THE NATIVITY OF Sir JOHN PRESBYTER. Compared with the Rhodulphine and Lansberges TABLE. VERIFIED BY HIS CONCEPTION, From the CYCLOPS, Brontes, Steropes and Pyrackmon, as they were making Thunder and Lightning in Mount Aetna. COMPARED WITH THE JUDGEMENTS OF Ptolomey, Haly, Hermes, Albumazar, Sconor, Tasnier, Regiomontanus, Guido, Bonatus, Keplar; Galileus, with other learned Mathematicians, as well Ancient as Modern. Calculated by CHRISTOPHER SCALE-SKY, Mathematitian in chief to the Ass-embly of Divines.  
Licenced by Rowland Rattle-Priest, a terrible IMPRIMATUR,  
AND Entered according to Order.  
Printed on the backside of the Cyclopian Mountains. 1645.   

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, THE Ass: Of DIVINES assembled at Westminster.  
Right Worshipful,  
TAking into serious consideration, the depth of your Learning, the acuteness of your wits, to get money by all trades, my thoughts were ravished, and I in a maze, when I saw, how you could make Laws, to serve God, to stuff your guts, to persecute your enemies, and pull Christ out of his Throne, at one and the same time; truly, I had not thought it had been in you, when I see how fare your Wisdom transcends the Papists, (who supposing (as well as you) that Heretics should be whipped, first whip themselves) but you being Armed Cap a pied, with your Armour of folly, viz. selfconfidence and rage, (which first armed your Predecessors to prosecute, when Persecution first began, by an Ass. of Divines, in the Lateran Palace in Rome) first make Heretics of those, whose Tenants of Truth you cannot answer, and then Persecute them; O profound Wisdom, surpassing the wisdom of the Ancient; Besides, considering your extreme need, and want of necessaries, having but 24. Pounds a day, besides some pretty Live of a Hundred or two or three a year, (that for very hunger, you were forced to eat up 26. Bishops in one day) yet you should hate idleness, so as that rather than you will be idle, you will sit still and sleep: yea, at that very time you have invented a Religion, without either Scripture or reason to prove it; and lastly, when I see (how you excel all Laymen that are your friends) how like men you can lay about you with your Classical Club, beating your Antagonists small as dust (one thump with your Club being worth all Mr. Prinnes Subitane Apprehensions) how willing you are to hang them, if you could catch them; I must needs confess, that Christ and his Apostles either could not, or would not do it: considering this you zeal, I was emboldened to present you this my Calculation of the Nativity of your own child, which is as like the Mother as ever it can lookout of its eyes, and not much unlike his 
* The Devil.  Grandsire, only as yet he wanteth horns; go on Reverend Assembly, your works already praise you on the Gates, make your Son horns of Iron, that he may push the Saints while none of them be left, that when you have ended these days of sinning, you may be elevated something nearer the Skies, which is the daily Prayer of  
Your nimble and learned Servant, CHRISTOPHER SCALE-SKY.   

To his Celestial Brother, Christopher Scale-skie.  
REverend Assembly, up, arise and jog,  
For you have fairly fished, and caught a frog:  
Now you have sit two years, pray can you tell  
A man the way that Christ went down to Hell?  
In these Two years, what can a wise man think  
That you have done, ought else but eat and drink:  
Presbytry (climbed up to th' top of Fame:)  
Directory and all, from Scotland came,  
Oh, Monstrous Idleness! alack and welly,  
Our Learned Rabbis, mind nought but their belly,  
Fall to my masters, eat, and dish about,  
But yet my Brother Kit will find you out;  
On Brother Kit, once more, and none can mend thee,  
The Sun and Moon, and all the Stars attend thee.  
By Rowland Rattle-Priest, Brother to Ch. Scale-sky, and Cousin Germany to MARTIN MAR-PRIEST.   
 astrological horoscope diagram 
THE NATIVITY Of Sir JOHN PRESBYTER Verified From his Conception.  
THE length of his Life is like to be neither long nor good; not not long. 1. Because the Lord of life is not in the House of death, which being Saturn, (saith Haly) causeth him to be deformed, ill-favoured, ill-conditioned, short of life, death by taking away other men's goods, yet while he lives, he shall domineer over his brethren.  
2. Because he is infortunate by the Lord of Death, which being the the Sun in the House of Substance, riches, etc. opposite to the royal Star, cor Leonis, will manifest and bring to light, his disloyalty to the State, his cheating of the rich, his robbing of the poor, and bring him to a sudden untimely end, (perhaps hanging.)  
3. Because the Moon is infortunate in the very cuspis of the horoscope, which position yields him very short life, unconstant, meddling with what he hath nothing to do; & yet while he lives, he shallbe numbered among great persons.  
2. Secondly, not good, because all the Planets are evil seated, and convey all their mischiefs to him, so that he seems to a judicious eye, not to be a creature compounded of the 4. Elements, fire, air, earth and water, of which (being miraculously commixed) God made man, but of exaltation above Christ, Tyranny over the Conscience, imprisoning the body, extorting the Estate, which being mixed with the ladle of Pride, in the Cauldron of presumption, the devil made the Urchin called Sir John Presbyter.  
His mischiefs are so many, that they cannot well be noted in the bulk, therefore we will take them asunder, and see particularly, what God hath done for him by permission, the Devil by Act, and the Planets by influence.  
1. Saturn makes him an abject, a fugitive (newly come out of Scotland) baseminded, a vile man, negligent, fearful, sad, pensive, covetous, a witch, stubborn, a Rogue, suspicious, superstitious, a deceiver, a railer, and sends his evil Spirit, called in Hebrew Zazell, to wait upon him, and in apparel, makes him delight in black like his father the Devil, and to oppose the glorious light of the Gospel, and the Saints that walk in white, he makes him incline toward the laws of the Jews, exacting Tithes, observing days; and denying the Lord that bought him, crucifying Christ in his members.  
2. Jupiter makes him a lover of himself, highminded, proud, superstitious, fearful, faint-hearted, careless, negligent, prodigal and Imperious, given to adultery and whoring, and sends his evil Spirit, called in Hebrew Hismaell, to acompany him; Also he makes him turn his Fathers the Bishops out of their Spiritualties, that he may share their inheritance, and change the Age of God's people from better to worse.  
3. Mars makes him quarrelsome, cruel, angry, Tyrannical, Unjust, Unfaithful, a Blood-succer, thievish, a makebate, rash, heady, highminded, a Boaster, very proud, a persecuter of good Men, a murderer, furious, desperate, seditious, and an Adulterer, and sendeth his Devil, called in Hebrew, Barzabell, to concommitate him.  
4. The Sun makes him very Tyrannical, proud, Ambitious, doing mischief without end committing the Government of the Church into the hands of Ignoramus, ambitious Phaeton's, with their doctrine to set the World on fire, and being checked by a superior Power, he will deny the Light of the Gospel to the World, and sends his Devil, called in Hebrew, Sorath, the Number of the Letters of whose Name, is 666. and signifies the Prince of Darkness, to keep him company.  
5. Venus makes him womanish, fearful, weak in parts, weaker in judgement, but weakest of all in honesty, slothful, lecherous, a slanderer, not caring for his good Name, a lover of vile persons, given to filthy lucre, liquor and lust: Sodomitical, Papal, Prelatical, whorish, and sends his evil Angel called in Hebrew, Kedemel to be his companion.  
6. Mercury makes him unstable, malicious, a grievous Liar, an abominable thief, a slanderer, forgetful, foolish, privily sowing deceit, full of wicked Counsel and malice, and sends his infortune, called in Hebrew, Taphihartharah, to bear him company.  
7. The Moon makes him fit to be a weathercock then a Divine, make the place where he dwells, and all that dwell in the place infortunate, and at last drives him out of his native Country, without either fulfilling or filling full his desires, and sends him the infortune of all infortunes, called in Hebrew, Schedbarschemoth Schartatham, to concommitate him.  
But yet infortunate and unlucky Jupiter being in the profection and horoscope of his Nativity, will product his life a year in all this mischief, (for directions, profections, revolutions, etc. I cannot note for sorrow; I could no sooner think of the miseries he would bring upon this Kingdom, but his actions were ready to prevent my thoughts; alas poor England! Religio peperit filiam, & filia devoravit matrem,) and therefore I will only speak briefly of the 12. Houses, the significations of, and Planets in them, usually observed by Mathematicians in Nativities, in those Houses in which in this Nativity they happen; Calculated exactly, according to Art.  

Of the first House.  
In the Cuspis of which is the second degree of Capricorn, a sign of the triplicity of the 〈◊〉, nocturnal, feminine, Meridional, cold, dry, melancholy, Bestial, with horns on his head, subtle, quick, movable, the House of Saturn, the exaltation of Mars, the triplicity of Venus, the term of Mercury, the face of Jupiter, the detriment of the Moon, and fall of Jupiter, Saturn is Lord of the place by house, and Mars by exaltation, who also is Lord Paramount of the Nativity.  
This considered, he will be of Complexion choleric, 
His Complexion.  conjoined with melancholy, the last making him deep in speculation to study mischief, the former quick in Invention to act it: His Conditions will be furious, fight against heaven, (Saturn and Mars opposing Sol and Jupiter, of which, 
Condition.  more hereafter in its due place) so that had he power answerable to his ambitious heart, he would grasp the North Pole with one hand, and the South Pole with the other; nay, he would tear God out of his Throne, and rule the creation himself: He will fight furiously against Jesus Christ, with tooth and nail laying about him in the Pulpit, as though he were felling Oaks, that so he may get him a good stomach to his victuals, crying out, That Christ and his Apostles lived in the Infancy of the Church, & therefore suffered themselves to be kept under, but now the Church is come to perfection, and Christ hath committed the Sceptre to him, to rule the Church till he come, and St. Peter hath given him his keys, and if they speedily do not bring him fat Capons, Pigs and Geese, yea, and the Tenth of all they enjoy, though their Landlords want their rents, and their children bread, be will lock them out of heaven; also St. Paul hath given his Sword to him, that hath more wit to use it, with which he will chap his opposers as small as herbs to the pot; and this he darts out of his mouth with such fury, as though he would eat up his Auditors. For his Nourishment, 
Nourishment.  he thirsteth after blood, raving after it, like a starven child after a dug, he was fed with Bishop's blood, all the time he was in his mother's belly; to conclude, 
He is nder-taught, and over-sed,  
A little wit, and a great head.   
In this first House also is the Moon infortunate, and infortunately seated in the ascendent, in opposition to Mars, and sextile to Mercury, makes him unconstant, a vagabond, meddling with things he hath nothing to do withal, slothful, both he and his Mother of evil estimation with good men, short life, yet while he lives, he shall be reckoned among great Persons.  
In it also is Jupiter, in direct opposition to Mars, which aspect makes him an enemy to such as have been his friends, and although his position in the Horoscope, promise him long life, and much goods of the Church; yet his position in Capricorn in opposition to Mars, makes him spend it as fast as he gets it, and in the end die poor; In general, his position makes him cloak all his villainies with show of virtue, in form of an evil hypocrite, and stand highly on his pedigree, fetching his descent from Titus, who hath newly left the Bishopric of Creta, to turn Presbyter, to be rich without labour, living by the sweat of other men's brows, admirable proud and domineering, tyrannical, Lording it over the Conscience, despising and dispraising his betters, and disdaining to be left to the good will of the Uulgar.   

Of the second House.  
If the Cuspis. of which is the 13 degree of Aquarius, a sign of the triplicity of the air, diurnal, masculine, fixed, hot and moist, humane, the house of Saturn, the detriment of the Sun, and Saturn Lord thereof, is opposite to it, and therefore an enemy thereof, which he shall have some estate, but shall spend it, and so much the sooner, because Saturn is retrograde.  
In it is part of fortune in the 24. degree of Aquarius, which aggravates the former judgement, and yields him to die miserable poor.  
In it is the Sun in the 25. degree of Aquarius, unhappily placed in his detriment, and in direct opposition to Saturn and the Dragon's tail; by himself, the Sun makes him an honourable, Great man, that shall spend his goods in Magnificense, his aspect to Saturn makes him sickly, sad, full of distracted thoughts, subitane witless apprehensions, great loss of goods, violent death, perhaps hanging; his position in Aquarius, and in the sixth House from the ninth, causeth him to have inseparable diseases in his eyes, whereby he shall not be able to discern between Truth and falsehood, evil Servants, death of small beasts.  
In it is the Dragons-head, which though in itself it promise no harm, yet being in opposition to its dispositor, which is Saturn, stupid Saturn, in the Eighth House, and with the Dragons-Taile, makes him (being retrograde) quickly spend his goods, die a sudden death by suffocation.  
In it is Mercury retrograde, with debilities enough, who in himself would (by this position) make him grow rich by all trades, but his debillities, will make him such a busybody and meddler with other men's matters, that he will get the ill opinion of the rabble rout, whose folly was his first rise, and bring such a disgrace, and ignominy on the Clergy, which they will never claw off again to their dying day, which God send may quickly come.   

Of the third House.  
In the cuspis of which is the sixth degree of Aries, a sign oriental, fiery, of the regal triplicity, masculine, of the day, choleric, movable, fickle; but what do I spy! Mars Lord thereof, in a quarrelling angle, occidental, retrograde, and in a square to it?  
Hei mihi qui strepitus, quique tumultus adest; He shall set all his brethren sisters and kindred together by the ears, all the world shall be the worse for him, and are bound to curse the day that ever he was borne, he shall have many fearful dreams, and many times shall dream waking, he shall fetch a little petty journey Westward, perhaps to Hyde-park corner, to take the air in a Coach with two wheels.  
In it is Venus in the eight degree of Aries, retrograde, and in her detriment, in square to Mars, making him whorish, committing Incest with his kindred, etc. but being in the seventh house from the nineth, he shall scarcely ever marry, but shall have great quarrels and contentions about his whores, etc.   

Of the fourth House.  
In the Cuspis of which is the seventh degree of Taurus.   

Of the fift House.  
In the Cuspis of which is the 22. degree of Taurus, Venus' Lady of then both, therefore I will treat of them both together; a sign of the earth nocturnal, cold, cry, melancholy, bestial, Venus' retrograde, flying back from the fourth House, shall make his friends forsake him, and call him 〈◊〉 for an abortive, her position in the third House, makes him possess much treasure, and goods , which he shall tear out of the very throats of his brethren, and when he dies, he shall leave an inextinctible name behind him, which shall be famous for its baseness, so long as the World endures.  
As for the fift House, the almuten is in a barren Sign, and therefore he is never like to have a child. Tu sanguinis vultimus ordo, although the Devil lay with the Whore of Babylon, and begat Episcopacy, and Episcopacy begat Presbytry; yet Rejoice O heavens, sing aloud O earth, clap thy hands for joy, O England, post nubula soles, thou shalt have a time of Quietness, of Peace, of content, for Presbytry will have never a child to vex thee, to Imprison thy free Denizens, to suck up thy fat, devour thy good things, and eat thy bread out of thy children's mouths, and himself is not long lived, as I shown before, and then farewell Persecution for Conscience, farewell Ordinance for Tithes, farewell Ecclesiastical Supremacy, farewell Pontifical Revenue, farewell Assembly of Divines, dissembled at Westminster, you shall constult together no more, farewell Sir Simon Synod, and his Son Presbyter Jack.  
Gens antiqua ruit, multos dominata per annos, and therefore O England;  
Inter pone tuis, interdum, gaudia curis.   

Of the sixth House.  
In the Cuspis of which is the eleventh degree of Gemini, a sign of the air, diurnal, masculine, hot and moist, and Mercury Lord thereof in pisceses, in a square to it, I fear he will be troubled with the Iliaque Passion, a disease which causeth men to vomit up their excrements, and so much the more, because of that Scripture, His meat in his bowels is turned, It is as the gall of asps within him, 
Job. 20.14.15.  he hath swallowed down riches, he shall vomit them up again, the Lord shall cast them out of his belly. Certainly his Infirmities are many, great and lasting, If you view all the Planets, you shall see them all in their detriments or falls. The Learned say, if 4. Planets at a Nativity be in their detriments or falls, it threatens mischief and misery to the native, as it happened at the Nativity of John Duke of Saxony, who was taken prisoner by the Emperor Charles the Fifth, this good Duke had at his Nativity three Planets in their detriments, and one in peregrination, but here in this Nativity, they are all in their detriments or falls, and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear.  
Mercury Lord of the place, that should have made him a Shepherd over the Lambs and sheep of Christ, looks asquint upon the place, with a hateful square, and flies backward; only the evil spirit of Mercury, whom we mentioned before, preferred him to be the Devil's Goatheard, having possessed his noddle with a persuasion of an unerring Spirit, that he may persecute all his opposers, even to the death.   

Of the seventh House.  
In the Cusp of which is the second degree of Cancer, a watery, fickle, movable, feminine, nocturnal sign and the Moon Lady of it, opposite to it, and therefore an enemy to it, making him fickle, quarrelsome to have many wives, though the Spouse of CHRIST be but one.  
In it is Mars the Lord Paramount of the Sheame, unhappily seated in his fall, in Direct opposition to benevolent but dejected Jupiter, and to the ascendent: which is his own exaltation, which worse than the worst of all infortunes, brings heavy sufferings to the native, Haly saith, if Mars be in a watery sign, as now he is, this mischief and misery shall come from the 
* Presbytry came from Scotland.  North, the Aphorism may carry credit, for you see it verrified:  
To be brief, his position in a quarrelling angle, will cause him to fill the Kingdom full of strife, debate, and to imbrue whole Nations in blood, to satisfy his own ambitious aspiring thoughts, makes him violent to do mischief, to be an enemy to God, Goodness and Good people, domineering over his Superiors, equals and inferiors, his throat an open Sepulchre, with his tongue he useth deceit, the poison of Asps is under his lips, and the way of Truth hath he not known, his mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, his feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in his ways, there is no fear of God before his eyes: I can write no more of this for weeping.  
Yet being in the Eleventh House from the Ninth, he makes him have great friends at first, and those no small fools neither, notwithstanding spying him Lord both of the Tenth and Eleventh House; he shall domineer over the State, swaying them at his pleasure, 
* Witness Manchester against Cromwell.  moving them to contention and quarrelling one with another, and making mere slaves of them, of which more in its due place.   

Of the Eight House.  
In the Cuspis of which is the Thirteenth degree of the regal sign Leo, a sign of the fiery triplicity, the Sun Lord thereof, just opposite to it, his death will be violent, like as when a millstone is hurled into the sea, which is adjuvated by the presence of Saturn in the house with the poisonsome tail of the Dragon, which being seated in that house, would have made him die in prison, but the Dragons-head in the second House in opposition, hath provided a sweeter air, though a more Ignominious death for him.  
Saturn is partner with his fellow Nature-killing Mars in his Nativity, (which I let slip before) being dispositor of the Ascendent, and both the Luminaries, viz. the Sun and Moon, if the Lord of the Nativity behold the Sun, and both infortunate, the Native shall be an enemy both to King and People, in this Nativity it is so, for both are in their detriments, both opposite; but her's all our comfort, this Position threatens short life, he shall live but a small time to do mischief, and then the common people, which now admire him, will begin to sing, hay Tosse, the Devil's dead, also, his disease will be dangerous to his Mother and Father, for saith Taismer, if one of the ill fortunes be in Cancer at a Nativity; It signifies short life to the Mother, if one of them be in Leo in a Nativity, it signifies short life of the Father; therefore, though sorrow continue all night, joy shall come in the morning, Presbytry will quickly die, the Synod be dissolved, and the Devil chained up, and therefore follow the advice of old Cato, Spemretine, etc.   

Of the Ninth House.  
Now for his Religion, which one would think should be balanced by reason; the Sixth degree of Libra in the Cusp, he will be a Divine, but Venus is opposite to it, and she, and all the rest of the Planets are mad, and therefore he will be a mad one, establish a mad Religion, and he will be as fickle as the wind, a fat Benefice will change him, ab equis ad afinos, Venus in Quadrat, to jupiter, Luna and Mars, and Trine to Saturn, make him incline to the law of the Jews, as I mentioned before, etc.   

Of the tenth house and eleventh.  
Both which the most malevolent and martial sign Scorpio, irradiates with his poisonsome beam, and Mars Lord of them both, He shall set the Kings or Rulers against the people, and the people against their Rulers, causeth all the Rulers, Officers, Magistrates, yea the Parliament itself, to sit whole weeks in consultation which way to sit the Beast on horseback, that he may ride to the Devil, this causeth all our Wars, bloodshed, murders, robberies, etc. viz. to advance Presbytry over Church and States O profound Divinity! Oh baseness beyond comparison.   

Of the Twelfth House.  
In the Cuspis of which is the Eleventh degree of Sagittarius, and Jupiter Lord thereof in the first house, causeth him to suffer, even in his youth, to have many hidden enemies, and some so cunning, that he shall never find them while his eyes are open, It also foretells to him anger, sadness, enmity and conspiracy, prison, captivity, Lamentation, mourning and woe, which always follows continuance in evil doing; for great Beasts I might say something, Sagitarius being in the Cusp, but I will only conclude with a caution, let him beware of a horse that walks Westward with a Car at's tail and so farewell child, as full of subtlety and mischief, as an egg is full of goodness. Ego in calum migro.   
FINIS.