What manner of Death CANTERBURY should dye?

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It may appear to all indifferent minded men the verity & worth of Astrologie by this Question, for there is not any amongst the wisest of men in this world could better have represented the person and condition of this old man, his present state and condition, and the manner of his death, then this present Figure of heaven doth. Being a man of the Church, his ascendant is ♑, the cusp of the ninth house, ♄ is Lord of the Signe, now in ♈ his fall; a long time Retrograde, and now posited in the twelft of the Figure, or fourth from his ascendant; so that the heavens represent him in a condition of mind, of a violent spirit, turbulent and envious, a man involved in troubles, imprisoned, &c. ♃ a general Significator of Church-men, doth somewhat also represent his condition, being of that eminency he was of in our Common wealth: ♃, as you see, is Retrograde, and with many fixed Starrs of the nature of ♂ and ☽ ; an argument he was deep laden with misfortunes and vulgar Clamours at this present. Ni tia ls bia 20. the Resolution of | The » is Lady of the fourth in the Figure, but of the eighth as to his ascendant; she separates from h, and applies to the of the © neer cusp@a(p of the eighth house; @in a fiery Sig ne, applying to an £ of ot, the Dispositor of the aged Bishop; of being in an Aery Sig ne: and humane, from hence I judged that he should wot be hanged, bar (suffer a more noble kind of death, and that within the {pace of fix or sevenén weeks, or thereabouts : because the » wanted seven degrees of the body of ¢o.:-.He was beheaded about the tenth of Pa nw.Ianuary following. =< ° I write not the le things as that I rejoycedéd at hie death; no, Id oc not; for lever honoured the man, and naturally loved him, though I never bad speech or acquaintance with him : ‘nor dol write these lines without tearer, considering the great incertain ty of humane affaires: He wa sa liberal Mæcenas to: Oxford, and produced as good Manuscripts as any. were in Europe to that University, whereby the Learned most acknowledge his. bounty: let his imperfections be buried in silence, Mortui est, & de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Yet I account him not a Martyr, as one Alse did; For by the Sentence of the greatest Court of England, viz. the Parliament, he was brought to his end.

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Dec. 1644