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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
He wrote many excellent things, and performed many
rare experiments in the arts of astromancy, geomancy, &c.,
but especially eighty-one the first upon the King's death,
predicted in Arabia by him to his friends ;
the second
upon the losses of thej King at Worcester, predicted at
Thauris, in Persia ;
the third predicted the death of Oliver
Cromwell in Lambeth House, to many persons of honour,
mentioned in his books ;
the fourth he wrote of the over-
throw of Lambert, and of the Duke of Albymarle his bring-
ing again of the King to his happy countries, and gave it
to Major Christopher Berkenhead, a goldsmith at the
Anchor, by Fettes Lane End in Holborn ; the fifth precau-
tion or prediction he gave to his Highness the Duke of
Buckingham, two months before the evil was practised,
and his enemy, Abraham Goodman, lies now in the Tower
for attempting the death of that noble prince ; the sixth,
for Count Grammont, when he was banished into England
by the King of France ; and he predicted, by the art of
astromancy and geomancy, the King's receiving
of him
again into favor, and his marriage to the Lady Hamelton ;
the seventh, for Duke Minulaus, a peer of Germany, that
the Emperour sent to him when the Turk had an army
against him, and of the death of the pope. The rest are
in his books. By these monuments the name of Heydon,
for the variety of his learning, was famous not onely in
England, but also in many other nations into which his
books are translated. He hath taught the way to happi-
ness, the way to long life, the way to health, the way to
wax young, being old ; the way to resolve all manner of
questions, present and to come, by the rules of astromancy
and geomancy, and how to raise the dead.
He is a man of middle stature, tending to tallness, a