February, 1690.
The Man talks of a Popish Plot. We will tell you upon what Plane∣tary Authority, when he tells us. 'Tis wonder he did not make one, as well as Predict it. He hath been well known to many Plot-makers, viz. Tongue, Mansel, Hunt, &c. But here's the Mischief on't, Partridge can't Ride! as 'twas Sworn against him in the History of the Rye-House Conspiracy. But leaving this, he tells us of a Town taken by Surprize. Of which Town so Taken, none ever hear'd. This therefore must pass for one of his Airy Castles.—He assures us, that ♄ Stationary on the—Ascendant, and in □ of his M. C. gives him loss of Honor, Treachery, &c.—I will not contrast it with him, whether loss of Honor, &c. be a Gift? Tho Gain is commonly opposed to Loss; yet were I as the Native he mentions, I would desire ♄ if he have no other Favours to bestow, to keep them to himself. But, what if ♄ hath not given such Loss of Honor, &c. as this Man talks of? And is not within 4 Deg. of the Horoscope he mentions, and near 3 times 4 distant from a □ to the M. C? Why then our Blustring Anglo-Battavian is Mistaken, and we are never the Wiser.