By William Lilly
Written by way of himself within the sixty-sixth 12 months of his age, to his worthwhile good friend, Elias Ashmole. released from the unique manuscript London, 1715. the writer calculates nativities, casts figures, predicts occasions, and different appendages of astrology. He relates many anecdotes of the pretenders to predict occasions, increase spirits, and different impostures, with such seeming candor, and with such an artless simplicity of favor. comprises interesting background of health professional Dee, health professional Forman, Booker, Winder, Kelly, Evans, the recognized William Poole, and Captain Bubb Fiske, Sarah Shelborne, etc. Illustrated.
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I commend unto your perusal that book and the Prophetical Merlin, which, seriously considered, (Oh worthy Esquire) will more instruct your judgement (De generalibus contingentibus Mundi) than all the authors you yet ever met with. In this year, for very great considerations, the Council of State gave me in money fifty pounds, and a pension of one hundred pounds per Annum, which for two years I received, but no more: upon some discontents I after would not or did require it. The cause moving them was this; they could get no intelligence out of France, although they had several agents there for that purpose.
What was put in at the window in any of those houses, was the same day conveyed two miles off by some in the habit of town-gardeners, to the side of a ditch, where one or more were ever ready to give the intelligence to the next Parliament garrison: I was then familiar with all the spies that constantly went in and out to Oxford. But once more to my own actions. I had, in 1652 and 1653 and 1654, much contention with Mr. Gatacre of Rotherhithe, a man endued with all kind of learning, and the ablest man of the whole synod of divines in the Oriental tongues.
The year I bought it, I had my ascendant directed into a Trine of Jupiter first, and in the same year into the Cauda Draconis - my fortune into a quadrant of Mercury. When Colchester was besieged, John Booker and myself were sent for, where we encouraged the soldiers, assuring them the town would very shortly be surrendered, as indeed it was: I would willingly have obtained leave to enter the town, to have informed Sir Charles Lucas, whom I well knew, with the condition of affairs as they then stood, he being deluded by false intelligence: at that time my scholar Humphreys was therein, who many times deluded the Governor with expectation of relief; but failing very many times with his lies, at last he had the bastinado, was put in prison, and inforced to become a soldier; and well it was he escaped so.