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(X.) HISTORY - Towards the Dark

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Some of them were, to say the least, less respectable than Lilly or Booker, or even the rascally Forman.

There was, for instance, one Captain Bubb, 'a proper handsome man, well spoken, but withal covetous, who stood in the pillory for fraud; Jeffery Neve, former alderman of Great Yarmouth and in 1626 deputy water-bailiff for Dover, who made a small fortune by rigging the accounts of the archery butts, and fled to Frankfurt; William Poole, 'a nibbler at astrology', who boasted that he had had seventeen professions, among them plasterer and bricklayer, and famous for the squib he published on Sir Thomas Jay, JP, who had falsely accused him of theft: on hearing of his death and burial, Poole made his way to the churchyard and defecated on the grave, leaving the following short note:


Here lieth buried Sir Thomas Jay, Knight,

Who being dead, I upon his grave did shite.


But there were many more respectable astrologers, of course, some from the ranks of the clergy.
John Aubrey tells us that the knees of Richard Napier (1590-1674), rector of Great Linford in Buckinghamshire, were '**** with praying', for he would go down on them before beginning to
draw up each horoscope. He also plied his brethren with 'whole cloak-bags of books', converting many
of them to astrology - including his neighbour the Rev. William Bredon, vicar of Thornton (so addicted to smoking, Lilly says, that when he had no tobacco he would cut the bellropes and smoke them).

Then there were Anthony Asham, Richard Harvey, Thomas Buckminster, John Maplet, Stephen Batman and George Hartgill - all 16th-century clergymen astrologers - and, in the 17th century, Joshua Childrey, Nathaniel Sparke, John Butler, Edmund Chilmead, Charles Atkinson and Richard Carpenter (author of Astrology proved harmless, useful and pious, 1657).
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