The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.

¶ Of elections for to sowe, and to plant trees and vines. The .xxx. rule.

FInally as towchinge the moste apte and mete time, for ••o sowe & plante trees, & to dec••e vyn••••, it behoueth to note that there are▪ v. monthes▪ in the yeare deputed and mooste ••ete for the same, that is to sa••••, Marche, Apryll, Maye, Septembre and Octobre▪ But in al times, you must take hede of the euill aspectes of Saturne and of Mars. And to kepe the aspects & places of the moone which do here folowe

If the mone de behold Saturn wt trine or sex∣tile aspect, bein•• in the signe of	Taurus,	It i•• good	to plant trees & vines▪
Cancer.	to ••ow•• generally.
Virgo.	to sowe fielde••.
Libra.	to sow and to garden.
Capricor.	to sowe generally.
Aquarius	to plant trees & vines.

And especially if the moone do beholde Venus or Jupiter (which are the. ••••. best fortunates) with Trine, Sextile, or qua∣drate, Aspect. And it is good to plante trees at the last quarter of the moone.

Conclusion of the Author.

And this suffiseth for the declaration vse

and practise, of the matters, conteyned aswel in the Almanackes, or Ephemeri¦des, as in y^• Latin rules of the same. In the whiche I haue not folowed the let∣ter worde by worde, but onelye the mea∣ninge and doctrine in chaunginge, ad∣dinge, and substrainge that whyche I thought worthy to be chaunged, added, and substrayed, bycause of the more perfect and easter erudition, desyringe my lord god with all my power to satisfye you herein, and all theim whiche be lo∣uers of this science.

Finis.

¶ Virescit vulnere virtus▪