AN astrological Prediction OF THE Occurrances in England, Part of the Yeers 1648. 1649. 1650.  
Concerning these Particulars, Viz. 

1. The effects depending upon the late conjunction of the two malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars.  
2. What success may be expected from the present intended Treaty between his Majesty and the Parliament.  
3. The standing or falling of this Parliament, and the Army under the command of his Excellency the Lord Fairfax.  
4. Our imminent disturbances generally handled, together with many contingencies to the whole Kingdom, London especially.  
5. The product of the Scots Army: With some Observations upon Duke Hamiltons Nativity.  
6. What may succeed the apparition of three SUNS in Lancashire, seen of many, the 28. Febr. last.    
By WILLIAM lily, Student in astrology.  
LONDON: Printed by T. B. for John Partridge and humphrey Blunden, and are to be sold in Blackfriers going into Carterlane, and at the Castle in Cornhill, 1648.   

To the right honourable, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this PARLIAMENT.  
Unwearied SIRS:  
VEry great is that confidence( we the people) repose in your wisdoms; our expectations rise high, & we strongly impregnated in hope of a safe delivery. There are yet remaining an hundred fifty thousand honest hearts, whose fidelities, neither your adversities or prosperities have depressed or elevated; these stand unanimously resolved to expire their last breath in defence of your Persons and our own just privileges. Nor are they deterred either by the Scottish, City or Malignant faction from a just adherance unto you; and yet they well know, how, that most of your persons are designed for slaughter, your Estates disposed, and that Army under the Command of his Excellency predesigned for destruction( I mean by your Enemies;) the Liberty of the Commons of England decreed to an everlasting Tyranny. Anglicus your most humble servant, having but a few Tenements, by the Rents whereof he subsists, his houses are divided, and possession expected. Oh most noble souls look about you, let a sharp and sudden Index expurgatorius cleanse your own House first, then the kingdom of the Scottish faction. Divine providence hath already in part, and will in time wholly subject unto you all that rise against you. Cherish and countenance this Army, else you perish and the Kingdom is undone God hath punished the perfidious Scot already; he is now lifting up his hand of vengeance against our own English disturbers. All Europe expect the issue of your Treaty with his MAjESTY; we beg of God that his MAjESTY may have from you Condiscentions honourable, and that you may be answered from Him with Grants comform to reason and justice.  
God direct you in all your Consultations, and destroy your private and public enemies. Let not your hearts fail, for you are ordained by God to act high matters. He that presents these lines unto you, is the Kingdoms and  
Your humble servant, W. lily.   

To the READER.  
GOD Almighty, who loves upright m●n, hath delivered Colchester to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, subdued the treacherous Scot, and their general Hamilton, and all the malignant Commanders, unto his servant, lieutenant general cronwell; let England love these men, and take care of their Army.  
What in 1644, 1645, and 1646. I publicly advised unto his Majesty, as most conducing for the Kingdoms peace, whilst he had many strong defenced Cities, Castles and Towns in his possession, and whilst he was Master of very considerable armies abroad in the Field, viz. That he would come unto London and comply with this present Parliament. You see now, after the expense of so much Blood and Treasure, that very advice and council is likely to be the most assured means of re-estating him in his pristine Authority, &c.  
His Majesty was not ordained to be fortunate in War, it's not a gift given to every Prince. I pray God bless this present intended Treaty, so much desired, with a success answerable to the integrity of his Majesties heart, and the wholesome, deliberate Consultations of an indefatigable Parliament. In the interim whereof, and during the Treaties continuance, yea, and after, let all the Counties of this Kingdom unite as one man, to engage against all that rise against the Parliament, and these barbarous and perjured Scots that are entered already our Kingdom, and those who are also approaching, not to re-estate his Majesty( as themselves cunningly pretend) but purposely to steal our Goods, ravish our Wives, enslave our Persons, inherit our Possessions and birthrights, remain here in England, and everlastingly to inhabit among us: Those who pled the Scottish civility, or call them Brethren in affront of the Parliament, I wish their estates in the North, Jockey and Moggy and their beggarly brats quartering upon it, &c.  
Yet we must not blame the whole Nation for the treacheries of this prevailing Party of Scots: it's known, many religious men of that Nation, both Lords, Gentlemen and Ministers, from their very souls abhor this wicked Army lately under Hamilton, my Pen shall writ nothing but honour of those men, for I love them; and that miraculous honest Scot general Lesley. A wicked Party of our own in England have brought them in amongst us, and our very Ministers have many of them been active herein: It's observed, how little the Parliament and Kingdom are beholding unto them, for how many of that Tribe, I pray you, did any man hear in their Pulpits desire a blessing from God upon our Forces in the North, who went to fight them, or a curse upon the Scots? or which of them bestowed one blessing upon his Excellencies Army besieging our malignant enemies in Colchester? Oh these Priests! this sinful people of Levi do hunger and thirst after the fat flesh-pots of Episcopacy! if they were assured that Deans and Chapters Lands should not be ●etled on the Church, God then knows what Religion they would be of. Wo unto you Priests.  
And though Cornelius, an eminent Reformado, endures no Usury, yet give him consideration for his money, and he pockets it; not for himself, I trust, oh no Sir, 'tis for Orphans, little children full forty yeers old. But I leave these men and proceed to the Laity, and desire the blessing of Almighty God upon the Counties of Essex and Suffolk, who so freely and honourably contributed assistance unto the Lord Fairfax in besieging Colchester. And let it be eternised for ever in the Records of famed, the gallantry of the County of Lancashire, whose lion-like spirited men fought eagerly against the Scots, and who so willingly assisted the Parliament formerly, and now also at this present. I exceedingly praise God, that my native County of Leceister now in the Parliaments late ebbing, did so unanimously and cheerfully appear and in such numbers, for assistance of the public good: If they will fight, I will writ. Nor is the regaining of Tinmouth by Sir Authur Haslerig our Country man, a service less then very honourable.  
But let us now to the Discourse ensuing, which was in part finished some weeks since, but not intended for the press. I foresaw the many and sad defections since happened unto the Parliament, I hoped they would have been less; I was sensible of a divine Providence overpowering the Stars, else the better Party in Scotland had prevailed, & we had not this year been invaded: but God reserves unto himself the unchangeable Decrees of Kingdoms, and I perceive hy his sometimes checking or retarding, at other times his hasty putting in execution the influence of the Planets, that man hath not yet attained so full a perfection in Astrology, whereby he might without fallacy give a determinable and positive judgement: for though I was very doubtful of the Scottish faith, all along in Anglicus 1648. as any may perceive: yet forasmuch as it did not appear fully unto me this Scottish defection, I was sparing, perhaps my weakness( which I willingly aclowledge) might be occasioned by my affection, overballanced with their former merit, well hoping Religion, which can onely bind man to honesty and faith, would have prevailed, and so it did in the ministry and some others, but in the generality, it seems Religion is made but the Scots stalking-horse. Their fate I hope is rightly predicted in my Epistle, &c.  
I retract an error as willingly as I writ a truth: I still stand for Monarchy, I wish the Treaty perfected for all our goods; and verily I hope his Majesty, now wearied with the sad condition of life attending him and his whole family, and well perceiving the fruitless success of arms, and other Designs, intended for his enlargement by his Friends, will wave such strict Propositions, as in former Treaties he might have insisted upon; he hath good reason so to do, for really had not the Scots malicious Commissioners bogled and juggled with his Majesty, and protested against our Parliaments three Propositions, I am well assured his Majesty had been re-estated ere this, enjoyed his Queen, and seen all his Progeny about him, and rejoiced with his Subjects of this Kingdom of England, in peace and tranquillity; for he was not uninclinable of himself at that time, but was misled by those Commissioners ill council given unto him: so that the sole occasion of our second troubles, and of our present Wars and distractions in the Kingdom, was solely occasioned by the plottings and Agents of the Scottish Commissioners, and their Factors in the City, with Citizens, and some collapsed Members of Parliament: But God hath in part rewarded their Army.  
The Kingdom shall now see by the willing condescension of the Parliament unto some things formerly controverted, how willing they are to compose differences by a Treaty, contrary to some yelping fellows discourses, so that I hope well of this Treaty.  
Some will expect I should give reasons for this wet Weather, the like having not happened this many yeers. I am not at present provided for that Discourse: Onely Saturn being now in his Perigeon, is as near the earth as he can be, and meeting with the conjunction of Mars in the Sign geminy, near many fixed Stars of contrary nature, might occasion this wet Weather: But if it be from any natural causes, we may then hope of comfortable serene Weather, even from the beginning of September, and so forward: If the immediate finger of God be against us, I must submit.  
Corner-house over against Strand-bridge, Aug. 22. 1648. WILLIAM lily.   

An astrological Prediction concerning these present TIMES; Probably conjecturing the success of the Treaty now intended betwixt his Majesty and Parliament: Also of the SCOTTISH Army now in England, &c. DEO, REGI, PATRIAE.  
WHO meddles with the actions of any Kingdom or Country by way of astrological prediction( even in a calm season, when no storms or distractions are visible) shall in composing the work itself undergo much study, great travel and labour of mind, and after publication of his endeavours( how beneficial soever they may prove) shall not fail to receive a censure most aspersive, harsh, and critical in his reputatation, from the Vogue of ordinary people. Both which we have found experimentally verified, upon our preceding labours, which we ever intended for common good, expecting no more then public reception, and to be rightly, and not sinisterly understood: how great our industry hath been, whilst we walked in those uncouth paths no former Author had trodden in, we leave to the consideration of men learned, & how many unjust scandals and afronts, both in famed and person, we have weekly suffered, by the impudent Pens of scribbling and profane Mercuries, the whole Kingdom is too too much informed. But did these ungracious Pamphleteers understand how willingly I red myself abused in their smutty sheets, they would assuredly continue their disaffections unto me, which trouble me so much, that I account it my greatest glory( themselves being bad men) to be in enmity with, and hatred of them.  
Some yeers since, God called me from an happy Contemplative life, sufficiently pleasing to my quiet Genius( being content with an Angle in my Hand, a Book in my Study, a Flower in my Garden) and both enheightned and enlightened my spirit to be active in the Common Cause of the Kingdom, and brought me to London, where, in 1644. I began a new manner of astrology, heretofore either not known to the Ancients, or else willingly omitted in their Writings: it cannot be denied, but that I began to writ and appear for the parliament and Kingdom in their most sad condition, at what time I must have expected immediate destruction, if God had not owned our Cause, and blessed our predictions with Parliamentary success. Let these things pass, &c.  
Having wearied myself of late in our Introduction and Anglicus 1648. and finding no return but reproach, I had not any further will or desire to engage longer in these national differences, wherein how dangerous it is to speak all and every truth my now dear experience tells me: I was, I say, therefore resolved a little to repose after my former wearisome studies, hoping, and being in full expectation some of our Kingdoms Astrologers( wherewith we now begin to abound) would enter upon this quarrel, and either bid defiance to our adversaries, or second those my former weak Labours: but herein my expectation was frustrate, and poor Anglicus must yet a while stand single, until Providence ordain him a fit Second.  
Towards the latter end of March last, Master Jeremy Shakerly( one very learned and expert in the Mathematticks) wholly unknown to me, sent me the Letter following, with the Type of the three Suns ready drawn, as also the invidiam of heaven, performed by himself; his earnest entreaty to publish my thoughts upon these Appearances, I hitherto have refused: I also have denied many of my friends desires, who have importuned as much; but at last, I was so daringly and unjustly provoked by some diurnal slippery Mercuries, who perceiving my continued silence, have not failed weekly to slain my monthly predictions with falseness, and advance their own Pigmean chimaera's( which themselves call astrological predictions) yea forsooth, they by their significant constellations of heaven, could predict and divine no less then a present dissolution, and inevitable destruction of our present Parliament, and of all the honest and well affencted party adhering unto them: and when, I pray you, must this be? for they( being confident) appointed a certain time; nay, they fall upon a day, or within three dayes at the most; and this day, in good soothe, was nominated the 28. day of june last, or else certainly on some of the three subsequent dayes: But see the error and madness of these liars, for neither potentially or actually have any of these old Wives fables had effect, &c. Our Parliament lives, our Army subsists and thrives, the good people fear nothing, no threats. These men also imputed unto my passive silence an ambiguous fear of our Causes declination, and in plain language ( ad faciem) tell me, Had there been but one crumb of comfort in the Planets or Stars, or any favourable, auspicious or promising aspects unto our side, they wondered I could now be silent, having been formerly so great a Champion and stickler for the Parliament and Army. They also upbraid my predictions with the Scottish infidelity, and object my too too honourable mention of them; but do I since Mayes predictions once mention that people; and did not the godly Party of Scotland, even in that month, declare against this wicked Army now entred our Kingdom? and was not that an honourable act? &c. To be short, 'tis the villainous Pens of these abusive knaves, whom we style Mercuries, that have enforced my fatal Pen sooner then intended; I am still principled as formerly, and am a lover and desirer of his Majesty to reign, and of his Posterity to succeed him, and of the continuance of Monarchy in this iceland; and although the times, or preferments, or self ends have varied many, Me neither have bribes nor rewards corrupted, or unthankfulness moved to retrogradation; with the former I have been tempted, of the later I am sensible, &c. A love principium.  
Worthy Sir, and ever honoured Friend: 
The occasion of writing upon the three Suns.   
HOw fruitful time in prodigious issues shows her self, and in what variety of appearance nature is arrayed, I wish we might rather learn from ancient Histories, then that our own knowledge should historifie the same; and better were it for us to lay claim to this truth, by the Legacies of Antiquity, then that our own eyes should instate us in the possession hereof: But since it pleased God to make me an eye witness of an unusual accident, I would not conceal it from you, because both mine own duty, and the importunate desires of others, have induced me thereto.  
On Monday the 28. of February last, there arose with the Sun two Parelii, on either side one, their distance from him was by estimation, about ten degrees; they continued still of the same distance from the Zenith, or height above the Horizon, that the Sun did; and from the parts averse to the Sun, there seemed to issue out certain bright rays, not unlike those which the Sun sendeth from behind a cloud, but brighter. The parts of these Parelii which were toward the Sun, were of a mixed colour, wherein green and read were most predominant: A little above them was a thin Rainbow, scarcely discernible, of a bright colour, with the concave towards the Sun, and the ends thereof seeming to touch the Parelii: Above that, in a clear diaphanous air, appeared another co●spicuous Rainbow, beautified with divers colours; it was as near as I could discern to the Zenith; it seemed of something a lesser radius then the other, they being back to back, yet a pretty way between. At or near the apparent time of the full Moon, they vanished, leaving abundance of terror and amazement in those that saw them: Divers whose thoughts laboured with fearful expectations, desired my opinion thereof; I endeavoured to give them such satisfaction as I could, and  told them, These Appearances were no other then such as proceeded from natural causes, being but the brightness of the Suns beams, from a cloud reflected on the earth, and that the ancient times were not onely witnesses of the like, but even our own times: Yet will not all calm the distracted cogitations of those that beholded it. Good Sir, at my request, at the Countries request, be pleased to publish your astrological judgement hereupon, and assure yourself that what is done for the satisfaction of many, will also procure you the well wishes of many.  
I have also sent you these two Figures exactly erected, whereof you may make use in your judgements; the first for the new Moon preceding the Appearance, the other for the beginning of the Appearance.  
Thus with my service a thousand times remembered, I onely tell you that I am  
Yours, till I cease to be JER. SHAKERLEY. Pendle-forrest in Lancashire, March 4. 1648.  
 depiction of an apparition of three suns and two rainbows 
Binorum Pareliorum 〈◇〉 Feb 28 1647 / 48   
God many ways in these last times( though not by prophesy) yet discovers and signifies his intentions unto us, and especially in and at those times when his heavy judgements are imminent upon us; witness the many and frequent Apparences of several Prodigies seen in this Kingdom of England within these four or five yeers, the like whereof for number are not recorded in any, either ancient or modern History, so that I might weary the Reader, should I but mention the several Letters which from sundry parts of this Kingdom have come to my hands, some mentioning strange sights in the air; others, Men fighting therein; others, Guns shooting; others relating of three Moons; others, the apparition of two Suns; some sending me Letters, and including therein some part of that Corn which was rained down from heaven, &c. I forbear all further discourse hereof, assuring the Kingdom, these Prodigies are the Premonitors, and assured infallible Messengers of Gods wrath against the whole Kingdom, for our wicked transgressions, &c. God give us peace and grace to repent.  
The Method I intend to follow in judging what the three Suns, now mentioned, may signify, is twofold: the first is historical and general; the second, astrological, and more particular to our present Condition and Nation; after which follows a Diary of the Weather for one month, after the day of the appearance of the Suns, taken by a learned hand and Person of quality in N.  
Tot homines, tot sententiae, so many men, so many opinions: There are some men, of whom we red in Bodin, that do affirm, There were never seen any Mock-Suns or Parelii; and so great a confidence they had of their own muddy judgemens, that they reputed the report of such Apparitions no better then old Wives fables, and those who mentioned them, no better then Drunkards, deluded with idle phantasms: But it was well retorted by Resta, pag. 577. At potius ebrius, qui serio hec cogitat. viz. He is the most Drunkard that believes no such things. These men are like those who objected, That the Apostles were drunk with strong Wine at whitsuntide, it being then but the third hour of the day. Parelii or mock Suns more usually appear in the morning, then any other time of the day, and men are not very oft drunk so soon. It was rightly, I conceive, understood by Saint Augustine, Epist. 80. ad Hesechium. Aliquando has apparentias esse miraculosas, & tum non opus est naturae vires expendere, ut earum causas demus. These Appearances are usually miraculous, and then why shall we endeavour to find out a natural cause for them, &c. And really I am induced to think they are supernatural, and appear not as enforced from any natural Cause but are framed by the Guardian-Angels or Intelligencees of that Kingdom where they appear, into that or those forms we see them, purposely to admonish the Inhabitants of material accidents suddenly to break forth amongst them: the Ancients, who would willingly have given us the natural causes of them are so discrepant one to another in opinion, that no conclusion can be had from their Writings. Seneca will have them thick clouds, light and shining. Vitellio will have the matter be Nubem equalem secundum sua specula, neque densiorem, neque rariorem, neque plus aquosam, neque minus secundum suas partes, non aquosam neque nigram, vicinam tamen aquae. An equal cloud according to its mirrors, neither more dense, or rare, or more watery, or less, according to its parts; not watery, or black, yet very near to water. Thus he. Others will have them composed of watery substance, the reason why, sometimes they are called watery Suns. Galileus is of a quiter contrary opinion; for, saith he, Fiunt Parelii in rarioribus nubibus, quae in air reperiri possunt, & prorsus siccis omnique humour carentibus, quae vè sunt potius caligines: Parelii are formed of more rare clouds then usually are found in the air, and they altogether dry, and wanting all humour, and these are rather darknesses.  
Aristotle generally in his Writings was of this opinion, that the matter of these Parelii was derived or begot from the same causes which produce the Rainbow, and the Crown, and therefore from the same material cause; for although the matter be a vapour, yet is it not of a watery substance, it comes nearer to the condition of air, so much as it may be termed air; for if the matter were a dewy cloud, distilling into small drops, it would much differ from that equality, which is wholly necessary, that it might represent the image of the Sun, as of a perfect mirror. As the Ancients have nothing conformed in judgement concerning the matter whereof the Parelii are framed, so neither about their form or production; onely they say, they always appear in form of a Sun, and that the Sun is the efficient cause of the production of one Parelium; but when the Parelium is duplicated, the second may be caused by the first: Yet Paracelsus saith, Defectus roris occasio est & generatio alterius Solis; the defect of due is the occasion and generation of another Sun.  
Usually there appears but two Parelii, though Seneca saith, Quid impedit, quo minus tot sint, quot nubes fuerunt aptae ad exbibendam effigiem Solis, &c.  
The Ancients have sometimes made mention of three Parelii, but rarely of more then two; Augustine writes of two seen before the birth of Christ; Zonoras in Vitellio, mentions two seen after the death of Christ; Palmerius speaks of three Parelii seen 1466. Surius mentions the sight of three Suns seen at Wittenberg 1514. in every of which Suns stood a bloody Sword; the Tigurines saw in their Country three Suns, 1528. F●omundus mentions three Suns in 1619. Cardan relates a memorable story of three Suns seen at Venice 1532. as any may red in lib. 14. de varietate, cap. 70.  
They are more frequently seen in the N●rthern Climates, Quasi rigentibus tis locis, qui Solis vim tam tenuiter excipiunt, conduplicatis quandoque Solibus natura consulere satagat: Another reason is also given, Quia apud nos, proprium Pareliorum tempus est matutinum, cum Sol prope Horizontem versatur, at ibi perpetuo Sol prope Horizontem decurrit. The proper time of the appearance of Parelii in our Northern Countries is matutine, or in the morning, when as the Sun is not far distant from our Horizon, &c.  
Their motion is always with the Sun, nor are they ever farther from the Sun then where they were at their first appearance; they have no heat, are pale, wan or dull, and their beams look as it were of an icey colour; their continuance is but short, sometimes they are visible half an hour, sometimes more, seldom longer then one hour, or one hour and a quarter.  
As I have informed you of the great difference in judgement upon Parelii, by the Ancients, concerning the matter they are procreated of, so is there also as much disagreement concerning their signification: Some say, Ab accidentalibus Solibus, frigor a potius & pluvias, quam aestus & incendia expectamus. Let us expect from accidental Suns rather colds and reins, then heat or lightning: they more certainly promise rain, and more assuredly then the rods or streaks in the clouds.  
Theophrastus saith in his book of the signs of rain, Si dvo sint Parelii, & simul coronae, celebrem imbrem esse expectandum. When two Parelii appear and also Crownes, expect a lusty shower to follow. Ptolomeus gives his judgement, Cum Sol solares nubes, quae Parelia dicuntar, una parte informarit, nubiumque figuras subrubras, radiosque in longum tendentes circum se habuerit, vehementes flatus significantur pro illis angulis, quos respererint visa illa.  
Aratus saith no more of Parelii then thus, Duplicem parelium tempestatem praedicere: a two-fold Mock-sun predicts a tempest, &c. What weather followed these Parelii here in England I shall insert in the Conclusions.  
But that these shall have any other signification or portent then upon the Weather, itis denied very stiffly and by men very learned, yet the event hath ever deluded their judgements: For Cardanus long since affirmed, trees Soles triumviratus esse signa, & suo tempore significasse imperia Caroli quinti Cesaris, Henrici secundi Gallorum Regis, & Solymani Turcarum Sultani, viz. Three suins are the signs, or signify honour to be conferred on three, or many deserving men; and those seen in his time did signify the Empire of Charles the fifth, and of Henry the second King of France, and of soliman Sultan, or Emperour of the Turkes; and happily they might be signified hereby, being they were men in their times of most admirable parts and actions.  
Cornelius Gemma lih. 1. Cosino, cap. 8. Nec unquam spectari solent ejusmodi, quin nova federa censeantur aut conspirationes clandestinae, ut quem piam fastigio suo dejiciant vel dolo, vel vi, vel malis Artibus comprehendant. Such like Parelii or Mock suns are never visible, but new Leagues are taxed or called in question, or clandestine conspiracies practised, that so they may overthrow any by contempt, fraud, deceit or treachery, or entangle men by sinister snares and temptations. That such things have happened in England since this appearance, I sh●ll now make it appear; for immediately after the apparition of these Parelii, I now treat of, many of the Scots Parliament most dishonourably challenge our Parliament with breach of Covenant, which onely themselves most wickedly and notoriously both formerly and then had wrested, broken, and perfidiously interpnted according to Scottish faith against us, and then most cunningly insinuate with Langdale, an English fugitive, to surprise Berwick, and surrender it, when time served, unto them, and for their use, which he in July 1648. did, they entertaining him many moneths, and his desperate attendants, at their own charges, and in their Kingdom, until he could effect his design, slighting our Commissioners( men equal in valour and worth to the best of the Scottish Nation.) Then also, or near that time, did their Commissioners or Agents sneakingly insinuate into the heads of some malignant and malcontented Parties in London, matters and things against the honour and esteem of the Parliament, and of some famous Members thereof, traducing our present Army with schism, and their prime Officers of heresy; gallant men, whose faces they durst not behold but with brazen words: and all this they acted privately and sparing with glavering pretences, and insinuating words, intentionally to further their own Designs, which was no more, then to beget for themselves a good belief from the people, that they intended his Majesties restoration to former honour, to settle this Kingdom in its pristine glory, and London in her assured privileges; all which was really pretended, but fraudulently intended according to the Scottish faith of this wicked Army and its adherents.  
How much they, I mean the Scots, engaged in this invading Army, intend his Majesties good, itis apparent from their first revolt 1639. wherein some now engaged are known then to be chief actors against his Majesty; they having by their example not onely encouraged, but lead us on to this very height of fury wherein now we are; and when we by the necessity of time, and strange fate of Providence, were not in a full capacity to cope with his Majesty and Northern Forces, many of those very men for our Goods assisted us, until such time as we had gathered strength to subsist of ourselves, and until God blessed us with such a General, viz. the Lord Fairfax, and such gallant Officers, and so resolute an Army, as, excepting their taking of New-castle, and the assistance of some of their large Army( for part run away at Marston Moor) they did us little service in two yeers time, but like ravenous creatures, devoured all under their commands; yet we paid well and dearly for their assistance, and let them depart with more money then all Scotland was worth; I wish we had no cause now to question these things, or to look into many of their former actions, but that we might have remained friends as formerly; but sith that people( I still mean the impudent Contrivers and Countenancers of this scabby Army) have violated both League, Covenant and Faith, and in pursuance of their malice, have not blushed to slain our Parliaments honour, and our prosperous Army with words and terms, unbefitting so poor a people as themselves, unto their superiors in blood and virtue: I can be no longer their friend as formerly, or will I spare them in discovering their infidelity, until they have assumed their former honesty, faith and Religion; yet I do and will ever honour those virtuous men of that Nation, who did and do stand for a Pacification betwixt both Nations without bloodshed, and were willing to have composed our differences without an Army; and therefore what language I render now, or hereafter shall do, contrary to my former Writings in their honour, let all men understand to be spoken of these despicable fellowes that have marched into England, under the conduct of H●milton, his Majesties worst enemy, and one of a Rupertine fate. Of whom hereafter.  
I mention not their colloguing and glozing with some malevolent Citizens of London, in hope they would have assisted them with Arms, Ammunitions and Moneys, the onely ends for which the rich Citizens were courted and glavered withall, by which their smooth language and continual vituperating our Parliament, and scandalising his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, Lieutenant general cronwell, and the principal Officers of the Army with opprobrious words and language, and the whole Army itself with the terms and notion of ● factious schismatical crew of heretics, Sectaries and Anabaptists; and by which means and their many deceits, these ungracious Scots Agents did of late, and still do much mischief to the Parliament, great dishonour to the Army, and disservice to his Majesty, of whom they but for private ends make very small account, so that at last, they onely have brought this whole Kingdom of England into a new labyrinth of trouble, purposely that themselves might fish in troubled waters, and while we are composing our own differences, themselves, like idle Lurdanes, might eat the fat of our Country, tax the Natives with burdens more heavy then egyptian Brick-bats, 
They perform these acts now in Lancashire.  abuse their wives and children, purloin and steal away their cattle and householdstuff, or whatsoever their thievish hands could lay hold on, &c. Such things as these I writ have been the aim and actions of these unthankful Scots, and have been suddenly subsequent after the appearance of the three Suns; so that here is clandestine Conspiracies and breach of League; as also, in March 1647 / 8. the revolt of Colonel Poyer succeeded in Wales, in May that violent commotion in Kent by Goring and others; then also, the revolt of some traitorous Sea-men the same month, from the commands of Parliament; after which in July the foolish, chi●dish enterprise of Buckingham and Holland in Surrey followed; and lastly, the entrance of the Scottish monsters into Cumberland, July 7. 1648. which added fuel and furtherance to the great misunderstanding of the City unto the Parliament, and extreme malice of the Citizens to the Army, but for what cause, neither the wisest man, or most malicious amongst them, can tell: These things I writ for instruction and information of Posterity hereaft●r, and of the Kingdom of England at present. But to proceed.  
Cornelius Gemma, or some other Author I now remember not, saith, presently upon the appearance of six Suns, Franciscus Galliae Rex in potestatem Hispanorum venerit. Francis King of France became Prisoner to the Spaniards, &c. At which Franciscus Resta makes himself merry, with this conclusion, Quasi nimirum cum ficti Soles velut Satellites verum Solem cingunt tunc in captivitatem cadant summi Reges: as if( quoth he) when mock Suns like Yeomen of the Guard, do encompass the true Sun, then our chiefest Princes should fall into captivity▪ Although this was delivered by Resta in jest, yet it many times proves true in good earnest, and we know since that time his Majesty hath been more narrowly looked unto in the Isle of Wight then formerly, &c. I am much satisfied with that of Paulus Minerva, lib. 2. cap. 19. Parelius aquas aut ventos promittit: A mock Sun promises waters, showers or winds; but afterwards, Alii habent Parelios semper aliquid significare singular coelitus, quod certe intelligendum est cum fiunt crebriores; viz. others will have it, That Parelii or mock Suns do always signify some singular matter from heaven, which undoubtedly is true, when these Apparitions are often times visible.  
Verily we have had many Parelii and Paraselenae seen in England within this four yeers, and some other prodigious apparitions besides; all which can be no less then the undoubted forerunners of some more then usual accident or miraculous Catastrophe at hand within this our Kingdom of England, and which as yet is not in esse, fulfilled, but in posse, to be expected; so that I conclude with Saint Augustine, Propter haec, novi Solis apparitiones pro miraculosis recognosco: I do account the apparitions of a new and strange Sun for a miracle, and not to be accepted as any progress, or procreation from nature.  
Paracelsus, lib. 8. pag. 66. delivers his opinion of these Parelii thus, Hi statum mundi sibi subjecti indicant, non in futurum, said de die presenter; indicant autem schismata & similia, resque admirandas & raro fieri Solitas; precipuè autem evidentia deliria indicantur, & conatus stulti superiorum, itaque sicut duos tresve Soles existere superfluum est, ita superfluum est quod illi indicant, &c. These Parelii intimate the state of the world subject unto them, not what shall long after succeed, but from the day presently; they foreshow schisms, &c. wonderful matters, and such as are seldom used to be done; they demonstrate especially evident madness, and the foolish endeavours of great men; so that as there is no necessity of three Suns, no more is there need of such things as they signify.  
Some say again, That Parelii praesagia sunt, non genuina naturae crescentia; they foretell of some matters and Consults hatching against nature. Diversa Parelia Regni ejusdem gubernatores fear diversos aut viros fear principes representant, circulus autem Regni partes aut Civitates, verus ille Sol circuli medio personam Regiam apta similitudine monstrat. Gem. 167. lib. 2. Divers, or many Parelii represent the Governours of the same Kingdom to be many, or it personates men of equal rank, or like Princes; the circled about the Suns, show the parts or Cities of that Kingdom; the true Sun in the middle of the circled, declares, by an apt comparison, a regal person of the same Kingdom.  
I shall willingly conclude with that of wol●gangus Meurer, who having at large discoursed upon the natural cause of Parelii and Paraselenaes, at last tells us, said preter hanc Physicam significationem, sunt etiam duae aliae, quarum unam Politicam, alteram Ecclesiasticam nominare licebit: Besides these physical or philosophical significations, there are two others, whereof we may term the one political, the other ecclesiastical: In short, he concludes, that the appearance of Parelii, sunt monitores de insidiis & Consiliis cland●stinis, quae ineuntur adversus eos qui in magno splendore dignitatis rerum potiuntur. They admonish such as have the government of the Common-wealth, of treachery, cunning & clandesting plottings against them, &c. And of this as an everlasting truth, our present Parliament, who at present govern the great affairs of this Common-wealth, have had lamentable experience, by the revolt of so many Counties, Ships, Castles and Men from them( yea, of those formerly most faithful unto them) as also, the alienations of many of the Citizens of London in affection, &c. I shal not urge the Scottish defection, which notwithstanding was not public until after this prodigious Apparition, as unto matters of Religion, Plerunque ecclesiae significant sophisticam depravationem purioris doctrinae, & calumnias, quae sparguntur honesto praetextu, varie ad deformandos eos, qui sua virtute & meritis magnum nomen consecuti sunt, ac longè lateque inclaruerunt, &c. For the most part they signify a sophistical depravation of the purer Doctrine, and calumnies spread or divulged abroad under an honest pretence, variously to defame and asperse those, who by their merits and virtue have obtained a great name, and been very famous, &c. how true doth this jump with the actions of this Kingdom, our Army being composed of more civill and religious men then ever any Army was, are nick-named at home, and called Saints, and by the Scots libellous Paper lately published, they are termed Sectaries; those that now continue faithful to the Parliament, let their judgement in Religion be what it will, they are termed Independents or Anabaptists; so that I dare aver, there hath been in no age either such scandals cast upon Religion itself, or upon such famous Commanders and men as are in our present Army; all this Odium merely aspersed upon them, because they are more godly and religious then other men, and who desire the settling hereof in a safe way: what benefit this Kingdom hath received by their means, let some other more able Pen commit to Posterity; and for our unthankfulness to them, let us expect a severe judgement. I now hasten to our astrological judgement, framed according to the position of the twelve houses of Heaven, at the three Suns first visibility, for it was rightly said of a very learned Philosopher, Multum in illis praeter numerum & figuram, ipsa positio Coeli ad praedictionis certitudinem facit, &c. The positure of Heaven gives much light to a further and more certain prediction, &c. unto which we now hasten.  
 astrological chart 
A invidiam Erected at time of the 3 Sunns appearance feb: 28 6 h. 18 m A. M: 1647 / 8 ad lat: loci: 53: 46   
HEre's a sad and distempered position of Heaven, double-bodied Signs culminating and ascending, five Planets in opposition to each other; the very time of this fatal Appearance itself happening near unto the time of the full Moon, as if the Planets and Stars of Heaven and the angry Tutelary Angels of this Kingdom were all swelled with horror and amazement, and themselves in confusion and disorder, to see this lamentable Nation so divided, so betrayed, so bought and sold, and made, as it were, the Scene or mark of villainy and perjury by our own selves, our own councils and Instruments: Qui per Stellas judicare volunt, universale equidem judicium convenit judicare, & si particular, non in parvis, said in magnis rebus in quibus comprehendatur unumquodque universale necesse est: Those who frame predictions according to the course of the Heavens and Planets, it's necessary they give a general Judgement; but if they will give it particular, let it not be in trifles, or upon unnecessary little matters▪ but in great and weighty affairs, in which it's necessary every universal business may be comprehended.  
We will observe this method; and first, endeavour what these Parelii may signify unto his Majesty: Secondly, of what concernment they are to the Parliament and whole Kingdom, as also, to the City of London.  
The tenth house shall personate his Majesty, 
Of his majesty.  the eleventh his Friends, from whom any manner of way he may expect assistance: in the tenth itself we find the D●agons tail locally posited, running backward, or against the succession of Signs, quiter through the Sign by a kind of retrograde motion; the cusp of that house is the very degree of Saturn his Aphelium: Cauda Draconis infortunat domum ubi invenitur: his presence doth always mischief in what house soever you find him: as here posi●ed, he infortunates his Majesty with reproaches, calumnies, and slanderous aspersions, and were he at liberty, it shows or threatens danger to his Person by inordinate Horsmanship, or some fall from on high, &c. In his affairs at present, it either retards them▪ or blasts them with mistakes and misunderstandings, &c.  
The Aphelium of Saturn moves slowly, not two minutes in a year, so shall his Occasions go on with great dulness and ●ergivers●tion, with many backslidings and oppositions, they shall meet and encounter strong and strange Adversaries, much tr●●son and treacherous Agents, &c. The Lord of the tenth house is Jupiter, and he retrograde, and in his detriment, and cadent( as from the tenth) from hence is discovered the uncertain state and condition of his Majesty, both in his Affairs and Person at present, viz. from hence is deduced a manifestation of turbulence, tumultuousnesse, and imbecility in prosecution of his Designs; as also, an absolute improbability of perfecting any honouhable design for advancement of his Majesty, during the effects and influence of this malevolent prodigy, which indeed is the forerunner neither of restitution in glory to his Majesty, or any quietness to Parliament or the Kingdom in general.  
For more full manifestation hereof, let us behold the face of heaven the new Moon preceding this Apparition, and therein you find both Sol and Luna applying to Jupiter his Majesties Significator, Jupiter also then retrograde, cadent and subterranean, applying to an opposition both of Mars and Mercury, Planets neither naturally beneficall, or in that invidiam potent by situation in House, or essentially well dignified: from hence then we naturally and Astrologically predict, that these Parelii are not the swift messengers of his Majesties wished for restauration to his Crown and pristine Dignity, either by violent Tumults, sudden Treaties, or unnatural Wars, fine Policies, or diss●mbling treacheries: A just dimension of time for his re-setling, from hence cannot be collected; hereby endeavours, but not performances are manifested.  
These aseriall and spiritual, or prodigious disturbances near our earthly Regions, do admonish us of most wonderful mutations and catastraphes in our own English Common-wealth, both in the mindes and inclinations of men; as also, in the affairs and transactions which are at present, or hereafter may be of and concerning his M●j●sty, and between him and the serious Debates on both sides, viz. betwixt Him and his Parliament.  
And in very dead, considering the intricate Laborinths, damages, losses, crosses, vexations, sufferings, scandals, d●sertions, miseries, revoltings, and what not, which I saw these Parelii did manifest unto our Parliament and Kingdom; and the little diminutive portion or assurance of comfort they afforded unto his Majesties Friends, I purposely retarded even to this day my astrological Judgement hereupon: But by divine impulsion, and the restless provocations of my public Genius, stirred up by the malignant lies of my Mercurian enemies, I do now again in a sad time appear, and am the grateful messenger of comfort and consolation after a few sufferings, unto those who have stood, and still continue fast friends unto the Parliament; but am the doleful Oracle of lamentation and sadness to all those that obstinately stand disaffected to the Parliament, and again shall the second time rise up in Arms against the Commonwealth.  
For if we with a serious consideration shall but observe that both Jupiter is retrograde being Lord of the tenth, and also that Cauda is in the tenth house, it might give our Nobility a smart and significant adviso, how and in what manner they ought to b●have themselves, lest they find these subsequent words verified on their persons and fortunes in good earnest, viz. Cauda in decima significat d●jectionem Nobilium & Magnatum, atque ipsorum malum esse, & exaltationem vilium atque ignobilium, &c. in plain terms, here is imported, That the Commonalty shall get the upper hand of the Nobility, &c. which must be understood after this manner, that many of them shall do such dishonourable acts, and commit such wilful follies, and so grievously oppress the people, that they enraged thereat, shall either quiter extinguish, or take all power and command from very many of them, formerly in great authority, &c. Fiat voluntas Dei; God's will be done; and so it is when justice is administered equally, as well upon the Noble as the vulgar persons. But to our former intentions concerning his Majesty, we do conj●cture, that as Jupiter and Mercury in August and September come several times to conjunction; sometimes Mercury being direct, sometimes retrograde; as also, because Sol and Jupiter, and Jupiter and Venus, and Sol and Venus and Mercury comes then to several conjunctions; so I say, we desire and conceive, that about or near the month of September, such things as we pr●dicted in our Anglicus 1648. may come to pass, which we hope may either be a personal Treaty( as we desire) or else very honourable Proposals sent unto him, as the Precursors of more good to follow by this Parliament, much conducing to the welfare of his Majesty, and safety of the whole Kingdom: if the unlucky coming in of the malignant, dissenting Scottish Army from the more honest and modest opinions of the good peaceable Party in Scotland, and an unquiet giddy people of our own, cause no retarding or diversion of our then Consultations, to some other very material and necessary consideration, for the present defending and strengthening of this Common-wealth against foreign forces, and homebred enemies: for much about those moneths the times seem generally troublesone, and the people full of fears: I pray God his Majesty stand not then too much upon puncto's of honour, and hopes of our breaches; and I also wish safe and sure Propositions may proceed from the Parliament, for the good of us all, that so afterward there may be no starting holes left, either for Prince or People.  
But let us now close home to our English Parliament, and tell the Grandees thereof, the language of heaven, and the portent of this present Appearance, in as plain and familiar a Dialect of truth, as we may, for it's neither our manner to flatter them, or to delude the expectation of so many thousands as must be eye witnesses of our prediction; some whereof would happily carp and fish out matter for our dispraise, if we estrange our predictions from the very natural edicts of the Stars.  
Pisces the house of Jupiter is their ascendant, and so also Sagittary of his Majesty,( God grant we have fair dealing, for this argues both King and Parliament will pretend well:) both the Signs are Bycorporeall, or double-bodied; this imports relapses on both sides; the Planet Jupiter is Lord both of the Kings ascendant, and our Parliaments, and he retrograde; I doubt the actions on both sides will be much questioned by Posterity, and that neither of them in the end shall have cause of rejoicing; it's an ill wind blows no body profit: and this is a sad prodigy which threatens both Parties, which neither restores King CHARLES to his Crown, or gives assured quietness to the Kingdom and Parliament thereby. The many and tedious difficulties this present Parliament have already from the day of this Apparition undergone, and are to run through, are most evidently demonstrated by the Moon her opposi●ion to the Sun, which clearly shows vulgar conflicts: and seeing also both Planets, viz. Sol and Luna well fortified in angles; from hence I did fear the revolt and defection of a great part of the Commonalty of England from the Parliament: Quando Luna continuatur cum Planetis, significat quod est futurum, Bethen Aph. 34. viz. the mischief will continue, because the Moon applies to opposition of the Sun: for the Moon in this manner of judicature, represents the Vulgar. And if we will know how long this fury or madness of theirs shall be permanent, active, and impetuous, we do find that it may be somewhat less then one year, and some three moneths; after which time the people shall sensibly perceive their errors, and curse the occasioners of their misunderstandings, for they are, and have been undone and abused, several manner of ways signified in this invidiam of heaven: so also, this Parliament hath suffered, and lost their estimation with the people by other ways: for you must know, the Moon in this positure separated from an opposition of Mars, then of Mercury; Pamphlets, Misconceptions of the Parliaments intentions, Religious things or men, we call them Divines, some say Ministers, Reports, Ordinances, Calumnies, Slanders, Petitions, &c. have occasionally already, and shall for the future prejudice the honour and lustre of both houses: and forasmuch as the Moon did also separate from the opposition of Mars, and he hath much dominion in the ascendant, it points out, and speaks out so much English, that the personal corruption and failings of many Members entrusted by this Kingdom amongst them, have, I say, begot an Odium upon the Parliament itself, and the rest of those honourable Memhers, who of themselves naturally are of incorrpupt judgement, and of pure English spirits; and these purer souls, or more generous and self-denying spirits, are here signified by the Sun, shall in good time rectify the unbelieving peoples fancies, and execute such justice amongst themselves, as doubtless God will be pleased therewith, and the whole Kingdom plentifully satisfied: and although Sol may be vitiated by Mars, yet Hermes, Apho. 65. saith he is less hurtful: Existentibus Planetis sub radiis, cum infra 12. gradus Soli proximi fuerint, infortunantur: a Planet under the Sun beams is unfortunate, therefore Mars cannot hurt the Sun, or War much prejudice the Parliament: yet this of necessity will follow, either an amendment and compliance of the Members themselves, or a final revolt of the people from them, and so a miserable subversion of the fundamentals of this Common-wealth; which although it be greedily thirsted after by many, and such an appearance may be; yet shall not their eyes see it, who most long after it: for the position of Sol in the ascendant, pre-signifies that a divine providence from heaven will miraculously disperse these corrupt humours in the Parliament-men themselves, & actions now so offensive, and give them new and more divine souls then formerly, whereby they will with cheerfulness put in present execucution what may speedily conduce to the good of the whole Kingdom.  
I must confess, the positure of Saturn in the second, doth manifest not onely their want of Treasure, but some loss of what formerly was theirs, whether it be Ammunition, Castles, Towns or Counties, &c. nor shall they but with much sorrow, expense of time, and great labour regain their losses; but assuredly they shall in the end once more obtain and enjoy what by treachery or folly may be withdrawn from them, and appear in a good condition, notwithstanding all opposition whatsoever.  
Again, the Sun amongst the Planets represents Kings, Emperours, Princes and Magistrates, the Nobility, &c. Mock Suns signifies vulgar men: As the true Sun here was environed by two counterfeits, so shall our Parliament, and their actions and honour, be shrewdly for a time shaken from the South, and from the north-east, and from the south-west and east: for at the present appearance of these Parelii there was no visible face of authority but what was in them, therefore they shall be the more sensible of the many and infinite conspiracies, treacheries, and misdemeanours, intended to subvert their lawful authority, many new Leagues, councils, and secret practices shall be invented and contracted against them, purposely to alter and change, or subvert the fabric of this Common-wealth, and to dissolve their power to nothing, and as it was said to the Jew, Perditio tua ex te; so is your own destruction contrived amongst yourselves; else, what doth Mercury and Mars in your ascendant? which doth evidently point out some wicked Vipers amongst yourselves, who sit and consult to betray us; which God in his mercy will in due time discover.  
And although the vigorous influence of this prodigy shall extremely stumble even the resolutions of the most assured Patriots of this Kingdom, by reason of the many sudden alterations of the people, and the multitude of treacheries daily arising, which they shall discover in their former friends, yet let no mans heart fail him; for after a long series of disturbance, Victory and conquest Peace and quietness, shall and will follow the Parliament and their Armies: In ea parte in qua Sol & Luna fortunabuntur erit victoria; in that part of heaven where you find the Sun and Moon fortunated, there expect Victory: The Sun is in our Parliaments ascendant, so is Mars and Mercury; if the Sun be our friend, and Mars, as they are, we little fear the other Planets: and let those who rise, or intend to disturb our Parliament, remember this Aphorism, Oportet maximum impedimentum esse rerum quae sunt in potestate signi in quo fuerit Planeta cadens, vel retrogradus aut in malo esse Solis, Almanso 112. Mercury is here the Parliaments enemy, disposed by us in our ascendant, not in the tenth; Mars afflicts him, he is combust, besieged, what not: let our rambling prophets interpret his further signification to all such as rebelliously shall show their teeth against the Parliament, and let not the Citizens of London be too confident, for they are to be invisibly lead into errors, if not further mischief; for Quando Planeta est cum Sole sunt vires ejus debiles, & suum deminuitur judicium; A Planet with the Sun loses his virtue, his influence is weak, and his judgement, or things signified by him are of no force; for even the Planetary Intelligencees( if they did raise these two mock Suns) have likewise determined by the positure of heaven their events, and how it shall chance unto both the King and his Party, and to the Parliament and their Party, and to the Kingdom in general.  
For more clear evidence of this question, I say, and am hereunto lead by former experience and reason, the best and safest guides in astrology, that as the Moon, who signifies our Parliaments enemies, doth after her separation, apply forcibly unto a trine of Saturn, and he is personally located in their house of Substance, and also because there is reception betwixt Venus and Saturn, and Mercury and Sol both apply to a sextile of Saturn, no prohibiton or frustration intervening; and because that Saturn is in a fixed Sign, and so also Venus; from hence I collect a certain and infallible position according to natural causes, That the Parliament and people of England, who are their friends, that have stood, and stand firm unto them, shall recover whatever either the treachery of some, or force of others hath, or shall steal from them, upon any pretence whatsoever; but all this with great labour, vexation and anxiety: and hereof let the bastard-blew-cap Scot( who so basely degenerate from former principles) take notice; I mean those ingratefull monsters under the destructive commands of Hamilton, their most mischievous General: But of his Rupertine fate we will speak hereafter in a page. by itself.  
To conclude therefore at this time, these mock Suns are the Messengers of tumults, treacheries, not of very much blooshed, &c. and do rather argue his Majesty impeded by his own Friends, and his own Results, then restored; they foreshow many treacherous great ones amongst our Grandees, they threaten them with an intended mischievous massacre, but it will not be performed: The effects of these distempers are like to continue eleven moneths in somewhat a vigorous manner; after which they lessen. But because Posterity will more inquire into our Writings then this present age, I must acquaint them, how that in the figure of heaven upon the apparition of three Suns seen November 19. 1644. the 26. of Sagittary did then ascend; upon those three Suns appearance April 3. 1647. the 15. of Sagittary did then possess the angle of the seventh house; and now we have the 25. of Sagittary culminating, near the very degree of the ascendant of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1642 / 3. so that we may evidently discover, that the first mock Suns in 1644. threatened damage to his Majesty, for he declined after that time, and is not yet recovered.  
Immediately after the mock Suns apparition in April 1647. the Army and Parliament had some sucffling, but since that very day unto this present, they have declined in honour, and the people excited miraclously against them: but after these present Apparitions, without doubt the calamity will be universal both to King, Parliament and People, especially to the Citizens of London, for Mercury is not onely afflicted of Mars, but hastening to combustion. But sith there is more to be said of them upon the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars, I forbear. A word of the clergy  
A great cause of our present miseries, and some subsequent, may be feared Astrologically to arise from some disaffected clergymen, or lukewarm Parliamentary-men, who are double tongued, & show their Janus faces; sometimes Regal, then Parliamentary, other times Scottified, then Neutrals, whose vagrant tongues more poison the people, then all our enemies: but the time is coming, when these false Priests shall have short horns; for Jupiter their Significator in general, is here in virgin: Planeta in domo inimici sui, est ut vir in domo alterius, inter quos jam advenit odium & ira, Bethen Apho. 31. A Planet in the house of his enemy, is like one in another mans, betwixt whom there's already some rancour and malice: And in truth we have discovered so much weakness in this people we call Churchmen, we now begin to dis-esteem them, and conceive of them as they well deserve, and are not willing to be any more lul'd asleep with their canonical whips, Confessions, &c.  
Be it how it will, Mercury, another of their Significators, is combust, Quando Mercurius est cum Sole, sunt vires ejus debilis, & suum diminuitur judicium: When Mercury is with the Sun, his virtues are weak, and his judgement of no account: no more after a while will their peevish invectives. For it's a just judgement of the all-seeing Providence inflicted upon those we call Divines, that for many ages have so cunningly steered the greatest Actions of our Commonwealth, that now, I say, by their base covetousness and tyrannicall oppression of the people, they are neither feared of the poorest, or beloved of the middle sort of people, or in any honour of the better sort.  
Thus much the Kirk hath got  
To bring her to a woeful Lot.  
Yet I wish all prosperity to the well meriting or deserving Divine, and myself give all respects unto them.  

A brief MEMORIAL of such Passages as happened presently with us in England, after the three SUNS appearance.  
IN March, a general murmuring possessed most Counties of England, and the Commonalty every where began to dislike the actions of the Parliament, and a subtle kind of people dispersed themselves into most Counties of this Kingdom, to prepare the people to mutiny; the Parliament either not having notice, or willing to be sensible of it.  
About the middle of the month, Ferdinando Lord Fairfax in yorkshire deceased, being the greatest pillar in the North for the Parliament; he dyed full of yeers, more full of honour, having most zealously in this Cause, from the first beginning, served his Country faithfully, and obeied the commands of Parliament.  
In this month colonel Poyer Governor of Pembroke-Castle, and one who had formerly performed excellent service for the Parliament, now revolts and fortifies the Town and Castle against them; whom lieutenant general cronwell, with much honor and gallantry surrounded with his Army, and in July took both the Town and Castle of Pembroke, as also the person of Poyer. In this month the Scottish Parliament, viz. the prevailing Party therein, Voted forty thousand men to invade us for our goods. This is that Parties faithful keeping the Covenant, to undo their English friends.  
In april Mens minds continued very unsettled, so that upon a slight occasion on Sunday, the ninth of april, several Apprentices, and others in London, made a great Tumult, marched through the Strand with colours they had taken from the trained Bands, with Swords, Broomstaves, Halberds, enquiring the way to the Muse, where colonel Rich his Regiment of Horse then lay; and to Whitehall, where a Regiment of colonel Baxters Foot were. colonel Rich his Horse presently appeared, and in an instant, there was neither colours, Boys or staves to be seen, all dispersing themselves as they might best with safety. The civility of these Troopers, even to these Youths, and to many abusive people besides, was very great( as I myself saw) who onely desired all of them to repair to their Houses, and to be quiet, and no hurt should be done them. That night produced a new uproar in the City; so that several Gates were kept shut by a rude people, and a Magazine in Leaden-hall the monday after, very near surprised, had not a handful of his Excellencies Souldiers rescued it, and routed those unquiet people, &c.  
The two and twentieth of this month, the Duke of york was stolen from St. James; and the whole month was generally spent in contriving several Petitions of strange consequences, to disturb the Parliament: The first whereof was that of Essex, and the common-counsel were much disturbed about some flying reports, fathered upon the Army; but nothing appeared against the Army upon due examination.  
In May, the Scots sand our Parliament some wrangling Papers, unjustly laying much blame upon us, and justifying their own unworthy actions; but the g●dly party of that Nation, and their reverend Divines, put out a Declaration against the War; which was honourably done: After this month, I never in Anglicus mention the name of Scot. The Surrey Men present a Petition to both Houses, of ill consequence; their foot Freeholders( who were very unruly, as I saw with my own eyes, both in the Strand and in the Hall at W●stminster) had some dispute and ill language with colonel Baxsters foot, who Guarded the House that day; but the Colonels men, though much provoked, forbore, until one of their Men was slain by a Surrey Broom-man or Miller( a Freeholder forsooth) but then they cleared the Hall, and made the simplo men know, that a Souldiers Sword cuts deeper then an ill word. Indeed many of the Foot Petitioners were fellows inconsiderable, and purposely provided to make a Tumult; their Horse in number seven or eight hundred, were very civil, and some Gentlemen there were amongst them.  
This month an unquiet People in Kent rise in arms against the Parliament, keep their Randezvouz at Rochester, others rob Ships about Detford, and keep Guards there; but these within three dayes of themselves run away: they who rose at Rochester were well cudgeld at Maidston in Kent, where his Excellency the Lord Fairfax( unto whose valiant achievements this kingdom stand perpetually indebted) after an hot and sharp dispute, quiter routed, destroyed and took prisoners all that there opposed him in Maidston, to his own eternal honour,( who deeply himself engaged, 
Kent Conquered by the Lord Fairfax. ) and the perpetual renown of those worthy Soldiers under his then Command. His Excellency having conquered with a handful of Men, that Province which William the Conqueror could not with the same royal Army which obtained for him all England. In the third week of this Month, Hailstones were taken up at Walton two inches about. The 26. of this Month, 
The Welsh routed.  eight royal Ships desert the Parliament. This Month colonel Thornton routed the welsh Forces under powel and Laughorn, two valiant men, but, who very unfortunately having served the Parliament, now to their great shane revolt: but heaven hath also delivered these men into our hands again.  
In the month of June the Essex men seemed to rise against the Parliament, a commo ion appearng; and it was generally thought they would have joined with Goring, who with a body of Horse got into Essex out of Kent; him and his Horse his Excellency the Lord Fairfax pursues; the Essex men( like wise people) lay down their Arms, and receive an Act of indemnity.  
In or about the first week of June, Pomfret Castle was surprised, 
Colchester besieged.  and stands out against the Parliament. The thirteenth of this month or near it, his Excellency appears before Colchester, and with a handful of men beats the Lord Goring and Sir Charles Lucas into Colchester, where he then began his Siege, 
Essex and Suffolk assist the Lord general.  the Essex and Suffolk men most honourably, and like themselves, assisting with very numerous and valiant Souldiers, both Foot and Horse. Divers Petitions were again presented to the Parliament this month, of several natures; some pleasing, others not so. The twenty fourth of this month there was much unruliness at a Common Hall in London, much to the dishonour of the City, and that place, where nothing in former ages or times appeared but gravity and moderation.  
In July the Duke of Buckingham, old Holland, 
A simplo Uproar.  and young Peterborough, make a childish uproar, rise against the Parliament, are beaten, killed, taken and routed; a sufficient payment for their follies, who upon so weak principles intended to raise so mighty a fabric. Prince CHARLES appears at Yarmouth. Now comes out a filthy thing called, 
Scots print against the Parliament.  The Scots Declaration, full of lies and ill language against the Parliament and Army, penned by the Devil, or one of his Clerks. Pembroke Castle, Poyer, powel, Laughorn, are all surrendered to the successful cronwell. The Prince seizes Merchants Ships, demands twenty thousand pound for redemption.  
These few notions I leave to Posterity, that they may see what actions immediately succeeded the apparition of the three Suns, it being generally received amongst all that allow of Predictions, 
In August the Scots steal and plunder in Lancashire, where the three Suns were visible.  that they are the Precursors of divisions, clandestine Plots, treacheries, breaches of Leagues and Covenants, and sudden Commotions against Authority: which whether the preceding discourse in some measure maketh not good, I must leave to future times to judge of.  
Now follows an exact Diary of the wind and Weather, observed and taken by a learned Esquire of this Kingdom, unto whose pains and great labour, myself and Posterity must stand engaged. His name without commission I dare not mention.  

THe 28. of February there was a frost in the morning, fair and dry all day, but somewhat sharp and could, the wind good, stiff in the north-west, and about seven at night and ●omewhat after, a fall of snow that covered the ground, afterward the Moon and Stars appearing, but a further threat of ill weather( according to common observation, &c.)  
The 29. a frost in the morning, the day sometimes stormy, with Snow or Hail, sometimes a hot Sun-shine, the wind Northerly and good sharp, &c.  
March the first, 1647 / 8. this day sharp and could, often stormy with Snow and Hail, the wind Northerly.  
The second, a great Frost in the morning, the day close, Snowing little or much most part of the day, but misling Weather, the wind Easterly, and some point in the South, &c.  
The third, a very hard Frost in the morning, the day fair and dry, the wind Easterly, no great Gale, but pretty cool, &c.  
The fourth, very Stormy at several times, both the preceding night, and this instant day, sometimes Snow, sometimes Hail, the wind all day a high Gale Easterly, and very could, even freezing where the Sun did not extend his heat, &c.  
The fifth, a continuation of Frost until about eight in the forenoon, afterward a relaxation, the day being free of any kind of Storms, and the wind still Easterly,( some little point in the North) and pretty cool, &c.  
The sixth, dark and close Weather, but very dry, the wind good high Northerly, and very sharp, &c.  
The seventh dry and could Weather, the wind North-west, some little Rain betwixt three and five of the clock after noon, &c.  
The eighth, slattering, stormy Weather for the most part, and so most part of the foregoing night, the wind north-east, and very could, &c.  
The ninth much like to the former day, good store of Rain, especially towards night, the wind high and boisterous Northerly, &c.  
The tenth, the wind Westerly, a small Frost in the morning, the rest of the day fine, dry and temperate Weather, until about five of the clock, after which time some Rain, and a further inclination to it, the air being very much clouded, dropping, and very dark, &c.  
The eleventh, cloudy, and many showers, especially in the forenoon and towards night, the wind pretty high in the West, &c. much Rain in the night, and extreme temp●stuous Weather, &c.  
The twelfth, the wind very loud in the North, and could, most part of the day; after four of the clock fine temperate Weather, all the day dry and clear, &c.  
The thirteenth, the wind very high and turbulent in the West, very dry and clear for the most part, &c.  
The four●eenth, the wind north-west, pretty high and cool, the day sometimes clear, sometimes cloudy, but very dry, &c.  
The fifteenth, the wind in the West a good strong Gale, but very temperate and dry Weather, until about six in the evening, when there fell some Rain, and the wind then struck into a point Northerly, very boisterous.  
The sixteenth, the wind very loud and boisterous in the north-west, the day sometimes Stormy with Hail, but the Storms of short continuance, not much wetting, &c.  
The seventeenth, a little Frost in the morning, fine dry Weather( and pretty cool) until about three in the afternoon, the wind all that time almost due West; afterward the wind removing somewhat Southerly, a dark and close sky, beginning and inclining to Rain, &c.  
The eighteen, the wind in the West a good strong Gale, the Weather dry and temperate, &c.  
The nineteenth, the wind Westerly and very dry and temperate Weather, &c.  
The twentieth, the temper of the Weather much like the former day, and the wind Westerly, &c.  
The 21. fair, dry and temperate Weather, the wind moderate in the south-west, &c.  
The 22. fair and dry until about one of the clock after noon; afterward, close, dark Weather, with gentle Rain, and the wind so calm all day, as scarce to be observed with certainty in what quarter it moved, &c.  
The 23. close, dry Weather, and very temperate, the wind in the West, &c. towards night the wind chopped into the North, but no whit offensive, &c.  
The 24. fine Spring-like Weather, the wind very calm in the West, &c. In the night the wind did somewhat rise, and there fell pretty store of Rain.  
The 25. the wind extraordinary strong and boisterous in the West all day, and very could; some small storms of Hail in the afternoon, &c.  
The 26. the wind Northerly and very could, the forenoon dry and fair, divers small storms of Hail in the afternoon, &c.  
The 27. the wind Northerly and could, many small storms of Hail and Snow in the afternoon, the evening calm and bright, &c.  
The 28. a great Frost in the morning, from eleven of the clock in the forenoon dark druggie Weather, the wind high and boisterous in the South, great store of Rain in the evening, and a likelihood of continuance; the wind high in the night, with some fall of Rain, &c.  
The 29. the wind very high in the south-west, a great storm of Hail about six at night, afterward very fair and clear, the wind still somewhat high, &c.  
The 30. day sometimes clear, sometim●s showering, the wind Westerly pretty high and cool, but calm towards evening, and a fine clear night towards, &c.  
The 31. a Frost in the morning, and dry Weather all day, though much cloudy, the wind pretty strong in the south-west, &c.  
 astrological chart 
A figure of heaven for the Conjunctōn of ♄ and ♂ ☿ 28o June 1 h 57′ P: M LONDINVM-ANGLIE     

An ASTROLOGICAL Judgement upon the Conjunction of SATURN and MARS the two malevolent Planets, June 28. 1648.  
GOd almighty, from whose bounty all goodness and science proceeds, assisting my willing Genius, even in these tumultuous seasons, and in this neck of time when our Parliament have so few friends, and is so contemptible, in the squint eyes and depraved judgements both of some Citizens and Cavaliers( as that their present ruin is expected) I will proceed to give an Astrological Judgement upon this so formidable Conjunction of Saturn and Mars, the onely Basis from whence the weekly simplo Mercuries fetch their lying hodge podge Oracles, which have of late so oft deluded the people, and of whose pretty cheats and malicious ignorance, now the whole Kingdom( infected therewith) cannot but be miserable sensible, and their own ingenuous Malignant Party enraged with fury, to see themselves incited and invited to giddy commotions, sudden risings, and unnatural rebellions against this present Parliament and their Country, by these so lowsey Prophets, the very scorn of Men and Schollers( who ever promise Victory unto themselves) and whose names if I should mention, though slightly, it were to them an eternal honour: but I leave them to receive from God and the Parliament just rewards for their many abuses, and will endeavour to support my astrological Judgement with strength of reason, according to the natural grounds of the more pure astrology, and with the most regular and rational Aphorisms that the reverend Professors have left us, offering most willingly a free and quiet dispute unto any learned Astrologian of Europe, if he shall contradict my present Writing; but to our own national scambling fellowes, viz. the weekly Mercuries, I scorn to take even the least knowledge of the best of them, being mere botching Scrubs, fit for nothing but hanging.  
It was well said of Cardanus Seg. 3. Apho. 122. Reconditae rationes rerum docent nos, ut illis credamus; the abstruse or more mysterious reasons of things teach us, that we credit those reasons: Qui autem inter multa falsa, pauca miscet vera, non est in recitando dicta ejus illi quicquam tribuendum: viz. he who delivers amongst many lies now and then one truth, to such a one, or unto his Words, Actions or Writings, we should give no belief. These words pertain to the malignant Prophets, &c.  
The 28. of June 1648. is now silently passed over, although predicted so fatal to our Parliament, and so destructive to us poor Roundheads, that have adventured our Stocks in their bottom: A mad and Gipsie-like prophesy it was, that those effects( how great soever) depending upon the Conjunction, should antecede its being, &c. However, that day, and the three last days in june being the last limited dayes of the present Parliaments existence, are passed over, and we see with our eyes that the Parliament is not dead; and we heard with our ears that very day no more then a whirling malignant murmuring rumour in London, that his Excellency the Lord Fairfax was totally defeated before Colchester, the Siege raised, the Members of both Houses fled: this is prophetically printed, and not yet retracted, though a Bulling lie, &c. Oh it is, and must needs be the worst of Causes that hath no defence but lies, calumnies, and personal aspersions, &c. But I am to treat Astrologically.  
The Subject-matter 
Subject-Matter.  is A conjunction of Saturn and Mars, the two malevolent and worst Planets, whose influence indeed may produce wonderful alterations and mutations, but not wholly of themselves, without other concomitant causes, preceding and subsequent configurations; of which our most precious Adversaries have taken no notice: Oh Parliament forgive them, they know not how to do it.  

Ergo, ominous to men and great Cattle.  The conjunction itself fals to be in the Asterism of Taurus, now extending itself to the very 25. of geminy: in this circuit of degrees we have many fixed Stars; some near the degree of the conjunction itself; as, the horns of the Bull, of the nature of Mars; so also, the Buckler, the Feet, and the left Shoulder of Orion, of the several natures of Saturn, jupiter, Mars and Mercury, which rationally and artificially commixed with the Erraticals, do many times produce thunder, lightning, fiery apparitions in the air, thundering and extravagant high conceptions in man. The conjunction itself is near the ecliptical line; Mars having no latitude at all, but verging Northward, his influence therefore the stronger: Saturn having one degree meridional, is posited near such fixed Stars as are of the nature of Mercury, Saturn, Mars and the Moon: here is a pretty medley of fixed Stars, concomitant with the Planets: The effects depending hereupon are like to be various, turbulent, &c. These fixed Stars I do mention, as much conducing to discover the effects of the conjunction itself; for Rigel, Apho. 66. invites our consideration hereunto; non obliviscaris Stellas fixas, & gradus nonae Spherae immobiles, in quibus fiunt eae conjunctiones & quadraturae, virtutes mansionum miscendo: Forget not the fixed Stars, and the immovable degrees of the ninth sphere, in which these conjunctions of the Planets, and their quadrate aspects are made and posited, commixing herewith, or with their virtue, the influence of their several mansions: unto whom consenteth Dasipodius, Apho. 9. Stellarum fixarum opus manifestius est, opere trium superiorum, earum( inquam) quae conspicuae sunt magnitudinis aut saltem mediocris cum parva latitudine, &c. The operation of the fixed Stars themselves, is more manifested or apparent by the conjunction of the superior Planets with them, with such fixed Stars, I say, which are famous or conspicuous, or but of moderate magnitude having small latitude from the ecliptic. The very truth is, that we have this malevolent conjunction near unto Oculus Tauri, a most impetuous and violent fixed Star; if we either believe our own experience, or the presages of our predecessors, there did never happen any eclipse, conjunction, 
1603 King James came in●o England.  or opposition of the superiors near that part of geminy, but it produced admirable effects: let me go no further then to tell you, that the first conjunction of Saturn and jupiter upon their entrance into the fiery trigon, was in Sagittary, 1603. in opposition to this almost degree of our conjunction,( omitting many other examples, 
fatal to the Spaniard.  we remember the Eclipse in the 10. of geminy, 1639. and the place of the Sun and Moon 1644. Novemb. 19. at the appearance of the three mock Suns, fatal to the Malignants ever since;) besides, this is not a conjunction of the inferior, but superior Planets; Quanto majus sydus est ac motus etiam velocior eo etiam opera syderis sunt manifestiora, &c. Dasipodius Apho. 8. The greater the Planet is, and the more swift his motion, so much the more manifest shall his effects appear: Both Saturn and Mars in our positure are very swift, and do greatly exceed their mean motion; Saturn his diurnal motion being six minutes, and Mars his 42.  
From hence we may conjecture the actions and designs depending hereupon will be great and eminent, and impetuously, 
geminy a famous Sign.  furiously, and with great violence and speed be carried on and be prosecuted; and these suddenly and in a moment after this Conjunction itself is past. And is the sign itself wherein the Conjunction is in, is Aëry, and famous amongst the twelve Signs of the zodiac, by reason of the many noble fixed Stars therein posited on both sides the ecliptic, and the now present situation of these superiors therein; we cannot from hence expect trivial Negotiations, or vain fantastical Ideas, but matters of moment, consultations to purpose, and those of principal eminency and highest concernment of Men in Authority and matters equivolent; for cum superioribus nunquam judicia, de rebus parvis facies Rigel. Apho. 39. When thou shalt judge the effects succeeding a Conjunction of the Superiors, expect from thence no small or trivial matters to succeed. From hence we may derive a candid judgement, of the magnitude and influence this Conjunction hath upon the general Actions of our kingdom of England, and the greatest persons therein Inhabiting; and particularly upon the City of London, 
London much concerned in this Conjunction.  and their actions and consultations, and upon the southern and western parts fron London or West of England; which for ought I see are to continue many dayes in great vigour and manifold action; for neither of the two Malevolents have any great impediment, but as posited in the eight. Manent ergo virtutes & significata erratieaerum si non combustas & retrogradas has stellas invenies, Rigel. Apho. 39. The influence of the Planets and matter or virtue of their Significations remain and continue, when you find their Significators are neither Combust or Retrograde, &c. Of all these aphorisms we shall make good use in the ensuing judgement; for in our Scheame we neither have Mars or Saturne Retrograde, or Combust, but swift, direct and well dignified, essentially, or accidentally. And certainly this very Conjunction is the Prodromus of singula● actions, both in our own Common-wealth, and also in the kingdom of Scotland; for it is an indubitable rule, according to astrology: Deteri orantur genera hominum per transmutationes illarum magnarum Conjunctionum cum succedentes inimicabiliter configurantur cum figuris praeteritarum, unde una rota ascendunt & descendunt, queen perpetuo nec uno esse, nec una forma rotantur, Rigel. Apho. 32. The kinds and qualities of men are depraved, made worse, or corrupted by the transmutation of the great Conjunctions, when as those Conjunctions which succeed, are inimicably configurated with the preceding positures of Heaven, &c. That we make use of this aphorism, let us consider that the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the eighth degree of Sagitarius, which was celebrated Decem. 7. 1603. the same year when King James came into England; must be the Locus à quo, or the first assured Fountain or groundwork from which, until the year 1801. in an astrological way of judgement, we must more or less derive a Conjecture of human contingencies in this kingdom especially, and in Scotland; and generally over all Europe: we must also commix therewith the two later Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter, one in 1623. and the other in 1642 / 3. and we know that in 1603. the English Monarchy was divolved to the Scottish race, 
A great Plague attended King James his coming into England, 1603 And a greater Plague followed his death.  to the exceeding benefit of that Nation, and the enriching of them that came in amongst us, but to the impoverishing of the English; multitudes of that people since having obtained vast Estates, and great Offices of trust and profit in our kingdom; of all which they have ever known how to make the best use. In that Conjunction we have geminy the Cusp of the seventh and Luna in the tenth degree, and 52. minutes; as if the vulgar did not much care for the Scots company.  
In the positure of heaven 1623. July the seventh, upon the second Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, in 6. 45. lo the very tenth degr. of geminy was the cusp of the fourth house; in the scheame of Heaven 1642 / 3. Feb. 15. when Saturn and Jupiter made their last meeting in 25. 46. Pisces; the Sign geminy did then descend on the cusp of the seventh house, Mars being in one degree of geminy, and the Moon 15. Let us now examine for instructions sake, even for our very friends, and worst of enemies, by way of example, the casualties have happened upon any eminent Conjunction of the Planets or Eclipses of the Sun and Moon in or near the degree of Saturn and Jupiter, or in Opposition unto it; or in the degree of the Sun or Moon, at the time of that first Conjunction in 1603. and so successively in the second succeeding and latter Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter. The 16. September 1604. Saturn and Mars were in Conjunction in the tenth degree, and 17. Sagitarius, the 22. of October 1605. Saturn and Mars were in Quartile in 23. Sagitarius, near the place of the Moon in the first Conjunction, and Mars in Virgo 14. degrees after, viz. November 5. Saturn that day transiting the very degree of the Moon; the Powder Treason should have been put into act. May 20. there was a Solan Eclipse in nine degrees of geminy, 
1612. palgrave came into England upon an unlucky aspect.  the sixteenth of October following arrived the palgrave here in London; Saturn that day in eleven degrees of Pisces, viz. in quartile dexter to the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1603. and sinister quartile to the Moon in that conjunction: whether this his coming was any thing advantageous to our Nation, we all know: however, the fourteenth of February following, he married the Lady Elizabeth, the most gallant, and most heroic Lady of Europe, well meriting for her Husband a far greater person: that day Saturn and Mars being in a quartile aspect, Saturn in eighteen degrees of Pisces, and Mars in geminy.  
In the year 1618. a Comet appeared in England, in the month of November, the very Sign ascending at first sight of the Comet, and almost degree, viz. the nineteenth of Sagittary, being the self-same of the preceding first conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1603. Saturn then running through geminy, and very near the degree of this conjunction: In March following dyed Queen ANNE, a most gracious Queen, and King JAMES himself fell very sick, but recovered.  
In 1623. upon the second conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, the tenth degree of Sagittary did culminate, the opposite Sign and degree of our present Conjunction: After which, viz. in 1625. dyed King James, and an heavy Plague in London succeeded; there falling in that year a Solar Eclipse in the seventeenth of Pisces, which sign was intercepted in the ascendant, in the later conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1623. Saturn also that year transiting into the Sign Virgo, which is in quadrate to Sagittary, the Sign of the first conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, and in quadrate to the Moon in that Figure: In 1635. Saturn transiting Sagittary, as also 1636. London smarted with the Plague in those yeers. Let us hasten to things fresh in memory, viz. that in 1639. there was a great Eclipse of the Sun in the tenth degree of geminy, the Scots and we first then about that time began to quarrel, the Citizens of London refuse to lend the King money to be employed against the Scots: one Parliament is summoned during the effects of that Eclipse, as quickly dissolved; the Parliament scandalised by Finch, his Majesty discontented and angry; new stirs appear, and after that, the Scots invade us again; for where he fares well, he will stay longest, and we paid them then in money, our Souldiers being then unwilling to beat them, but now they shal have blows, &c. In 1640. when this Parliament began, the twentieth of Sagittary then culminated, and Pisces ascended, Mars in the tenth degree thereof, in quadrate dexter to the place of this Conjunction.  
I have wrote thus much onely to instruct the studious herein with the constant natural progress and key of heavenly astrology; which rightly understood and applied, will abundantly satisfy the careful Astrologer: he that is master of more time then I am, may make further experiments in this kind, even for many yeers or ages before our time; I assure him he will have no cause to repent his labour, so beneficially improved, as thereby it may, by what I have wrote, he may easily see that there hath been no manner of calamity befallen to this City or Kingdom since 1603. but there may be a significant reason in astrology given for it, according to natural causes, either from the Conjunctions of the Planets, or Eclipses of the Sun and Moon concurring with the Radix of the first, second or third Conjunction of the two superiors; and although so much knowledge was not left me by any Author, or derived from any ancient Writer, yet I out of the singleness of my heart, freely divulge this grand Key of astrology to Posterity, hoping it will produce greater things hereafter, when knowledge shall more abound.  
Nor could we have omitted what is immediately premised, unless we had given ourselves liberty to be singular, and to abound in our own proper sense; a thing we delight not in, longer then our reason is seconded with Art: for many things are considerable in this Art, and several ways for discovery of truth, according to Rigel, Apho. 53. who saith, Fundamentum principal in revolutionibus annorum mundi, est introitus Solis, in primum punctum arietis, porro multa necessaria ad hanc inquisitionem sunt, & seientia multorum, experimentorum & cognitionum superiorum praeteritorum temporum & magnarum Eclipsationum Profectionumque: The entrance of the Sun into the first point of Aries, is the principal and main foundation in judging Revolutions of the yeers of the World; yet moreover, there do many things also conduce unto this disquisition, as the knowledge of many Experiments, and the right understanding of former and greater times elapsed; as also, the Eclipses, great Conjunctions and Profections:[ by Profections, he intends the annual Profection of the last preceding conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, the Sign ascending varying annually] as in 1642 / 3. the ascendant of the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter was 27. 34. of Sagittarius, this year 1647 / 8. the 27. 34. of Taurus is the Profectionall ascendant of that Conjunction; through which ascendant, or Sign of Taurus, Saturn by transit hath been passing with a slow motion above two full yeers, and the day of the Sun's ingress into Aries this year 1648. he did transit the degree and very minute almost of this Profectionall ascendant, afflicting thereby and retarding our Parliaments Designs: and furthermore, this present Conjunction of which I now treat, doth happen in geminy, which is intercepted in the ascendant of this Profectionall Revolution of Saturn and Jupiter, ab hinc verè, ab hinc, lachrymae nostrae Anglicanae hoc tempore, non certè a Revolutione hujus ce Anni, vel ab hac tam dira & formidabili conjunctione infortunarum procedunt, said Deus d-abit his quoque finem. I give also in the subsequent Discourse some further astrological reason, why at present our State and this Kingdom is so disturbed, &c.  
And with great reason we do adhere unto this method, considering the regular and orderly disposition of the superior Configurations of all times, and in every year: Conjunctiones totius anni oppositionesque & quadraturas si de qualitate temporis judicaturus sis, necesse est ut consideres, per has autem causantur diversae transmutationes temporum, viz. who will judge of the quality and condition of the time, it's necessary that he consider the Conjunctions, Oppositions and Quadratures of the whole year; that is, b●th of the Luminaries and all the other Planets; for from hence are caused divers transmutations of the times.  

How the Parliament are concerned in this Conjunction.  These things generally premised, we now come to handle this Conjunction in a more particular way. In the first place we have but a sad position of heaven( which hath representation of the Parliament and their Members) to begin with; able utterly upon the first sight to startle and puzzle a weak affection, or any Astrologer that is weak sighted, or that is but moderately minded to the actions and honor of this present Parliament, or that hath not better then human principles; for we have Mars their Significator, because Lord of the As●endant in the eight house in Conjunction with Saturn, a very sad Planet, nay, near oculus Tauri, a further and more ill Omen, if not seriously considered, and artificially compared with other causes preceding and succeeding; verily the house itself wherein the Conjunction fals, is the worst place and house of the heavens, and most naturally and exactly signifies the sad and distracted condition of the present Parliament at this very present time of the Conjunction; it well and singularly and clearly imports the horrible and grand treacheries, multitude of disturbances, and slippery clandestine designs both of many in the City, and in the several Counties of England, yea, and in the very walls of their own houses at Westminster to ruin themselves and thereby their own Posterity, the kingdom itself, this Parliament, and all our just Rights, which for the present we have entrusted them with. It implies and points out a Parliament struggling and gasping for breath and life, wearied with labour and sadness, expecting more tumults, and daily more novel disobediences, affronts, and thwarting of their Authority, and crossing their designs.  
Nulla divisio circuli tunc pessima tamque crudelis in omnibus quam octava est, Rigel. Apho. 35. There is no part of the heavens so ill, so cruel and malicious in all things as the eighth house; and yet this is the very house wherein this Conjunction is at this time, and in which we find Mars our Parliaments Significator in Conjunction with Saturne, the Author of all treachery and villainy, and even such acts are now in agitation by such and such as Saturn and Mars do signify, viz. their own Members, to bring this Parliament( the kingdoms best bulwark against oppression and tyranny) to ruin and destruction. But let it be so, viz. that such things really are intended at this present, and acting by some English Changelings and Rennagadoes from English blood and glory, and from such as are degenerated from Christianity itself. And let our worst of enemies boast and humour their longing fancies, and sing Lullabye to their greedy expectations, depending upon the effects of this malevolent configuration; and let them prattle liberally and writ innocently, and prophesy thunderingly against us without understanding what dire and sad effects it may produce to our Parliament, the destruction whereof these villains onely aim at, we give them leave to be mad, yea and drunk with their own fury. Let our soul proceed with sober judgement and impartial arguments, and deal faithfully with all sorts of people of what quality so ever; what may b● the dictates of this present Conjunction. As to the parts of this kingdom, we say, it principally designs the City of London, wherein many of the effects of this Conjunction shall manifest themselves; for unto the sign of geminy it is subject, as I could instance by infallible experiments of these and former ages. It also threatens the West of England, that part especially which is Mountainous, hilly, and rocky, verging somewhat to the South; as also the Eastern and north-east part hereof; for I do ever find by experience that all ominous Eclipses and famous Conjunctions or Oppositions, greater or lesser ( quoad) do as much prejudice those parts of the World, those kingdoms, and Countries subject to the opposite signs wherein the Conjunctions or Oppositions are, as much as those very Countries under the sign itself, wherein the Conjunction, Opposition or eclipse, 
Spain will suffer by this Conjunction.  or prodigy itself fals. And hereof spain was a sad witness in 1639. when there was an eclipse visible of the Sun in that very degree, viz. the eleventh of geminy, after which, about five moneths they suffered the loss of their Armado on our cost. And much about that time our disquietness in the North began, and verily then also several disorders and grievances in London were occasioned by the sharp Episcopals; for there's no mischief wherein either the hand or council of a Priest is wanting; they are evermore readier for knavery then goodness, following their Bellies more then Divinity: From whence therefore we must expect in good earnest, infinite divisions and heart-burnings, as well amongst our great Ones at Westminster, 
The Parliament shall not be overthrown.  they now residing within the orbs, as it were of this City, as amongst the principal Officers, Magistrates and Commonalty of the City of London, and amongst the inferior people, both City and Parliament will be miserable sensible thereof; yet however, the main body of this Parliament and their authority( maugre all angry Devils and Scottish faction) shall be preserved and stand: but how the Citizens, being so vast a body, will guide their actions, and their Commonwealth, their Consultations and Body-politique, themselves being now the most active people in the Kingdom, 
London in danger.  incited mightily by the fury and heat of this sharp influence; or what shall casually happen to this City itself, occasioned by some popular tumultuous men, whom Posterity will curse, I will in part, and but in part discover, being more willing to offend by a tacite and still silence, then too much either to enrage an angry people, or discourage a religious society of men living amongst them; but in time a judgement sufficiently sharp, will descend from heaven upon some fiery spirits, who for a time act wrong councils, and destructive to the good of this famous City: 
Admonition to the City.  Let the wiser sort of Citizens consider well this succeeding Aphorism, and apply it home unto themselves, every one as he is concerned in the place he undergoes, and that in time, and without partiality to themselves, or casting dirt in the Author's face, who entirely loves the Cities welfare; for it doth significantly express what shall in part chance to the City of London, ere the events signified hereby be quiter over: In qualibet revolutione Civitatis vel Regni, in qua Signum ascendentis ceciderit in partitione octavae, & directio illius temporis, ibi in ocava existens Mars, crudelissimas esse dissensiones, & effusionem sanginis in illa judicandum est, Rigel, Apho. 46. In every revolution of a City or Kingdom, in which the Sign of the ascendant of that City or Kingdom shall fall to be in the partition of the eighth house, and the Direction of that time shall be there, and also Mars, 
Beware Citizens of violent counsellors.  we may judge that there will be in that City or Kingdom most cruel divisions, and great shedding of blood. This is the English of the Aphorism without mincing or juggling, and without the infinite mercy of God, War and blood will succeed in this City, occasioned by a violent and obstinate Party, signified by Saturn and Mars, viz. by the soldier and the Commonalty, or inferior people, or procured by councils, or men violent rash and giddy, &c. I pray God bless us from the later prediction, the first we are sufficiently sensible of,( viz. dissensions) since Saturn entered geminy, and have tasted of it; and our present actions invite, and give occasion to mistrust the later mischief, viz. the effusion of blood: Saturn is here best dignified, Almans. prop. 45. Cujuscunque natura Planetarum superior fuerit, non cessabit ejus actus usque quo sit ibidem ejus contrarium. Seg. 2. Apho. 103. Saturnus cum Oculo Tauri, magna detrimenta facit generaliier; generally Saturn with the bulls eye, is the presage of great mischief: These unfortunate Planets are both in quadrate platick to Jupiter; 
Great calamities to ensue.  from which position and aspect, let us expect infinite and endless Disputes and Controversies about our Laws, Customs and privileges, about Religion, and with the Religious, about Covenants, Leagues, Jurisdictions, &c. It shows fears, jealousies, mistrusts, great waste and consumption as mens Estates, especially in this City, decay of Houses, Trades, sequestration of Revenues, the destruction and extirpation of whole Families, and they very ancient, the firing and destruction of many Houses, and of some Cities and Towns, &c.  
Almans. 60. Ea queen accidunt in hoc seculo, sciuntur & investigantur ex magna fortitudine superioris significatoris & ex sua elevatione. Mundane affairs, or such things as happen in this world, are known and discovered by the great strength of the superior Significator, 
Dearth and Famine.  and by his Elevation. From the sense and construction of this aphorism, there arises thus much; as Saturn is better dignified then Mars, we must expect a Famine and a Dearth, or scarcity of Provisions, intemperate could blasts, great infidelity generally, as well in the Parliament and their Members, as in the City and country, and prime men of every place. As Mars is most elevated, he shows the Sword will prevail, though much interrupted by Countermands, contrary directions and Commissions; in plain terms, it animates the soldier, though with a fearful or mistrustful conception of the event of his Actions; yea, it argues in the end, 
The Army ordained to stand, and do the Kingdom good.  the Army will be enforced to do strange things, else we must perish, and themselves likewise. Who ever therefore hath natural English blood in him, let him take part with the Army under the Lord Fairfax, and with the Parliament; so shall he live and have a being, and do his own Prince and kingdom service, and restore England to its pristine glory; at present much Eclipsed by some snarling Scottified people of late encroaching upon us. 
The Kingdom invited to join with the Army.  And certainly here is some greater works near at hand, then onely the dispute of customs or divesting some great ones of their Estates, by reason of the transmutation of the Auge of Mars, who is Significator of this kingdom, and Lord of the Ascendant in this Conjunction: For I do find in Rigel, Apho. 9. Mutantur regna & Dominia, & fides, Sectaeque, & opiniones hominum. Dum mutantur auges planetarum, de signo in signum dico, illarum gentium quarum Significator erit planeta augis per mutatae, mutatioque erit ad bonum vel ad malum secundum naturam significatorum conjunctionum superiorum illorum temporum & secundum naturam signi mutationis. In English thus, Kingdoms and Governments, Leagves, Sects, and the opinions of Men do change or vary, when the Auges of the Planets move out of one sign into another; I say of those Nations whose Signifitator is the Planet of the transmutated Auges, and this alteration shall be for good or ill, 
A transmutation of govern-to be expected.  according to the nature of the Significator of the superior Conjunctions of those times, and according to the nature of the sign of mutation.  
But lest one example or aphorism might be thought an incompetent judge herein; the matter we now handle being weighty and of mighty consideration, and the times capable of this doctrine, we produce Cardane seg. 1. Apho. 37. Per mutationes Absidum, regna, & regiones, & religiones mutant, & Planetae, vel Ascendens in his vel oppositis, vim à natura ejus contrahunt, cujus est Absis, puram in abside, depravatam in opposito, convenit igitur hos scire. The permutations or variations of the Absides of the Planets, change kingdoms and Regions, alter Religions; and either the Planets themselves or the Ascendant being in these signs, or their Opposites, contract virtue from the nature of the sign whose Absis it is; pure virtue and influence in the Absis itself, or Sign wherein it is, depraved and corrupt in its opposite Sign. It is necessary to know this manner of learning; should I explain this, it were a labour of a sheet of paper, but my time is limited; I shall make use of it in our Judgement, which will be sufficient: I onely say, that Mars is the general Significator of England, and that at this present his Absis or Aphelium is in four Signs, twenty nine degrees, fifty two minutes and twenty one seconds; that is, in twenty nine degrees, fifty two minutes, and twenty one seconds of lo, 
Virgo the ascendant of the Engl sh Monarchy.  and that in the year 1656. his Aphelium will be in Virgo, and he then leaves the Sign lo; Virgo is assuredly the ascendant of the English Monarchy, but Aries of the Kingdom: when this A●sis therefore of Mars shall appear in Virgo; who shall expect less then a strange Catastrophe of human affairs in this Common-wealth, Monarchy and Kingdom of England? for how can Mars show or give protection to Aries or Virgo, which Signs he beholds not with any aspect? here will then either in or about those times, or near that year, or within ten yeers more or less of that time, 
Great change near 1656  or within a little time after, appear in this Kingdom so strange a Revolution of fate, so grand a Catastrophe, and great mutation unto this Monarchy and Government, as never yet appeared; of which( as the times now stand) I have no liberty or encouragement to deliver my opinion. Onely it will be ominous to London, unto her Merchants at Sea, to her traffic at land, to her Poor, to her Rich, to all sorts of people inhabiting in her, or her Liberties, by reason of sundry fires, and a consuming Plague, &c. But I fear a sad disaster to this City much before that time; to reveal it, were cause of envy; 
It may be extended to signify the change of many now in office, for there are few Kings to be changed, and men in authority are as it were representitative Kings.  to conceal it, is a point of human Policy. In the interval of which time, if it be lawful to quote Almansor, Apho. 132. Cum duae infortunae conjunguntur & Luna Saturno in latitudine, erit fames & mortalitas, si vero Marti mutabuntur Reges, & erit multa sanguinis effusio, & praelia in loco qui signabitur ab ipso Signo & hoc non fallit: when the two Infortunes are in conjunction, and the Moon concur with Saturn in latitude, there will ensue a famine and mortality,( both which I much fear unto the City of London:) but if she concur with Mars,( which in this Conjunction she doth not) Kings or Governours shall be changed, and there will be much spilling of blood, many battles, or much fighting, in that very place which is signified by that very Sign itself, wherein this Conjunction is; and this fails not.  
This is a friendly admonition to the industrious Citizens of London, who are the most of any in Europe concerned in the effects of this Conjun●tion; the Sign geminy, as I have said, being the ascendant of their City. I shall not willingly expatiate or dilate upon the plain meaning of these words; the Aphorism being so significant, and the Citizens of so great capacities, so prudent and judicious, as there is no doubt, if God have not obfuscated their judgements, and clouded their Senators wisdom, they will be mindful of my words; 
The City poisoned with Malignants.  though now at this present I am held of a contrary opinion to most of them, who busily endeavour the disturbance of the City( the contrary whereof I love) but it is the poisonous breath of Malignants, or a few fellow-Citizens of fiery dispositions, co-inhabiting together with virtuous men, and more graver judgements, that have so obstructed the glory of the City at this present, and clouded their former actions( which indeed were most honourable) and brought them now( in the opinion of very many) under the notion of Self-seekers, 
Citizens not beloved of the country.  and the Kingdoms Disturbers; and so great an odium lies upon this City at present, generally throughout this whole Kingdom, that it is a great wonder unto me( I mean the Countries ill affection to the City) of which, by continual Letters from several parts I understand, and did personally hear, and was an eye witness at my being at the Leaguer before Colchester, July 1648. the Essex men generally as much enraged against this City, 
Essex men discontented the Citizens sent no aid to the Lord Fairfax, but obstructed it, they say they served not the City so when the King was at Brainford.  as they against the Parliament: yet I desire not to live any longer then I should endeavour and wish all prosperity to the Body and Common-wealth of this City, that it may abundantly flourish in Trade, Commerce and tranquillity, &c. The least accident that can happen unto this City now at present from this Conjunction, is Sedition, Tumults and Uproars, Famine, if no blood-shed: for it is generally believed, that any Conjunction of the three superiors in an ayery Sign, Ventos & seditiones pestilentiamque, said non tamen semper movet, carded. Seg. 7. Apho. 34. high winds are signified( as to the Weather) Seditions, Tumults, Hurlyburlies, and the Pestilence( as to the City) by any Conjunction in an ayery Sign, Portenditur etiam multorum hominum interritus ex peste; which I verily believe shall prove true within the compass of two yeers, and ere this Conjunction have done operating, for so long time the influence hereof continues.  
Having now delivered what the opinion of Authors is concerning this malevolent Conjunction in general, let us a little give leave to our Genius to be studious herein, and to expatiate our thoughts, that we( the least of Students) may leave Posterity a small remembrance of our indefatigable labours in this study of astrology, 
His Majesty prophesied of by Merlin 900. yeers since.  before our time sinking, in a fair way, now by our industry of reviving. I will begin gently with his Majesty, whose sufferings were ordained many ages since, as I daily find in many old Prophesies: his Significator in this invidiam is very properly the Sun, as he is Lord of the tenth, who now is locally placed in the ninth house of heaven, but in the twelfth from the tenth; that is, in that house which signifies restraint of liberty, or in plain terms, captivity, &c.( and so is he captived at this time) there is Jupiter in the tenth house powerful( quoad accidentally) not essentially; Ergo, it's not words, but money that buys Land; it's not the delusive promises of his false friends, whereof he hath ever had too many, especially of the Scots Nation, or probably, 
The King impedited by the Scots, and by tumults Paris must expect present tumults:  the intended assistance of his own children, signified by Jupiter, as he is Lord partly of the fifth from the tenth, can effect his liberty, or his restauration, or will France do the work; I see no sufficient willingness in that people, or abilities, if willing: for we see Jupiter in quartile to Saturn and Mars, and they in the eighth; one misfortune in the neck of another, one miscarriage after another amongst his friends; for a time and a long season blasts all assistance and hopes of friends, and all his Majesties own Designs and affairs; I mean, by means of War or Souldiers.  
There is a full measure of time limited by God, which being not as yet accomplished, renders in the interim, all mans endeavour fruitless, and his labour impertinent, God of his goodness shorten it for the good of us all; yet, itis my opinion, were there not more then a natural hand, and not a Divine power superlatively transcending celestial Configurations, the approaching of Venus to a Sextill of jupiter in this figure at the time of the aspect, she then in Sagittary, there should arise very many faire and comfortable promises, and very many Missives from friends, 
A Sextile of Jupiter and Venus Octob. 29 1648. then good hopes for his Majesty.  or assistance from several parts; some from France, because jupiter is in Virgo the ascendant of Paris: others from Scotland, because Venus is in Cancer. But as the Moon, who is Lady of that house, doth behold Cancer, and not the Sun, so shall the Scots now in arms, more regard their own private interests, lucre, stealing and filching, then his Majesties restauration; and the French will rather seem to act, then do any thing really, having work enough at home. But that his friends may, can, or shall reinthronize his Majesty by War, 
His Majesty best to depend on the Parliament and Army, not on the City of London.  or Tumults, against the intentions of this very Parliament ( statu quo) its negative in astrology, and a lie, if the drowsy Malignant Prophets pipe otherwise; therefore his Majesty must depend upon the uprightness and moderation of his Parliament and their Army; all whose hearts God of his mercy incline to do justice equally without partiality; very little on the City of London, the Magistrates whereof being not ordained generally to concur, and besides, their Divisions seeming to be very many, one party still impeding and crossing another; nor are their Consultations ordained to be the restorers of his Majesty or Monarchy, what ever their own haughty desires may suggest unto themselves, either of their personal valours, or Purse abilities ( sic est Statutum;) so that in few words, I say, this Conjunction is not the antecedent, or precursor of enlargement to his Majesties person, or restauration to former dignities by any manner of means, 
The Author's desire for Peace, and settling his Majesty.  but a Treaty, for jupiter is his onely friend, and is the Author of council and Justice, Peace and tranquillity. I pray God give us both a Treaty, and Peace to succeed it, the thing I onely wish for in this World. Those must either be derived from other causes and configurations, or not be thought on from hence.  

success of Parliament.  And now I am to handle this Scheme of heaven, and this Conjunction as it hath any relation or any thing to do with the present Parliament and Commonalty of England, who now regulate our unsettled, 
Fixed Signs argue firmness and continuance.  disordered and dis-joyted affai●es. The Ascendant of this Conjunction is the third of scorpion, a fixed Sign, so are all the angles of the Figure; itis in Pla●icke trine unto the fourth of Pisces, Ascending at time of their first sitting 1640. Ergo, the body of this Parliament shall stand firm, shall not be potentially or actually dissipated. But Mars and Saturn, which signifies the Members of both Houses, 
Members questionable.  shows great fear and mistrusts in them, and that many of them shall totter, shake and be questioned, and found faulty, not of innocency, but of connivancy with the Scots, 
until some guilty of treachery in both houses be found out, we shall suffer.  of horrible Plots, and high misdemenors, of treachery against the very being of the whole Parliament. Its not a time now in this present exigent of time, or my custom to flatter any. In the name of God, let the guilty betrayers of public trust and selfe-seekers find equal justice with the worst of Malefactors; whoever he be, Lord or no Lord, Knight or no Knight, that wrongs or abuses the trust reposed in him by the Common-wealth; let him die the death; the most shamefullest of deaths. The sword of the Almighty, the just fury of the angry and amazed People; the uncouth clamour of thousands cry out against many of them; Justice must be done, it must not be delayed or prolonged; some must die, some must disgracefully be turned out of their Places( for we have been and are still betrayed by some in Authority;) some must be fleeced or let blood of such stocks of Money, as have been knavishly and theevishly purloined from the miserable Common-wealth. Committee men, Sequestrators, unjust Treasurers, 
Many people questioned.  Receivers and Disposers of the Kings Revenues, the venerable Excisers, my quondam Enemies; all must to the Bar of Justice.  
The influence of this Conjunction will squeeze many hundreds of pounds from such men, to the great content of the whole kingdom, and I hope satisfaction of Gods wrath, who will be extremely pleased with our Parliament when they administer equal Justice, and first begin with themselves; these things being performed will prove an exc●eding benefit unto the valiant soldier; who by such Mens means and the shi●king devices formerly of Treasu●ers and Subtreasurers, have been fed with a bit and a kn●cke. Yet let no Man imagine by these words, I dislike the aforesaid callings, viz. ei●her ●he excise or S●questration of them who deserve it, the present State having occasion of moneys, no, I do not: I on●l● quarrel a● the abus●s and unjustnesse of many of these Officers; and I desire the State to give a full and free liberty for such men to be questioned, and all thos● especially, 
This I know to be true by m very friend, Mr. B.  that under the notion of Sequ●strators revenge their own p●ivate quarrel or malice upon the miserable S●bject, making their own enemies D●linque●ts, upon no sufficient gr●und, but inveterate hatred of their own, whereby some mens estates are kept sequestrated two or three yeers, and by policy and indirect means, impeded, that they cannot be heard before the Lords and Commons of that Committee, &c.  
The ponderous effects of this malevolent Conjunction, 
Much trouble to the parliament.  though they shall much, and for a long time amuse and stumble this Parliament, and especially the honourable house of Commons, by reason of the many and infinite backslidings in the people themselves, and Members of their own house, and losses which they shall for a while sustain, and the daily and weekly contumelies, scandals, irreverent affronts in point of honour, they and several of their Members shall undergo: yet notwithstanding, fear not English Parliament, be not dismayed noble house of Commons, VIVE, VIVE, VIVE, thou shalt stand firm and immovable, like unto the stately Oak, 
The Parliament to continue long.  which scorns to buckle: it's true, some of thy rotten boughs, and unfaithful branches shall be lopped off from thee( I would they had never been of thee;) but as the main body of the tall and sturdy Oak stands untottered, or unshaken, against all blustering opposition of impetuous storms, and furious tempests; so shall thy main fabric: although many shall thy sufferings be, and thy patience as much; yea, even infinite! yet thou shalt overcome, and in the end acquire thy desires; and in thee, and by thy endeavours, 
The whole Kingdom happy in the Parliament and Army.  with this poor Army now so scorned, the whole Common-wealth of the Kingdom of England, even to a full perfection, and to the content of the greatest part of the Kingdom shall be blessed; which they will aclowledge, when God shall open their eyes to discern what is good for them.  
Nor let any Object unto me, that this is the worst Conjunction of Heaven, and these two Planets the worst of Significators for our Parliament, and thereby no such good can come unto them: Let these men speak on, but I wish them to consider what follows; Quando duae infortunae conjunguntur, fit ex eis fortuna perfecta, sicut ex duarum fortunarum conjunctione, & hoc secundum dicta Ptolomei, Almansor Apho. 7. When two Infortunes are conjoined( as now they are) there proceeds from thence or from their influences a perfect Fortune; 
Good to our parliament from this ill Conjunction.  even as there doth from the Conjunction of the two Fortunes: this is according to Ptolomie. Besides, we know God almighty many times suffers to be produced good from evil. So then, let the weekly Mercurian Prophets, descant according to their manner of lying, upon this Conjunction, which they pretend to be so fatal to our Parliament, and let them with open mouths and nasty pens deride my Predictions. I say it denotes, after a small expense of time, much happiness( the national misfortune considered) augmentation of friends, 
The Scots threatened.  and a glorious conquest of such as shall rise against them; yea, of jockey Scot and Hamilton the unfortunate, and of as many forward men of any City, County or country as shall presume to rise in arms to offend or disturb their Consultations, or blast their Army and its honour with reproaches, whether verbal or otherwise. And were there ever a Mercury against us of any judgement, or worthy of my anger or labour, I would openly against him and all of them dispute the point in question, before never so great an Auditory( be they Schollers or Gentlemen) even of their own best friends, &c. But as nasty vermin, born to destruction, I scorn nomination of the best of that beggarly crew of drunken Sots, who live by writing lies against the honour of our Parliament; an account whereof they must give to God one day, &c. But I desire all along to be charitably understood, concerning the event and success of my Predictions; for my meaning still is( not intermeddling with Gods divine providence) but as far as may be seen by natural causes in astrology, that such things shall come to pass. For its most true which Dasipodius aphorism 14. hath; mayor est vis astrorum quam ut quisquam eam estimare posset, nam legum & imperiorum mutationes & naturae miracula( non inquam illa queen divina fiunt providentia) quae varii ad varia referunt, ab his prodeunt. The vigour and influence of the Stars and Planets, and their virtue, is greater then any can well imagine; for the mutations of Laws and kingdoms, and the Miracles of Nature proceed from hence;( I mean not those which are Miraculously disposed by Providence, or a Divine hand;) the former changes I say come from influence of the Planets, though many refer them to other causes.  
But if it be Objected, How comes the Parliament into so many afflictions, even at present time before this Conjunction? First, without doubt its Gods judgement upon this kingdom. Secondly, according to nature itis thus, viz. that at this time of our Conjunction, Mars, the general Significator of England, is Cadent from Aries his own house; a thing very unfortunate, I confess, as it is well observed by Bethem Apho. 14. Quando Planeta est cadens a domo sua, aut a domo exaltationis est ut vir, &c. When a Planet is cadent from his own House, or the House of his exaltation; he is like a Man absent from his dwelling house, or from his own town or City. This may excellently be applied to our present affairs; for while our Armies are the one at Colchester, 
Hamilton and some Scots the cause of our trouble.  the other in Wales, there appears an Enemy in the North, viz. Sir Marmaduke Langdale, and in july the unluckie-Hamilton and his ragged Scottish Army came over Tweed, all whom I trust God will confounded, as enemies and destroyers of those good men in Scotland, our true Brethren, that have so much courage and conscience, as to say, his engagement against us, is wholly unlawful, and who by this intrusion endeavours the breach of that League which hath continued betwixt us five and forty yeers, to the great advantage of the whole people of Scotland; so that herein this aphorism hath its full influence, and effect.  
But yet notwithstanding the Scots invasion and Londons failings, and those extreme misfortunes which have of late, and shal further press our Parliament in their aff●irs; yet seriously considering every particular which might conduce to our support, I find that the good hand of God will not suffer them to be destroyed, 
Parliament to flourish, maugre all their their enemies.  for he hath ordained the North Node of Venus to be in the thirteenth degree of geminy, and in the same Sign, viz. in five degrees, the Caput Draconis of Jupiter is: so that miraculously, and by the immediate and out-stretched hand of God, and by means and men contemptible, our Parliament shall continue, and not be overthrown, massacred, or enforced to fly, or submit to base or slavish terms, or treaties( I mean such as be unbeseeming for them) or the unnec●ssary directions and Petitions of busy men, and hairbrained fellows, who print their own sordid conceptions as Directories to our Parliament: I pray God they will now at length make good use of th●ir time, and of all happy occasions whereby we may come to a happy Union with his Majesty, and of a right understanding of all such things conducing to the welfare of this tottered and disl●cated Kingdom, as may be convenient, 
How it concerns the multitude.  &c. Amongst the common people this shows great murmuring, repining, discontent and giddy resolutions, apt to revolt or take any part, or to receive any impr●ssion, gr●at fears and jealousies, loss in their Cattle and Corn, &c. But sith both Planets are swift in motion, I hope these great mischiefs shall not fix any great space of time, but shall grow less and less about thirty five weeks after the day of the very Conjunction itself: 
Great hopes in 150. days. of subdduing our e●emies.  and if this defection or mischief be not by Providence intended general, I hope about one hundred fifty five dayes to be accounted from the Conjunction, we shall have in some measure subdued many of our enemies; yet shall not we then come to a final end, or to a period of our troubles; for Operationes Planetarum nunquam cessant, donec contrario a Planeta vel Stella fixa, aut Signi parte contrariae qualitatis impediantur vel in Solis radios incidunt, carded. Seg. 2. Apho. 63. The influence of the Planets never cease operating, until impedited by some Planet or fixed Star of a contrary nature to those which preceded, or until the Planet who is principal Significator fall into combustion: We have no forcible aspect to mitigate these sad disasters, until by transit Jupiter about the two and twentieth of August, seemeth by his Sextile aspect unto Mars, 
Good to be expected unto the Parliament in the latter end of August, and in Sp●tember 1648.  to alloy and diminish part of these evils now raging: but in regard that very day the Moon suffers three oppositions, viz. of the Sun, Venus and Mercury, that Sextile aspect produceth little good, unless some rout or knocking of the miserable Scots in the North: About the middle of September both Venus and the Sun aspect Mars with their Sextile, but it's in such places of heaven, that it onely supports and keeps us alive, but gives no absolute Victory, or not such a knocking one as my heart wishes; but in the latter end of September, and beginning of October, or near or before those times, we have very good hopes, either totally or in great measure of defeating all, or most of our enemies, both Cavaliers and blew-Bonnets, and to sand them home as empty of plunder as they were of honesty when they came in.  
But now let us see in general, 
Temperature of Weather.  what this Conjunction may signify, as unto the temperature of Weather, and season of the year, &c. according to Albumazar, Diff. 8. Mars si fuerit Dominus anni & in aërea Triplicitate( as now of the remainder of the year he is, viz. from the ingress of the Sun into Cancer) si fuerit Directus, & non aspexerit ascendens, significat plurimas oombustiones & nocumentum ab ignibus, & aegritudines qaae adveniunt hominibus causa sanguinis, & destructionem vegitabilium causa valetudinis ventorum: Mars, as now posited, signifies many Combustions, hurt by Fire, Sicknesses to man by reason of corrupted blood, no great good to the vegetable Plants of the earth. Somewhat to the same purpose he delivers of the position of Saturn in geminy; Qui si non aspexerit ascendens significat flatum ventorum ineessanter & fortitudinem eorum, &c. But when this conjunction of Saturn and Mars is in geminy, and in the second or eighth, significat destructionem censuum, depressionem famae divitum & apparentiam egestatis & paupertatis & debilitatis in plebibus: viz. unusual winds shall arise, and they incessantly molest us, &c. the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the eighth house or second, 
Nobility imp●verished.  intimates an impoverishment in the Revenues of the rich men, and a depression of their famed and esteem, and an appearance of poverty in many of the common sort of people. And because scorpion is the ascendant of this Conjunction, you shall hear the opinion of the same Author; Cum scorpion ascenderit tempore conjunctionis alicujus duarum infortunarum apparebunt in Civitatibus supper quas est( Almuzfauli) Reges pulchrarum facierum, prodigi multas expendentes pecunias & coitus; & multiplicabun●ur Philosophi, & Paraletici, & Medicinae, & ingenia hominum pauca fient in rebus quas perscrutabuntur, & multiplicabuntur guerrae & bella & Depredationes insceleritate, & acuitas, & levitas, & Planctus, & carcer, & carcerati, & angustiae, & tristitiae; & proditio, & accusatio, & mixturatio, & interfectio, & aegritudines, & accident tenebrae in hora post horam; corroborabitur frigus hyemis & flabunt in mediatate ejus venti occidentales, & multiplicabuntur in eo pluviae, & significat multum timorem in pluribus terris. When the Sign of scorpion shall ascend at the time of a Conjunction of the two Infortunes, there will appear in those Kingdoms, Cities or Countries whereof he is principal Significator, Kings, or Princes, or Magistrates pretending fair, men prodigal, expending much treasure, many confederacies; there will abound many learned men, or Philosophers, many will have the palsy, 
Wars to be e●pected.  or Falling-evil, much use there will be of physic, few mens endeavours shall attain the ends they desire; Wars and slaughters shall be multiplied, many depredations or inroads, with much wickedness; much sharpness, great levity and doleful laments shall be amongst men, much woe and misery to those imprisoned, and many captived; there will be treachery and accusing one another, mixing one ill act with another, killing one another, great store of sickness, a dark air, and ill season day after day; the could of Winter will be extreme, and in the midst of Winter the West wind will blow boisterously, many showers will fall; the mindes of men in divers parts of the Kingdom will be extreme fearful, and quiter out of order. How really this judgement hath in part been verified, 
mayor huntingdon censured.  I need not mention in any other thing then in mayor huntingdon his malicious slander of Lieutenant general cronwell; yet is that simplo Accusation hugged and entertained most willingly. I forbear that aspersion cast upon mayor Rolfe, in regard many of the adverse Party believe it not, and of another valiant soldier of Colonel Riches Regiment, accused by no better a witness then a mad woman. But we shall not be always unhappy, for God will deliver our Army from the hands of such as would willingly hang them, for their service done to the Kingdom.  
The arabic Authors most of them concur in this manner of judgement, and indeed I do more rely upon those significations attending the influence of Mars, then of Saturn, because he is Lord of the ascendant in this Conjunction, and of the remainder of this year in the annual Revolution: this is my opinion, grounded upon reason; and if the event prove contrary, I wish the Ancients had left us better presidents: for it is most true that Cardan observed of Ptolomey, 
general accidents not handled by Ptolomey sufficiently.  Tractatus de mundi rebus generalibus tenuius a Ptolomeo traditus est, quam pro tanto negotio expediret: viz. Ptolomey left that part of astrology lame, or wrote of it very slenderly, which handled the Revolution of the world, and general accidents thereunto belonging: yet there might be some reason given for it: for in Ptolomey's time, the whole earth knew no more but one Emperour, and he of Rome, &c. it might as well be objected, Homerus non vidit omnia, it's not an easy labour, or as yet have there been any have waded far into it.  
But time will enlarge more Authors; and indeed Antiquity is much to be discommended, either for revealing so little, or obscuring so great a benefit from us; for Escuidus( who onely of all the Ancients writes most copiously of Revolutions onely upon a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars, wherein Mars is elevated above Saturn in geminy, saith, Multae guerrae, multae aegritudines & mors in eis; Pluviae, tonitrua, & corruscationes, page. 32. Many Wars, much debate, many sicknesses and death ensuing from thence, rain, thunder, sights, apparitions, or Meteors in the air; the words indeed are significant, yet short. But Albumasar had he been rightly Translated, I conceive, had spoken more truth; for he saith, Mars in geminy Dolores aurium in hominibus, & variolas, & Morbillos, & interfectionem in septentrionem, cum multo Latracinio, & eruntnocumenta hominibus, preter tonitrua & coruscationes, causa vehementis frigoris, &c. Mars and geminy imports much infirmity in Peoples ears, the small Pox and measles, slaughter in the North, 
Bloodshed in the North.  much theevishnesse; Men will also suffer many other detriments by reason of the excess of could weather. And besides, in his Flores, he saith, Si Saturnus in geminy erit, & Latitudo Meridionalis & etiam Orientalis à sole significat calorem temporis, cum paucitate pluviarum & multitudinem Pestilentiarum, & multos morbos mortalium, & infirmitatem regum & magnatum; & si Mars in eodem signo, fuerit & Orientalis, multitudinem pluviarum & pustularum hominum. By reason of the mixture of Mars with Saturne, much rain; Saturn in geminy alone signifies no such thing; here is signified the Pestilence amongst men; an infirmity afflicting Kings and Nobles; abundance of people languishing with the small Pox.  
I shall say something concerning the City of London in the words of an Author of no mean esteem, viz. Johannes Escuidus, 
Somewhat to the City of London.  page. 39. When you find a conjunction of the superiors in geminy, or an eclipse in that Sign. Apparebit in civitatibus & regionibus supper quas est signum Geminorum Dominator: nimia consideratio in scientiis; etiam quae sunt supper naturam ut sunt Theologia, & scientiae superiores ut Astronomia & Scientiae Prophetiae, & Fidei; & accident eis aegritudines, & hominibus, dolores capitis, mors in animalibus cum multo fl●tu ventorum calidorum venenosorum in quarta estivali; & modico flatu in quarta au●umnali; & multiplicabuntur plavie in quarta hyemali, & significat multa tonitrua & ventos horribiles destruentes redditum & praecipue in partibus meridionalibus multiplicabuntur messes in plu●imis clim●tibus, & erunt aborsus Praegnantium & mors in Pueris, & significat multitudinem fructuum hordei et dattilorum, cum salute Arborum.  
There will appear in these Regions and Cities, where the People are subject to the Sign geminy, too much consideration and conceit of their own wisdoms, or too great an esteem of their own judgements; yea, even of and in such things as seem to be above nature, 
These must be expected the next Summer.  as in theology and in superior Sciences, viz. kowledge of astronomy, prophesy, Faith, men shall be troubled with infirmiti●s in the head; death of Cattle shall succeed, many high Winds, sultry infections, or poisonous in the Summer quarter; little wind in the autumnal quarter; much rain in the Winter season; much Thunder; horrible Winds, destroying Mens yearly Revenues, especially in the southern parts; store of Corn in many Climates; Women subject to many abortions; the death of Infants or young Men; store of Dates or Barley, &c.  

A doubtful season as to the Weather, and famine th●ea●ned.  From hence we may conceive a doubtful season as to the Weather, and not many over-plentifull crops of corn( the whole scope of this Conjunction threatening a Dearth and Famine) I mean generally. I might be more copious, but the principal thing intended from this Conjunction, is, mu●h affliction to those Families that had beginning in 1603. and since; it shows not his Majesties restitution by words, tumultuous Petitions, or the Sword of the Scot; it doth not design the failing, falling or dissolution of this Parliament, or of his Excellencies Army, by or from the many clandestine Plots either of the City, Scot, English or Irish, or some, or any of their own Members.  

loss to the Citizens.  It intimates great losses and detriment unto the City of London, impoverishment of many of her Children, little Trade or Commerce, want of provision, of Victuals, by reason of its excess deernesse. I pray God it prove not a Plague, as well as a Famine. 
The whole Kingdom invited to join with the Parliament and Army.  It is the resolution of my heart to serve God; and itis my earnest desire, that as many of the Kingdom as either know me, or have any esteem of my person or works, that they leave molesting the Parliament with unnecessary Petitions, that they stand firm, and as one man join with the Parliament and Army against all opposers; whereby they shall preserve the Liberty of this Kingdom, their own privileges; and, I hope, re-estate either his Majesty, if God have so decreed it, or some of his Posterity; how ever, I stand resolved with my whole heart to pray fo● his Majesties restoring to former Dignities, if God see it good; to serve the Parliament, and this Army now under the Command of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, with all my strength and might, as the onely means upon earth to secure us and all our Fortunes: nor will I ever cease to wish all prosperity to the City and Citizens of London; unto whom, and unto the whole kingdom, God for his mercies sake grant Peace, Prosperity, thankful and obedient hearts:  
Being the strong wishes of W. L. Finitur July 27. 1648.   

A PROSPECT of the Weather for the month of July 1648. next succeeding this present Conjunction, as it was exactly observed.  
JUly the first, 1648. A very lowering, thick, overcast sky, and much Rain, the wind south-west.  
The second, great store of Rain the later part of the foregoing night, and this morning till six or seven a clock, the wind very high and could, and Northerly all day; the afternoon some comfortable Sun-shine, with some flying clouds.  
The third, a very dark and gloomy drizzling morning and forenoon, the wind till that time Northerly and very could; after one a clock in the afternoon, glorious and warm Weather, in respect of what it hath been a long time, the wind Westerly; towards seven of the clock at night, the air again overcast and dark, but very calm, and no probability of ill Weather.  
The fourth, the morning and forenoon dark, druggy Weather, and so until about six in the evening, when it began somewhat to clear up, the wind Northerly all day, and very cool.  
The fifth, the morning and forenoon much like the last day, about two in the afternoon it cleared up, and proved brave Weather, the wind Northerly all day.  
The sixth, fine Weather in the morning, and till about ten of the clock, the rest of the day overcast, dark Weather, and much drizzling and Rain, the wind Westerly.  
The seventh, divers showers, and sometimes Sun-shine, but for the most part a clouded threatening sky, the wind north-west.  
The eighth day the forenoon somewhat cloudy and lowering, but no Rain; after two of the clock brave clear Weather, the wind north-west.  
The ninth, cloudy gloomy Weather all day, and good store of Rain in the afternoon, the wind south-west, and toward night removed somewhat Northerly.  
The tenth, sometimes much overcast, sometimes very clear and warm, dry all day; the wind north-west.  
The eleventh, dry( warm) weather, though many times very threatening Clouds, the wind westerly.  
The twelfth, fine seasonable weather, very warm and dry, the wind westerly.  
The thirteenth; fair and very warm weather, the wind westerly.  
The fourteenth, the morning somewhat close, till about ten of the clock, afterward very brave Hay-weather; the wind easterly, a fine fresh gale.  
The fifteenth, close, dark weather, threatening Rain, yet it held pretty dry; the wind Southeast, &c. some smurring towards night.  
The sixteenth, an obscure close air, some Rain, but not in abundance, gentle, still gales of wind, and it South.  
The seventeenth, a louring, dark morning, the winds high and boisterous, after noon some drops of Rain, the wind South.  
The eighteen a fair, clear air, but little Sun-shine, the wind whistling very high westerly.  
The nineteenth, a gloomy day, thick clouds, no Sun-shine, pretty cool, and the wind high, west.  
The twentieth, the weather wholly corresponding with the former day, saving now and then the Sun broken forth; the wind west.  
The 21. day, a clear Sun shine day, very calm and temperate, no excess either in wind or Sun-shine; the wind west.  
The 22. a drowsy, drizzling morning, cool air, threatening moisture, the wind very high, and west, or a little north-west.  
The 23. a very cool morning, the air windy, and flying clouds dispersing to several quarters, after noon some drops of Rain, now and then the Sun shining waterishly; the wind West.  
The 24. a sharp, cool air, yet much Sun-shine, the wind tumbling and high, and it west and by north.  
The 25. a temperate dry air, the Sun-shining very clear; the wind west, &c.  
The 26. a very warm sun-shine day, no wind appearing, all things calm and serene, the wind standing south-west.  
The 27. a windy whirling season, yet the air temperate, and a fair sun-shine; the wind west.  
The 28. a very clear day much sun-shine, the wind west.  
The 29. Very little sun-shine, a gloomy could morning, and so the could continuing all day; the wind east.  
The 30. a few drops in the afternoon, else a temperate windy day, and southeast.  
The 31. A little windy, and very cool air until noon, then Rain, 〈◇〉 the winds rose high, continuing south-west.   

The NATIVITY of Duke HAMILTON.  
 astrological chart 
Duke-Hamilton: born: ♂ june 17o. 21: 33 P. M 1606 Latt: 56   
HIS Majesty, were he any way inclinable to astrology, and should see this mans Nativity, might well say unto him, And thou also James Hamilton, hast aspiring thoughts, and one day intendest to be a greater man, then bare James Duke Hamilton.  
It's not possible his Majesty should be angry with me, or any of his royal Race, that I intermeddled with the fate of this man, for he hath been the most unthankful and unfortunate man that lives, unto his Majesty and his Designs; and as to the Parliament of England, how maliciously ingratefull he now appears, let the whole Kingdom, and all Europe judge at present, and Posterity retain it in everlasting memory hereafter.  
He appeared so unthankful, and did his Majesty so many disservices, that in Oxford he stood committed by a general consent of the King's counsel; 
His Majesties grace to Hamilton.  and when his life might well and justly have been taken from him, his Majesty out of his gracious clemency did not permit it, but spared him, contrary to all mens advice, and onely sent him prisoner to Pendennis in Cornwall, where he continued in durance, until in 1646. our Parliaments forces released him; he came to London, and had other civilities from them; yet now in 1648. in requital of their favours, he onely, yea, 
Hamilton unthankful to the King and Kingdom.  he and his envious faction, have provoked the Scottish Nation to wave the Covenant,( no cause being given by us) to become perfidious, and to raise an offensive War, and to invade our Kingdom with a considerable Army; nay, to enter our Country with that Army, as in July last he did, to permit plundering, robbing, stealing, and all manner of insolences against the English; himself being the Ringleader of this Army, or( if you will have it so) their Captain general: To the Kingdom of England itself, he is most mischievous, who having had the greatest part of his education here amongst us, and augmented his fortune exceedingly, by the bounty of his Prince, and some Monopolies and Revenues of his Place; yea married a princely woman of our Nation, had children by her: now I say, after this to invade us, and to make the quarrel betwixt us and the Scots irreconcilable, when as we were before well united. For these considerations I fear his sin is unpardonable as unto us English, &c.  
Verily his Nativity is not inconsiderable, 
judgement on his Nativity:  but a very promising one; doubtless his Stars incline him to achieve very great Preferment, to soar high, and to adventure dangerously to obtain it: for having the Luminary of the time, viz. the Sun, angular, pofited in the tenth, the Moon in a sinister Sextile to Mercury Lord of his ascendant, and he placed very auspitiously in the mid-heaven, very near unto many eminent( though turbulent) fixed Stars, of great magnitude; the Planet himself stationary unto Direction, reception also happening betwixt the Sun and Moon, the Dragon's head in the ascendant, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn all in their own houses; these configurations well thought on, his own extraction being also noble, and his Sovereign not living in Scotland, the people themselves a stubborn, stiff necked people, apt to commotions, deadly feudes, and to be rebellious against their Prince: all these things rightly considered, might move a moderate Astrologer( for such a one, I have heard by his own familiars, he himself is) to promise a smattering of Regality unto this Duke; I assure you, the Stars declare a fit capacity for such a thing, a mind sufficiently inclinable thereunto, a pretty ambition, or the like, unto that we call sovereignty, or unto most high Designs: for we will express things in modest terms.  
It shall be now ou● part to discover whether he shall attain the thing desired, 
Whether Duke Hamilton shal obtain a Kingdom.  yea or no? viz. a Kingdom, which some of his own Nation have not failed publicly to writ, he earnestly desires.  
In regard the three superior Planets are all under the earth, and all retrograde, and that Saturn is in opposition to the Sun, both the Sun and Moon peregrine, the Moon falling into the eighth house, ergo, the Luminaries shall not design, or do in present or in future any royal Dignity unto this Duke, or in plain terms, the Crown of Scotland; it's Mercury alone of all the Planets, because pofited in the tenth house, with that assistance he receives from the Moon, as also Oculus Tauri, near the cusp of the tenth house, that hitherto hath advanced him to the several Charges and Preferments he hath had in England and Scotland: So then we must in an astrological judicature account the Planet Mercury his principal Sngnificator of honour; you shall have our judgement therein, in pag. 623. of the Introduction what that may signify.  

What Mercury signifies when he designs honour.  When Mercury hath signification of Honour, and aspects the Lumina●ies, Honours increase speedily in the beginning, and do also continue for a while; but in the end, he shall partake of great difficulty in preserving them; for Mercury is an unstable Planet, &c. Again, when Mercury is moderately fortified, he threatens ruin; yet the Native shall not fall totally, for his Understanding shall preserve him.[ This hath been in some measure exactly verified several times in the passages of his life; for whenas the Duke hath formerly been suspected of treachery or disservice to his Majesty, and he questioned, 
Hamilton not born to be successful in War.  he ever got off again by one trick of Wit or another, or by his Policy, and so evaded.] His Stars are totally unfortunae in point of Warfare; he neither can or shall ever perform any action of Honour by Commands, as a general over Armies: let him be accounted( as he is) one who hath the greatest reach of human Policy, for advance of his own proper Designs, of any man alive; yet therein will he never be successful, or so much happy, as that any honour, or good in the end shall accrue unto him thereby. I say no more, but that this very Duke is his Majesties worst enemy, both in Action and council, retards his Majesties Designs, and destroys them, is not ordained ever to advantage his Majesty: Let the Prince beware of Hamilton's councils; 
He once hanged an English Gentleman in Germany, one Mr. Geo●ge Hamond, as I am informed.  unto Scotland he is a firebrand, to England a malicious enemy, to mankind itself no friend. For a farewell I say unto him, The eight and fortieth year of his age will fatally afflict him, if the fury of the people spare him so long, or the rage of an incensed Nobility slaughter him not sooner: he is very near danger at present. In his eight and fortieth year, Luna is directed ad oppositum Martis, &c. let himself see what it signifies.  
Since this was finished, God's Name be praised for it, his Dukeship is wholly routed by the valiant and fortunate cronwell, and he fled to the Mountains of Wales: Let him ever be so valiant and so fortunate, as to be well beaten, and to run away from the pursuit of our English Armies.  
His rout was the seventeenth, eighteen and nineteenth of August 1648. to the glory of God be it wrote, and honour of cronwell: Our Army under the Lieutenant-general being not nine thousand; Hamilton's one and twenty thousand. Thus God blesses Covenant breakers and perfidious men with shane and dishonour, and so he will ever I hope. If the Scots have any more stomach to fight, let them be sure their Duke Hamilton will make such a general as we desire.  
I had some astrological reasons to have inserted unto this present Discourse, 
A Solar eclipse in 0. 3. of Cancer. June 10. 1648. designed their ruin  whereby I probably conjectured the downfall of this present Army of the Scots: but because God hath already confounded them, I forbear to publish that piece of astrology: yet I give the Scottish Nation, so many of them as have not sold themselves to wickedness, this Admonition.  

SCOTLAND, thy good Angel hath now forsaken thee, 
The fate of Scotland if again invade.  I well know all January and February last were spent in clandestine, nocturnal Consultations to destroy us; the Design then was brought to some maturity, but thy poverty could not perfect it without friends; thy Emissaries then and since laboured hard, both in London and Westminster, to comply with thee; God hath already in part, and will more hereafter scourge thy private English friends, even almost to poverty and destruction; nor shalt thou ever en●oy a soot of ground in ENGLAND, or come near the City of York, in an hostile manner, for Yo●k shall be a very royal City. 
A child is now born, shall live and see York a most flourishing City.  Invade us again, for so thou intendest, but then expect not so fair an enemy as cromwell, nor such fair quarter as now is given thee: Jockey, Jemmy, and Moggy thy she-souldier, must then all to the sword; and fire, famine and destruction follows, even to the walls, and into the heart of edinburgh itself.  
Sic dixit Merlinus Anglicus.    

To the whole KINGDOM.  
countrymen of England:  
A Scandalous and lying sheet of Paper this month of August 1648. issued forth from some impure Pen, greatly to the dishonour of many worthy Members of the House of Commons, who therein are unjustly charged with several sums of Money pretended to be given unto them by the Parliament. Although I am not ignorant how freely this libel or Budget of lies is accepted for truth, both in the City and country, and how hard a matter it will be to divert the stream of mens fancies, already poisoned with pre-occupation; yet I am confident that what I shall inform unto our own kingdom, being grounded upon sufficient arguments and undeniable truths, will abundantly satisfy many mens judgements, and enforce a Recantation in all noble spirits of their former sinister misapprehensions against all these Members of Parliament whom I shall nominate( all Members of the House, I neither can or dare, or will excuse.) In the name of God let the guilty suffer according to Merit, and those who justly deserve it; let the justice of the House of Commons clear their walls of all such impure Birds as have any way defiled the honour and esteem of a Parliament. In the behalf of all these whom I mention, I profess sincerity, I flatter none, but writ impartial truths, nor am I obliged to any one man of these I name, even for civill courtesies, except unto Bolstrod Whitlocke, Esq; one of the honourable Commissioners for the great Seal, and Robert Reynolds Esq; formerly one of the Parliaments Commissioners in Ireland; besides these whom I vindicate, there are, I am assured, many more who are innocent even of the least corruption; but having no direction from them, let some other Pen proceed to their defence.  
There is one clause in the libelers sheet, which is a general Charge against all the Members of the House, I have thought good to check this notorious untruth in the first place; he saith thus:  
Every Member of the House of Commons, 
Charge.  being in all 516. are by their own Order allowed four pounds per week a Man, which amounts to one hundred and ten thousand pounds a year.  
Tis true, that in June 1645. 
Vindicat.  the House taking into consideration the necessities of divers Members, many of them having their whole Estates lying in the Western parts, and for full three yeers together they had received no benefit out of them, the same being all that time under the power of the Enemy and actually sequestered, did Order upon the desires of many of them( who never asked as long as they could take up moneys at interest upon their own credits) that they should have four pounds a week for the maintenance of them and their Families, 
No Parliament man had allowance of 4 l. a week above one year.  out of the King and Queens revenues, who did then and all the time before, take and receive the profit of the Estates of the said Members, the which was granted to, and received by seventy three of them and no more, for one year onely, they refusing to receive it longer, their Estates being reduced unto them, the which allowance was never desired, given to, or received, either by the said Denzell holes, edmond Prydeanx, Roger Hill, Francis rouse, Nicholas Love, Dennis Bond, John Bond, Luke Hodges, John Stephens, John ash, Thomas Ceely, Robert black, or John Venn, whose whole estates then lay in the Western Counties, and were no ways profitable to them during the whole time of the late troubles. This is the very truth impartially related; all the whole sum which these seventy three Members had in one whole year not amounting unto fifteen thousand pounds, to maintain seventy three Families; many of these Gentlemen being of that quality as formerly they expended yearly out of their own Revenues some one thousand, some two thousand pounds per annum. I appeal unto the whole kingdom whether these Members, who faithfully did their duties even in those ill times, and whom no worldly calamity or threats could enforce to desert the public Cause of the Common-wealth, have not well merited these petty sums the House conferred on them; not out of the public Stock( as the impudent liar affirms) but out of the Kings and Queens Revenues, who having these Mens Estates sequestered in their hands, were gainers annually of at least forty thousand pounds a year. You now see this mountain of lies, this one hundred and ten thousand pounds per annum, proves a little Mouse; a thing of fifteen thousand, and that but for one year, and not out of the public Treasury; and this Money conferred on such brave Spirits, whose Names deserve to be eternally recorded in the Monument of famed, for being so faithful and so constant to the Common-wealth, notwithstanding their worldly pressures.  

Charge.  Bulstrode Whitlock, Commissioner of the great Seal, worth 1500. li. per an. and had 2009. li. given him out of Master George Minn's esttae.  

Vindicat.  Master Whitlock,( a Gentleman of much honour and gallantry) after his faithful service performed in Parliament, and their service, from the very beginning, and oftentimes adventuring his life for them, after his laying out of his own purse great sums of money upon several occasions, in their service, and in four journeys upon Treaties for Peace, in some whereof the Parliament gave no allowance, and in the rest far short of the expense: in satisfaction of those his great disbursements, and of his being extremely plundered, his chief Mansion-house demolished, his Revenue taken away for many yeers, his Estate disposed of by the Kings Party, and his losses amounting to the value of above ten thousand pounds, the Parliament were pleased to allow him two thousand pounds out of Moneys seized upon by them: 
He is a counselor at Law very learned, and in great practise.  They did likewise make him one of the Commissioners for the great Seal without his knowledge, which is not of the value mentioned in the paper, and thereby took him from his employment in his profession, which was of more benefit to him, and from his future expectation therein.  
How willingly this libeler would asperse any man of honour, it's evident, by his malicious urging such trivial matter unto this my noble Patron, as a blemish. This is that Master Whitlock, who in all Occasions, Consultations and Debates, so judiciously and modestly hath demeaned himself, and in his now place of Judicature, so equally distributes justice, that I challenge all the whole p●ck of malignant scribblers, to mention, if they can, one syllable of his injustice: But upon so pure a soul, no dirt will fasten.  

Charge.  Roger Hill, a barrister of the Temple, in no practise, nor of a considerable Estate, till this Parliament; hath now from the House, the Bishop of Winchester's Mannour of Taunton-Dean, being the best of England, and worth 12000. li. per an. when the Estates for lives determine.  
How injuriously this shuffling fellow deals with Master Roger Hill, I shall make it presently appear: 
Vindicat.  This Master Hill had before this Parliament as good practic● as any of his standing, and was one of a considerable fortune in money; and it's well known that in 1640. he contracted with Sir Aribur Ingram, for a Mannour in Dorsetshire, and was to pay for it more money then half the purchase of T●unton-Dean: but that bargain not going forward, he now hath purchased at most dear rates Taunton-Dean; yet not all the Mannour, but part of the bare Rents and Casualties never to be improved: The income of all the whole Rents, as it's returned from the Records themselves, are under 900. li. per an. It's also well known, that Master Hill hath the Park( anciently belonging to the said Mannour) by descent from his Father, whose Ancestors almost two hundred yeers have enjoyed the same, being purchased by them from the Bishop that then was, and severed from the Mannour; so that above twelve parts of thirteen of this Libeller's yearly value is taken off, and he stands recorded for a gross liar and Incendiary, whose sole aim is to dishonour those Members who have most cordially stood firm unto this Parliament, as this Master Hill hath done, to his very great honour, and everlasting renown. By what I have wrote, you find Master Hill abused, and the Parliament charged with manifest untruth; for a Turk or a Scot might have had the purchase of Taunton-Dean at as easy rates as Master Hill.  
Oliver St. John, by Ordinance both Attorney, and Solicitor to the King, 
Charge.  worth what he please to make it; and hath the passing of all Pardons upon Compositions; worth 40000. li.  
Oliver St. John, 
Vindicat.  neither attorney nor Solicitor by Ordinance of Parliament; and if the Pardons had come to 40000. l. he could have had it by virtue of his Place, though no Member of Parliament; & he would be beholding to the forger of the List, if he could make it appear, that much more then a fortieth part of 40000. li. hath been received, or is due for such Pardons; and the slanderer himself knows, that by reason of his attendance on the Parliament, and the distractions of the time, his Place is not at all considerable, to what it would have been without a Parliament, or hath been to his Predecessors, who have made more of it in one year, then he hath done in seven. But the Common-wealth might have been beholding to this great pretender of their good, if he had acquainted them with any illegal or unjust vexations of the Subject by him done, by colour of his Place; which perhaps some of his Predecessors have been guilty of.  

Charge.  Francis Thorp, a receiver of public moneys in Yorkshire, and charged by some of his countrymen for detaining 25000. li.  

Vindicat.  Francis Thorp was never receiver of any public moneys in Yorkshire, nor in any other place; nor did he ever buy, purchase, or farm any thing of the State; nor hath he ever received 4. li. per week, or any other sum from the State: and therefore he is confident none of his countrymen will charge him, and is very sure none can justly charge him with detaining either 25000. li. or any other sum to the value of a shilling.  
What a villainous Incendiary is this libeler, thus to traduce this worthy man with so heinous and so false untruths; but it's scandal enough against any man, that he stand firm to his country, &c.  

Charge.  Sir Thomas Widrington, a Commissioner of the great Seal; worth 1500 l. per an.  

Vindicat.  All the North of England know the integrity and justness of this Knight, and we in the South do well know the benefit of his practise, before the Houses made him a Commissioner of the great Seal, did far surmount the annual sum this liar mentions, as conferred on him by the Houses.  

Charge.  Sir Gilbert Gerrard, much in debt before the Parliament; pay-master to the Army, and had 3d. per pound allowed, besides Gratuities; worth 60000l. and now Chancellor of the duchy; worth 1200l. per an.  

Vindicat.  The whole County of Middlesex can inform this absurd liar, that Sir Gilbert Gerrard was neither indebted or necessitated for moneys before the Parliament; and how little benefit he hath received by his being Treasurer; or his allowance of 3.d. per pound, it is publicly known, more then 1000. li. for all his 3. d. per pound, I could never learn he received: He is too noble, and too much a Gentleman to receive gratuities; but in doing courtesies to his friends, and in affection to the common good, he is inferior to none: Being charged with threescore thousand pounds; lo, but one appears: he is now its true chancellor of the duchy, Nomen sine re; I am confident, it hath not hitherto been worth to him so much money as would buy halters to hang up a dozen of such scandalous liars.  
John Bond( son to Dennis Bond, 
Charge.  a Parliament man) made Master of Trinity hall in Cambridge, which Master Selden refused to accept of.  
Master John Bond hath the repute of a learned man, 
Vindicat.  and is made Master of Trinity hall, which Master Selden refused to accept of: this is a grand offence for one scholar to be preferred in the room of another; Don Quixote doubtless was of council in framing this information.  
Sir Thomas Walsingham, the honour of Eltham, 
Charge.  that was the Earl of Dorsets, the middle Park and house, which was Master Whites, and hath cut down 4000. timber trees.  
Sir Thomas Walsingham is most unjustly charged to have cut down 4000. timber trees out of his Majesties Woods: one Bently, 
Vindicat.  Surveyor of his Majesties Lands, hath publicly affirmed in print that the total of the Wood sales from midsummer 1644. till midsummer 1648. amounts to 602. l. and so much he makes it appear he hath paid in to the Receivers: though Bently was formerly a Scrivener, yet sure he may now be believed. If 4000. timber trees had been cut down and sold, the price thereof would have amounted to more then three times the sum Bently mentions.  
Robert Reynolds had 2000. l. given him; besides Abingdon hall, 
Charge.  and the Lands, worth 400. l. per an. Hath bought a good pennyworth of Bishops Lands; hath 20000. l. beyond Sea, as he made appear upon his marriage.  
Master Reynolds hath served from the first beginning of this Parliament, was sent one of the Committee into Ireland, 
Vindicat.  in October 1642. where he conflicted with indefatigable pains, in promoting the War against the Rebels for five moneths, to the exream h●zard of his life, both by Sea and Land, hath been out of purse above 1800. l. in ready money, these six yeers, for the service of England and Ireland; and by taking away the Court of Wards, hath lost 800. l. per an. at the least; in his practise. For all which service and sufferings, he is rewarded with this groundless malicious falsehood: namely, That the Parliament hath given him 2000. l. in money, and Abingdon Hall, worth 400. l. per an. mere lies and forgeries; And that he hath 20000. l. in money beyond the Seas: of all which there is not one word true, or that hath any colour of truth. And for his good pennyworth of Bishops Lands, which he is there said to have over and above; it was so good in his esteem, that when he had contracted for it, he would not have gone on with his bargain, had he not been compelled thereto by an Ordinance of Parliament, and offered both before the Contractors and Trustees for Bishops Lands, to give 500. l. to any one that would take his purchase from off his hands; neither ever had he any Office or employment of advantage by the Parliament. The truth of all which I do undertake to make good to a title: And by the scandal cast upon this Gentleman, who hath thus faithfully served the Parliament, the world may judge what credit is to be given to that malicious libeler, in those things he hath belched out against many worthy Members, on purpose to wound the Parliament, whose honour ought to be precious amongst all true English men.  

Charge.  John Ash, given him out of Master John Coventrey's Composition, 4000. l. out of Sir Edward Moseley's, 1000. l. out of Master Edward Phillip's 1200. l. out of Sir John Stowel's estate 8000. l. And( which is worth all this) is the great chairman at Goldsmiths Hall. Is not this better then clothing?  

Vindicat.  About three yeers since, there was presented to the house of Commons an account of 10900 l. which Master Denzill Hollis, Master Nathaniel Fiennes, Colonel Popham, Colonel Strode, and Master John Ash, had disbursed for the service of the Parliament at Sherburn, bristol, and in the County of Somerset, when the Earl of Bedford came with an Army into those parts: most of which money was borrowed upon Bond of some Citizens of bristol, and Gentlemen of that country, by the Gentlemen above name, together with other Gentlemen of the County of Somerset; the house of Commons did order, that out of the fines and compositions of Sir John Stowell, Sir Edward Moseley, and Master John Coventrey, the said disbursements and engagements should be discharged, and Master John Ash was ordered to receive the money, and to discharge the disbursements and take up the Bonds: and of this 10900. l. there hath been paid onely 7400. l. by Sir Edward Mosely, and Master Coventry; which money hath been employed according to the foresaid order; Sir John Stowell refusing to compound, there hath not been one penny received out of his Estate by Master John Ash; and by reason thereof, there is unpaid 3500. l. of the said engagements: The Creditors to whom the same is due, call upon Master Ash for their money, and he is daily solicited and clamoured upon for the same: and this is all the benefit that he hath gained by the said fines and great sums received; though that foul scandalous paper doth charge him with a great gift of 14000. l. which is notoriously false, the matter in truth being as abovesaid: Master Colborn a Scrivener in Budge-row, hath been employed by Sir Edward Mosely to provide some part of his fine, and he can inform to whom the same was assigned by Master Ash, for the discharge of the said Order of the house of Commons.  
And whereas he objects, his being chairman at Goldsmiths Hall, as a blemish; could but this sneaking liar have heard one syllable of sinister dealing in Master Ash, I am confident he would have preached it abroad merrily; but his fair deportment and integrity is such in that place, as none complain: so that he may justly bid defiance to the Devil, and to such Hell-hounds as this Informer.  
Francis Pierpoint hath the Archbishop of Yorks Lands lying in Nottinghamshire. 
Charge.   
Francis Pierpoint Esq; hath no Bishops Lands. 
Vindicat.   
William Pierpoint hath seven thousand pounds given him, 
Charge.  and all the Earl of Kingstons personal Estate, worth 40000 l. 
Vindicat.   
William Pierpoint Esq; hath no Bishops Lands given to him, but he did for a valuable consideration in money by him paid, purchase part of the Lands belonging to the late Archbishop of york in Nottinghamshire.  
Both Houses of Parliament have given the Fine of Henry earl of Kingston of near seven thousand pounds set at Goldsmiths-Hall to his Brother William Pierpoint, in consideration of above twenty thousand pounds, by him lost for the service of the Parliament. And for that the said Earl his Brother had but an Estate for Life in his Lands, the next immediate remainder being in the said William Pierpoint. So as else in truth, the Fine, if paid, must have been paid by the Lands of the said William Pierpoint, the said Henry Earl of Kingston having no personal Estate, and his Debts delivered in at Gol●smith Hall to be above 19000 l.  
William Pierpoint had also given him by the Parliament a Coach and six Horses of his said Brothers the Earl of Kingston, which is all whatsoever that hath been given to him by the Parliament.  
William Pierpoint had no part of the personal Estate of Robert Earl of Kingston his Father.  
Francis Pierpoint was made Executor by the last will of his Father Robert Earl of Kingston, and by order of Parliament was to have the benefit of the Executorship, which by reason of these times hath been of little value to him.  

Charge.  Oliver cronwell, lieutenant general, hath 2500 l. per an. given him out of the marquis of Worcesters Estate, for which 4000 l. per an. is set out at the rate of 2500 l.  

Vindicat.  lieutenant general cronwell hath 1500 l. a year assigned him of the Earl of Worcesters Estate. He had spent a great part of his own Estate while he attended the public service in the Armies, &c. It was the free gift of the House without his seeking. And when the House had passed it; he freely gave to the service of Ireland 1000 l. per an. for five yeers to come, if he shall live so long, and the War of Ireland so long continue, to be paid half yearly, and the first 500 l. to be paid out of the Michaelmas rents now next coming; and of this all the Gentlemen of Ireland here in Town can be witness; who the next day after he had made this offer in the House, came to his Lodging to give him a solemn thanks for it.  

Charge.  John Birch, formerly a Carrier; now a colonel.  

Vindicat.  The next mentioned in your List is colonel John Birch, of whom you onely say he was sometimes a Carrier, but now a colonel. A very short Charge, and to judicious men a great commendation, where your envenomed Pen can throw no great imputation; but because you have so little knowledge of him, give me leave a word or two.  
This is that colonel Birch, who for his manner of life, before this time of war, followed Merchandizing in the West of England, living in bristol; and had occasion to deal in Goods brought from most parts of this kingdom; I suppose therefore you called him a Carrier; yet this Carrier, if so you call him, when Religion, the Liberty of the Subject, and privilege of Parliament were in danger, at several times supplied the Parliament or their Armies with two thousand pounds at a time at least; and of his own particular was out for them one and twenty hundred pounds before he ever drew sword in the quarrel; but when he saw that would not serve, he hazarded his person in all conditions, from a Captain to a colonel, and Commander of a Brigade by which means he carried you out of divers good Towns. And Gratitude would have put you in mind, rather to have given him thanks for sparing so many of your lives, which were at his mercy.  
It seems you charge him with no Office, onely he is a colonel; you have reason to curse the day he had that Office; and though he have no more then the name of a colonel at present, yet rather then the old cause shall want assistance, I have reason to be confident, you will have the second part to the same Tune.  
Sir William Purefoy, colonel, and governor of Coventry, 
Charge.  fought resolutely against the cross in the Market-place at warwick, and against the ancient Monuments in the Earls chapel in St. Maries Church there; for which he had 1500 l. given him; but when he should have fought with the Enemy, hide himself in a Barley-field; for which a Water-man at Temple-stairs,( that had been his soldier) refused to carry him. 
Vindicat.   
The late Earl of Essex in his march to relieve gloucester, sent his Orders to colonel William Purefoy to meet him in the way with five hundred Horse, under his Command; the colonel enters Cambden, intending there to quarter, but having five several advisoes by his Scouts and others, that the whole body of the Enemies Horse were quartered within four miles, and had knowledge of his being in Cambden; a counsel of War being called, it was agreed to remove into the Fields adjacent to the Town; and so they did, and there were Cocks of Barley there, wherewith the Horse were refreshed. The Enemy within two hours entred the Town with two thousand Horse, intending to have surprised them; but missing their Design presently retreated. This is all Corn-fields or Cocks of Barley the colonel ever remembers; and herein he is much to be commended for his discretion. He was never governor of Coventry: and for wronging of Tombs or Monuments of antiquity at warwick or elsewhere; itis false and untrue; he hath too much extraction of noble blood in him, to do the least wrong to their Memorials. For the one thousand five hundred pounds mentioned; itis true, he had so much money, but it was according to the allowance other Commanders of his quality had; his just due came to two thousand five hundred pounds, but he willingly accepted of one thousand five hundred pounds, and quit the thousand pounds to the State. This is the very truth.  
Thomas Westrow, Captain under Sir Michael Livesey, 
Charge.  was nothing worth, until a Captain and Parliament man; and now hath gotten the Bishop of Worcester's Mannour of Hartlerow, which proves he hath two good and beneficial Offices.  

Vindicat.  Captain Westrow having a trained Troop in Kent, went out with Sir Michael Livesey, and some other Deputy-Lievtenants of that County, to help their neighbours of Surrey and Sussex upon a pinch; and having before given and lent above four hundred pounds to the Parliaments service, was willing to have the spending of some money that way himself, and therefore for the more speedy completing of his Troop, contributed many Horse and Arms, beside new coats to each of the Riders; and the Enemy being wholly broken at Aulton and Arundel, and those Countries quit, he returned home, when he had spent near two hundred pounds more then his pay. He bought Hartlebury, belonging formerly to the Bishop of Worcester, about August last, for a valuable consideration, to countenance that business, when few else durst meddle with Bishops Lands.  

Charge.  Nathaniel Fiennes, Colonel, once governor of Bristol, Thereby hangs a tail.  

Vindicat.  Master Nathaniel Fiennes, for his pains and services of all kindes, for these eight yeers, never received any thing by way of compensation, or of his Arrears, or of the weekly allowance given to others, though he was plundered, and his Estate lay a long time under the power of the enemy: and for his being once Colonel and governor of Bristol, and the tail at the end thereof, there is none now but such as are wholly made up of envy and malice, who is not satisfied, that it is onely a tail of malicious lies and slanders, wherein God himself, the righteous Judge hath vindicated him. But the malignant Author of that List, should have bethought himself, that there is another tail at the end of that tail, which reacheth indeed their once great general Prince Rupert, Plunder-master not of Kent or Surrey, but Plunder-master general of all England, who hath got more by the sad calamities of this Kingdom, caused by him, and those of his Party, then all he Members of Parliament put together.  
Besides these untruths alleged against the persons before name, he mentions many Offices to be conferred by the Parliament on their Members, which they enjoy by Patent under his Majesty, and not by any gift of the Parliament, were I not straightened in time I could vindicate most of the Members in this first Century; for where this libeler stumbles upon one truth, he tells forty lies for it; and where he mentions large sums conferred on some and not received; you must understand those Members smell on his own Faction; for I know they have received part, &c. All I aim at, is to inform the kingdom rightly, which in what I have now done shall be justified against all opposition. I wish there was no cause of complaints against some; but to condemn the upright and virtuous without hearing; or equally to accuse all, is certainly a piece of great injustice. The Members of the Houses now seeing themselves not spared, I hope will hereafter be sensible of the reproaches those few friends they have left are subject unto by abusive Pamphlets, and yet no order taken for suppression.   
FINIS.