A prognostication for the year of Christ jesus our lord & Saviour. 1566. Wherein are declared divers notable things, as you shall perceive by the reading thereof: which (if God so permit) at like to come to pass as well in this our Climate; as also in certain other countries. Set forth by ●oh● Securis, Physician in Salisbury.  
Anno Domini. 1566.  
Anno Mundi. 5528.  
¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Marsh.   


¶ Of the first part or revolution of this year, 1566. containing the one half of the Astronomical year, being the xi day of March at noon, & so ending the xiii of September, ●bout viii of the clock after noon.  
AFter that I had well viewed and considered, the face of the heavens, at the entrance of the Sun into the Equinoctial vernal point (which is the first scruple or minute of Aries) I found the witty, subtle ●nd … e planet Mercury, to 〈…〉 well of the ascendent ●s 〈◊〉 ●he first revolution. Of the which revolution. the Sun as a mighty lord and king, challengeth some part with him. I found also, that stout sturdy furious Mars, to occupy, yea rather by violence to withhold the chiefest part of all the horoscope▪ that is the East angle, being the first in order of all the xii houses in the astronomical figure, which house also concerneth man's life, from his birth unto his lives end.  
I found also jupiter, that excellent and beneficial planets, (who for his inestimable benefits and upright dealing, were worthy of all honour, and to have the best place in the celestial scheme: But alas, like as upright, plain, and true dealing men, are now a days little set by, and nothing regarded in the world: Even so alas, I say alas is jupiter thrust down, and as it were forsaken, by the permission of God for a tyme. I found jupiter I say, placed in the lowest part of all the figure. And to increase also the more his infortune, he is as well now retrograde, as he was the last year, and occidental of the son. The best comfort he hath is, that the gentle and friendly, lady Venus hath lent him a lodging for a space, & yet that is no longer then the beginning of May: for than he must go a maying for one month and more, until he return again the vi day of june, which being once returned, will then take heart of grace, and be bold to continue & walk in his friend Venus her house, until it be the .22. of November.  
Considering also with myself the prevention going before, in the v. day o● March, the Moon being in the house of Mercury, being also saluted the next morrow after, with the quartile aspect of fiery Mars, not to her contentation. The Sun also being in a quartile aspect with Mars: I can not perceive, but that much misery and trouble will happen in this Revolution, as now I will in particular more largely declare.  
Mars being in the ascendent, in a septentrional sign portendeth a certain earthquake to happen this year, either in England, or else in some country nigh adjacent, and specially about the latter end of the summer: it will cause also seldom rain. I gather also, Ex tali eius situ, that much cruelness, extortion, usury, contention, and such like horrible vices, are like to reign among men, causing thereby many, to be very pensive, and full of anguish and sorrow. For many will be ready to scratch out other men's eyes, for to take & ravish their goods. And other that can not so violently take than, shall assay by all craft and subtle policy, to convey them away into their hands. Whereby gods plagues are like to come upon us. Therefore O ye extortioners, O ye unsatiable usurers, all ye unmerciful, greedy, & covetous rich men, take heed, take heed, repent, for it is more than high tyme. Praesto est dies Domini, dies irae O calamitatis, dies illa tremenda & a● mara valde. Dum dies est igitur & tempus habemus, operemur bonum, quia quando nox we nit. i. post mortem, nemo poterit operari.  
The foresaid Mars placed in the sign of Cancer, signifieth sudden shipwreck, by occasion of great & sudden blasts of winds: also strife, contention, and war in the west parts: impositions of subsidies & new payments, divers diseases: for Mars is lord of the vi. house, as hot agues, pleuresies, squinances, inflammations, head ache, meigrym, pain in the stomach, in the small guts, in the back and sides, and ulcerations in the matrice, privy parts and fundment: also great heat, and little rain, no great store of butter. Item, the death of cattle, and all other beasts, but chief of horses: The water of wells to be very low, for lack of sufficient springs. And that the vulgar people and husbandmen, shallbe diligent and careful about their own business. They had need so. I perceive by the lord of this revolution, and the trine aspect of the Sun to the Moon, that merchants and all other occupiers, and craftsmen, shall have some better gains than they were wont to have of late years, and that as well by land as by sea. Also wise and learned men, serthes, registers, secretaries, astronomers, and children, shall prosper better than they were wont to do: beside that there is like to be much store of fish.  
As concerning war, I perceive that Mars placed in the ascendent, being also septentrional & direct, having no less than five dignities in Cancer: hath armed himself from top to toe, ready to enter into the field, and will do what he can, to bring the people out of quiet: yet not withstanding, they of Mercurius side (whom I take to be certain wise and politic men, and ambassadors, doctors, scribes, merchants, & other learned men,) will so, I hope, handle the matter that they shall scone repress the stout invasion and furious enterprise of Mars. For although he should rage's never so much at the beginning: yea. May being once entered, approaching to the 28. degree of Cancer: he should have for recompense, a foul shameful fall.  
jupiter being retrograde and occidental, having no aspect with the lord of the revolution, declareth sorrow, much care & fear to fall upon the people. And also much debate and strife in the law, for matters concerning inheritance, successions, lands, goods, and debts, left by the dead. In which things not a few shall lose their right, and shall not be able to prosecute the law.  
Mercurius placed in the ix house, showeth, that certain witty, politic, and learned men, with the help of the higher powers, shall go about to establish matters in religion: yet jupiter being retrograde in the fourth house, seemeth to be an occasion, that all things shall not so well go forward, as the Mercurialistes would have it. The same testifying also the wily and flattering trine aspect of Mars unto the said Mercury. To whom Mars is always mortal enemy. Which thing to be true, the very philosophers have always testified, by this proverb Nihil Marti cum Musis. Mercuriales autem prae caeteris musarum cultores sunt.  
As touching Saturn, this general rule is always to be noted, (of the which somewhat I spoke in my last years Prognoslication) that as often as he is found in a fire sign, and specially in Leo: he declareth mortality, with penury of corn, grass, of divers fruits, sedes, flowers herbs, and roots.  
Also corruption of the air, gross mists, dark and cloudy wether, with some earthquake in the east parts. And because he is Septentrional and Retrograde, signifieth also great showers of rain, corruption and destruction, as well of the great men's goods, as of the goods of common people, and of merchants: pestilence, and ●yuers other long and grievous diseases. Also dissension & much strife between brothers. Sol in x. constitutus, Reg●●ae honorem exaltationem, eiusque gloriam atque profectii signat. By the position of Venus, I find, that much trouble dissension and hatred, shall be caused through certain women, and chief by those that be of the base sort, and scarcely reputed honest. 〈◊〉 autem in 6. domicilio caeli showeth the rancour and discord of certain fathers, the gain of graziers and horscorsers, and also health to the body, saving that Mars is like to have the upper hand in this point, as is said afore. I perceive that excapito daa conis in scorpione, the meaner sort of people, shall have cause to rejoice, by occasion of some good luck that shall hap unto them. But the lighter sort are like to feel some trouble & sorrow. Also is signified dissension, war, wounds, and much fornication with deceit. And that all kind of beasts (except those that be ridden shall much increase. Servants also shall inerece, I mean, that there shall be many many more servants than was wont to be. God grant that they be true & good, I would money would increase as well among the poor commons. But of the increase I can find nothing by my calculation. Cauda draconis n. 12. posita, declareth some adversity, to the greater kind of beasts & small power to the enemies.  
Hactenus de priori reuolutione.   

¶ Of the second part or revolution containing the other half of the Astronomical year, which beginneth precisely, the. 13. day of September, at. 8. of the clock at night.  
IN the celestial figure of the second Revolution, I find the beginning of Taurus to be ascendent. In the which Venus is lady of the said ascendent. But jupiter is the Lord of the revolution, giving some part of his dominion to Mercury.  
All the Planeites (being as they were agreed and of one mind,