Strange News of the sad effects of the fatal Eclipse happening the 29th of this March, 1652. ALSO A PREDICTION OF The future Fate of the King of SCOTS: Likewise An old Prophecy (never before extant) referring to the Prince of Conde (now in arms against the King of France) positively determining what will be the issue of the said Princes attempts. With the direful effects and Prodigies (probably) to be expected in the Air on Monday 29 March, 1652. With other remarkable things never before Published. By N. R. Student in Astrology. Bright Sols eclipsed the nine and twentieth day; Of March, and we black-Monday call it may, To King, and Prince, to Peer, and Potentate, Within few months, it shows a dismal fate, It also in a doleful tone doth sing The Prince of Conde's actions against his King. LONDON Printed for Richard Harper at the Bible and Harp in Smithfield. 1652. Strange news of the sad effects of the fatal Eclipse happening the 29 th'. of this March, 1652. OR, The direful effects and prodigies (probably) to be expected in the Air on Monday March 29. 1652. what time the Sun shall be almost totally Eclipsed. Also a Prediction of the future Fate of the King of Scots and a prophecy (never before extant) referring to the Prince of Conde, and positively determining what will be the issue of the said Princes attempts, etc. AS the Stars of Heaven, are the most excellent Characters of the Divinity, Power, Wisdom, and glory of their Creator, in that they are written and engraven by the finger of God himself (the father of lights) so the least of God's works are very considerable, and worthy of our chiefest regard, David infinitely admired at them, and declares the doom of those that despise them or disregard them, Psal. 28.5. Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, the Lord will destroy them and not build them up, Did not God make the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars? did not he set them to rule the day and the night? did he not appoint them for signs, and seasons? and can that be a sign which signifies nothing? St Origen tells us, Coelum instar libelli expansi est notis Syderum omnia futura in se Scripta continentis, the heaven (saith he) is like to a book laid open containing all future events written in those glorious Characters of the Stars: But to the business. Solar Eclipses have been ever fatal to Kings, Princes, and States and their Dominions, and to all manner of Authorities and men in power, setting one King, one Prince, one State, one Great or Nobleman at variance with another: this Eclipse that we are to expect on Monday March 29. 1652. falls out in the fiery triplicity in Aries, the ascendent of England, in the very degree of his exaltation: Our present Gubernators (who have transmografide Monarchy into a Free State) must not esteem themselves exempted (more than other States) from the effects thereof, that remarkable Eclipse of the * When the Son of righteousness suffered on the cross. Sun (when there was darkness over the face of the whole earth (may fitly be paralleled with this; many gods (for so the holy Ghost is pleased to style Rulers) shall suffer infamous deaths: Soon after this Eclipse we shall generally find men mad to undo themselves; the Prince of Planets, the eye of the world, and the glory of the heavens is Eclipsed, just upon his throne, the fight whereof will terrify all mortal eyes, for we shall see the Stars shine as in a winter's night, and (in all probability) strange and wonderful signs (such as our forefathers never beheld) in the Air, to the astonishment of all mankind. Bella sonat, sonat arma, minas sonat, omnia martis. All the evils the sword, sedition, famine or pestilence can do to Europe, may be expected from the effects of this Eclipse; it is the greatest that we have had in England this many centuries of years. The Sun's eclipsed in's Throne, and ●ryes aloud O Kings, why being mortal are ye proud? Your Sceptres gone, Democracy takes place, Your Hosts shall fall by th' sword before your face, As if that all the furies did conspire To set the rude Plebeians hearts on fire, 'Gainst sacred majesty, and to pull down, Each royal head, that's circled with a crown. There are many (I believe) that would willingly give half their lives, to know the future Fate of the Scots King (at present, as it were an exile from his native clime) I am sure no man more compassionates the infortunities of that Star-crossed Gentleman, than myself, let his condition be a lively example to those, whether Soldier or Magistrate, who rule over their Fellow-Commoners, & let them know that their greatness being built only upon the uncertain breath of that suspicious, humoursome, and skittish beast, the People; is very uncertain, and subject to various vicissitudes. But it were extreme arrogance in me (at least I should be sure of such a censure) positively to predict his future condition, and therefore I shall only give you an old prophecy (fathered upon Baudensis and attributed by him to the present King of Scots) which is this, Great * K james. J. thou peaceful King, thy first issue Inclines to War, Plague doth the next subdue: A * Charles 2. Lion fierce, sprung from the Northern shore Shall bring from deepest hell, and waves that roar. A blazing Army, he shall men o'er▪ run, Cities and cattle; yea the Moon and Sun Shall be remove, and (fatherlike) the least, Make highest, and give laws to the weak West. The famous Ambrose Merlin (as is observed by our English Merlin (as he calls himself) Mr. Lily) Nine hundred years since (though of many wise men approved no better than the story of the Knight of the Sun, or him of the Red Rose) prophesied of the Second Charles, thus, Nidificabit in sum rupe totius Britani: He shall build his nest in the chiefest Rocks of all Britain; Importing, that he shall betake himself to some mountainous Island, or Country belonging to his lost Dominions. But I shall pass from him, to him, viz. into France, and a while converse with the Prince of Conde. Were I intended to dilate myself in relating the woeful calamity, which shall within this half score years seize upon the French Nation, I might write a large Volume thereof, and tell them that present Prince of Conde (whom some report as religious as a Turk) shall (vexed for the loss of his Generalship, and not being countenanced by the King equally with his ambition) attempt to o'erturn and alter the whole frame of Government, the unruly Nobility adhering to him, shall by their civil dissension occasion the ruin of that famous French Monarchy, it was prophesied long ago that the time of this mutation should be, when a certain * Capistranum D. of Florence is of late turned Protestant Duke of Florence turned Protestant, pray peruse this Prophecy (by some thought to be Grebners) the words are very ominous and these. REx Franciae depelletur á suis finibus á propriis subditis, exercebit enim in eo tyranidem in gentem & contra Ecclesiam Christi, instigatus ab Episcopis & pontificibus etc.— Verum cum fuerit amotus & falsus solus, relinquetur in exilio, ab his in quibus erat confisus in fine autem secundi incursus hoc fiet sic pendet clipeus in stipite. In English thus. THe King of France shall be driven from his own Coasts and Confines by his own Subjects, for he will exercise very great Tyranny against his Subjects and the Church of Christ, being instigated and stirred up thereto by the bishops and Romanists, who shall seduce him, and betray him traitorously with bribery of money, but those misdemeanours he doth, shall seem to be done in favour of his Kinsmen or Allies, but when he shall be removed, and (false man) shall alone be banished, or all alone in exile, apart from those he confided in, these things shall come to pass etc. I shall give you one Prophecy more, (more dreadful and more positive than the former, never yet extant) which is this. A Prophecy of the fall of Monarchy in France, occasioned by the Rebellion of the Prince of Conde, etc. FRance, hear and tremble when thou seest, Thy young King dote upon a * Mazarine Priest, And in each City, and each Town The Mitre perch above the Crown Then wring thy hands, and weep, and cry, For thy destruction draweth nigh, Then * Conde. C. shall with outrageous force, Make himself strong with foot and horse, And though self-ends do thrust him on (And not a Reformation, As some shall think) he'll give that blow Shall lay thy Pomp and pride full low He but gins a work which shall Find its perfection in his fall Jehovah means for to translate, Thy power (O King) into a State Paris shall run with streams of blood And Shrubs grow, where once Cities stood. All this (the Prophet doth divine) Shall hap to thee ere fifty nine. This inevitable destiny attending fertile France, and so many mutations hanging over the heads of mankind, we may justly conclude, that the day of Doom is not fare off, and every day expect, when one Orb shall contend with another, and the fixed Stars in motion run faster than the wand'ring Planets, the Seas rising level with the mountains. Till night, destruction, ruin, calamity, and eternal darkness, conclude all these miseries. FINIS.