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William Lilly [1602-1681] English

Rank: 103
Celebrity, Astrologer

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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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.		101
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.		102
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.		103
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.		104
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.		105
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.		106
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.		107

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