Fish stolen.

What this is

I first observed, there was no peregrine Planet in angle but ♃, whom I found upon the cusp of the seventh house. the thing I lost was Fish, therefore any Gentleman would scorn such a course Commodity; I considered the signification of ♃ in ♏, a moyst Signe, and the Significator of my Goods, viz. ☿ that he was in ♓, a moyst Signe, and that ⊕ was in ♋, a moyst Signe, Discretion, together with Art, assisted me to think he must be a man whose profession or calling was to live upon the Water, that had my Goods, and that they were in some moyst place, or in some low room, because ⊕ was in ♋, and the ☽ in ♉ an earthly Signe. I was confident I should hear of my Goods again, because ☿ Lord of my house of substance, was applyed unto by a ✶ of ☽, who was Lady of my ☉; and yet without hopes of recovering them, because ☽ Lord of my second, was in his fall and detriment, but as he was in his own Terms, and had a △ aspect to ⊕, there was hopes of some of my Goods. There being never a Waterman in that Town of Walton neer unto the description of ☿ in ♏, I examined what Fisherman there was of that complexion; and because ♂, Lord of the 7th was departing the Signe, viz. his own, and entring another Signe, I examined if never a Fisherman of ♂ and ♃ his nature had lately sold any Land, or was leaving his proper house, and going to another habitation; such a one I discovered, and that was much suspected of the thievery, who was a good fellow, lived near the Thames side, and was ameer Fisherman, or man conversant in water; for all Significators in watry Signs, argued, he must needs live near the water, or a watry place, that stole the Goods, or be much conversant in waters. The man that was the Thief was a Fisherman, of a good stature, thick and full bodied, fair of complexion, a red or yellowish Hair. I procured a Warrant from a Justice of peace, and reserved it privately until Sunday, the eighteenth of February following, and then with a Constable and the Barge-man, I searched only that one house of this Fishermans suspected; I found part of my Fish in water, part eaten, and part not consumed, all confessed. This jest hapned in the search, part of my Fish being in a bagge, it hapned the Thief stole the Bagge as well as the Fish; the Barge-man, whose Sack it was, being in the same room where the bag was, and oft looking upon it (being clean washed) said to the woman of the house, Woman, so I may have my sack which I left that night, I care not: the woman answered, she had never a sack but that which her husband brought here the same night with the Fish. I am perswaded the Barge-man looked upon the sack twenty times before, and knew it not, for the woman had washed it clean: I as heavily complained to the woman for seven Portugal Onyons which I lost; she not knowing what they were, made portage with them, as she said. The remainder of my Fish I freely remitted, though the hireling Priest of Walton affirmed I had satisfaction for it; but he never hurt himself with a lye. So that you see the peregrine Planet in an angle describes the Thief, and that either the ☉ or ☽ in the Ascendant, and in essential Dignities, gives assured hopes of discovering who it was; the application of ☽ to the Lord of the second, argues recovery; a full recovery, if both the ☽ and the Lord of the second be essentially dignified; part, if accidentally fortified; a discovery; but no recovery, if they apply and be both peregrine.

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10 February 1638