. Select tracts relating to the civil wars in England, : in the reign of King Charles the First; . as ridiculous in doing the one, as he wasreputed weak and simple of judgement in doing the at that time most peopleimputed the burning of the ScotsArticles, unto the advices given him, and importunity ofthe proud Clergy and Bishops, who humoured him inevery itching desire of his, even to his ruin. There happened many memorable accidents in this year Eclipse of the soti 639 ; as, first, five eclipses of the sun and moon; three May **ldS9tof the sun, and two of the moon. None of them was
. Select tracts relating to the civil wars in England, : in the reign of King Charles the First; . as ridiculous in doing the one, as he wasreputed weak and simple of judgement in doing the at that time most peopleimputed the burning of the ScotsArticles, unto the advices given him, and importunity ofthe proud Clergy and Bishops, who humoured him inevery itching desire of his, even to his ruin. There happened many memorable accidents in this year Eclipse of the soti 639 ; as, first, five eclipses of the sun and moon; three May **ldS9tof the sun, and two of the moon. None of them was visiblein our Horizon, but that eclipse of the sun, which here be-gan with us at London the 22nd of May, being Wednes-day, at three hours and fifty-two minutes, in the afternoon;its middle was at four hours and fifty-two minutes, andits end at forty-six: minutes after five. The digits eclipsedwere eight hours, fifty one minutes, forty-one seconds ;the whole time of its continuance was one hour, and fifty*four minutes of time : The scheme of Heaven follows, His 160 Observations on the Life and. His Majesty was in the field against the Scots 9 at thevery time of the Eclipse ; and some that were there withhim said, they felt not a more sharp, cold, day in all theirlives, than that was ; the season of the year, and heightof the Sun, considered. I will meddle little with the prog-nostick part of this Eclipse: yet I might tell you, thatMercury, at the time of the beginning of the eclipse, re*presented the Clergy, and he was retrograde near to Con-junction with Mars, one ill omen unto the Clergy : at themiddle of the eclipse, the Moon was their significator,and she combust and near the Dragons-tail-, which sig-nified much calamity unto the Priests. This eclipse sig-nified unto the King much treachery, and damage by hisfriends the Scots j the degree eclipsed was fai the opposite degree, Death of King Charles, 161 degree, almost of the 0 in his Radix. As this eclipseshewed, his troubles
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