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than any other, ... Being the third after bissextile or leap-year. To which is added short notes upon every day throughout the year, shewing (in a general way) good and bad days therein; also a modest vindication of the art of astrology, and a justification of the practise thereof, contracted into the tops of the twelve right-hand pages of the kalendar, from Sir
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An astrological discourse with mathematical demonstrations, proving the powerful and harmonical influence of the planets and fixed stars upon elementary bodies, in justification of the validity of astrology. Together with an astrological judgment upon the great conjunction of Saturn & Jupiter
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Heydon's predictions on
European politics were strongly Protestant. He foresaw that Spain would lose the Indies and predicted that the Austrian Habsburgs would fall in 1623 and Rome in 1646: this would lead to the ruin of the Ottomans and the rise of Christ's kingdom, "the fifth Monarchie of the
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Deeply in debt, Heydon's father Sir
William had mortgaged Baconsthorpe and was in need of the Queen's protection from his creditors. In 1590, he tried to sell much of his land, but his son challenged him, as the estates were entailed on him. Sir William then threatened to demolish Baconsthorpe
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The new astrology, or, The art of predicting or foretelling future events by the aspects, positions, and influence of the heavenly bodies: founded on scripture, experience, and reason...
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challenged the council's constitutional right to interfere in elections, and the second election was quashed. Heydon stood again for parliament in 1588, again successfully.
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William died in 1594, he left his estate to his widow, but Heydon then went to law against her. Lady Heydon appealed to
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Astrogomanych : The madnesse of astrologers! : with an examination of Sir
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