PROGNOSTICON Posthumum. 1643 / 4.  
Exactly calculated to the Meridion of London, and may indifferently serve for all England.  
By way of Caution, to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, that shall happen to read NA-WORTH.  
As an Appendix to master John Bookers Mercurius Coelicus.  
Written by S. M.  
LONDON, Printed by a more warrantable Licence then Domino D. Arch. Cant. Secellanus Domesticus. 1643.   

His name is Nabal, and folly is with him. No-worth, 1644. A new almanac and Prognostication for the year of our Saviour, 1644.  
HAD I met his name in the third collumn of his almanac, under the title of Saints: I should have thought the devil, hath transformed himself into an angel of Light, a Prognostication; and yet he saith himself in the page. of December, in his new rubric that for the year yet to come, he can give you no account as yet, no nor I believe, for that that's past, you see what to trust too, a Prognostication worth nothing: nevertheless, as Britannicus observed concerning Aulicus, he hath the faculty of ralying a routed Regiment into a story, and claims Christ as a Saviour, when he is unwilling to call this, the year of our Redemption, being the bissextile or leap year.  
What this bissextile year is, he tells you, Subtitulo, leap year, and that it is nothing but a day gotten by the surplus of 6 hours every year, and this is one Doctors opinion, then I may add mine too.  
It is leap year where the surplice has got by spiritual fornication, a child of Idolatry, when the surplice has got a rent, and may be added among his Cronologicall Occurrences, Ian. 18. 1643. Such a leap year, where he like Aulicus, hath leaped over Gods providence, turning the truth of God into a lie, under the title of—  
With a cronologie of the most remarkable Occurrences since the beginning of this Rebellion, calculated exactly for the latitude and meridian of the famouus university of Oxford, by GEORGE NAWORTH.  
IT should seem by his own Oxford Calculation, that this Rebellion was calculated at Oxford, and Mercurius Aulicus was his pole-stare, since the whole Court moves upon that bears tail, had Naworth set his instrument meridional, he might have found Berkenhead, alias Bufflehead, 53. degrees high in impieties Sunday, the 28. of january, 1643. Printed at Oxford by his Majesties special command.  
We have good thoughts and loyal hearts to his Majesty, but we will conclude that his Majesty rules not there, because Plato saith, nature may sooner err, then a Prince frame a Common Wealth unlike himself.  
But I come to his almanac itself, and we begin with his perfect table of the four terms, &c.  
I can but wonder why he takes the pains to tell the four terms of the year, since they are lawless where he lives, and cannot adjourn the term to Oxford, or that he takes notice of dayes of exception, and never remember, why Cottington, Byron, &c. were accepted against, or dayes of appearance, Ian. 22. 1643, where one acts in a Spanish cloak, and another like the Prelate of the garter or Palatine Bishop, reads service in a headpiece, and all to make up Englands tragidy complete.  
And why should we note that the Exchequer opens, except he looks for the golden number, there, he saith it is 11. but in that contradicts the Lord Goring's letter, who saith, all was pawned but the great coller of SS. which has made the circled of the Sunns but 1, who is heir to three Kindomes, he taxes our thoughts, we know not yours, when you mention his Majesty to be afraid to add, whom God grant long to reign, and now since you have lead me to the Dominion of the moon in mans body.  
Me thinks I see a gracious King sitting, I fear setting in your Horizon li●e the Anot●my, naked, open to a feminine planet; Digbies Bull, holding him by the shoulders, threatening excommunication. Gemine, Rupert and Maurice claming his ar●●es. Libra ♎ in his loins, Justice and equity: manhood in his heart. lo ♌ the ancient badge of his Royal Predecessors, but on a slippery foundation, a feminine sign. give the King thy judgement o God, and keep his feet from sliding.  
When as the mayor did rule the town,  
The woman ruled the man:  
But when the boy his Mother ruled,  
The town was ruled by John.  


IANVARY hath XXXI dayes.  
THis month it seems hath nothing so remarkable as the 10th day, when his Majesty left his faithful council by White-hall, going from a Court of Justice to a seminary of— I know you will confess a Tub is no fit residence for Alexander, but Diogenes, Philosophers best sort with their Accademies. Precipibus Metropolis, 'tis a University phrase: pray pardon the expression; where is the Metropolis, is it not London? where is the chief Court, but Parliament, not where tumults molested him, but where the vote of a kingdom would make him the happiest Prince alive: he takes notice of the 19. 22. and 27. of january, and yet remembers not Gods mercies renewed every day: me thinks I look upon his phrase of Rebels, as on the bastard that threw stones among a tumult as he calls it, and am willing to give him that admonition to take heed he do not hit his father Pater Errorum, as Mr. John Booker stiles him.   

FEBRVARY hath XXIX dayes.  
ANd here you had need of just action, that you may understand his lying kallender, it hath 6. collumns: the first is titled dayes of the month, the second is dayes of the week, the third is holidays with Saints names. And I question whether the Cannon of &c. be not set down there as a Canonnicall day? why not Thomas a Becket, and St. William of Canterbury's name, as well as their images at the West end of Pauls.  
The next collumn is titled places of the moon at noon, and then the sun rising at Oxford; It seems the greater planet never rises till the moon is up, and so you reckon from he meridian of midnight, and that makes the difference between you at Oxford, and we at London, it seems you do not rise while noon, this was the marquis of Newcastles fault, and in this month he hath made two purifications; the one on the second day when they were at their beads, and the other on the 13. day set in great letters, yet I wonder Naworth did not tremble, when such as her Majesty cried to the hills to cover her, did not thou Naworth fear to give an account of these notorious untruths.   

MARCH hath XXXI dayes.  
HEre he speaks of the great victory on Hopton heath, & you may see his affection to the Crown of King Charles, for he writes in breviats the dialect of Oxford, as your Oxford plots are usually written, for next to the day titled in it Reg. Car. he sets Rupert in the collumn of the Saints, and then another breviat Epis, which stands for Bishops, and least Maurice should stand in competition to the crown also, he allows him his succession also under the title of Victor. Mar. victorious Maurice, or in his own language, cowardly rebel.   

APRIL hath XXX dayes.  
ANd here he saith, Prince Rupert entred the seditious town of Brumidgham, and it maketh me admire that the young man was not misled seeing— April— you may led a fool whether you will, but this was not the first day, but Monday, the 3. day, and in this month is his rabical observation of St. Chad, the very same that a Roman catholic made long since concerning the L. Brook, but I suppose you remember who  told you, that is rather an argument against ●athedrals, if not, see what M. Booker saith concerning the day of inventio crucis, me thinks you ●●ould put the dates of your new Nobilities patents too in your chronology, but that were an argument against your truly noble Lords.   

MAY hath XXXI daies.  
MAY may produce something more remakeable occurrences to them, therfore he consecrates a day to Petronel; you see this almanac speaks in carabine language, and it may be the same day when Col Goodwin surprised t●em by Bril, & took a Cornet, on which was this device, a swor● & Carbine with this inscription; Ratio ultima raegum, which it may bee, was a concecrated banner to the memory of the great victory he calls it, that the L. Hopton had over the rebels, as his phrase is, when he had spent his powder, and fel to it with swords, pikes, and musket stocks: I believe it to be concecrated rather, because I conceive 'twas of her Majesties own regiment, for 'twas on black damask.   

june hath XXX dayes.  
june the 18. his highnes Prince Rupert beat up the quarters at Chinner, & there was slain Mr. ●ohn Hampden accused of high treason, but it was by St. Petronel, as you spoken of, that came into the house armed, and would have acted violence on the person of others, had not God prevented it. Hampdens name is honourable; Decorem e●t pro patria mori, and his blood is able to beat up your quarters as well as the blood of Abel cried for vengeance.   

IVLY hath XXXI dayes  
YOu lie, it hath but 6 in your own account, for Nulla dies sine linea; you have never a day without a great victory, & you had but 5 this month, and a providence, now I see some da●s may pass without a lie, but there are lies enough in this 6 dayes to victual the University for 6 months, and allow a lie a day enough to furnish the 3● dayes withall, and as Mr. Booker well observe●, never was so many lies under the title of an almanac, and which is observable in this month, they left not one rebel on the 13 day, and yet on the 14 day of this month, he saith Pr. Rupert had ●oyned his forces to his brothers, and judge then when the whole body of their strength was together, whether that were not a rebellion of the blood royal to deprive his Majesty and his hopeful posterity.   

august hath XXXI dayes.  
NAworth is always on the winning side, and though he say much this month he promi●es amendment, for he saith that the 27 day of this month Dog-d●yes end, and then we hope we shall have no more of thi● Mali-l●gni, such Malignants as himself, or such Evil-wood-heads, & we hop further, that Pr. Rupert who hath yet no more religion then Cor●elius Agrippa that at last left his dog with this Irony. Abi a me, &c. go from me thou wicked beast, that hast undone me, and no doubt but if the devil●, as many think it is in the shape of a dog, when he perc●ives his Mr. Rupert intends to turn him out of service, h●e'l drown himself as the said Cornelius his dog did at the harsh sentence of his M●ster.   

SEPTEMBER hath XXX dayes,  
IT should seem they sung mass at Oxford the 14 day of this month, or else carried the horse from door to door, hence it is termed Exdiatio Crucis. In this month it was where the rebellion of Ireland increased more and more, in England, and his highnesse Prince Maurice made such a hot assault on Exeter, that he fired the suburbs, in hoc signo vinces, it should seem great is Dianah. Naworth is not so ingenious in this month as Aulicus( in the report of the victory near Auburn in Wiltshire, where he saith there was none of No-worth k lled) onely in this, he says the Queens regiment was commanded by Jermin, but when he tells how the London forces stolen toward London, that Rup●rt overtook them with his Majesties horse, and here he speaks like the lying Oracle doubtful. Caesar passing over the stood Halim, shall overthrew a great army, and so he sait●, the L. Jermin performed so well on the rebels part, that many great bodies of foot were routed: alas gracious king, that suffers himself to be misled by the salutat●on of Charles the great, with which Naworth ends his almanac, & considers not his doubtful meaning in those words, Hierarchiae dignitatis as●rto & ●●ndex. Since there is a m●stery of iniquity in Hierarchy.   

OCTOBER hath XXXI dayes.  
ANd on the first day was his Majesties Commission granted to the Irish to seize to his use all the lands and estates of the English Protestants there, who list to see the Copy of the Comm ssion, may red in the miste●y of iniquity working in the kingdoms of England, Scotlan●, and I●●land, dated a little before the grand rebellion broke forth there, Octob. 23. On which day he saith, was a convention of all orders, for there was Franciscans, Dominicans, Lins●y & Wool●●y, impure N●ro●s, fals Sinons, seditious Catalines, and apostate Julians engaged the K. himself into their grand mischief, and eminent dangers, there you might have seen the effect of bad counsel, there was skulking into holes, when the L. Taffe was shot in the mouth, but I wonder why he did not put ln so many Kings too, as well as in the Declaration concerning Brainfor●, where his majesty Clareceux is mentioned, but whether he fought on one side or other, the boy at Kenton can tel.   

NOVEMBER hath XXX dayes.  
ON the first of this month was a convention of saints slain at Edghil, and the day is celebrated in their memory, All Saints, on the 5 day was a seed plot of this grand rebellion, to de●●roy as now the K and Parliament. Powder-treason, and Naworth himself in the plot, and here indeed, he saith the rebels shot against Sion, for the Church was set as a mark, and the Thames wept blood, as sensible of the blood of the guiltless, murdered by a Commission of Array, whose blood cries out, see O Lord the enemies blaspheme thy na●e, and there was their blasphemies against God, their Cannons and Demi cannons. Brainford can witness it, and then the Rebels after all this murder stolen away to Oxford by an honourable retreat as the forger of these fictonsi calls it.   

DECEMBER hath XXXI dayes.  
I Am so weary in reading this years lies, being the Court New-years gift, that I do but wonder what he has to answer for all his lying life, and what a New-years-gift, the forger of this almanac would be to the devil. ●f you ask what makes the Astronomer there, where there is neither star nor s●y, I tell you he is there for making many a lie. And in this month he is troubled at a new great seal, and questions whose image and superscription it is, I say unto thee, it is Caesars, but which is greater thou Hypocrite, the gold of the Temple, or the Temple that sanctifies the gold, wee can know your Keeper too, by the Title of 1643, and we ●an know Nawo●th by 1641. for ye are of your Father the devil, his works ye do, Redite, and give the devil his due.    

Observations on his common Notes.  
The Golden Number.  
How much it was, he  told you before, what it is, he tells you now, and he dreams of Magnum Annum Platonis, the great year of Plato, for this time 19 yeares he saith things will be as they are, and desires the Scots would let him alone till then, and then he'll writ a Recantation: I should rather believe him if he had said, though this Parliament should be dissolved, yet we should have another that time 3 year.  
In the circled of the Sun he Calculates, how far he is from Christ, and by his own Computation he is 59. Revolutions.  
By the dominical Letter he knows when tis a Fast at Oxford, it being the Eve before any unmovable Feast.  
You must note that the Epact in nothing else but a number of daies which the common Solar year doth exceed the common Lunar year, and with them the Compact is the number that exceed the mayor part of the Houses of Parliament, which I fear is not 11. but as he saith, he adds them to Coequate the Parliament at Westminster.  
In the Roman Indiction he hath no use of it in England, but onely the Bishops of Rome being a number of 15 yeares, where at every 5th yeares end they received Tribute, the first in Gold, the second in Silver, the third in brass. But it should seem the Bishops of England were Bishops of Rome, witness the first 15 years of King Charles, for the first 5 years were golden days, when they were heads of the Church: The next 5 years he saith, was silver, for Souldiers pay which made them sand Agents to Rome to contribute to the episcopal wars: And the last 5 yeares, he saith, were paid in brass and iron for armor. Now judge who raised this war, who exercised Roman Jndiction? who received Souldiers pay beforeha●d? who provided armor for Souldiers pay? The Bishops of Rome. And now we hope since, the college Plate is pawned to buy Iron, that this Nebuchadnezzar's Image is falling, his Head Gold, his Breast Silver, his thighs brass, his legs Iron, which we hope are his last legs, and stands on day, since both Nations have protested against Prelacy.  
The Winter Quarter is his first quarter astronomical, but the last according to our English account( according to our London account to, for we hope it shall be your last quarter, therefore seek out for fresh, I scarce believe the Spring will be welcome to you) and it begins the 11th day of December the last year he saith, and his time is so near that he counts but till the 9 h of March, and then for the Robberies committed this quarter, he shall give an account, and in the mean time he saith the gallows groans for them. I before doubted whether he spake like a Lawyer or an Astronomer in his Computation, but I am now resolved by his words, Winter began the last year 1643. which shows who began this war first, the King, or the Parliament. And he counts the first of August that his Excellency the earl of Essex disposed of his Souldiers in a Regimentall way, and tells us of many of their own outrages done 6 monthes before, as in january 1642. by the L. Hopton near Bodmin, and at Saltash, and at Brill. In February 1642. Cyrenci●er: In March 1642. at Hopton Heath, when as he saith that the Houses voted not till May, after 1642. that the King intended to make war against his Parliament, I perceive it is as hard to tell what he means by 1642. as to know his right hand from his left, except we know whether he looked East, West, North, or South, for if he had looked Easterly, then Durham had been his right hand, and his safest way, as Mr. Booker saith, I suppose he durst not look towards the Pole, lest he should have discovered the Scots advance.  
In the Spring quarter he casts a Figure, and there is Libra in the Horiscope of Oxford, which signifies an ill life, an ill beginning, and an ill ending, and since I find Fortuna minor in the Angle of the Earth: I conclude that your men of war be furious, and your children is not legitimate, but I conceive because I find ♈ in the 7th House, that there be not many thieves amongst you, all are not liars at Oxford, though Naworth and Aulicus be two. But forasmuch as I find lo, which is attributed to Via, in the Angle meridional, I conceive if Naw●rth goes to the King he'l Knight him, but withall the F gure tells me he shall neither be King, Emperour, nor Pope, and the same figure saith, it is not good for the King to go to the war, for he shall be in danger to be taken or lose the Victory. Thus we see we have a hopeful Figure cast by Naworth, which makes us think Naworth will come to no good, nor our King to no harm, onely h● saith ●reate disc●ntent a●e likely to arise among their new Nobility, by reason of the accidental sight of those that continue yet at Westminster in spite of the opposition of Mars.  
And now gentle Reader, it will not do amiss to trace this Cassandra, and give him this faculty, that though he should speak true, yet that none may believe him, for it should seem he calculates according to the Hipothesis of Copernicus, and places the Earth in Libra, and has red Blau de Globis, and will persuade you that the Earth runs round, and the Sun stands still, and that's the very reason that he calls Routings, Victories all along his almanac: And so he saith the Summer quarter shall begin when the Earth hath volved herself to the farthest limit of the South, or the Sun after an old( fantasy) hath made his preambulation Northward, and in autumn, the Earth's Axis paralleled to the Sun's, shall move in its diurnal revolution directly to the Suns Superficies, or the Sun( after common conceit) crossing the worlds Axis. Now I see I have met with a Copernican and it was not the Sun that stood still in Hezekiah's daies, but the Earth, and since he would persuade this, I hope his lies will gain no reputation with the Vulgar.  
I pass over his astronomical Calculations, his going in procession with his Holinesse, and his greatest obliquity from as learned Writers as himself, and his Excentricity in being at Oxford no place of his Residence, together with his true and apparent magnitude in part discovered in his many falsities, and how he takes no notice of those two eclipses happening this year 1644. at Aulton and arundel, but none of them seen in their Horizon at Oxford, this liar has cast such a mist before their eyes, but he will not dispute the effects of either, for he saith, Parvae Eclipses parum nocent, & in pauca operantur, he will not believe till he sees, for, Nihil nocent illis Regionibus in quibus non videntur: He partly knew we were choosing new Sheriffes when he spake of Election, and believes they shall feel their influence be it good or evil: For Phlebotomy in regard blood is the chiefest humour in mans body, he conceives it d●ngerous at any time, but upon urgent occasions, and the veins which should have been let blood, fled back to the heart by fear, whence it comes to pass that the physician cannot come at the jugular vein, which makes the kingdom in such a distemper, that it will never be well till Delinquents be brought to Justice.  
The strange humours they have at Oxford are 4, bloody, pragmatical, choleric, Melancholy: the first in the Court, the second in the colleges, the third in the Camp, the fourth in the City, which drives them in such melancholy dumps that they are at their wits end, and the way to purge is either by neezing, in giving the head better counsellors, or by vomiting out the evil ones, and then you may find when the moon is fall South at Newcastle, and know when the tide will serve from thence to bring coals to town, but I shall leap over his Leap-year, and come to his great Conjunction of Saturne and Jupiter, and he begins. I am not altogether ignorant, there is more hopes of a fool, he knows it to be Conjunctio Planitarum maxima, but he wonders at the impudence of some like himself that hath neither Art nor honesty, small Art appears in his Prognostication, and less honesty, in persuading many poor seduced people, that all the Victories happened to the Cavaliers, and to none but they at Oxford, although your Tutor may vouchsafe to use the writings Declarations Protestations, and Petitions of the Lords and Commons, and may easily see how far it concerns the whole Christian world as well as England, and not onely England, but as you say, France, Basternia, Syria, Palastina &c. to take heed of Hierchiae as well as Anarchy, and questionless not England only, is concerned in a through Reformation, for the 10. Kings shall hate the whore, and burn her with fire, the vial is ca●t out on the Throne of the Beast already, I need not tell you of the Effects you are answered already, and for the fixed states which happened at Westminster the 3 of Novemb. 1640. had their light from the Sun, though there was an intervale when it was dissolved, yet it broke through those clouds, and though his beams were hindered by interposition of those that are not for peace, yet we hope Exurgat & disapenter, but because jupiter troubles you, Ile deal ingeniously with you, and tell you a Fable of jupiter. Did you never red of the Ministers of terror, who for their cruelty were condemned into Hell by jupiter? did you never red of the Cyclops voted out of the House, and declared Traitors by his Majesties Proclamations? And did you never red how Tellus persuaded jupiter that they might do him service in forging of Thunderbolts? And therefore being banished the Land were sent for in again by whole Armies, whose pains and industry was grea●●n providing instruments of terror, and how jupiter conceiving displea●ure against an innocent man, the Son of Apollo, for raising a dead man to life, made use of one of these to kill him, but was revenged by Apollo. Make thunderbolts at Oxford, let Naworth be the Cyclop which cast two of his own framing against Mr. Pym. and the Lord S●…, for endeavouring to revive a sinking kingdom, let him remember, Apollo may bring him to Iustice, and then and shall see the effect of the great Conjunction in November he speaks of. Neither, as he saith, can we deduce the signification of this unnatural war from the conjunction which h●ppened ●n February 1642. for we all know what was done above 2 yeares before that time, and what diligence hath been used to bring over foreign Forces to suppress the parliament of England, witness the letters and Agents sent into denmark, when his Majesty resided in Scotland, and the great offers made to our Brethren there, in case they would assist him against the Parliament in England, and this the meanest capacity may und●rstand, except they be wilfully blind.  
And for those yet fixed stars that fought in their courses, some though extinguished, yet, Spi●… dehunt tanquam Stella maugre all the malice of their enemies th●t talk of St. Chad, and the Ch●…Grove-Field where Mr. John Hampden fell: Ile tell thee a Heathen could see farther than, you that did not attribute things to Fate when he said.  Virgil Aeneid. 
— Cad●t & Ripheus justis sumus unus,  
Qui svit ex Teucris et servantis simus Equi  
Dijs uliter visum.—  
And though they fell in battle, yet this is Epitaph enough for each of them, that they were just men, and God saw it good to take them to himself, where they now shine as stars, whose height Naworth can never attain to. And as he he saith, no sooner had the Houses began to Vote, but he began to be sensible of Homo trium litirarum, and that thefts and robberies would follow, and that all the false Prophets in the kingdom would be convened Heresies and schisms tolerated, and in his own words, nay defended so, that I see he would lye if his tongu●… would let him, Subsequens Actus ad viuum exprimat.  
Wherein he hopes that the cau●e of all these mischiefs in November at Brainford, so also tha●… o● February the 13. will be the Forerunner of a through Reformation indeed, by purging it o●… all Sectaries, Brownists, Anabaptists &c. by which he understood the rooting out of the Protestant religion, and bringing in the Authors of this bloody war, whereby some of his friends a●… London conceive the writer of those Forgeries are as voided of reason as loyalty, and do therefore w●●h ●h● King may take hee● of him, indeed for this Yeares Revolution, we see nothing tha●… ●●a h●n●●r his sac●ed Majesti● from returning again to his Parliament, were the wicked removed from his Th●one. In the mean time, since the Shi●ld of the mighty is fallen, and the●… Lords anointed is in the Mountaines of Gilboa, set David's wish light upon that mountain o●… opposition, neque R●s, n●que ●luvi●. Let neither rain nor due f●ll in Oxford till our King be redeemed out of the h●nds of the uncircumcised, and we again see his face as an Angel of God.  
And because I ●●l● f●ll●w Naworth in his own Method, I see no reason why I may not sal●te h●● with that S●lutation, Salv●te Magister Artium Menda●ium, & quidem omnium Aulicor●… Mi●it●nium, Academi a●um.  
Dixi. S. Morgan.