If I should purchase Master B. his houses.

What this is

The Inheritance of the house wherein at this present 1647, I live, and some others being proffered me to buy 1634, I had a desire to know if I should deal with the seller, and procure Moneys in convenient time to pay for the Purchase, (my own Money being in such hands as I could not call it in under six moneths warning) being desirous, I say, to purchase the said houses, and fully resolved upon it, I took my own Question my self, at what time I found my mind was most perplexed and solicitous about it ; the time of my Querie to my self fell out according to the position of Heaven aforesaid. THE Sign ascending is ♎, the degree of the Sign is the same wherein ♂ was in my Radix; I looked upon that as a good Omen in the first place. ♀ Is for my self, the ☉ locally placed in the seventh is for the Seller; the ☉ receives ♀ in his Exaltation ; besides, ♀ is neer the cusp of the seventh, and no other Planet in the seventh ☉ excepted, which signified, there was at present no other purchaser about it but my self : the ☉ so exalted and angular, prenoted the Seller to be high in his Demands, [and so he was] nor was he necessitated to depart with it : finding, I say, my Significator received of ☉, and so neer to the cusp of the Angle of the West, it was an argument I should proceed further in the matter, notwithstanding ♀ her many Debilities ; for as I found ☉ Lord of the seventh, so also was he Lord of the eleventh, signifying my hopes should not be frustrated : besides, ♀ was applying to a △ of ♂, Lord of the fourth, viz. the houses enquired after, and had no abscission or frustration ere the perfect aspect ; a main strong argument that I should buy the houses: and indeed both Significators strongly applyed to a △, viz. ☉ and ♀, for ♂ is Retrograde: I also considered the ☉ was in perfect △ with ♄, the ☉ being, as I said, Lord of my eleventh, and he of the fourth ; ♄ hath also signification of me, as Querent, because he beholds the ascendant, and therein hath exaltation: now whether you consider him, as having Dignities, and ascending, or as Lord of the fourth, the Lord of the eleventh and he applying unto each other by a △, argued assuredly I should proceed further in the matter, and in the end conclude for them: The ☽ in the next place transmitting the influence of ♂, who hath Dignities in the seventh, to ♄ having venue in the ascendant, though by a □ aspect (yet out of Signs of long ascensions) did much facilitate the matter, and argued my going on, and probability of contracting, but with some favour and slowly, because of the □ aspect ; for as the ☽ is afflicted and ♀ unfortunate, so had I much to do, and many meetings about it ; the Seller not abating one penny of five hundred and thirty pounds, being the first penny demanded: As the ☉ is neer to a ✶ aspect of ♃, so good a joviall man endevoured to procure the purchase unto himself ; but ♃ is cadent, a cadent [margin: * This was after I begun, and before I concluded.] argument, shewing he should not prevaile, ♀ angular and in ✶ aspect with ♄ Lord of the thing sought after; and as ☉ is Lord of the eleventh which is the fifth from the seventh, so a Daughter of the Sellers was my very good friend in this business, and suffered no interloper to intervene, though some of- [margin: To hinder me.] fered fair ; for ♂ Lord of my second house Retrograde, argued I should get none of my own Monies to supply my occasions ; nor did I: ♂ Lord of ♁ in ✶ with ☉ no wayes impedited, but by being in detriment, in ✶ platick with Lady of my ascendant, shortly entring his exaltation, gave me such hopes I doubted not of procuring Monies when he entred, and became direct, which he did twelve dayes after, at what time a friend lent me 500l. the qualities of the Houses are signified by the Sign of the fourth, and ♂ Lord thereof, who having no materiall debilities, except Retrogradation and Cadency, having also △ with ☉ ; the Houses were really old, but strong and able to stand many yeers. When ♂ and ☉ came to ☌ in ♈, that day I bargained, viz. die 25. April following ; the seventeenth ♂ May ♂ and ☽ in ☌ I paid in 530l. and my Conveyance was Sealed. So that as ♂ wanted six degrees of the body of the ☉, so was it six weeks and some dayes from the time of the Question ere I perfected what the Figure promised : as to the Moles and Scars of my body it doth exactly a- gree ; for as ♀ is in ♈, which represents the face, so have I a Mole on my cheek about the middle of it ; and as ♏ ascends, the Sign on the reines of my back, the ☽ in ♍ afflicted by ♃, I have a red Mole below my Navell, ♃ Lord of the sixt in a Masculine Sign, I have a Mole neer my right hand visible on the outside ; so have I on the left foot, as ♓ the Sign of the fixt doth represent. Many things might be considered herein, besides what is written ; but I fear this Book will increase beyond my first intention: Ergo. The truth of the matter is, I shall bargain, as the Figure every way considered doth manifest, and shall never live to see many of the Leases yet in being, expired; and as ♀ is in ♈, viz. opposite to her own House, so did I do my self injury by the Bargain, I mean in matter or Money ; but the love I bore to the House I now live in, wherein I lived happily with a good Master till seven yeers, yeers, and therein obtained my first Wife, and was bountifully blessed by God with the Goods of this World therein, made me neglect a small hinderance, nor now, I thank God, do I repent it; finding Gods blessing in a plentifull measure upon my Labours: yet was I no Taylor or Scrivener, as Wharton affirmes, or indeed any profession at all ; nor was my Master a Taylor, or my Wife a Scriveners Widdow. Of the fifth HOUSE, and its QUESTIONS.

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31 March 1634