O In: he year 1 6 z6i he died j being aged 8 3 years ; :and had then th e'
Sup direaedtohispw n Quarcile.
' : . ' .
:o
.
.:jA little before;his Peath/.he was muchmotefted witha Diarrhea and Vo-;
outing.
. lU .ij to :.;it '
O. .
V

./i

; r' ; 1 :dgr, mat,, r-. ?t

AfcrnioObliqua, Q 'Salie
^femwQhliquaiSoIis:. '

. c ::
M * .

<

^rc^p ireio m i

1:..:- 'V-l i r i m <

'

& 1;- *

.1V-

: '

'83
* -O :

.... ^AufhorXai.!;!? Ofoupi SatarminSe^tacom Oppvjka /Marti* cinjlit$ti \nter Tieia&sflarimjrfufp. sgrltudinibat Ob/toxtUs 3 i& o .' Atid ic is not
unlikely at a l l : o^rMifr,jy LpMofithe Sixth>wichiviole'nfc\Snarsi* in Ogpofik
uba pf
upon cho Sixchv always inaJies cite Mafive Obnoicioixs to vio-*
lent'SidbieUesi

^e.fhp&ld;hfiyd.b*ep i PerfbtiOg mpfcariddr^te A c ^ m *

plifhments , ' as iiTeen by both the Fortunes > and the Sun calling friendly
Rays to the Afcendentj and the Moons Trine to Saturn>and Sextile of Mars
from the Mid-heaven.
Thus much for this Nativity,

-.N-A

jl
Marc,

63

A Collection o f divers choice N a tiv ities.


103.
L

o\

*lhe Latitude of the


*"planets.
d. vu
5) i
9 North.
Ti o 35^
V o
iff
<? o. J14S South.
8 1 ot
S 1 3S J

1 Marc. Ant. filum1 nayComeliab. Regni


. Pleapoli/born I y 3 y
<9 ?
Feb. 26. 7 h. 37 m.
P. CMSnbLat. %oma.
From Argot.
#(V
\ \

He Fame of
this wor
thy perfon
was and yet is ,
J P ^
fuch, thatic needs
not the flourifh o f
% **J
the bed Pen (much
lefs mine ) to fet it
forth further : J (Hall therefore mike fome fhort-Obfervatioris on the Fi
gure Aftroiogicaliy, and then refer it to the Judgement o f thofe chat .are
able to cetifure. ;
Cirdinal Signes poflefs the Angles 9 and the Moon , Lady o f the Tenth,
(though in her Fall) is in exact Sextile of 'Ventu,- whois Lady o f the Afcendenc, and in he$Exaltacion and in Platique Sextile of the Sun: all Argu
ments of very grSac Fame , & c. And they are not meanly iirengthnedby
the Con junitipn of Mars and 'Jupiter* and their Trine to the Afcendenc;
as alfoby the
o f the Sun and Verna to {he tenth Houfe. . As Saturn
and the Dragons Tayl are policed in the Mid-heaven, he could not want
Scandals and Disgraces to be call upon his Honour , and his higheft Anions
and Attempts 5 nor did he.
After the great; Fight againft the Turks, 1 ^71. he was madePr</r^ , or
Vice-Royin Sit'd) %whereheremainedmany year: hehacftfoen.tofignifie
that Accident,, the^Sua direiStedW ^- <3b and the DireiHon fell in X 5 -Ergd
ihemore eminent^-.
r

'
./
uajljejyear i-yS^ibeing then aged forty nine years: he had theit
item tJMLrtxi ~
r !
- l l Q V l/i. : a ' , r f r i ^ v .yh.--1
: ' . .:

5i

dbg, mtn.-

: . j -.c

? \sifcenti Obliqua O

'^

AfcentioObliqua Afcendentts

' -^/irctti DireEHoms

,3 4 1 .1 5 .

v\- ' .

*93. !

.4 9: 14*
tA little before, he went a Progrefs with the Kinginto<S,^ /3 andhad the
tWden<fctttdireAed^4^43'5rwhtch any tt^rnay fee by^tfe
and on th e ! btb day o f ^^hedfed there c 'b w is Recrogradenn bppoiicioh
to his Afcend^nt, and the Moon in yp, in Oppoiition of
Lady of the Afcendeitt i and both in Q^arcile co i t , and co the maligflanpPlanet Tj alfo*
My Authorial it h , he died of a Fever : whether $ ,%ady,of\the Afcendenc
and Eighth,.' bfing in Con junftion of ( who is Hoc and Dry ) on the Cufp
o f cTfiOSx$$ or c? his Trine to the A f c e n d e n c ,m a y fighifie th e kinde^of Di__ r
feafe
l

6 j\.

ol l e c t i o

eniturarum

': Or,

feafe by which he (hould expire , I leave co che Aliroiogique-Phyhtian to


conhder: Or whether Perfons chat have Cardinal Signes pofleffing the
Angles of their Nativities, and <? many Afpe&of the Uyleeh's, do not (if
a Natural Death attend them)-die o f a Fever always. I confefs my Experi
ence o f this kind is but mean but by Obfervation I may be able to give a
better Account hereafter; and (hall endeavour it, if 1 happen not to be an
ticipated by fome more worthy Pen.

Thus much for this N ativity,

Tht Latitude o ft he
^Planets,
d. i f .
b

% 49

2 47

Sept.
M erid.

M erid.

. d

g J8 Sept.

^ 1

14

37 Sept*

5 14

M erid.

N the Scheme
o f this great
Dutcheffes N a
tivity Venus is La
dy o f the Am en
dent and eighth
Houfes and hath
E xaltation in th e
lixthH oufe ; but Che is in. ppofirion o f M ars sn in T rin e o f Saturn and
in R ecep d otvof him alfo. Luna is with FaUiSitittm* o r the Bulls E ye3 a v io
len t M artial Star; in Q u a rtile o f Mercury* w ho is Peregrine and under, th e
Earth joy ned to Cauda Draconis. Saturn in the A fcen den tis but a iickl P o
r tio n . This Lady could n o tb u t be naturally fickly ; y e t (be lived to a great
A ge w *.. near 6 y years : viz., until December 2 7 . 1 6 5 4 . ** Which tim e th e
Sun was dire&ed ad guadratum Veneris, Lady o f the Eighth; and the D ire*
lio n it fe lf falling in the Eighth; near to the Pleiades.

4 ^ . mm.

Defcentio Obliqua Solis


Defcemio Obliqua Veneris

67.

10 .
2#

a ****

jircu t Direionis

' 6 4 . 52.

A t th e fame tim e the A fcendent was dir&ed adQppofittm tun a ; w hidb


w asm o re dangerous; (h e b ein g (by la titu d e ) locally in the eighth Houfe.

-*

jffeetitiq Obhyua Luna, efi


jifeentio Obliqua Afcendentis
Arcm Dircttiems

pi**

. asda. , 9 .

* 97* * 9 *

'

~ ^4. so .

Jbetc

________ A Colle&ion of divers choice Nativities.


There happened an Eclipfe o f the Sun in the oppofite place of the Sun
in her Nativty a little before fhe died ; and her Revolution was mott dan
gerous, the Moon being therein, in evil Afpeft of all the Planets.
Thtu much for this "Nativity.

The Latitude of the


Planets
h
U
c?
$
5?

d. m.
2
o
o
i
1
*

^2 North.
^2 South,
53 North;
42?
o>South.
sS

His Prince
is of Cou
rage and
Confidence equal
to the Significati
ons of <? in 1 > in
o f the ; and
/hould be of a more
then cornaion Prudence , by reafon of the A o f T* and : and according to
this N ativity, Che having five Planets effentially dignified) his Soul
lhould not be more Generous and Liberal, then his Fortune Large and Confiderable.
1 have been told by thcife that have often fee him, that he is hattirally
troubled wirb fore E yes: the Moon ( you fee) is among the Pleiades, and
in O of 3 from.Angles , aptly denoting the fame. It is a Rule among A?
ftrologers > The Pleiades with the ACoon in the ^Afcendent, denotes great De
feats in the Eyes of the Native. In this Nativity the Moon is with them , in
Oppofitioa to the Afcendenc; which is , in effect, all one: for without
doubt , the fixed Stars emit benign and dangerous Rays, as do theErrarical.
Anno 16$6. in fme this valiant General obtained a great Vi&ory oVet
the French at Valenciennesand gained extraordinary Honour thereby: he had
then the Sun dire&ed ad Trinuw jovis
deg. win.
117 . 11.
i
W 'fct'tio
S M ,' } ' ! 1
570. 40.

Arcus DireBionis

i6 .$ n

And at the fame time, U was upon the place o f his Moon, $ upon his Suns
place > and 3 in Trine to his Afcendent.
Being not certain that the A f
cendenc is precisely true, I wanting Accidents to verifie it by, I fliall fay no
more of this eminent Perfons Geniture;

ibrd

66

ollectio

eniturarum

: Or,

ip . 31.
The Latitude of the
Plane s.
South.
North.

His great
Duke was
an
emi
nent Favorite o f
that
Marcyrd
Piince King harls
the Firft of Eng
land ; and there
wanted not an admirable Sympathy between their Genitures for the fame:
for this eminent Perfons Nativity is noconely near the fame (tn refpeUn Zodiact'J with that Glorious Kings , b u t!(. herein, is upon the place of the
therein 5 and U therein 3 is upon the place o f the herein : the 2>s place
is the fame in both Genitures, & c . A Harmony and -Concordance fo ex
cellent and confiderable, that a greater is not to be found (nay,fcarcely One
fo great) between any two Nativities whatfoever.
........ ....
N o Wonder therefore, that there was fo great a Concurrencie of Judge
ments and Affections yea and Familiarity beeween chem.: This eminent
Perfon wanted not private Enemies that ufed Means and Endeavours to ali
enate, orabateof, the Kings Grace and Favours towards him : butiavain
they attempted i t ; for where the Heavens make a Union, it will be too hard
for the Subtilcy of the greatest Politician to diffolveit. :
In the year 1627. on the 27 of July this great Duke (being then aged
near thirty five years) embarqued for the Ifle of %hee ; the Succefs of
which Undertaking, proved nothing fo well as by theNoblfc Undertaker was
expe&ed : for on the very Day he fet fayle, & was in exai Quartile to his.
Afcendent at Birth* and to the Sun there alfo: the Moon was then in Square
to the places o f
and o f the Sun, and in Oppofition to It's place. ' All
which unfortunate Tranfits , argued the Voyage as unfnccefsful as at lift it
proved.
>

In the year 1628. upon c/fuguft the 23. this eminent Native (being
then aged thirty fix years, within five days ) was bafely ftabbd to Death at
rpertfmouthm England , by one John Felthom .* the 7>that Day was in of
the Afcendent at Birth, and the .0 was upon the Radical place o f d*. And
the very day of his Revolution thar year, the D was in exal o ft? and 1!
Butbefides this Troop of Tranfits , which in tbemfelves are mifehievous
enough, there was a dangerous Direction then operating in this great^Dukes
Nativity, 2/1*. the Afcendent ad Corpus Martis.
deg. min,
t/ifcntthOMqaa
Arcus <
D\retiion\s

io j. %
36* 6

The

A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.

6 7.

The grand Arguments of a violent Death in this Nativity are a Conjun


ction of the 0 anti 6* and both o f them being in Quarcile to the Lord of the
eighth Haute, who is in Conjunction of chac violent Star called Ant ares, or
the Heart of the Scorpion.
Thus mach for this great Daises Nativity,

20

.
The Latitude of the
planets.
d.
2
V
&
$
?
D

I
I

North.
s South.

i .

HeEminencie, Honor
and Fame
o f this illuftrious
Native are fufficiently known ; or
were they not 9 his
Nativity doth fuper-fufticiently fet them forth : for here are no lefs then five Planets moft
Royally dignified^and the Luminaries are above the Earth,in admirable Re
ception o f each other ; the Light o f the time being in the Houfe or Angle
of^Dignity j and the Lord of the'Afcendent is in his Eifential Glory in the
Mid- heaven alio. F All which were Arguments o f this-eminent Natives
great Achievements and o f the heighth of Honour and Fame he enjoyed in
his Life-time. But now although his Life for the moft part wlas honou
rable yet his End was; Cloudy and Tragical j.for he died by the Hands o f
bis Enemies in the;42 year of, his Age having^t, or near that time the Afcendent dire&ed to. th D of the cruel Planet
in the beginning of kb, he
being Radically pdfited in the fourth Houfe. . Upon the very day he was
routed by Cromml in Lancajhire >viz,. Attgufi 1 7 . 1648. <$ was upon the
Qindrace place of his Moon, and Tj Stationary, ' to Rtrogradation, upon the
place o f
Lord pf his Afcendent, the Moon being upon che oppofite place
thereof ; the Sun too was in the very oppofice place of
A ll which maKtiptis Tranfits , vyere eminent Arguments of this eminent Natives being
woffled by that (ill) undertaken Engagement ; and this the rather he ha
ving then the Medium Cosli diredted ad Oppojitum Sat ami. ,
In the year 1643. on January the third , he was fent Prifoner from O x
ford to rpendennis-.Caftle in Cornveal ; where he continued until 1646.
Ws then in Q of his Sun, and S in of the Lord of his Afcendent. A ve
ry bad Revolution he had alfo or that year. ; \
Toward the latter end o f che year 1 642. King Charles the firftenceained
him very honourably , and advanced him co.Employment.confiderable : he
had then operating che Mid-heaven to che A of
To

68

ollectio

eniturarum

: Or,

To conclude : Upon the very day of his being beheaded> viz, on March
the 9. 164S. the Moon was in Conjun&ion of Ti* whofe Quartile wasPromitcor in the Direiion at his D eath; and the Sun was then upon the very
Degree of the eighth Houfe of his Nativity nearly in Opposition of $ and
the fiery Planet & had but newly paffed Retrograde ovec the Horofcope of
his Birth*

Lofs of Life.

Lofs of Honour*

deg.min.

deg, mitt.
Aftcmi. Obliqua
Arem Diredions

39. 44. Arem Dn&mi

4 1. 43.

Under the Effefts o f che firii of thefe he raifed his Army in Scotland
which proved the Ruine of bis Honour 5 Under the feconda he lofi his Life :
he ac boch times being contending w ith, and under the Power of Oliver
Cromvp-l *, aPerfonof fo prodigious a portone that the World yeilded noe
his parallel : for he was bom poor* yet to be great by the Ruines and Deltrutions of the moli excellent Men of the World.
The Arguments o f a violent Death in this Nativity are 1* his oppofing
the from Angles. (2.) The IS upon the Eighth. (3.) <Supon the Cufp
o f the Fourth> in Opposition to th Tenth and the Governeis-thereof.
(4) The i> her being pofited in the Eighth Houfe Secundum Latitudinem,
Thus much fair this Nativity,

N the Diary of
chat Reverend
Prelate William
Laud, lateArchbifhop o f Canterbury
page 14. Ifindethe
time o f this Princes
Birch 5 his words are
thefe
-Wednefr
day , May 13. this
morning about three
of the Clock. the
Queen teas delivered
(before her time ) of
a Son he xfeu Chrifiened and died in
fhort fpace; hisName
C H A R L E S . The
next day being A fcentioti-day paulo
ante mediam nodiem, 1 buried him at Weftminfier.
That this Birth fhould naturally be but of fborc Life is apparent* in that
it was upon a New Moon: for it is the Opinion of the Learned in this Sciencer

ACoUe&ion o f divers choice N ativities*


ence, ( and Experience vouches i t ) that chofe which are born in the Full
Moon 9 die fuddenly by che excefs and fuper-abundance Of Humidity; bac
chofe born in che N ew Moon, for wane o f Moitture.
But this mufl be when the Luminaries are either applying * or feparating
to, or from each other: for according to Ptolomy* Ccm.A%hor.\%. Cum ambo Laminaria ineodemminmofucrint>&c. When both Lignts ihall be in one
and che fame minute in a Nativity,theNative (hall live,and be healthful:^*c*
Befides, in this Nativity, che New Moon was celebrated near violent fixed
Scars, and the Lord o f the Eighth (chough a Fortune) in exatt of the Horofeope, and the Lord o f the Sixth in the Aicendenc*
Thtes muchfor this Nativity*

He time o f the
Day in which
this eminent
Princefs was bom , I
could never obtain 5
but the Day 1 found in
che Diary o f che Arclvbifhopof Canterbury*
fol. a 1 i The Planets
places to the Noon
time thereof, (fine Reduiliane) by the Ta
bles o f TSavikOriganitii
are thuss

J>

a*

d.
7
20
0
*4

m.
10
5*
*9

48

C%

Y (
ar

>*

d.
29
0

26

m.
a4
4?

39
6

rot

X
X

O n Decm ier the. 8. 1640. this hopeful Lady died at Richmond, being
then aged near four y^ars. It is very probable (he might die upon the
Moons Dire&ion ad gaadratum Satttrni , b being potent to do mifehief.
O n the day o f her Revolution that year* there was a Platique d o f % and cf,
and both o f them in to the 5 the D alfo was near che D of 1* and $ ; all
denoting a fickly and dangerous Revolution. Wanting the true time, I cannet be Pofitive, but Supportive onely in tins Genicure*

George*

ollegtio

e n i t u r a ritm

: Or,

The Latitude of the


planets.
North.
.South*

His is the
Nativity of
that ' re
nowned Perfon
(the Miracle of his
Age ) the Duke o f
^/ilbemarle ; as I
had it communica
ted to ir.e by a very
good Friend: and I having an Opportunity to tranfmic it to Poflericy, with
the Genitures of divers other Worthless have adventured the Publication
thereof; as well for the Honour of the Engliih Nation , ( who in this one
Example of true Valour* Honour and good Policie* may vie with the whole
World ) as for the fignal Merits and Defercs of the Noble Duke himfelf s
whofe Princely and utiparalleld Adventures* cannot be tooferioufly or of
ten acknowledged by any Engliih Man.
T o prove this the true Radix o f this Princely N ative, let it be remetnbred, that in the twentieth year o f his Age * ( as I am informed) he had the
Small Pox: be had chen the Afcendent directed ad JUgartilum Saturni ; and
this in v the greateii Dignities of &.
Being aged 21 years * he was preferred to fome Martial Employment in
the Low-Countries and increafedin Honour* & c. the Moon was then diredbed ad Ocular Tauri.
Being aged 31 years * he was created Captain of Horfe: he had then to
ftgnific the fame, in his Nativity, the Afcendent dire&ed to the A o f $ ; and
this in 'ZS. * her chief Dignity.
Being aged 32 years* he was honoured with the Command of a C olonel;
and to fignifie chat > he had theeMedium C&li dire&ed ad <$ j and this
in ? his Exaltation : an eminent Argument of that Honours encreafing.
Being aged 35 years * he was ( unhappily ) taken Prifoner: the Sun was
then directed ad Corfus Saturni * and the Moon ( neatly ) ad Quadrature
Marti* : the firft Dire&ion fell in the twelfth Houfe; and Tz>the Promittor
therein* was Lord of the 'Twelfth.
But above all * let it be remembred, that in the 52 year of his Age cur
rant * viz.. May 1660. he brought in his Glorious Majefty King Charles
the fecond, who had been twelve years kept out of his Kingdoms; and
brought the Confufions o f the three Nations, England, Scotland and Ireland
into a calm Condition of Peace and Tranquillity: He had then the Moon
directed ad * %. Origanus, fol. 7$ 1. faith, 7>ad&%, rntum dignitatibru
& honoribtts[ublirmbm augeti See. and % being Lord o f the Tenth in his N a
tivity, made that Action the more eminent and honourable: befides* to encreafe

A CoileSlign of divers choice Nativities.


creafe chefame5the 0 was at chat time alfo direited ad l rinum ; ovis. N ow
to fignifie the Oppofition and Struggling he met withjin that honourable Un
dertaking, he had the Afcendenc dire<fted ad Contramifdum Mer curd ; per
haps one Reafon why the City of London (in fome retpe<5ts ) feemd not facisfid with his Noble Adlions and Undertakings.
That this eminent Native was born for illulirious Undertakings, is plain;
he having the in the Tenth in a Noble fiery Signe, and thence in s ad
Lunamyin a Signe of the fame Triplicity. And to add to this, he hath If, ( Dominus Afcendentis ) in A o f 5 and $ in demo undedma. 6 in the Afcendent
in his Triplicity, gave him Courage and Valour ; being in * of Tj, that added
Reafon to his Refolution, and made him not onely Souldier, l ut Politician*
He hath the Moon placed in the very Degree o f the Suns Exaltation and
perhaps the Afcendent of England in general; which might apt and fic him
for greac and to-be-admired Deeds in his own Native Kingdom. I ihall fay
no more hereof, but conclude in the words o f the Epigrammatift:
Had Plutarch liv'd till now to blazon forth
His Life, ( as fare he would) what Prince of worth
Or Greek or Roman, had hisjingle Story
Selected out, to farattcl his Glory /
Thus much for this honour'd Perfons Nativity and for a Condufon to the
firjl <part of the Books

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Being o f PraHcal Concernment unto Philofbphers,Phyiitiansj


and all other Learned and Ingenious Perfons.
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i l A O M A B E M A T l K O ' S ,

y We need not labour with Jo many ^Arguments to confute Judicial Aftrologte for
i f there be a 'truth therein it doth not injure Divinity : I f to be bom.under Mercury
difpofeth ut to be witty ; under Jupiter* to be Wealthy % Ido not owe a Knee Hntothefe%
but unto the merciful Hand that hath ordered my indifferent and uncertain Nativity
unto fitch benevolo*# Afpefts, Rel. Medici 3 Set.i8-

L O N D O N ^ Printed by James fa tr e l, M D C L X I I .
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nets all faluting the Angle of Greatnefs by a Royal Trine: then the which*
there can be nothing more plain to denote Greatnefs and Power.
In the year 165
being the 56 year of his Age cori^lejt, h$ was (after
much iiiuggling, and withgtSat difficulty) ^teijted Pope if the Jtfed/u^Call
was then dire&ed
Stxx'ilim Luna. > that^r.oughtche'bHQnour; But then
having the Sutvdire&ed ad *J|., that occafioned the high oppofition he tnec
with.
In the year 1662. and 6 3 year of his Age compleac, the Moon (which
is Hylech in his Nativity ) will be directed to the Quartile o f the Sun ; it
happening in his grand Clima&ericalyear may denote ic the more dange
rous and cruel: howbeit, the Revolution being not very bad 1 la m of opi
nion he may ( by the affittance of that) wichltand the-"Danger threatned.
JBut then the year 1664. will ( G o d nor contradiftirfe Natures Edicts)
prove fatal unto him : for then the Sun will be diredled ttfthe Oppofition of
Saturn; and a dangerous Revolution alfo* as you may difcover by the
Scheme thereof.

Ere we finde
C?Wars Lord
o f the Eighth o f the
Radix* exactly oppofihg the Sun in this
Figure,; the Signe of
the Fourth afcending*
and Saturn upon the
Cufp o f the Horofcope; the Moon in
the Eighths going to a
Quadrate Afpedf of
Saturn and in Oppo
fition of the Lord of
the fixth Houfe : ic is
a very dangerous Re
volution though 7*pter and Venus be m
the Afcendenc j and
an Artift cannot rea-

fonably b e termed Prefumptuous fo r fearing the WOrft w hen he hath fuch


em inent caufe> as is herein afforded.

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.

77

247. <9.
The Latitude of the
planets.
d.'m.
i> 4.50*
Ti 2. 4.
i t 0.18
d 0.43.

North.A
South. A
North.D

S ' 3- l South.D
v 0.2 3. 5
His Nativiry
I have ta
ken from
Cardati ; but he ha
ving ( among his
twelve Gcnicures )
treated largely thereof, I fhall be brief In my Obfervations on it.
The Geniture is not onely con fider ble"in that it wasio great a Perfons;
but in that the Perfon born under it ihould from a private Life rife to the
greateft Dignities and Government of the Church or Priefthood. My Au
thor fays he was well learned in the Greek Tongue and a Perfon molt Pru
dent and Difcreet, and well verfed in the Mathemacicks. A ll which are ad
mirably well difcovered by the exat Trine o f Mercury and Jupiter {tom An
gles and Aereal Signes : Nor doth the Quartiieof Mars and tjliercury other then adde unco his Parts 5 n ay, it makes them the more eminent
and excellent although at Come times it might note a per curbed Fancie and
Judgement.
It is always obferved,that Areal and Fiery Signes poffefling the Angles o f
a Nativity adds to the Fame of the Native according to his Condition be
it what it will. Mercury in the firft Houfe, in Trine of Jupiter Lord o f the
Tenth and Saturn ( Lord of the Afcendent ) in Sextile to both are Argu
ments o f great Honour Dignity and Renown : the Sun in Conjunction o f
Vemts In Sextile o f Mars and the Moon > the fame : all which are to be
found in this Nativity. But the kindeof Dignity is known from Jupiter
chiefly and partly Mercury An rhac they are here in Trine ; and Aftrologers
tell us when they have Signification o f Dignity & c . the Native rifeth
thereuntpby Learning, and by Ecclefiaflical means.
I am1ape to believe, that although the Planets places may be nearly true
in this Nativiry, the Figure it felf is not : for were it at the time o f this
NativesExpiration, he had the Afcendent directed ad & $, & It ; which
is an apparent Solaecifm in Aerologie. I do not deny but that a Perfon at
81 years of Age, may die without a killing Direction it being an Enneatical
year ; but then there muft be none to fupporc Life as thofe before menti
oned are.

Sextus

...

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N I TURA RUM. ; O r ,

247. 30.
The Latitude of the
Planets, '

oi 'Lit

d. m,
Tj i
M.
I t o 40 p .
& o 3aS-S.
?
i
bS
S
o 16 M,
2> 3 ' o
S.*

Ope Paul the


Fifth , was
born at the
time within writ
ten, under the La
titude of Rome : he
fucceeded in the Popedome Clement the Eighth, Whofe (Seniture we prefented you with before. Argolchinks the Comet that appeared in the Knee
of the Serpenc, anno 1504. was the Prodromus o f his great Honour. I have
elfewhere proved that Comets ( if they have any Signification at a ll) can
not portend Good , but Mifcbiefs to Men : See NiSfuzo Ace/heya, page 44.
and cannot therefore be of his Opinion. I acknowledge with A rgot, that
the Lord of the Tenth with a Kingly fixed Star , may be an Argument of
Grandeur and Greatnefs : foalfo is theftrengthof the Lord o f the Afcendenr, and his Trine to Mercury ; and Jupiters being in Sextile o f Mercury
and Luna > in the fame Afpe& with Mars 3 together with a Royal fixed Star
culminating. AI1 thefe (I fay) are Argumentsof acquiring great Dignify
and Renown ; and thefe are fuffkient, without being beholding to the un
known Effe&s o f Comets or new Sta rs.
Anno 162.1. on the 28th of January%he died : the Afcendent was then
dire&ed adCufpidem downs quarts & ad Amfcium Martis 5 and this with
out the Aififiance of any Dire&ion o f the fortunate Planets. The Revolu
tion that year was moft pernicious ; Mars was in exa<St Opposition o f the
Afcendent o f the Radix, and his Lord; he was in Quartile o i Jupiter 5 Sarr>?wasin Quartile o f Sol Mercury and Venus,

Pope

A Colle&ion of clivers choice Nativities,


82. 4 c.
The Latitude of the
>' Planets*

He Papal
Chair had
not been
vacant One full
monetfa * but this
eminent Native
ele&ed Pope:
Pope *
- ,.
was elected
hewas then foiijewhac above fixty fevenyears of Age * and had at thac time
cim<
very conveniently operating * the ejWedtam Cali ad Tritiumfrewris yet D i
reftiontm.

4feentto Pella Veneris


lAfccntio Retta jtfediiCceli

Arcm Dire&iems

deg* mitt.,

149. 58
8a. 4 ?.
7 . 13.

' He hadnot held the Popedommuch above two years* but died > being aged neer 70 years: he had thenoperating the Moon ad Satartri * andAfcendent ad O Mercarii: two dangerous pire&ions >at thpfe yeares efpecially.
Defcentio Obliqtta j)
Defcentio Obliftta D
Arcm Dire&iomt

r.
deg. mitt,
deg* mitt*
22.
6 Af:cntio Obi.Afbetidentis 172.4?.
242* 9
90. S4* Afcentio O hitqua Q 5

6%i 46. DireElio qaejita

dp. 24.

This Nativity in the general was a good one; here is a ftrong Reception
betwixt % and$ > and they are both near the friendly Afpe&s of 5 * whois
Lord of the Afcendent and tench Houfes. The 0 isin& to the Afcendent*
2>in& of and in^of A and#9 andthe Head of thePragon is locallyin
the Tenth* in the Exaltation of thebenign Planet

tfafe*

^2

C ol l e c t i o

G e n itur

a rum

: 0 ry

He learned
David O ri-

gamu j foi.
601. writes, 5 ,$ ,

7) &
3 conjttKli
frfertim in ^Af
eendente 1 faciurt
Ortftores dofiiijj'f
masy ( i.) $ ,
2>

and the
pojited
in the Afcendent
of a -Nativity >
make mol* learned
and! admirable <pracors. And this,
h faith > (and icis
true ) is in pare to
be obferved in the
Genehs o f this ex
cellent Perfon
Ctitit judicium gfhvtjjimumi' & oratto copioftftima, ex feriptts edieu eruditifjtmui omnibus nota eft. He hath' % in Conjun&ion o f 9 in tfre: Hprbfcopej in
an Aeteal Signer vix.^ & , arid the fortunate Planet % beholding themhoth
from the ninth Houfe", and an AetealSigne, with the moft friendly of Aipe&s : from all which, his ir.oft excellent Parcs are fingularly well difeovered. '
' !' '
The learn3d Cardan (who hath this Nativity as Well as OriganusJ fays, the
Reafon of his undertaking fo many Journies , and travelling~out of his own
Country , is Teen from the Luminaries poffeffihg the Dignities of <$ ; and
although they.are n o t, yet S i s , Cadent from an Angle. . In my Opinion
there is another Argument for Travel as eminent; and that is , the Lord of.
the Ninth ( not onely in the Afcendenc, but ) in Conjafi&ion o f the Lady
thereof, in a moveable Signe. Cardan faith alio, that vvhiletbe
Cm
was under the Direction of the Sextile of $, he enjoyed times of happiriefs:
this was about the 34 year o f his A g e th o u g h he fays the 32. 1 fpare to
lpeak o f what he relates while che Sun. was in Oppofition to If, becaufe if isr
not improbable but that he may be abufed by his Printer. The 56 yeaV
might very well prove (as it did) a moft dangerous year unto him 5 for lie
laboured under the Sun and the Moon to the Qppoficion of i f > and Quartife
o f df. But he lived until near 70 years; viz,, until the fourth Ides o f JWy,
1 %z6. as faith Rantxoviw , fol, 17;. who concludes thus in his Commen
dations :
r
Eloquidclarus qui vicit Erafmus Atheast
Non minor eximio qui Cicerone fuit.
atfoSfi,c The Afcendent at that time (if my Authors were exa&) came to the Heart
fixed stars, [he Scorpion by Direction, with Latitude ; and (if the learned Hartgil *
their Rays may be credited) its Dire&ion at the fame time to the Oppoiirion of Oculm
or Afreets, Taftri, did not meanly add unto the Effe&s hereof.
to have cm
iitflitencc as
well as
their Bodies
Nafcit,

...

A ColleBion o f divers choice Nativities.

83

T is no new thing
among Arciilsto
take Nativities
upon truft , withouc
fitting them to the
urmoit ; and thus
1 am perfwaded hath
Origauui done in the
Geniture of this lear
ned Native.
Rantcovins tells
u s , that this Perfon
died in the 6 3 year o
his Age o f a Tertian
Fever ; but by this
Figure
there
is
not on Direlion of
either of th Hylegiacal Points to any
cros Afpefc ac that
time.
N ow, i f we < in fleadof 2%. ) nftake & 26 to afcend the Horofeope at
the time of his Birth > the Attendent t the time of his peach will be dire
cted *d CorfHi Martis j which is proper , not onely to fignifie the Tertian.
( o f which hedied) but to cut off Life {non obstante If. being-fo near the
place o f the Dire&ion and ftrong alfo ) it happening in fo dangerous a C li-.
maerical year. - Origanm main Reafon for giving yz to afcend> is becaufe
this Native was but ihorc of Stature and o f Temperature Dry,& c . and faith...
fol. 77. That a Signe of Brevity afeending add the tord thereofdifyofedof
byfk might very well denote the fame : but allowing the Stature and Tempe-'
rature of chis learned Native to be as Ortganm faith Xfliould judge that the
latter part of afeending, and $ Lady thereofin
in
cheHoufe o f d
and the Luminaries in fuch Signers they are may much better fignifie them'
then thofe Arguments before mentioned* $ in d of Ti * in A o f <d and i^
and the Moons being in i# ,a n d 3 in the Dignities ofTj very plainly denote
the excelling Parcs of. this worthy P e rfo n h is great Acquirements m Divi
nity his Learaingiand Love of Arts. Let it be remembredthat chis learned
Perfon (although a Divine)ashe was a Friend to all Literature and all com
mendable Arcs ; fo to Aftrologie in particular ; as appears by his turning the
two laft Books of Ptotomy out of Greek into Latine ; and in divers Epftles
efpecially in chat to Grynew wherein he hath not onely commended but
moft ft renuoufty defended the fame*

Na/?*

ol l e c t i o

eniturarumi

O r,

Have feen other Nativi


ties thac are
reported to be
tji (artin Lther'st
vix,. one done by
*paultu Bberm his
Contemporary and
Friend; and ano
ther by a third
perfon : and all the
Reafon they give
whythis (houldnot
be the true one, is,
that they believe
him to have been
born, not on Ottob.
2. but onJtfov.t i
which is a FeiUval
held in honour of
St. Martin ; and thence (fay they ) he hadhisName given him : which if
true, 1 conceive their Plea to be the better. But why Gauricm ihould not
meet with thofe Nativities, as this, I undemand not;. andif he did, without
cbntroverfie hefawgoodReafon to reject them, for this. I know Gaffendns
fpitshis Venome at Aftrologers to purpofefor thefame Reafon; yetlknow
notbut Gajfcndtts mayVery well be deceived; forneither he,nor others give
any good Authority, or any at all, ( but their Prefumptixm ) for his being
bornon St. Martin's day. And if probable Reafons in AJftroIogie may cake
place, this Figure beft fuits with M artin Lmbtr his Temper and Anions s
for T*and 5 arein Conjun&ion in m , an eminent Argument of the A&ivity
61 hisFanrie, andof his great Parts andteaming: and five Planets in the
Ninth, noted hisEminency in Religion , and ( they being in Sextile to the
Afcendeht) his gteat Abilities to performwhat hedid therein. I meddle not
with the Addle-headed ftories of great Conjun&ions; it being impoffible
fbt the fhorr-lived Experience of Man to affix a Judgement on fuch things
that happenfo rarelyas great Conjun&ions,

JiC dlleSiiofi f d iv ers choice N a tiv ities*

N this Nati
vity Saturn
and Mercury
1

arc eorrjoyned in
s y r fr i
! cf 25.483'
the ninth Houfe
in Tiiit to j the
6?r Nafcttpr jPttirm l
^fcehdent j and
the Luminaries
Bembtfs CardlnalUi,
are in Trine to
amo 147 o. Afd}' 2 8. '
each other the
i
3 . p. OVf.
One being in
Sub Eieyatione ' *Ky
Conjtinfcionand
j Poll#*i <p
degthe .. other in
fro m ^rigaxMS
Trine o f Vemu>
who is Governefs
of the ninth
Houfe.
It is generally
obferved that in
any
eminent
ouy
wumiGiii.
Church-mans Genicure , ( u ir.infuch aohe that is prefertd father for his
Parts then Incereft) ^ a t Saturn add
are either in Conjunction,

.d >-.U <
!
hi? *

O r I f ! f O T l^ Y 'A f t A r l t f r d ik ! ^ ^ A ^ iv a A r k i r ^ i n v /u* <air *

At* ?*

AT^o A

Un.

vt<% y-ivyiv m

* they Were trt Tfme* "Tn C a rd in slc,)^ '^ ^ ^ ^ ] **


me.,
Mr.1The. Gtaker's > in Sextile, in Pope'Sextuds the fifth 9 ia the Aicendenc. In the Reverend Biihop Land's ifin the Aicefident in * . Ih Mar
tin Lathers j i n Gonjun<ftioW*Oas inchis Figure ) and in Sextile to'the Afcendencalfo. In UrafrniuTherddtnni^ in the Aicehdeftt. %aiz.ov'i*t4
Taith this Native lived until he was jyyc&ts of Age and at chat time he
had the Afcendehc dire<StedVi^ Oppajhnm Satnrni : which is naturally akiliing Direvftionr ?':
;7 _ j
-J. /
defaming

' C cP: SdtHrtil' < - ;


447.' 24
i oAfctvtio Obllqua^.
.v
* ji[cindeMu
ly i*

tyrctt Dir eElom s

7 ?* 4 2-

Which turned into tjitie > according t Lfajbode's Meafure, giveVftl 77


year
ar 30days,v;ijy houf&> : >
]

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jr.

^afeiu

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167. **.

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RkchlleUt anno 1158 .v


?W h
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Spt.S. i3 h . 2&m
.r .o ^ 4 - | , x
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fHe
riiain
Arguments
>.lojf
fhis
. ..
sd -
*
greatChtjrch-mjans
*-s
X > .
X X
Aa
Honour and ; E_Man! !-- ^ p n rlwCii m
in th Tenth near the very Meatf-pf Hsavn-*
Aicetdati5
and the >and :in * o f 5 Lotffa thp Tenth
% and S?** friendly 4
|Trot$'g!e$: and;faddto.xhefe/tXLordo4 ve^ceu4sst>iiw*. d V # che
ironft Planc hf, $ e yvhpj.iigsc. Ic.is]fhe4VQpnon fiS the leaned
Frerich-man Qgfr' ferrir, > dejfjdr Nat* JtAo.zfc C a jb j vTbIt
$#* J p
th Tenth ( mtkmt }her TeSfne&im }, confer/ort, the Native great.D'^
mtli 1Honour
J
uti-.K'frretyUtnfS&tvermeti/L5- ,w * ^ C w i f
arid Favour with he ra/eft , an4grMtHonour$*d\FtttCT with t be Meo*-

ifiiJhLc, Th Moojj nd^in ictile-of tfirp m fixed Signes.a and S sber


tng hi piiticlh; q F% from iEquyioftial and Cardinal Signet, xad hina tot

ferpe^Ms hut envied by xhe Couriers: but the forementiond Arguments


ailed''His better Forcunes above hisAdverfaries Defignes * dbl that be 0*1
wittedtheqi all by hisPolicie >anddied peaceably poflefied of his Dignities
and Gi eatriers1 and left the Realmof France ip Quiet aridPeace.
Hedied ^xTiecember 1642. beingin the y3 yeat currant oF his Age> and
hadthen operating the Aicendenc to the Quantile of T*, andthe Moon to
the ConjundUon of $, Lord of the Eighth.
~ ;^

Tftfcentio Obliqua
Defcmio Obliqua 3>
freu* DiretHonis

deg.min. 1

deg.min*

18 $ . J ^.yAJcentio Obliqua %

316* 2 .

130.18.1 {centi* ObliquaAfeendentk 257.55*


S7*

5 5* 1D irtio quata

58* 7 .

In the Revolution for his year oFDeath ft was in <Pof the ; andat the
time he died* ( vin * December 1 6 4 2 .) S wasin of the Moons Radical
place.

,\A G aH e& im cf dimers choice N a tiv ities,


A. R. 2 14 .14 .
The Latitude of thi
Tlmfts.

He Nativity
o f this great
Cburch-njan
was publlfhed by a
Pretender to Aftroi ,Jt
logie iri England
fortie hlrte years fincp,burfa^%Scfopme;t&ereof isiio lefs then nine
Degrees in the Medutw Cceliyznd
in the Afceftdenc, diftanc from the
Trpeh i\ it S > y ^ ,^ r ^ q ^ J $ | ^ a p p e 4 r .
m
( i r) In the 3^y5?fQf this N*liv<es Age* he began to be gready noted,
and to live m Favonr^f rbe-gre^ft Perfpns inttyi.pkee he inhabited: He
had t
l
y #^FPire^iohW laya Poondatiotiforfatttre
Honour*1
- , ;;
; q. ' 5
(a.) In the ye^r i.^^40. fe e .b e g ilL t p iiitp teat Favour at '$be French
Coiirc J 1and tbis|n the mqpefhfif;M pym ter r . The Medium Qb&badbut
lately p^lTed the ,$exyj^ of l^ by Qhe&ion >, and U in that monqth upon the
Afcetident ac Birch, and $ upon the place* o f Dir e&ion 5 both very erqinent
Tfa.nfics...

(3.) In tfie year .*$43. a h d 4 i pf his Age > be had the Afcendeitt dire*
&ed a d d ( $ i& % ?;} at wbithrT^?the.Nobility >GentryiClergy and Cbm*
monalcy, fo cryed him up # that he, began to he* and indeed was, in greater
requeft then the King 5 for the King wag then but aChilde of five years
(4.) In the 49 and $0 years ofhisAge, he was devefted o f his Honour and
Greacnefs for a tim e; and by the means o f an enraged Nobility , & c . was
Banifhed : He had then the ad d & , & D ad S by Dire&ion j which
(hould alfo have given him a very violent Fever: but I cannot by any means
inform my felf thereof.
Laftly , In the year x66o. in the moneth Jttarcb* he died: Come fay o f
a deep Melancholy, others of a Fever ; the laft is not without Reafori, nor
yec the firft in a fenfej therefore I believe he participated o f both: The Afdent was directed ad cf
and It upon the d*4of the 2)s Radical place

R evolution

88

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B^U .tS B R A R B

Honldl have fee


this Revoluti*
,:;.onal Figre to the
' Latitude of Birth ,
thebeginning of- y f
would have afctai;ded the Horofcopes
and the Figure of
-"Heaven (except the
* ^Planets
places )
nearly the famewith
the Radix.' Bucfeecaufe the Revoluti
on is a Radix for a
year > it ismoft reafonablechat theFi
gure thereof be ere
cted for the Xati_ tude of Abode,. and
not of 'Birth ; ( I f therefe'a tMfferhceXetweeh them,
.
. lathis Revolucional Figure * theLord oft he Afcerideht is in the ghth
Houfe which (concurring with badDCiion); is^aims ominor, . Se
condly, the Moon hereinis returned to th Radical piace of Mars j which,
fays Orgarns*
de jfethik, denotesrficmitis proceedihg
fromHeat andMoifturewhich ate heightned and exafperaced, f i Luna fit **
maloft ata vel wfortttnata, (here.(he is feparated frompayna Carfus,' and ap
plies adQuadratum Mercrii *jbominm Sexta) nt ttai jfrtisper'icl wetuettdafit. ' If fucha Returd be thns dangerous in general, icmuft be much
more unhappy in that particular year, ih; which viblept Diretion perares. ;
- '*

' ;Some may wonder how any Native having Tr*in the Tenth >(houldattain
toib great Dignities, as did this eminent Native. I artfwer : ^in this Na
tivity hath a double Signification : (i.O "h q**iiu T*s, feeing fo policed,
makes Breaches upon the Natives Greatnels ; and thus hath he done here,
(a.) Ti Lord of the Afcendent in the Tenth , is an Argument of Honour :
bebdes, the Luminaries are in exat ^of eachother, and Tj Lord of the'Af
cendent is in Reception and^ of c?j Lord of the.Tenth.-'
L*

A ColeEion of divers choice Nativities.

89

A. R. 06, i .
The Latitude of the
Planets.

>
Ti
V
<3

d.
4
i
i
o
o
o

aw.
yo
59
44
3*
10
10

S.
N.
S.
N.
S.
S.

His Reve
rend Pre
late was
born at the time
within
written,
and under a Porti
on o f .Heaven fuiEable to his Birth* pious Inclinations good Avions, and
his greac and to-be-admired Acquirements in Honour and Learning & c
For here is ^ ( which of Afirologers is termed Slgnum jujltia) afeending
and , the true Patron o f Arts and Learning is in Conjuncin of Spica Vir
ginie in the Horofcope ; and U is in the ninth Houfe with OcttlusTauri(ano
ther eminent fixed Scar) in perfC Trine thereunto : the Moon and $ are in
friendly Trine with the Cufp of the Angle of Honour and Dignity and en
joy the fame benign Configuration with each orher and that from good pla
ces of the Figure s/atjd (tqmake the Nativity .the better tocorrefpond with
the Dignity of this learned and pious Native ) there are feveral Scars of the
nature o f It and? c? culminating. Ir is an Aphorifmin Aftrologie chat1
Stella,fox* dam dohagrandta, & ex pattpertate fublevant adfttblimitatem earn
qttarif non faciapt fep$e& Planeta
The fixed Scars do raife Men even from
*a lqv'rDegreeyand'give greater Honours,.then do the feven Planets. And:
this was exadtly verified in the Original and Progrefs of this honoured Native.i ;/
.
.....
; Another Argument of the Grandeur of this-worthy Native is Cardi
nal Signes poffeflmg the prim" Angles of the Figure : For as thegreacell
A & o n s qf the World dpend u^on che Cardinal Points of the Heavens
via, r
fo the moltyeminent Perfons (I mean now, where there
is. in rhff rife of^M an any Wonder or chat it feems prodigious to the gene
ral or-commonvyay of Advancement) have thofe Points upon the Angles of
their Nauvities. Thus itiwas iftthe Nativity of cMarcui T hU'm icero
whqfe Parencage ( i f Authority may be credited) was fcarce known, yet was
he-aelait eleVatedtq fuch a Degree of Honour, chache was called, The Fathex of k h Country.. Thus it happened in the Nativity of Charles GuSlave*
lace K ingof Sw*4 ew who (though not born to a Kingdom) had one given
him byQ jeen GifrJia ; and afterwards did fuch Adis, that Hiftory cannOC
often parallel -.Sd.it chrncztftiv Oliver Cromwels Nativity alfo, whoby
Birh:Was bu ^Genclmnn of mean Fortune yet by the prodigioufnefs of
his Fate, he attamdek ( I will rioci fay. here by what means ) td the greaeeit
Dignity that could be, in, and over three flouriibing Kingdoms.
If we fhallenquire Afirologically into the Reafon of this eminent NaA a
tives

o l l e c t i o

e n j .t

IVr

a ,r u m

: O r,

tives Misfortunes, t o . his tedious Imprisonment* and violent Death ; we


(hall Hnde (by obferving the Figure) that the Lord of the Twelfth is in the
Alcendent : and rgol and Ogier Ferrier fay* I f the Lord of the Twelfth be
poftted in the Firfi, it argues ( not onely Imprifonmenti butJt many eminent Ene
mies to the Native \ alfa many Labours , Griefs and Troubles , attended with
grievous Treacheries and Deceipts* Sic. befides, the fiery Planet Mars is up
on the Cnip of the Twelfth, in Opposition to the Moon, and in Quartile to
her Difpoiitor. That he (lioulddie a violent Death, is obvious, becaufe <?,
Author Mortis^ is in a humane Signe, in Oppofition to the Moon j and the
Lady of the Horofcope is in Signo violenti, going to a Conjun&ion of an In
fortune, and he Lord of the Fourth.
I ihall not in this place give you many Demonftrations o f the Truth of
the Corre&ion of this eminent Nacives Geniture, becaufe I intend a particu
lar Treatife thereof at large ; onely take notice , that the ^Medium (ferii ad
Corpus Martis was the caufe of his Imprifonment chough not the inilrumentalcaufe, for that was the over-heated Conceptions of the Vulgar^ be
ing urged on by fame in Power, as mad as they, to fo caufiefs an Animofity.
And four years after, the Afcendent came to the Body o f Tz cum Latitudine $
at which time he was moft barbaroufly murthered.
M .C . R .A .
A . R. Corp. c?.
Arcus Dir eriones

deg.nnn.
-96. 15- lAfcent. Obi h ,
162. ?2. Afcent.Obl. Afcendentis
66. 27. Arcus Direriionis

deganin.
2.$7. 36.
18<5. 15.
7 1 .2 1 .

O t to take no*

Revolution is nearly
the fame with the Ra
dix,h^re we finde the
fiery. Planet c? vitia
ting both the Sun and'
the1- Horofcope; and
that Planet in both
Figures the natural
Significator of hfeEnemies.
Ffancicus
JunElinus faith ,pi x 6g.
Mars cum in Solti lo
cum venerit in Rev0lutione, ft atus habiterit Mortem violentam
in TS{ativitatei (adhere
in this Nativity is ve*
ry plain ) occidet ant
occidetur, aut JSfatus laborabit morbo exufiabile ufque ad Mortem. >He la
boured under no Difeafe but that of popular Fury ; which, as hath been before remembred, (for Neceffity fake , and in Envy to his great Parts and P i
ety) doomd him to Death before Nature had appointed.

91
4 - 4 1*
Latitude of the
Planets.
d.
U

o 19

N the Dia ry of
this learned
Perfons Lite*
(written by his
own Hand) I finde
the time o f his
Birth as ic is within written ; and dp conceive it to be fomewhat near the
Truths becaufe about the time o f his being imprifond in the Tower o f London , (b y reafonpfchac popular Fury tHatthen prevailedagainiithatl'acred
Fun lion, o f which he was an eminent Member ) he had the Medium Cecil
diredVedadCauda Qraconls> bewa.s' then aged
years and upward. And
for te figmfie-hisDeath * which.was in the 8 a year of his Age* ferk ; he la
boured under rhe force of the Sun to the Quartile o f the Moon. Ocher Ac
cidents in general I finde fcattered among the Palfages o f his L ife; but the
time? of therr. being not therein fet down nor I in any probable way to ob
tain chcm 'ocherwife renders me the more incapable of confirming it by fur
ther Aftrologicai Obfervations* :
For tohgnifie this Reverend Divine fiiould be fubjei to Imprifonmenrs
there need no . other Teftimony then the Lord of rhe Afcendent in the
Twelfth it being the fame Pofition that that illufirious Prince Chrl&iertttet
King o f Denmark^ had in his Nativity ; and how he fufFered bylnoptifonmentsIhaveirihisGenttii^e^nentioned.'
This learhed'Divine Taith chat at the beginning of the Parliament 9 he
Was Cent for* by the Kings VOhrit to fit therein ; but how he took the Towier in his way9he knoweth nPt. For his Commitment and the other eleven
learned BUhopswich him, Ifeever yet he^rd any jufi Reafon rendred; nor
indeed any at all 9 except fuch chat was urged for our Bleifed S a v -i 6 u its
Suffering viz,, to facisfie the raging and incenfed Multitude. Y et had this
learned Bifhop been acquainted with Afirologie and thereby confideredhis
owrvNativity fee might have found an eminent Signification of danger of
Imprifonmenc at that time impending overbim: viz., an Eclipfe o f the' Sun
in the place of T. in his Getiicure but a little before ; *and c? ( at the fame
time he was Committed) was upon the Radical place of his Moon.
r

Re volutin

"VW
92

C o u

e c t io

e n i t u r a h u m

0ry

He Afcendenc of
the Radix is
the Cufp of the
eighth Houfe in this
Figure* and the Dra
gons Tayl thereon:
& isin exaft Oppofition to the Horolcope
of Birth 5 the Moon
is in Oppofition o f %
Lord of the Afcen
denc of the Revolu
tion. All which are
eminent Teftimonies
o f a fatal year* when
co-operating witbfo
dangerous a Di regi
on* as before we no
ted. Befides thefe ,
the Moon was eclipfed 11 Digits o f i2 . in the Radical place of the Sun * o r January i . 1655.
which was of Effeft fufficienc to cut off Lifeatfuch years as this Reverend
Native died.
; .m*;

d, m.
1
c? a
2 o,:
5 3.
1

?$
48
o
50
, $

** *:
South.

. , ,.vv
Northi
South.!

His Reve-'
rend Ere-,
late
wasr
born at the titaew it h in w r itte n ! >, Jn -

the City o f York.:


the Day thereof is attefted by that learned Divine John _
__......
....
Berwick*
D. D.
who hath mod elegantly writ his Life. But the ritneof the Day he mentioneth n o t: howbeic > by the Afliftance that learned Doctor hath afford
ed me* I have been at the Pains to finde out the Hour and Minute there
o f and I fuppofe cruely too 5 as may appear by thefe following D i
rections*

A ColieBion o f divers choice Nativities.


r e g io n s ,

Life,

93

. compared wica the lcv eta l rem arkable A c a a c n ts or

ms

^ In the year 1583. being the 18 year of his Age he was taken from
Haitif a x , ( where he then went to School ) and fenc co Sc. Johns Colledgp
in Cambridge He. had then the Medium Cati directed ad 5, in it and
at the fame time directed ad%.
a. Amo 1584. viz., in his 20 year of A g e, he was chofen Scholar of the
Idoufe into a place o f Qixftablcs Foundation; peculiar to his own na-r
tive County of York, His Afcendeiit was then diredRed ad
Q &.
* D
.
3. *A*no 1585. be proceeded Batchelor of Arts : The 2>was thenwith

the Trines of and Ti.


4. Anno 1 s5>o.and 26 year of his Age,he commenced Matter of A rts; ha
ving (faith ^.Berw ick.) firft performed all Arts and Exercifes. with greap
Approbation and .Applaufe: This was occafioned by the Mid-heavens occurie ad A . g } & $d Ant.
& 2>* 2 > DiredRions that (indeed) p6r<?r
tend very great Honour and Preferment alio.
y- A-no 1^92. March 17. and in rhe 28 year of his Age , he was admirted Fellow into a place o f ,che Foundation o f Dr. Keyton ; having in the
obtaining thereof, contended with eight Competitors : that year alfo he was
made a Deacon : and aptly to lignihe this 9 he had che Sun directed ad A
Jovii.
<J. Awff i s g 8. he was created,Barchelor in Divinity j and wasi.ndudR-?
ed to che RedRory of Lo^g-cjliarfion riz&i: Tories prefently after: He had

then the Sun d i r e c t e d 5> Gr h ad* <?.

7. Anno. 1606. he commenced Dodtor in Divinitya being then aged 43


years ; and was Stphefame time alfo admitted Chaplain to the .King; The
Medium &ti was chen'diredtsd *4 Tritium Veneris^
- . t
8. Anno 1609. he .Was preferred to the Deanry o f;Winchester : he was
then aged .4 5 years, andwas under the Moons Direction co chefiiendly^
of ip.
9. Anno 1616. jm{J ? being;then aged <52.years, be was tranfUted from
che D;anryof Winchfiler 1 to rhe6i/hPru:k oi^heiler .* He had chenthp
ejfadwnd. Cali directed ad A S > andthe Afcendenc a d * % : ^happened
a little after this time > as he was going to his Bifhoprick of Qhe$lery he fell
fick of a da.ngeiious Feyer at Sit Chriitophf'r ffattobsof Clay-Hall in Efifx
He b^d the by DiwdUQnRq the f s>f the 2>, and nearly co cjbe. Quartile
of .<J,
A t : ; ? >. ' :
'-oas.jjp.--4 ; -:r
7..!
.,
XG*i
1
M firch f o
vVrs cr^nibt^d thpc^ , tppheBiihQprjek
o f Lieh0 d e-pd Cfivept-ty * Mdinm {^lich en neatly ppuch^ifh?; A ^ tbp

8. And* was .nde^e_Q:f ft* vbri


?>,* t':i:
n
1 1 . Amo 1 6 3r. he was removed to the BlfhppHckof fiur&fw -*>.The Q
w a s chan duedted ad p U i ^ u p a J iy fe fep*tptc?i# ;j ,andi-d d & 'Q & \,Y be

AfchdencalfO'Wasi;to.dire6Red ^ ^ r $f !i;. o? 3':^;;;.:..


- ct
%& /Being :ig M
- 7 7 . he wap (with other,fe teamed Brer

tbcest yrliyi t

rtbe Hfe

Times)

committed tbfihenTower Qlibqtdp# PnfoijeCi


s.then.di't
-.dx s
;-i 77^

l'| i
p y .yeaFSj
<%d o f a
^ lef^ or,B i^ fii^ d i'hi:A iisejn ^ R e2W ^ ib ^ ^ ^ ^ d #4 ,
fcqsdpf the
Sixifih.iCiBKl.Qt*Thiei^gMh of
, , a n w&&*
feiSditbeh;ip.rh:ci' Q*Ji ' &dIUQibQf
gerpiafiOiiteSilflarnd^mlaces:Uferfi - a
.....
. =t '
-a ~
C w~ " "

'** ''*"

. c x ^ ts u a s e ia a B a ^ Y ^ -^ '^ ^

" .........

..............

Thefe

S fo

__________G

o u e c t i o

e n i t u r a r u m

Or ______ _

Tuefe feveral eminent Accidents 6exactly corrcfponding with the Dire


ctions they are compared withal , evince the Hours and Minutes within
written , to be the true time of this great Church-mans Birth. W e (ball
in the next place confides how it agrees with him in things of more general
Concernment.
The Author of his Life celleth us, that he was inclinable to A d s o f Mer- y
cy and Companion ; and among many , in page 6 3 . givcch us one incom
parable infiance, or proof thereof viz.. In the y e a r 1602. (faith he) be
ga n the g r e a t Blague at Y o r k ; at w hich tim e he ca rried b im felf with f o m uch

h eroica l Charity as will make the R eader wonder to hear it fo r the poorer f o r t
b ein g rem oved to the Peft-houfe* he m ade it bis frequent S x ercift to v t f t them
with Food both f o r their Bodies and Souls, H is c h ie f E rrand was to inf r u i t
and com fort them . - ^/[nd to make his Coming the m ore acceptable , h e
ca rried ufually a Sack. ofFroviJton with h im fo rtb o je that wanted it> Sec.- -
N o v to fignifie this worthy Inclination in him Afirologically we finde $
his chief Significator to be in Conjunction of $ , and in great Reception o f
It* ( the mod compafltonate and friendly Planets in the Heavens) who
with his benefique Rays, forrifies the Afcendenc o f this Nativity , although
he be fix Degrees from the fame.
H e was a Pcrfonof great acquired Parts > a (harp Student ; and gained
much Honour and Etfeem thereby : yea > fo much , that the Author of his
Life compireth him with Sr. Remigitts %of whom it wasfaid ~ Vt

primum difcipttnarum.capax fa ttm eft No modo vatu m ajor es , ingenii f e l i


citate* difeendiej-, ardore , f e d & morum m aturitate Jingulari ex es Unit: That

from the time o f his firft Capacity of Learning he out-ftripped even thofc
chat were his Superioursin Age, both in Excellency of Parts Proficiency in
Learning, and Maturity o f Moral Vercues.
In his Nativity to denote the fame we finde the Moon in Trine of $ and
SI 5 and although 5 be in F t f e e s he is befriended by both the Fortunes and
in no ill Configuration with any one Planet: therefore is his fingle Debi
lity o f being in X moft iuper-fuificiently fupplycd ; and accidentally bis
Pofidon is very good.
The Pleiades Culminating > and the Sun in his Exaltation in Trine o f
a fuperiour Planet and $ Lady o f the Tench in her Exaltation a!fo, are emi
nent Arguments of the Honour and great Preferments which this worthy
Perfon enjoyed.
' The Dragons Tayl in the Tenth occafioned thofe unworthy Scandals caft
upon him by divers o f which the Hifiory o f his Life maketh mention 5 and
was perhaps by being in 31 the Digniriesof $, a main Reafon o f the fevetal Contelis in print wherein he was in his Life-time engaged: yet never'thelefs, by reafon of the forememioned Arguments the Engagements he
underwent and the Prejudices of his Adverfaries towards him, turned Rill
to hts Honour and Advantage.

1:
Ohfc Paffage in his Life, 1(ball take the Opportunity to relate, it being o f
fo eminent Concernment to all 5 and therefore cannot be too often printed*
hor by rod matiy read : and it is indeeda Demonftration o f his great Parts,
and of the Pr ofundity of his Judgement; and (hews him to have been- a Perfdn focurioufiy ferutineus, that he would pierce the very infide of what he
once undercook. The Story is thus : The Son of one Edwardrperry neat
* fVoo/ver'ftampton in Stafferhire , ( commonly known by the Title o f The
Boy o/Bilion) being uncapable o f Learning, and therefore negligent o f go*4ng to School, ( yet apt enough it feemsfor Villany,. whichmadeDc*#/
^rV^i when be came co metition him and his PraRices^ toiermhim>Litrle
* lefs then a D evil) was wrought upon by fome ' to counterfeit himfelf poffefTed with the D e vil; and was pcomifed a good Reward no doubt, for

A CbUe&ion o f d iv e rs choice N a tiv ities,


his Labour Winch Impotture, this Boy (it feems) had praciiied fo long,
chac he began to conceive himfelf to be poffeifed indeed; a.id accordingly
accufed anold Woman for bewitching him : which Counterfeit this Knave
managed to fab. illy that the Woman at the Affizes was condemned for to
die. This learned Bifoop hearing chereof.(ic being in his Diocefs,he being
then Bilhop of Lichfield and C oventry) and perfwaded in his own Thoughts
chat the Boy did but counterfeit (though Co ltrangely,as made it aimoit be*
< yond difcovery ) and again that if it Chould not be difcovered the poor
Woman mail loofe her Life ; he requdis o f the J udges chat then went the
Circuit that he might have the Boy home with himtftbi3 own Houfe;
< aifuring them chat he would ule his beft Endeavours to finde out the Impo lure before the next Alfizes: which he did but not without great Diffi cutty
as may be feen in a Book of that matter fet forth by Mr/Rjchttrd
Baddety this Reverend BiChops Secretary. The Boy would counretfeic
fo exaiily chac every Man ( learned or not fo ) would believe tint the
whole frame o f Nature was put of order with him: his Uiine>that was al ways black yet proved theheliDifcoverer o f the Cheat at h i t ; for there
being a hole made chrough rhe Wall that belonged to the Chamber where
this Boy lodged* he was found thereby rocolour his Urine with Ink, or other fuch-Uke Buff i in which he being firrt difcovered > the remainder of o ther his Impoftures, himfelf confelTed. And this learned Prelate, upon his
Contrition for it > bound him an Apprentice to a Shoe-maker in B ristol 5
from whence he went co London , and is till living ( as Doctor B, chinks )
in the Parifh of Sc. cJM*rtint in the Fields.

Thus we fee how eaile a matter ic is for Innocents to be robbd of their


Lives; and alfo how dangerous it is for Judges to permit the Mdice and
Wickedncfs of anEvidence, to heighten the Ignorance of a Jury, or indeed
their own Negligence or Credulity. *

Do not infert
this Revolutio
ns Scheme as if ic
contained any SLgnifications.of Death
therein ; but to
ihew , that when
there are dangerous
Directions opera*
ting, a goodRevo*
lution cannot total
ly enervate their Ef
fects ; efpecially at
ninety five years of
Age.
The Afcendent
to the Qjtrtife of
Saturn, did not one*
ly (together with
'j i ' *
.
chat of the Moon
a d o a & frofrium ) flgnifie the time of this learned Perrons Expira
tion*

95

Collectio

e n i t u

tjo n , b u t ( as it happened in Seerfie )


died.

zArcm DircElionis

a r u m

: Or,

the Hernia or Rupture o f which he

C O Saturn*

&4 fcm io ObltquaJ


H orofc,

deg, min,
* 39 34 5* *6*.

93- 37* f*r*>

Which turned uatbtime, according to Najfade gives 95 years, 361 dav,


3 hours.
Thtts much far this

31a. 8.
The TfttltiidcDf the
Planets,'
..d.ju,.
James ZtfherjAlrchbiihop o f Armagh,
and Primate of lrc-

% p

landiboin an. 1 5 8 6 .

North.

Ja,^. ih. 3mSp.Ad*


tat. j 3 d. 'Dublin.
5>adUaddO

South.
Avisg only
the , Day
this
great prelates NaI * tivity it was n<*
} Iqjall trouble to me
io find the Mlhut*

.wilt .(neverthqlefs) efteeqa my Endeavour 5 and tls.ep) lor the others


C^^eXbaU49Pp wife conceit* my felf;
V,-,.g,
,r^fem '''idn h | ^ ^ i amending the Eaft^Asg!^' and/$.Xa>rd thereof a iii
Coniun&ion of fcbrd of the Ninth, in the Tench,and Both calling a Trine
tferHrdm to'the .Aijeenderir, and t.the fortutyt^PJUjiet and {Platiquely)
to & alto: All v^hiefj are eminent' Arguments of Ihgenjaty andiXeis^oing ;
and .(indeed) of a more then ordinary Capacity and Underfiandirig*becaufp
alfthe -Significators, (thereof are |n Aereal Signes. Tet but any Aftrologef
cpi^fujc ^ulpors abpjat the Significations of thefeexcellent pofiirons, .and he
ih^l;findethat riiis{learned and pious Native was eminently deferving of
thejl^ongurahle Epithets feveral learned M en, both Papifts and Proted^njs,
^ypp may adiothdHfi^io^hiftLifci^ large *- onto
............
which

A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.


;which (after 1 have mitancea m a tew, igr the icity 1 ihall reier you. Mattes
in his Oration at Geneva dedicated to him, (iileshim 7 bemoft excellent Ser
vant of Gad* The moft Reverend Man of God, The Aihanafius of our tA g e'
Thy Breaft (faith he) is a breathing Library : Thou art to Britain , at Auit in
was to Hippo> & c. rpauhuTeftardtu Blefenfis* (tiles him, Seculi* CT Eccleft decus eximium* The greateft Honour of the Church and -Age. Armldtta
Boctint faith of him, That he did excel with a molt iingular Judgement in
the Oriental Languages , and in all other abttrufe and deep Learning ; ve nerable to all Europe, whofe Authority prevails much with all Men, & c .
Mr, Selden terms him , Moft Reverend, and a Man of great Piety * ftngular
Judgement* learned to a Miracle* and born to promote the more fevere Studies,
See. Dr. Trideanx (fomerime Bifhop of Woreefttr) calls him, Themoft rich
Magazine of folid Learning* and of all Antiquity*
In this Nacivicy there are iix o f the leven Planetsfupra terraft* and 5 ,Lord
o f the Afcehdentjin the very Heart of Heaven to the Degree thereof, and in
<3 with Q* and the Sun upon the Cuip of the ninth Houfe ; which Aftrologically portended the fpreading of his deferved Fame j and made him not onely
noted, but honoured and beloved for his exquifite Pains and Parts. This in
general. 1 (hall in che next place compare fomc Diredtions in his Nativity,
with fome o f the particular Accidents of his Life ; from which it will follow,
that this Nativity is this Reverend Biihops true one.
t* Anno \6qo. being then aged twenty years, he commenced Mafter o f
Arts, ( a thing not commonly known in any Univerfity j and indeed, a great
Demonilrariorvof this pious Perfons Pregnancie in his yoriger years ) he had
then operating che to the o f %* and to che Mid-heaven alfo, which aptly
portended the fame.
2. Amo T 6 i i .b ein g aged 32 years , he proceeded Dr. of Divinity: he
had then operating the MediUtn Caeli ad Sextilum Luna* by Direction.
3. Anno\624. in che 44 year of his A g e, he wa$ created Arch' ifhop o f
Armagh* and Primate of Ireland but was not poffeffed thereof, until two
years afterwards; at which time he had the directed ad Sextilum jovis :
which DireiYion fell upon the Cufp o f the eleventh Houfe, in the Drgnicies
o fU * ergo* very lignificane to chat purpofe.
A little afeerhe was eleiied ArchbiChop , & c . he had a Sicknefs that con
tinued with him nine moneths together : which was faid to be a Quartan*
but I believe not truely * becaufe the Afcendenc then was directed ad <? ,
and ad xS which Dire&ions fell in and X : I rather adjudgeica
Confumption, & c .
. 4 . Anno 164a. he being then fixty years of A ge, viz* at the beginning
of the Miferies in Ireland-* he came to England. he had then the Medium
fa it direfted -ad QuadratumLuna , and ad Antifcium & Sextilum
Martis. ... : v
:i

q* Anno 1 ^47. the Benchers of Lincolns-Inne requested him to come and
Preach among them ( they having a great Honour for him ) and aHowfiim a
confiderable Maintenance > it then being the time o f the Biihops Perfecutionin general: he had then the Moon dire&ed adAb% * and the Afcendenc
*d Trintm Veneris*
' 6. Anno 1655. on March x i . this learned and pious Church-maii (after
he had been 75 years a PHgrime on Earth, and 5 5 years thereof a Preacher
q f the Gofpel, and a itrenuous Defender of the Truth thereof other ways)
died ac Rygate* in the County of Surry : He had then Operating the Afcen
denc to the Oppolkion o f Saturn * and he Lord of the Eighth in the Nati
v ity , and the Parc o f Fortune (which Ptolemy calls the Lunar Horofcope)
dire&ed ad Oppofitum Mercurn qui eft Domimte Afcendentis,
Cc
From

97

9$

oliectio

enit urarum

: O r,

From all which Arguments! I conclude ibis lo be the true Nativity of this
eminently learned Prelate.
deg. min. I
Afcemo Obliqua cP T1
* 16. 19.1 Afc% Obi. cP h* S . C,
AfcentoObliqua Afctndentis 42. 8.1
0 /. Afcendentis
Arem DircElonts

74. a i. 1 Direilloq nafta

deg.mn,
1 1 <5- 5 4 *
4a. 8.
74. 46.

i> 1 8
The Latitude of the
Planets*
d. m.
2> o 3 2 South.
T* o 39 North.
U o
0 I So'h
9 6 12 North.
5 1 "44 South.

His Nativity
was given me
(by a Friend)
for this learned Na~
tives true one 5 and
it is very like to be
fo : yt wanting Accidents whereby to venfieic* I (hall requetl the Reader
toejtcufe me > i f I am not fo large; herein as (1 he worthy. Author defetves
and) be may expe# from me. ;
Herein we finde tn Horofcopical ; a Signe that not onely the befi-ofPreIateSj but o f Prince!? have drawn their fidi Breach under : the Moon js falla
ing into the Houfe ofljocatfing a Trine to the Cufp of che ninth Houfe : th
SunxLord o f the Ninth is iti Conjunction o f in X ; andtdS Lord o ft he
Aftendenc* is in yp his Exaltacipni in Sextile tothe Sun
, Afcendencahd
the.Moon t 5 -(the proper Patron o f Learning), is in.as in. Quart ile o f th
Moon ; which doth not fo much affli# as fome Men believe ; and although
he h$vela rely betin Oppofitibn of Tj> yet being not nowfp?.it doth notde
barihertioble Effsfcits chat 5 naturally portends.' Origarus, deffetf.fo\.^9&.
UUhr%:fflvte** mt-Uftu fartiliter -malefc prefertint cjlfarie/ in bottoCali
hctryiojSignis Aerei*,Trocipuc 2~factt ingemofiffimos> ad omnes difeipjiUa*
aptoit & femper dat pluritatem linguarttm. And he gives an Example hereof
m the Geniture oieJMclarRhon, wherein ^vsrasfo placed Z>ade (faith he)
irgemi.fui felictdte'tamum rei literaria profttit, ut ex ejtu insHtutionefcrippis t non modo Germani i fed d ' olio, nattonet maximum ftaferittt comtnodtipr*
That this learned Native was n Way inferiour to Melan&hmj hi Noter*
the Hible3h\s StellaNova,his 'AyytKM^T/a. and his Noah's Flood returning,
arretrimene Teflimonies. It rhay aifo be remembred of hini 5 that in thefe
late Confufions, hewas never known to change.
,
:.'I
.
Nar.

A Collection of divers choice Nativities,

99

ao. %6,
The Latitude of the
PUnets

d.
i

m.
si

zj

5 i 44^
J> 3 31-*
Eading over
that ele
gant and
well-pennd Piece,
The . Life of this

learned Native s I

.
.
met with the a y
or his Birch, andfeveral eminent Accidents, by which I have endeavoured to
finde out the true Aicendent thereof ? yet ihali not be fo confident or over
weening, as to affirm it to a ticile true ; I may perhaps (in tamo) fail o f the
verity hereof^ However, I fibail adventure copu'lifh Gome Realbns in Art,
that I have been at (no fmall) pains to excogitate, whichieem to me toevince it probably (at iea.ft) to be his true Nativity.
.*
i.
The learned Authorof his Life faith, That in his yoijnger years he was
fo pregnant in Learning, chat at 1 3 years of Age he was admiteed into Alagdalen CoHedge in the Univerfity of O x ford : Thac he fhould be of Pates lb
admirable in his Vouch, need nor aUonifh any thac ihali Afirologically view
this Figure: for $ , the Patron of Learning , is (imply the moib powerful
therein ; and the , Lord of the Afcendent, is in Conjun&ion with him e
and that which fo notably fharpned his Und^rfUnding , and gave Wing ro
his Ingenuity, anidtj&de himhonourd thereby, was & in his Aicendent, and
he Lord o f the tenth Houfe. ;A$vd that he Ihouldat fuch years (as the Author
o f his Life affirms) be fo feriousa Student, chat he generally fpent thirteen
hours of the Day at his Book, may be denoted by the Lord o f the Afcendents
being in Conjun6\ion with 2, in his greacefi Dignities, and this in a melan
choly and earthly Signe; the
Reception between and % doth not
inconfiderably add unto the fame. But as thefe are Radical Pofitions , lb
they are generally to be obferved, as well at one time o f the Natives Life, as
at another. But to fignifie chat particular Accident, I finde by Cakula: ion
that the M . C. about the 1 3 year of his Age, came (by Direction) to the& of
G and '5.
2. Aged 24 years, he encred into Holy Orders ; and at that rime he had
.the ^M edium Cali dire&ed ad Triwm Jovis , and Luna ad Sextilnm Jovis e which Directions are properly natural to caufe the Honour they pro
duced.
3. Being aged 34 years, he commenced Do&or of Divinity: the Afccndenc was then directed ad d Solis, & d
cum Latitudine.
4. Aged 39. made Canon of Chrift-Church in O x fordby the King, and
ehofe

-^ jo r

lo o

C ollectio

G e n i t u r a r u m : Or,

chofe pubiick Orator by the Univerfity : he had then a moft advantagious Revolution > and ja p tier cranfiting his CMedium Coeli molt of the
year.
He was made Chaplain to the King at 42 years of A ge* and more
then ordinarily in favour with his then facred Majelly 5 as may appear by the
Kings Meifage to the Parliament, in EW* BasM/xn , wherein his Majelly is
pieafed to requett his Attendance on bis Perfon in the time of his great
e r (and moll to-be-lamented) Sufferings : He had then the M edium
Co?/i directed to Aide bar an, a Kingly fixed Star o f the firft Magnitude a and
to the Qvurcile o f the Sun alfo ; which in other things wanted not its Sig
nifications.
6. Aged <>5. on e/ipril 24. j 66 g>. he died; having ( like Mojes of the
promifed Lind ) but aGlimpieof his Majeliies accels to the Throne of his
Anceiiors, ( for whofe Caufe be had been fo great a Sufferer) but was not
permitted co fee him fecled there : he had then the Afcendent directed ad
{uadratum Saturnu

deg. ntin
uifeentio ObliqnaX2 Saturni
jtfeen tio Obliqna AfcenAentit
t4rcus D irefiionis

I 6 <j.4 5 .

n o . 56,
$ 4 .4 9 .

Tnefe concurrent Directions, to me* prove this to be the true Nativity o f


this learned Perfon. Take however one or two more Tettimonies in. gene
ral , which very much feem coftrengchen the truth o f thefe feveral Parti
culars*
He was (faith the learned Author o f his Life) o f a juft heighth for Stature,
and all proportionate Dimentions5 avoiding the Extreams o f Grofs and
Meagre* And infol. 85. of his Life > cis faid, . H T ace ca rried D ig-

nity and ^ ttra H ion s in i t ; [ca r ee e v e r clouded with a Frown , or fo m uch


as d a r n e d by % eferved n efs . Which Characters o f Defcription , eJMars
in Leo in the Afcendent, may juftly challenge, as all Aftrologers confent.
In Page 59 o f his Life, we read, ' H is M em ory was fervicea b k t but

not officious ; fa ith fu l to T hings and Bujtxefs> but unwillingly retaining the Pun du a lities o f Wards : w hich DefeZl he frequently lam ented , it being harder f o r
him to g e t one Sermon by H eart , then to Pen twenty .
This may juftly (in Aftrologie) be attributed to the Combnftion of $ 5 for
although he be the moft potent Planet in che Figure, yet his Combufiion
tnuft neceifarily have its Effects.

Thus much for this learned *Do&ors Nativity

A Collection o f d iv e r s ch oice N a t iv i t i e s .

iOK

2 2 1 . IX.

The Latitude o f th
Pianeti*

U i

44

<T o

27 N

S.

N this learned
Perlons Genicurej vve finde
Tz, thi Lord there
of*, very potent,de
noting him moft
apt andpropenfe to
Study. The Trine o f the Sun and $ to U from the tenth Home, gave him
cbe great Honour he enjoyed by Learning* and his skill in Languages and
Antiquity. He was indeed a general Scholar; no Science, either Liberal or
Mecbinick, but be was acquainted therewith.
He was bom at Amerfham in BttckJgham-bKire ; Of Parentage (in the
Eye of the W orld) but mean : yet he bemg ordained from his Nativicy.fot
greac A cq u ire:^ in Learning, & c , was about the 1 yth year o f bis Age,
preferred to Sir fVtuiam
ro wait upon him at Ch ids Co<ledge in O x
ford : he had then Operating Medium Call ad ($ ,& & % > & 2 which
lingularDireftions , were the mediate Cautes ( nexc under Q o p s Provi
dence, of his laying a Foundation to his future Honour and Preferment*
which he failed not co enjoy and partake o f , until the Iniquity o f the Tithes
prevailed fo highly among us, that Learning began to be neglefced.
When he was.26 years old,he publifhed bis Notes o n C i v il Law,
and a little before , was made Chaplain of Chriils-Church , Prebendary o f
Chichefb r and Santm t Afcendent Was then dire&cd ad& J>,, and ejMcdlum
Call ad J>, cum & fine Latitudine.
Aged near 40 years, he <ied, having been about 20 years (as faith the Hifiory of his Life) before a ffixed with the Got t : the Afcerident was then dixeted adQ D , and che Moqn nearly come to the Conjunction o f Tj. Thus
then we fee c-iac there are other Caufcs of the Gout beiides the Radical Af
fliction of the Sun and Moon : bere is 5, Lotd of the Sixth , Combuil in
*U, in the tenth Hpufe. Jlrgolfeys* I f the Lord of the Sixth be in
the Tenth it notes molefiarlo te the Native by great <j>erfos Sic. and by finch
means, Sickjiefs and Trouble of tJMinde will invade and difquiet him: and by
the Tyranny of our late Times, he was much molefted and difquieted 5 which
gave Opportunity to his ( too ) cruel Fate to ieize upon him; which never
deferred him till Death. But chat w ich made it the more malicious, was
the unhappy Q of the two Infortunas from Cardinal Signes.

Dd

Rti/eimi

102

Co

l le g t io

e n i t u r a rum :

Or,

^ U rE may remember
VT that the o was
eclipfed almoft iq D i
gits in the very De
gree of Tjj Lord of the
Afcendenc at Birth) on
the 2.6 o f December,
viz,, a little after this
Revolution begamhnd
on March the 13.
On
^ 4 : he died
which very day, tbq
was in;D coche.Afcendenc of the Radix ; and
Lana :was in {f o f <T*,
Lord of the Afcendenc
t h e r e o f a n d of the
Sixth in the Revolutional Figure. I11 the Re
volution it felf;the 2>is in domo Martis & Mortis Art to the Afcendenc and
its Lord at Birth: an intercepted Signe in the Eighth of the Radix , afcends
in the Revolution jand T? ism <? to Lord thereof. Thus all things concur
ring together, might well denote the year dangerous: butbefidesall thefffi
the was dire&ed to the eighth Houfe in the Revolution, juft about the
time he died ; and about threeweeks or a moreth beforfe,it is moft probable
he firft fickned to deathbecaufe about that time, the Afcendent of the Re
volution was direfted to the D of c?, and cP of T*,
' '
Thus much for theT[ativity of this worthy Terfou * ^.hofelofs3 not onely
Amerfham, but England, may lament! but yet rejoyce in this3 that
they we're trudy bleffed3 in bringingforth fogreat a Son of Learning.

The Latitude of the


Planets

lthough this
learned Perfon (for inch
beyond all peradventure he was)was
in his Life-time a
great

nK
H
saeS

' '$Ce&idnv f divers choice Nativities.

i o3

great Enemy to Aiirologie , lhaiJnoc refuie to give his Nacivity piacem


my BJ56fcibcaf itgoch not meanly'evincethe Power and Influences o f the
Scab y in as much aJat truel defcribes his Perfon, Temper and Diipofirion'j,
The- Man I nlu^donfefs, I never favy ; but relying on -the Credit of the
Author o f his if, I believe him to have been a Perfon of Middle Stature
Thin Body ' Lively Countenance andFreih Complexion j C^f. toflgnifie
which ArtrIogiH we finde vy > a Signe of Brevity a*ifd Sparenefs co af-!
tend the HofOft^e and the D in & > another-Signe of Brevity, in exail A
to the Afcendehf? The Author of his Life reports him to have been Grey
betimes : fohfcghificacion of whichi we finde in his Nativity-.ft Lord of the
Afcenderft, -pofitedin > a fiecy Signe, ( quite contrary to his own nature)
near Co* Sco rfn violent fixed Star. Now, a Planet Cold and Dry, being
pofited in a Signie Hot and Dry, may very wellabate of its own nature, and
receive an impriTon of the Nature of the Sigrie- j as we fee it apparent in
Veg&ables, rftehotceii Ground ripens any thing the fooneft. /This Native:
mtiU/fbr thefame Reafon have been alfo very Cholerick , although the Au-?
thofitff HirLife hath mentioned'fio fuch Charaiter o f him ; and by that Hu
meurs wafling oithe'Humidum Radicale, it is no wonder that he'fhould
fe<nr!Anrint in his Youch.. And to allure all Men ( that {hall Read this)
tbifiliisis no Fi'fcon, or faigned-Story , cunningly compelled to agree with
th'Significations of: his Genicpre .viz,. that he was Cholerick, Icandemonifrate the fame From his ownWritings : for he contended with divers eminent Per Forts under Pretence of Zeal tothe Truth,chat never were known
tobegin with him ,-. as Mr. Saltmarjb, Mr. Sympfon Mr. Walker's Mr. Came
as the-Author of his Life maketh to appear : fo chat pne may juflly fay ofhim*.
as a learned and ingrtios Perfon bhce of Gajfendus the french Phyfiti an, H e made that to fee'm the Severity o f his Devotioni whic/n Truth was the Marofenfs of his Nathre.
\
J
." , ;

To prove this his true Nativity further, 1er it be confiderd, that he was,
molt fortunate id Wives, as %. in in the feventh Houfe, might well denote,
together with $ hef A toft from the feventh Houfe ; Nor could he bebuc
very Uxorious ai U*s (lifpofing offtV aptly argfis.
Being aged itf.hdVvas firfllenttoche Univerficy : the 0 wa$then dire led
faf ft.
c '
*
/ "
- Aged z f , he commenced Mafter of Arcs : the Sun was then dire&ed a d d
jo v is .

Aged 27. he went to Preach at Lincolns-Inne, where he continued ten


years together : the Afcendenc was then diredled to the oft?, the D tothe
A of the Sun, and the Sun to the of
Aged 37. he left Lincolns-Inne,at\d went to Redrijf where h continued
43 years : he had then the Afcendenc directed co che A of % , and co the If
Of D.

.Aged 69 years,he was chofenone of the Presbyterian Affembly s ^JMcdiunt

Coeli ad A Solis,

' -

Aged 80 years, he died : Afcendenc ad Pft, andco theBulls Eye.

Revolution

* * s*'"..

10 4

C o u t c T i o

m it u

>

u m

: Of,

He Afccndcor o f
the Revolado
i the oppofite place
of the Sun in the Ra*
dix and the Lord o f
the Eighth is in Quartiletotbe Afcendenc ;
12, Lord of the AfcenCenc at Birth is here
pohted in the iixth
Houfe * a
n
d
the Sun
with ^J is there alfo 3
the Moon is in Oppo
sition o f i j i w Q j a r *
tile of , end he*
hoids the Sun with a
Quardle alfo.
A ll
w.Jcb are Arguments
verydangerou?in iuch
a Revolution! wherein
fo dire a Direction happens as before hath been rcmcTnbred. Butbeides
this, to irak the year the morecruel and fatal, we finde thatthe Moon wan
eclipfed 19 Digits in the place o f the Sun, a few moneths before the Revo
lution f'eg. n, and operated in full force near the time o f his Death. Nor is
it improba1 le * but that the SunsEclipfein Augttft 1054. happening on the
eighth Houfe of the Radix, and upon the place of h in the Resolution,might
considerably add unto the foregoing difmal Prefages. Thu* is a JuMiceiit
the Decrees c f G o s> and Nature moil eminently cbfetxable , vise. To cue
him off (partly) by the Influences of Eclipies, that in his Jife-dme fofurioufly nreax cured the. Obfcurarion of their ir.oli apparent Effects. See his
Diicourfe againLi Lili/. Let not any iriltake me ; 1 do onely a(Terr the veri. ty o f Influences in D efers o f the Luminaries, but cannot defend Lilly in any point, becaufe he deferves notorioufly to be condemned, in thatbepre*
tended unto the Science o f the Stars, and w
a
s
not able to anfwer Mr. Gat*Efrs Sophiims againlt the fame.
On July the 8 .1654. be was firft taken with a fainting Fir : the Moo
was then in the oppohte place o f the Afcendent* going to ap <P o f
Lord
thereof, who was newly become Retrograde.
On jufy 1 7. his Tertian grew too ftrorg for Nature :
was then in o f
the and both near the iixth Houfe of the Revolution, and the i>was in the
Afcendent of the Radix.
On July 22. he began to be at a littleeafe,and to talk and difcoqrfe freely:
th 2>was then in of u,, Lord of the Afcendenc of the Revolucin.
}*ly 26. in the Morning he was in great pain : the $ was.in O o f & and
the .
jnly 27. about feven o f the Clock at Night, be departed this Life : the
Moon was thenexaHy in Quardle o f T*, Lord of the Afcendent o f the Ra
dix.
The in lit in the Eighth o f the Nativity, in of S* may very well por
tend a Tertian Fever to cut off Life ; alfo a violent wailing o f the Vital Spi
rits before Death : both which were true in this Nativity.

10

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.

The Latitude of the


Planets,

D
h
%
<?
$
$

d.
i
a
i
o
o
o

m,
j o S.
13 Ni
38 S.
3?
yp > N .
34.3

Bout the
21 year
of
this
Natives Age he
Was admitted imo
Orders and at the
fame years was mar
ried : he had the tJMediHm Call dire&ed ad Trinai Venerisi
Aged 2<j years and two monethshe died of' iurfeit : he had then the Afcendenc directed ad guadratam Saturni > near Cor Leonis a violent fixed
Scar. .
:i- _
He was a Perfon of Parrs moR pregnanti. a grat Scholar ? (let h iye a fs
be considered ) as the Sextile Rays o f Mercury to SktUrniidfoitabiyi, vvdi de
note. His 1nclination was apt .to any thip^of Study : frfhe ad .the Sun
Moon and cZJiercary all pOfitedan earthly Signes. He waji of ,a jargeSpiric
and was aiming at Honour infficiendy ? as moft do that bzykfico afcendit^gf
but to add to that here were the Luminaries,In Trineco'each other ; and
one in Conjur.tion of and the'other in Tririeto >VenMjyjibici} mopo$
fenfe did noe want their Significations. E:'fnv.j! ! ^ "A *JA1."A n ,A. R
For his binde'of Death via.: by
thA & r
turn, Lord o f the Six h and fighch, was
M ct^ufp'f
and the Moon going to his Oppoition, J v V 'f ' '
A A A A A? *

Thus muchfer thisJTativity,

'\A A '; AA'-A "A A A A - A ^ n i


-1

[O 6

ol l e ct

ia G

e n it

u r a r u m

*. Or,

* 3*- g 7*-_

LS

< \
V l O. n R.
V

V"
Vi
N
T
1 ^ r* aihiezar Coppe,
born 1619.
, M a y 30. 3 h. 41 w.
./
F. M .
la tit. Warwick.

The Latitude of the


Planets.

a; /

. o*
* *
< \

D & * 5 ad Vac.
,

T*.
U!
c?:
:
5

/w.
34 North.

i | 5 | South
i
50 North,
9 South.
a
O 8 North.

**\l

His Native
for Parts
V
N.
,
both Na
|V q
tural an8 acquired*
/
Q *7-4-VF. X / '
\
was^and is, mpft e,
4
..
Ifiihent'and prodigibuig 5 ic beiftgobterrable, that (while he was at the Univeriity, and after
wards) few bf his years were able to equal him. His Acumen, and admir a
ble Memory, are'plainly difcovered from the great ftrength of Ve^nt, and -her
being in
Lord o f the ninth. Houfej who is in
T rineto'the Afcbndent. T know the Oppofition of 'Mars and Jupiter 1 and
their Qjjiartil.e to
are pf no good -Signification in Matters of Religlohibift ra^hbr'eificli^
will judge
that fhall fee it. v.et t^ey.^o^otabate of.his greatPartSjbnt rather occafipn
.Atjra us hatb:ictaxed with this teamed Per fob:
ftfr^tho^Vrearpi.^^^
M . .C. dire&ed ad Quadtawrc^p ?,Book| entitjiied* The Fiery Flying-Rovp!b$
if'which th^hen power^ ^j<in.g Religion not fo much honoured, (thereMjPafitbtignt tfe oe lay V Divine, committed-,him to Newgate, where belay
i fx/ A >'

"

/V *
St,
/ +

V %

Signe* and Jupiter cadent,~ and a&i&ed o f Mars , and from moveable
Signes; ergo the Aphorifm in the greateft^parpjs bercitimade good. Argot
and Ferrier fay, I f Mercury be ill dignified in the ninth FFouff, the Native will
he notedfor Srrottrs in Religion : Mercury (you fee) is foin this Figure j and
the then Powers (though perhaps as guilty thecnfelves) were pleafed to call
his Writings Errours..
Many other things might be noted in this Figure 5 but I, intending not a
Calculation * and chence Obfervations at large, forbear all further fcruciny
herein.

e.^

S 3

The

A Collection of clivers choice Nativities.

i 7

S2. 48.
The Latitude of the
Pianett*

2>
Tz
U

$
$

The learned Dr. TV.


Gauge* born i 575.
Nov. 1 . 14A. 29 zw.
A .M .Vulgarly; but
Ailronomically, on
Qftob.i 1 . r 4h.zym.P.M

d.
i
1
0
0
3
0

SubLat. 51 d. 32 m.

m.
16
3 4 ' >Nordi
8
28
23
*Souch.
43,

N the Narra
tive o f the
Life of this
learned Doctor, he
is faid to be born
on the Day within
rVULL , at Stratwricten
fo rd - Bow? in the County o f M iddle f e x ; vtz,* within three Mities of London :
but the time of the Day is not mentioned. Howbeit, I have
havc been
u=cn at the
tnc
pains todifeover the true time thereof 5 as by the following Correction may
appear.
1.1 z.wf

H being aged 20 years, he was fent to Cambridge j viz,, Anno 1^95, he


had the Sun then directed to the Scorpions Heart*
When he was aged 28 years, he married an Orphan in the Cicy o f Londom
formerly the Daughter o f an eminent Citizen and Mercer of London: he had
then the Sun direded adTrinum Jovis Lord of the feventh Houfe ; and ac
the fame time <35ad SextUttm Mercurii, Lord of the Afcendenc ; the Dire
ction happening on the very Cufp thereof. .
i/inno 1608. being aged 33' years , he became ReCtor of Biack^fryers
London y where.be-continued above 45 years , viz,* to his Death: he had
then.by DirectionxheMoon to the Conjunction of Mercury , Lord of his
Afendent; and TeptWnd the Aic-rndent ad Spicam Prirgt^isi& S ext Ham Sa
turai ; which Directions fell in the fcond Hpufe.
-v
. i'Jpno *>28. vyhen he was aged 53 years, he commenced Doftor of Divi
nity $. he had then the Moon directed to the Trine of J upiter , and the Sun
jta f h Bo$y p i P entto^cum Latkudine.
v v. . ' \
Am o 1,6 53. {jyace'mber 1 2 . eight of the.Clock in the. Evening, being
agdi a little above 7 years, healed: theSunwaSthen directed a d d d*
and the Afcenden under the Direction to th Body o f the Sun , and attd*

H raconis ..

The Autho^pf.his Life faithVbe was Ahftmatif l, and ibmetimef-troubled


With the SconiV .Hre IS the ujil Quartileof Jupiter* Lord of the Sixth,
and Saturnin Qurnile to the Afcendent, 'aptly denoting the firit and che
Sun inCnjutiion vyith the Dragons Tayl in Scorpio, and the Moon and
rctiry ( w h o ; S^ominm Afeetfdent) in the fame Signe, are very fignificantArgumentsp^cbeiilL
: '.r
\ "Tbat-thislearnd^ative (botfldbeTo eminent a Divine, and fo much ho
noured for hisLearping and'Parts,is apparent from thefe feveral remarkable
C-.JZT:... ' *
'
'
Confi-

i8

ollectio

en iturarum

: Or ,

Configurations: vie. the Moon her being in Sexcile o f $> , Lady of the
ninth Houfe, and the f^poficed locally therein. a. l|. his being in the Ele
venths in Sexrile of S> a Planet in the Afcendenc. 3. If, his being in Trine
of T>, the Difpoficor of the Lady of the Ninth, of whom he alfo difpofetb.
4. The Sun and Mercury in Sextile to the Afcendenc ; 2 being Governour
of the prime Angles o f the Figure.
Thus then the Figure agreeing with thofe feveral Accidents , as well in
Particular as General, 1 dare pronounce it the true one and commend ic to
the honeft Aftrologer for fuch.
His Figure is very
nearly the fame
with that o f the Nati
vity ; which (of ic ielf)
upon dangerous Dire
ctions operating , is
nearly fatal: but befides this, herein we
finde <3 returned to
the Qjartile-place of
the Moon, and the
D hattning to his <P in
Cardinal Signes; d*is
alfo in platique o f 2,
the one being Lord o f
the Afcendenc, the otherLordof the Ejghch
in both Figures: the
ZS Is policed on the A fcendent, and 2 is re
turned to its Radical place, there applying to a of the in the Combuft
way. All which are moft eminent Arguments of a dangerous time 9 (in refpettuvitaj as ro this learned Native ic proved.
And if we fhall follow the Do&rine of the learned Johannes Baptifta Mori/,and diredt the Sig
nificators in a Revolu
tion, we ihajl find,that
about the time ke de
parted this Life, the D
was directed to the
Body of "h, and this in
<51 ; which denotes
the Direction always
to prove M ortal, it
governing the moft
Vital Parts in the Bo
dy of Man. And this
is further demonftrced by the Figure Of
the time of this wor
thy Divines Expirati
on j the Revolutional
nal Degree o f Saturn
( nearly ) afeending
therein,

A ColleSion of divers choice Nativities. _______ top


therein, and U> Lord of the Sixth in his Nativity ( but Eighth in the Revo
lution) in Oppoiition thereunto.
Thus we fee a Harmony in Aftrologie ; and fo certain a Dependence o f
one Figure o f Heaven upon another, that the ingenioufly Learned may difcover, and read the P ower and Wifdome of Almighty G o d , in his Creatures
the Stars and thereby be taught to magnifie the fame.

12a. 47.
'the Latitude of the
Planets,
7
South
o North

i>
U

18 > South
27 *
50 North

S
5

r R. Samuel
CrooJ^vvaS

born on'
t he' Day within
wrircen, at Great
(Paldingfie/d, in the
County of Suffolk,:
but the time thereof, I have endeavoured to findeouc Aflxologically : it be'ing either the Morofenefs, Ignorance or Negligence o f thofe that write che
Lives o f famous Men, not onely not tofet down the time of the D>y of their
Birchs , but fometimes not the Day it felf j and content themielves with a
bare knowledge o f the Year : which Errour ( in this,as other things of mo
ment) hath nor onely caufed Confufion in Chronologies but in Ailronomy
alfo ; and is like yet to occafion much more if the Pains o f fome ferious
and induirious Pen and Brain do not endeavour a Rectification therc'Jg*^v.
, .,
,
-. ,
f . i , fj-t
j.. ,. ? ,.r
. . p)
This learned Native in his time was fo famous in his Profeflion > that the
Publilher of his Life terms him A Prophet > and The Son o f a *prophet (his
Father having it ieems been a Preacher o f the Gofpel) and che Univerfity of
Cambridge, in honour of his great Parts and Accomplifhmencs, in their Li
brary have done him a particular Honour ( as he in his Life-time had done
them ) of which the Hifio. y of his Life maketh mention.
Upon the firit fight of this Nativity many Artifts would wonder where
there.fhould be that therein,fufficient to fignifie, not only .fuch Honour and
Fam, but efieNativespeiertsahdMerits thereof. Howijit, upon a ffious View, we fhali findie nnaiiy Aigtrints oFWeght that1fitly portended the
/ !

s*

. T rw

A -t? L : k ' r i ' X j ? - .

L . v J l ' w 2

<

-. T

ing pofited in s his Exaltaciori,:mthe Houfe fignifing Rcligieb ; partly in


Ff
A

11o

C, q i i E C T i p G e n i t w r a rum ; Or,
vto the Afcendent. 3.
Lord of the Ninth*his being in Sextile o f <?, the
Difpoiitor of the Moon* and 5: Lady of the Afcendent* in the fame Afpet o f
him. 4. The Luminaries in Sextile of each otherthe one being Lord of the
Mid-heaven* and the other partly Governefs o f the Ninth. 5. The Moon
in Trine of T*, who difpofes of 2* $ and the Sun ) and be in friendly Sextile
to the Afcendent. A ll which * are not onely Teftimonies o f great Honour
and Fame in the Profeflionhe was bred up unto but o f eminent Ingenuity
and Learning.
The Author pf his Funeral-Oration hath this Paifage, relating to his great
Parcg*
'fwo things (rarely wet in ope Man) wercefiewent in him 5 A
qm'ck^lnventlon * and a found Judgement ; and thefe accompanied with a clear
Exprejfion 3 and agraceful locution. Which feetns to be moil admirably
denoted r>y all the foregoing Configurations* their happening in the Digni
ties of h , U and
Iharpens the Invention ; and by his with $ and
2 adds to the Elocution : ajid T2 and ij. give a lingular found Judge
ment.
To come to particular Accidents : Let it be remembred* this learned N a
tive,when he was fomewhat above 26 years old* received Ordination* or entred into holy Orders : the Moon at that rime was direed ad Jovis-, and
within a year (or lefs) afeer * he was indufted to the Parfonage of fVrington
in Sotnerfet-ihue , by the means of Sic Arthur apel - hip had then the Sun
direCtedW > Jfvis. And U * being the moil powerful Planet in the Fi
gure, (1 mean eiTencially) might be an eminent Argument of his continuing
in that Benefice fo long : for I do not read in all lus Life * that he ever had
any other* but fiill retrained there.
. . .
: When he was aged 75 yeafsj he died, viz., on Deceinh.z . 1 649. he had
the Afcenderitdj^fted<id<i ft* Lord o f theFonrth;<^bem g upon the very
Radical pi acjofAhs Sun at that time * and the Moon newly feparated from
bis Conjunction, and the un was in exad Quarrik of the Moons place in
his Nativity alfo.
;
. r <!
Thu* muchfhallfem e for this Nativity;

.1

. ; A Geatleman inC4?^r^r* (by Profelli^ii apivjne) whpfe Name Ihave


no Commiifionto anne^tphisNarivity* waspleafedto Communicate
hisGenitwje tome, wifih federal Qaefllons to be tefolved tbetefrotni
which Comyearsfipel refoJvedindaefpjlowing Method atodfhesdfcy
way of ^mplepubliih themin mannerfollowing,
oj

AColle5tio?i of.divers choice Nativities.

Lot.'planet,

d* **b #

0 18 >Nogb
0 7^

1 *

T*
1

%'z 7

f h

t. .-...a .. South,
f
North j
o .,fj.o .Sputhj

.1
.

jintifc.

4 **

f 22 44
1 * 46
\ * 7 . 14.
< 15 44
3<! *11
I2 6 2
L *? *7

in

Govtrx-Antlfck

4. ft*.

; 4 4 TP
' -a * 4 d *Jp
*7 14 m]
Jt
< # >
i-5 4 4 * >
3T 12 |
* * 11 t \
V U 1 26 ' :. 96
-m
U j
*7
*5

Yf

22

t o n

'J'He Accidencs by which ihjsNacivity was ysrified * are-thofe following %


. rx.. Aged i 5
pail frpma plorfe 5 it happened about Midr
Tatnmer 1 6 4 3 . . ^ ^ it wasqccafioned by the Afcendents occurfe to the Oppplition of
near che^tatit o^*rig4>of the nature
o f &> and partly
5 palled by the place of the Direction at the fametime*
and abated much of i^s .ey^^oguenjceAged n?aii7 yer$V hftSj^aJiPox. it happened in the JTOonethof May
.
l
$
g
f
<?p *
1
* iffy follow
ing, we^,tjtp^hp
the M .& . came to thegod.y oftpeMoon

we
Tench of the Nativity 1 itheAtoon
'fchen'came'to the Terms of 5 and Trine of.<T: the 0 wasonder the Trine
ofTz, Lord of the Tenth.
?%
v-v
uO
- J ^ thejQ$thQfvembcr 16^-j. ele&edFellow agedjhsnabput a^yegrss
a-.iindgoing tphe Q : the I*4 Ter. g \ Afc.
pf^i^andgom&cpjhe Terms,qfft: che s>and cothe Teems
jj F>
Qffi&qn ibme {Uffiilty about it* And tin* he confeifedwas
.JtySpr ; , *. V . '
:uaA S5d
the n^ ieth April 1$%$. a Tertian Ague of ihorccotv
tmuahee occafioned by the force of that years Revolution.
From the Nativity thus corre&ed, the Queftions propounded by the Na'^y^>,receivedftpm me chefe R o w in g Aniwers.

1,

W h en

112

ol l e

cT i o G e n i

tur arum

I . yyhtn like to come to any Preferment ?

: Or,

I f durable ?

Rjjp. The Native may obtain Preferment in the 26 year of his Age ; and
it may be durable for then the Mid-heaven comes by Diredticn to the
Trine ot $ , and the Sun to the Conjunion of : both which fignifie admi
rable and durable Preferment.
Que li. 2. Whether ever like to marry ? and when ?
Refi $ being in a Prolificai Signe , near the Body of cf, and both in Sex
tile to 5 Lord of the Accendenti are eminent Tettimonies of the Natives In- '
clination to Marriage. The time when may be in his - ij year of Age : for
then he is under the force of the before-mentioned Dire&ton > and the Sun
at that time comes to the Sextile of 5 in n?3in the fifth Hoiafe of the Nativity.
But the Moon being about that time directed to a Quadrate of ft, falling in
the eleventh Houfe may denote fome kinde of unexpeed CroiTes to the
Native; and this from fome of his Elderly Friends, perhaps his Mother,
Crc. by reafon o f the fore-mentioned Bulinefs : which may not endy prove
(fomewhac) obfiruiiive to his Proceedings therein, but may cwcafion fome
Dilcraiinefs in Body , and Grief and Trouble of Minde by reaion thereof.
But the bed ont is it may go over without much Danger.
Qpeft, 3. Whether thrive by his profejfton ? and in rvhat place mof t
liky ?
:j
Rejp. The Native may thrive and advantage himfelf by his. Profeifion : for
U the natural Significator thereof, difpofes of ft, Lord of the Ninth and
Tenth Houles and calls a friendly Sextile to the Alcendent. The.'Place the
molt like to do good therein ihould be the North-Eaft pare of the Nation ;
for both the Fortuned are in that Quatterof Heaven, and n Signes represen
ting the fame Quarter allo.
. . 11?
Quell. 4. Whether manyy or few, real Friends ? and what kinde o f ter font
they hall be in reference to Temperature and Profeffiopl .
Rejp- A double-boaied Signe upon the Cufp o f the Eleventh and the Q
there ihould portend many Frinds :
Lord thereof in \, a fixed Signe
and in Sextile co the Afcendent denotes them to be teal. ~-For the kmde
of Perlons, theyihould for themoft part be Civilians and Clergie-men or
Perfons of a confiderble Quality and Degree. ; forU naturally patron2eth
fuch Perfons j and the rachef in this Nativity becaufe hf is in the Houfe o f
theSun. Thofe of a middle Stature full bodied well made, oval Vifage, and
a brightilh Chelbut-coloured Hair, will be the moft friendly; The Native
may allo receive Friendihip by the means o f Female Perfons : for 5 being
exalted in the Eleventh and in Trine to the fkme from the CuTp o f the Se
cond, prenotes no lets.
: ',r
' ;
?
Queft. s* Whether ever like to Yravel i " and when
* -j
_
Rejp* The Lord f the ninth Houfe in an Angle, and difpofed oifb- Pla
net ii an Angle, argues imall Inclination in this Native to. Travel. N r
would it be either pleafant or profitable for the Native fo to dobecaufe the
Lord o f the Ninth is Retrograde, andina Sign contrary to hfc nature and
iti Oppofition to the Afcendent.
3
Queft. 6. How long it is probable Imay live J
i;> J
" f<r;
Rejp. The Native accordirig to Rules o f Artvmay !iv& many years, i f be
efcape the thirty-third year o f his A ge, which (according tbNatural CayfesJ
cannbt but prove very dangerous for then! tbAfcendericis directed tAthe
Body of cf, and this happens in-SB' and c? hath great Dignities in rhere%tiitfi
Houfe. The Moon at the fame time is dire&ed t the Quanile o f $ ,'Lacfy
o f the fixth Houfe ; and both thefe Diretins fall in Cardinal Signes. :<^Buc
Sapiens dominabituir A ftr is ,

r;ra m i

In this Nativity, ft and $ are in Trine-Platique, theonebeing Lordof

che

AColle&ionof divers choice Nativities.

i i3

the Ninth , and the other of the Alcendent 3 and the Moon in Scxtuc or I*
froth the tench Houfe: the San and 1J. are in Sexcileto the' Afcendent j $
and c? hold the fafhe- Afpe&Wuh the Lord ehereof, who is in ns : Argu
ments riot onely of an accompliihed Scholar 1x1 general , but of a good D i
vine.
'

34* - '3.3*
The Latitude of the
Planets.

Sib balds
born 5 , July 31. 13 h.
28 m. *p.
i doi .
Agronomical (y 5V but
Vulgarly, on \*A u g. i ,
28 m. palt i a Clock:
mar.*,Sub Latir. 5 6 deg.
It
ad cP 2.

2>
T2
%.
<T
9
S

d. m.
1
a
1
o
s
o

7
as
>North
3
6
S South,
44 North

N this Figure, s
afcends the Horoicope;andths
bermin Planet $ betrig poilted therein,
J U in Sextile
thereunto, doth fo'exa&ly. deferibethe Perfon o f this learned D oior, that
the Pencil of the bell Limner itrthe World carinot-do it berter. For he is of
Stature ta ll, and well proportioned ; void -'of the Extreams of Grofs arid
Meagre : his Complexion h very frefh arid ruddy ; his Hair of a brightiih
Colour, not m>ch curling, & c .
*
-
l o denote hWe^cellent Parrs , ( for o f fuch he is , and in Learning and
Reading inferio^r to very few), he hath $1 in vz in^f to & and to the Afcenc|nt> and holding the fame Afpedt with
Lord of the Ninth, who is in A o f
his Pifpofitpr : and to add to thefe, the D (Lady of his Afcendent) is in Pla
tiqu & o f V^Avhofiiendly refpedts the Afcendent iikewife, he being exalted
therein.
This learned Perfon in the Lite Times o f Confuiion, (when Loyalty. was
held a Crime and to be Orcbodox, no lefs then Herefie ) after feveral years
being envied by the (then) prevailing Fa&ions> was in the year 1651. rhoft
difgrcefully (and without juit caufe) committed to Prifon, and had hiS.Beneficeof Clerken-well ( not long before ) taken from him: % was then upon
his Afcendent, and oppoiite place of hisD, above a year together: but that
which was more mitchievous then this, he laboured undet the malevolent D i
rection of the cj^. C. ad Oppofyum Saturnia cum & fine Latitudine* . : .1
deg.tnin.
. .
deg.mm.
'AfaRetia (fhC.j&c# circula.393.31. Afcentio T{etia <P Tz $ L- 392.42*.
Afcentio Retid Medii CeUi : 342.33. Afcentio cI{etiit JHedii Cceli 342
Arcus Diretiionis

^ 0 .5 8 .

Arcus Diretiionis

G g

o.
Th

114

C o iiE C T io

e n i t u r a r u m

: Or,

The Effects hereof continued until towards 1657. all which time he was
kept out of his Right j and then was admitted into a part o f his Living again: the Moon was then directed to the Antifcion o f T* and this in the
ninth Houfe , and his Part o ft Fortune at the fame time to the Trine of 5 ,
Lord of the Twelfth 5 perhaps one Reafon why his Enemies became kinde to
him.
Other Accidents I have n o t; howbeit >, chefe feem diffidently to corre&
it, becaufe they agree fo aptly with the general Significations o f the Scheme>
as with his Perfon, Profeifionand Parcs. Nay* there is an eminent Signifi
cation of his fufferingby reftraint and the-Malice of his Enemies; asche
Moon in Opposition of Jtfars from Cardinal Signes and xjMars and the
Dragons Tayl their being pofited in the Twelfth H o u f e , clearly declare : buc
fuch Mifchiefs ihould not commonly or long attend him becaufe 3 is in the
Afcendent and *4 in Sextile thereunto and <? his being in Reception o f the
Moon.
Thus much for this Nativity,

262 43.
The Latitude of the
Planets,

Mr. Jofhua Childry^


born anno 16 2 5 .0 .
Otioh. 2, 4 h. 18 m,
P, 4 *.
at Roehefier in Kent
whofe LAs id. 3om,
2>cP 3 ,ad A 3.

Tl
%
<5*
$
$

d, m,
o
1
1
4
o
3

537
i v . North
4\
20 South
id North
34 South

HisNativity
doth dif
fer fomewhat from the time
the Author o f ic
gave m e: but if the
Accidents which he communicated unto me at the fame time be confidered
the ingenious Artift will finde a Reafon for the Alteration I have made
which is 28 mitt, in time. The time given was Ottober 2, 3 h, 50 iw. P ,M ,
and the corrected time (yon fee) I have made 4 h, 18. cp , M , And now I
{hall compare it with Accidents.
t/4nno 195. on January the twenty fecond day* this Native told me he
had the greatell Mif- forcune befel him > as ever did in his L ife for the im
pairing his Eftate: He had then the Afcendent directed to the Oppofition
o f 3 >fine Latitndine ; but that which was muchworfe was, the Sun dire
cted 3 Lady of his fecond Houfe and to the Scorpions Heart; and
acLC.A. & \ : and on the day of the Mif-fortune 3 Lady of hisfecond, was Retrograde in the Twelfth Houfe of the Nativity and & was up
on the Radical place o f the Sun : which Directions and Tranfics would not
onely

A Colle&ion of divers choice Nativities.


onely have afflicted his Fortune but Perln had not the Moon at che
fame time been directed ad Trinttm Veneris and to her own Sextile-Afpett.
t/nnoz6%6 Auguit 24. he hada Quartan Ague that held him until
September 9. *657. He had then the Sun directed ad 2 "h ; which Directi
on happened in exatt Quartile to his Alcendenc : and (2.) the Part of For
tune airedted ad& a Planet polited in the Afcendent. On the Diy the
Ague took him 1 the Sun, Mars and Venus were palling the oppofice
place o f the Moon and in Quarcile to Jupiter Lord o f his Alcendent : Whence I fhould adjudge the Ague to be accompanied with a
Fever.
cy4ne> i6<j8- this Native was entertained Chaplain to an honou
rable Peer o f this Realm: He had the Sun directed then ad%-%, Lord
of the N in th and the Afcendent ad %<$ and Moon nearly to the
fame.
Here again we fee a Sextile o f Saturn and Mercury and this from the
Houles of tJMars and tJMercury and the Moon in exatt Trine o f Mercury,
Cm as if a Divine were neceiTarily compelled to partake o f fuch admi
rable. Portions, But this learned Perfon is Phiiofopher and Aftrologer> & c , as well as a Divine ; as is teilified by his learned Labours al
ready in Print: Vi**- His Indago Astrolgica ; Collection of Eclipfes ; Bri
tannia Bacomcay & c . In which regard , I (hall forbear all further Enquiry
into his Genicure ; referring chis (asa Teitimony o f my Refpetts ) to his
own Confideration and Examination.

13 a. 20.
The Latitude of the
Planets.

T2
%
<?
S
$
2)

d.
2 North
2 South.
2 North
2 South.
I Norch
% South.

N this Nativity
2:(the very lat
ter part of i t )
afeends the Horofcope? and {>is in / ,
in Platique Sextile
thereunto: the Sun
and U are in Trine and Reception o f each other and the Moon colletting
both their Lights from * by a friendly Sextile: but beiides thefe there is a
Conjunction of 1\ and $ in the Dignities of <$. All which are eminent for
Signification in the Nativity o f a D ivine; and make him not onely learned
& c.

115

ii6

CouECTio

G. e

niturarum

: O r,

& c . bue much delighted in the Bufinefs o f his Profeflcn : which things are
eminently true ine his Native. The Qgarcileof Tfands , withd*? Lord o f
the Sixth I know denotes many Prejudices Accufations}Scandais & c . and
at fometimes tedious Sickneffes : the firfi o f which are unhappily heighrned
by the Prefence of the Dragons Tayl in the Afcendent i but the other good
Configurations abate much of the Fury thereof : and for th latter viz,,
iharpand tedious Sicknefi'es, that is moli certainly true j for by one of them
I have corre&cd his Geniture: viz,.
Arm 1661. November y. be had, not onely a high and violent Fever
hue the Dropfie attended with the Scurvy > feized him at once ; of which
he was compelled to take his Bed and lay languifiiing under the fame until
November 1 7. on which Day he was given over for dead. On the Day he
was frit taken the Sun was upon the Radical place of T* and T* there in
Conjuntion of him j and dYLord of the Sixth nearly Stationary in Qiiartile to the Afcendent of Birth. In his Revolution that year, d was in Ghjundtion of the Sim and Vm the Afcendent thereof, all the year 5 th piace
o f the Dragons Tayl afeending, and the Dragons Tayl'in theSixtbof the Fi
gure : All which portended a lickly Y ear. Butbefides alltheVe Arguments,
the Afcendent Wasthen directed ad Saturni cum Latitudine y and zCo ad
D d : which moll aptly fignified thofe violent and tedious Difierr.pers he
then laboured under. From the time he was given over for dead, until to
ward May following w/z*. near fix monechs, he never went abroad. It is
my Opinion had not $ beheld d (one o f the Promit tors in this Evil ) by
friendly Trine, and the place of the Direction by aSmi-SextiIit had been
impoflible for him to have recovered. The Applications of his Phyfithns
(as I have heard him fay) were rather prejudicial and tormenting then any
way affiftaiit to- him : Nature at the laft turnd the beif Phyfitian ; and by
Vertue of his next-years good Revolution, and the Abatement o f the Force
and Fury of the ill Directions, this Native unexpectedly recovered, to the
Amazement and Wonder of his Doctors, the Joy and Comfort of his Rela
tions and Friends : is now ( by G o ps Mercy ) alive and may live until a
very confider ble Age.
Thus much for this Nativity.

Mr.

. - . i t h ...... .r & l

i >7

ACoIle&ion of divers.choke Nativities6'7* 37"The Latitude of the


Planets*

North
South.

His Nativi
ty the lear
ned Per*ion whofe it is
give ic me *, and
for.fome things re
markable therein,I
here prefent it to the World > among my Colle&ion of Eeclefiaiiical Genitures ; the Au hor thereof being an eminent Minitter of the Goijpel.
*Vt* the cbierert Dignities of ??, aicends the Horofcope f 5 , Lord thereof
is (it is rrue) in . but in exad Corijundfion of
Lady of the Ninth, and
in Phcique S.-xiiie of U his Difpoiitor: here is. great Reception between Ti
an<? U , and a Recep- ion alio between $ and c? : t i and df are in Piuiquc
Trine. Nocontempci le Configurations inthe Nativity o f a Mmiiter ; nor
indeed do rhey want significations accordingly : for this Native is a great
Student, read in noft Arts and Sciences; a fingular Divine, and moll induftiious. Yet 1 cannot omit to relate his being lul-jet to believe > that he
converfeth with Angels and Spirits many times in the likenefs o f Scarabets*
Cfc . who ofeen info m him of Unhappineflfes that ihortJy after ( as he faith)
attend either htmiejf o.* Family. . ohannes z/fngelut tells us , i f the ninth
Houfe be in the Dignities of 5 or (j> and & therein, it denotes learned and far
won Perfont i ... - ana Jnchoi will be a terroHr to ( and it may be terrified
by) evil Spirits. .. And ibis rmy be admitted for a Truth in fome fenl'e, be
came the aim h Houle harh Signification o f Vifions, Dreams, & e . andche
rathe' betmuie tz cans a Sexriie to <$ there : nor dot - the Moon in Oppofitio n o f t he Sun from Cardind Signe s , he being pofited in the eighth Houfe,
meanly augment he-e .oto ; . p/ihnps a great Reafon why this Native
is i'o far perfwaded uno the Belief o f fuch things as before I have re
lated.
If we may credit the learned Cafattbon , Enrhufiaftn (in fome Men) is an
Ornament ro their Pirts; and he feems to prove Cicero nd emoFthenes,
cum multi* aliis* ennbercered by it : nay, he avers, there was hardly any ex
cellent in any F iculty but infome fenfe he was Enchufiauical. If there
fore this learned Perfon be lb in fome meafure, it is no great W onder, he
having an earthy Signe alcendmg, the Lord thereof in Oppofition co ir,
and 6 in the Ninch , in an earthy Signe, in Trine of T* Author of Me
lancholy.
Beinoa red 39 years, he obrattied a Benefice: t_M- C. at that time diT&edad&% &
and the Sun to their Sextiles, and all in the eleventh
Houfe.
Hh
From

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e n i .t h r a r u m

: Or,

From the 41 yearof his A g e, to the 53. be was troubled with Sectaries,
could not be quiet in his Living , ( it was indeed in our late l imes of Confufion ) but yet he overcame them: he had to vex him Afcendent ad cf ,
and M . C- *d <f; % ; and to help him, Afcendent ad Spicam dr Q 3 and

1 66. 19.
The Latitude of the
"Planets*

His learned
Minifter di
ed in the
prime o f his years ;
vr. before he had
accomplished
3a
years of A g e ; ha
ving then two malignant Directions operating together: (1.) The Afcen
dent adOppojitunt Martis : ( 2 . ) The Mooned Oppojittim Saturxi> and
both o f them with and without Latitude ; which was the main Reafon of
their EfteCts proving fo fatal.
In this Nativity there are divers good Arguments o f a good Divine, and
a great Scholar j and fuch this Native was. ( 1. ) The Sun Lord o f the
Ninth, in Trine to the Afcendent. (2.) The Moon in Trine of f 9 Lord
o f the Afcendent, and both o f them in Platique Sextile with a Planet in the
ninth Houfe. (3.) U and 5 their being in exaCfc Trine to each other. The
Oppoiition of u and cf might denote him fomewhac Enchufiaftical, and give
him a greater Meafure of Zeal then ordinary; and that he was known to
have all the time of his being a Preacher which was near upon feven
years.
In the twenty fourth year compleat o f his A g e , he entred into Holy Or
ders : he bad then operating the Medium Cali ad Coujutiftioncm L uka , and
this on the Cufp o f the eleventh Houfe.
Thus muchmayfervefor this Nativity

A C o llectio n .o f d iv e r s choice N a t iv it ie s .

Here follow .the .

'

lie?

>

G EN IT URES
OF

N the rime of this ever-famous Perfons Nativity both Cardan and


hyndholt agree: Y et Plutarch in his Life reporteth that fome'have
fuppofed him born in January & c . I confefs > the uncertainty o f
Chronologie is luch that the beft judgements know not where ( in
feme Cafes) to centre. Y et it feemeth probable that the latter is
onely prefumed upon the Credit of blind R eport; and that for two
Reafons:
( i . ) The Credit o f Cardanus being confiderably valuable among the
Learned > I adjudge he would have hardly adventured without aflured
Grounds and a thorow Scrutiny to have pu lifhed the Nativity o f a
Perfon fo eminently confiderable as this : be (ides , had it been errone
ous Lyndholt coming many years after him would not (Iperfwademy

%2Q

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CT I 0 G E N I

U R A RU-M > Or,

felf) have offered to prefent the fame again unto the World without Corr e & io n .^
a
s
-frL'ni'dia
kim iS Ux
lc& ifl p i|^>ac^ ^ ^
(^>)vH^Was
aleaft
b>wea
ttfliis aptly diicovered;by the 'Moon herbeing in vy j in the fixth Houfe , fhe being Domina Afcendemts ; and h her
Difpoiitor, in QuartileoftheSun and.$ in the Afcendenc, from fixed Signes,
(2.) Concerning his Oratory^ h&fakb, chat he had a good loud Voyce, but
it vvasharfh and he lacked both Grace and Comelinefs : vyhich teems well
r :3H1 by ^Conjun^kioniwiji $ ih M]cenXpne9 jthite a ffile d b/ch^prc$CaudaJ)raednk_, atidjl^ Quaitile 3/and ijn CombuiliOji o i the Sun.
(3.) He attained to great Dignicy, and was eminently honoureci for his emi
nent Skill in Science : which is lively-denoted by the Eflential Dignity of
the Sun ; and both he, 5, 5 and < calling a Trine to the Angle of Domi
nion and Sovereignty.* the Sun having. Exaltation there : then I t , Lord q f
th^Nimh , isipCqnjunion^Qf jgiS tb e Ejfbt>, thence emitting jbeir bet
mg ti xy to th mrofcope.- '/ i t efriinenc Arguments oDHefnour^dc. ~
Plutarch tells us, that his Nurfe was tdld by a Vilion , that fhe gave fuck
td a Chijde, which in time to come ihould do great good to all the Romans.
And yet he was but the Son o f a Bond-woman? or arthe befri" o f rrran fcxtradlion: which occafioned juvenal (when wiiting o f the force o f Fate) to
"bring him in, as an eminent Proof thereof, Sat. 7.
Si fortuna velet, fies dc %hetoreConfute
Si volet tide eadem9 fies-de Confute %Jgetor.
Ventidiui quid cnim ? Quid T U L L I U S ? anne aliud quart
Sj/dust & occulti miyanda *potentia Fati.
And in procefs ofgcime., ,he was.twice made Gonful of Rome: --and for difcovering and preventing Catilines Confpiracie, he wasby C ^ called, Pater
Patri&y Fhe Father f f his Country* x
He died inthe 64 year of his A g e, he having underwent the chiefeft o f his
Miferies in his grand Clima&erical year.
Being in Exile, he was by 3fProdigie forewarned of his Death , viz., a
Shole of Crows coming toward the Ship in which Be was failing, and fetling
upon the Mail thereof; at which being terrified, he went to Land; hut the
Crows ( as if not iatisfied till they bad done their Errand ) followed him even to the Chamber-Window where he lay 5*yea, fome o f them to his Bed:
which caufed his Servants to hallen him out of Doors into his Litter for
Safety, ( hearing of his Enemies approach, and deeming this range Army
ominous) and behold I he was betrayed by a Youth he had bred u p , into
the Hands o f Herremns and Vofilitts Lana > who bafely murther him. Thus
eqjied this famous Perfonby the Violence, of the Sword ;. who in is Lifetim ewaswonttofay, CedantArmaFogt*,:
tu,
,! ;"*.... Let Sword andShieidgive place to 'Govgn *
*:-'f-,, '
And givetheFonguethe LarerelCrorvn,

.The

AdawWt. i/*wMfsa*ssr>.l.

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121

The Latitude of the


Planets.
d.
4 North*
3 South.
U 1 North,
d* 1 y
$ 2 ^South*
5 O
5

His
famous
Judge was a
Perfon both
Pious and Prudent?
and very full of Cha
rity and true Picy j
Qualities well becoming a Judge and very aptly portended by the friendly
Trine that $ catts to the benign Planet U>he being polited in Signum juftitid,
and the great Dignities of
Nor did this eminent Perfon want a laudable
Portion of Ingenuity Learning and Oratory ; as is aptly fighified by $ her
Partile Sextile to $ the natural Patron of Ingenuity ana Oratory, & c . as
alfo th* Sextile o f .the.Sun and <? ? and their friendly Afpedls to the Aicend e l i i ' . -. V- r.. .
This prudent Perfon in the 58 year currant of his Age ? but *7 compleat?
died fuddenly at Kingft one upon Thames ? near London .* having then the
Sun directed ad Quadratum Saturni.
,'
, deg.min.
C Defcentio Ohliquaft Saturni
3 39*3-*
The Suns Circle is 3 d.^ -
_
Defcentio Ohltqtta Solis
282.21.

.fa/trciu Dtre&ionis

,57. 1 1 .

.Tb^Ar^imencshof 4 fudden Death vftre, (1.) the Moonbeingin Oppd-*


fitidh of; fj j ahd Quartile of cT# ( 2 .) Shebeing neajr a violent fixed Scar?
Him &ntxyes > or the $cOrpions Heart. (5.) She being fecunJam Latitadiwm aponibe Gufp*of the eighit^Houfe. ^(4.) The Moon in PlattqueQuartile of c?. (V )'$ Lady of the' Afcepdent in Goh jdndtmn of
and haftnihg
to a Conjunition o f Mars. Alhift>ater laith,--~ When the Moon is In the
eight# Niufe, fa Afpett of the Jyfortunes , he who is then horn fhall he fuhject
unto a*fudden D'tflth. See it asliiave jtranflated it from 1 im in my *Z)ottrine
tif l^Mipiiies ? foi. ^48- It is true? Mfabater confines the Apboril'm onely
co ai
Nq&um^l: but Experience te'acbeth us, that it is of the fame figftiiidiiadii ^nd import tdthofe thac_are born in the Day-time ,
. .! ". ~ v

. ub

. . .

: '* "ir.o.v .

Ii

-.

i;

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LECTIO

e n .i t

UR

a r u m

Or,

N this Revolmional
Figure the Signe
of the Sixth Houfe afcends the Horoicope ;
and $ , Lord thereof,
is in Oppofition of It,
Lord of the Eighth in
the Radix, and in the
fame Afpctof 'Lord
of the Eighth in this
Figure. 1 he Moon
is returned exadtly to
her Radical place and
to the oppofite place
of T j {he being in
Conjun&ion of Cor
Scorpll and the cruel
Planet Ti is returning
toward the Alcendent
by a Retrograde Mo
tion, and there in exa& Qnartile of d1, and Platique Square oi It* All which
Arguments demontfrate it an ill Revolution ; chiefly it being attended by a
moft dangerous Direction.

Thus much for this Nativity,

244. 14.
The Latitude of the
Planets.
d, m.
2> i .40 South.
^ 1 o North
s
?
S

:
o 17. . North
i 4 3 South,

His learn-,
ed Perfon
(though a
Lawyer ) had the
happy Unhappiqefs
to be engaged on
the Kings Behalf
in the late Cruel and Unnatural W ars; and in the year 1647. (at what time
our then gracious Soveraign was a Captive by an unheard-of Fate , unto
thofe that had iworn Allegiance to him ) was this worthy PerCofi fequeftred
r

for

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.

123

for his Loyaicv* He had then che Mid-heaven dire&ed ad n D, and the Afcendent ad > & 1*. And by reafon of this Mil-foitune ( which for his
Loyalcy and good Affe&ion ) he furtained, and feeing no probable Hopes
(in thofe times) of amendment, he fell into a deep Melancholy > which held
him near feven years, viz, until January 16^4. at which time be died there
of. It is remarkable, thac in thefe feven years time, he had many unfortu
nate Dire&ions operating: viz,. ad j <$, & $ j and J>ad P
j
A fc.a d C . A . S t & C .A .% . And at the time he died , he had the ditc&ed ad<f j>in domo Martis he being but little part the O $ , Lady o f the
Eighth, and warning but a little o f che I* : the Moon was then under the
C. A . of T* > by Diredioti. AH which coniidered, it was little lefs then a
Wonder,he combated with his DiUemper folong. That Melahcholy flaould
be the Diitemper by which this Native fhould expire, is very eminently de
noted by h , the Natural Patron thereof, his afflicting both Luminariesj and
he in his great Dignities. The Fortunes in
made him famous in h;s Profeflton, viz,, the Law. X>in of 5, jnd and Tz in of
gave him both
Perfonal and Intelle&ual Abilities to manage che fame. But all thefe En
dowments , both Nacural and acquired, were compelled to yeild to acruel
Face : and herein was che Wife-mans Words made good, ' - ' The Race
is not always to the Swifts^-nor Riches to i_ffl.cn of Understanding,

He Lord of the
Afcendenr, and
Lady of the 8th in the
Radix , in this Figure
are in exadl Oppositi
on from Angles ; and'
the Luminiries are in
Opposition alio. The
Figure o f Heaven is
nearly in Oppoiition
to what ic ivas at
Birch ; ergo , moft
dangerous to Life.
He died in Jamiary
following ; Which may
not unaptly be refer
red to "b his poifefling
the Eart-Angle of the
Figure j and at the
time of Death* <$was
upon the place o f the
Moon in che Radix, and nearly upon the Qtaadrare place of the Sun.

Thus mttch for this Nativity,

>m *T"

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e N I T U ftA R U M

Or,

2,74 * 39
The Latitude of the
Planets,
d. nr.
D 4 1 1 South*
b a , 9 . North
% 0
^South
S 0
5
2 1 35 lj>North
S a
s!

* His Gentle
man
by;
Profeffiott
was a Lawyer ; and
in his Life-cime fo
gieat a Lover o f
Aerologie, (having
it feems experienced the Truth thereof in himfelf) that, _ac times, he gave
Dr- Fisk^ (my honoured Friend and Tutor) an hundred pountfe for rhe Cal
culation of his Nativity as I have heard theDo&or feveral times to reV
port..
\
To denote this Native dpt for the Study of the Law, here is <?, Lordof hij
Afcendenc, in Conjundiion of the Sun in domo fovis, and both of them iti
Sextile o f "ft,and in exadt Trine to the Afcendent. It aJfo is very ftrong in his
Exaltation, in a friendly Trine of the Moon* and th Mon is inConjunVion of $ and 5, in the Houfe of cT. Which Arguments do alfo admirably!
well denoce his great Parts : for in his time , there was hardly any-Man ( of;
that PxofeiTion or Study) that equalled him * much lefs fuipaffed him. And;
to denote his great Fame; we finde, not onely /lfc, the Significator of his Pra-j
&ice,in his Exaltation, but b the Lord of the tenth Houfe, in his Exalta-;
cion alfo ; and (according to his Latitude) iii Conjunction (almofl) of than;
Noble fixed Scar called Spica^irginis and in Sextile of the Sun and<L> who,
are nCnjun&ton o f 01* Scorpii,. another eminent and Kingly fixed Star.;
He died in the 48 .year currant o f bis Age : had then the Sun di reefed ad
% inyp:* a place that 1J. fo eminently hates* I f any ask why the Sun <1^ O '
b , .might nockillas the other ? lanfwec : b hath no Dignities in ther
Eighth nor Fourth Houfe?; fo hath in both, ( i .) b refpe&s ye, wberethe
Dire&ion fell 5 and although he were ftronj
yet was like a Noble Enemy

.. .O Sf
fc orb'd to kill, although he had a Power.
Thus much for this Nativity.

Nafc*

AColle&ioii of divers choice Nativities.

1 2$

Shall fay no more


of this Nativicyj
then in my Book
encituled 'Natttra
rprodlglomm 1 have
already faid ; and
fhall therefore refer
all thofe that are cu
rious afcer the fearch
o f this N ativity
thereunto for their
fatisfaiion : where
alfo they may finde
fomething touching
the vanity o f SigHs*
JLamens Spirits Profhedes Charms &c*
things that this lear
ned Author did migh
tily countenance in
his Life-time ; but a little before his Death,did retra# them as Errours,and
things vain, idle andfuperfticious; as I have therein proved: and'to that
purpofe did I there print this learned Perlons Nativity ; as alfo to fhew the
world, That fame Perfans were born to fpread and promote Lyes and
JDiceitS) as others to believe them.

Eing more ac
quainted with
this eminent
Phyficians general a
then particular Fame
or Fate* I (hall chiefly
Sir TheodoreMayern
obferve the Raions
bprn anno 1 573 .
thereof in his Nati
[Sept. 28. 5 h. 23 m*
vity , and refer the o. V. M , ,
ther to be fcannd and
con fide red by thofe
Latic. Genya:
46 dejr. '
Art ills that fhall have
the advantage o f the
i a ^ <? a d . ^ *
Knowledge ' of the
Accidents o f bis life*
Jf
better then my felft
That
this Native
fhould be o f publick
Honour and Ultimata-1
on* is very plain from
this Scheme of his Bir th : for herein vve finde Cardinal Signes pofleflmg th
principal Angles ; as it happened^1 C^arlts G r a v e 's o f Sweden , and Oli
ver Cromwell Nativities, a. The Sun a general Significator o f Honour
is in the Amendent * and in Trine of ^. whp is exalted in the tench
Kk
Houfea

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ollectio

eniturarum

: Or,

Houle, and in exact Trine to the Afcendenc alio; bdides, they are both with
eminent fixed Scars. (3.) The Moon, Lady of the Tenth, is in Conjun&ion of 9, Lady of the Afcendenc, and both in * to <$ their Difpofuor, in the
Eleventh.
This Native ( at what time, I could by no means learn) left his own
Country, and came co England : and nocwithllandingthe many learned Phyfitians that this Nation did afford, he was accepted of beyond them all, and
fworn Phyfitian in chief to King 'james ; an Honour that-few Aliens any
where atcain to. I am informed he died anno 1654. at C^eif ey near
don : the Afcendenc at that time was diretted ad Quadratum S a tu rn ! , near
the Scorpions Heart.
Thus much for this Nativity.

a n . 18.
The Latitude of the
"Planets.
d . m.

X o
U o 3S North.
3 o 12 7
2 5 4o>Souch.
a 4S1

Shall not need


to obferve any
more in this
Figure, then I finde
already, done in an
Appendix to an A pologie for Aftro, ipgie, , publifiied
^lately by my loving
Friend Mr. Vincent tving: the Author of which Appendix, is Mr. F, B. and
my very good Friend alfo who hath refponded both like an Artift and
Scholar to Gajfcndt&'s chief Obje&ions againft Aftrolpgie : for a fight o f
Which, I refer the ingenious Reader to the AppendixitTeIf ; and fhaU here
Otiely prefent him with what relates to the Scheme :
?
: iHere you may fee the malignant Planets Valid c?, have the chief Domini-*
rt*in his Scheme: Ti is the Lord of his Horofcope Peregrine, Retrograde,
in his Detriment, and unfortunate in s ; which made his Lungs much oppreifed with Phlegm rotten and corrupt: of an ill Habitof Bodyivery ficldy,
fubje& to Catarrhs, & c . That for Manners, Ti in Quartile of T, both in
ill Afpe& with the Afcendent, made him o f an evil Difppfitipn ; envi
ous, fufpjtiousj revengefi 1; angry, peevifh, contentious, injurious, fraudu
lent; aLyar, a Calumniator, an ImpoHor * Covetous; .a Robbet of-ojher.
Mens Honour j afalfe Friend,* a perfidious Tray tor, a notorious Hypocrite $
an Atheift; and (to fayno worfeof him, then he does o f Mr. JQes Cjqtpsl
though unjuftly) a Toad fuelled with Pride hnd maHtious y ^ o p ;e t? is you
may fee in the Book again!! D ei C artes, andocher of bis Works.

As

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.

a27

As he had in Sextile of , and in the Houle of "ft ; fo he bad a Wit apt


enough for Mifchiefs >Quarrels and Contentions 3 iharp in Diipucarioiis:
as in Quartile to the Moon, fo it was turbulent enough ; and had not S applyedtoaSextlleofU alfoj he had been fo ili natur'd, that he had not been
loci able : but that good Afjpedb gave him fomuch W it , as hypocritically to
dilfemble ir> and cloak it under Zeal to Religion; and make that feem the Se
verity o f his Devotion, that was the Morofenefs of his Nature.
- But if we go further, we fliall finde it agree with the Accidents of his Life,
as well as his Difpolirion. About the time the tJMedittm CccH was directed'
to the Sextile o f the Moon, we finde be had a Journey into Holland. When
the Sun was direibed to the Trine of U he was made Prtpojhm Dimenfts 5
where for the moft part he was Non-Refidcnr.
. During the Life is of the Sun to the Trine of $ , and the Mid-heaven to
St 9 he was made Mathematical Profeflcr. Upon the Direction o f the Moon
to the Quartile of <?, he had an Inflammation o f the L un gsw hich alfo re
turned upon him again , when the Horofcope was diredbed to the Body of <$,
and after to the Qoartile of T2; which procueed aConfumption : in which
Difeafe, his Phyiitians being over-free o f I is Blood ac threefcore and three
brdughc him to that excelfive weaknefs, that he never recovered ; and died
whining, that his too much obfequioufnels to their Prescriptions, bad fnatchthim out of the World in viriai feneEltttc. Take his Friend Borelltts Relation*
and-his own Words, Obferv. 11. Cent. 3. Pcjfent hie viri ftrnper Iti.getjdi
mortem dolorof am toti Europe: , imo mundorecenfere, nimio illo remedio fangfiineo i & verba ab ejus ore deprompta referre 'cjttibas ante obitttm fajfns e&- fe.
nimto obfeqttio periijfe , & cum beroe ftto ad inferos cum viridi adhxc & ft ante'
feheftxte defccndijfe..

; ..

.1
..
v
Ilu t mttch far GalTendusj Nativity i.

6Q'j 'll*
^

: fe,
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learned

D r.

Hfcholas F;j^born
anno 1^75

"H.Julyi, <j.j in.ap-jvn.


~ -P. M .

i*irsi
>

7'h e {Latitude.of^tbei
eu..lPfanttU'w

6
. J
n.9 5

____
The

m.
^54 South.'
a. 7 North.
0 4 South.
.o -v 7
1 2o^>Northi
% - i * 3* ^ '-C-

1His Iearm*
ed Doftor
was a Pra
ctitioner in Phyfick
threefcore years*
and had Angular
fuccefs
therein ;
which is plainly
known from the
great Dignity of the Lord of the Tenth, and the Pofition of 3 , Lady of the
fixthHoufe, in the Mid-heaven, between the Sextiies of If. and the AfcenSub La tic;

deg.

2) 3 cP ? , ad h-

denc.

ia 8

o l l e c t i o

e n i t u r a r u m

O r,

dent. He was excellently well verfed in the Machematicks, w t , in all the


parts thereof; chiefly in Aftrologie and Aflronomy ; in which Sciences it
was my good Fortune to have and receive Instructions from him : and no
other Tutor had I ever $ nor indeed needed 1 any , he being the ableli and
the belt ( for Inliru&ionof Tyroes in thofe Mylleries ) in his time. So ex
cellent be was* that in all refpe&s > 1 am petl'waded ( and dare undertake to
predi& ic) chat England will fcarcely ( in many Ages) produce his Equal;
and yet I am confident that this Nation hath brought forth as many excel
lent Sons of the Mathematicks, as any Nation in the World and may again.
The Reafons of his Excellence in thel'e Arts is* ( i.) The great Fortitude o f
3 be being not onely in his own Honfe but Exaltation > and in the ninth
Houfe policed, which of AHrologers is termed Damns Scicntiarum. ( 2.) %
a Fom m eia the Ninth, in Trine to the Afcendenc. (3.) A Platique Trine
between the Moon ( who is Governefs of the Ninth ) and % and a great
Reception alio,. (4.) $ in tie ( a Signe Signifying great Ingenuity and Stu
dy) calling an exaCi to the Afcendenc.
^Although his Skill was great, and his Rationative Faculty very Strong, yet
his Elocution was but mean ; which made many to fet the lower ESteem and
Value upon his great Acquirements : this 1 conceive may be occafioned by
the Platique of Ti to $ , and S) her being in to one and <P to the
other.
The Lord of the Second ftrong and the Sun in Trine to the Second, to
gether with Part of Fortunes beingin che Eighth Houfe, gave this Native a
competent Ellate of Annual R e n t, near 100/. befides great Gains by his
Practice: Y et thePofitionof T2 upon the fecond Houfe, in Opposition to
the Part of Fortune in the Eighth , deftroyed all again ; So that ic was this
learned Natives Fate to die not worth much: yet by reafonof U s great
Strength 3 viz. his beingin Exaltation , and in Trine and. Reception of the
Moon & c. he was not abfolutely neceifitated, (it is true) but carried Mat
ters even with the World ; 'andfo left a good Name * though not a good Ei&tfei behinde him.

After this worthy Perfon had lived 84 years of Age ( partaking both of
good and bad Fortune) he died of a lingering Consumption, attended with
a Meagrimtoward.his 1ail days: He had then the Afcendenc dirc&ed &ct<S,
d*, with and without Latitude.
deg. ptifu
Jtfartis
334.26.
vifcemio Obliqua^
> *#>
.r:. :: . .
.^^/ffcendentis 3
*50.22

---- ~
i
\ t/frctu DlrtBloms
'
;
J84, 4. !
Onth^ Day he died, viz;. February?, 1659. Aftronotmqally theMopn
was in exa& Conjunttionof 3 the Promittor of his Death, The Revolts
lionthatyeafwas'rieariy the fame with his Radix*
r
'Thus much for this moil teamed Perfons Nativity*

ACblleSlzon of'dvvetschoice Nativities.


22 6. 26.

I2p

The Latitude of the


Planets.
y . i.
Ti

a 15

5
:o

o ' i24
l >^ NorthO

o 42

Oj

South.

o 11 North..

His Native
was ( 'in
his time )
the mort famous
Oculift living in
England ; andcJid
very eminent and
wonderful Cures uinco the Eyes of many, both Men Women and Chil-;
dren.
1 .
*
In his Nativity* wefindethe Moon in
(her Exalcatiott) in Trine and
Reception of
: and the Sun (the other Luminary) is in Conjunction of
Who is Lord of. the fixeh Houfe ; and both Of them in Trine to <?5 the Lord
of the Tench viz,, the Angle fignifying Phyfick* & c. and he exalted ih the
Afcendenc. Befides if ( as fome Alfrologers contend) w e ihoulddllow
Reception to bean Eflenrial Fortitude > here are no Iefs then five Planets
effemially dignified in this Scheme. All which confide: ed , might aptly de
note this Native not onely fortunate and fuCcefsful in the Practice he uled,
but famous aitd eminent for the fame : foric is a great Truth in Afirologie*
The wore Planets there be ejfentiallyfortified in any Nativity , the more fplendld
and f^reading is the Natives Fame and Honour. Let his Condition be what
it will (fill ( quoad Capax) this Rule holds true.
Being aged 49 years viz,, in the year 16*3. this Native (as I have been
told) died of a Fever, and a fpice of the Stone: He had then the Alcendent
dire&ed ad cP r?, cum Latitudine,
deg. min*
Afeentio:Obliqxa cP <?, cum Circulo
364. 56.
ti/ifeentio Obliqua Afcendentis
3 16. 26.

Arcus DireUienis

48. 30.

There was at the fame time the Sun directed to the Head of Hercules a
violent fixed Scar of the Nature of c?. And in the Revolution that year the
Moon wasin Conjunition of c? , and the Figure was (nearly) the fame with
that o f the Radix. All which confidered together, intimated the year to be
ominous and fatal to Life as unto this eminent Native it proved.

LI

Do&or

8 i. 5S>*
"The Latitude of the
fla w s.

>
Tl

d m.
o 43
a

Souths

16^

*
. t ? N o tA
o o1 3a.C
S

19 J

o South.

His our N a
tive 9 is
noc onely
an accomplished
Scholar ana Phyfitlin , but a ve;y
excellent Chymid;
as bis feveral Books on that fabje& already published > tr e, do iuffiaemly
prove. To denote which Afirologically , he hath ire the molt ingenious
Signe qf the whole Zodiack, afeending the Horofcope; >nci 5, Lord there
of, is in ji in Sextile of & and 9 (who are in Conjun&ion in the elevenrh
Houle) and in Trine of Tj 3 the Moons Difpofiior: and to adefcco thefe , the
Sun and Caput Draconis very coniiderably (by their preience) fortifie the
Houfa of Phyfick.

Howbeit, this Native hath been fubject to Mif-fortunes as Imprifonmenrs, p*<r. very much ; which are aptly fin the general) occaiioned by the
Sun his Partite Oppofuion with if,, and both of them being in Quartile to
the Afcendenc; as alfoby "h his being in Platique Square to the S uit. Which
Poiltions Aiirologers tell us, portend to the Native many Vexations, Crofi'^sand Contentions .Scandals, Envies, Conipiracies, Suits in Lav/, & c . o f
all which this Native hath largely participated. But befides chele. general
Arguments of ev il, he hath had the Sun by Direlion to the Oppotuion of
the Moor.; befides, notorious Tranfits, efrv. as in 165$. andi6?6. T*was
upon his Afcendent, and the Quadrate place of his Sun, and
C. -And
in 16 59. d1was upon his
C. and the Suns place, near fix moneths to
gether. -And the latter pare of 1 661. and beginning o f 166 2. was paifing
over the oppofire place of his Moon near leven moneths together s fucb pro
digious Tranfits that are noc commonly known to fucceed one another at fo
fvvife and malignant a rate.
But a time there will be for thole turbulent Significations to pafs away,
and good ones to poflefs their fea t; and this will be, when!* hath once paffed
the oppofite Points o f $, A i. C. and 0 .

Thus much for this Nativity.

Tho*

Collection of divers choice Nativities,

I7 5 . 21.
The Latitude of th
Pianeti.
South.
North.
South.
'Aving not
the time
of any of
the Accidents that
have happened to
this ingenious Na
tive , whereby to
vrifi his Nativi
ty , I {ball be th.
briefer in my Obfervations thereon. Firft, here is the latter part o f m afcending, and d1,
Lord thereof, ispQiited inttgon the tench Houfe , thence caiiing a Sextile
to the Horofcope : an eminent Argument of an able and learned Phyiician.
Secondly , there is a Sextile of h and 5 which declares a fharp and ferions
Underitanding-j and a Judgement capable o f any myiierious Knowledge. It
is not improbable but that this hppy Configuration (forfuch it is) between
"h and they being both near eminent fixed Stars , might encline c^is Na
tive to the Stud y o f Chymittry ; in which Science he hath had iucbfingular
fuccefs, that his Application of Medicines hath been and is, (moiily) by way
o f Chymical Preparation.
Thirdly , rhe Fortification o f the tenth Houfe by the prefence o f the Son*
and 2; and tfie Lord of the Afcendent his beipg^n Conjqntion of U i
and the Moon applvitig to Ms Trine giye the ftattvd not onely good For
tune in his Profeffion and Practice > but great Credit and Efieem thereby.
Indeed he is i'o highly reipetteci for his Parts , and the fuccefs which attends
them in his jpra&tce, in lfeieiier(hirey the place of his abode, chat there are
hardly any other Pbyfinans vyho have an equal Honour with him 5 as I.have
heard feveral perfons of that Country to aver.
He is alfo Afit,logical, as the former Arguments dp aptly intimate ; and
that may be ne^mjnenc Cauie of his fo great fuccefs in Phyficki for it is
impoflible for any
to jnjke a good Phyfician, that is not acquainted with
Afirolie.

* 33

'A Cotte&ion o f divers choice N ativities,

The-Latitude of the
Planets,

The Latitudeof the


Planets',

' d, m.
*9 }
^ *58

tP

South*

* :
.189*;

T f 50^ 38 }
1 58> ,

HIs worthy
Native was
^
plea fed
^communicate ( by
his own hands) his
Nativity unto me,
fome years h.nce,
and gave me Ifo
an account of fome
Accidents that had befallen him, by which. I might be enabled to corre.il his
Geniture truely, viz.,
'
'
.
1 Ar.no t/ atis \ 7. he went to the llniverfity o f Cambridge: the Afcendenc came then by Direilion to the Virgins Spike , a Noble Star of the Na
ture of c? and $, and of the firft Magnitude.
.7
2. Being aged 20 years , he was married : the 2) (who in this Nativity is
Lady or Governelsof the Medium Coeli) was then directed ad A $.
3. Being near 30 years of Age , this Native commenced DoCtor of Phyfick : he had then the Sun dire&ed ad 1^, and exalted in the Tenth and
Radically in A thereunto.
4. Amo 1 6%8. he was troubled with a Rheum in his right Eye , in the
moneths of June and July :
was then upon the Quadrate place o f the Sun
in his Nativity, and upon the Radical place of the Moon : 12 was at the fame
time Stationary in his Afcendent : all dangerous Traniits.
The Nativity is partly the fame with Sir Theodore M ajern's; and ( not
wit hiianding fo grand a SateHitturn of the Planets in the eighth Houfe ) it is
no inconfiderable one for a Phyfitian : for the fortunate Planet If. is in Sex
tile^ unto four of them there and they refpeCt the Mid-heaven with the
fame friendly Afpeft. All which argue not onely Fortune > but Honour un
to the Native in and by his Pra&ice ; and molt eminent Advantage from
things figtiified by the eighth Houfe,- - whether it be by the Lands or
Goods of Perfons deceafed j or by Legacies , Deeds, W ills, Adminiftrationsj or Portion of the Wife, or by a ll: his good Dire&ions mult acquaint
him , and point ouc the time or times thereof. The Dignities of both the
Fortunes , and their friendly AfpeCt toeach other in the defeending part o f
Heaven , ( were there no fuch Knot or Conjun&ion of Planets) mutt have
fome more then ordinary Significations toward the middle or third part of the
Natives Life. But I tranfgrefs, while I glance at things particular, when my
Bufittefs is onely of Generals. Let it therefore be remembred,-Who
ever it born under fuch a Pojitlon of Heaven cannot but make agood and for
tunate Phyjhian,

Richard

At

to

.'fjRjchardr a fo rd ,

jDr. of Phyfick, born


anno f 6 20,
April3o'2o A i 8 m,
P, M ,
Sub Lac. <$d. 30m,
: Q S ,'a d A .

North.

"Sh li fp?re to
fpeak o f the
lverai Acci
dents that have hap
pened unro this ingenioufly learned
Nativejthey haying
been
( at
if
Uwx*u very
y little
liuiw ^
any thing ac all) nfwerable to his Defercsor Merits. This is a Nativity that
may well make the Nauve(cbac is born under ic)ingenious and induilrious in
bis p-ofelfion, rathec then forennare or rich thereby : for here is the Moon in
the Dignities of $, inexaCl A tb the Sun and cT, near eminent (thoigh vio
lent) fixed Stars, in the eleventh Houfe ; and all three o f them ire in good
AfpeCl of the Afendenc. But then to darken their good Significations, and
prove the truth of. the lacter part of my Aflertion ; here' is rbe Moon in of
5 > T* and $ j and 3 :(chogh.in ir his own Dignities ) is befieged of the In
fortunes ; and the Sun. and '-are in exatt Oppofition to his Parc o f For
tune.
;.
Any man verfed in the Genechliacal pare of Altrologie, will eafily fee,that
this Native huh pafled a greacmany very dangerous, and fome very good,
Directions: all which , have ( according-to the Letter o f Aftrologte ) had
xheir Significations on the Perfoh and ffjirs of this Native moft exactly.
obferve, that the Moonin.good Afpe with fome Planets in the ele
venth Ho fe, and in evil Afpetl with others'chere, gives the Native , fome
faithful > and fome perfidious Friends ; and our Native is eminently fenfible
o f the fam. Argol fays, h and <3^illaffcited and pofited in the Eleventh de
clare few and fat chiefrfri ends y Ptol. pirv. p. T ^3. 1 his Native hath fufficiencly proved the Time. to:be riue : for fome precending Friendship unto
him, were the occafion of his probable ruine, when he was in a very flourifiving Condition ; .and afterwards perfwadd himinto a willing and voluntary
Exile : which in th lacterparcofthe year 1658. Or beginning of 1659. he
consented unto;, an&accordingly left his Native Country* The Afcndent
was then dire&ed to the of , and * o f T j, who is Lord o f the Ninth-in
the Nativity.

Mm

*34

C O.lvL &CT ifc*. G P N tXVMh&U Mv$

\Qr,

T h d a titu d eo f the

Florets.
South.
North.

His
Mr.
Tamer is
not onely
a Student in Phy(iek* but in feveral
ocher parts of Philofophy ; as bis fe
ver*! TranfUrions
o f Paract/fusi Sendivagltu > Johannes
Jtngelv* Caida Sonatas, Sec. eminently teftifie. And indeed it is no wontjer that that Native is of.an enquiring Brain and Fancie* who hath the Lady
pf his Afcendent in Conjunction of f * in theHoufe of 5 r; and 5 in Con
junction of the Sun and Dragons Head ; andinexaCLSexiile of U> who is the
Moons Diipolitor. Nor is it a mean Argument of Ingenuity and Aptitude
in him to Science,. that hath one Planet governing both the- Aicendent and
nfocb Houle* as is in this Nativity : it is a Pofition that happens in fonie o f
the etninencett Genitures o f Phyiirians before mentioned. The Moon be
ing Lady of the Tenth and in Oppofition of <?> $ ana T j, doth abate much
qf that Splendour and Fame other Phyiirians enjoy *. whole Parts (perhaps])
may not be fo meritorious anddeferving > as are our Natives. But Fat is
Eyeing aged nineteen years * he had the Small Pox * arid that topurpofes
tbe Sun was then directed ad<$ ejiiartis cttptcr Jin* Latitudlne.
: . Being aged thirry three years * be was afftiCtedboth with Dropfie, Ague*
Scuryey>& c r and this in Co Grange and tedious manner* that very few pf his
Friends beljeved chat ever he would have recovered thereof again : the Sun
Was then directed ad Corps# Satarm both with and without Latitude. He
had affp an ill Revolution chat year * and % but a tittle before* tranfiting his
Afcendent a long tirne together, ;
*
. There are divers Other things to beobferyed in this Figure j but thefe I
hjtye. already taken knowledge o f * being o f the moft Practical Coticernment; to the Sons Of Arc * I fhalL forbear all further Difconrfe here
on. And .
That much frail ferve for this Nativity

*hc Latitude of the


Planets \
\
5 /t 41 Sopth*
*k. a -38; North
0
,
o 12 Soth.
0 30
1 48

North
South,

His ingeni
ous Na
tive gave
tr.e the Tempt*} aBimatum o f his
Genicnre
fome
years fince,wich feveral Accidents to
correct ic by : which with my Correction, take asfoiloweth.
i . Anno tatis 6. he loii his right Eye by an unhappy Accident : th
Sun in his Nacivit y vvas then dire&ed ad >, S. JL. Orgarnis fays, Soirs ad
Luna,corpus direWot &c. denotes danger to.the Eyes, and fometimes brings
bliridnefs, & c, the truth o f which, this Native iufEciently experienced : but
bedestbis Direfbija rhday o f his Revolution that year,. & was upon the
Radical place of the
and the D then applying to his Cl.
,
2. Aged 1 1 years?- he hadan Ague, & c . the 7>.was then diretedad
cum L a titu d in eand a d 2 cum Latitudinealfo.
3. Aged a? and 22 years he vvas much apced to iiudy Phyfick, and chiefly
Chy.mUlry : then vvas the Amendent dire&ed adSextiltmt jovis, Lord of the
Tench, arid the Junto her own : Singular Dire tions for fuch an Under
taking j and id they have proved to this Native : for of bimfelf, aridby fiis
own Iriduitry , ( lv,sFamily having had the fame Mif-fortunes with others in
our Inte times ofConfufion, viz,, of being Plundered, &.c ) he became a
Phyfitian ; andby. o p s Rlefling upon his Endeavours, hath done a great
deal of gopd therein; and- is arrived to a confiderableCredit and Repute
thereby. "
4^ Aged 27 years, he had a very violent Fever : the-0 was thendr&ed
a d u ? 1 and fh fb #d Pleiadum - Direrions o f fo dangerous atenderictejy* that had noc th f atthe fame time been dire\ed ad T rhym Jevis* (ac
cording to
"?*P -M dpi have efcaped Death ac that '*
time.1' '
1
V
f mAged s?years hemarried, andmuchtohis Advantage and Contenir:
the CMedtnm-cli w?s tJiendiK^ed ad ^ a and the Moon to the Trineof
% m *f.
.
/' v.

- X
6* Aged 30 years, ingreat danger of Imprisonment ; many Seandals^c.
th Medium Call vas riire#d adaudam&racmS' ;
- . '
The Arguments o f his tfudying Phyfickare> (1.) Luna, Lady of the Sixth
in^f-of U , Lord of the reach Haute. (2,) A of S and $ ^alchough.in
the twelfth Honfe. (3.) b Lord of the Afcndent ? in Receptionrof
a
0rcunate Planet. And to add to all thefe ) $ in Cazimi is no inconflderable

Argument.

Mr.

i 36

G 6 1x

c T-t d ^ G
*a<S. 8.

ft t t u>RAR-ttk" Or,
T fo Latitude of the
PJanets |
,/c . ,v *:.
W. .

I ^ N rch
j Si W h .

!9 J

38 i North
Or me , to
prefenc the
Reader with
a Catalogue ; o f
this Narives Ac
cidental & the Sig
nifications thereof
from his Nativity*
vyere but aSum
agere; he hirnielf
having done the fame in one or two Books already by him publifheJ ; viz*
in The Harmony of the World* and The Holy Guide, In wbicniaid Books, he
hath been to plain with bimfelf* ( as belt knowing his own natural Inclinsti*
ons and Difpofitions) that fince Cardan's time > 1 have read and heard of but
few Men 10 ingenuous.
That he fhould be apt to enquire afcer many carious Arts * and occult
JMylieries* and make them his quondam Studies * is plainly ieen by rhe great
ftrength of 5 Lord of his Afcendent* viz., his being not onely in VZ' his own
Houfe, but in the fourth,Houfe* and in the Degrees thereof, which Alirologers hold (and that truely) to be his Exaltation ; and this in the Imnm f'aii%
and the Moon is in m, in exat Sextile unto him* and holding the lame Aipeit
with U> who.is in Parrile Trine of the Sun.
Now the Reafon why I bring his Geniture among thofe of the Doflors
and Students in PhyJlck, is* in regard he hath writ feveral things of Phyfick j
,a> in his Holy Guide* the way to prepare moft Chymical Medicines * naming
them;particularly; and then a Treatife o f <J{o(jc-Crucian Phyjick^* printed
foir.e years fince: and in feveral other his Books ipmeihing or other tending
thereunto. Divers other Secrets he hath publifhed * which ( becaufe they
.come not within the Perimeter of my Apprehenfion) I fhail in fnodefiy
juoge tenderly of them.: but the grand Reafon why foir.e perfons. cavil at
^ him for. them * and that they are not ( by many Men ) with other things eVjudiy relented * ( though perhaps in themfelves may be as defervir g ). is*
4 ?^Qjartiie o f t beSun and & >and the Sunsbeholding the Afcendent with
the t ime Afpetf; and Tj and U their Qjarcile from Cardinal Signes iikewife.
Howbeit* it is Wifdom for every .Man to judge tenderly, of what he doth not
underhand. 1 may alfo note further, that d in the Afcendent, in Quarcile
of the Sun > doth aptly fignifie his being fubjeft to Imprisonments , and to
the Frowns of great Perfons & c . as it happened unto him in the late times
o f Ufarparion and Tyranny; o f which himfelf hath largely made, men
tion.. .
...I .

A CoUeSionof divers choice Nativities.

H 7

The Latitude o f the


Planets.
m.
56
6
22
32

South.
North
Souih.
North

34 l.South.
22 >
His Nativicv was
calculated
by the Natives oyvn
Hand., ( for he. is
Afirologicatly as
well as Phylically,
inclined) and fome
years iince given
' unro ir.e by himfelF.
Herein we finde 2afcending , and 9 > Lady thereof, jn Opposition of &
in the Tenth : but by renfonof the double Difpofition thar here is between
the chief Significators, viz.. 3 his difpofing of $ , and Dher difpoling of d1
and the common Amity that is between 3 and $ naturally , the Effects of
heir Oppolition are very much abated. Howbe'ic,(? as pofiied in the fern hi
Will have his Signification ; which is, (if webelie\enoronelv Authors', buc
Experience) to ftthjeft the Native many timet to Hazards andgreat Dangers%
together vmth an eclipfe of Honour and Efiimation . all which this Native hath
confefled to me co be trne. And to add hereunto, here is the Moon in Oppofition of T?, and both in Q u c i !e o f U ,* which in many refpets prejudice
the Native in the courfe o f his Life , and will not permit him (fed cum dlfficultate J to mount high in the W o Id. Neverthelefs , theie Arguments of
Unhatpinefs operate nocmnnerof way upon the Noble part of him, al
though they do upon ins publick Concerns, as E ibte, & c . For here are
fevexalgood -Tettimonies of Ingenuity, and of the Natives aptnefs ro th
Study and Pra&iceo? P .yfick, & c . viz. The Afcendent fortified by the
prefence o f a Noble fixed Star. (2.) % y Lord of the Tenrh by Exaltation,
his liine to the Afcendent, and Sextile co the Sun , who lobe olds the Af
cendent likewife. (3.) The Moon , L*dy of the t^ftdium Coeli by Hotife,
policed in her Exalracion, ( though in the Eighth ) thence catting a Tiiiie to
who is Lady of the Afcendent. (4.) A fortunate Sextile between hi and
5 , being policed in the third Houfe. All which are proper Arguments o f
Ingenuity , and a ni nble active Fancie ; both of which, this Native hath a
very good title unco.
I could have he e prefen ted unto the Reader feveral Accidents of this Na
tives, and t. c Realonsof them from Direions, & c . in his Nativity ; but I
onelv take Cocniz mce of G e n m h : and conclude herefrom, That bad
Testimonies in a Ts^ativityyin relation to Honour and Fortune y cannot enervate
the good o~.es that are therein of Ingenuity and Study j and of this I could give a
multituao of Examples, but they are ncedlefs.

73*

The Latitude of the


Planets*
d. m.
2) S' ' * 7
"b. o
3 >North.
. O

* 5 J

d* a 3 6 /
^ 3 ' 35 S* South*
qSA.5 o 3 s S
His Native
hath been
fubjeCt to
- Variation, and ma
ny and eminent
Troubles kt the
W id e courl'e of his
.
----_
L ife ; zsCauda<
I)rA~
emit in the Afcendenr, and the Moon in Oppofirion to <$. Lord thereot, very
plainly portends. ; But norwit hiia tiding his many Mii-fmnnes , Imprifonments, L^wfuits, &?. chat he hath been exrrearrdy fubjedt unto , yet hill
in.tfieend he hath met with Affiftance convenient to draw him our or thofe
troublefome Wires.: and this maybe portended very well > by the Sort hi*
being in ex^ft Sextile of Ita and in the Tame A'.pcCt and Reception ol h i who
is Lord of the eleventh Houfe ; as alfo the Moon her being in Trine of
For it cannot be, that that Native can long ppant Friends or i/tjffiance veho
hath in his Geniture both the Luminaries befriended by the Beams of the For
tunes.
To defeend to particular Accidents. About (even years o f Age, this Na*
tiveby a.Blow had like to have lolt his Right Eye: the Aicendent was then
directed ad <P ; and had not the fame Promitcor been at the lame time di
rected ad %> its very probable that he might have loll it quite.
- Aged 19 years, a deep Conlumprion,Scurvie, & c. which laHed with him
a great while, viz., near a year and half ; Afcendenc then directed ad D h>
and a*little before the had been directed ad Q1JL.
Aged 21 years, he married, ( and that a confiderable Fortune:) the Sun
WasthendireCtedrf^d
cum Latitudine.
Aged 30 years of A g e , he was imprifoned upon a publick Account, but
Toon releafed ; and a little after > viz., about 31. being with a Company o f
refolute Perions, among whom there unfortunately happened a Man to be
killd ; this Gentleman, together with the relt, was laid hold on, and put in
Prifon s but after much Troubles Scandal and Colt, was acquitted. la c A i .
C. was rhen directed ad d d> with and withour La; itude.
_ The Quarcile of d1and h with $ , and Sextile o f <dand S , together with
the Sun his Sextile and Reception with T i, Lord of the Tenths might make
him a Phyiitian, and that an able one: but the Moon being in Oppoiition of
<? s together with what was before urged, doth , infome refpeCts eclipfe
his Fame and high Deferts, and prevents his Meries ihining.

Thus much for this*Nativity.


Mr.

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The Latitude of the


Planets,

South*
North
South.
North

Pi efenc
the
Reader with
this Geniture,
juli as 1 received it
from the Hands of
the Native himfelf,
he having been his
own Calculator;
and therein ( as I
by enquiry have found ) he followech the Tables of David Origawu*
This Native huh been a Student in Allrologie, and in Phyfick 3, and is at the
preleiit a Member o f cue Inner-Temple, and a Student in the Laws. For to
denote him inclineable to Sciences, he hath in his Nativity a Sextile of &
and and a Trine of if, and $ $ being inexadt Sextile to the Afcendenr,
and $ (who is Lady of the Ninth) in the fame Afpe& with T*-. Lord thereof;
as alio an admirable Recept'on between & and 5. Greater and more nume
rous Teftimonies o f a iharpFancie, and an a&'ive Underilanding, *re hardly
among an hundred Nativities to be found: and had this Native had -ut Edu
cation, fuitable to his Inclination, (for you muft know, he hath been his own
Guardian and Appointerin the feveral Studies he hath followed ) he might
have proved an abiolure Encycloy&dian. But this is an umStJH in Reafon
onely, and not to be cireftly favoured by Attrologie. For to ftiew that his
Honour and Fame ihould not equal his F-ncte and Inclination, wefindea
malignant Square between the Lords of the Afcendenr and the tenth Houfe,
and this nearly from the Eighth and Twelfth Houfes of the Scheme j and
the Moon is in Quartile of the Sun and S aifo, and the very Degree of the
Medium Cceli.
Thefe latter Configurations did not onely hinder this Native in his Edu
cation, and fubjedf him to Employments Antipathetical to him in his Youth ;
but in his riper years bath occasioned much Prejudice many Scandals , and
Troubles in Law , and otherwife, to invade him: the Particulars of which,
he bein lb generous and free of minde to difeovet them bimfelf to any one *
1 (hall in this place forbear to mencion any of them in particular5 and fo
conclude what I have to fay o f this his Nativity.

Mr*

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He Signe afcenmng the


Horolcope;is
vy, a Signe of Brevi
ty ; and Tj > Lord of
/
the Aicenuent , u in
*5 a Signe of Bre
Mr. Nich.Culptfer
n 3*1
vity alio anti ihe
Student in Phyfick
Moon in the fixrh
and A(lrologie>born
Houle decreafing in
1616*O E tob* 18.1 ijw.
Light: all which are
P. M ,
Jkr/
*v /
Arguments of a mid
Sub Lat. id 3 2m
**/
dle Stature,and lorread<fU- 6 9 /
whac a fpare lean Bo
dy ; Complexion darkifh otfwarthy ; hair
dark brown ; Vifage
more
lorg
then
round ; Eyes quick
and piercing , & c .
And the Perfonof this Native was exadlly fuch. He was alio full of Agility
very adlive and nimble : which I prefume was occafioned by the Moons P o
rtion in the Houfe o f 2 in Sextile to & , and "k in the Houie o f $ having
South-Latitude.
His Temperature according to Aflrologers, ihould be .Melancholy, Cholerick, as is plain by an earthy Signe afcending and V s Poikion in an earthy
Signe alfo and the Moon l eing among Martial fixed Stars and Stars of the
fame nature in the Afcendenc are very ftrong Teflimonies of Choler prevai
ling over this Native. But the greaceft Argument of Choler predominating,
I take to be the Suns Reception with d* from violent Signes ; which feems
to fignifie that Choler ihould over-power the Humour of Melancholy > not
withstanding an earthy Signe afcending,&c
He was indeed of fucha Temperature : I remembred to have heard him
confefs that Melancholy was an extraordinary Enemy unto him ; fo great
at fometimes, that wanting Company he would feem like a dead Man : and
at other times would his Choler macerate him very ilrangely ; yea, more oft
then the Diftemper o f Melancholy.
2* the Pacron o f Ingenuity & c . is the moft potent Planet in the Figure 5
and he being in m, the Houfe of & and fo near the benign Beams of
ar
gued the Native to be of an excellent W it, fliarp Fancie, admirable Concep
tion and of an alive Underlla nding.
For proof of this, let his many worthy Works now extant, befummond
to give in Evidence: viz,, (1.) His Tranilation of the Difpenfatory , fo
exquifitely done , that the bell Phyfician need not be aihamed to own it,
(a.) His SKgUtyrphyjititit} : a Work of fuch rarity, that never any Herbarilt
before him durll adventure to do. ( 3*) His Aftrologtcal Judgement of );feafes from Avenezra and Durret : in which he hath fo ingenioufly fol
lowed the Text of his Authors that if any Copies may be prefumed
or thought to improve or excel their Originals this very Book of his doth
fo.
He was very eloquent ; a good Orator fpoke both freely and fluently.
And if I fhall fpeak the Truth in all parts, he was very conceited and full o f
Jells; as the Qjiartileof <? and 2 aptly denotes: but the Knack of Jelling
was fo infeparable to him that in his writing things of moil ferious Concern
ment

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meat he would mingle inatcesof Levity -tid extreamlypride htmfelf in fo


doing ; as is evident in alltsJWritings : fetthe Poets excufe is fuffcient s
Qtcadam cum prima rtcenfinturcrimiua barba*
Indulge veuiam Tucti*. - * * **- - . .
'

Some,Paultswkh bf firff Beards aire fhavdaway *


<r Ahd Youth ;(if n) pardontfrfitmay.
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-.V o-. .

- '

; The fixed Signe tes is on the Cufp of the fcond Houie$ and the M o o n Eft.ite
andU- calling their friendly Itays thither, and rhe^m tjheH oufeoflti'z,.'
K , intercepted there j are Tellimonies of a competent Forcune naturally*
according to T/? BouastUyScc.
r:
sr
.
2
Sed qua praclara profpera tsmuy
ZJt rebus Utis parJit meufura tnahrum ! -

But what can all the hopes of wealth him skill


<c Thats balancd fey as many threats of ill ?

Z
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The Lord o f the Second is-Retrograde upon the Cufp o f the F o u r t h i n


Qaartile to the fcond Houfe ; and$ his Diipofitrix Combuit inQ uartile
bt dV and in Quartile to theSecond alfo ; which plainly portiinds a Coniumpeln of Riches and a Deli ruction of what Patrimony fiiould defeend unto
him from his Parents. And e? irfflieling Pars Fortuna, in in obfcure Houfe
o f the Heavens and opposing che Second ; and the Sun , Difpofitor of the
Parc o f Fortune in Oppofition of T?s earned him to iqumder away his Eli ate.
both carelellyand negligently 3 and iomecimesby reafon o f reftrainc or im-:
prifonmenr. ;
-e
.
T.
It is moll true j that he was always fubjet to a Confumpcion of the Purfe
norwithllanding the many ways he had to kifill him. Indeed he had a Spirit
fo far above the Vulgar, tnac he contemned and fcorned .Riches any other,
way then to make them ferviceable to him. .. 1 could parallel this his Generoiity with Arguments of the fame lamp, frbm lome Genitures very emi
nent ; but 1 am confined. 1 {hall clofe my Diicourle of his'Ella re with this:
- Hadnot he hadCaput Draconis in the Second, he would hate been, per
petually poor : for the A; guments o f Poverty in his Radix are f ch> i hat had
he been born to Crfu* Ellat , he would have made it like to that of
Diogenes.

The third Houfe hath Signification of Kindred in general, and ihort Jour- Kjncbcd
nies ; and <?, Lord thereof, in SI in the eighth Houfe > the moltunfortu-^i^"^
nate place of the whole Heavens : as faith Ludovicns dejgiis , ---- FjuHa J e,i'mcu
divijio Circuit tunc pejjima tatuque crudelis in omnibus quant ibiava eft. And
he being there in CLiTtile of four Planets , viz,. , 2 Ti ana 5, is an Ar
gument of great imortunacie to the Native from is Kindred, and indeed no
great happinefs to him in his Inland Journies. Beiides^ being on theThird
and <? m a tie rile Signe , portends very few , or no Brethren or Sifters to the
Native : and in this cafe the fewer the better.
It would be too tedious to make repetition of the many Mif-fortunes this
Native hath i- ffered by bis Kindred, and the Perils and Dangers he hath efcaped in travelling or going thorc Journies. It is confirming enough o f the
A r t t h a t he never gained good by either-, ; Nor had he ever any Brethren
tire.
Vthe general Significator of Fathersj and the particular in this Nativity,
ir in Oppofition ; ande?, Lord of the Tenth, inQuartile to both and
that from fixed Signes, together with o her being Combuil : all which clearly
O o
denote*

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N I T . U R'A

rum

0 'r y

denoce , that theParents of this. Native fliould die before him': but had they
liyed, I cannot fee in Arc how.he fhould have heen hettered by them theic
Significators are fo l'quaring and oppofing his* He hath often averred,that his
Father, according to report, died before he was born ; and his Mother lned
till the twenty third year of his Age : and a. good Eftate he acknowledged
that they did leave him ; but he was cheated thereof.
wife and
d , Lady of the,Seventh , in a double-bodied Signe, might feem to denote
children.
tWo W ives : but$, a general Signifiestrix of Wives , being.,Gombult, and
in evil Atpedlof the Infortones, feem to contradidf it and that to iirongly,
thaedid ihe not caft a friendly Beam to the Alcendent and another to the
Sevenchi he would hardly have ever married s but that is an Argument that
once he fhould,.
s .
$ being Governefs of the fifth Houfe , and in m a fruitful Signe, irradia
ting both the Afcendenc and Seventh friendly, fignifies that the Native may
have many Children : but aput c#f^'/<ebeing upon the Culp of the Fifth,
and Combull, and in Oppoiicion to
that Enemy to Nature, and all na
tural hxiftencies , and in Q_>artile of & y a Planet pofited in the Houfe o f
Death, prelages th'it very Few of.them (if any) fhall be long lived.
This Native had vuc one W ife, ( viz.. Mrs. ^/illce Cu/pcper* now living,
and Wife to , ohn Heydon Efq;) and by her he had ieven Children, (although
himfelf died yourg) but they are all dead but one, which is a Daughter.
Enemies
His Enemies, both publick and private, are fignified by It-and the Moon,?
public^ and.but principally
becaufe he hath great Dignities both in che Twelfth and
private.
Seventh Houles. S alfo will have a fhare in Signification o f his Enemies,
becaufe he is in Trine of U> and Sextile of the Moon, and beholds the Lord
o f the Afcendenc with a Quartile. Now if the Queliion be demanded what
kinde of Perfon thefe Planets fignifie ? c? will lignifie Phyfitians , Apothe
caries, & e . and U- Divines. And chofe two kinds o f Men and Profcflions
fhould be his moll potent Adveriaries, both publick and private ; & the moft
publick.
Ic is notorioufly known, that his moft publick Enemies were Phyfitians,
and his molt private ones Divines. The firft hated him, and made their Ha
wed publick , for hisdiicovering the ufeof Medicine in his Mother-Tongue.
Thefecond diddifuft him for his ftudying Aftrologie : ' ut neither o f them
durtt to enter the Lifts of Difpute with him, albeit I remember he hath made
publick Challenges to fome in print, who pretended to fault his doings.
Whereby ic appears , that the Do6lors quettioned not , or cavilled at the
matter, but the manner of his Writings : They were not Amply forry that
fuch things were done , but that he that did them was not one o f the Colledge, a Brother o f their Order. And the fame may be faid of his other fore
of Enemies: but well faid Juvenal*
Refert ergo qstis k&c eadent parity in Rutilo nan*
Z.HXUria eft, in penttdio laudabile nomen ;
Smnit* & u cenfu famant trahit. -
,f Much odds in Men, doing thefelf-fame thing,
Feafting in Rutilm is rioting :
tC But in f^entidius brave Munificence*
Cc And gains him Honour by his great Expence.
His Friends

Sayino needs no Application; from his Enemies I will therefore defeend to his Friends,
And thofe ibould not be many: for <?, Lord of the Eleventh in Quartile
to four Planets , denotes the Natives Friends , or at leaft fuch as pretend
->
Friendfhip,

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Friendihipunco him, tobe hypocritical and cicceittul; audofiuih cov^ious


Referves, that he {hall feldorn be bettered by them. His own acknowledge
ment was, that he had divers pretended Friends, but he was rathe r prejudiced
then bettered by them ; and when he moll Hood in need o f their Friendlhip
and Aifillance , then they mod of all deceived him. But this was not to him
alone, cis generally Morbus Mundi, the Diffemper o f the whole World like
that of the P o et:
tl{ariqmppe bom, numero vix fut totidem, quot
Thebarum porta, aut d'rvitis ostia Nylu
So rare true Friends, and fuch in number few
That fcarce fo many can be found below,
*e As Gates of Thebes, or Ports of wealthy Nyle.
Origamu, fob 699. tells us, that the Sun in the Tenth Houfe, (as in this *j0>tur **
Nativity) is a certain Argument o f Honour and Preferment and $ , a ge-1 fefc'mn
neral Significatrix of Honour, being in the Tenth alfo, portends the fame*
2>in Sextile o f 3 and 0 in Reception with him, he being Lord o f the Tenth,
are certain Arguments o f Honour, Fame and Renown : and indeed had not
h , who is Dontitim Afceudentis , been in Oppoficion to the Sun , the general
Significator of Honour, & c . and in Quartile oft?, the particular Defigner
thereof in his Radix , the Native would have obtained a far higher Degree
o f Honour and Preferment then he did ; but he was an Fnemy to his own
Preferment : Yetneverchelefs hedidin the latter part o f his Life increafe
very much in his Reputation, and his Honour and Fame were generally taken
notice of. If you would know by what means he fhould attain Fame and
Credit, & c . Dbeing in Sextile o f 3 , Lord of the Tenth , and , Lady of
the Ninth , locally in che Tenth, thence calling 2 Sextile Afpedt to the Afcendenc, and 5 Lord o f che Sixth, there alfo, being the Hrongeit PI metin
the Figure : All which Arguments hid cogecher , preiage his Fame and Ho
nour to come by Hudying Arts and Sciences ; and that he ihould rife in rhe
Opinion of the World, chiefly thereby: buc this not without fome difficulty,
as c? his Quartile to $ aptly iignifies. It is very well known that he gained
his Honour by Arts and Sciences, but chiefly by Phyfick ; in the knowledge
o f which, he was mod excellently skilled : and it was purely by thac alone
Study and Practice that he hath left a Name behinde him, which will remain
until time Ihall be no longer.
'
The fiery Planet 3 in the eighth Houfe, in Quartile to
Lord of the Af- trim death
cendene, and three Planets more, feems to portend a violent D.^ath : b u t^ w .^ ^
the Sun being upon the Cufp o f the Mid-heaven, near the Body of
and in
Reception with 3 and the Moon in the Sixth , in Sextile to him alio , takes
off the edge of that fufpiiion , and abates much of the Fury of 3 , and feems
rather to portend the Native to die of a Confumption , or by a decay of na
tural Strength at the Heart . (<? is in [,.)
I have heard it credibly reported by iome that were with him at the time
o f his Death , and conffantly in his Sicknefs that he died o f a Confumpiion
which had been long upon him; and much Means (and that of the better
fort) was ufedto enervate i t , but it flill prevailed upon him waiting and
confuming him by degrees, until it reduced him to a very Skelecon, or Anato
my j and afterwards, viz,, on t_ffiunday the tench o f January 1 6%\. releafed
him, and gave him his Pafport to a better World : The Moon then being
in Quartile to the Radical place of 3 , and the Sun in Quartile to his own*,
and to the place of Ti in his Nativity ; Tj and If, being then in a direct Op*
poficion.
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Nor was it truely reported* thatiomc Phyhtians deiigned bis Death by


fecting their Engines at work to poyfon him. I do believe they were Ene
mies great enough unto him ; yet I am confident} by this Report* they arc
egregioufly fcandalized* it being cuftomary for Ill-will to fpeak the word.
The Accidents by which this Nativity was verified* ate thefe :
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Aged 1 8 years, he went to the Univerfity : to the Body of $, and the


Afcendent near theSexcile.of the fame Promittor by Dire&ion caufed rhac.
He being bred up a Scholar * and fitted for the Univerfity in his younger
years, upon the M . . ad& g , and 2 adCS $.
Aged twenty four years* began to fiudy Phyfick* the 2) being then dire&ed
to the A o f 5 her Difpoikor in the Radix.
Aged twenty feven years he then went for a Souldier * and was wounded
by a linall fhoc over the foreparc of the Body , which he never recovered o f
till his dying day ; and then th Afcendent came to the Q of ,and prefchtly
after to the Q of "fr by Direction. Diredtions of fo evii Tendencie and Im
port, that might very well have ruined any Man.
' Aged 38 years* he died. -The Afcendent then coming to an Opposition
o f df with Latitude. The Revolution it felf being the fame with 1hat of the
Radix; ft patting by the Radical place of <?, and c? upon the Afcendent *
and U in CL and Ik upon the oppofice place o f d1, and in to V s place alfo :
which ill Revolution agreeing with an ill Dire&ion, neceffarily portended
Death.
Tempfti edax rerum nos terit omnia temput
Nos terimus tempus, jamfumus ergo pares
Thus Time devoureth all * and doth all watte,
And we watte Time, and fo were evn at laft.
Thus much for the Second Part of my CotleSion of Nativities*

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C r OMWEL,
C romwei,

ASSIANIE

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Artificially and Hiftorieally confidered.


. 1- O / O l l V E R

CjlOMWEt.

Liver Cromveel was born at Huntington in England on St. tJMarkjs


Day? at 46 m. 4p fee. pa three of ehe Clock in the Morning,1; ijpp.
after our Vulgar way o f reckoning: but Afironomically, on ulpril
M* 1 s
4 w. 49 fee. Poft Meridiem. The Heavens then being as fol
low ed.
Oliver

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N this Genicure
j| , we finds the
. Rgal Signe 'Y*afceudins on th
Enflera iFinitor, -a$
a moii cercain note
. rGf this prodigious
Natives Defir o
Soyeraignty r and
Rule , and of the
Tyranny he ufed
when he ruled ; it
.being the Delight
o f dYand Exaltati
on^ ,of the Sun.
Nexr5 we finde the
three
fuperiouc
Placets, eiTentiatly
dignified, and the
. ocher four in a
......
r, . friendly Trine- of
each Other * and noth the Luminaries, and ^ greater Fortune , in Sextile.
Which eminent and rmarkbJe'.TertimpnieX^ moft plainly argued the greatnefs'arid mitaculs TJoriOurs'aridAtcfiievefrierits o f this notorious Perform
And i f thefe Ar|umfijnts. he.b^Cjdoeiy aadrtejfjoufly confidprd , the Anions
and Attempts.of jthR Native* tyepd not amazebj aniuie.any one > he being
from.his BirthordaWed for pro^igj.pusndlQUght Attempts in general, arid .
to be a Scourge.ro ^ W i n paftular. jfyjjittfeed whoever he b e , -rfiac
hath ti In , in;Qj$bim6n tbrg in v> he may, its true* be feard by E*g*
land, bt never itr.d' ; arid let'bjs Pretences pe,what they w^ll, his Asian's '
mft prove deftrh^iye tc| it., Rut this obiter^'..r
'
.
" A'ttloors cef isssi-i r Fie$ij$M4 &#&#${ 'inqvAtresjplaneu fuerint
iVfu isdomibtu* dut'xattaiionibas, cc. " *cThkt cannot.but jje.a inoft happy
Nativity, in which, three o( tbePHnets [mttfjjptore the iheefttperionr.Vla uetsj are found. either
'$s pr. Exaltations : %
vid. +ftroL
Aphoritt. p 305. In* this Ntiw this A ^ oiifin is moft xaUy verified?;
arid iri truth, hi? Nativity was. rijort happy to bmjfelf, thouj^dertrutive td '
many others. It s generat Riile-alfo amongAnirts, "that m what (jeitHt
foever Cardinal Signes pojfefs the Angles of the figure, that Native it egregp?
ottjly eminent > and violent and tyrannical in all his ^Allions : The truth of this
was verified in the. Nativity of Carolus Gttitfp.its Ring p f Swede* as wel and
as largely as irithis Natives. ' .
. ...V.
.
: Had this,greatrfpirited Perpri for ftch a one he was ; and as it was aid
b f D* mboyfe in the Tragdie . Nature had breath'd a Minde, m e hit E.ntrailes, -to fweUinto another great Auguttus Carfar l had he, I fay) been any
thing but Englilli, he had been the mort accomplifhd and to be admired perfon in the World. ! (as he was., he lived not onely the W onder, butTerrour of it. ) But for a. Subje^ of England*. ( fo born, and fwom to Obedi
ence and Allgeance-);, riot by Degrees, but by prodigious Leaps, to attempt
the sdvraign Rl'rtierof arid this through th deefieft pf Difficulties, pi*
thebleft Blood o f his facred Soveraign ; whole Priviledgea he had vow^d to
defend, andPerfon he had {Worn to preferve; leaves fuh .afear upon him
and his molV daring and adventurous Aidons , that the Canker-worm
P p
of

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e .n i t u r a r u m

: Or,

of KeA- will never be able to eat o u t nor the Mois of 1 ime of Quantity
fufficient to cover.
Prefuming that divers Artifts will be curious in the fcanning and perufing
o f this Geniture Ifhall for their Afliftance and prevention of Trouble
prefenc them with a Catalogue of feveral Accidents o f his. Life > and the Dire
ctions] & c . that were ( in an Aftrological fence ) the proper Occafioners
o f them: and (with no fmall pains to me) they are thefe following.

1 . In the year 1 540. this Native ( in hopes he would have proved honefter then he did ) was by his.Countrey eledked a Member of
M. C . ad O D ireftio
that terrible long Parliament: and this was his firft viiible ftep
flicicatcmdeugnac circa
to Honour and Preferment; and the Dii eckion that occafiond
Ngocit iones, & in om
He bad then
nibus aftionibus fortuna- this was the Medium Cali ad Caput Draconu.
tum , & c . Orig.
alfo'a good Revolution and V ( though but weak) was then
upon the Mid-heaven of his Radix.
_
'
2. In the year 1 04a. being adjudged by the Rebels a fit Villain to fink the
Oath o f Allegiatice in oppoling his Sovereign he was made a
D ad C o r tu n atoaliColonel of Hbrfe ; having fome fhort time before difcovered
quam ailtgnc dignita
his rebellious Heart by railing a Troop of Horfeat his own
tem,qua: tandem mali aCharges under the Command of Col. Sir Philip Stapilton s
liq u id ininiicicia ac torm idinc jun&um appor
the Moon was then direfked to Amares or the Scorpions
tai. Orig.
Heart; an eminent Marcial and Jovial Star.
3. In the year 1643. he was ( for his whining diiTemhling and villanous
Zeal to the Caufe) eledked Lieutenant-General to the Earl of cjpiancheiter :
he how began to be a Rebel in goodearneft: the Moon was then directed ad
Trinum tJHartis,}
4. In the years >44. this Native quarrels with the Earl of tJManchefler 5
and the Earl believing himfelf. to be the better M an pre
Horofc. ad t.
efficic fers divers Informations againft his Lieutenant-General in
natum Ch olcricu m , teParliament; bttr to no purpofe: for Crcmvfrt quickly acquit
m erarium , & variis g
ted himfelf; and in defpigbt of the Earls Teeth, he would ride
ner ibus feeler uni & flatheFore-horfe ; and did. To occafion this Trouble he had Tj
gltiorum fefe implicantensj & c. Orig.
all that year upon his Afcendent, being the.Radical place of J 1
and his own oppofite place: he had alfo then the Afcendent direiied to the Terms o f <J.
5.
In 1645. this prodigious Native yVa.s made Lieutenant-General to Sir
Thoi Fairfax. and noW his Trophies begin Eofpread apace:
Dad # ft datum po- the Moon was then directed to the Sextile o f T i Lord of the
&ntfe S i
Houfeio K isN atiw y ; and under chis D ireaion, he ac
laft routed Fairfax.
netum facie, M agnos etiam gloriai c honeris aftus difeernit See.

Orig.

6.
In the year 1648. he contends with the Parliament and contefted
with the Levellers; by which means he underwent much difgrace: he alfo
now laid the Plot for the Murcher o f the King. An eminent Lady hearing
o f which (as Ihave been credibly informed) went unto him and defired
him to forbear fo vile an ACkion, for the Judgements fake it might bring upon
the Kingdom if not for the Per jury himfelf might be guilty of, and the whole
Parliament alfo : unco whom he angerly, and like a Tyrant replyd ^Ma
dam ! forbear to move me in this matter ; for by the Life of GOD he mu die>
and the world cannot fave him. He had now the Sun direcked to the Quartile
o f Ti and his Parc o f Fortune to the Oppofition o f 5.
7.
In the year 1649. having done his Villany in England and hearing o f
fome Matters that might prove Impediments tohimandhisdefiredSovetaigntyin Ireland, he in hafte marches over thitherto allay the Fury of what
chat

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147

ch at Oppofition portended. He was fortunate in that Undertaking more


fro m his general then particular Fate : yet he was lick in Ireland of a Flux
and Fever ; the Moon being diteded ad Quartilum propriam and Goncrantifcion of it.
8.
In the years ie><jo. and i6 $ u having been glutted with Succefs in Eng
land and Ireland, and his Itch of'Soveraignty ftill prevailing , ( being drunk
with the fame Ambition as was Rollo Duke of Normandy, (and in fomefence
a greater Pride) who was alwayacryihg, ( as rendred by the Tragedian ) A
Crown a Crown 5; O facred >RIexow fire me! ) he marched into Scotland
tofubdue all Oppofition .cherei; that endeavoured to confront .bis Aims, And
having ftruck through th -Life o f his Soveraign Loid King
(t) a d ^ 0 , nacum
Chariesthe.Firil, before,, is refolved to ride thorow to his de
Aniiuofum, imperiofunj^
fie d Scage, - rnaugre all. Opposition ; and at Worcester now fortcm
, audafccni, & m
flrikesattheLifeof hisipreferttfacredSoveraign : but G o d aftionibus fagacem , & c .
preserved him from his infernal Claws, for Englands future * inq; a&ionibus com Happinefs. Howbeic, Cromwel came o ffa Bloody Vi tor $ modum fen d r cum laude
fu * a u g
having then the Sun diredled to his own Sextile ; and the Re- n& a tfubilantix
o , & c.
voludonal Figures of thofe two years, moil Angularly torturiate
tn all things as to his own particular Incereft.
-9. In die year. 16*3. this-.Saint in Grain (after many religious Quackfies, Cheats, Villanies , arid bfoody Ations by him committed in the fear
o f G o d ); he nude himfelf thijjfurping Protestor of England, diiTolvd'the'
Parliament >
' It is obfer.veable, that when he came to turn out his Ma
ilers, the Rumpers a ( iuch. wasdhis then hatred to Superfiition, that) becryed
out at the; fight o frhe Speaker s Mace > Away with this idolatrous Eable. ! yet
afterwards held id m Vanity to have three fuch carried before
. 0 a<3 <4 1,nacum cor
Ms Jyrancihips He had nowtbe.Sun dire&ed-'co the Bodyof poris
fauiatcun,. animi
add co the Sextile o f theMoori, and the;Partof Fortune t anquillicatni, & aliis
to the Sextile of
I need not tell you how this Villain made .vii* afcfojtunarum bonis
ufe o f the bafell of Inftruments in the belt of Profeffions, to up beat.-------- & non nunhold this his ufurped Dominion : viz,, bothin L a w, Divinity, quam acceflum ad D o
atjd Ailrologiei ji allowing them liberal Perilions for their Se>, m inium .
vices performed on his behalf.
. ! .. m ,;,
V.
10. In the year 16*4. the better to fix him in his Chair o f tlfurpation,
(as if he had been a Tawful King indeed) he concludes a Peace
ad A <$, Pollice*
yyfch France by ther,Means of. Cardinal Mazarine and patches turaugmencum facultaup.a League with, Sweden, by the pains of Mr. WhitlocJ^a turn, Martialiumperfo
r a wyer ^ ( afterwards onte of-bis Lords ) whom he Cent Am- nariun aufpicio, &c.
haffadpur. to Sweden .* the Part'of Fortune was now directed ad Trinum
Martis. ;
; ;i ,
1 1 . In the year 1 6 (being jealous he was not faft enough rivetted
in this his ufurped: Power ) he calls a counterfeit Parliament to confirm
him in the fame ; - and by this, Convention he was follicited to have taken
upon him in Name , whaE before he had boldly affumed in Subftance ,
viz., the Title of K I M G ; but he refuted : fo they confirmed him in
Weftminfter-Hall (but what he was before) an ufurpmg ProteClor. For
tune was now directed to a Sextile o f Tz? Lord of the Tenth ; a good Revo
lution, & c.
. i a . In the year 16^7. this politick Native, intending to grafp as much as
he could, and hoping to make the Country of Flanders partake o f his pious
Parts, he fends a blefied Bird of his own hatching over thither,
v iz, Sir John Reynolds, with fix tboufand Men ; and this vali0 ad ^ 2, inqaietmu
lianc Perfon takes Dunkirk, from the Spaniard : but Sir John
^
adhibebitur,exiguotamcn cum emolument & lucro. In itineribus quoq; Scripturis, & reliquis nega
tes non per omnia faelix erit, fed in illis quoddam damnum fcntiec. Orig.

knowing

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knowing his Friend Olivers Wiles, was unwilling to undertake this weighty
Affair, until he had been advifed by LiU)^what the Succefs thereof would amount unto j and therefore gives him his Nativity to direct him by. fine
Lilly being Sir Johns Matters Creature, viz, Oliver's* would never predict '
any thing contrary to his blcfled Patrons Undertaking: 'and fo deals by Sir
Job , as in the Swedifh Bufinefs he did by Sir G. A , one lob his L ife , the
oLherhis Honour. - Howbeic , Oliver's Defignes went on Somewhat the bet
ter for this Parafttes Knavery : for he had now the Sumdiceited to a Sextile
o f $:; >a fit time to advantage himfelf by Tractors and Tiepanners. -.
)
v 1 3. In the year 1658. upon the third dayofSeptember thisTrotibleC o f
SgUddlzd at Whitehall in L<fdo({z Palace nivef bailoforlhim.) Thiswad
&day remarkable with him ; which he idoliiitigin' hts Iv^k-chanks to Q 6 ^
.Almighty , it pleafed G o d to give Satan faawe^O' put a period to his Tyraftnies; which he did, having before fent hima'bfoniriori of : bis intention, by
a iirangeand prodigious Storm of Winde -the like hath feldom beenknoww*
Buthe vvhofe Head and Hearbwere full of theTerhpert~oF Tyfanny , Murther, Diffimuiaridin, Perjury>
in his Life-time, it could not be expected
but "Mature iliould give a Groan ro be deliveredfrom him at-the fall* : i h e
Afcendenc ( which is Hylech orG iver of' Life in this Nativity ) Was then
directed to the Quartile o f the cruel Planet c/^arj in (Jancer his P all; and
this in the fourth Houfe of chis Radix, viz. the end of ail
r Ale. ad
j datum . things. VVhich malicious1dDire&ion being attended on ',
varnsmovl^rBm, :e?trc- wjch the progrefs of the Sun to the Head of Jfereu/es 'yarid
hem cm r^nSri Choi the Parc of Fortune to the Square of the M o o n a n d -all
lcrici adufti cbulBttone thefe concomicated with a trioft Grange anchremarkablei
provcniencium,acque pe- cum of the three fuperiour Planets (but a lit tie bbfore) to theti
FKitiorunr aji mfortuni- true Radical places', were Arguments borftfcnainent and fuffci
* of the Deach o f this (t&BtglatidJ prodigious Native in
tem denunciat,' &.-
thatyear.
""l
-"
*
orig.

- -'-i

: '**' :
"
For a Proof o f the Concurrencie of Revoluticnal Figures with t>i*
regions , I ihallprefenc you with his laft Revolutions! Scheme: which
(becaufeic is eminently coniiderable) take as fdlloweth. *

N this Revolutions!
Figure * wd firfde
(as moft oaiinous and
fatal
returned td
his Radical place, in
Oppofitibn to theTAfr
cendeUt o f the Radix*
and the Lord thereof ;
and in- O o f It v and
this in the fourth
Houfe,viz. the Grave,
or the end o f all
things. And a i> fit
fecond to fo remark
able and cruel a Posi
tion, here is c f, Lord
o f the Afcendenc o f
the Radix, in Conjuntion of U,Lord o f the
Eighth thereof ; and

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that upon the Cufp of the Fourth of the Nativity, though twelfth Houfe of
this Figure.
All which dangerous Configurations** Pofirions and Tranfics* concurring
with fuch malignant and cruel Directions* as before I have largelymoced*
might very well (as indeed it molt feafonably did) proclaim a moii fatal year
unto the Native > and happily put a Period to his Life.
Ac the very moment o f his expiring, the Sun* who is Fans Fital * and
Lord of the Sixth in the Radix and Afcendent in the Revolution * was in
Conjunction with d > Lord o f the Afcendent of the Radix * in the eighth
Houfe* viz.. the Houfe of Death* near unto the Radical place o f the Moon ;
and 5> their nimble Difpofitor* in the Radical place of the malignant Planet
12 ; and the Moon in the Radical place of d> in Oppofuion to them both* as
may be feen by the following Figure.

'T Hus much for


* the Nativity
of this eminent
and prodigious Perfon ; whofe Refolucion was fuch that
he never attempted
any thing but he
accomplifhed it *
though fur rounded
with a multitude o
Difficulties. And
now I am menti
oning his Refolution l I remember a
Comical Story of
a Scotch Minifies
concerning him* as
(I have heard) was
delivered in a Pul......
p it; which for the
Jefis fake I fliall relate , but nor commend fuch. DoCtrine in a Preacher The Mitufter being in the midfi of his Sermon* makes a ftart therefrom.* and
accofis his Auditory (after a Rabble o f News) with this wild Qneftion viz*.
Beloveds l^enye Cromwel ? ken ye Cromwel the Engllfla General ? Marry Ife
tell ye tohat he is; he is ene warfe then the D e v il; and Jfe prove it too : for the
holy Scripture faiths G if ye refifi the D evil, hes flee from ye ; hut g if ye rejiff Cromwel * marry hes flee inyour face : theyi f ore Cromwel is warfe then
the Devil. Indeed he was a Perfon of a mighty and undaunted Refolurit>n; and ( as by his Nativity appears ) had more thereof then he h ad Reafon : yet Succefs often-times made his Refolutionieem Rearon, He was al
ways a Vidor ; was never conquered by any Opponent * fave th at, which
Hercules himfelf could nor witbftand* viz. his lafi
3
d

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Observations Aflrological from the Schemes of his beginning


and ending.
t. <$in v * is an allured Argument of a Vi&orious Per fon, and of Valour
alto; bur more efpecially if y (ball afcend in the Nativity.
2. The Moon and $ in Trine and Reception 3 ( as here in his Nativity ic
i s ) makes a Man a Turner up of Councils by the root > and a Deuroyer of
them at pleafnre.
3. c? and b in Opposition, makes a famous Rebel* ('being Lord of the
Afcendenc :) and both in Square of 1J,, makes him obferve Law and Religion
for his own Ends.
4. All the Planets under the Earth , ( as here they are, except <$) when
they promife Honour Dignity and Renown* they generally perform it in the
latter part of a M ns Life.
5. The Lord of the Eleventh ftronger then the Lord o f the Seventh, the
Native overcomes his greatell Enemies : here it was fo. This was verified
alio in the King o f Denmark,js Nativity. See T^ttnc'iHs Aftrologlcm,
6. The Returns of the fuperiour Planets to their Radical Places in any
Revolution, portends a fatal year to the Native. If an ill DiredUon con
cur, it is unavoidable ; unlefsby Prayers and Tears prevented.
7. The Lord o f the Afcendenc and Lord o f the Eighth of the Radix in
Conjundtion, is dangerous, although the Lord of the Eighth be a good Pla
net : for every Planet performs his Office according to his Relacion , and
the Power he hath in tne Figure. Thus
and $ may be Infortunes per
accident, and b and & Fortunes ; though per fe they are otherwife.
8. The Cufp of the Sixth of the Radix afeending in a Revolution, and
the Lord of the Sixth thereof in the Fourth , are Arguments of a dangerous
year.

II. O f R

i c h a r d

r o m w e i

ichardCroimvel was born near Huntington, in the year o f our Lord


1626. on Oftober 4. 13 hours, *7 minutes, poll tJMeridiem* The
Heavens were then pofited , as by the following Figure is reprefented.
'

f
I
1s-

%ichard

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49. 9:

'T'His is the Na
tivity of Rl~
chard Cromwel a
Perfon who had
the Impudence to
pretend a Right to
the Government:
of England , Scot
land and Ireland,
upon no orher
fcore but becaufe
Goodivitii Owen and
N y e, ( Oliver's
Creatures) fwore
it was his Fathers
W ill upon his
Death-bed,that he
ilmuld fucceed in
the Government.
Ic is very probable
the old Gentleman might he prodigal enough , ro give that away which was
none o f his own ; and thefe Men might fwear the fame cruely : buc yec methinks Richard might have coniidered what had been his Fathers Right to
have given him ; for he could not but know, that his Father was never born
to the Crown of England ; nor himfelf neither , which in fome fort was the
better and more deierving Gentleman.
But now to the Figure Aftrologically. To be plain, ic is one o f the
meaneft and pooreii Nacivicies that ever I yet faw or beheld ( and I have
feen five thoufand) for a Perfon that was a Governour or chief Magillrate over three Nations efpecially. For here is not one Planeteficntially dignifi
ed in the whole Figure ; fcarcely one of them truely^in his own Terms
Which is the very meanelf of EfTential Dignities. And if the Fortifications
of the Planets promile Happinefs, their Debilities mull neceflarily {hew ill
fuccefs.
But then divers will be apr toobje&i- - 1- i f hie Nativity be fo bad , how
came he tofo great a Fortune ? I anfwer: ------- What he enjoyed was rather
a Mil-fortune then a Fortune; for he was buc a Pageant or Stalking- horfe to
the Pride of others, and onely ferved their Ends and Aims, as a Protedlor o f
Clours might have done. Hovvbeit, in a qualified fenfe , I allow his titular
Honour was very great yea, fo great, that you fee it quickly funk the Ship
o f his waning Fortunes : but I deny chat this titular Honour was an Effedt
of his own Nativity, but of his Fathers. As Maximtliantts Stampa accained
all his Honours , Dignities and Preferments by the Grace and Favour o f
Sforz,a i Duke of t_fl/illain, he taking a more then ordinary Affedlion unto
him : fo this Native came to be veiled with the Government, and the Ho
nour of i'upreme Magiftrate of thefe Nations, not by any particular Configu
ration , Pofitionor Afpedtinhis own Nativity, but onely as he was the Son
and Favorite of Oliver his Father; who did what he could to leave him a
friendly Legacie. ^ Indeed he happened to have about that time fome good
Dire&ions operating, and that hope to make amends for his ill Radical Poficions.
Now* that you may know this to be the true Nativity of this Perfon, cake
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tbeie following Accidents, as compared with Directions, and they prove the
true Rectification thereof.
1.
When Rjchard Cromwel was 31 years o f'A g e , viz,, in 1657. being
then a Hunting, he had the Mif-fortune to break his Thigh by a Fall from
his Horfe ; o f which he ever after continued lame , and is like never to be
cured. He had then by Direction the Afcendent to the Body of h > Lord of
Fifth and Sixth in his Nativity.
a. Being aged (as before) viz,, in July 1657. he was (with no great Affe<Stion of the Llniveriicy ) eleCted and inilalled Lord Chancellor of Oxford:
but, Poor Man 1 he under flood but Iiale of Latine, notV.. 0 . ; <i A , offiwhhllnnding Needham reported him to make an elegant:
< * i-u'owca Si honorcSjCic
Return to the Vice-Chancellors Latine Oration to him:
icy.c vel magno principe
r. !n a a ik gratiavu , ac
which could be indeed no other then the Mute to Morofs in
l.>\urcm nau, polliccrur;
the filent Woman viz., by Signes with his Leg * and an infoundc & res fuas ita initi
lent Nod or two, to inform them o f his impudent Acceptance.
a l , u t m agnanim us,
munificus , nihil humile But to bear him cut in a greater piece of Confidence, (had a
cogitans habeaturj 8 re igreater matter been offerd him ) he had now the cjMedium
vublicae cum laude vcl
Coell ad Trinum Soils -per Dh ettionem operating in his Nati
piStic vel prxefle judicevicy.
cur ab orirhu .
Orig.
3. In the 32 year of his Age, v iz. in September id <8. after the Death of
old Oliver his Father, he was proclaimed (in his ilead) ProceCioL of England,
Scotland and Ireland , & c . and had many Addrefies from all parts prefenced
unto him in a Congratulatory way , ( as it was then fycophantickly worded)
all promifing to live and die with him, they acknowledging him to be the un
doubted Heir to Er.glands Crown. And to add to thefe Ignss fatal ouc
comes a quacking Ailrologer in his Mays Obfervations 16 <59. (a t whac
time poor Richard was turnd out of all) and predicts like a fawning Parafire, That the Englifh Lord ProteBor norv enters upon the Stagehand wa
rdf t fes himfelf to the whole world , that he bath found Abilities to govern , and
found Judgement to dlftingulfh both fecret Enemies, and fneaklng Friends : he is
abundantly courted from feveralparte c/Chriilendome, & c . Richard
Lord ProteSlor of F in la n d ft oops not is not terrified with wordsprovides for all

r.ccdfons. And cowards t he months end,---r Is made happy with welcome


News ike. And in his general Predi6Uon of Lyes, he writes, Let no
mans heart fa il; the Sun feems to us toJbine as well on theprefent Lord ProteSlar
hisABions as on his dcceafed F a t h e r s Thus did divers parafitical
Wretches chant forth their Fi&ions and lying Elogiums to this their new
Saint Richard -* all Fun&ions and Arts, & c. were made Hackney-Heraulds
to proclaim ( what the Heavens were totally again!! ) the Continuation,of
this Pageant of Regality. Upon which I remember a learned Englifh Artilt
thus Poetically writes:
Opt*:
WfmujR'
Caknd.
Iicclef.
ttCf-o. in
Match.

Put where be thofe fine fuglers did Addrefs


Such fugred Pbrafe, fueh fmooth Obftquiotifntfs :
That vowd to live and die with Richard, yet
Neer bieruifht , when they faw his Glory fet ?
Such Hypocrites run with theftrearn of things
And will keep Time whatever dance begins.
Ac this time %lchard Crowwel had no Direftion but the Part of Fortuny
ad Trinum Veneris, and the jytedlum Cali adTrinum Solis in Gemini Lon
don's Alcendent, (not fully over ;) which in divers refpe&s were good, but
I deny that they were of force tomake him fo noted a Speflacle : and indeed,
had

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had not iiis Happinefs ( if fo it may be cermed ) in that Action been depen
dant upon his Fathers Face , nothing in his Nativicy (as I laid before) could
ever have brought luch a thing to pafs.
4.
Being aged near 33 years, he prefumed to call a Parliament: but when
they met, they thought him alictle too bold, and therefore begin toqueiiion how he came by that Power he had j and finding no facifM. C. ad D T?. labofadtory account thereof from him , they call the Power into
their own hands, and fo eafed him of the Burden of being chief riofa mala & inforiunia
nato diOcrnit, fpoliatcMagistrate of E ngland. He was now overtaken by a DireCti- undcmd'igaicatibus , hoon o f the cJb ted iu m Cceli a d U u ad ratu m S a tu rn i ; a Direction noribus, oificiifq; per ho
o f moll cruel import* as by the Text out of O rtga x w d e E jfeili- mines Saturninos , &c.
busy & c. appears," A c in fp e c ic M ed li f a l l a d corp u s Saturni Vrig.

direilitty maxintas indignitatcsy & odia P rincipum au t < Jlf*gatu m ju d icit\ var'to hoc} ; m alorum g c n e r c , digm tatesy efflcia, honors j atq\ f a
v o r cs fa b v e r t i e ; N egotia cu m ta rd ita te natum p erficcre f a c i t , fa cln o ro fa v e r o
fe e le r s ex citaty See. * Befides "h was then Retrograde upon the place of his * trbat here
Sun in the Radix, The very day o f that years Revolution , there happened
f
a Conjunction o f the Sun , and the cruel Planet Tj ; and & was by Podtion
near them both , inQuartile to chefecond Houfe thereof j and the Moon mdaflaod
(Lady of the Afcendene of that Figure) was policed in the twelfth Houfe, in of a .
Oppolicion to 5 , Lady of the Tench, in the Radical Scheme.
Behold the Figure it felf !

F we confider this
Revolution never
fo feriouily , we fhall
finde ic a mod maletick one to all Intents
and Purpofesi For
beiides the beforementioned Evils,here
is the Moon with Cau
da *jyraconis in the
Twelfth,and the place
of Cauda in the Radix
culminating: all por
tending plainly what
then befel him.
Upon the Confide
rtion o f all which fad
Significations , I cook
the Liberty in the
time o f this Rebels
..,N r r
Reign, (ashundreds
are able to teflifie) to prognofticate his Downfal and Ruine. Ac which my
Opinion, many learned andingeniousPerfonsfeemed much to wonder. Un
to whom I conftantly replyed, That it was more my wonder and aitonifh<c mene that ever young Richard fhould have an opportunity convenient to
climb up to fuch a monfirous height o f Honour, ;then that at fuch a maliti ous and direful time he fhould loofe or be deprived o f the fame.
The Head of Medufa in the CMedlum Cceli, and $ , Lady of the tench
Houfe in the Fourth, in Con junction o f fin ta r es, or the Scorpions Heart
and in Square to the Afcendent 3 and $, Lord of the Afcendene, in Conjou-

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lion of <S in & ; and the Moon in 1 (though in Conjunction of Cor Leo nis) and void of courfe in the twelfth Houfe in the Heavens ; are no lingu
lar Teliimonies ( by the Confenc of the the moll Learned in Attrologie ) of
an illuhrious or Princely Nativicy ! Indeed they lignifie the quice contrary;
as i:nto this Native hath been fufficiently made appear.
Seeing the Luminaries in friendly Al'pett of each other , and % in good
Pofition of the Afcendent and Parc of Fortunes and none of the Significators
o f Life aflrliCted by the Beams or Bodies o f the evil Planets * either by Dire
ction or Configuration; it is probable he may live to an indifferent Age.
The forty fecond year thereof will be dangerous unto him> in refpettu Vita :
for then the Moon ( the Fountain of all Natural Power) will be directed to
the Body of b ; and b will then tranlitover the fixth Houfe > and the oppo
site place of the Moon in the Radix > who is the Significatrix in the Directi
on. And fo we mildly take our leave of Richard Cromwel3 as himfelf did of
his ProteCtorfhip and Honour.
AfirologicalObservations on the Scheme o f Richards Nativity.

"

1. All the Planets out of their eifential Dignities, generally fignifiea


Perfon o f no Quality; or if he hap to arife to any Preferment, hccannoc
enjoy it long : an accidental Good 3 can never totally overcome an eifential
Evil. Planet* in domo nonfu*> eft ut -vir in domo alien* pulfans jam deprimitur judicium fuum ; nec eit ei auUoritas. Bethem Aphor. 27.
2. b in the Seconds is always an Argument o f Povercy; and ic is rare if
the Native (be he never fo high) come not to beggery in the end.
3. Caput
in the Tench and the Moon in Quartile unto the Cufp
thereof , from the Twelfth > denotes Lofs o f Honour and Renown > if not
Death in a Prifon.
4. 5 s Lord of the Afcendent, in Conjunction of <? , and in Square to the
Part o f Fortune ; and $ , Lady of the Tenth s in Square to the Afcendent
from the fourth ; argues the Native to be crepand by Craft and Subtilty ;
and that himfelf will be willing to be cheated, and will corifent to his own a bufing, yea, undoing alfd.
'
5. Violent Scars upon the tenth Houfe, and the Governour thereof with
fuchlikewife, denotes a violent Cataftrophe of. the Natives Greatnefs.
- 6* A ll the Planets in a Nativicy void of Reception, declares the Native
* to be voidof real and conftanc Friends and Adherents.
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A Collection o f divers choice Nativities.

i 4* *

III. O f Mafianidlo/; Fijker-man's 'Nativity.


AJJianicllo the Fi flier man of Napier was born near N*pies in the
year of our Lord 1620. on 7one
.five hours twenty nine mi
nutes after Noon s under the Latitude of 41 Degrees ; and the
Figure of Heaven is as folioweeh.

His Gentle
man in the
beginning of the
feven and twenti
eth year of his
Ages (notwkbftanding his poor > obfeure 3 nay , fcarce
known Original)
begins to oppofe '
the Power of the
King of Spat un
der pretence of
crying down the
Gabels and Taxes 5
(as (fromweldid the
King of Englandhy
perfwading People
to labour after Li
berty of Confd. . ..
.
ence, and a Free-,
dom from Tythes.) And in few days had fo ordered his bufinefss that he was
become the Head o f an innumerable factious Multitude; who being athis
beck and command > folio wed bim at the hpels.of every/Undertaking : and
to fatisfie .the pepjdej would .not diredtly in words oppofe the King of Spain .
but as if, they intended as reUgipiufly asthe^eft ,.their common Cry was3_Jl
jfivkTtio, Re di Spagna & fflaffianiello : Let ^ O B live and let the King of.
Spain li$e and jiviaflianiellp J iw alfo. B y (w)rich Means he encreafed his
ppw^n<JayW:; , .^.aibttjpQvv,^Fq^fed;. :his Commands iiTued out accor
dingly:.' Sdme o f wfiicH wetCsVThf t the .Peopie.under pain of Life and Fining,
fhotila have Lights (every m^ntf in their Windows : fo that he made ftreets as
light by night as by day. And that all fhould go en cuerpo without Cloakj
and the Btfhops and Priefts without Cajfockj and Ladies and Gentlewomen
were commandednot togo abroad in wide-hoopd Gowns or Kirtles9 becattfe they
might not convey Arms underneath them. At length Majfianiello concludes
a Peace with the Vice-R oy and thereupon becomes his Companion ha
ving his Wife cloacbed in Cloath of Golds and himfelf as rich : all Tribunals
Were ihut ups and noPerfon was obeyd but Majfianiello, who did even what
hepleafed: commanded Gibbets to be fetup in divers places of the City*
which (truck great Terrour into the Hearts of all people. While Majfianiello
was ailing thefe unparalleld thingSj he had the Medium Cali direifed to the
Trine of the Moon which occaiioned the Rabble-Rout foto adore him as
alfo

156

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G enit

urarum

: Or,

alfo to the Virgins Spike * a moft glorious fixed Star: but as Ttolomy himfelf
faith Although the fixed Stars do defgne admirable Preferment, yet the Honear they bring ends in nnafaal Calamity, & c. And thus it proved with Aiafftaniello.
For after all his great ACts performed and the Peoples honouring and adoringhim ; the railing of his Kindred, fupprefiing and deftroying of hisEnemies, and doing whacfoever he would ; behold 1 a Company of venturous
Blades hearing he was in a Church* went thither, and found him airing himfelf, and there they furprized and difpatched him , and cut off his Head : at
which ACtion of theirs, and unfortunate end of his, the people never grieved
in the lea ft , but dragged his Body up and down the City, with great Acclamationsof j o y , that fo famous a Rebel was departed ; and afterwards they
interrd him in a Dike. He had now the Afcendent directed to the Oppofition of b*
Thus fell this bold Filher-man of Naples j amoftunparalleld Fellow,and
of as egregious a Fortune. He Reigned (faith my Author) as abfolutely as
any Soveraign in the World,for thefpace o f eight days and eight hours; and
we may fay more abfolutely then any Kings ufe to do ; for they are reftrained
by Laws , but <jfy[aJfiame/lo was beyond the bounds o f any : for during this
ihorttim e, he caufed to be killd by his own Order two hundred and fifty
perfons, and that fuddainly, giving them onely time to confefs and unto
fome he would give none. In fine, he was thought to be more then a Man 5
and that what he ordered, was ordained by G o p himfelf. See Mr. Bowel's
Hiftory of him.

Thmmttch in brief of the famom Rebel o f Naples.

O bfervationsonhisJ^ a tivity
1. Eminent fixed Stars on the Angles o f a Nativity, declares prodigionfly
ambitious Perfons.
.......
2. The Lord of the Afcendent weaker then the Lord o f the feventh Houfe,
chiefly if the firftbe Cadent, and the laft Angular 9 is a moft certain Note o f
the Natives being overcome and ruined by his Enemies , let him be never fo
potent and mighty in Friends.
3. Directions to Planets in the defending part of Heaven, although they .
argue and procure the higheft Felicity imaginable to the Native, yet it is not j
long durable. I could give infinite Inftances of this truth ; buLthis one Be
ing very remarkable,(hall fervei
4. Thofe Perfons that have crowds o f Planets in Angles have &
!
time or other o f their L ives, moft remarkable and unexpected Fortunes 9.? ,
Mif-fortunes, according to the Nature of the Directions which happen.. V

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COLLECTIO

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The Third Part,


In Fifty Selefc

NATIVITIESV

rGentlemen,

Ofi

Merchants,

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Mathematicians,

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Short Life, Twins,

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Being o f Praftical Concernment to the Sons o f A s f.


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not rejeft or condemn a, {aber and regulated Aiirologie ; me hold th ere is

Wore truth therein , then in Alirolo^ers : 1 feme more , then many alio ; yet in none
fa much, as feme pretend. We deny not the h pence of the Stars , but often 'fufpeth the
due Application thereof, Pfeud. Lpidem. Lib. 4. foj. ip 4 ,
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The Latitude of the


Planets,
-\'T)
U

d. tit.
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j io 7
i 1 1 >Scjuth

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27 j

i 1 7 >North
3 S>S

Here prefent
the , Reader
with one o f
the molt remarka
ble Nativities 1 ever yec tnec with
(of .i Su jecPs) in
the whole coucfe
of my Scu lies ; it
.
.
is not indeed cominonly to b.* piralleld among 'bemofi illu^rious Radixes : the neareit thac
Ifinde unto it, is chat of GuAavm Adolphtu the great King of Swede * and
ibat j <Tonfiderati* Cnjiderana, is no- in many things fo excellent a Geniture
as this : as may he leen inthc Hrii P^rt of this Book.
In this Nativity* the Regal Signe / afcendsihe Horofcope, thelaft o f the
5iery Triplicity: U Lord thereof, is the molt potent Planer in the Figure ;
he is policed in X bis own Houle , in Conjuntion of the Moon , and both
o f themin Trine and Reception of the fortunate Planet $ : - 5 * the natural
Patr on of Ingenuiry, & e . is not onely in n * but in Cazme Solis, and Agular : <? the Lord o f the Eleventh and Fourth Houles, is pofited in V , his
gieateir Dignities. But belides thefe lingular Portions of more then ordi
nary Significacin, icis very rema'kable, and worthy to be noted , thac ii*
she whole Figure, There is not one Plinet in his Detriment, Fail*
Peregrine, Ret grade, Com bull, or in an ill place of Heaven. Whicfc
being told to an A i tilt in London, wicha.defire o f his thoughts thereupon,
he replyed hyperbolically, That the Native maft expeEl the EffeSts o f
fttqh Noble Significations in the other world: -for he thought that this World
could not afford him them. But certainly if the Stars have Influences upon
humane Bodies,(as elfewhere I have fufficiencly proved) they muft be known
before the Bodies Annihilation, and in the time of its combating with Mor
tality, or not at all*
I

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O OLl

e c t i o

e n i t u r a r u m

: Or ,

i fluU next celccnu to fome particular Accidents herein: as, ( i.) Wbeii
cbis worthy Native was aged five years , he bad the Meafels: the Sun was
then cire&edad n f . ( .) Atleleven years, he was ipv*ded wSh air Agate
and Fgve|:| J ^ J stJ i^ ajreae l 2 d Q
cnns^LatitH^ne. ( ) At t8 y efts
old a he took a Voyage to Holland- whkfTwas the
aTahaihing
great Honour & c . CMedmm Cali was then dire&ed a d & $, Lady of the
Tenth ; and the next year following,; he had A lj,.
Divers other things may beobferved from this Nativity but having no
particular Lic^nle either for rhi^J have done, o&fbr more-, A fhall fotbear.
1 have advetuiirediO^publifti this^ k beiAgi Nativity fo ttmaiJcable , and
fo worthy to be tranfmitted to Pofterity.

5 * 3- 4 2m

The Latitude of the


Planets,
T
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S
$
5
D

d.
i
1
6
4
0
3

m.
20
zo . South.
34.
?4 North.
2 t >South.
14

'His is the
Nativity o f
that rrolt
lea:ned Knight and
Pt.ilofopher , Sic
Ch rtfl ofher ffeydon;
the Author of that
incomparable De
fence 1 Judicial A ftriQlogie , written in anfwer to a Book publiihed againft Aftrologie, by Mr.
Jo/on Chambers .* inwhich Defence, this learned Knight was loexadi in his
Reiponfes fo fatisfailory and full in his Arguments, fo ftrenuous in his
Proofs thereof, that when once Mr. Chambers (who noqueftion was a great
Scholar) had feen and perufed it, and found the fame unanl'werabie, and his
own Arguments fo fully refuted and retorted, he for very grief died. Divers
others lmce Mr. Chamberss time > have pretended to anlwer this unanfwera^
ble W'ork ; as Vicars, T^owlandy 8tc. who have fo,far failed in their Encer-.
prize, that they have (in Head of proclaiming themfelves Scholars to the
pyojrld) made themfelves the very Pageants of Envy, Ignorance and Folly ;
and are gotten within the reach o f learned Cardans Lafh before they knew
where.they were': ------Stblti negligent & contemnttnt ^/iftrologlam , qni
centradicit, ambitiofus csb ; qui maledicit, fxtnus. Seg. 1. Aphor. 24.
The Book ie felt is of fuch excellent U fe, in char k antwers all O^jedtfons
brought againiithe Arc , from Reafon, Scriptures, School-men, Fathers,
Councils ; and that in fo plain and familiar a way of Reafoning, that I ihould
advile every young Student toacquatnt hirnfdf therewith: that by ic,be may
beepabled. to underftand, fir ft, what it is he would ftudy ; and fecondly how
to defend the lame againft the malicious and ignorant Oppugners o f the Art.
In

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A Colle&ion o f divers choice N a tiv ities.


-In the Figure >we finde jl ( the latter pare thereof) afeending the Horofcope ; and ? > Lord thereof, in VZ his greateft Dignities > there in exadt
Trine to %, and Sextile to : Arguments of very great Learning, Ingenuity, Sagacity and Prudence. The Moon is in A in Conjun&ion of that N o
ble Star called Spica Virginis* and in exa& Trine to <$and the Medium Cali 3
which denoted in this honoured Native, notonely a (harp and alive Fancie,
which quickned him in his Scudies ; bat gave him great Courage and Refolucion, & c . For you mult underhand, he was as well a Souldier as Scholar;
and both by Sword and Pen did purchafe himfelf fuch lading Honour and
Fame, that time will never wear our.
This worthy Native died in the year 1620. a little before his fifty ninth
year of Age began; he had then operating by Dire&ion the Afcendent ad
d* <Ji*rtts cum Latitndixe, and this in 1.
deg. min.
AfcenlioObliqua cP c?> C. L .
1 1 1 . 18.
i/ifccntioObliqu* Horofcofi
53. 42.
ArcmT>ireUionU

57. 56.

Which turned into time, according to Naybodes Inflitution or Meafure


of Time in Directions, gives 58 years, 28? days.----- - Beiides this,
the Moon was nearly come to the Oppolition of 1j , both with and without

Latitude.

Thus much for this Nativity.

The ^Latitude of the


1 Planets
North

South.

His Nativi
ty was gi
ven me foe
the true one of this
worthy Perfon; but
any Accidents be
longing thereunto,
I could never, ob
tain, exceptingthis,
x
^
^
* That he hadthe hardhap tobe engaged in Duels often ; in which Engagements, three
Men were (lainby him. It cannot but be ill provoking him, that hathmany
Planets above the Earth efpecially if they (hall be in the Dignities , or in
anyAfpe&of d or near eminent fixed Stars ; asmod of themarein this
Tc
Genicure.

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C llectio

G e n I TRA R um : Or,

Geniture. Howbeic this worthy Native fhould by his' Nativity have been
a Perfon of a Noble Nature > hating to do or commit hy difhonou-rabie
A ft : for he hath 5 his chief Significator > in th Houfe ot $> and in iJ\atique Gonjunftion with her in the ninth Houle in Trine to the Alee nek uc.
It is true , the Moon in y > in Trine to U her Difpofitor and to the Suu in
Y his Exaltation and the Houfe of & , might denote him of Spirit and.
Courage fo great 1 that he would fedrn to pafs by Injuries or Affronts with
out taking notice; of them: butthacis an Argumen t of an Inclination ami
Mind'e rather honourable then unworthy or low-orbed. And indeed m all
his Geniture , there is not one Argument of an Inclination in him to Homi
cide , though it was his grand Mif-fortune ( mod prob bly through high end
infolenc Provocations ) to have his Hands ttained with the Blood of three
Men.
/
.
Having not other Accidents to'vrifi this Nativity by in particular I ihall
forbear all further Diicourfe hereof. .

The Latitude of the


~ Planets*

North.
f HePerf^n o f
thi? Native
4
nipver
.knew ; Inor yeqany
of ; 'his f"Accidents
whbreby; his ^ atid vity ought, 'to &e
corrected^* fexcdjpn
tbar of his D^atjps
t wh ch being' in'4c
\
ftVhaFkaS H&r its fa ke ajone I have here publifl-ted3iis penicuiq.
february* being then forcy^hinetyfea^sidfAgti h^w>S Prefled
Olf'eam
in L
-r - w ....
for not pleading to an Inciiftment preferredh'gainft him
killing one M?i1Ftijfel an Attorney "His Brocher-in-LawX W hetherlhe
Paft. Was'jirifJOCharged upor^him or unjulfly ; Or'if ityWere tbV foii, v$iat
Prd\Otfati6ns4 e mighc have to induce him thejreuntof, I have not/0dd to
enqtjiieji'trueicfis'1 he died for i t ; andrat tijac time he luffered neb^djthe
AtfcefideiU* cfiildfted^d'.cP S-> dr_d. ?>_bothvvMvand without Latitude^- - 1
*v-?rfhe-:ft" giimefUirbf a violent Dkath , are many : ( 1. ) The two Infor-

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A ColU&ion of clivers choice Nativities*

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Combutf, and in Quarcile to the eighth-Houfe. (d.) The Moon in Oppoulio n ' of S i aviol.eht Tfonfee."'^
His Revolution for the yea* o f his Death, was moil ominous and cruel:
for therein 1* was upon the oppofite place of the Sun in the Radix, and that
from the Tenth and Fourth Angles ; the Figure it felf (aimoil) oppofite to
that of the Radix ; and the*fiery Planet & in Oppofition to the Afcendent
thereof , and very near the Afcendent of Birth ; the Moon ( alto ) was in
'Qimtile to the Revolutions! 'Afcendent. AH which concurring with two
luch dangerous Dire&ions, have a morf apt and proper Signification of-the
time of this Natives Death, and of the violencieof italfOi
Thus much for this Nativity.

fclo.ip.R.?!

Sir Job# Reynolds,


*born amo i dad.
. A(ironomic,ally, on
i o^i zh.nm.
T .'M x '
Sub Tar. \d ^ un.
3>inflf V a d D .

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,

'The Latitude of the


Planeis.
D
, ' 7l
%
M i
9

m.
4 >
4>Nortb
59 ,
f
39)

44*

South.

His is the
N.nci\ icy
jjt -C o lo -

ns! Reynoldswhom
.Oliver, O'rbJ&txpl
('upcn.Tom Gon^j. v . _.
5 5-47.7
^delations: haihof
- jhis/Serivices Tper...... . w
,
........
' -.i.-ifbrmed.) prtendff ^Cpight-hoodJ'Q3Cc ' "A PeriWheiwis moll refoiute

j;^i/bemg5 w^. s^Xiojatherik^iy fit fopib^eata


work 1 (fromwel knighted him at whiie-ball : he-hacbtheft-ehe Suadf&itd
4td A Lana. On the d.ry this pretended Honour was conferred, the Sun was
inex.nSl Trine to his Radical place, and unto the Afcendent of the Radix alf o : the Moon wis then in Conjundlion of i, but in Oppofition to his Radicalplace, yer in Trine to that of her own.
Amo id 57. on tJMay the 4th, this Native found to what purpofe he was
Ktfigfoed j for then he went General over dooo Men into Flanders t the
TiffecFof that Undertaking is known notoriouily to have been mifchievous ;
mott of the Men were lo.U and himfelf, with Colonel white, and others, as
they were returning for England, on December %. ( the fame year) were
drowned.

On

1^ 4

ol l e c t i o

e n i t ur a r u m

; O r,

On the day he went forth > viz,. xjiiaj


Tz was (almoit) Scaup aary up
on the Quadrate place o f the Moon. The Sun and cf were in Qaar riles the
onefquaring s the other oppofing his ninth Houfe ; (which hath Significa
tion o f Voyages.) The Moon alfo was inexa& Oppoficion to the Afcen
dent of the Radix. In all refpe&s j a time mott dangerous for iuch an Un
dertaking as at laft it proved unto this Native. He had now operat ing by
Dire&ion the Afcendent a
2), Lady of the eighth Houfe j and to the
of the Sunj Lord of his Ninth. His Revolution that year was alfo very malitiousj and concordant with his Diredtions and Tranfits then operating : as
may be feen by the Figure.

N this Figure, h
Lord of the Eighth
is in exadi Oppofition to the Sun Lord
o f the ACcendenc ;
and this from the
third and Ninth Hou%evolmio Solis ad
fes s and violent
fttn&um Radicistfro
Signes : an eminent
anno ^Mortis9
Argument o f the
*1657.
kinde of death he
March 1 o . oh, 40*.
{offered. cf was in
P. M ,
Quartile to the RaSub Lat. id , 32*0.
dica 1 place of U the
Lord o f the A'-cendenc o f his Nativity.
On the day he was
drowned h and &
(Lhe two Infortunes)
were in perfedf Op.pofition from the Tenth and Fourth Angles o f the Radical and Revolutio
ns! Figures ; ancfthe Moon upon the oppofite place of
Lord of the Af. cencent o f the Radix.
-rxThe Arguments o f a violent End** are ( i .)
his being in Oppofitionto
- the Afcendent from violent fixed Scars. ( 2.) 2) > Lady of the Eighth, in
Q^actile o f the Sun from violent Signes. (5.) Tj in Oppofition to $ 3 Lady
.
Tenth and in Qnartile to the Afcendent from the-ninth Houfe.
-Fortbekindeofviolent Deaths viz,, by W ater: ffi aW atry Signe/is
; Upo&theCufp of the eighth Houfe , and the Lady thereof is juft enrring vr
;,a S|gue wherein lhe receives her Detriment; andTjs an Affiidlerofrhe Afcendenc by his Quartile is by Longitude pofited among the Stars o f Jafon's
1,Ship Argos
All which ( when there is a violent Death threamed ) are
Signes it fhall be by Water.
\&

Cotonpl

i5

A C o lle g io o f c liv e r s ch oice N a t iv it ie s .

The Latitude of the


Planets*
D
Ti
V
S
$
3

d. M.
5 5 Notth.
37 South.
6

North*

33
iS

South.

His is the
Nativity of
a Gentle
man , whole Fate
hath been ( conlidering his Capa
city) as prodigious
and remarkable, as
ever any Mans i s , "
or was, or indeed is like to be. For he hath been employed in the great Bufinefs o f Drayning in ffampjhtre, and the Ifle o f wight: in which as he hath
had more then ordinary good Succefs, fo he hath had more then common
unhappy Fortune. He hath alfo had to do with the great Affairs o f two eminent Kings of Europe , viz., thofe o f Denmark, and Sweden and in the
thirty fixth year of his Age compleac, and thirty feventh currant, had a Cornmillion as Colonel to raife a Regiment; and he did f o : the eJMeditsm Cceli
Was then direfted ad 0 , and the Alcendenr adSextilarSatttmi. Butin
this Undertaking he was alfo unfortunate j and by Treachery had his Regi
ment taken from him, when he had been at the Pains, Care and Charge to
tranfporc chetn: the Sun at the fame time was alfo dire&ed ad Saturni ,
earn & fine Latitudine .* which Dtiedlion beingof more mifchievous tendencie then ordinary, did not end its Effe&s here but a little after he came
over into England again, was engaged into a Law-Controverfie for 200 /. o f
his own money which he had made over to a Perfon in truft; which faidPerfon for his defence, pretended a Bond of a thoufand pounds which was for
ged againll this Native for payment of ?oo /. to a third Perfon ; but after
a year or twos Goneeft , he call them all in Chancery, & c . and recovered
his monies: he had then directed ad Cor t, dr ifcendentem, and a good
Revolution to aift him.
. Now, if you would know, why a Perfon o f private Fortune ihould come
to fuch puMick Honour and Preferment 5 you muft take notice chat all the
Planets in the Scheme of his Nativity, are, noconely [afra terrains above
the Earth ; but in the Tenth and Eleventh Houles policed ; and the Moon,
Sfc and % eflfcntially dignified, and in good Afpet to each other. It is true,
Cauda Vraconis its Portion in the Tenth, doth ecfipfe the Honour and Eminencie the other Politions fo aptly denote ; and "fe in the Eleventh , makes
his Friends falfe-hearted, and his greaceft Hopes oftentimes to faile him.
And thus we fee a Harmony between the Effects o f Dire&ions, and the In
fluences of general Poficions.

Ti

Un

Major

o l l e c t io

2S.-4-

218. S4

e n i

urar u

W - : 0\
Thf Latitude of the
^ Planets,
D
Ti
/U.
<?
5
'5

d. iy
i 29 North.
X*. 8 7
i
x TASouth.
o 36 V
1
<s xNorth#
2 51 South*

H js is the
-Nativic^of
Major G e
neral L a m b e r tas
givin'untp me by
Genfl-man. that;at
tended on bim ; and
ic is (I dare be con# fidenr) thie true one*
becaufe ic fo exactly agrees with feveral eminent Accidents of his Li e. As
0 .) In the year 1648, he received great Addition o f Honour in rhe Army t
Medium CaeUw&s then d i r e c t Trinum ' ovts ^ an excellent Direction
to'fi^nifie the fame. (2.) Being aged 3d. he was made Lord-Warden o f th
Cnjue Porcs :. Medium Ceeli. ad Q 9 (3.) Aged 37. he was made Chief
Ju'ilicein Eyrex within the Foreft of JDean : I>directed then ad Trhum M*r~
tis.' Aged near 49.years , he was made General againft Sir George Booth ?
the'Mpoh was then directed ad A Jovis, But this Direction happening in
thefeyenth Hottfe denoted the Honour ic portended to be o f no long conti
nuance j nor was it. (4.), Aged 4 1. he was imprifoned in the Tower for
being not conformable to the Rump-Parliaments Defignes; A little after
eTcaped from the Tower, was proclaimed Tray tor ; andin Northamptonfhir*
takeuby Colonel Ingoldsby > and committed to die Tower again. He had
then,the Afcendent ad tjAiart by Direction , and the Medium CVzA* di
rected ad P Luttai & Saturn'^ cum & fine La titudirte s which mod aptly (ignified thefe Unhappineffes unto him. (?.). Being aged near 43 years he.
was (with Sir Henry icane) brughc to Tryal at the Kings Bench Bar %Was
found guilty of. .the Charge exhibited againllhim and condemned to die for
the fame : but our graticus King reprieved him immediately. even as food
as his. Sentence yiias, pail.: He had now to prejudice him yad d <$by D i
rection ; butto.afill him the;:- was dire&ed ad Sextilttm proprium. It is
obfetvable, when he efcaped from-the Tower that Tz was upon the Cufp of
the Medium aeji ip his Radix , and <$ upon the Quadrate place o f his Sun 5
arid 2) in the Eighth, upon the Quadrate places of the Moon'and Tz inhis.Nativity : then thevyhich ( together with the Directions before remembredjs
there can be nothing more plain to denote the Infelicity o f that Under
taking.
'

And now (before I conclude this Nativity) cofbew the ingenious Arti
a more eminent Proof of the EffeCts of an unfortunate EleCtion, I fhall prefentbim with the Figure of Heaven , under which this Native advanced to
wards the North, tooppofe General Mor.ci^i it being an Obfervation wor
thy to be known to Polieriry. It is true, the Directions before noted, did
generally

A Collection o f divers tffjtce Nti&tefj

' rd;r

generally portnd che unhippy-Cyc happy> iflue o f that Under ta king; BSt
che Minute of his idvant beig'khown y-is-hmbre pariiodliit Radi* for ftfch
particular A lio n j andcbcefaF^more patticularly-to be ctilideied*' 7
ii

r r .rrt

>WrHis was th Vtriie


J . vpfitureofriehrt ,*'at What time
j
_ X
*'P
r i^
*r
G e n e r aLarrir W;
^ 3l V '
- > . N -rJ ^ V 1
beri ^tc
his F d f m
* !v X ------------------ " ~V% * **
.: - fUk^CfifriitV
thb^Stitrp1rrtnnarVt rrarth
oiWa'dthe Norths to
Majf.Gn CLahbrt
rrerthe vaiantXrB
"i/ : :Pgan hiVidaifch 5
c- > y . <% , e -,
' G eneral Monckjthdi
^ . ad^ning oufe ' f
< r i r. 'A.'ijty'xp- x
'SeoilknU- -"towards
yards the North.
1 'LoWdh'; nd atirift
.'
fad'PbntioAc is, and
' b L a f.
; exSHy^ agrees with
v tMf.Mfijor Genraos
: "Scflfhadbfthat
': rirftbf tnate-Uhd>
*' tfhkin|.'l'Asth Mbon
J is in a Watry Sgnei
in xa^ft Gcfnjuncin
of 2, che cruel leji and unfortunate of Planets , he hadlrk to havebeen
drowned in Tarifaire , riding through a River toward his Army ; where his
Horfe left him to the mercy o f the moft mreileh;-of En*ni$-, the Water ;
from whence he with much ado, efcapd. Thus was his Beginning omi
nous.
...
. . ' , --:a' 5
i Hermes Trifmegiftus , Cent. Aphorif. 29. advifeth, ------ In exita cujpfyiZq'j adpHgtM'#
Bit dfcendens dotvdt Super iorttm' ^Unetarum^vel
& .fit ta m -jffe .^ n a m 'd o m m s u fe jm ifo r tv ? '<
m in iu ^

^ rmpedttut malts .' ( k e .) <WHen any one goeth to-Vtf'ite


dbtfrHotofcope be 'a$igne.be longing torche Suprieur' Planets j' Of the Si itj ' an#
lec the Afcendetjt aftdhis Lord u-eRroiigly terrified : bai doHifiltte th Lord
o f the Seventh jamuch as you can, and let hirer alfo behltldrd^y the JBddy
oruaJitious Ray? of; the Jafoarternes. \ This ^oW ^ w y t&orthk Perfon, hid
COMhe good hap cojfec Borchupon a timefuicable-to this BirHoh o f 'I&fr
mes.,- but pn. cbe.comftary, at fuebatime when theLord ofthe-Afcendentf was
noepnefy in.Q4rdaiettt,> and the eighth Motjife the miVbfcure place of
the.Heavens but.wascn-Df d abo> thnaniralSignifiWtori ahdgfaind
Patron of War.
The learned Guido Bonatus , fo l.^ p . faith,I f h e that fe t s fo r t h to
B a tte l , intend to obtain.the ffit t o r j a v er hr A d v erfia rj y h e mttfi eith er h a v e
one o f the H ottfes o f Mars a feen d in g , or Mars in g o o d AfpeSt o f the t^ ioon
lA fce n d en t , or the L ord th ereo f. But in this Figure, there was no fuch
thing : E rgo it could not be expeited othetwife , then that he ihould be
wor fted, and come off with lofs in that Undertaking : chiefly, in that the Lord
o f the Afcendent is Cadent, and the Lord of the Afcendent Angular in dom o

M a rtis.

: There are divers eminent Perfons in London that have heard me relate the
Mif-fortune chat happened upon that Expedition, long before the Conclufion thereof ; even as foon as the March it felf was beginning. And indeed,
had I confidered nothing but the Moon her Conjunition, of Ti in deima do
me,

zx?si>x**i4--!n

G 4)-L.JL.Ec T I4> . G

e n i t u r .a r u m

; Or,

mo and CaudaDraconis in ;be Fourth 3 together with the Angularity of 5,


and ill Location of U > it had b^ncafie to have pronounced (as then I did)
Nogreat Felicity or tpleafi*re in the beginning of that Undertaking ; and no
thing but bitternefs in its end.
It was vefyplaiii (by the foregoing Figure) there ihould not be any dan
gerous Fight, becaufethe Lord o f the Afcendenc and feventh Houle were
in Sextile. Haly dejndic, Aftror. fays, Sedfi duorumfignificatorttm
nnud applicaeritp filteri de SextiliyelTcrt'tOi habtbmt facet & corivenientiam
anteyuam ad manm veniant, And every Man (that knows any thing) knows
that the Cont rover fie ended in a Treaty: and thrice happy was it for EngUnd that it thus feil puc. r
;i. .Should any enquire into the^eafon o f this-.Major Generals coming off
peaceably , and without any Iqueftioning in that Defigne, (for fo he did*
though he was therein nnfuccefsful ) ic is eminently conliderable, that the
Tord o f the Tench applies ad Dorn, i/ifccndcxtis doubly 5 firll, as heisa
lighter Planet ,; fecondly > as be is Retrograde ; and thev|earnec! Haly fays,
fpl. 8
Si donfintu tJWedii Clpli applicerit domino t/ffeendem , javabit,
earn liberei & fine petitions, ' All England remembersj tfiatwhii: this (then)
enninenc Perlon, was in the North with his Army * the Parliament at London
voted him Indempxiryt without theleaib request or defirefrom him> bm freely of
their own accord $..being ( it feems ) willing toobliviatehispieient Failings
and force committed upon them,and indulge him a free Pardon9in Com penlation of his former Adventures on their parts. This very Example may be
o f good ufe, and ferve to infirud others, i- Thar it is ill ro ftrive againft
the Scream j and that no Man can thrive by fighting againft the Faces* Be
ginnings are always deemed ominous.
'Rytrus Principii efi exitm bonus mall:
Things ill begun, do feldome come to good.
The greatPhilofopber absolutely avers, AJltawt re' r pv g r **>>?
c^domTut let
-rix, Arift. Ethic. Lib*?, cap. 1. It
is impojfible (faith he) bat that that which is faulty at the firy Jhoald prove ill at
the la. It it moft confpicuoufly true in this : for how many hundreds have
peen fharers in this unfortunate Gentlemans fufferings ? How many both
in England and Scotland, yea, in Ireland alfo, have been cafifiered their Em
ployments , by their (uufuccefsful) Zeal to him, inefpoufinghis Imereft ?
and all, in not readily perceiving the depth o f that Undertaking; or know
ing unto what Butt the Arrow o f that Defigne would be dire&ed. *Tisan
old Adage, Sapiens debet incipere d fine .* A wife Man fiooald always take his
beginning from the end of his Bufinefs; and tnen he may be Cure to profper,

Thus much for this remarkable Elcion, and Nativity alfo.

C aptain

169

A C ollection o f d iv e r s ch oice N a t iv i t i e s ,

98. i t .
The Latitude of the
Planets,

d. m.
3

8 North*

\
&
$
5

o
o
o
o

i 8 ^ South*
17
27 >North.
56

.. 1 .
Y the Figure
it felf a any
Ardii may
difcover the Native
to be ingeniouily
Capatious , and of
Courage and Refolurion convenient ;
yet mod urbane, fa
cetious, and civilly
difpofed. For hqfljc is
tbe;Sigft,eo& Juftijpe ascending; 5 , Lady there
of , between tfrg S^ jks.of.the^ iR aiid % %and almoft in.ReceptionjwicH
the Sun ; 5 (chough in the Twelfth) is in
, (his Houfe and Exaltation) in
Trine of the Moon, and in Sextile of U in s i f t the Tenth : thefe declare his
Ingenuity and" Urbnicy j-and-for his Courage and Valour > the Moon in
Trine of <? , is of moli eminent Signification. Thete-things (I lay), are
plainly to be feen by the Figure it felf : but J have a particular knowledge
o f the Gentleman whofe Nativity.it is, and thereby have the advantage f a
more absolute knowledge of them, and can experimentally prove the Rules
o frAliroiogie (herein) to be good,
.............
v
;
For his Courage and Valour , I can give a more.then Ordinary inftance
thereof; In the -6 yiar o f his Age , viz., \^4 wo 1648. he being then a
CaptainSof Tfoo^of jHqrfe in the Army, and.obferving the grand Villariies
that wetethert a hatching among thjem, as thh,Black, Rjmonftrjtnci * and othej: to-be-abhorred things, he oppofes the grand lngvneer ffromwel, therehi,
andpu^lickiy piatllls againft inch ;their Proceedings ; for which they fend
him to Wlndfor+Czitl^ where many year? together he was kept clofe.Pcifoner, '
..
1
v
Thereis another ;rhingvvhic h' I have been acquainted witbi .that in a g r i r
meafuie declared his lioyalty 9 and ( the time confidered in which be agitated
h y/hisi'ipttgdblfoh .md'that was a Qefigne cqfurprize v/tadfor-Calile,
wHpfih'Ke Was PfifonferV and refcuehisthen facrd Majedy from the bloody
Deligrtes Of his Enemies ; of which I have heard it reported,that Sir %chrd
^rhoVas thn aPHToffeirin theTme Calile with thisNative.
Bini, ppbr Genderhan ! his Defignes failedbim, by the Treacheryof fpme
entlbyeclthereinVirbis uhexprdlibT grief r? yet ibis ntf Woiidet1; for he(
had'nt^prttng ^jffdium Cceiadi %'*etiti yP'fe Latitud^w a1D r e li
tto
cruef tndehfci V ah&tfdr wtiichW tratti lbtuiretf 'Ver lnee j
and^I~am(fnfpuiatis'wiil do ., rttit' che yei^i'j. at wtt time th Suti
will.come ad Q/fc, and D.*i^
j . which yv^lLbe the forcyfifch yeajr ohfe

heDredittf

!t ^ i was f crtef to th Erl of Strafford


Xx
King

King Carolus Gustavos o( Sweden and others, that their pubiickand prodigi
ous Ends were occaiioned thereby: and the Reafon why it fell not out fo with
this Native, is this; He hath no Tcftimonies of a violent Death in his Nati
vity, and they had. ( He bath but cwo of Imjprifonment and Reftraint, buc
thofe are unhappy ones ; ws* D in T?, from fixed Signes: the 0 , who is
Lux temports, is pofited in the Twelfth.) Befides, it may be termed as mifchievous unto him, as if it had the fame Effe& with him , as them : for notvvitkftanding his being both Gentleman, Scholar and Souldier, and a Perfon
fit for any honourable Undertaking ; yet fuch hath been the ernehy and
force of its grim Effects towards him , that to all intents and pmpofes hi
therto, it hath prevented his l ifmg to any Preferment.
If any defireto know the reafon why Cromweland this Native ihould be
fuch prodigious Enemies to each other, ( for without queftion had it been in
this Natives potyef, he would not have favoured Cromwel, anymore, then
he befriended him); it proceeds from the Antipathy of their Genitures ; for
their Nativities are-dire&ly opposite to each other: <? in Cromwels oppofing
( nearly ) the Degree afeending in this, and T* in the Afcendenc of i t ; and
S in this Nativity, upon the place of CromwcTs Moon j and Cauda in this,
upon the place of his Sun. It is indeed fuch an Antipathy, that a greater
can hardly be found.
Thus much for this Nativity.

The Latitude of the


Planets

>South.

*p. M .
SabL" t r ^

.: . y

n r * '* * *

died 9 was blind o f


both Eyes. He loft
his right Ey e at five
years o f Age : chre
was then no Direlion . operating;
but in that year
there happened two Eclipfes of the Luminaries, one o f die Sun, and the other
o f the Moon ; and both o f rhm very great ones, andin the Moons Radical
place. He loft'his otjir viz,, his left Eye, about nine pr ten years o f Age :
the Afcendent was then dired to the Pleiades, and nearly to the Body
pS- ' ,
" T ' ,t . f.:?* , .
:....V"
When he vi'is 15 years of A g e , he had Both Ague and Fever ; and this
violent; the Afcendenc yyas then.directed ad Corpus Saturm, bothwith
.'
' r' '
and

A Collection of divers choice Nativities*

and without Latitude: a Direction in Signification moil appoiite for fuch


Effefts.
Being near 31 yearsof Age, he died > (che Difeafe I could not learn) buc
the Moon was then direited ad Oppofitum Saturni cum Latitudine : ft then
had newly tcaniiced the place of the Sun in his Radix.
The Arguments of Blindnefe in this Nativity, are in general thefe : (1.)
The Infortunes aftU&ing the Sun within Orbs. ( 2 .) The Sun entring the
Milky-way, and with violenc fixed Stars ; and the other Luminarie being in
via Combusta*. (3 .) The Conjuncin o f ft and <? with the Pleiades in the
Afcendent.
:
- . '
uirgol fays, "v --T h e Pleiades with the JMoou in the Afcendent denotes
great Defetts in the Eyes * &aliquandoeciam fine Luna; they alfo pgnifiethe
fame ( fometiptes) without tbe.<Jtfoens f refence there* PtoJ. Parvus , Lib. 2.
I f at any time they have fuch Signification without the Moons being with
them chfre, certainly it may well be then > when both the Infortunes re
not onely there but there affli&ing the Sufi* It is fuch a Nativicy, that I
am not able to parallel with Example : I infere i c , to the end it may be ferviceable to others , that may occasionally meet with the like Nativity;; .aS
certainly themoneth June 1646. may afford many > and June and J uly 16 j
may produce many more.
The Native was a great Precifian, and very violent in any Opinion tbach
efpoufed: that 1 conceive may be occahoned by thegreac Reception between
D and f t , Lord o f the Ninth, and the Platique Trines of 5 t> and U i and
the Conjuncin of ft and S in his Afcendenc, being in Platick of U ; t. as
alfo the Lord of .die Ninth his Pofition in the Afcendent. Thefe arerguments that may well denote .an Enthufiaft, or an obstinate Perfpn in every O r
pinion he (halttake a liking'unto.
.
Thus much for this Nativity,

*97-

The Latitnde of tho


Planets, '
; - r;*:r.3 i>?m ..] r<v.. .
41
%i

sp;ut|i.

50 Sqptjv
N this Nativity*
there. .are no
lefs then five
Planets efientially
dignified; vi*>, ft*
V> c?, > $ : and
not one Planet (ex*
cepe U ) in an ill
Houfe of Heaven 5
all o f them direct in Motion: A Gemture more befitting a Prince, then a.
Merchant

j=rr----- --- -----f 7

......... ......................
C o L L 'E C T IO

N I T UR A R UM : O r ,

Merchant or Traders & c . and doth declare the Native td be eminently profperousand fuccesfulinall his Undertakings * except at fuch times when ill
Dire&ions occur and then he as the greatefi Potentates>mnft fubmit to the
unkindfiroaks of Fate. Befides thefe happy Pofitions we may furtherobferve (as an Augmentation to their good Significations) the Virgins
Spike is upon the Cufp o f the CMcdinm Call ; the Sun and c? are in Trine.
to the Afcendent : Which declare him to be of a generous Minde and Difpbfition' being ahfwered with a convenient Resolution and Ambition 5 for
fo the Sun and their Trines to the Attendent do very^aptly denote ; as
alfo c? his Quartile to U > it happening from Cardinal Signes. |, in Platicls
Trine of 5 , Lordbf th ninth Houfe and $ in Trine of!*,'Lord o f thSecbndy fhould makehis Profeffion not onely credible and delightful unto him
blit gainful alfo.: Arid fo it doth notwithtfanding theMbotthcr Oppofition to 3 ; for although that Afpet o f it felf be ill yerij^, Lady o f the
Tench* and pifpbfitrix o f the Moon collc&ing both-their tights by
friendfy'Afpe&s'i "makes amends fufficiencly for the ill Signification there
of.
' 1'
" ' 1 ; !
This Native is alfo inclineable to the fiudyof the MatbmaickS ; ( as s
aptiy^dehocedfrbm the Partile Trine o f Tj and S from eafcfily Sigiies ) and
in Afir.ologie. ( a principal Branch thereof ) he is fo well acquainted that
h both Calculated and gave me this Scheme o f his N am icy himfelf. Thus
ffornp liera i Obferytions, proceed to fome Particulars.
'
jiiuifctatis 12. he was put an Apprentice firft o f all : he had then the
Medinm Cceli dirztlad Oppofitam Mercuril: but he carried not full tw o
yts.rhre;' Thus w e fee Directions o f the tj/Uehs to the Oppoiition of aPlanet will have its Effe&s ; but ic will then be b f a ihorter and more trou
bled continuance > then unto the Trine or Sextile., O f this I could give
many Infiances.
*'.
Being aged about ip years and upward > the Native had an Ague and
f^ ^ ^ r n m e t fr iilpoftit o f Reputation d r e * ' Hc had chetftbefAfcndehi;
^ X d irf^ Sa fkrm , cnfn 'atlt*dlxf Which plainlypottcndcd-tbo
fame : but at the fame time the Afcendent was directed ad L 3 and not pat
the Sextile of , which greatly meliorated the Fury bf that Diredlion ; o. thw feit cpuld not but have been much more mifchievous and cruel.
Bern** aged *23 years he obtained his Freedom o f the City o f London: he
had then operating 0 o d d %* U being then nearly come to bis Radical
place, the fcond time from his Birth.

. Acdhtirefent Jthe Moon \ad Cx U is operating : ic is a very admirable


DiredUpfi, and cannot but have remarkable Effects.
r
\
ibJth years 34 id 37 o f h is A g e u p o n tfre EfFedhs o f M . C. ad > %,
andj0 ad9$ % , the Effects of five Planets being efiehtially dignified in his
Radix may appear to purpofe : their Significations muff be gooybnd that
in Jreat Degree ; buc the particular kinds thereof 1 refer to rimero difr
coyej*,
v And, . ~

;f
{

'**i' V. . *

. .Ti'

-- _ - __J__
J l_ I -
-- -I-1I
--- I
A ColleSiion o f divers choice Nativities.
1%* &

73

The Latitude of the


Planets
' ,
> 4
h i
U o
<? o

itu
57?
44 S North.
51^
5 j South.

pon a iuddain View


of chis Fi
gure, no one would
conceive ic to be a
Nativity portend
ing much Wealth ;
yet before the Na
tive was 3a years
o f Age* he was not Iefs worth then 16000/. which himfelf had inceded
by his Induftry in Merchandizing, fromiefs then 500V. Stock left him by
his Friends; as I have often heard him to acknowledge: but upon a Htib
Examination, we (hall find not a few Arguments to declare increafe o f
Riches.^ As, (1.) the Moon in Con juncin of $ , Lady o f the Second and
Ninth, in the Second, (though in m) and in Sextile to 0 . (2) %, a Natu
ral Significator of Biches, in Sextile to the ftcond Houfe, and ;n Quartileco
the . (3.) The and 5 (who is Lord of the Tenth), friendly irradiating
the 0 and Afcendent; $ being in a ftrng Reception o f c? in the ninth
Houle. Theiewere not onely TeUmonisof the Natives obtaining great
flore of Wealth by Merchandizing, but of his gaining eminent Credit and
Efteetn thereby: which this Native alfo had.
- Now, as this Native hath been made happy with Riches, he hath in other
things been unfortunate. As in the 24 year of his Age, he was imprifoned
a whole year together ; for what, he would not cell me ; bur this I am lure,
the cM - C* was directed ad CTft, and the Alcendent to his Body , with and
without Laii.tuder Div*.cx.onsr.,oft malicious, that would indeed have ruined
him, both i! He.ilch and Hoacur, & c , had not M . (f. been at the fame time
dire&ed ad^ 9. and the <r\iceudenc ad ij., which prefervd him both Ways.
Tl was at the fame rime rcaniiting his Mid-heaven, which mightily aggrava
ted the Mifcnief,

..
In the 2t year of his Age j he had a Violent and Peflilential Fever , ' o f
which he had like ro ha died : the was then directed ad cP d*. The
Lord o f the Alcendent ?n Conjun&ion of the Lordof the Twelfth, and Corhbuft to o is a great Argument of Imprisonment 5 as alCo <5 in Opposition
o t% .
]
......
..

Thus much for this Nativity*

v y

Mr.

*7 4

oj. ee .c t i o

Q en

i i u r a r u m : O r,

Ti&ff Latitude of the


Planets.
& #xV

z> *

^;|Sounh.
42 North
24 South*
6 , North.
5 South,

Mr. Hooper a Mer


chants born anoo
;i
1612.
July 4. 19 .43 m.
<p. f.
hat. 51^. 321.
f l j ^ a P d 1 ad<fU.

His
Mr.
Hooper was
(of a young
Man) -one;of the
greateft Merchants
. ofhifrtime, arid got
intfb the greateft
Credit that way o f
any man either of
late or -former
y^ars : ahd indeedJjis Nativity doth very plainly ihew his; n&mm . or firft
Entrance upon the Theatre of the World 3 to befplendietehd glorious j but
hfs'ke>
7rfs,7?iiJ or Eiylt* to be cruel, black and malicious: for here is v% (a n
ap?Signefo; to ffirQffophe at a Merchants.B^rth) afcending.; and thebe-.
nlj^PlanetCfc, I^dy^oftheTenth* fortifyingcheHorofcopev 2nd inSextile
o r ^ X ? 11A ^ ^ h o tu fu a l) who is Lordof the Afcenderiricand pofitedoa
tife Cufp,of tbe'eteventh H pufe,befides , the tenth Hpufeiis (fortified by
thp pfeienp^ o f th^ Mpons South Node ; and$ Gpvemefsihereof , is in
jthe Ninth*, Thefe I fay. axe Arguments of?agood-be+i
g^nifig V apd d^I^e,aptly the Natives Fame and Ettefcm he enjoyed inthd
Jim part o f his years if* but Now. (contrary tP the received-.RiHc * "* **.1
she black aritfdiGnatSignifidar tis M d i n

r J iA

i V r f P r r t 'i p r r \ . h i e u a ^ r e

0 11*

< in r l T%_ h n r h i i t i f h a

>

f g t p : O ii e K ^m ggin& to ap Oppoiition ofiiEifroih dotoious placesofthe


Rgfoe, J
: *
;
^To'be.briefj tiu^.w#iv<?lyatjw&thftanding hi great Fame, & c . and hdightr
o f X i ^ ^ .(likei a .oraet or Blazing Star when the matter o f which it con*
fiH^t^exhaeiiefi j 'm xh? year, 39, had fuch crowds of LofTes and l(hdtap^
pmeifes attending him that in Head of keeping up his formerfplendouivheii^bmitt.ed to arigidijpate wad hroke'for threefcoie choufand.pounds: he:Had
n ^ ^ ^ a t|tis,h ^ &f<^ion> $ e&Qpftjktm tftuern * Lady of-theMid-ihea*
vear ylKti andvwitl^u^XacitudjSi; aaid zM*dism\celi ad' U SMutmir/folbisi
^tX8
* he hifi^Hpkir inxQppofoion. to cherMicMheayemof
the Radix H e? upon the place of the ' anah upon the Moons place ; _ahd
that notonely at the Revolution but all that year and longer: Dire&ions andTranfits mott dangerous and unforcuttato; . , , . . ... ...v.;

Am o 1 <543. February3 he died being 32 years o f Age currant : he had


now the Sun directed to the Oppoficion o f the Moon with Latitude$ and 0
directed ad Solis.
c? was at the fame time in v? his Exaltation (and
therefore the ftronger to do Mifcbief) inexadt Oppofirion o f the Suns Ra
dical place*
Then much for this Nativity.
l
Nafcitttr

A Colle&ioti o f divers choice Nativities.

* 75

112. I 7 .
"The Latitude of the
Planets.
North.
North.
South.
North.
Ihra hereinj
afeends the
Horofcope 5
and 5>,theGovernefs
thereof, in Conjunfion of \ , in the
Fourth 3 and in
of Mars and Jupi
ter in the Afcen. '5 *
, dent 3 would give
the T^ative a Grange Temperature 3 did not the Beams o f the Luminaries fo
happily alitft j the dhebeing in Trine to the Lady of the Aliendenc, the other
in Sextile to the Afcendent irfelL Howbeic^ the Native is at fometimes
V$fy melancholy and ferious , is I well know: and it is not armisrhat he is
fo 5 otherwife cT in his Afcendsnt in Onartile (and great Reception) of \
and $1 would be of too ra{hand violent Signification.
_
"
As he hath $ f the Paxton tf ,Itfgenuityi in Sextile both o f
^ and the 3>:
fo he is inclinable to many commendable things, in which the Brain is chiefly
exercifed ; as Muiack, and fome parts o f the Mathetnaticks : in which he hath
attained a very bandfopie degree or meafureof Knowledge; and this with
out the Affiftance of any-Tu{0, as I often have heard him fay< It may pafs
for an Aphcrifm in Aftrologie,
That, he who hath 3. in.the Houfeof
<c c? > in good Afpe& oftbe M oon, and the Lord pf.the Afcendenc, cannot
but be very ingenious 5 and will naturally be inclined tpthe flndy of fetit ous things, w*.'( fuch .as a re jbeypnd the Concepcion and reach of common
UnderftaridiKgs: chiefly*
he be not Combnft and be pofitedunder the
Earth asinthif^aavity^f.^ . ,t

:J

" When tbis N a ^ ? was,f!^jye?rs and half.p\d?. he jiadithe Small Pox, aftd
that yery much.:. the
4 c?in _*; an AerealSigne 3
perhaps one reafon of fli? viple^cejandieayinglawnhappyiandlaftingaiiimpreflibhbehind,him*
moo.:/'
nci

Being aged i a, years., -he,h^an> AgueGp^tmnefl *8-moneths upon him:
the Afcendent was directed then ad O
and both Significator and Promictor in the great Dignities of T*.
Many other Arguments of the force ofD^e&iprtsI edtold-inflance in ; but
my inferring this Nativity, is not fo much for that, as to inform afcer-Ages,
- "-'-That had this Native , in the ftead of being brought up to Merchan
dize, been bred a Scholar , he might in his Age , have proved Nutti Seem ms. And by this Example , I do alfoadvife fuch Parents , who ihall have
Children born under fuch Poficions, to train and breed them up according to
their'natural Inclinations : which viis & modis 3 (as this Native) they will
endeavour after, let them be put or placed to what Profeifion foever,
Thm much for this Nativity.
Nffeitur

ol l e c t i o

e n i t u r a r u m

Or,

His is the
Nativity of
that excel
lent Mathematici
an and Alirologer,

Regio -

(as Origanus hath


its fol.7 24. de Effe-
ftibus) who framed
thofe excellent Ta
bles of Diretions*
for all manner of
Latitudes : before
which times Aflrologers were at fuch
a lofs that they
couldnojedireft one
Nativity then s in
that fpace a$ now
they may do ten*
To denote his Ingenuity andExcellencie in thofe Studiess he hath 5 in ir,
and the Lord of his Afcendenc alfo, together with both the Luminaries : nor
is the Afcendent it felfs (it being the Houfe of <?) to be noted for.other then
an Argument of Ingenuity likewife it being befriended by Caput Dracenie
his prefence there.
Origanus brings in this learned Natives Geniture as an Exampleof a vio
lent Death ; which it is moll true he unhappily fufifered: he urges the Rule
firft, and then compares ir with his Nativity thus : ^Domi*ius Herof copi it
Ottava natura maleficus & damnatus vet alter utrutn Luminare affligens*
morte violenta periturum natum jignrficat * tec. As in the Figure of RegioMontanus Qui Pontifice Sexto accerfjtus Romam dum liberibus verfionem
Trapez.ontii tuyl^iu /rrfgi-, Pcol. taxaret, Trapevontii fi/iis veneno propi
natofublatuseft.----Habuit enim eJMartem natura maleficum dominum Horofcopi una cum Luminaribus *. domo qua & ipfa a Saturno ex quarta ra
dio ajfiiguntur. He might have added alfo > They had all been pofited near
or with violent fixed Stars ; asthofe of Orion A u rig a , and the Bull .* as
may eafily be feen by Hartgil's Tables of the fixed Stars.
For the time of his Death we may relie upon tbe Authority of Rantx.ovius, who in hisColle&ion of the Names of iuch asdiedin their fixth Hebdomacical year.faich, Johannes Regio-MontamsrMathematica Roma, Obiit
atatis 41. Erg periit annum, agent 42. At that time the Afcendent was

nearly directed to the Oppofitionof the Moon with Latitude; the cruel
Planet T\ having but newly patted the Oppofidon of the Sun > Moon and
Mars

.
Thus much for this Nativity*

A Coe&ion of diver* choice Nativities.

His is the Na
tivity ofchat
famous Perfon, Erafmus 'Rhein69
o/rfi>theAathor and
Publifher o f the Prutenick Tables ; who
Nafcitur Erafmui
(confidering the rawRheinholdus 3 anno
nefs of Aftronomy in
I I . OSlob. 21 .
his days)made fo neat
i J h. 30 m. P. CM*
a Compendium of that
Sub Elevatione PoJi
Arc j that hardly any
%o d. 46 m.
( then ) were able to
From Origanus.
equal, much lefs to amend ; and the world
( at lead fo much
thereof as underftands
Gratitude ) muft re
J main Debtor to his
worthy pains.
That he (bould be a Perfon curious and ihquihcous after Agronomical
Truths, is obvious from nz afcending in his Nativity and 5,Lord thereof,be
ing not onely in tn,the Houfe o f S but in % and Reception of <$alfo : which
Configurations,gave Origanus occafion'to fiile him both Ingenious and Noble
(as without doubt he was ;) and, to parallel his Geniture with that of the molt
Learned Joachimus Camerarius. V-idzOrig. de EjfeEllb. fol. 59S.
The learned Rantz,oviui3 fol. 179. tells us, he lived 42 years,and then died r
his words are thefe: Erafmus Relnholdus^ui tabulas Prutemcasedidity& Mathematicus excellens fuit, obiit SalveIdle, in f atria 19. Feb. anno atatis 42.
Let this fuffice for a Remembrance o f this worthy Perfon; and for a fic and
proper Example of a Nativity o f an ingenious Scholar and Artift.
t

ik i

Nafeitur Georgius
T'rapex.ontius 3 anno
*396. esfpril 24.
12 h. 20 m. q>. tJM.
InCreta Infula,cujus
Latit. eft 36 Grad.
From Origanus,

o*y -b

Zz

fwRifts:.:

fHis Nativity
I finde Origanus hath
borrowed from Car
dan ; it being the f
cond Example o f his
hundred Genitures.
Origanus brings it in*
to vrifi an Aphorifm relating to the
Manners and Difpofitions of Men; which
Rule is this : Quando nullus Vlaneta
in Horofcopo amftgno
intercepto verfatur
vtdendum eft num Lu
na & tJMercurio ali*
quis Planetarum jttngatur & fecundum
nattirant

177

1
17^

C o l l e c t i o G e n i t u r a r u m : Or,
aturar cjhs KjMoret nati iljhdicetnr. l do allow { with Origanus ) that
by reafon o f the Conjuncin of <$ and ? in Y * and $ his being Combuft,
and
its being in his Afcendent, he might have been fometimes raihand
crofs-natured enough; yet certainly he could not but be a perfon ingenious
and learned : for <$ adds fire unto
and makes the Natives Under Handing
the more (harp and aCive. But that he ihould be Villanous * Inconftant*
Fraudulent j Quarrelfome , & c , asOriganus zndCardan report j I cannot
altogether believe; becaufe there is a Sextile and Reception between the
Moon and $> and both of them in good AfpeC of the Afcendent. Indeed*
by V s prefence in the Eleventh* and Js in the Afcendent > and 7>her Quartile to U j Lord of the Twelfth * I ihould adjudge him bleft but with few
(except treacherous) Friends; plagud with many Enemies ; and fubjeC to
many * and mod notorious Scandals* And by reafon of this his unhappy
F ate, he hath a fault laid upon him > from his Stars * which they cannot be
wholly compelld to own. He might perhaps be conftraind inhis Life-time
to cope with more Enemies, and ill Reportssthen he was willing ; and there
by have occafion to vent his Choler fomewhac more then ordinary : but it
doth not follow * that he muft therefore be fo evil-minded and difpofed * as
reported ; for a Man may fometimes be (harp and contentious in a juft and
honourable Caufe* and yet neither fraudulent or villanous* & c .
That he was both a Scholar and Artift * let his Commentarie upon cptolomys Centiloqumm tefiifie: it is printed in Ottavo by it felf > and alio ac the
latter end of Guido Bonatus his Treatife o f Aftronomy.
JlantzAvius faith* fol.ipa., Georgius Trapezjfntius * qui in feneft* omnium
litefarum oblitus dicitur, moritur Roma * go, Which was in his Enneatical
year, of Ten times Nine. He had then the Afcendent (with a fmall Remove)
directed ad Oppojitum Samrni,

S47.

The Latitude of the


Planets,
South.
iNorth.
South*

HatthisNative ihould
be a good
Artift , the Sextile
and!great Recepti
on becween <? and
5 under the Earth,
aptly denote. It is
the fame Configu
ration (though from
different Signes) with that o f the learned Rhetnholdus , whole Nativity * for
that very Significations fake, I have publiihed from Origanus. He was iri[deed

A Collection of divers choice Nativities.

deed one of the bett Alirologers that lived in his time and mod induftrious
and laborious in the Science he pradlifed. I have feen o f his own hand-wri
ting, a CoUedtion of four hundred Figures* eredted upon efpecial Occafions*
with Judgements Attrological thereon * by hitnfelf moft admirably perform
ed : by him it was intended for the Prefs; but nefcio quo fato, it was preven-.
ted* as well to the prejudice of the worthy Author as to Pofterity ; who
thereby might have been made happy with many choice P/efidents in the
pra&ick part of this Study: which now they moil unhappily are deprived of.
Divers Accidents there are by which this worthy Perfons Nativity was ve
rified ; but I (hall feledt onely two or three of them s viz..
Anno dtettis 44. he was afflicted with a Burning PeililentialFever: he had
then by Diredtion, the ad corpus Mortis.
Anno atatis 7 5. he died: the Afcendent ( which is Hylech in his Nati
vity ) was then diredted ad corpus Mortis* That he ihould be of great
years * is plainly feen from the Afcendent its being noway vitiated$ and Tj.
the Lord thereof * (who is Alchocodenj or Giver of years) is itrong in ea his
own greaceil Dignities.
He was neceflitaced to many Troubles and Unhappineffes in bis Life-time*
chiefly in our late rimes of Confufion j when for his Loyalty to his Soveraign 3 he was Plundered o f all he had and compelled to flee to Oxford for
Refuge: he had then ( it being che 64 year o f his A ge) the Medium Coeli
directed ad Quartilam Jovis and was not quite free from the fcffedts of the
Mid-heaven to the Body of fc. But the general Caufe thereof * was the
Sun in Quartile of Tj * and in Oppoikion of % one being Lord of the
Tenth the other of the Afcendent in his Nativity.
In his Revolution for the year he died, viz.. 1 654. he had "ft Stationary
upon the Opposition o f his Afcendent* and the Sun going to his Quartile.
Thus much for this Nativity*

*82. 17.
The Latitude of the
Planets*
2)

d. nt.
1 48

South.

r 3 |N o h & o 42P
9L o *3>South.
5 1 1 *3

His is the
Nativity of
MrEehvard
Crefham* a moil in
genious Perfon and
good Artift as che
feveral Almanacks
he wrote* fufliciencly teftifie ; as alfo
an ingenious and learned Difcourfeupon a Conjunction o f Tj and % which

iSo

o l l e g t i-o ' G e n i t u r a r u m :

Or,

by him was never publifhtd j but fince his Deaths printed by another, under
the Title of England's Prophetic*# t_Merl\n : and that Book-pirate s which
publilhed the fame, hath never fo much as once named Mr. Crefhatn therein 5
but after aii ufurping of .his Pains, hath endeavoured to obliviate his Name
fonever. O f which Injullice and Plagiariiiri, unlefs I would confent to, and
wink ar, I could nocbuc give the W orldnotice; that the Aihesof this wor
thy ( though mychabufed) P erfon, might not rife up in Judgement againft
me, foe my iilence therein.
/ .
T o denote this Native an Artift, we findeY* theHoufeof c?3 afcending;
and the Moon in tn , in Trine to the Lord of the Afcendent. The Sunm
the Afcendent isin Trine to V , Lord o f the Ninth , from earthly Signes;
(U being juft entting rtf) and $ and $ both in Trine to T*, Lord of the renrh
Houfe : All which'are eminent Arguments o f Ingenuity, and a iharpa&ive
Fancie. Wanting Accidents to verifie this Geniture, I lhall forbear all other Difcourfe thereof.

? e 8 . 5.

The Latitude of the


Planets.
d. m.

I t l? Sout|v
$ : '&*
S 'l
fT T ^ H e 2> rranf|
ferring the
J L light of 5,
( who is in its his
Houfe and Exaltati
on , and in Caz,ime
Salts alfo ) unto &
by a friendly Afped,
declares this Native
to have been o f a
large and capacious Ingenuity and Fancie, apt and inclineable co moft witty
and curious Inventions : and this 1 have heard divers to affirm of him , that
better knew him s then my felf did. Thefe Significations could not but be
much heightned by the Sextile the Sun and 2 calls unto the Afcendent. Jo
hannes Angelas faith, The 6 o/ q and in the fourth Houfe, makes the Native
skilful and itud'tom in Occult Arts. Cap. 2 5-.
Ihis Native married Do&or Le T(eves Daughter , being aged near 28
years: the Moon was then direded adCs Tz, Lord o f the Seventh: fome
three years before , he was married unto another, (whom he buried; ) then
was the Sun dire&ed ad Luna Lady of his Afcendent. Ma ny may wonder
at firlt, that this Native Ihould marry twice, Tz Lord of the Seventh, being
in Y a a barren Signe, and Retrograde there: but if chey lhall confider, that
the Moon is nearly in Sextile of 5 , and policed in Signum Bi-corporeum, and
that her Difpoiitor is located in m , a fruitful Signe ; and the Sun and $ are

iS i

, A ColleBion o f divers choice Nativities.


in Platick Trine o f T* they will conceive there is reason enough i u Jo^ cally for the fame.
Being aged -ft years, anno Chrifti 1 646- OEtober> he died of the Plague:
the Sun was then diretd ad <S j cum 0 "ine Latitudine ; and the Aicendent ad Tj in Cancro ; a Signs representing the moil Vital Parcsof a
Man.
Jl in v Retrograde and he Lord of the Eighth and th Moon in 2 near
violent fixed Scars in Q^arcile.of the Sun and &c* might very rationally
portend the kind of Death by which this Native expired..
'thus much for this Nativity,

The Latitude of the


Pianeti*

North.
South.
Notch.
South.
His is the N a
tivity. o f my
goodFricnd*
M ;. J ohn Bjoker who
hath near 40 years
wrote Almanacks in
this Nation j andic is
aRadix apt and hgnificant enough for to
make a very good Artift ; which all Aftrologers muft acknowledge him to be. ( 1.) Here is H, or
the Cocleiiial Twins Horolcopacing j an Afcendent that feldome fails of
making him an Arrift Naturally chat draws his breach under ic. ( a ) ?
Lord thereof, is in y , che Houle of <? a nearly in ConjunSion of the Sun*
Moon and dP> and three of them in Sextile to the Aicendent. Although the
Figure be nor the fame > yet thefe Polirions have nearly the fame Significa
tion as chofe in the Genl ure of the learned Trapez,atius ; and corny know
ledge, give this Native a competent (hare of Gholer ; which indeed makes
his Fancie, and the reft of his Intellelual Faculties a the more adtive and in
dustrious.
The Figure is as himfelf did it ; onely the Latitudes of the Planets I have
taken from the Ephemrides of David Origanm ; whom I perceive this Na
tive hath not followed in their Longitudes ; nor yet Btadius or any other
old Epherneridift- Mailer, as I can finde. 1 believe therefore he hath Calcu
lated them de mvo ; and it being for himfelf, I pretume he would held much
the more curious. I culd vrifi ti is his Geniture by Accidents ; but his
particular Fate being of no eminent concernment to any but himfelf I ihall
forbear. I onely defire to let Pofterity know (by my publiihing this Nati
vity) that there was once fuch a Champion for Attrologie, as Mr,'jeh Booker,
A aa
Nafcitur

102'

__

oll ctio'

enitu k aru m

: Or,

1 14 deg. i ? min. ? 8 rec.


The Latitude of the
Planets*
Si< SoHh
%7i
4 6 1 North.
205
2 3 South.
46 North.

His is the
Nativity o f
my loving
Friend, Mr. Pincent
wing a Perfon by
his many and pain
ful Labours, very
well known unto ,
notonely the Englifh Nacion, butfeveral other parts of the World* He is a Man-fo indufirious in the Mathe
matical Studies , that thereby he hath notonely brought Honour untohimfelf, but Fame unto the Englifh Nation : focurioufly careful hath he been in
the framing of his Agronomical Tables, and that by the beii Obfer vat ions,
[without wrefiing,:or falfe reducing them, as fomein thirs lately have done]
that 1 dare affirm they will not in many Ages be bettered. Nay,fuchpains;
hath he taken in the Motion o f <?3 and fo exf is he in the Tables of Equa
tions, & c " that both our Universities (wherein are many excellent
Attronomers ) have hoc onely commended , but admired his Pains and good
Success therein. . And, I have heard divers o f them to fay , (and am confi
dent thereof my felf) he hath been fo happy and fortunate in what he hath
done therein, that (were it poflible) he hath furpafled the Learned, and to
be admired Kepler unto whom the World, for his skill in Agronomie, are
continually paying Thanks.
Thisour Native (not aihamed of the Starsjuhto whom>S fecondCaufs,he
owechhis Skill and Credit thereby obtained) at my Requeft, waspleafedhbc
onel to permit his Geniture (in bis Life-time) to be printed, bur to fend it
me calculated by his own Hand, in a Letter inclofed; part whereof was
thus :
_ _ S 1 r ,/ bave receivedyour Letter about a week^Jiitce , and take it dt
afgnal Ktndnefs and more cfpeciaily3 that you have me in remembrance, as to
infert my Nativity : to which end ( though I have been from home all this week^)
J have here inclofed the Figure, which is fet~to April q . Hor. <
j. Min.48.
P. M. 1 61yI have calculated the Cufp of eaoh Houfe according to the,
Hoftrine of Sph&ric'al Triangles%for.the Latitude of N.LufFenhim g. y 2.4 pm. '
but being eftittite f tme , 1 have take the places of the <flanetsfrom Keplers
Ephenierides, as the beft extant3&c.
..
, .
In this N ativity,, & afeends the Horofcope ; and Spica Virginis, an mi
nent fixed Scat, is Horofcopical : $, Lady thereof, is in >, in Trine of the
Moon in $ in the ninth Houfe; andin (anunufual) Reception with % :
S 1 the Patron o f Arcs and Sciences, is in t , in a great Reception o f S ~
and there are in the Scheme no lefs then four Planets elfetilly dignified :

A CollStion of divers choice Nativities,

183

viz,, j 1p, and 2 ; cwo o f them in their Exaltations arid two in their own
Hdufes.
Which Teftimonies are o f admirable Signification and Teridencie ; and do
nbrbarely procure Credit and fame unto this Native , but that which is the
natural and proper Support thereof, viz, a competent Fortune and Efiate.
Arid ro denote chat the more eminent and durable , the Sun calls an arnicabid ATpeftto and the Moon and $ the fame to the Cufp o f the fcond
Houfe. This Native hath acknowledged unto me that G o n hath blffd
Mm with a moderate Fortune ; and hath made his Studies arid fcddeavours
happy unto him that way,
'
:
: Ail the Angles of the Nativity are pofleffed by Cardinal. Signes* andin
that tefpe&his Geniture is equal to chac famous Pbyfitian*s> Sir Theodore
Jkfajr Who for Skill* and happy Succefsin his Profeflion waseileemed
the Wonder o f his time : and there was reafon fufficient for the fame : for
all the minent aridfamous A&ions o f the W o rld * depend upon the quinoial and Solflitial Signes ; as all Aftrologers confent : if fo, then certainly
that Perfon that fhall have them all upon the chief places of the Figure of
his Nativity, muft (naturally, and of confequence) perform fome more then
ordinary Action in his Generation. But this quoad as the Native fhall eitber be Scholar* Souldier or Artifl.
W h e n this Native began frll of all to write publickly, viz,, in the twenty
fcond year o f his Age ; he had the Sun direfd ad SextUnm Veneris, Lady
o f his Horofcope, and this in *5, her great Dignities : an eminent Argument
o f the happy (and deferved ) Entertainment his W ritin gs have met With in
the W o rld .
Many more things might be obferved in the Figure arid in the EfFe&s o f
Direbons happening therefrom ; but my Dfigne is onely to b an Obfecvator in Generals, and therefore I fhall forbear all further Dhquifitiori.
|

The Latitude of the


Planets,

f His Mr. Sahyt


was
very
well verfed
in Aftrologie, arid
underflood fome other parts of the Mathematicks compe
tently well.
Arid
here feems to be very
dSibtiificatibri thereof in his Nativity, there being (1.) a great Recepibfctviieen U * Lord of the AfcenderitV and U * ;the NkrimSigniifitStbc

of

184

ollectio

eniturarum

: Or,

of Arcs. (2.) A Trine of <? and , which gave him not onely a Mathema
tical, buca Logical Brain ; Bill aiming at the fubftance of things and fligh
ting ihadows. I remember very well how ierious he was , when he fuft be
gan to fludy Aftroiogie > ( it being my good fortune co read to him therein y.
he would admic of things very flowly ,'( which I conceive was occafioned by
the Moon her Quartile to 5 and T*) but when once he had thorow fatisfaffcion therein, he never forgot them: his Memory was fo good, and his Delight
was fo great in the Art he fludied ,' that in three moneths time he was able to
defend a Thefts in Aftroiogie, againft moft Rational Oppofers. (3.) Thef
Moon in Sexcile of 1|,> Lord of the Afcendenc > from the Dignities of cf and
: is another eminent Teftimony of an ingenious and afive Understanding:
Nor is the Reception of the two Luminaries, lefsthenan eminent additional
Teftimony unto the reft, notwit hlianding their being in Qjiartile from Car
dinal Signes.
. He died in the year 165 6. about tJMichaelmas, of a Surfeit and Drrpfie,
having fome two years before had the Dropfie hanging on him s the Afcen-dent was then dire&ed ad cf T?, cum & fine Latitud'me.
deg.min.
cPTj cum Lat. 31 3.27,
A fie.. Obliq,
^Afcendentis *279. 36.
Direnilo quafita

33. 51*

deg. min.
<? \ S. Lat. 31 . X9.
A fe. Obliq,
Afcendentis 279. 3d
D ireolio quefita

35*43*

Four Planets in the eighth Houfe, in a VVatry Signe, might well denote
the Native to die of a Drop fie : D , Lady of the Eighth 3 in D of them from
V j the Houfe of d1 and <5 himfelf in Afpe& umothem all like wife, might,
portend a Surfeic to accompany it. Thus much for this Nativity.

The Latitude of the


Planets.

.North.

r N this Nativity,
* afeends the
_ Horofcope,and
Lady thereof, is
in K * her Exaltati
on, and ftie in Sex
tile and fma 11Re
ception o f 3 and
( though Retrom

A GoleStion o f clivers choice Nativities.

185

in Sextile of 2 jj^otcalls a Trine to U the Difpofitor o f $. All which are


Arguments o f aaingeniousTp^linacion and Fancies which this Native is
conveniently pofl^fled qf:jf6r;"his -Acumen is fuch, that to my knowledge,
iniefs then ten weeks time ,* he conquered the wholeGenechliacal part o f
Adrologie, bpth. O lculatory and Judiciary, The Affliction of $ doth aptly
denote Him ilovv of Speech ; and fo he is.
Inchis Nativ^y all DireCtrons hic ad unguem. For when he was fix years
and a half old:,
Smallpox ; and that to purpofe : he had then the
Afcendent dire&etj
G* : J3orh the Luminaries you fee, are in Oppofition to the fcend'etft frorn SfVthe Dignities of S ; and that is the reafon
the Directions unto their Bodies or Afpeits, are the more violent.
At 11 years of Age, be was brought near Death by the fmall Worms : the
Afcendent was then directed Ad <P 2>, fine Latitudine.
- Being aged z 1 yea rs^ he had both Surfeit^ Fever and Ague ; which, becaufe'pDireftion happens thn, muft be occafioned by the' Revolution' that
year , and the cruel Planet TVHis palling over the oppoiite places of the Lu- .
minaries in the Radix.
N this Resolution,
the Moon is in yp
her fall, in Quarcile to
her own, and the Suns
Radical place, andin
Quarcile o f T* who
afflicts the Afcendenc
in the Figure. The
Sun is in the fixth
Houfe, and T* and he
both applying to an
Oppofition , one by
Rtrogradation , the
other by Direction : a
more unhappy Revo
lution,reafonably can, not come,and the Na
tive efcape without
danger of his Life; It
is alfo obfervable, that
Ti Was Stationary upon the oppoiite place of the Moon in the Radix, in June
following the Revolution ; and juft about that time of the year his Sicknefs
was the mod violent. T* had been upon his Afcendent, and the oppofite
places o f his Luminaries, mod part of-the latter part of the lad year* which
might give a minute or fmall beginning to his unhappy EffeCts ; but could
not ihew his Cruelty till this unfortunate Revolution began : Befides, Car
dan tells us, Corpora Clefila^ non agunt In inf t anti>fed cam tempore.
Hence I fhould advife all Students in this Arc before they adventure up
on che Correction of a Nativity, feridufly toonfider the force o f Revoluti
ons, as they may concur with dangerous or happy Tranfits: for many Errours
in the Judiciary part o f this A r t, are committed through the negled o f a
proper and due Correction, before a proceeding.co Calculation.
Annoatatis 24. this Native highly contends with bis Friends 1 wades and
loofespart of his-Edace , and fomewhatof Office and Preferment ; in all
things he was unhappy. : he had now Medium mli directed ad cP h i cum &
fine Latitudine and a vejy ill Revolution : and had he not had the Afcen*
Bbb
dene

G O L L C T I O G E N I T UR A RUM T

O r,

out a more then ordinary Providence of G o d ) he could fraye efcaped Ruine.


Bvx chat Direction as foon as he had loft one Preferment> gave him ano
ther ; as himfelf hath acknowledged to me. /
; ' ^ ^
. This Native being a lufty portly and tall Man, puts me in ttunde o f n phorifm I long finqe read in Ptolomfs Centiloqui, viz. The Lords of 'tall vr
great tjlfens Genittires, are in their Sublimes or Ex^iUsi and their
rofeofes in the beginnings of Signes See, Which in rbtf iSfrriivity is mbit Ad
mirably verified 5 the Afcendent being in the beginning o f , and 2 Lady
thereof, in X frbr Exaltation.
. .
Thus thuch for this Nativit/,

The Latitude of the


Placets,

Ere we have
s2 afeendding the
Horofcope, and 3
Lady thereof, in 5,
in Sextile of 9, and
'4*
(almoft) in Trine of
_0 a7.47.4i.jT
T*: the M ponisitt
Sextile o f \ from
the Houfe o f 5 5 and 9 , Governefs of the Afcendent, is in Trine of <?.
AU which are Arguments o f a good Undemanding, (harp Judgement and a
quick Fancie : yet $ being in
doth much hinder his Elocution ; xhiefly
by being in Oppofition o f 1*.
- This Native is a Student ini the Mathematicks , and hath publifhedmany
excellent Pieces therein j which declare his Judgement and Fancie to be
fliarp and active enough: for you muft know, it is impofiible for any Man,
without an excellent Underfunding,to be a good Mathematician ; the Study
is fo.Iarge and-various.

That his Elocution is but indifferent, ( although the matter of which. he


fpeaks'be always fribftaritial) I ktiow to be true, the Native being my,Friend
and Councryrnah s and it is no wonder at a ll ; ( neither is it a difgrace or
ihame , for him , Or any Mari, to wear the Livery o f the Heavens!)' for ic
is not onely where 5 in x .fs afflicted of h , but where he isbeheld o f him :
ask happened in the very laft Geniture.
* This Native when he Wasriear 2 i years of Age , he had like to have: tied
o f a Calenture: the Moon was then directed ad <jMartis > c m & xfine
LatUudine,
W hen

_______ id ColIeBioti b f divers choice Nativities*


' wwheri-hh w a gged 26 years and ten mbrieths, he was preferred eo <oOi.flee confide r?ble .* the
vvasthendife&ed
rinum Soliz*.rtir
'cxtHfirtl fo&ir arid rhism:therterith Houie ; ergo, the more-con 11
^erable and, eminent.
*
,
"
"
ari dl even moheths*, this Native married*wand
that -ionyewhatj fortunatelyefie:Afceridcnt was then directed ad Cs httmt,
and Part oS ir&hvtn&adlScxtilffm Solis , & Trimm Jovise -all tinguiar. good
VDireitiohsf.!r:It is to be noted , this Native applyed himfelf to the Study of the Machematicks a withoutmuch ( i f any) Aillftance therein; and onely by his own
Labour and Induttry>hach (for the advantage of ftis Country) publifhed,(i.)
f^is SeJElor upon a Quadranr: (z.) Geometrical Dyallwg\ or JOyailingperforejfln i&farrinir's piatft <psle^.ttew{flam'd.
j areV f<w thfeir F4 dliy.aridPlaj&nefsj held the beft o f their kind extant.
"Thus mtich'for this i^ativhjf.

1His Native
is _z Stu
dent in the
Mathematic!^, and
. hath" publifhed' fevbral Books there
in, vlzu\ bis Arithnteticket Compleat
'Surveyor,&&' And
<.
'
.V

:
to' denbce:jBim fo
(in his Nativity); he h a t h ' t h e Lady of hi^ AfcendCpt^iii Sextile o ft f* pSier wboimfhPhathaDifpplldoh; arid the Moon is'tn Trine o f ?'attifit&i
Sextile o f '9 s. befides , rhere is a very greitJReceppioit between Ti and $ j
anef it is in Tritie to the Afcendent. All Which are1.fiAgdar ^ o d TCfiicnoifies iri the Geriiture of a;Mathematician arid irt opr Native h*VC:ar^erffc&
and true StgrririeaHori. tle isalfoof a very1 facetious , pjeifartc aridcheer
ful Difpoiitton ; which is notably portended by Vmui > Lady of hi/Afcendent j being in Sextile of the Moon , and in the fame AfpeCt with tjfytars
and Mercury.
This Native ( my very good Friend ) gave me freely his Nativity to publifb ; and with ir, thefe feveral Accidents, by which I have verified it.

187

C ott

e c t i o

en

i t

i u a r umj

Or,

isinno d.tatis 4. he had a Fever which had nearly killd hi?!; this was Occaiiont d by the Suns being dire&ed L#4.
_, . . . .
Ano acatis i q . he had another violent Fever and Ague : the Afcendenc
was then directed ad Quadratum Saturni.
Annoatatis 2 he was married: theSunwas then directed ad Sexttifirp
Lmlt:. , All which Dire&ions were feconded. and made ftronger by R e
volutions and Transits ; which any .that pleafes to take *be Pains > may
readily finde by confulting the Ephemerides of thofe years in which they
happened,
:v
. ^
^
Thus much for thit Nativity.

t.%9

The Latitude of the


Planets

_ ____

_ ^North.

William Lilly,
April jo. 14A. 2 m.
*P.

M .

SubElev. Poli %%d.


3Sf>taLeicefter-$fiire
2) in OU a d ^ T .

,
V \ h ^He Perfon
& '
|>
whofeGeX ' . nicure this
is (to p u zzle the
Under Handings. o f
th inquificous)hath
pretended himfelf
to have two feveral
Nativities. ( 1 .) In
his Almanack 1645.
lie tells his Reader (in Epiftl thereunto) that he had the Moon in <pifcihs> which makes him a piece of a good Fellow & c . which (if hue) he muft
be born the fifth or fixth o f ejMay 1602. ( a.) In his Introduion under
his Effioiesj he faich he was born on May 1. i6 o z . and then the Moon will
not be in K> but in yp, as in this Figure. I am of Opinion he ha th not the
Moon in X but in vr > and therefore believe this to be his right Nativity :
the rather becaufe my loving Friend Mr. James Blacked, hath proved it fo
to be by 1,3 feyeral Arguments or Accidents; printed a year and half fince
by it felf. In which little Tra6t the ingenious Artift may meet with a concife Method for the Calculating and judging a Nativity ; and unto which *. I
refer the defirous Reader for furthr fatisfaion in his Geniture. The reafon why I am no larger herein is? Becaufe I would not be efieemed either
Envious or Partial.

N afcitur

A C olle& ion o f d iv e r s ch oice N a t iv it ie s .


3 0 6 d eg.

42 w iV . 45 fee.

189

"the L atitude o f th e
planets.

N this Nativi
ty ,n afeends ;
and 2 , Lord
thereof , is in a
lirong Reception
with the fortunate
Planet 9 , who is
L 4
pofited in the Af
cendent j he is alfo in exa& Sextile of the Moon: all which denote him a
Perfon ingenious > apt and inclineable to the Study of many commendable
Arcs and to learn any thing (almott) without a Tutor. I can aver on my
own knowledge that this Native is a lingular good Artill in Aftrdogie
Demon ftration of which, he hath given the World in his Calculatingand
judging the Nativity of Mr. w . Is. fo accurately and iharply performed- tliac
a Student of double his (landing, could not have done it better. I know alfo
that he undeeftands Phyiick and Chirurgery competently w e ll and therein
hath good fqccefsj and that feems to be well denoted by' the Moon ties
Trine to Mars, there being a fmall Reception between them ivt&Mtrcury
his Sextile unto them both. He underttands Mufick moderately w ell: riof is
he a ftranger to Tachigraphy or Short-writing- Thus we fee his Incli*
nation is exactly pre-fignified by the Poiitions of the Planets at his
Birth.
.. : .

.....

Here are no lefsthenfive Planets in laudable Reception


Tj >U i d1*
3 ; and the Moon (in fome.refpe&s) may admit o f fuch Dignities: ah;4
accordingly this. Native is beloved and refpe&ed by atf forts o f Per-^
ions. Ido notknow above one that bears him any ill Will; ^ndthatisfor
his Zeal in maintaining the Honour Of Aftrologie: but there is.ati Ahtl
pathy in their Genitures. In that envious Perlon's Saturutsvpon t h e ^ p
po&te place of the Lord o f the Afcendent and the Sun inthi*^ tjMdri iti
this 'upon the oppofice place o f the Moon in that > and Saturn in Locrjffc
vis : the Figures themfelves are in Quarcile* and the Afcendent o f this !i^
the place of Cauda Draconis in that. An Antipathy as great ^fcrioft) asthafc
between C a p t a i n a n d Cromwefs. ' . ~
^ ,
;j ::'il
. This may benpeed as an Aphoriftn in Aftrologie ThachdWho hath many
Planets in Reception- in his Genicure (hall be beloved arid rerpefted of ma
ny forts or kinds of -Men:: and incafes of neceifity, (hali ttleet with Friend*
(hipor Affiftance from thofe he leaft of alkexpe&sic. The truth hereof
this Native hath Ofcen verified,
-
. When this Native was near ten years^of vAge > 'he'hadtheSmiRPoit
but, not very much : the Afcendent was then direfted itd Quadratum
C cc
lima*

C T IO G E NT T U B A RU M f Or,

Luna, Qtter'e Whether the Moon in a Wacry Signe, inAipect and Re


ception. of. & upon Dire&ions to her Body > or ill Afpe&s > doth not always
iighifie fuch Bifeafes ?
Beirfg aged 24 years, the Afcendent was direded ad Quadratum Sdferni :
he was then fo dangerouflyafflided with a F^ver and C o ld that thereof he
bad like to have died.
This much for this Nativity,

148.
The Latitude of the
Planets.

>Norch.
South.
North*
South.
Here
are
many PenIons pre
tending to Attrologie-; that are either
afraid or alhamed
that any' fhould fee
Or know their Na
tivities , but therft-hHT
felvb. To acquaint
the World I am none of that number j I have not onely here, but in my
Tfaftrittesf N&ifieies ac large b pubiifhedmy Genimre; r:Were there-dangef-in fodpiggi ?i?;forTie pretend, I am fare llhould Ipeed none o f the?bieft 5
O ^ in j^ a ^ ^ ^ EEnemiest(Tdr my time ) as-any Manftving; andfome-of
i A^rftl^iciUyv inclind* But Reafon teaches, noisorielyme , boc all
juA S
Augury-...F o r a Mans Bate muiib&either certain, oi'ridb
(as.therC isn o doubtic is) the obfeuring of hiSNati-l
V#y^nei tite^jdejb;nor. abiisa&etb therefrom; if it be not certain pthei
hurtethi-hori - My Enemies.can rejeyce Stray Mififbnai>y^91ftT!vWhQufc)theix-knowledge ofmy Nativity,-oranybad-Ditbsafikso^wledge,thereof, tnorb then that they can
not d o .' Tf ide
^ Perions
^
*
--that are the modoppOiite hereimiOj
cannot bytheif
t o ^ ^ r ^ ^ i t ^ f f ^ ^ f a b a d i D L r e a i o n ; in,their. oWriiNacivides; nor
pbgr^ te4 fdrctfcit hen naturally it is i inonyfitcah their*U&
^b^W^rhprsiTftttLa bad Dire&ion * giveeheitvan Opportunity
^ P ^ % ^ e^pPnfiitrUL So then? we fee the timrous:Mari ,
is like a Coward that winks when he fights ) cannor make betterorpteAt&g
hjbSf^Hrknpwk(dgfc;-nor the", envious Man, encreafe tbe^Gn^ojthe|s^\aktyjugh he foolifhly perfwade hiiiifelf he can, by
being

A Collection of divers choice N a tivities ;

191

being acquainted therewith. We are govern'd by a Power (faith one) that we


cannot but obey; and our Minds are wrought againii lir Minds , to aker.us.
If my Adverfary arm himfelf to do me an Injury, he camnot-put his Refolution into a& > but by Divine PermiiEon: and if my Friend defigne a Kindnefs ro me, he muft wait for a Poft-mocion of his Mind > and thence receive
a cime to friend me with it. It is not in our Power ( in all refpe&s ) to do
what vve w ill; either for a Friend > or againd an Enemy. There is a kinde
of Mundane Predeftination , that Men are generally ignorant o f ; it being
writ in fuch Gharadiers that very few can read. Let this,therefore fuffice,
that G o s in his Providence hath fo ordered our happy arid inaufpicious
Faces, chat it is not in the power of a Friend to aflidjor an Enemy tohurt u s;
but as the grand Guider of our Fates, [ G O D ] ihail pleal'e to diredf. No
Man therefore need be afraid or afhamed of having his Nativity known.
Here follow, the Nativities of feveral Children of jhort Life 3 and of
Twinst See.
v

23. 17*

The Latitude of tfie


Planets.

N,

'S{
N,

-.' Sr

EFt

irh5P

C H IL D S
Ttldhob.
livfrlohgj"\Kiap^a^
rent Frmch Coa
buftion of the Lu
minary of the time,
and alfo her Con
juncin with that Enemy to Nature, the cruel Planet Saturn - and chisin
Leo 3 the principal part of the Zodiack that reprefenrs the Heart and Vital
Spirits. He lived onely one year and forty three days which ended on
September the 23. id<>4. and then expired of violent Convulfion-Fics,
which.held him near a Fortnight together: mod miraculous in a Childe to
behold. He was fird taken with a Deep Melancholy fomewhat near fix
weeks before he died ; attended with an Ague , having Fits both Hoc and
Cold, Ac that time Saturn was upon the place of the Sun , and c Mars up-

Ip2

o u e c t io

eniturarum

: Or,

onthe place of the Moon in the Radix. Phylkal Means was ufed for his
Recovery or Eafe; but neither could be effected: indeed bis Fate was coo
firongtoadmit of any Competitor ; for hehad notonely the Radical Inforcunacies as 1 have related but at die time of his Death the Moon was di
rectedto the Body of Saturn $ as here appears:
deg, rrtirt.
Oblique Afcention of h*
Oblique lAfcentio of 7>

ntf. 5a.
117. y 1.

A rkjof *jDirelion

N this Revolutional Figurerfhe Sun


(whois Lord of the
Afcendenc at Birch )
is befieged by the
Infortunes near the
Afcendent of the Ra
dix and the Dragons
Tayle is there alfo 5
befides , one Infor
tune herein revolves
to the place of the
Sun and the other to
the place of the
Moon in the Radix:
then the which there
can be nothing more
plain to evidence the
year to be fatal }
chiefly in concurring with foominous andcruel a Direction $ as before was remembred.
And to/hew you chat Directions areas well to be heeded in tlrc Revo
lution as Radix ( as the learned fohawtes Baftift* ejftoritm hath ihgeniQufly demonstrated ) we (hall finde, if we will tak- the pains that the Afcendent of this Figure at thetime of Death was directedto the Quartile of
M ars and the Moon nearly unto his Opposition : perhaps a grand Reafon
why the Childe contended with hisunknown Adverfary at fo violenta rate*
before his departure.

Benjamt

AtCalleStwn o f divers cj^oice Nativities.

iS>3

The Latitude o fthe


; . .Planets."
. South*
Ndich.

N this.Nat-i'vipy,
you aiib fee the
__ Light o f the
time is afflicted,and
thtt byTi Lord of
- the Sixth in the Fi
gure ; which is an .
>Argumencof fhorc
j
,
o
-------- ^ -------- :------------ -- Life j and this Na
tive died at a year and ioS,cfays o ld , v * , oh Attgptfl z9. 1656. atwnich
time the Sun wa^-d^e-fted ad Quadratum Sdturm.

\deg. min.
:
- i-".-

t^xcusfDirc&ioms

---------

'M Z ._
j ,

2 4 * ~

^ He died of andniertriicting Fever or Agues a hot and violent Humour ha


ving rrt of allbtfake out over all his Body : which I conceive was Radically
occaiioned by fchelQ Afpedf of <$and 2>c o lt; for that generally denotes Cor
ruption and Putrefadtion of the; Blood, and a fuper-abundance o f evil Hurriours^Behove he Revolutional Figure *
' "He Lord ; o f .the
M. Eighth in the
.Radix; > ip Lordofche
Afcendent in .the'Re^
volution.> and.poficed
in thfi Eighth thereof;;
and. $;>. Lord* of; the
Eighth, is in Conjun
ction of the Moon3and
both in exact Opposi
tion, to the Afcendent t the^Sun and T*
are inQ jw m le , asin
the Radix: ail which
are Arguments ;,pf ai
Revolution
dange
rous , as concomicating fo dangerpus a
DiiedUoiv: and which
, ...
.
. is morea. (and;I iup-r
pofe an Argument to perfwade Artifts the better to minde and confider .Re-

Dd d '

volutions)

C 6 i t fcCf i d g& 1 T URARUMs Qr,


volutions) at the time this Childedied the Moon in the Revolution was
diee&ed to the Body of Tj and this upon theory Cnfp of the Radical Afcefident
r, , ^
On th'e day He died a viz. Affgujt 29* the JMooh was in Quartile of <J
Lord of the Eighth of the Radix, and Aftefitftncin the Revolution 5 <S then
being ppontlie Decree of the Horofcope of the Nativity , and plate: wh^re
tie Revoludonai Direction happened.
_\ /
'

AC'oUe&iotiofdiverschoiceNativities.

* 9*

290. 31.
The Latitude of the
Planets.
d.
D 3
V . z
% 1
d 0
8
3
5
3

m.
5<>)
ioC

7C

30)
3 4>
50*

N.
S*

I His is ano
ther Geniture of fhorc
L ife; for fj hete by
his <f> (his Latitude
confine red) vitiates
the Horofcope ad
Gradum, which is ever found to befatiW if there be nothing in the Figure that proves adjuvant to Life (as herein
is not.) The Childe was was nor long bormbefore her Father asked my Opi
nion ot the Figure s I told him that I adjudged her fhorc-lived; and accor
dingly it fell otic more certain then her Parents could have wilhed: for on
Ti>i.2.fdlIowing>(haviAgnot accompliihed more then 1 1 7 days,ihe was thic
ken with very ftradge Convulfioh-fitsaof which) (he died. The Afcendent was
under t h e ifo fh by Direction with Latitude; and this Direction happened in
"fe, a Sighe proper to the Diftehfiper that cut off Life.
deg. min.
^/ifcetitioObllqttA tforofcopl
20* 31.
jifcentia Obitqua P Satarm
20 47.
jircfts Dlrctlionis
O. 16.

T-!

X
* /<&

The Latitude of the


Planets.

V
fev
y y s p y y
9-38. S. ^

Mr. Coifs ChiWe,


born Sept. 5. 1661.
d 2 h. 50 f.
P- CMLac. Londini.
J) i <P h 3 ad Vac |

f 'k 1 His
Nativity

was taken very


A.
carefully by
Mr. Col/ himfelfs who
is a curious Searcher
into the truth o f Na
tivities 5 and the Fi*

i $6
gurel here infert is as himfelf gave it me 3 and o f his own Calculation and
Correction.
.,\lc
.
__
That this Childe fhould Hi5c "be Tong Vital >. ism oft apparent fronri d'-his
obviacing the Afcendent by.his Hofiile Beams >which argues an InteppfpeVature beyond Matures fopportV^ ?s he is herd-policed in ffi j and^thi^is not
meanly feconded by.the Moons being in Olppofition of ft.,
vV \
{
The Childe lived but fix days 3 and on September 9. died; Stwhichtinne
the Moon dame to fche Cufp oCibd eighth Houfe 3 and was tjiere in G oF ft,

* :
.. .
- v the"middle of May
i<561. . and commonly toojc
inter valf. time, three r jfbiur
times in an hour, as I my felf have feen ; infomuch that his Parents diftrufled
his ever recovering again : upon which 1 procured his Nativity >and found
that the'Afcendent by Dire&ion to the Oppolition o f ft , was the Original
Caufe th e re o fb u t finding ft to be Lord of the Afcendent, and delighting
therein 3 and being Retrograde , and in Detriment where he was policed , I
adjudged him rdo weak to kill ; and thenceacquainred his Parents with char,
which 1 allured them ( fu b Deo) would cure him. And in tJM *y following*
at what . time % was Stationary upon the Revolutional place of his Moon*
he recovered,and never after relapfed. The Medicine I direled to be ufed*
was onely Cinquefoile, and of that a Decoftion made with W hite-W ine;
which w'as attended with the happy (and by many, the unexpe&ed) Effe&s of
this Natives Cure.
deg. min.
328. 24.
499 ' 35-

Behold the Revolutional Figure for that year !

Revolution

A ColleSion o f divers choice Nativities^


Ereiti

-*9$-

yon may

H Etake notice, that

"h is In Oppofition of

the Afcendent, and the


Moort a l f O j as in the
Radix though not from
the fame Signes : an
Argument o f the Har
mony and Agreement
between the Radix and
Revolution. And in
deed I generally obfervc when Directions
o f Sanity and Profperity happen, the Revolu
tions to be auipicious;
and when unfortunate
Directions touch the
Revolutions are accor
ding. Hence we may
conclude, there is ho more interfering in the Influences of the Heavens and
Stars, then in their Motions \ but every thing is fo curioufly concatenated
and linked together , that they found forth the Majetty of their M a k e r ;
who in his Wifdome hath fee Stops and Limits to the Life , Actions and Ac
cidents o f all Mankinde.

The Latitude of the


Planets,
d.
3

o
o
0
1
I

fW.
5 a;
5

Zz
la *

S.

N.
S.

s.

Ere "hi Lord


of the As
cendent, is
in the Seventhjin his
Detriment, in OppdfalOh to two o f
the three chief HylegSi vi*>. the Moon
and Afcendent; and
in Quartile to the
.third, w *. the Sun: all which ate apparent Arguments of ih o rtL ife, by
the Judgements o f all Attrologers. In the fixrh year o f Age , this Childe
was ftricken with the Paliie, and a deep Melancholy attended it 3 which fo
B ee
v
perplexed

198

ollecti

eniturarum

.: Or $-

perplexed her a that ( although fhe was naturally a very lively-fpirited and
moll pleafanc.Childe) it quice llupified her ; inlomuch chat the cared not ac
allcofpeak or be fpoken unco: o f which Dillempers (be walled until ihe
came to nothing! and died on
the'13. 1659. being then fix years old
compie at 3 and three days over. The Afcendenc was chen dire&ed to the
Oppofitionof "bj cam Latitadine.
deg.min.
jifcentio Obliqna <P Tj
335.43.
i/ifcentio Obliqna Horofcopt
329.41.
jirctu Dlrettioxis

6. 7.

The Moon ac the fame time was dire&ed ad Qttadratam Veneris and fhe
Lady of the Houfeof Death in the Figure. ' 3c is obfervablea chacin thebeginning of March>when this Childe was firft taken ill* there was an Oppofition of U and & from the Firil and Seventh Houfes of her Nativiry , and
therein from the Degrees of "band the M oon, and in exatt Qu anile of her
Sun.
This Native fickning to death a moneth before her fifth Revolution was
expired and dying within three days o f its expiration, I hold it proper to
confulc the Revolution for the fifth year compleatj and fixth year currant o f
her A g e , as the onely Revolution to be confidered for her year of Death
and chat is reprefenced by the following Figure.

N this Scheme s "b


which was Lord o f
Life in the Radix s. is
here Lord of Death
and in exa& Oppofition of 5 Lord o f the
Afcendent; the fourth
Houfe of the Radix
afcending > and c? and
the Dragons Tayle
therein! and the Moon
in <?. thereunto : all
arguing a moll dange
rous and' fickly year.
And at the time The
fickned the Moon was
dire&ed to the Body o f
ib>upon the Cufp of the
fixth Houfe in this Re
V U AU LH JB#
A
D U O
u Tthe
u C
volution.
And
on:

day (he died r th Moon was in Quartile of & who here vicites the Horofcopej and <$ at the fametime fquaredthe Afcendenc malitioufiy

A CalleEiion of divers.chpice Nativities


The Latitude of the
planets
d'- nt*. *

South.

Notch
South.
i Eing irt the
Company of
----- my .loving
Fciend and Connrry-man> Mr; oh
Colli-gs the Mathccratcun at the
Hout'e of _this
Childes Puemsj ai
.
bout 14 weeks raf-:
cer this Childe was;'bdrn> Tfbund the.Mother of the Childe.weeping for-her**
ChHdes Diftemper ; which at chat time I'd ccuelly tortured ic> chat flie-wotold
not be periwaded that the Childe could live. Mr. Callings asked my Opinion
thereof: I enquired concerning rhe Birch '.ofthe Chilriej and the ti.t:e with
in written was given : which when I had a Itctl/cQfi&uececkLbade the Mother
be o f good comfort > for that the; Dilteqapfer fq f the Childe was nigh at the
wor ftY ind rhac (he needed not to fear hut char It would live ; and about the
beginning or middle of CM*y j would be fully recocvfiredi d ^ liih e Mother
would be ftb way perfwaded but that her Childe would die j and not live to
be Coated.: (rhpfe were her ye^y: words).! cBut'behofdiT 8(bbut fh'eJtime I
memioned th^.hemgn Planet -l^w^s Stationary, upon the plac^of the Mqofib

^fcindent ^nd .hisTorc?.,.were^jgurrjen.Cif.iDflibuld'Tecover : Po?t"-iiiS!li


Ways^o be'obtefve'^, that where fucb adjuvant:Teiiimoniesfeappeilj '<<#<&
their Quartiles or Oppoiitions never kill in Youth although they fhallbe
Lords of rhe Eighth or Fourth Houles; for rhe good Significations of the Fortunesj fo eclipfe^nd darken the ill porcentsof the Malefiquesj that their Ef
fe t s cannot then hurt morrally.

I (hall in the next place prefent you with the Nativities of fome TwinBirths ; ana tirli of rvvo Children born in London, June the 13.
in the Morningibcing Sunday: the one of them cied near a year
and three quarters after Birrhjthe other yet living; and render

Reafons thereofin Arc>ro flop the Mouths of thole Antagonists


that make che Birth of Twins a grand Argument againft Attrologie.
Firft

ollectio

u r a rum

0r 9

The LattiUde o f the


Planets.

o i8>Norch.
2 12

South'.

His Childe
died o f a
Fever near
a year and three
quarters old , viz,.
in February 366c
the Afcendent was
then direfied to the Dragons Tayle j pofired ( as you may fee) with the
H jadet, and ocher ( very many) violent fixed Stars o f the Nature o f
Mars,
deg.mbt*
. C 'C/tuda Dracoms
38. 6
& 4fcemoOl>ii%*a
jife in d e m s

w;:

36. i j *

Dtreftio quajtsa

1. $l*

. Theexaft Qppofition o f cite Moon and Tfc I alfp take t be an miehe


Argument of fhorc Life beca ufe ported upon the Sixth and Twelfth Houfes
o f the Heavens > Tj being Lprdof the eighth Hiife. Nor S the Mcm her
Polidon with a violent fixed Star ( fecundum hatitudfacmj o f the Nacute of
ftand & other then an Argument o f fhorc Life > as cqhfidefed wich ci
ther Teftimonies. A t the tim of Death '& was (by Tfahfit) upon the Af
ee ndent.of the Radix and the place o f its DireUbn to CAda lfo. cbnr
cutting together to cut Off Life.
i

, . /.I

Second

A ColleStion o f clivers choice Nativities.


320. a i.

201

[Ere you fee


there
is
bur 57 m,
of time difference
between
thefe
Twins being born ;
yet it alters 16 d.
in the Afcendent :
fo that the Directi
on which killed the
jirfl: Twin will ne
ver happen in th
fcconds Nativity,
Howbeit j ..this
Childe cannot be
long lived,for fome
of the foremendoned Reafons : for
here th Moon is
in Oppofirion o f^ i
.and he Lord of the Eighth, as in the fir ft Figure : but the Moon > which was
with a violent Star in the firif Scheme , is here with Stars of a more gentle
Sb
Nevertheless when the
Nature and Mixture viz., with chofe of
Mooii comes by Direction to the Oppofition of Tz> this Native will alfodie ;
which will be about the twelfth year of Age * the Moons Circle and La
titude considered. Were I here minded to be Critical I could in few
words refel Mr, Chamber's Stories of ftfunfters Maids joy ned together by
the Fore-bead ; and Buchanan's two Boys upward , and but one downward
by whofe different Deaths, (though born at once) he would ;make an Argu
ment agdnit Afir.ologie, The Maids (faith he) lived till tenyears old j re
then died ; and tofave the other from Death* they cut her awayfrom her dead
t Sister : of which wound (faith he) (he fuddenly died alfo A moll ridiculous
' Argument againit AltrOlogie 1 and fit rather cobehiflTed at , then replyed
unto : the one died.a Natural, and the other o f no Violent, Death 5 except
Mr. Chambers oi his Friends will fay That theftrivingto preferve her,was
an intention of murther agaiml her. But thefe Scioli* like to ah angry Mafiiff, run after the Stone, but minde not the Hand that throws it. They com
mend the Maids Friends care they took to preferve her , but condemn A lco
logie Ihe died npc.whh her Sifter : albeic the Infiuence of the Stars wasinfirumemally m^degood by the Maids death, in her Parents Endeavours.
The Boys (faith he) lived until 28 years of ^ 4ge one then died and the
Stink, thereof 3 was the caufe of the death of the other . T hefe two , faich he,
Lyet moli improperly and impertinently called two, becaufe they had not the
parts of two in all refpeCts ] were born at once ; why not die at once ? Mr.
C ham bers, though a Phyhcian, certainly never heard of Bed-rid People, or
any troubled with the Palfie, & c. which have continued dying a longtime
together. Let us admit this but one Birth , [ though monftrous } although
he. papdoufiy and moft untruly called it tw o , and it will readily refulc, that
Death muft feize on fome one part thereof firft. But he criflingly demands,
Why jboftld one die by Diftafe , the other by Stinky? I will not urge againft
him, whe.hir Stink be Eafe or Difeafe. But this, he ftill beggeth the Queftiojti and cakes thaefoj granted, which doth remain co be proved, viz,. Ih a t
Fff
this

V[ tejfof: (

202

C o l l e c t i q G e n i t u k a r w m S Or,
this monlirous Birth, may pioperly be laid to be Two ! He p.oceeds : They
jhottld have agreed well, ai having oneConftellmtion ; hat they did often wrangle*
See. ' Mr. Chambers it feems never experienced the jarring and contending
of one Humour or Paffion with another in himfeif j for had he, fucha trivial
Objection had never efcaped his Pen. Hath not fometimes one lore Finger
brought Anguifh upon the whole Body ? But againlt this , he inay urge
rheir Speech & c . I anfwer : The Difference upwards * and Duplicate o f
Organs and Faculckies fir for Speech and Reafon, renders the Birth orjely
monitions, and not two Births : Ergo, no Argument at afl againli Altidlog ie , or the Do&rine of Twins held and maintained by Afirologers. For
what hath that Art which is founded upon Natural and Demonitiative piiaciples to do in Judgement with Births chat are Monftrous and Prodi
gious ?

89. s6
N the nexr place
1 fhall prefenc
the Reader with
the Nativities o f
two Ladies > which*
were born within;
lefs. then half an hour
o f each other, and
Twins iikewife; and
n e y were fo alike
both in Shape , Sta
ture,Feature,and Ha
bit o f Body and
Minde, thjt it was
(and yet is, for they
are {till living) t
hard matter to diItinguifh the one
from the other, al
though one ihould
not. onely fee them,
but hear them talk# Some fmall difference (it is erne) might be obferved in
them 9 by fuch asconftantly frequented their Companies by reafon o f the
fmall difference betwixt their Horoicopes, and cheit Moons; but eminently
rare to be difeovered by fuch as faw them feldome.

The

203

A Colie Sion o f d iv e r s ch oice N a t iv it ie s *

i He Direikions o f the
Luminaries
in thefe Nativities
as they happen in
both alike fo the Ef& & sineach Native
have followed. For
inftance: the Sun in
their 17 year of Age
Was dirz&edadOpfojttum Lu*i&\ they
were then both afflidked with violent
Fevers and many other UnhappineiTes
befel them equally ;
their Mother died
& c . In che 18 year
c f ti-eit Age, the Sun
was direiked to the Sextiles o f u arid $ ; they bad each of them then a very
condderable Forcntte left unco them by the death of an Uncle: they might
then alfo have married well, but the death o f their Parents was yet too freih
in their Memory, and their Sicknefsof Body not throughly removed.
But now, although the >ire&\ons of the Luminaries operate equally in
both Genicures yet thofe of che Afcendent and Medium Cedi do not: for
the fecond was much iickly and Aguilh in her firft year, as Tjs exadk Quartile to the Afcendent denotes: the dr It was not fickly till her fourth year*
at which time (he had an Ague ; then the Afcendent was direfted to the
Square of Ti>which ip could never be in the feconds Nativity while ihe lives.
Then the Medium Qefi in the Nativity of the fecond was diredked ad corpus
Jovte at twenty three years o f A ge; fhe was then eminently married: the
fame Dire&ioubappeneth not in the Nativity o f the firft Lady until the zS
year of her Age, ergo (he cannot be married until chen.
Thus we fee theReafon why two born near at a time , (although alike in
habtt of Body and Minde, in ihape and feature, &-cS) enjoy not exactly the
fame Accidentsof Fortune at one and the fame time * and why .alfo they do
enjoy fome Accidents equally, and alike, and others unequally , and four or
five years time dtftant. Had the Afcendent o f thefe Genicures been in 5*
y y & * the Accidents thereof might hve differed nine or ten years ; but
tfs being a Signe of long Afcencion, although the P'rhnum tJMobile run abouc
very fwife, it can differ no more in 191. of cime, visu the diftance between
thefe two Twin-Ladies Births, then four years, as I have before fufficiently
proved.

I (hall next inferc the Nativities of tw o , born (as I was informed by


their Parents ) juft half an hour diftant che one from the ocher:
the one is dead , the other yet living; and (by the Canons of A ftrologie) likely yet to live.

Ibe

204

o l l e cT

iQ G

e n i t vi ra nu m

: O r,

The Latitude of the


Planets.

North.

\ South.

?7 5
58 North.

His Childe
was excee
ding iickly
for the fi-it 4<lf
year ; pe plexed
with OmMiihorss
and fore ryes and
Ague alio , infomuch that itf c.'fci.h
was expeled and feared very often. I confidered what mighc occahcn iu< h
Unhappineifes 5 and finding S and
in the Afcendent > with mnny violenc
Scars, and h in exadl Oppofitionof the Sun > according to LarLuee, from
the Sixth in rhe Figure-. I conceived it to be reafon enough in Arologie foe
the miiery the poor Childe fuftained : yea, the Argumenrs of themfelves are
fo cruel , that had nor the Sun been llronger then T* 2nd the Luminaries in
xaf Sextile to each other , an.d the Moon in Trine to h from the Tenth*
(the' Houfeof Phyfick) and calling the fame Rays to the Afcendent * the
Chiicle could nor .have withfiood the violence of his Dillempers. Howbeic,
he died in the fourth year o f his Age* ( fuppoied bv Poyfoa) the Afcendent
was then directed to the Dragons Tayle , and the Sun adOppoJitum Saturn,
without Latitude. A Queflion maybe raifed by lome, Why this Native
Ihould expire upon the Sun to the Opposition of T* without Latitude * and
yet lurvive the cruel Effects o f their Oppofidon with Latitude ? I anfwec
to any that (hall fo demand, thus
- That the Sun in a ftri& fenfe was
pall the Oppolition with Latitude ; there could therefore be no Direction o f
that nature unlefs we admit o f converfe Direilion, which doth not confort
either with Reafon or Experience. (2.) That the Sun ad 3f z fine hatitudine, could not of it felt be powerful enough to kill ; but co-operating with
fo milchievous a Direction as that of the Afcendent ad Caudam Dracon , it
m ight: fo that per fe fuch a Dire&ion is fldome (I may lay, Never) found
t kill j but per accidetts it may. And o f the truth of this , you may Ende othet Experiences in this Book.

Second

A C olle& ion o f d iv e r s ch oice N a t iv it ie s .

3 T4 * 4 ^*
/ \
y

1His Native
was alio
.
oc
A*
tick moit
V
of the firll iix
moneths after birth
....
> ! :------ :
for the fame Reafon
\ >
v'
as was the other;
Second Twin, born
and in the fourth
u,. March
year o f Age was ta
1658. 8 h. go.
ken with a Quotidi
. a .m .
an* and the Rickets,
SuVLat.5
and thereby brought
very low ; at which
2> Vac. ;
time the other died.
Sols cP to Ti by Di
rection , ( ftne LadA* . s
tudine) was now operating , ( which
pioves a force in
fuch Directions, aitftefagh'ftbreqnai' cothofe cahj-LMitudinc.) But here wasntfc Afcendent di-.
reCted to the Dragons Tayle , as in the other; which was the onely Caufe
( next tothe Diviue,Cauie ) that this Native.did not then die, as did the other.' Arid although db ers Perlons have pretended to cavil at the EffeCts o f
fucb Directions rothe Nodes-,, we fee Experience to refute them asirithefe,
and i'ome foregoing Examples and Reafon alfo: for itcannot be conceived
that xbe two great J-unanaries fuffer their DdiqHiums* in or near thefe points
for nptbi ng. Eer 'fhe fober Art!If accept chiSEfiay , and thereby proceed to
the perfecting His judgement of Twins.
j

ccording to
che Poficion of U and
the Dragons Head in
the Afcendent > this
Childe Was molt
healthful and vigo
rous , as by his Pa
rents is atteited: yet
ic lived not above
13 days, and died
fuddenly ,
on
i/tuguit the 23. ,at
which time tbe
Moon came to the
oppoike place of
in the Nativity.
That ic was not long
lived, is apparent by
the

20*5

20 6

ollect

io G

e n it u r a r u m

: Or,

the Figure : For the Moon is in exaf Quartile o f T?, Lord of the Fourth*
from fixed Signes; and $, Lady of the Afcendenc , is Combuft * in her De
triment in the twelfth Houfe, and in Quartile o f d*. Whether <? or f* be
A(mi, the interficient Planet; or whether both be Deiiroyers of Life* is
a Queiiion worthy to be considered by Art ids. I confefs with the learned
Cardan#)
Seg. 3. Aphorif. 108. Difficillimum omnium eft fcire lo
cum interfeElarts ; nam ex hochabetur G tempus ^Mortis% &c. I Was almoft
at a Hand in my judgement, when 1 firrt confidered this Figure, to think the
Native ihould die fuddenly :. but endeavouring to fatisHe my felf, 1 was re
lieved with an Aphorifm in Albubater j which I3 in my DoEhrine of Nativi
ties, (treating of the eighth Houfe) had tranflaced, thus-: I f the Lord
of the Eighth be infortunate, and the Lord of the Firfi fhall be in the earthy
Triplicity) and in nogood f/ffpeEl of the Fortunes, the Death of the Native rvili
be fudden. Vide Debt. Nat. Pars 1. fol. 148. Which Aphorifm takes full
place in this Infants Nativity : for <3is here Governefs both of the Eighth
and Afcendent, and in the earthy Triplicity mfortunate; f viz., in Detri
ment, Combud, and in Quartile of <?) and is in no A fpe& of U at ail.
When this Native departed, there was not the lead druglingor fymptome
o f Death perceived, as fay its Parents ; but it was in perfedVhealch one minute, and fully dead the next.

Hat
this
Child could
o not be of amy. long Life
is
plainly to be feen
in .the .Nativity :
k for, here isthe Sun
"'in Conjun&ion of
]h>(fine Latitudfoe)

and he' Domimh*


tjtfprus^. ( 2 .) The Moon ( who is DontinaVita ) is in ex^dt Oppo/jtion
of
Lord o f the dxth Houfe, andboth in Quartile to the Afce'hdent; and
the Moon is in exaft Quadrate o f
, fecunaum Latitudine , who mod iriafitiotifly oppofeth the Afcendenc with his hateful Rays. Accordingly jfhe
Childe did die on December the 18. 1657. of the Small Pox., having before
been much affliifed with Convuliions , and Pains and Gripings in the Bow
els. . About the rime (be departed, the Sun was under the Direction o f Tjs
Body in ire ; as may appear, thus:
j
\j
Afeentio

A ColleStion o f divers choice Nativities.

207

deg. mm,
1 65. 11.
Ido.

^Afcentio Obliqua Tj cum Lat,


t/ffcfntio Obliqua Solis
D retilo qutjtta

2. id .

And to fignifie the Convulfions* & c. the Moon was dirc&ed to the Quarcxle Afpe&of &, at, or about a year old.
deg, mi,
DefceutioObliqua tifarti*
397. 23.
Defecaiio Obliqua Luna
ig . 42.
Aretes Direftims

o.

41.

A t the time o f this Natives expiring, viz. <December 18- 1657. the Moon
was near her Radical place* in Conjuntion of Ti> and in Oppofition of & :
Tranitschat ( if they concomicate evil Dire&ions ) arefeldome lefs then
fatal.
N this Revolution
nal Figure * the
Moon is in Conjun
ction o f U., Lord o f
the Sixch in the Ra
4 S'
*
dix* in the Houle o f
Death ; and <J, Lord
Revoltillo Solis ; d
of the Afcendent here*,
. .annum, eJMort.is 1
is come co the o p p o
Aug. 24. at Noon.
ste place o f theMpon
~ r- r^y. {
in ?the Radix . and
Lat. f i d, J2W.
the Moon is in Q ja rDie Lma,
tile o f I*a Lord qf the
eighcRrHoiife p g .ifa
Nativity ; all aug
menting to the evil of
the Dirediiqn. If ajny.-enquire why:this
Chifde (liould dife o f
ih Small Pox ? they
may cake notice that
afffi&s the Radical iplace of the.Moon , and the Moon in Conjunction
vyith U * Lord of jthe$ixth in'the Radix > (atrd h is Domina* Sanguines) 'and
chat Difeafe proceedsjfrom a Corruption of. theBlood ; beitides * the Moon
was Radically in c a r t i l e of S aland Oppoficion o f
as was before te ? < r
membred.
4
i
.iTo v*
. !
. : :

: A.

; ) ..

\ -.rii

. r : i .1

'0

t.
;

.! ,

'

'to

m .: uv;/'r> ,-Y

Card**

rS i

O r,
Lthough the
Lord
of
the Afcendent ( which is <S )
be the moft potent
Planet in the Fi
gure > yet was
this Native but o f
ihort Life : for it
died on the 23 o f
February follow
ings 13 h. P. M .
\ The Reafons in
Alirplpgie 1 con
ceive very plain :
(1.) The Lumina-j
ries are both affli
cted s and they with
the Lord of the Afcendent are out o f
all Afpe&s with the Fortures. (2.) That grand SAicllitmm of hs <
3\ 0 s and
5 i (Who is Lord Of the Eighth) ihthe Alcendent denoted a it range, kind
oHhtemperaturesWblch always prenotes a (hort Life. (3.) "The Moon in d5
of them alVfrOfli Angles artd fixed Signes 3 is a very eminent additional Te*ftitodriy. Whence we may nope that not the Lord of .the ^fcendenc > but
the riorOfcope ic felf hath chiefly to do With the Life of the Natives and all
Anions relating to the Body^and the other toAccidents, and Affe^ions of
th6-Minde anf Inclination.
" {" ;**i
: At the time of Deaths the 2/was in her Radical plade, in $ offcs e*r. as at
B ir th a n d
was1itvexaii O o f ,the D andofthe AfcPndedt alfo.

304. ig .
CO*
W!
.(_d > 1

nt;:. ; -*j k \ ai a c c . :. i : J ^fi. t

: \ \v/izv
) fi8* 4
hd'.r td -Hrtittphz&li Sing-, J
?i a; ^ U ^ 'J > e a m b e r . .
ly . 1
1661.
Sub Latit. Londini,

w'VttD

Ere we find
the Malefick PI4_.ner. Tj in exaCt Op
position o f the Af,. cendenc ctim.Lau: 'itiftine; and; he 0 ts
4i>id of thedfentti
; '.T%nfe) in ttystfratiVitys is 'jAfpeffir
vita ; atid 'there
fore an eminent
Argument of {horc
Life. 5 Lord of
the Afcendent Re
trograde and in
Detriment in the
feventh Houfe is*
another Teiiimony
of

t-y

X"

A Colle&ion of divers choree Nativities.


o f ihort Life : the Moon within Oibs of Tj Quartile, doth noc meanly
firengthen chefe Significations , nor yetthe violent Scars on the Afcendent,
and tbofe with whom 1? is conjoynd, in Oppofition thereunto.
To debrief : Tois Infant lived hut ten days ; and on December the sy.
at four a Clock in the morning , died o f a Diarrhsa or Loolenefs; and this
without much llrugting or fereaming , & c. The Moon was then in Oppo
sition to the Sun in the Eighth of the Nativity; and $ , Lord o f the Alcendenr, was then Stationary.
$> Lidy o f the Sixth, in ConiunSion of the-Moon, and U in the Sixth in
m, might occafion the Diarrhea or Loolenefs.

The Nativities of two Twin-Children, bornj#* 1 . 1662-in rhe Strand:


one o f which is yet living, the other died within an hour after its
Birth.
The Latitude of the
Planets. '
South.
North.
South. ;
No^th.
?His Twin,
although ic
was born
firlt, furvives its
fellow-Twin. In
deed, here are fio
Arguments o f ; a
(horc Life in th
Geniture ; for the
Afcendent hereof is happily fortified by the prefence o f Caput Draconic ;
and the Lord of the Afcendent is lirong by being poiited in his own Manfion , in Conjunction oF <jars Fortune ; the Moon being in Sextile of him,
and the Sun, and Pars Fortunes and alfo in Trine o f & : ail which, are pro
per and policive Arguments o f Vitality. There is a Negative Argumenc of
the fame likewife, which is very considerable : (i. e.) The Afcendent or Lu tmnaries are no manner of way vitiated either by the Bodies or malitioHt Rap of
the unfortunate planets.-------It is no Wonder therefore that this Twin efcaped with Life, when its fellow-Twin (after Birth) was not above an hour
Vital.

H hh

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230. i i
'The Latitude of the

Ptenets*
South.
North
South.
North

Lthough thefe
were TwinCnildren * yet you
fee here is a valt
difference between
the Figures of their
Nativities* as well
as between their
Significations. In
this* the Lord o f
the Afcendent is an Infortune* and in a Signe contrary to his N ature Re
trograde* and in Q jm ile o f & , who is the Moons Difpofitor; and made
the more unfortpnate (in this cafe ) by being in Conjun&ion of a violent
fixed Star. 2.) The Sun is in Conjun&ion with the Lord of the eighth
Houfe* near the Cufp o f the Sixth. ( 3 .) The Significator o f Death > is
much Wronger then the Significator of Life. ( 4 .) The Moon is in V j in
Quarcile to the Afcendenc ; a place fhe moft perfe&ly h a t e s t h e receiving
her greacefi Debilities there* viz,, her Fall; therefore is her Square the more
cruel. ( ) <f i in exaft Qoartile of the Lunar Horofcope from Angles.
All which.denote iliorc L ite; and this Childe accordingly did die- within an
hour after it was born.
,It is to be oSferved * that the Afcendent of the firft Twin * is the Cufp of
the Eighth in thi$ 5. and the Lord of Life in that Ceniture* is Significator of
Death in this
Thus much for thefe Tvsln-Gemturesi

A Collettion o f divers choice Nativities.

The Latitude ofjhe


Planets. ;.......
Soufiu

*His is the
Genicnre of
a Gentle
woman o f good
Birch , who hath
(for her time) been
fi.bjeCt to che greateft UnhappineiTeS
imaginable, both in
publick and noto
rious Scandals, Imprifonments, Conrroverfies with Friends, crc. And chefe
Mif-forcunes continually attended her fromthe 18. unto the year o f her
Age ; and yet is (he nor totally free therefrom. In tbofe feven years fpace,
Ihe hath been in Prilbn eleven times : a thing not common for a Woman to
undergo. But indeed fo cruel and unhappy hath been her Fate , and fuch a
continued Scale of malicious Directions, ihe had, between thofe years men
tioned , that when the ingenious Artift lhall have once read and considered,
he will efteem this Natives feveral Sufferings, no Miracle at all. At the 18
year o f her Age, the Afcendent was directed ad Oppojitum Soils; then began
her Mif-fortunes: (he was not then fick j and the Reaion.I conceive, was,
becaufe the Sun in a hath not power enough to do prejudice to the Body by
Difeafes; or elfe, the Direction falling in V his Exaltation, a place he much
delightethin, he was like a Noble Enemy, and would not prejudice the place
he FefpeCted, although his Enemy was there.
Being aged 21 years, the M. C. was directed ad $ ; chisholp to con
tinuej:he Inforcumeies the other began: then being aged 2 %years, the Sun
was directed ad dP; and the year after , ad 1J. ; under which two Dire
ctions 3 (he was noronely like to be ruined in her Reputation, but had like
to have died of a Pleurefie, attended with a Fever, as faid her phy ficians; Di
rections of raoft unhappy Signification, as may be feen in the Writings o f
all Afttologers, that treat of the EfFeCts of Directions.
But bpfides thefe Directions, (he had many Radical Infortunacies which
portended the feveral prejudices (he underwent: as h in rhe tench Houfe, in
Quarrileof the Moon from the fevench Houfe. (.2. ) The Dragons Tayle
upon the very Cufp of the Seventh ; which demies many public^ Enemies,
prodigious Calumnies, Scandals and Difgraces from them, and that constantly,
& c . Vid. DoCtr. of Nativities, Parc 1. fol. %6. And the Conjunction of
U and cf fo near the Cufp thereof, makes it fo much the more mifchieyous.
Then T*, qttatentu "h, is not onely located in the Mid-heaven , but as he is
Lord of the twelfth Houfe ; which always denotes Damages and Difficulties to
the Native in Reputation , Sic. many Oppojltions and Defamations in every
jiSlion;

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i/iition j and fartends Captivity , Imprifonment or Exile. Dotr Naciv.


fol. 177.
Divers other things Tcould obferveTrom this Nativity'; "but thefe already
mentioned beingfufficient coihew > not onely the Efre&s of theD iregi
ons above remembred > but of the Radical Poiitions of Tj in the Tenth ia
P of 2>j and y o n the Seventh, nearly in 6 otlj. and <? there I (hail deiiif
from all furtherdifeourfe hereof.

The Latitude of the


Planets.
D
T*
U

d.
4
o
13

m.
40
40
3

South.
North.
South.

11

South.

%? & ^

N this Nativity,'vy,
a Signe of Bre vity,
afeends the Horofcope and h , Lord
thereof, (being a Pla
net Cold and Dry ) is
polited therein , in
Con junction of 5, who
difpofes of the M oon:
d* from a Signe of Bre
vity, beholds the Sun in a Signe of Brevity , by a Sextile-Afpeft: all which
are proper Arguments in Attrologie of a Dwarfiih or fhort Stature. The
Sun in of U from brevous Signes, may be admitted as an additional Teftimony of a Dw arf or little Perfon. Indeed whoever hath an earthy S gne
afeending, and two or three Planets Pofited therein, cannot' ut be ofa ihorc
or low Stature, chiefly if T* be there; for a Cold and Dry Temperature is
contrary to the growth of any thing 5 as we fee it by Experience in the Au
tumnal Seafon.

Thus muchfor this Cenitare %and for a Conclufton to the Third Part ofmy
CeileStion of Nativities.

<tAC e n t u r y ofchoiceItylesorAphortfms,
fittobeconfideredbythofethatpraBicetheCfe^
nethliacalTartof<iAfirologie-t.
i.

F
*be Parcs i*1 Aftrologie, the Genethliac.il is the chief; for
B therein is confulred the whole progrefs of a Man a (who is the
Lord of all Creatures) from his Birth to his Burial : and by that
alone, we are enabled todifcover the times of his happy and inaulpicions For
tunes.
*. Thofe thacare born under fuch a Pofition, wherein T*beareth the chiefell Rule. or if he be in the Alcendenr, are melancholy* envious, yet timo
rous Perfons; If <? or 2 be in or P of him 3 they turn Enihuiiatls, or
Mad-men.
3. Men born under the Government of if,, are generally Nobly minded;
aiming to do good to others, thinking no i ll : But if either o f the Luminaries
ihall be in O or S* o f U or h , and <S in the Afcendenc , or in cP rherevmto,
the Native will be villanoufly minded; rafh * head-ftrong, and rebellious ;
treacherous to all ; friend to none but from the teeth outward.
4. If under
andheeflentially powerful, the Native is full of Courage ;
proves a good Souldier ; attains to great Honour thereby : c? aJfomaketh
good Chirurgeons, Phyfitians, Apothecaries* & c .
He that is born under the Rule of the , and the royally dignified,
is alrogerher aiming at Sovereignty , Rule and Dominion ; and ( quoad Capax) will be very famous. The fame, if any of the three fiery Signes Horofcopize, and the Sun fortified as aforefaid.
6. Thar M?n which is born under 2 , and fhe Nobly fortified * is a great
Lover of Delights and Pleafures ; of an upright Minde, nothing dilirultful :
but if fhe be ill placed , and in bad Afpedl of Tj ? he follows Senlbality , and
Beattial Pleafures : if of c? , he is lubjedt to many notorious Scandals and
Difgraces ; feldome free from Venereal Difeafes.
7. 2, Lord of the Afcendenc in a Nativity, well dignified, (hews the Na
tive to be of a mod admirable Fancie , and great Elocution : makes famous
Orators, by being in good Afpedl of 7) or $, or in Reception of them : excel
lent Divines or Philosophers , by being in good Afpel or Reception of or
I t : the bell Mathematicians or Allrologers, when in Reception or good A fpe& o f <?.
8. When the Moon governs the Horofcope, and fhe well placed, the Na
tive is a great Lover of Novel things ; fubjedt to Mutations of a gentle
Nature and Diipofition ; timorous; often defirous to travel and fee ltrange
Countries : if fhe be in Afpedl of $, he will be apt to learn many Languages.
9. c? firong in a Nativity , and Lord of' the Seventh, and in no good Afpqftof the Luminaries or Afcendenc , the Native isfubjedlto Mif* fortunes
in War , or many thing of Concroverfie ; for thefevenrh Houfe fignifiech
his Adverfaries: and in this regard they will be too powerful for him to con
tend with.
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10. All

strological

phori sms

10. All ihe Planets (or the molt of them) above the Earth, be the Native
of whac Capacity he w ill, makes him eminent and famous beyond i t : but if
they fti all be in their Dignities fo policed > the Native (like a Comec ) (hall
out- ihine all others in that place or part of the World where he (hall be born.
11. The lnfortunes afflicting rhe Luminaries or the Horofcope by Body
or Partile Afped, declare him that is then born,to be o f a very (horc and fickly
Life.
12. The Sun in the Alcendent, makes eminent Boafters, and very proud
Perfons. & there , makes notorious J.yars, and Inventers of Fables * and
great Contrivers of Mifchief; perjurd turbulent and cruel-minded.Men.
i 3. Eminent fixed Stats upon the Angles of a Nativity do give the Na
tive eminent Honour and Fame.
H* i i n (az,imc Solis 1 and in his own Dignities makes the Native not
ondy a famous Orator but an excellent Counfeltor ; and for his Ingenuity
and great Parts, he will be admired, and had in much efteem.
1 5. Tj in the tenth Houfe of a Nativity, deliroys the Natives Honour and
Fame, let it be never fo great: if U be there under good Diredionfc, he may
preferve it cum d'fficultatc ; but in the end, it will be abfolutely (hipwrackd.
16. If \ in the Nativity of a King , or-other lefs famous Perfon, (ball be
in <Pto the CMcdlum faU , although the Geniture be other ways fortunate,
yet the Natives End will be moft inaufpicious and cruel.
17. All the Planets in a Nativity Retrograde under the Earth, though the
N ative be of illuttrious Birih, denote him to be of a falling Fame or Fortune.
18. Cardinal Signes poffelfing the Angles of a Nativity, makes the Native
(of any Concition or Capacity) moil eminent and famous in his Generation 5
and to do fuch Ads that after-Ages (hall admire him.
19. c? in the tench Houfe, brings Scandal and Di(honour to the Native in
many things, whether he be deferving thereof, or no.
20. The Sun or Moon in D or t? o f o' from Angles , chiefly the Tenth
and Fourth, declare a violent Death : if it be to lo n e ly , and in humane
Signes, the Native will be (lain by the Hands of his Enemies : if to Tz, he
may be poifoned or ttarved to Death in a Prifon.
21. Thofe Perfons (le t them be Kings, or of a mean degree) are belo
ved of all forts, that have $ or % Nobly policed in the Alcendent or tenth
Houfe, and thofe Angles free from Afflidion.
2 2. The Mid-heaven famoufly fortified , gives the Native not onely emi
nent Honour, but fuch as (ball remain and be durable, though at fome times
(upon ill Diredions) it may be fubjed to interruptions j as in the Nativity
o f Fred. 3. Rex cDam&.
2 3. When in a Nativity "h is in the Tenth or Eleventh Houfes, and the
cMedium Cceli comes to be direded to his Body , the Native lofeth all his
Honours, Offices , & c. and never rifeth again to Preferment. If in fuch a
Nativity there be a violent Death threatned, that Diredion puts a ihameful
period untothe Natives Life.
24. The Dragons Tayle in the tenth Houfe and & affiidingboth Lumi
naries in a violent Signe in the Fourth, portends a fatal End to the Honour
and Life of the Native.
2tj. The Lord of the Afcendenc ftronger then the Lord o f the Seventh,
the Native always overcomes his Enemies. Et i contra.
26 S in Y > m or YP in the Afcendent of a Nativity, makes the Native
invincible ; chiefly , if other ways well Afpeded of the fortunate Planets,
or the Luminaries.
27. & in d , or cPof the M oon, and "h in the fame Afped o f the Sun
from Angles, portends a violent Death : if they (hall be fo pofitedin violent
Signes, though not in Angles, the fame.
2S. $

strological

phorisms.

2 S. 2 in or cP of c? gives a fharp, but a molt turbulent and troublefome


W it and Underltanding.
29. $ in X , in an Angle afflicted of<? or , and 2>in an Angle afflicted
o f T* makes an Ideoc , Phanatiqueor Phrenerique Fellow j for his Brains
likeacrackt Looking-Glafs, will reprefent a thoufand feveral fhapes.
30. Eminent fixed Stars upon the Angles o f a Nativity chiefly the
dlum Call and Horofcope declares eminent and prodigious Perfons ; l'uch
that (hall make the World admire them if the* Planets therein fnall but mo
derately aflill.
31. Both the Luminaries afflicted in Watry or Aiery Signes bring to the
Native an unremoveable Gout.
32. The M ooning of the Pleiades and of cf from an Angle denotes
great Defe&s in the Eyes if not Blindnefs.
33. He that hath any of the fiery Signes afcending and the Lord o f the
Horofcope in the tenth Houfe will be always aiming at things beyond the
Capacity of his Birth let it be what ic will.
34. Sometimes the inferour Planets fhall denote greater Honour and
Fame to the Native then the Superiours ; but then it fhall not be of fo long
continuance.
3. He that is born upon New or Full Moon exa&ly > lives but little
time, if ac all unleis the Moon have great Latitude $ for that fometimes may
make the <f or cP eight or nine Degrees dil+ant.
36. vx. afcending, generally makes ingenious Perfons 5 unlefsS who is
Lord thereof be in X or 2 ; then is the Native confident withuc Reafon, and will pretend to things he underitands not.
37 Fortunate Planets in the ninth Houfe , makes famous Church-men
and Lawyers : the like, if rhe Benevolents Trine the Lord of the Ninth.
3 8. He that hath Tj or & in the N inth, and the Dragons Tayle in che Afcendent, will prove a mad Fellow to make either a Pope or Pariih-Prieit
of.
3p. h in an Areal Signe in the Afcendent, in good Afpeft of the Moon
or 2, makes learned and famous Divines ; fuch that will acquaint themfelves
with many Languages.
40. $ and 5 in Conjun&ion in an A real Signe in che Afcendent in Trine
to U in the N inth, makes che greatett Scholars, and che moft learned C ri
tiques.
41. Thofe Divines are the very top and authority of their Profeifion, that
have many Planets in the ninth Houfe.
42. The Lord of the Tenth in the Twelfth , and Lord o f the Twelfth in
the Afcendenc, are certain Arguments of Imprifonment and Reliraint : the
like if the Lord o f the Afcendenc is in che T welfth.
43. in $ , Retrograde in Qjuartile to & and % , and they in Oppofirion to each other , in the Nativity of a Divine , makes a great Enthufiafi.
44. 9 or % in the Afcendent, void of che Affli&ion of the Infortunes,
makes jufl and tprigbc Perfons.
45. Thofe Perfons that have S3m or X afcending in their Nativities and
2 affliftedbyTior Z3 >they either ipeak not ac all, or elfe have very great im
pediment in their Speech : if & afflicts 5 in fuch a Nativity, the Native ltammers very much.
4 6. If Signes of Voice afcend in a Genirure, as n , t?> & 9 / , *, and 5
be free from Affli&ion, the Native is of excelleilc Speech , and o f a graceful
Elocution.
47. The 2 in 6 o f T*, in an earthy Signe , and an earthy Signe afcending,
makes exceeding melancholy Perfons, and fuch as believe they fee Vifions.
48. He

21*

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A s t r o l o g i c a l

p h o r i s m s

48. He that hath the Moon in y > andin Oppohiion of S , and the Dra
gons Tayle upon the Afcendent, will be a Promoter of Lyes and De
ceits.
49. Tz upon theG T pof the Second , makes the Native always poor 1 let
him have what ailiftance foever; unlefs he be well dignified there, and
friendly irradiated by the Beams of the Fortunes.
50. c? and the 0 in the Second in their Dignities , give the Native an Eilate j .buc procure him ways towafte i t : ill polited there > he will not have
much to be prodigal of, without other very remarkable AfliHances.
51. The greater are the Dignities of the Planets in a Nativity, the more
fplsndid and fpreading is the Natives Fame : the greater their Debilities, the
more obfcure his Fortune.
z. A continued Series of good Diredlions, makes a bad Nativity at iome .
times, very good; buuchey will not continue it fo co the end.
* 3. A grand SateUitittmoi the Planecs in the eighth Houfe , upon goocT
Directions unto them > the Nacive gains mightily by the Wills and Legacies
of deceafed Per fons.
54. Fortunate Planets well policed in the eleventh Houfe , denote many
great and powerful Friends: unfortunate ones there, ill affe&ed, declare few
andfaichlefs.
S<j. 3 and $ policed in the tenth Houfe, either in the Houfes of c? or 5,
makes the Native exceedingly famed for his Skill in Sciences.
5<5. The D in Reception and & of 3 , makes a Man a Turner up o f Coun
cils, cTc, by the roots.
57. <$ anti Tz in cP from EquinoHal Signes, makes a great Tyrant t and
if they fhall be in ID of % , he-will be an Obferver of Law and Religion for
his own Ends.. .
';

58. All the Planers under the Earth , when they promife Dignity , Honourand Renown, they generally perform it in the latter part of the Natives
Life.
59. The Lord o f the Eleventh ftrongertheti the Lord of the Seventh, de
notes the Friends and Aflillance of the Native to be more confiderable and
powerful, then his Adverfaries.
60.. The Returns of the fuperiour Planets to their Radical places in any
Resolution, portend a fatal year ; chiefly if attended by an ill Dire
ction.
6 1. The Lord of the Afcendent of the Radix, in d with the Lord of the
Eighth of the Revolution, in the Eighth, is very dangerous co che Life of the
Nacive.
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62. When the Signeof theiixth Houfe o f the Radix, afeendsin a Revo
lution , and the Lord o f che Sixth is policed in the Fourth , it is a dangerous
year to the Life o f the Native, if an ill Direction be operating.
.63. SomePerfons attain to great Honour and Dignity, who have bad G e* nitures ; but then they mult fympathize with the Nativities o f their
Raifers.
64. The greateft fympathy that can be betwixt Genitures , is, by having
the fortunate Planecs in one, upon the places o f the Luminaries in the other, and the Luminaries upon the places of the fortunate Planets.
-6%. The greaceii Antipathy, is by the Inforcunes in one , poffeffingthe
places of the Luminaries in the other, and the Luminaries upon the places o f
the Infortunes.
- 66. T? in one Mans Nativity , upon the Afcendent o f anothers, is anabfolute Token of Hatred ; and the latter (hall be the injured perfon.
67. in either of che Houfes of Tz> givesamoft excellent tlnderflandifig:
if

s t r o l o g i c a l

p h o r i s m s

if he ihall be in or A , or Reception of h the Native will be admired for


his Ingenuity.
68. The and 2) in of 5 ina Tropical Signe gives the Native large intelleclual Abilities.
69. The Head of Algol in the Mid*heaven and the 2) in the Twelfth in
thereunto portends iofs of Honour arid Renowri, if not (at lait) Death
in Piifon.
70. All the Planets in a Nativity out o f their Eflential Fortitudes de
clare obfcure Perfons ; which if they happen to attain to any degree of Pre
ferment they never long enjoy it.
7 1. Violent fixedSrars upon the Cufp of the Mid-heaven and the Lord
thereof pofited among fuch denotes a violent Catafirophe of jthe Natives
Honour and Fame.
72. Dire&ions to the Bodies or Afpe&sof Planets in the defcending part
of Heaven although they denote the highefi Happiriefs imaginable yet it is
nor long durable.
7 3. Thofe Perfons that have crowds of Planets in Angles > have at fome
time or other o f their Lives prodigious Succefs or Detriment according to
the Nature of D,iredtions that fhall occur*
74. He who hath Lord of the Seventh in his Nativity >never marrieth
until he be pail the 50 year of his Age ; unlefs it fo happen thacl|, or * be
upon the Horofcope or in good fped of the Moon in his Nativity.
7* . Afortnate Planet in the eighth Houfe, always portends a Natural
Death.
76. The Lord of the Eighth pofited in the tenth Hofe declares Death
to the Native by the Sentence o f a Judge.
77. The Sun Moon} or <Jledittm Cosli, dirededad; vel A
akt $* the
Native (if capable) rarely fails of Marriage.
78. Astrologers may eaiily mifs of the meafure o f time in Directions i f
they^hall omit the Corifideration Of eminent Trarifits; for good or bad Di
rections may be both anticipated arid continued as happy or unfortunate
Tranfits occur.
79. The Din via Combusta, and the in v'ra Lattea , denotes great dan
ger to the Eyes : if the unfortunate Planets (hall de in the Afcendent or in
d3 thereunto ic prefages blindnefs.
80. hi the Nativities o f Children > ( I mean in fuch as are vital) the Af
cendent or Sun to the Body of c? producech the Small Pox or Meafels : in
grown Men the Plague or Peftilential Fever : in eldeily Perfons Death.
81. The Afcendent or either of the Luminaries ( as either (hall be
lech) directed to the , o or of
and the Diredion happening in Y * S
or <l the Native feldome efcapes Death becaufe thofe Signes reprefenc
the molt Vital parts in a Mans Body : and h in the contrary Signes hath
mofl power to do mifchief.
r
S 2 $ in the Houfe of g , in good Afped of the Moon arid the Lord o f
the Afcendent gives a good Undemanding.
'
83. In a Womans Nativity the Lord o f the Seventh being pofited in the
Afcendent, makes her to domineer and lord ic over her Hus1.and: and if the
Lord of the Afcendent be a fuperiour Planet and the Signe thereof com
manding Ihe will lord it over him to purpofe.
84. The and $ in in the Third or Fourth Houfes makes Men skilfnl
in Occult and fludious Arcs.
8 5. He that hath many Planets in Receptiori or beholding ech other by
good Afped cannor fail o f having many Friends.
86. The and S in the Afcendent in Ae real or fierySignes makes proud

and prodigal perfons 5 and fuch as conceit themfelves to be much more chert
theyare.
K kk
87.

... vKr.v*;t-<rvv^.v3^^

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ii- S

s t r o l o g i c a l

p h o r i s m s.

'8 7 . cf in c? co the Afcendent and h in the fame Afpedt of the , makes


an Abfolute Knave and Treacher.
88. S in the Afcendenr, and
Lord thereof, in Reception of her de
notes a juli, honelh and fair-conditioned Perlon.
89. The Moon in good Afpedt of the Lord of the Mid-heaven > and the
Lord of the Alcendertt, makes the Native eminently honoured and efteemed.
90. Planets Squaring andoppoiing each other from Angles and Cardinal
Sigtiesj declare great .Mifchiefs to the Perfonsthen born in their lives time;
and at laft a violent Death.
. 91-. In a Genitureof fhort L ife the Afcendent, or D directed to the
5 is killing.
p i. Directions of the Mid-heaven to Promittors, never kill but in that
Nativity which portends a violent Death.
93. If in a Nodturnal Nativity, T* (hall be policed in the eighth Houfe, it
betokens a violenc Death.
. 94. When in a Nativity $ is pofited in the tenth Houfe , be the Native
Man or Woman, they marry honourably.
9<;. The or 7>in tP or of T*or cf from Angles, portends prejudice to
the Natives fight.
It,
or jQin the Fifth', in a fruitful Signe, declares many Children
to the Native : if 2>be in any good Afpedb unto them there, (lie increafes the
number.
J 97.
in cP to lj, or 9 , deftroys the Children or Iffue of the Native., let
them be never fo numerous.
' 98. The Afpedls of the fixed Stars, are to be confidered in general Pofitions or Directions,, as well as the Afpe&s of the Planets.
99. AfirologerS themfelves, that are fubjeft to a bad Fate, (though their
Skill may be good-) fhall be ape to errein their Judgements.
r.i;00. The Arc .of Ailrologie is certain , and moil indubitably true : %but
there, are few that practice i t , who rightly underhand it.

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He Efcapesof the Prefs are neither many, nor material; yet I ihali delire the Reader thus to correct them:
E

pO liol. line 4. read May 1471. F o l.42. in the Figure , read


Fol. ? t . read
l{ant-^pvius, Fol. 60. the Revolution there, flrould ha vc been in fol. 6 : . it belong
ing to the N ativity of Emanuel Dux Sabaudite./Fol. 85. lin e 27 read w.ts in the Afc.
in
, in ^ o f fj . Line 29. read 3 w.u in the Afcendent, in Oupofition of Tj* Fol. 1 Jo.
line 19. read UConjunction in a Revolution. Fol. >5?. read hr madt the Streets. Fol I69.
m Captain Buiy\ N ativity,there was a m Hake in the relation o f the Story ; for ir was HttijlQastle (not w i n d f o t hat he was deiigoed to (urpri/.e : bur, it is n u c , that lie was
Piifoner in :rbid(br-c*jtlc and at the lame time when Sir Rich.Brown was there. F o l.18 1.
read Trapcytntiits. F o l. 190. in the Figure , for >1 deg. 4z. min. read yr dee.. 4 : min.
Fol. 1 9 a . in the F igu re, read' J 2$. From fol. 196. to fol. 201. the Leaves arc mi ffolioM.

A Catalogue of federal Treatifis written and made publicly


by J, G . the Author of this Boob^
1.

A Stronomical Tables of the fixed Stars3made to continue for near fifty


years yet to come ; uleful for AiironomerSj Aftrologers, Phyhcians
and Navigators.
2. Coeleitts Legatus : or, The Ooelefti.il AmbafTadour ; being a Difcourfe
of the many Conjunct ions in Septemb, 1656. vxVirgo : together with fomething of the Criris in Diieaies
3. The Doctrine of Nativities ; handling all the neceifary parts o f A ftrologie, both CaLulaiive and Judiciary.
4. Alatnra Prodigiorum: or, ADiicourfe touching the Nature and Effe&s
of Prodigies ; with a Chronologie of the moil remarkable of all kinds, for
1600 years la If pall. Alio, a T reatife of the Vanity o f Sigils, Limens, Spi
rits, Proprieties, the. Chryftal, & c. by way of Appendix.
>. N an citu 'A Slrologicm : or , An Mtrological Decifion of the great
Controversies between the Kmgs of Denmark^and Sweden.
6. The King of Swedens Nai ivity; wherein his Death was Aftrologically
predicted.
7. The Nativity of King Charles the Firft of bleffed Memory : wherein
is prefenced a brief riiftory of our iace miferable Times.

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