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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

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Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

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In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

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After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

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William Lilly

William Lilly
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Born: May 1, 1602
Died: June 9, 1681 (aged 79)
Bio: William Lilly has been described as "the most abused as well as the most celebrated astrologer of the seventeenth century". Born the son of a yeoman farmer in Leicestershire, Lilly travelled to London as a youth to take up a servant's position.

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