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A Wonderful, strange and miraculous Astrological Prognostication for this year 1591.  
Discovering such wonders to happen this year, as never chanced since noah's flood.  
Wherein if there be found one lie, the Author will lose his credit for ever.  
Newly corrected.  
By Adam Foulweather, Student in Astronomy.  
Imprinted at London by Thomas Scarlet.   

¶ To the Readers health.  
SItting Gentlemen upon Dover cliffs, to acquaint myself with the art of Navigation, and know the course of the Tides, as the Dansk Crows gather on the Sands against a storm: so there appeared on the downs such a flock of knaves, that by Astrological conjectures I began to gather, that this year would prove intemperate by an extreme heat in Summer, insomuch that the stones in Cheap side should be so hot, that divers persons should fear to go from Paul's to the Counter in the Poultry: whereupon I betook me to my Ephemerideses, and erecting a figure, have found strange accidents to fall out this year, Mercury being Lord and predominate in the house of Fortune, that many fools shall have full coffers, and wise men walk up and down with empty purses: that if jupiter were not joined with him in a favourable aspect, the Butchers of Eastcheap should do little or nothing all Lent but make pricks: seeing therefore the wonders that are like to fall out this present year, I have for the benefit of my Countrymen taken in hand to make this Prognostication, discoursing briefly of the Eclipses both of Sun and Moon, with their dangerous effects like to follow, which if God prevent not: many poor men are like to fast on Sundays for want of food, and such as have no shoes to go barefoot, if certain devout Cobblers prove not the more courteous: but yet Astrology is not so certain, but it may fail: and therefore divers Hostesses shall chalk more this year than their Guests will wipe out: so that I conclude, whatsoever is said by art. Sapiens dominalitur astris.  
Your friend and Student in Astrology. Adam Foulweather.   

Of the Eclipses that shall happen this present year, to the great and fearful terrifying of the beholders.  
IF we may credit the authentical censures of Albumazar and Ptolomey, about the motions of celestial bodies, whose influence doth exitat and procure continual mutability in the lower region: we shall find that the Moon this year shall be eclipsed, which shall happen in one of the twelve months, and some of the four quarters of the year, whose points as they shall be totally durkened, so the effects shall be wondrous and strange.  
For Cancer being the sole house of the Moon, doth presage that this year fruits shall be greatly eaten with Caterpillars, as Brokers, Farmers, and Flatterers, which feeding on the sweat of other men's brows, shall greatly hinder the beauty of the spring, and disparaged the growth of all hot herbs, unless some northerly wind of God's vengeance clear the trees of such Caterpillars, with a hot plague and the pestilence.  
But Cancer being a watery sign and chief governor of floods and streams, it foreshoweth that fishmongers if they be not well looked to, shall go down as far as graves end in Wherries, and forestall the market, to the great prejudice of the poor, that all Lent ground their fare on the benefit of Salt fish and red Herring.  
Besides it signifieth, that Brewers shall make havoc of themes water, and put more liquor than they were accustomed amongst their malt: to the overthrow of certain crazed Ale knights, whose morning draughts of strong Beer is a great stay to their stomachs: a lamentable case if it be not looked into and prevented by some speedy supplication to the worshipful order of ale cunners. But in this we have great hope that because the effects cannot surprise the cause, divers Tapsters shall trust out more than they can get in: and although they fill their Pots but half full: yet for want of true dealing die in the Brewer's debt.  
Thus much for the watery sign of Cancer, and because this Eclipse is little visible in our horizon, I pass it over with this proviso to all seafaring men, to carry more shirts than one with them a ship board, lest to their great labour they spend many hours in murdering their vermin on the hatches.  

¶ The Eclipse of the Sun.  
THe Eclipse of the Sun according to Proclus opinion, is like to produce many hot and pestilent infirmities, especially amongst Sunmers' and pettifoggers, whose faces being combust with many fiery inflammations, shall show the dearth that by their devout drinking is like to ensue of Barley, if violent death take not away such consuming maultwoormes.  
divers are like to be troubled with such hot rheums in their heads, that their hair shall fall off: and such hot agues shall reign this year, with strange fevers and calamities, that if the Sun were not placed in a cold sign, Renishe Wine would rise to ten pence a quart before the latter end of August.  
But divers good planets being retrograde, foretelleth that Lemen this year shall be plenty, insomuch that many shall use them to bedward, for the qualifying of their hot and inflamed stomachs.  
And Mars being placed near the Sun, showeth that there shall be a great death among people, old women that can live no longer shall die for age: and young men that have Usurers to their father, shall this year have great cause to laugh, for the Devil hath made a decree, that after they are once in hell, they shall never rise again to trouble their executors.  
Beside that by all conjectural arguments the influence of Mars shall be so violent, that divers soldiers in parts beyond the seas, shall fall out for want of their pay, and here in our meridional clime, great quarrels shall be raised between man and man, especially in cases of Law: gentry shall go check mate with justice, and coin out-countenance oft times equity: the poor sitting on penniless bench, shall sell their Coats to strive for a straw, & Lawyers laugh such fools to scorn as cannot keep their crowns in their purses.  
Further there is like to be great falling out amongst Church men, and certain fond sects of religion like to trouble the commons: self conceipters and over holy counterfeits that delight in singularity, shall rise up and despise authority, presuming even to abuse the higher powers, if Saturn with a frowning influence, did not threaten them with tiborne's consequence.  
But whereas the Sun is darkened but by digits, and that upon the south points, it presageth great miseries to Spain and those Southerlye Countries, Friars and Monks shall heat them so this year with confessing of harlots, that their crowns shall wax bald of their own accord, to the great impoverishing of the Spanish Barbers: Surgeons in Spain shall wax rich, and their Hospitals poor: such a pestilent mortallitye is like to fall amongst those hypocritical Massmongers. The dukes, Marquesses and Counties, shall have their doublets closed with such Spanish buttons, that they shall never prove good choristers, for the hot and inflamed rewms fallen down into their throats.  
It is further to be feared that because the Eclipse happeneth in july, there will through the extreme heat grow such abundance of Fleas, that women shall not go to bed before twelve a clock at night, for the great murders and stratagems they are like to commit upon those little animals.  
And whereas this Eclipse falleth out at three of the clock in the afternoon, it foreshoweth that many shall go soberer into Taverns than they shall come out: and that he which drinks hard and lies cold, shall never die of the sweat.  
Item, Gemini combust and retrograde, showeth that some shall have so sore a sweeting, that they may sell their hair by the pound to stuff Tennis balls: but if the Beadles of Bride well be careful this Summer, it may be hoped that Petticoat lane may be less pestered with ill airs than it was wont: and the houses there so clear cleansed, that honest women may dwell there without any dread of the whip and the cart.  
And I find that the altitude of that place and of Shoreditch are all one elevated, and two degrees, and under the zenith or vertical point of venus, which presageth that sundry sorts of men & women shallbe there resident: some shall be so short hold and so queasy stomached, that they shall lie in their beds while noon, by which means they shall grow so full of gross humours, that they shallbe troubled with strange timpanies and swellings in their bellies, uncurable for forty weeks until they be helped by the advice of some skilful Midwife.  
Besides, other of the same sex and faction, shall learn to cousin young novices, and fetch in young Gentlemen, to the great overthrow of youth, if some sharp and speedy redress be not fetched from the worshipful College of Physicians in the parish of S. Brides.  
But here by the way gentle Reader, note that this Eclipse showeth, that this year shall be some strange births of Children produced in some monstrous form, to the grief of the Parents, and fearful spectackle of the beholders: but because the Eclipse chanceth Southerlye, it is little to be feared that the effects shall fall in England: yet some what it is to be doubted, that divers Children shall be borne, that when they come to age shall not know their own Fathers: others shall have their fingers of the nature of lime twigs, to get most part of their living with five and a reach: some shall be born with feet like unto Hares, that they shall run so swift, that they shall never tarry with master, but trudge from post to pillar, till they take up beggar's bush for their lodging: Others shall have Noses like Swine, that there shall not be a feast within a mile, but they shall smell it out: But especially it is to be doubted, that divers women this year shall be borne with two tongues, to the terrible grief of such as shall marry them, uttering in their fury such rough cast eloquence, that knave and slave shallbe but holiday words to their husbands.  
And whereas this fearful Eclipse doth continue but an hour and a half, it signifieth that this year women's loves to their husbands shall be very short, some so momentary, that it shall scarce continue from the church door to the wedding house: and that hens, capons, Geese, & other pullen shall little haunt poor men's tables, but fly away with spits in their bellies to fat Churl's houses, that pamper themselves up with delicates & dainties.  
And although very few other effects are to be prognosticated, yet let me give this caveat to my Countrymen, as a clause to this wonderful Eclipse. Let such as have clothes enough, keep themselves warm from taking of colds and I would wish rich men all this winter to sit by a good fire, and hardly to go to bed without a Cup of Sack, and that so qualified with Sugar, that they prove not rewmatick: let them feed daintily and take ease enough, and no doubt according to the judgement of Albumazar, they are like to live as long as they can, and not to die one hour before their time.  
Thus much for this strange Eclipse of the Sun.   

¶ Of the second Eclipse of the Moon, which is like to fall out when it chanceth either before the 31. of December or else not at all, this present year, 1591.  
THe second Eclipse of the Moon shallbe but little seen in England, whereupon the effects shall be nothing prejudicial to our clime: yet as the body of the Moon is never obscure in part or in whole, but some dangerous events do follow: so I mean to set down briefly what is to be looked for in these western parts of the world.  
First therefore it is to be feared, that the Danes shall this year be greatly given to drink, insomuch that English Beer shall there be worth five pence a stoape, that their Hoffes and tappehouses shall be more frequented, than Parish Churches, and many shall have more Spruce Beer in their bellies, than wit in their heads: whereupon shall grow Apoplexies and cold palsies in their legs, that they shall divers times not be able to stand on their feet.  
Upon this shall grow great commodity to the Potters and Glass makers, for it is like there shall be a great overthrow of them, if there be not some act made for drinking in black jacks.  
But if the weather prove seasonable, and the Harvest great, and the Barns full of Corn: Rye is like to be cheap in Denmark, and bread to be of a reasonable size, for the relieving of the poor.  
Marty, France is like to have a great dearth of honest men, if the King prevail not against these mutinous rebels of the League, and Papists in divers places to be plenty, if God or the King rout them not out with a sharp overthrow: But this hope we have against that rascal rabble of those shavelings, that there was found in an old book this Prophecy spoken about jerusalem long since by a jew: The tree that God hath not planted shall be pulled up by the roots.  
Some curious Astronomers of late days that are more Prophetical than judicial, affirm that Martin the kill-hog for his devout drinking (by the Pope canonised a Saint) shall rise again in the apparel of a Minister, and tickle some of the base sort with such fond humours in their brains, that divers self conceited fools shall become his disciples, & grounding their witless opinion on an heretical foundation, shall seek to ruinated authority, and pervert all good orders established in the Church, to the great prejudice of unity and religion, tituling themselves by the names of Martinistes as the Donatists grew from Donatus.  
Were it not that the Moon being in Taurus, which governs the neck and throat, shows that the Squinancye shall reign amongst them, and divers for want of breath die of the strangling.  
Now for that Capricornus is a sign wherein Luna is often resident, it prognosticateth a great death amongst hornde beasts. The Butchers shall commit wilful murder upon Sheep and Oxen, and divers Keepers kill store of Bucks, and reserve no other fees to their selves but the horns, insomuch that if the Parson of Horne-Church in Essex take not heed, there may hap to prove this year some Cuckolds in his Parish.  
But there is like to be concluded by an act set down in graves end Barge, that he that wipes his Nose and hath it not, shall forfeit his whole face.  
And that all such as are jealous over their wives without cause, are worthy to be punished with the horn plague for their labour.  
And whereas this Eclipse is far from the sign Pisces, it shows that there shall be much stinking fish this year at Billings gate, and that Quinborowe oyster boats shall oft times carry knaves as well as honest men.  
But let the Fishwives take heed, for if most of 'em prove not scolds, because Pisces is a sign that governs the feet, they shall wear out more shoes in Lent then in any two months beside through the whole year, and get their living by walking and crying, because they slandered Ram alley with such a tragical infamy. The rest I conceal as frivolous, and little necessary to be touched in this Prognostication.   

A declaration of the general disposition of sundry conceited qualities incident unto men's minds & natures throughout these four quarters of the year, by the merry influence of the Planets, with some other tragical events and observations worthy the noting, contained under each separated revolution. And first of the inclination of the Winter quarter.  
Winter the first Astronomical quarter of the year, according to my usual account, whatsoever Ptolemy says beginneth sooner with poor men than with rich, granted so by the malignant influence of Saturn, whose constellation is that such as have no money nor credit, shall want coals & wood and be feign to stand and starve for cold, while old pennifathers sit and toast themselves by the fire.  
The winter beginning at that instant, when the Sun makes his entrance into the first degree of Capricornus, that Hiemall solstitial sign shows that by natural inclination this quarter is generally fleugmatike, and that Ale shall be of so great authority, that the Baker's basket shall give the wall unto the Brewer's barrel, and a half penny dry do homage unto a half penny wet.  
The weather and season willbe so cold that diverse for fear of the frost shall sit all day at Tables and Cards, while their poor wives & families fast at home for their follies.  
And in respect that I find three of the seven Planets to be in watery signs as jupiter, Mars, and the Moon, it signifieth that diverse persons both men and women for want of wine or strong drink shall go to bed sober against their wills.  
That Seafaring men shall have ill luck if either their ships hit against rocks or stick in the sands.  
That there shall be such great hoary frosts, that men & women shall creep to bed together, & some of them lie so long, till they be fetched out with a Basin.  
Hear Saturn retrograde in Gemini shows that there shall this Winter fall such great fogs and mists, that diverse rich men shall lose their purses by the high way side, and poor men be so weather beaten by the craft of usurers, that they shall beg their bread by the extremity of such extortion. But Mercury & Venus congregated in sagittary, prognosticateth that for want of fair weather, such as have but one shirt shall go woolward till that be a washing, and that watermen that want fares shall sit and blow their fingers till their fellows row betwixt the old Swan and Westminster.  
And by reason that Mars that malignant Planet, hath nothing to do in that Hiemall revolution, soldiers this Winter for the most part, shall lie still in garrisons, and shall not be troubled with more money than is necessary.  
Being also greatly to be feared, that through extreme cold poor men shall die at rich men's doors: pity shall be exiled, good works trust over the sea with jacke a lent and Hospitality banished as a sign of popish religion: and were it not that some moist showers shall moderate the hardness of the frost, Charity should for want of house room lie & freeze to death in the streets.  
diverse great storms are this year to be feared, especially in houses where the wives wear the breeches, with such loud winds, that the women shall scold their husbands quite out of doors, whereupon is like to fall great hailstones as big as joined stools, that some shall have their heads broken, and all through the froward disposition of Venus.  
But Mars comes in and plays the man, who being placed in Gemini, that governs the arms and shoulders, presageth that sundry tall fellows shall take heart at grass, who being armed with good cudgels, shall so lambeake these stubborn housewives, that the wind shall turn into another quarter, and so the weather ware more calm and quiet. Such great floods are like to ensue, through this hiemall distemperature, that diverse men shall be drowned on dry hills, & fish if they could not swim, were utterly like to perish.  
Eels are like to be dear if there be few or none taken, and plenty of powts to be had in all places, especially in those coasts and Countries where women have not their own wills. Now gentle reader in respect of divers particular circumstances drawn from the daily motions, progressions, stations, retrogradations, aspects and other appointments of fixed and wandering stars, I am induced to set down that such as have no fire, shall feel most cold and that wiredrawers, if they ply not their work, shall feel no great heat, that they in Russia shall suffer more prejudice by the sharpness of Winter than the Spaniards,  
And one thing is to be hoped for at the hands of Mercury, that this winter money shall have a fall, for Philip and Mary shillings that heretofore went for 12. d. shall now pass from man to man for 6.d. a piece.  
The distemperance of this quarter, is like to breed many sicknesses and sundry diseases as well in young as in old, proceeding either of corrupt and vicious blood or of superabundance of crude and raw fleugmatike humours. As Cephalagies or pains in the head which shall make men dizzy that some shall stagger & stumble up & down the streets till they have stolen a nap to quiet their brains.  
Ache in the shoulders shall rain aamongest diverse women that have shrews to their husbands, and diverse drunken men shall be pestered with surfeits.  
Maidens this winter shall have strange stitches & gripings of the colic, which diseses proceed by to much lying upright.  
Men shall be troubled with such pain in the eyes, that they shall not know their own wives from other women, with coughs, ruins and itchings, which I omit.   

Of the Spring time.  
Winter being finished with the last grave of the watery sign Pisces, at the Sun's joyful progress into the first degree of Aries. The second quarter of our usual year commonly called the spring cometh next, which beginneth when grass gins to sprout, & trees to bud. But to treat of this present season, forasmuch as I find the planets to be contradictorily disposed, in signs & mansions of diverse repugnant qualities, I gather that this spring will be very ill for scholars, for they shall study much and gain little, they shall have more wit in their heads then money in their purses.  
Dunces shall prove more wealthy than divers doctors, insomuch that sundry unlettered fools should creep into the ministery, if the provident care of good Bishops did not prevent them.  
And by the opinion of Proclus, women are like to grow wilful, & so variable, that they shall laugh & weep, and all with a wind: Butchers shall sell their meat as dear as they can, and if they be not careful, horn beasts shall be hurtful unto them.  
Some shall be so wedded to swine's flesh, that they shall never be without a sow in their house as long as they live.  
This spring or vernal resolution being naturally hot & moist, is like to be very forward for sprouting fields blooming trees, & because Saturn is in his proper mansion, old men are like to be froard, & crafty knaves shall need no Brokers, usury shall be called good husbandry, & men shall be counted honest by their wealth, not by their virtues.  
And because Aquarius hath something to do with this quarter, it is to be doubted that divers springs of water will rise up in vintners sellers, to the great weakening of their Bascon wine, & the utter ruin of the ancient order of the red noses. March Beer shallbe more esteemed than ale.  
Out of the old stock of heresy, this spring it is to be feared, will bloom new schismatical opinions and strange sects, as Brownists, Barowists, & such balductum devices to the great hindrance of the unity of the Church & confusion of the true faith, if the learned doctor sir T. Tyburn be not taskte to confute such upstart companions, with his plain & dunstable philosophy. Cancer is busy in this spring tide, and therefore it is like that flourishing blooms of young gentlemen's youth shallbe greatly avoid with caterpillars, who shall entangle them in such statutes & recognances, that they shall cry out against brokers, as jeremy did against false prophets.  
Besides, though this last winter nipped up divers masterless men and cut purses, yet this spring is like to afford one every term this ten year in Westminster hall. Barbers if they have no work are like to grow poor, and for that Mercury is combust and many quarrels like to grow amongst men, lawyers shall prove rich & wear side gowns and large consciences, having their mouths open to call for fees, and their purses shut when they should bestow alms.  
But take heed O you generation of wicked Ostlers, that steal hay in the night from gentlemen's horses, and rub their teeth with tallow, that they may eat little when they stand at livery, this I prognosticate against you, that this spring, which so ever of you dies, shall leave a knaves carcase in the grave behind him, and that they which live shall hop a harlot in his clothes all the year after  
But above all let me not hide this secret from my countrymen, that jupiter being in aspect with Luna, discovereth that divers men shall drink more than they bleed, & Tailors shall steal nothing but what is brought unto them, that poulters shall be pestered with rotten eggs, & Butcher's dogs make libels against Lent, that affords no food but herring cobs for their diet.  
Diseases incident to this quarter, as by Astrological & philosophical conjectures I can gather, are these following: Prentices that have been sore beaten, shall be troubled with ache in their arms, and it shall be ill for such as have sore eyes, to look against the Sun.  
The plague shall reign mortally amongst poor men, that diverse of them shall not be able to change a man a groat.  
Old women that have taken great cold, may perhaps be troubled with the cough, and such as have pain in their teeth, shall be grievously troubled with the tooth ach. Sick folk shall have worse stomachs than they which be whole, and men that cannot sleep, shall take very little rest: with other accidental infirmities, which I overpass.   

A declaration of the disposition and inclination of the Summer quarter.  
When the Sun hath made his course through the vernal signs, Aries, Taurus & Gemini at his passage unto the solsticiall estival sign Cancer. The third part of an English year called Summer, taketh his beginning this year, as Ptolemy saith, the twelfch of june but as my skill doth conjecture, it beginneth when the wether waxeth so hot, that beggars scorn barns and lie in the field for heat, and the worms of Saint Pancridge Church build their bowers under the shadow of Colman hedge.  
The predominant qualities of this quarter is heat and dryness, whereby I do gather, that through the influence of Cancer, bottle Ale shall be in great authority, and wheat shall do knight's service unto malt.  
Tapsters this quarter shall be in greater credit than Cobblers, and many shall drink more than they can yearn.  
And yet because Mercury is a sign that is now predominant, women shall be more troubled with fleas than men, and such as want meat shall go supperless to bed.  
Besides, this quarter great hurly-burlies are like to be feared, and great stratagems like to be performed, through the opposition of Mars and Saturn.  
Butcher's are like to make great havoc amongst flies: beggars on Sun shine days to commit great murders upon their rebellious vermin.