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See also:LILLY, 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 (16oz-1681) , See also:English astrologer, was See also:born in 1602 at Diseworth in See also:Leicestershire, his See also:family having been settled as yeomen in the See also:place for " many ages." He ;received a tolerably See also:good classical See also:education at the school of See also:Ashby-dela-See also:Zouche, but he naively tells us what may perhaps have some significance in• reference to his after career, that his See also:master
never taught See also:logic." In his eighteenth See also:year, his See also:father having fallen into See also:great poverty, he went to See also:London and was employed in attendance on an old See also:citizen and his wife. His master, at his See also:death in 1627, See also:left him an See also:annuity of £2o; and, Lilly having soon afterwards married the widow, she, dying in 1633,left him See also:property to the value of about £See also:rood. He now began to dabble in See also:astrology, See also:reading all the books on the subject he could fall in with, and occasionally trying his See also:hand at unravelling mysteries by means of his See also: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 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 of every See also:grand See also: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, and did first then incline to believe that as all sublunary affairs depend on See also: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, which met with serious See also:attention from some of the most prominent members of the See also:Long Parliament. If we may believe himself, Lilly lived on friendly and almost intimate terms with See also:Bulstrode Whitlock, See also:Lenthall the See also:speaker, See also: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 Ashmole and others. Even See also:Selden seems to have given him some countenance, and probably the See also:chief difference between him and the See also:mass of the community at the tame was that, while others believed in the See also:general truth of astrology, he ventured to specify the future events to which its calculations pointed. Even from his own See also:account of himself, however, it is evident that he did not See also:trust implicitly to the indications given by the aspects of the heavens, but like more vulgar See also:fortune-tellers kept his eyes and ears open for any See also:information which might make his predictions safe. It appears that he had correspondents both at See also:home and in See also: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 See also:police detective than of a profound astrologer. After the Restoration he very quickly See also: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 for some satiric exaggeration, has given in the See also:character of Sidrophel a probably not very incorrect picture,of the See also:man; and, having by this time amassed a tolerable fortune, he bought a small See also:estate at Hersham in See also:Surrey, to which he retired, and where he diverted the exercise of his See also:peculiar talents to the practice of See also:medicine. He died in 1681.
Lilly's See also:life of himself, published after his death, is still See also:worth looking into as a remarkable See also:record of credulity.
End of Article: LILLY, WILLIAM (16oz-1681)
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