CHAP. VII. Of seeking of Fugitives, and examining of Thieves and Male∣factors.
* 1.1A Fugitive, Run-away, or a man broke out of Prison, or by any other manner escaped, is thus to be apprehended or found again; place the Moon when you make inquisition in the same degree as is the Sun, but not within seventeen minutes of his body; and let the Sun also be weak and afflicted, and in the last fifteen degrees of Libra, or in the first fifteen degrees of Scorpio, or else with the head or tail of the Dragon, viz. within 12 degrees before it, or 7 degrees after.
But if you cannot thus place them, let them be in the Ascendent, or else let the Sun and the Moon be in Quartile or Opposition or in Sextile or Trine without re∣ception, and weak in those Houses wherein they are; or else let the time wherein you make inquisition be three days before an Eclipse, or one day after; but if possible let it be the Eclipse of the Moon; for by how much you weaken and debi∣litate the Moon, it is the better in this manner of judgement, for it confoundeth the capacity and weakneth the ability of the Fugitive.
But if you would afflict and torment the Fugitive when he is taken, you must place the Moon in her fall or detriment; but if thou wouldst onely impri∣son him, let the Moon be in Aspect or Conjunction with one of the Malevolents;