Astro-meteorologica, or, Aphorisms and discourses of the bodies cœlestial, their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air ... and other secrets of nature / collected from the observation at leisure times, of above thirty years, by J. Goad.

Direct.

Heat, May 8, 14, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31. 1621.

§ 9. Where we have expunged the accounts of Simple Wind, and Rain, and Warmth, and for brevities sake have mentioned only Excesses of Heat, Wind, Rain, and we may add Thunder, to clear the Arabs from their mad∣ness which was suspected. Their Experience, we must think, was groun∣ded upon more than 8 or 9 years, and a few Conjunctions therein contain∣ed. Let any one be pleased to view our account, and note, as well as num∣ber the days, and he shall find Mad, or at least Notable doings here and there. For Fulmina & Fulgetra Crebra, & Loca Fulminata, & Homines Fulminati, appearing more than once or twice, does speak for the Arab. Which seeing they happen under the Retrograde, as well as the Direct Conjunction, pleads for the Aspect it self, whether the Arab is Fee'd or not to speak for it. Nor can I help it, if the ☌ of ☉ to either of them be within a few degrees or days, what time we meet with Excesses, for 'tis not always so. Witness that on May 13. Anno 1622. where the ☌ of ☉ and ♀ is 17 days distant, and the ☌ of ☉ and ☿ 30 days. And yet even there we meet with a Pluit Largissimé, May 17. and 18. Heat and Thunder, May 19. and 20. to add no more, within 4 days of the Aspect, and no other neer of any note, the Lunar excepted. The Truth on't, 'tis a sweet Eviction to see Rain and Storm, when the ☉ ♀ and ☿ are neer together, as the Arab said now of the ☽ with them, particularly, when in August 1629. it Thundred above 7 days together. But reasonable Men have no cause to doubt, but that our Aspect, by it self considered, when the ☉ as it were, stands and looks on, can act its part in Winds and Rains, as you may see in the Abstract premis'd.

§ 10. The reason must be, I have said, because of their Vicinity to the Earth, as well as their moderate distance from the ☉; Otherwise the ☽ could claim no interest upon her Vicinity to us Sublunars, which we take to be confessed. And is it not consonant and consequent that we should meet with Pluviae decumanae, Largissimae, minxit multum & continenter? They say ♀ is thrice as big as ☿, and she yields accordingly. But is it not consonant I say to what we have observed before in her ☌ with ☉, when she watred the ground with her fruitful Dews the whole, or a great part of the day? This seems not so ordinary in the ☌ of ☉ with ☿, except per∣haps where ☿ moves very slow, which confirms the reason given from the Slow and even Motion of that Planet with the ☉, by which he helps to prolong a Constitution, and keep it in Statu quo.

§ 11. Must we give you a like tast from our own Country? We can∣not say nay, because it brings us the fullest and easiest Conviction, as far as I see yet, of all the Aspects, I am sure that have been yet propounded.

☌ ♀ ☿ ad gr. 10.

• 1671. Feb. 12. H. Gusts 3 p. &c. Sly.
• XX. Showr o. hail 3 p. wetting vesp. Sly. a. m. Nly vesp.
• XXI. Often showring ante mer. & p. m. May 13. ad June 8. Soultry. W. S W.
• XIV. H. wd, showr 2 p.
• XVI. Wind, showr ☽ South; fine showr 4 p.
• XVIII. Some rain p. m.
• XX. Rain 9 m. Rainy m. p.
• ...

• XXI. R. 1 p. 7. p. 8 p hail o.
• XXIII. Great dash o. (with Thunder) fre∣quent p. m.
• XXIV. Coasting rain at o. with thunder-clap. S W.
• XXVIII. Showrs in prospect a. m. p. m. Wly.
• XXXI. H. wd, very much rain 7 m. 10 m. o. 2 p. 4 p. 6 p. 10 p.
• June 1. Rainy and dashing die tot. Thirty Showrs at least. Circa diem 4. A Church in Venice was fired by Lightning.

November 17. ad 27.

• XXII. Warm, often missing. S W.
• XXIV. H. wd. S W.
• XXVI. Rain ante lucem.

1672. June 13. ad July 26.

• XIII. Thunderclap at Windsor.
• XVII. Soultry.
• XXVII. R. 6 m. ad 8 m. Sly 1 p. 6 p. 8 p.
• XXX. Drisle m. p. 3. July, drisle p. m. tot. A high wind, showres o. 1 p. p. m. tot.
• VI. Wet a. m. tot & fere tot p.
• XIX. Soultry.
• XXI. Hot season.
• XXII. Three Meteors, by moonlight two.
• XXVI. Dash of rain m. H. wd.

September 24. ad October 3.

• XXIV. Wet 5 p. ad 11 p. &c. with fog.
• XXV. Rain all n. s. wetting m. S E.
• XXVI. Dark, wet a. m. tot. showres 5 p. warm. S W.
• XXVIII. Wet m. windy. S W.
• XXX. Showre 9 p. and wdy. Sly.
• Octob. I. H. wind all n showr 1 p. 2 p. &c. II. H. wd all n. wet and dashing m. S W.

1673. June 24. ad July.

• XXV. Wetting little p. m. tot. S W.
• XXVI. Rain 6 m. 8 p. & 11 p. & n. m. p. H. wd. S W.
• XXVII. Rain 6 m. windy. S W.
• XXIX. Smart showr 6 m. 9 m. 5 p. 8 p. 1 Thunderclap 3 p.
• July I. Rain 1 p. &c. S W.
• Flouds at Oxford and Bristol, and spout at Harwich. June 23.

1674. January 6. ad 13. March.

• VII. H. wd o. & p. m. R. 9 p. Ely m. S. p.
• VIII. Wet die tot. a 5 m. ad 5 p. R. p. midn. S E.
• X. R. ut supra. H. wd.
• XI. Wet m. rain hard 1 p.
• XIII. R. 5 m. foggy and misle a m. m. p. Re∣arnest 7 p.
• XV. Wet a 1 p. ad 11 p. &c. S W.
• XVI. Drisle 8 m. Rain 9 p. &c.
• Very High wd, Shipwrack at the Goodwin.
• XVII. R. a. m. Snow die tot fere. Rain toward n. N E.
• XIX. Showr and high wind 10 p. S W. a m. S E. p. m.
• XX. Snow and very High wind 1 p. N W.
• XXI. H. wind b. d.
• XXIV. Much rain a 4 m. ad 7 m. warm. S W.
• XXVII. Rain 8 m. & 9 m. yea dropping m. p. Ely.
• XXVIII. Rain 8 m. offer 6 p. Ely.
• XXIX. Wetting m. p. R. a 4 p. ad 11 p.
• XXXI. H. Wind 5 m. R. tot.
• Feb. VI. Excessive frosty.
• XIII. Much Snow 2 p. ad 5 p. thaw.
• XIV. H. wind p. m. R. 5 p. S W.
• XV. R. fog a. m. 5 p. Sly and Ely.
• XXI. Wet and dark a. m.
• XXII. Fog, sleet o. wetting 8 p. Ely.
• XXIII. R. hard 2 m. 2 p. 9 p. S W.
• XXIV. Wet m. p. with snow. Ely.
• March II. H. wind n.
• III. Snow all day, a great snow. N E.
• VIII. Windy, snow a 4 ad 5 p. Ely.
• X. Snowing hard Sun occ.
• XII. Snowing m. p. p. m.
• XIII. R. m. and thaw apace, warm.

Anno eod. April 18. ad 30.

• XX. H. wind and dashing 4 p. &c. Sly.
• XXI. Showr 10 m. wd, rain 6 p. &c.
• XXII. Tempest a. L. & die tot. with coasting showrs.
• XXIII. Showring a. m. Hail at St. Albans.
• XXV. H. wd.
• XXVI. H. wind a. m. showring p. m. vesp. & 9 p. S W.
• XXVII. R. d. br. ad 7 m.
• XXIX. R. 5 m. & m. p. d.
• XXX. Rain 8 p.

Anno eod. July 5. ad 26. August.

• V. Wind, showr 1 p. smart showring and thunder.
• VI. Showre 1 p. 3 p. 5 p.
• VII. Showres of rain and hail 9 m. &c. Showrs p. m.
• VIII. Showring 10 m. 1 p. p. m. dashing 5 p. ad 8 p. fere. Sly.
• IX. Showr 10 m. 1 p.
• X. Showr 7 p. S W.
• XIII. H. wind, showr 1 p. & 8 p.
• XIV. Showr 9 m. showr and thunder 1 p. ve∣ry H. wind.
• XVII. R. 5 m. soultry, terrible Lightning 9 p. Meteor near Perseus.
• XVIII. Much lightning, abate at midnight. 3 Meteors 11 p.
• XIX. Lightning and thunder 2 m. R. coasting showr 1 p. H. wind. So at Strasburg, &c.
• XX. Powring rain a. & m.
• XXI. High wind.
• XXII. Soultry fog a. m. R. 1 thunderclap 1 p. R. 4 p. dash 9 p.
• Dire storm at Vtrecht, Antwerp, Ghent.
• XXIII. H. wind.
• XXIV. Rain 2 m. 7 m. H. wiuds. S. S W.
• Meteor ♃ occ.
• ...

• XXVI. Soultry, yet windy, Lightning much 8 p. &c.
• XXVII. H. wind, showr o.
• XXVIII. s. showres m. H. wind p. m.
• XXIX. H. wind, Meteors 11 p.
• XXX. R. hard p. m. tot. H. wind.
• XXXI. R. 5 m. & 11 m. wdy. August I. Showr 5 p. high wind.
• II. Rain 7 p. R. a 9 m. ad 2 p. showr 3 p. & 10 p.
• III. s. fain m. showr 5 p. 7 p. Rainbow. S W.
• IV. R. 9 m. &c. & 1 p.
• V. H. cool wind.
• VI. H. wind, R. 5 p. 7 p. 10 p. N W.
• VII. Much rain a. L.

1675. Jan. 31. ad 9 Feb.

• XXXI. H. wind, s. snow or hail 4 p.
• II. Feb. Rain midn. S W.
• IV. R. m. p. by fits, Dir.
• V. High wd and R. 11 p. S W.
• VII. Showr of hail 11 m. o. 1 p. 3 p. Rain 8 p.
• IX. Wetting and hard snow 8 m. Anno eod. August 20. ad 23. Sept.
• XX. s. rain n. windy.
• XXIV. Rainy m. p. m.
• XXVII. Windy, rain n.
• XXVIII. Wind, R. at 12. S W.
• XXIX. R. at 3 p. m. 5. & 7.
• XXXI. Great Hurricane at Barbadoes as ever was. Sept. V. Rain 5 p. drops 6 p.
• XI. Great rain 2 m. 3 m.
• XV. Rain 5 m.
• XVI. Rain 5 p.
• XIX. Rain 2 m. s. R. 2 p.
• XXI. Windy, great rain 5 m. 1 p.
• XXIII. R. at midn. Anno eod. Nov. 24. ad Dec. 5.
• XXIV. Windy, s. wetting o. R. 6 p.
• XXV. Rain a 3 p. ad 6 p.
• XXVII. Wetting 7 m. & 9 m.
• XXVIII. Warm.

1676. Feb. 21. ad March 6.

• XXV. R. 11 p. Tempest, after ☉ occ.
• XXVII. Wind 6 p. Meteors 9 p. ☿ seen plain below ♀.
• XXIX. s. wetting, heat, drops towards ☉ occ.
• March III. Rain 6 m. ad 9 m. fere, showr 11 m. bright Meteor.
• •• 5. rain 6 p. &c. Anno eodem. August 28. ad Sept. 5.
• XXVIII. Showr 8 m. & o. 2 p. dashing 4 fere R. 7 p. H. wind 9 p. &c.
• XXIX. High wind. Wly.
• XXX. Rain at Bromley 1 p. great showr.
• IV. Sept. hot n. f. wet. 5 m. R. o. fine rain p. m. & Sun occ. & 11 p.
• V. Rain apace 1 m.

1677. March 10. ad May 6.

• X. Rain ante ☉ ort. & 8 m. H. wind.
• XI. Rain 2 m. 4 m. hail 1 p. Meteor, wdy, wet 3 p. ad 6 p.
• XII. Rain ••. L. showr 1 p.
• XIII. Much snow 4 m. snow die tot.
• XIV. R. m. o. & vesp.
• XV. Great storm between Cales and St. Lucas; which broke the Mast of Captain Pile's Ship, and a Clap of Thunder broke the second Mast, so that they were all cast away.
• XVIII. Rain a. L. s. wet 6 m.
• XIX. Rain hard 1 m. 11 m.
• XX. R. a. L. H. wind.
• XXI. Very stormy all n. storm of rain and hail 6 p.
• XXII. Rainy, windy m. p. rain and hail 3 p. Hail and Thunder 5 p. at Forest hill.
• XXIII. Rain 2 p. R. ante 5 p, & 8 p. too much rain complained of. Hail 4 p.
• XXIV. Rain 8 m. &c.
• XXV. H. wind all n.
• XXVII. Showr 6 p. 7 p.
• XXIX. Rain a midn. and blow hard. Aprill. Storm Wrackt the Loyal Merchant, Lat 49.
• III. April. Rain a. L. at Forest hill 4. Rain a. I. Nly.
• VI. Showr 1 p.
• VII. Rain 5 m.
• XI. s. rain m. high wd, drisle, oft R.
• XIV. Rain 6 m. & o. 1 p. 6 p. by fits 3 p. coa∣sting showre 7. H. wind 11 p.
• XV. Rain 11 m. sweetly with H. wds, showrs 6 p.
• XVI. Showr 8 m. hot n. R. and 4 or 5 Claps of thunder in the S W.
• XVII. s. rain 9 m. wind, R. p. m. 4 p. by fits, a Comet.
• XVIII. s. showring o. & 1 p.
• XIX. R. 3 p. and pretty store a 6. ad 8 p.
• XX. s. rain 9 m.
• XXII. s. wet 3 p.
• XXIII. Cold day, wdy. Percpisce at Greenwich, Whale at Colchester.
• XXIV. R. m. 10 m. hard 11 m. 1 p. 6 p. wd. S W.
• XXVI. R. m. 10 m. rain considerable 11 m.
• XXVII. Wet m. wet 6 m. here, and 36 Mile Northwards. Rain 1 p. 5 p. 7 p.
• XXIX. H. wind, showr 9 m
• XXX. Rain 11 m. and constant till midnight, ante midnight rain faster.
• The Vale of the white horse in danger of a Floud.
• I. May. Wet m. rain 11 m.
• II. Rain 5 p. & 9 p. Floud at Tunbridge.
• III. Wet a. m. tot. showr, rain and hail, an il lustrious Rainbow. Anno eodem. June 30. ad 10 July.
• July VII. Lightning and Thunder 1 p.
• VIII. Troubled air, Thunder 7 p. and Rain.
• IX. Showr 6 m. smart 10 m. High wind die tot.
• X. Boisterous wind die tot. R. 11 ☽ occ.

1678. April 11 ad 18.

• XI. R. 9 m. & m. p. m. D.
• XIII. Wetting o. 2 p. & 6 p. R. 8 p.
• XIV. R. 1 p.
• XV. Rain 1 & 2 m.
• XVI. Drisle m. 6 p. 11 p.
• XVII. Drisle 10 m. showr 2 p.

1679. Jan 22. ad 30.

• XXII. Thawing, drisle, sleet p. m.
• XXIII. Snow 8 fere; some snow and thaw p. m. per tot.
• XXIV. Snow m. p. n.
• XXVI. H. wind and cutting. Anno eod. November. 8. ad 18.
• VIII. s. rain p. 7 p. 11 p.
• IX. R. a. L. postea snow.
• X. s. rain ante 2 p.

1680. Sept. 3. ad 11.

• III. Halo 2 m.
• V. s. raiu 10 m. & o.
• IX. Gr. Fog, hot 10 p.
• X. Gr. fog, wet 10 p. Meteor, 10 p.

1681. June 15. ad 22.

• XV. s. rain, Sterlin great storm, hail.
• XVI. Dolphins in the Severn.
• XVII. T. M. swallowing up Trees at Ferrara.
• XIX. s. drisle o. 7 p. Meteor with a Train 9 p.
• XX. Fine gentle rain a 2 p. ad midn.
• XXI. Brave wet day, curious dash ante 3 p.
• XXII. R. Sun or. winds. Anno eod. Decemb. 18. ad 8 Feb. 1682.
• XVIII. Very high wind a. L. and much Rain stormy day.
• XIX. R. 6 m. stormy ad Falmouth.
• XX. R. 4 m. rain and wind ante 7 p. Porpisces 4 at Woolwich Reach.
• XXI. R. m. & 11 m. Floud at Copenhagen by Storm
• XXII. Rain a 7 p. ad 11 p.
• XXIII. Much Rain noct. precedent. drisle p. m. m. p. snow at Okeham.
• XXIV. Plymouth very tempestuous, much R.
• XXV. H. wind and much R. ab ante 4 m. ad merid. stormy day & n. stormy Tarmouth 6 Vessels driven back by stress weather.
• XXVI. Very stormy n. praeced. with R. storm of hai. Stormy by fits.
• XXVIII. Stormy p. m. R. 12 p.
• XXIX. Wind and R. ante 2 p. & alias.
• XXX. H. wind p. m. R. and very high wind, H. wind n,
• Jan. I. 1682. R. 2 p. ad 3 p. so 5 p. ad 8 p. H. wind o. & p. m.
• III. Furrows, H. wind, blowing off Tiles, s. R. m.
• IV. Rain ante 1 m.
• V. R. 6 p.
• VI. Inundation at Amsterdam.
• VIII. R. and H. wind a. L, & 10 m. High wd 2 p.
• IX. Wind and wetting m. H. wind 10 p.
• X. s. R. m. H. wind n.
• XI. Very high wd, s. snow and rain 2 p.
• XII. H. wind n. tot. rain 2 p. 3 p. vesp. very high wind n. Shipwrack, a Dutch Vessel.
• XIV. Windy, higher vesp. s. rain 9 m.
• XV. Very H. wind m. R. 10 m. & p. m. smart showrs ante 5 p.
• XVI. Furious Tempest m. tot. & die blowing of tops of Houses and Chimneys.
• XVII, R. ante 6 m. H. winds, s. rain 6 p. 9 p. & ante 12 p.
• XVIII. Stormy wind n. tot. circ. d. h. the Seas near Holland rose 3 inches higher than in 1670. when there was an Inundation.
• XIX. Showres ante 7 m. storm of rain and wd 4 p. H. wind at n. Meteors 3 or 4 ante 9 p.
• XXI. Showr circ. 7 m. & ante 10 m. high wd ante 2 p. R. serious 7 p. 10 p. much com∣plaint of Shipwrack.
• XXII. R. ante 8 m. 10 m. Meteor by ♄ 9 p.
• XXIV. Rain hard post midn.
• XXV. Rain sub vesp. Inundat. at Danow higher by 2 foot than 'twas 35 years ago.
• XXVI. R. ante 3 p.
• II. Feb. H. wind, driving snow ante 3 p.
• Jan. 16. Ex literis pene e tota Europa, constat omnes undequaque fluvious exundasse.
• XXX. Stockholm, within 10 mises, T. M. ve∣ry terrible for half an hour. Comet at Le∣opold.
• Feb. VI. At Dover a Swedish Vessel wrackt, Ships scarce safe in Falmouth Haven.

1682. 26. March ad 5 April.

• XXVII. Rain ante 8 p. m. s. gusts, Rain ante 2 p.
• XXVIII. H. wd, scuds of rain ante 5 p. 6 p. 7 p. 11 p. very tempestuous at Plimouth.
• XXIX. Windy, cold, dark.
• XXX. Windy, s. hail ante 11 m. wind and showrs o. 3 p. 4 p. high wind.
• II. Apr. High wind, rise 10 m. ♃ or.
• IV. S. rain ante 8 m. mist. Anno eod. June 5: ad July 25.
• V. s. wind, showr ante o. set to rain 7 p. ad 11 p.
• VI. Windy n. s. drops 11 p. s. dewing o.
• VII. Gusty, drisle p. m. 2 p. 3 p. frequent showring ante 7 p. so 8 p. 11 p.
• VIII. Boston-Seas outragious for 2 days past, say the Fisher-Boats.
• X. H. winds, showring m. 10 m. 11 m. S W.
• XI. H wd n. tot. & die seq. showring 9 m. Pleiades med. C. 1 p. 3 p. Thunder said, vesp.
• XII. Winds, coasting showr 4 p. 8 p.
• XIV. Showr and brisk wd.
• XV. Wind blowing extream, s. days past, se∣veral pieces of Wracks and drowned men; at Durham hail and lightning, the like at Carlington in Ireland, destroying Corn many many miles round.
• ...

• XVI. Showr o. rain at Putney for 3 hours; Dash of rain and Thunder 5 p. ☽ in Na∣dir.
• XVII. Dropping a. m. a 7 m. ad 1 p. m. p. winds.
• XXI. s. R. 6 m. and high wind m. p.
• XXII. H. wd m. p. very often showring 8 m. & o. 5 p. 6 p. 9 p.
• XXIII. Coasting showres round, Thunder and great dash 5 p.
• XXIV. Maxfeid, Hail and Lightning destroyed the Corn.
• XVI. Smart showr post 6 p.
• XXVII. Bruxel, we have had very bad wea∣ther like to spoil our Harvest.
• XXVIII. Rain 10 m. 7 m. S E. Wly.
• XXIX. Very high wind, s. wetting ante 1 p. so 3 p. 7 p. 10 p.
• XXX. H. and stormy wds 1 m. so m. p. R. circa 4 p. S W.
• I July. Stormy and wet 10 m.
• II. Showr ante 11 m. wetting o. 1 p. 2 p. H. wds a. m.
• III. R. early, die tot. fere.
• IV. H. wind, s. rain, welcom Harvest day.
• VI. Lightning, with, harm done at Sea at Brighthamsted. Lightn. tore one House all to pieces, and Fired another. Lightning with us 10 p. terrible.
• VII. Lightning, thunders rain ante 3 m. showr circ. o.
• XII. At Anjou, Dreadful Tempest turned se∣veral Villages in that Province topsi-turvi.
• XV. Thunder and some R. ante 3 m.
• XVI. Showr o. & 1 p.
• XVII. Wind, brisk showr 10 m. 2 p. 5 p. 6 p 11 p.
• XVIII. H. wind and showring 7 m. N W.
• XX. Meteor 11 p. Wly.
• XXI. Wetting 9 & 10 m. R. 10 p. &c.
• XXII. Showres coasting 1 p. brisk showrs post 3 p.
• XXIII. Showr 1 p. & p. m. Phillipsburg, with∣in a mile a Village mostly destroyed by Lightning.

§ 13. Ha! How dost thou like this Good Reader? Doth it not found like Drums and Trumpets? doth it not alarm Thee? Alass! I have more of this Nature: For the might of these configurations is not seen, unless we range yet further by Sea and Land to tell more Heavy Tales of what hath been done in old time on the Solid and Watry Pavements of the World. A Phi∣losophers mind is boundless, sometimes his Pen. So the great Naturalist, Pliny, the First of that Name, reads a Lecture upon the World, and all its Contents, whatsoever can shew us the stamp of Nature, the mark of a Divine Impress, while we content our selves as hitherto with Storms, Flouds, Fiery Meteors, and such Trade. For which, because we have not done right as yet, to either of the Conjunctions of ☉ with ☿, or ♀ pre∣mis'd, which yet may be of profit to Navigation; and because our present ☌ oft-times herds with a ☌ of ☉, & vice versa, on this account we shall produce the ☌ of ☉ and ☿, and ♀ in their several Columns, which done, we shall subjoyn what remains of ♀ ☿.

§ 14. And here is the benefit of our Amplitude, which we make in an Aspect, that we shall not be defeated of our intent by the Calculations of the former Century, how short soever they have been; but our design shall be built up, stand sure and stedfast, because in our way we proceed as the good Architect doth, who knows that the longer is the Beam, the more hold it takes upon the Wall, whereas if we should cut to an Inch, or half-Inch, what with shrinking of the Timber, or the setling of the Building, All would come to Ruine. Notwithstanding to confess ingenuously amongst this Triade of Aspects, the ☌ ☉ ♀ was most welcom to us, be cause of a more certain, and a clearer Calculation.

The Forreign Diary of ☌ ☉ ☿ s Tempests, reserved to this place.

• § 15. Anno Christi.
• 1500. April 23. The Portugal Admi∣miral Capralis his doom in the reach of the East Indies. Purch. p. 1. pag. 30.
• 1517. June 26. Hurricane blew down Houses, pull'd up Trees at Nordling; Lychost, p. 133.
• 1535. May 20. Storms and Tempests that Ships suffered; Hakl. 11 p. 212.
• 1539. August 23. Extream Tempests, and danger of perishing; Hakl. 3. p. 198.
• 1540. Feb. 11. Tempest, a greater cannot be express'd; Hakl. 2. p.

• 421. From that day to the 20. Tem∣pestuous Ib. cum ☌ ♀ ☿.
• 1549. March 14. Wondrous Storms and Showrs praeter modum; Dr. Dee, Annot. MS. ad annum cum ☽ ☍ in prim. ♈.
• 1552. Aug. 21. Hurricane, Lycosth 625. cum ♄ ☍.
• 1553. August 3. Lat 70. Near Fin∣mark Terrible Whirlwinds, Hakl. p. 269.
• 1555. August 19. Storms so terrible we knew not the like, though we had indured many since we came out of England, Hakl. 1. p. 318.
• 1557. June 2. Tempests and much Rain, Hakl. 1. p. 334.
• 1551. July 15. Hurricane, rifting up Trees in many places, Gem∣ma 2. p. 32. great storms at Sea, near Volga, Lat. 46. Hakl. 1. p. 350. cum ☽.
• 1565. Dec. 24. Furious Winds, blow∣ing open the Gates of St. Pauls. 8th. Shipwracks on Sea, many pe∣rished in the Thames; Stow, p. 659.
• 1568. March 28. Tempests of wind, drowning the Tilt-Boats before Graves-end. Stow, p. 662.
• 1569. August 18. Hurricane, Gem∣ma 2. p. 65. gr. 12. ☌ cum aliis.
• 1574. Nov. 18. Very tempestuous Winds all night, which Stow ne∣ver knew the like, p. 679. cum ♄.
• 1576. March 5. Flaw of Wind from N W. Tilt-Boat of 21 Persons perished, Stow, p. 680. ☌ near the Equator.
• 1582. March 8. Outragious Storms on the Coast of Holland, Calvis. cum ☽.
• 1585. Dec. 23. Earl of Leicesters Tempest going for Roterdam, Stow, p. 713.
• 1586. June. 13. ad 16. Storm at Vir∣ginia, c. Smith, 1. 9.
• 1587. May 27. Fair, but the Pin∣nace Fore-Mast was blown over∣board, Davis's Voyage; Hakl. Vol 3. p. 3.
• 1589. Octob. 6, 7, 8. Very rough weather, Hak. Vol. 2. p. 160. ☌ in fine.
• 1590. August 1. ad 9. Weather ex∣ceeding Foul, much Wind and Thunder, Hakl. 290.
• 1591. Sept. 5. Storm, Hakl. 2. p. 175. ☌ in ♑ 21.
• 1592. Oct. 21. Wind blew extream, Hakl. Vol. 3. p. 848.
• 1593. April 18. ad May 10. Furious contrary winds, Cavendish Relat. Purch. 4. p. 1193. ☌ most part of that while.
• 1595. Oct. 26. Storm at Night, se∣parated Sir Francis Drake from the Fleet, Hakl. Vol. 3. p. 483.
• 1596. Feb. 14. Storm, Hakl. Vol 2. p. 589. ☌ cum aliis.
• 1597. May 20. Extremity of fowl Weather, Hakl. p. 195.
• June 2. Extream Storm near the Bay of Assumption, Ib. ☌ in fine ♎.
• 1606. April 20. Pascha ventosum ☌ in ♉. April 21. Vehement Tempests all Night, with Winds, Rain and Thunder in a terrible manner. We were forced to lye at hull, Purch. 2. p. 686. cum ♀ ☿.
• 1609. June 15. Great Storm, we spent over-Board our Fore Mast, Purch. 3. p. 583. ☌ in, prim. ♋
• 1610. March 27. Terrible Storm. I was fain to spoon before the Sea to save our Lives, Purch 1. p. 242. Sept. 21, 22, 23. At Lesbos, Lat. 40. Winds blew m. and Sea some∣what rough; Mr. Saundys, p. 114. cum ☽ ☍.
• 1612. Dec. 22. to 28. Boisterous and stormy; Purch. 287. ☌ in ♑.
• 1614. Nov. 9. Rainy and great winds, at Lusham in Kent; Annot. M. S. ☌ in fine ♍.
• 1618. Jan. 10. Foul Weather, &c.
• 1619. July 26. Great Tempest at N E. Sail lost by stress of Wind small rest all Night, Purch 1. p. 130 ☌ in ♌.
• 1620. July 18. Foul Weather, &c.
• 2624. Nov. 12. Styl. Nov. Count Mansfelds Tempest, where his Ship was cast away; Fromond 2. c. 3. art. 13. Calvis. ☌ in ☍ Plei∣cades.
• 1625. Jan. 5. Great Tempest, some Boats drowned in our Thames, ☌ in ♑, at the same time Storms of

• Wind in Norimberg, and a Steeple in Eberspach struck with Light∣ning.
• 1626. Jun. 9. Whirlwinds in Thames near Purfleet, tore up the ground. Howes, p. 1042. Dir. 12. Whirl∣wind on the Thames blew up much Water in the Air, the Boats were turned round, Thunder and ha followed, Howes, Ib. ☌ cum il in fine ♎.
• 1636. May 29. Terrible Storm and Whirlwind in Smalcald, Norim∣berg, ☌ in ♎.
• 1642. Feb. 16. Quen Mary embar∣quing for England, forced back a∣gain by Weather; Sanders on ☌ cum ♀.
• 1656. March 27. Rowsing Tempest at Oxford, ☌ cum ♄ ☍.
• 1660. May 15. Hurricane.
• 1661. July 20. Very wet and stormy, ☌ cum ☽ ☍.
• 1666. Jan. 24. Hurricane. Sept. 20. High and extraordinary Tempests of Winds and Rain ante merid. ☌ gr. 10.
• 1668. Febr. 16, 17, 18. Tempestu∣ous Winds, ☌ gr. 5. Febr. 29. Furious Winds. Oct. 13. Stormy Winds.
• 1670. Jan. 25. St. Pauls day, Tem∣pestuous Winds. ☌ cum ♄. Sept. 4. High Winds, Rain all Night, ☌ cum ☽.

§ 16. I know not what will be the issue with my good Reader, since some may say there is too much, and others, that here is not Instance enough. To the First, I shall hope 'tis not unpardonable: To the Second, that it must not be supposed that this can be a Tenth Part of the Evidence may be produced from the Annals of Europeans, and that the Maritime Re∣lations of several Countries, enough to convince Tycho himself, and all his Academic Suspenders of Assent. I add further, that if any Man will but consider what an Hurricane is, and the Prodigious Violence wherewith it is described by the Attestator, parallel to the Force of Lightning and Gun∣powder, which makes the Seaman often complain of some destructive Fiend engaged in the Star. If a man shall consider the Horror of a Shipwrack, or which seems to be next, the perishing on our Rivers, where a Shole of Passengers by hard Fate, are coop'd up in a Tilt-Boat, which miscarrying are arrested by the Dire Embraces of Death; He would not chuse a suspi∣cious day to put to Sea in, nor consult an Astrologer for a day when there haps a ☌ ☉ ☿, that he might then to chuse, pass down in the Boat.

117. This we may be sure of as to Hurricanes, that though we do not Feel such Dire Commotions here, as within the Tropick, yet we have seen and Felt some not blunt and bruit Violences of Winds, which have the Merchants mark of ☌ ☉ ☿.

§ 18. Now we may take a View of ☌ ☉ ♀. As Furious, but not so fre∣quent.

The Forreign Diary of ☌ ☉ ♀, and the Tempest attending.

• Anno Christi,
• 1521. Octob. 24. Magellans Tem∣pest, Purch 11. p. 43. cum ♀ ☿.
• 1539. Nov. 26. Tempestuous winds, separating our Ships; Hakl. p. 407. cum ☌ ♀ ☿.
• Dec. 11. Cruel North winds broke the Ships, Cable, the Ship bulg'd. Hakl. p. 720.
• 1555. Dec. 13. Water mounted so that we might see it 4 Leagues off, Hakl, p. 100.
• 1556. Jan. prim. Storms of N. winds from Terra Florida, and dispersed our Ships in 2 ho. lasted 10 days cum ♀ ☿.
• 1557. Nov. 10. Ambass, Tempest, Howes, 629.
• ...

• 1565. June 17. Storm forced us to cut the Cable, and lose both An∣chors and Cables to save our selves, Hakl. Edit. 1. p. 536.
• 1568. Oct. 9. Extream Storm, eve∣ry hour we feared Shipwrack. Hakl. p. 556.
• 1577. July 19. Divers Storms and Flaws; ☌ una cum ♂. Hakl. Edit. 2. p. 65.
• 1580. Sept. 25, 26, 27. Great stor∣my Blasts, Hakl. p. 842. cum ☌ ♀ ☿. The whole Month was tempestuous Ib. p. 474. the ☌ la∣sted per totum mens. cum aliis. Octob. 1. ad 7. The same weather for die 4. the Cables broke, ☌ cum ☿.
• 1583. Feb. 1. ad 5. Stout Gale, Hakl. Vol. 3. p. 767. cum ☌ ♀ ☿.
• 1592. Octob. 2. Stormy Winds at W. N W. near Lat. South 9. Hakl. p. 849. Die 4. Storm (as the poor Sea∣men then phrased it) beyond all reason, Ib. Oct. 10. Dark Storm with despair, Hakl. Vol. 3. p. 848. Oct. 21. Wind extream, H. 2. p. 849. cum ☌ ♀ ☿. 25. Sudden Storms, our boat sunk at the Shore, Hakl. Edit. 2. pag. 329.
• 1596. Jan. 25. Wind so great that we could not lanch our Shallop. Sir W. Raleigh. Hakl. 3. p. 629.
• 1597. July 9. Earl of Essex Fleet bound for the Azores, driven back 60 Leagues to Plimouth, Stow, p. 783.
• 1602. May 11. Stormy weather, C. Smith una cum ☽.
• 1608. Sept. 26. Mighty Storm on the Bay of Soldania, beyond the Southern Tropic, split our Fore-Course, Purch. Vol. 1. p. 228.
• 1610. May 12. A hard Storm, Purch. 1. p. 105.
• 1615. March 7. Cruel Storm conti∣nued divers days. Purch. Vol. 2. p. 1. p. 80. cum ☌ ♀ ☿.
• 1619. Nov. 29. Hurricane at Burmu∣das, blew up many great Trees, and cast away the Warwich, ♐ 17. ☉ 17. ♀ 14. ☿. Not long after a second, C. Smith p. 171.
• 1620. Sept. 13, 14. Storm at Bermu∣das with Snipwrack, C. Smith, p. 190.
• 1627. Febr. 24. Naves 37. cum 4500 hominibus submersa, Calv. (gr. 4) Dec. 17. Hurricane v. Kepler ad annum: and we have given it be∣fore, gr. 5.
• 1635. Feb. 6. Terrible blustring, cum ☿.

§ 19. So have you the ☌ of ☉ ♀ of a terrible unruly Influence, but by the comparing of these two Tables, 'tis hard if we cannot make some esti∣mate. It appears that the ☌ of ☉ ☿ is more prone to lend us a Hurricane then that of ♀. Hence (which I am glad of) the old Character of ☿ is justified, even in Capital Letters; That it is rather an exciter of Turbu∣lency, than ♀: For ♀, I suppose blusters with some quarter, sends a Boat on drift, but the Mercurial Hurricane hath the dead-doing Influence, Hur∣ryeth a Vessel to the bottom, as if in reality the Fiend were there, Abad∣don or Apollyon; who hath the Power of Death: who, though he have not a hand in the raising of these violent Effects of Nature, as Bodin and Hel∣mont will have it, (for I cannot believe that there is a Fiend lodged in eve∣ry blast of Fired Gunpowder) yet nothing hinders but that the infernal Spi∣rit may make use of a Tempest which is raised to his hands, always wil∣ling to be one at mischief. But this may be out of the way; only I thought good to Start it, that Men may rightly value and measure the Heavenly Bo∣dies and their Influences, that we may look no longer upon them as Objects of a doting Theory; as for the most part Astrology is censured.

§ 20. Now let us see what an Hand a ☌ ♀ ♀ hath in Storms, premising their Diary also.

The ☌ ♀ ☿

• Anno Christi.
• 1522. Febr. 11. A North W. wind in the Prow of the Ship would not suf∣fer us to pass the Cape of B. Spe∣ranza, Purch. Lib. 2. p. 452. ☌ ☉ ♀ per mens. totum.
• 1539. Nov. 26, 27. Northwards tempestuous for two days; Cortez his Ships lose their Company, Hakl. p. 407. cum ☉.
• 1540. Jan. 9. &c. Tempest from the North, driving back 20 Leagues, Hakl. 415. if we had been in Har∣bour we should have been cast a∣way, p. 416. 418. una cum ☉. Febr. 1. Wind boistrous, the Sea∣men glad in return, H. p. 420. Febr. 11. Ashwednesday, A greater Tempest saith the Seaman cannot be expressed.
• 1545. June 25. Hurricane in De∣vonshire, whereby Trees were o∣verturned, Churches, Chappels, Houses uncover'd, Stow, 589. ☌ in ♌. Note that ♂ was then but 12. gr. distant from ☉.
• 1547. Nov. 21. hor. 9. Ventus Vehe∣mentissimus, una cum ☉.
• 1504. June 6. Storm, Dr. Deo's An∣not. ad mens.
• 1553. Aug. 1. Terrible Whirlwind, we were not able to bear any such, Sir H. Willougby in Hakl. 1 p. 235.
• 1554. August 9: Antwerp, Tempe∣stuous, N W. wind blew the Go∣vernour and Family in their Coach off the Bridge into the Water, Stadius himself rarely escaped from being crush'd with the fall of a Tree, Tab. Berg. 203. ☌ in fi∣ne ♑.
• 1558. May 12. Dangerous Tempests in Mare Caspium, for 44 ho. Purch. Vol. 3. 198. cum ☉.
• 1662. Jan 21, 22, 23. Horrida ven∣torum Tempestas Gemma 2. p. 40.
• 1573. August 2. Tempestates horrend. cum Ventis assiduis, Gemma 2. 169. ☌ in ♑ cum ☉.
• 1576. August 24. ad 28. Very much wind like to lose our Bark, Hakl. Edit 2. p. 72. cum ♃ una cum ☉.
• 1577. July 4. Friezland, Boisterous Winds, Hakl. 3. p. 33. cum ♂.
• 1580. Sept. 5, 6, 7. Happy the Ship in Harbour, Hakl. 474. cum aliis. Sept. 12. ad 17. Very tempestuous, ☌ ☉ ☿ per tot. mens. so die 25, 26, 27, Ib.
• 1582. Dec. 27. Foul Gale of Wind, Hakl. 1. p. 613.
• 1586. Sept. 6, Mighty Storm, very extream, lasted ad diem 10. We intended to cut down our Masts, Hakl. Vol. 1. p. 786. cum ♄ ☍.
• 1587. Octob. 8. ad 14 Storm, in Six days drew us further than we could recover in 13. Sir W. Ra∣leigh. Hakl. Edit 1. 270.
• 1589. Aug. 17. Wind blew hard at Virginia, C. Smith p. 15. Great Storm at night, die 19. Hakluit.
• 1592. Octob. 10. Dark, stormy, was furious with despair, Hack. Vol. 3. p. 148. cum ☉:
• 1594. March 21. Hurricanes, tea∣ring divers Trees, Barns, mon∣strously and incredibly in several parts of Eegland, Stow, p. 766. ☌ circ. prim. ♈ cum ☉, ☍ ♄ ♃.
• 1595. Dec. 19. The Foul Weather which Sir Francis Drake verifies to his small ☽, lies under this ☌ una cum ☉, being scarce all three gr. 3 distant.
• 1696. March 21. Stormy Gales of Wind, and much Rain, Hakl. E∣dit 2. 589.
• 1597. June 17. Stormy Weather, Hakl. 195. ☌ in fine ♎ una cum ☉.
• 1605. Inter Sept. 26. & October 5. Storms to our great Peril, look∣ing always we should be wracked, Purch. Vol. 4. p. 1257. cum ☉
• 1606. April 21. Vehement Tem∣pest all Night, with Wind, Rain and Thunderterrible. Purch. Vol. 4. p. 1686. cum ☉.
• 1086. Nov. 24. Storm furious, that we drave before the Wind 3 leagues Purch. 4. 1282.
• 1609. Dec. 22. ad 27. Boisterous and Storms.
• ...

• 1610. April 2. A Storm, we were forced to bear up before the Sea, Purch 3. 231. July 15. Very stormy, Purch 4. 1759. ☌ in ♈ cum ☉.
• 1618. March 1. at Jucatra arose a Tempest, Purch Vol. 1. 677. ☌ gr. 8.
• 1620. Sept. 4. Great Tuffon overset Ships, and sunk them down sud∣denly, Purch. Vol. 4. p. 641. ☌ gr. 9.
• 1637. Octob. 7. Great Tempest in the Frisian Sea, Kyriander.
• 1640. Sept. 23. Stormy wind and great Floud in Dresden. Kyr.
• 1640. Nov. 11. Dark, tempestuous when his Majesty King Charles the First escaped from Hampton Court. H. I. ☌ gr. 9. cum aliis.
• 1651. Feb. 22. Tempestuous una cum ☉, ☌ gr. 2.
• 1663. Nov. 7. Dreadful Storms at Tunbridge, ♀ ☿ both R. cum aliis ☌ gr. 5. cum ☉.
• 1669. Oct. 31. Tempest Terrible cum ☽ ☍ ☌ gr. 11:

§ 21. Lo! How our ☌ ♀ ☿ is stormy; 'tis against the Hair to say that that a ☌ ♀ ☿ is as stormy as ☌ ☉ ☿, for that were to equal ♀ with ☉ which the System of the World it self will not indure, and Experience rejecteth, as by comparing the Mercurial Tables will be seen. ♀ and ☿ conjure up some Hurricanes, but ☉ and ☿ do more. It will be objected that if ♀ and ☉ be not so boisterous as ♀ and ☿, then ☿ is brisker than ☉ himself. And that being absurd, we must say, that ♀ and ☉ are like to the Eye and the Spectacle; the Glass is not greater, i. e. Nobler than the Eye; and yet the Eye armed with the Glass, sees clearer than when it is consider'd by it self: And in our Simile, as there lies much in the Vicinity of the Convex Glass to the Eye of one side, and the Vicinity to the Object on the other: So there is much in the Vicinity of these Planets, first to the Sun, and then to the Earth, the objects as it were of their Influence. And we promised to evince this from those rare Nicks of time, when ♀ and ☿ are both Retrograde; or one only, while the other is in his Station: (I have but two Instances as yet) the Effects are dreadful, witness that 1620. Sept: 4. and that 1663. Nov. 7. assign'd the one by Sea, the other by Land. The reason being no other then what we have, that the Retrograde Course argues their Vicinity to the Earth, much more then the Direct: The Astronomers will tell you how many Miles.

§ 22. 'Tis obvious to note, that as in a ☌ ☉ ♀, so in a ☌ ♀ ☿; we some∣times give a fair account of a whole Months Constitution, or more; as for February, Anno 1522. Jan. 1540. the Month of September 1580. we have given a hint of other Planets that have been guilty of the Ryot, the ☉ and, ☽, and sometimes ♂ and ♄. To prepare the Reader to expect Storms from all Quarters of Heaven; and that there is no such thing as a Pacifick Sea under Heaven, as Magellan himself also found after 3 Months time in that very Sea which he so named.

§ 23. Wherefore I reckon I have done not much amiss to introduce these 3 Tables immediately foregoing, since the one gives Light to the other ☌ ☉ ☿ Rages, when ♀ it may be is a Well-willer. A ☌ ☉ ♀ rages when ☿ is not far off; and a ☌ ☉ ☿ Rains and blusters, when ☉ by his Vicinity shews his Interest in the Effect. So that I cannot but commend to the Mar∣riner, even after every Storm over-blown, and thanks to their Preserver, to consider as a rudiment of Celestial Knowledge, how ☉ and ☿ and ♀ interchangeably bear to one another. In VII. years time he will see he hath Reason to observe more then Lunar Aspects come to. For that is well, yet that is as old as Noahs Ark; and what advance hath the Navigator made I beseech him for these 3000 years and upwards? 'Tis Pity.

§ 24. Stadius, I confess, gives away his Hurricane (for it was no less) to the rising of ♄ and ☿ with Arcturus supra Anno 1544. but he had done

no wrong, if for surity sake he had quoted other Witnesses, viz. this of our present Aspect.

§ 25. Let us dispatch the remainder, for its Influence in Comets, which are but Few, and Fiery Meteors which are more Plentiful, and then we come in sight of a Conclusion.

Comets then have not many Instances.

• First, Anno 1506. April 11. lasted 25 days, Ricciolus, ☌ ♀ ☿ gr. 10. cum ☌ ♄ ♂.
• Anno 1530. August 6. to Sept. 3. Ricciolus, ☌ ♀ ☿ cum aliis.
• Anno 1557. August 6. usque ad Fest. Barthol. Stad. Bunting, ☌ ☉ ♀ ☿.
• Anno 1578. May 16. Lubiniec, ☌ ♀ ☿ in ♎ cum ☉.
• Anno 1582. May 15. Stow. p. 695. ☌ gr. 12. cum ☉.

§ 26. This last Comet, though I meet it not any where but in Stow, yet we know no reason to question it, any more, then those of the same year which appeared elsewhere in March, as may appear from our Celestial Evidence, both there and here. For three of these Comets happened pat in the day of our Conjunction, or very near; So that no question here is some Influence. ¶See the Table of ☌ ☉ ☿ upon this Head.

§ 27. What if a Man should not let pass the Co-incidence of the same day in the Month, Anno 1530. 1557. 1578. 1582. It may be a Meditation for Gassendus.

Some Fiery Meteors.

• § 28. Anno Christi.
• 1521. October 24. Alvarez the Portu∣gal Admiral for the discovery of the East Indies, Tempest with 3 Lights, whereupon the Storm cea∣sed, Purch. Lib. 2. p. 43. ☌ ♀ ☿ ☉.
• July 15. Lightning fell on the Town of Billay. T. G. P.
• 1551. Jan. 13. Lightning in many Places of Germany, with appre∣hension of Doomsday, Lycosth. 611.
• 1554. Febr. 19. Trabs ignea in Thu∣ringen, cum variis Circulis coclestib. 674.
• March 10. At Schalon in France, Ig∣nes ardens, cum fulgure, Lycost. 636.
• 1555. Dec. 29. At Voitland, ho. 11. nocte, Lightning destroying Chur∣ches, so at Willenburg, Stanhurst, Lyc. 649.
• 1563. Dec. 1. ad 13. Winter Light∣ning unparalleld, ☌ ☉ ♀ ☿ cum aliis.
• 1569. July 13. Thunder, with Hail as big as the Fist, Gemma 2. 64.
• 1582. Dec. 29. Lightning, Thunder, Hakl. V. p. 663.
• 1604. Sept. 16. Caelum arsit. Kepl. ☌.
• 1607. April 16. Lightning at Coven∣rry, with Rain, and unexpected Floud, How, 889.
• 1611. Jan. 1. In the midst of Frost and Snow, Lightning and Thun∣der, Calvis.
• 1616. Nov. 8. Rain hard, with Light∣ning and Thunder, Purch. 1. p. 105. ☌ gr. 7.
• 1618. March 7. Flame over the Pa∣lace of Paris a Foot long, and a Cubit broad, fired the Palace Howes, 1029.
• 1622. May 21. Meteorum prodigio∣sum, as before in Kepler. Dec. 23. Chasms, Lightnings, Ib.
• 1623. Jan. 29. Caelum ardens. Mar. 19. Lightning, Kyriander.
• 1624, Aug. 18. Lightning and Thun∣der, Wilsford. Nov. 2. Lightning and Thunder; wonder'd at by Fromond, after cold Weather. p. 67.
• 1625. Mense Julii; At Norimberg it Thundred Days in number 15.

• ... Kyriander, ☌ cum ☉ 8 or 9 days elsewhere, at Ratisbon, Lintz.
• 1635. Aug. 31. Thunder and extreme Rain for an Hour, ☌ gr. 7. Sept. 9. vesp. & noctu, much Light∣ning.
• 1637. Sept. 10. Terrible Thunder in East Friezland, Kyriander.
• 1639. Jan. 30. Chasma.
• 1646. June 26. Thunder and Rain, ☌ gr. 4. cum ☉.
• 1642. Jan. 22. Thunder and Fiery Meteors, harmful, at Hanover Ky∣riander, ☌ cum aliis. Jan. 27. Thunder, Wind, Earth∣quake. Id. Feb. 17. Thunder and Storms, ☌ gr. 8.

§ 29. I confess much of this Gear is fetch'd from Germany, which is a different Country from ours; but what then? A Liberal Science is univer∣sal; I write for the World, and Mankind, if I could do it Service, I should have my Guerdon. And let no man say in this or any other Instance, be∣cause ☌ ☉ ☿ is always within call, that it is the Aspect which is the Fac to∣tum; For I shall desire that man only to look on ☿, and then on ♀, and then let him say, whether ♀ looks not as Fair, or as Foul, or what you will call it, as Potent as her Lower and less Copesmate. Beside the consequence is good, if ☉ ☿, or ☉ ♀ have Influence in Conjunction; then ♀ ☿ have the like. For I hope we must not be put to win our Ground by Inches. If so, we are ready to do it.

§ 30. If ♀ and ☿ then are so boistrous, then we look for some Earth∣quakes here too; Earthquakes and Flouds.

Terra Motus.

• Anno Christi.
• 1559. Sept. 14. Earthquake at Con∣stantinople for 18 days, Lycost, ☌ cum aliis.
• 1554. March 21. hor. 12. At Lovain an Earthquake with great noise.
• 1571. Feb. 17. At Kinaston in Here∣fordshire a terrible noise, the Ground opened, an Earthquake 4 days, Stow, p. 668.
• 1618. March 12. Terrible Earth∣quake in the Indies, ☌ gr. 10. in ♓, cum aliis.
• 1621. May 25. An Earthquake in Burgundy, Kepler, ☌ gr. 9.
• 1626. Feb. 6. Una rupium Gamundien∣si imminentium findi & in contrari∣a descedere visa est. Kepl.
• 1627. Nov. 14 Erdheven, Kyr. ☌ cum aliis.
• 1629. Aug. 1. Great Earthquakein Al∣pibus, Rheticis, Kyr, ☌ gr. 9. cum ☉.
• 1636. Sept. 16. Earthquake, Kyr. ☌ una cum ☉.
• 1642. Jan. 27. Thunder and Earth∣quake, ☌ gr. 3.
• 1644. Feb. At Marseilles, Kyr. ☌ ♀ ☿ per mensem totum fere.
• 1645. Sept. 12. Earthquake in Thu∣ringia, Kyr. ☌ una cum ♂.

§ 31. But the Close of all is Inundations, to do the Arabs some credit.

• 1501. Aug. 14. The River Albis, Lycost. ☌ ♀ ☿ cum ☉.
• 1549. June 23. Incepit imber saith Dr. Dee in his notes on that Month, the most violent since Adam, a Condito Mundo, ☌ near the Tropic, cum ☉ ☿ ♂.
• 1551, Jan 10. At Marpurg, great Inundation, Lyc. 611. ☌ in Trop. cum aliis.
• 1552. Aug. 13. At Budissina near the Sudetes (Mountains) Cataracts harm∣ful, Lyc. 625. Peucer 240. ☌ in ♌.
• 1579. May 27. Whitsunday, great Rain and High Water, after a Cold and dry time, Stow, 788. ☌ in ♋ princ.
• 1579. Febr. a Die 10. Continued Rain, caused high Flouds in Westminster-Hall, Stow, 689. ☌ in ♓.
• ...

• 1595. Febr, circ. 23. Inundation at Frankfort, prodigious, above that of the year 1573. yea, Inundations throughout all Germany. ☌ ☉ ♀ ☿.
• 1598. Circ. Dec. princ. Prodigious Inundations at Rome, greater than that of Ann. 1530. Thuanus, ☌ una cum ☉ ♂ in ♐.
• 1607. April 16. Strange Flouds at Coventry, unexpected, Howes, p. 889. ☌ in 12. ♉.
• 1611. Nov. & Dec. By continual Rain, Waters higher than in memory of Man, much harm done. Purch. L. 3, 323. ☌ una cum ♂ per mens.
• 1626. June 6. Pluvia Copiosissima, Kepler, ☌ gr. 12. ☌ ☿ gr. 10.
• 1640. Sept. 23. Grosser Wasser goust in Dresden, ☌ prope Equinoct. Kyr.
• 1643. Febr. 6. The Maes overflows. Calv. Append. ☌ ♀ ☿ in ♒ 27.
• 1645. March 8. Rain, Thunder Flouds, variis in locis, ☌ gr. 3. Ky∣ryander:
• Sept. 4. Weather extream wet before Spring, ☌ in ♎ princ.

And is not the Character made out now concerning Flouds given by Al∣chindus, and all the Tribe? We that are Well-wishers think it is.

§ 32. And these inclinations are, and have been manifested to the World, though Poor Astrologers talk to the Winds.

§ 33. All this while I have dissembled the Force of our home Testimonies from 1676. downwards, for Constancy, yea and excess of Moisture; they speak as home as Heart or Art could wish; For do you Find any year to come short? Doth Anno 1672.? Let that be one, how many more ones will you find? Do you find any Aspect to come short? two or three is the most, and whilst you look for them, you will find so much moisture in the other parts, so encompassing, so catching, that you will scarce have a dry thred about you. For you cannot but mark the Frequencies of the Showres the same day twice, 3, 4, 5 times perhaps in an afternoon, &c. I was willing to admit the Sextile of the ☽ to contribute to such frequencies, and something they do, but ☌ ♀ ☿, they are the Sprinklers, the Water-Pots of Heaven, which teach the Art of Gardening so far, that in warm Sea∣sons we may often irrigate our Nurseries, Sepe parumque, as the Salern School teaches us to moisten our Bodies.

Next mark the Store, like ☉ and ♀, but far beyond it in liberality. Next the Amplitude of the Aspect, for 10 degrees before and behind, justi∣fying it self by the Pertinacy of the Constitution throughout all the Term.

Then for the extremity or Violence, you shall find some years emulous of the Forreign extremity oft-times, where ☿ is Retrograde, or Stationary, as we here observed in the Forreign. Nay, I leave the searching Reader to find whether some years among us make not as great a noise as those from Pur∣chas or Hakluit, or any other. To name that of the Close of Anno 1681. and the First Month of 1682. where we have some forreign Instances intersper∣sed, and some of our own as cruel as they.

§ 34. Now this is the Aspect that never serves Keplers turn, he accepts not of their Service when they bring Showre and Tempest at their Heels, as July 27. Anno 1625. Parum tribuendum (saith he) differentiae Latitud. ad 4. gradus, and yet on the precedent day he tells us of Thunder, the next day Tonuit Longum; and the precise 27. day pertonuit: So elsewhere harmful Lightning, Fulminata loca. August 29. 1621. and then the ☌ again very laxe and Wide, and useless; Discrepant Plagis Latitudinum, because ☿ was gr. 4. Southerly, and ♀ gr. 6. North. But this is the Error of the necessity of a close Conjuction which many times is enervated (say I) by its too neer Cohesion. He reckons a Conjunction where ever the desired effect appears not, to be loose, though but at 2 gr. distance, as Anno 1621. May 14. Heat and a Rainbow, which imply Showr, did not answer expectation. But gr. 2, 3, 4, 5.

of Latitude, will not evacuate the force of a ☌. That of August 29. above quoted was gr. 3. distant. And in March 21. Anno 1623. there was gr. 4. difference, and that in diversis Plagis Latitudinum: What? Febr. 26. Anno 1627. he acknowledges an Apertio Portarum by a ☌ ♀ ☿ at degr. Lat. 9. and that when one was on the North, and the other on the South. And yet I have not urged from July 24. Anno 1624. where the Tempestas magna is raised, and never another Aspect nearer, whereupon my Worthy Man is silent, and gives no distinct account (except for two of the later days) the whole Month throughout. And further I take notice where he rejects our Aspect one day, because of a failure on the very day (forsooth) at the Months end. Yet now I pray see how Tempestas & horrida Fulmina made him glad to embrace it at the beginning of the Next. May 1. S. N. Anno 1629.

§ 35. May I now consider the Astronomical motions of these Planets, then let me for a close, take notice of their admirable turnings and windings, not to fill up Paper, or increase the Bulk of a weak discourse, but by the way of En∣try, and disposition of the Reader, to clear his Eye-sight, that he may be∣hold those Objects which Nature calls great. The Divine Being foresaw there would result such a Variety from such an order, and thereupon ena∣cted it should be. We may remember that both these Celestial Bodies are capable of Retrogradation, whereupon they meet together, sometimes in the Direct Course Both, and other times in the Retrograde, and that for the most part Alternately. And all this for the interest of the Change of the Air, and its Variety; in as much as the Retrograde Place is nearer to the Earth (as before in ☿) and therefore more forcible. This you will be∣lieve when you shall find that when they are in Conjunction, and both Re∣trograde (which had need come but seldom) they make a Bustle. But of this else where. In the more frequent Congresses where there is a single Re∣trogradation only; we meet with weather sometimes, I can tell you, ex∣treme also, and every Second year two or three of those Conjunctions, one on the Neck of another. Whence let the Astrologer note, that when ever ☿ turning short, happens to ingeminate his Conjunction in less than a Months time, as oft-times he doth; there he may find reason to reckon it a whole continued Aspect in all the intermediate Space, the whole Month becoming his Quarter.

§ 36. Who can chuse but take notice also how these two Planets, when in ☌ do start aside one from another 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. in Latitude, especially ♀, even sometimes to 7 degrees distance. And may not I observe, in fa∣vour of the Tychonique Systeme now, that this extraordinary starting of ♀ doth always accompany her retrocession, thence conclude I that the one may be as real as the other, but the latter is not pretended to be solved by the motion of the Earth, and therefore, I fancy not the former.

§ 37. But that which amazes me most is the enquiry after a Revo∣lution when a ☌ ♀ ☿ shall happen in the same Sign, on the same day of the year near the same degree, so that ☉ and ♀ and ☿ shall all three lodge in a Bed; As Feb. 1. Anno 1663. Grad. 22. of Aquary. When shall it be so again? Perchance hap it may, but with no chain of Revolution. ♀ returns in 8 years, ☿ in 13. the ☽ in 19. because their Dance is meted out to them; but ♀ and ☿ with the ☉ cannot easily meet again till they have run out their first undertaking; wherefore Artists that tells us the one. Kepl. Epit. Astr, VI. Cap. 5. are silent in the other.

§ 38. At length we have done, and presented the Reader with what we have to say, not any Dreams of fanciful Men, but honest Lectures of watch∣ful Observers of the great Folio of Heaven, to whose Creator from the considering part of the World at least (for 'tis time to close) all Glory for ever, to which I hope these Speculations do contribute.