History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681 / Written by himself in the 66th year of his age.

  • William Lilly
Date:
1715
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Credit: History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681 / Written by himself in the 66th year of his age. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * er .* eo ni -.@ : : c { of bis LYFE and TIMES. ity “Which long expe&ted was, and might have ftill Expetted been, had not our Nations I] _ Drawn from the Heavens a Sympathetick Fear, ‘England hath caufe a fecond Drought to fear. We have no fecond LILLY, who may die, — _ And by his Death may make the Heavens cry, Then let your Annals, Caley, wantthis Day, - Think every Year Leap-Year ; or if t:muft ftay, ~ Cloath it in Black, let a fad Noce ftand by, . And ftigmatize it to Pofteriry. Here follows the Copy of an IndiStment filed _ -againft. Mr. Lilly, for which fee Page 74. = of -bis Life. $0 22 De BP ESurors for the Lord Prote&tor of the’'Com- a mon Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, @c. upon their Oaths do prefent, That Wiis Lily, _ Tate of the Parith of St. Clements Danes, inthe County oF Middléfex, Gent. not having the Fear of God be- fore his Eyes, but being moved and feduced by. _ the Inftigation’ of the Devil, the 104 Day of July, in the Year of our Lord, 1654, at the Parith a.” forefaid, in the County -aforefaid, ‘wickedly, un=. lawfully and deceitfully, did take upon him, the’ faid Wiliam Lilly, by Inchantment, Charm and Sorcery , to tell: and declare to one 4nne Eaft, the Wife of Alexander Eaft, where Ten Waftcoats, of the Value of five Pounds, of the Goods and Chat- tels of the faid Alexander Eaft, then lately before loft and ftolen from the faid Mexander Eaft, fhould be found and become; and Two Shillings and Sixpence in Monies, numbred of the Monies of the faid Alexander, fromthe faid Aune Eaft, then and there unlawfully and deceitfull y,he, the faid William Lilly, did take, receive, and had to tell and declare to her the faid dune, where the faid | Goods, fo loft and ftolen as aforefaid, pes te | oun pes