account of the time which followeth, which is not at all, or very little conformable to that I have done before, as well by Astronomical way, as other of the sacred Scriptures which cannot erre, I could have set down to every quatrain the time in which they shall happen, but it would not please every body, much less the interpretation of them, till, Sir, your Majesty hath granted me full power so to do, that my Calumniators may have nothing to say against me. Nevertheless reckoning the years since the Creation of the World to the Birth of _Noah_ have passed 1506. years, and from the Birth of _Noah_ to the perfect building of the Ark near the universal Flood have passed 600. years, whither solary, or lunary, or mixed, for my part according to the Scriptures, I hold that they were solary. And at the end of those 600. years _Noah_ entered into the Ark, to save himself from the Flood, which Flood was universal upon the Earth, and lasted a year and two months; and from the end of the Flood, to the birth of _Abraham_ did pass the number of 295. years; and from the birth of _Abraham_ to that of _Isaac_ did pass 100. years, and from _Isaac_ to _Jacob_ 60. years; and from the time that he went into _Ægypt_ till he came out of it, did pass 130. years; and from the time that _Jacob_ went into _Ægypt_ till his posterity came out of it did pass 430. years; and from the coming out of _Ægypt_ to the building of _Salomon_’s Temple in the fourth year of his Reign did pass 480. years; and from the building of the Temple till Jesus Christ, according to the supputation of the Chronographers, did pass 490. years; and so by this supputation, which I have gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, the whole cometh to about 4173. years, eight Months more or less. But since the time of I. C. hitherto, I leave it because of the diversity of Opinions. And having calculated these present Prophecies according to the order of the Chain, which containeth the revolution, and all by Astronomical Doctrine, and according to my natural instinct, and after some time, and in it comprehending since the time that _Saturn_ shall turn to come in on the 7 of the Month of _April_, till the 25 of _August_; _Jupiter_ from the 14 of _June_ to the 7 of _October_; _Mars_ from the 27 of _April_ till 22 of _June_; _Venus_ from the 9 of _April_ to the 22 of _May_; _Mercury_ from the 3 of _February_ till the 24 of the same; afterwards from the 1 of _June_ till the 24 of the same; and from the 25 of _September_ till the 16 of _October_, _Saturn_ in _Capricorn_, _Jupiter_ in _Aquarius_, _Mars_ in _Scorpio_, _Venus_ in _Pisces_, _Mercury_ within a Month in _Capricorn_, _Aquarius_ in _Pisces_, _Luna_ in _Aquarius_, the _Dragons head_ in _Libra_, the Tail opposite to her sign according to a Conjunction of _Jupiter_ and _Mercury_, with a quadrin Aspect of _Mars_ to _Mercury_, and the head of the _Dragon_ shall be with a Conjunction of _Sol_ and _Jupiter_: the year shall be peacefull without Eclipse, and