See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• WILLIAM LILLY (16oz-1681)

LILLY (16oz-1681)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English astrologer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1602 at Diseworth in See also:

• LEICESTERSHIRE

Leicestershire, his See also:

• FAMILY

family having been settled as yeomen in the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place for " many ages." He ;received a tolerably See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good classical See also:

• EDUCATION

education at the school of See also:

• ASHBY, TURNER (1824-1862)

Ashby-dela-See also:

• ZOUCHE, or ZOUCH

Zouche, but he naively tells us what may perhaps have some significance in• reference to his after career, that his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master never taught See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic." In his eighteenth See also:

• YEAR

year, his See also:

• FATHER

father having fallen into See also:

• GREAT

great poverty, he went to See also:

• LONDON

London and was employed in attendance on an old See also:

• CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen and his wife . His master, at his See also:

• DEATH

death in 1627, See also:

• LEFT

left him an See also:

• ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

annuity of £2o; and, See also:

• LILLY, WILLIAM (16oz-1681)

Lilly having soon afterwards married the widow, she, dying in 1633,left him See also:

• PROPERTY

property to the value of about £See also:

• ROOD (O.E. rod, a stick, another form of " rod, O.E. rodd, possibly cognate with Lat. rudis, a staff)

rood . He now began to dabble in See also:

• ASTROLOGY

astrology, See also:

• READING

reading all the books on the subject he could fall in with, and occasionally trying his See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand at unravelling mysteries by means of his See also:

• ART

art . The years 1642 and 1643 were devoted to a careful revision of all his previous reading, and in particular having lighted on See also:

• VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

Valentine Naibod's Commentary on Alchabitius, he " seriously studied him and found him to be the profoundest author he ever met with." About the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he tells us that he " did carefully take See also:

• NOTICE

notice of every See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• ACTION

action betwixt See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king and See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, and did first then incline to believe that as all sublunary affairs depend on See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior causes, so there. was a possibility of discovering them by the configurations of the superior bodies." And, having thereupon " made some essays," he " found encouragement to proceed further, and ultimately framed to himself that method which he ever afterwards followed." He then began to issue his prophetical almanacs and other See also:

• WORKS

works, which met with serious See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention from some of the most prominent members of the See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long Parliament . If we may believe himself, Lilly lived on friendly and almost intimate terms with See also:

• BULSTRODE, SIR RICHARD (1610-1711)

Bulstrode Whitlock, See also:

• LENTHALL, WILLIAM (1591-1662)

Lenthall the See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker, See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip Stapleton, See also:

• ELIAS, JOHN (1774-1841)

Elias Ashmole and others . Even See also:

• SELDEN, JOHN (1584–1654)

Selden seems to have given him some countenance, and probably the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief difference between him and the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of the community at the tame was that, while others believed in the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general truth of astrology, he ventured to specify the future events to which its calculations pointed . Even from his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of himself, however, it is evident that he did not See also:

• TRUST

trust implicitly to the indications given by the aspects of the heavens, but like more vulgar See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune-tellers kept his eyes and ears open for any See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information which might make his predictions safe . It appears that he had correspondents both at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home and in See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign parts to keep him conversant with the probable current of affairs . Not a few of his exploits indicate rather the quality of a See also:

• CLEVER

clever See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police detective than of a profound astrologer . After the Restoration he very quickly See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into disrepute . His sympathy with the parliament, which his predictions had generally shown, was not calculated to bring him into royal favour . He came under the lash of See also:

• BUTLER
• BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
• BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
• BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
• BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
• BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
• BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
• BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
• BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
• BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
• BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)

Butler, who, making See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance for some satiric exaggeration, has given in the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of Sidrophel a probably not very incorrect picture,of the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man; and, having by this time amassed a tolerable fortune, he bought a small See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate at Hersham in See also:

• SURREY
• SURREY, EARLDOM OF
• SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF (1518?-1547)

Surrey, to which he retired, and where he diverted the exercise of his See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar talents to the practice of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine .

He died in 1681 . Lilly's See also:

• LIFE

life of himself, published after his death, is still See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth looking into as a remarkable See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of credulity .