The man who saw the future : the 17th-century astrologer who changed the course of the English Civil War / Catherine Blackledge ; foreword by Professor Owen Davies.

In the 17th century, William Lilly enthralled a civil war-torn nation with his uncannily accurate forecasts of who would win the key battles and when Charles I would die. Lauded as England's Merlin, both the king and Oliver Cromwell sought his stellar counsel. He was famed in his day, result of Lilly forecasting correctly in his best-selling pamphlets who would triumph in combat in the Civil War. Courtesy of this charismatic trailblazer, astrology is today an unstoppable mass phenomenon, and Lilly is becoming increasingly recognized as one of England's true luminaries.