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William Lilly, the Glossary

William Lilly (9 June 1681) was a seventeenth century English astrologer.^[1]

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Al-Qabisi

Abu al-Saqr Abd al-Aziz ibn Uthman ibn Ali al-Qabisi, generally known as Al-Qabisi, (Latinised as Alchabitius or Alcabitius), and sometimes known as Alchabiz, Abdelazys, Abdilaziz (Arabic: 'Abd al-Azîz, عبدالعزيز القبيصي), (died 967) was a Muslim astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician.

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Aldwych tube station

Aldwych is a closed station on the London Underground, located in the City of Westminster in Central London.

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Almanac

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects.

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Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, also spelled Ashby de la Zouch, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders.

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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.

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In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium.

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Bulstrode Whitelocke

Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (6 August 1605 – 28 July 1675) was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.

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Christian Astrology

Christian Astrology, written in 1647 by the English astrologer William Lilly, is considered a seminal work of Western astrology.

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Christopher Heydon

Sir Christopher Heydon (14 August 1561 – 1 January 1623) was an English soldier, Member of Parliament, and writer on astrology. William Lilly and Christopher Heydon are Christian astrologers and English astrologers.

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Classical education movement

The classical education movement or renewal advocates for a return to a traditional education based on the liberal arts (including the natural sciences), the canons of classical literature, the fine arts, and the history of civilization.

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Diseworth

Diseworth is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Long Whatton and Diseworth, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the English county of Leicestershire.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Edward Kelley

Sir Edward Kelley or Kelly, also known as Edward Talbot (1 August 1555 – 1597/8), was an English Renaissance occultist and scryer. William Lilly and Edward Kelley are English occultists.

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Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole 23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices. Ashmole was an antiquary with a strong Baconian leaning towards the study of nature. William Lilly and Elias Ashmole are English astrologers.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school.

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Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.

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Great Plague of London

The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

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Henry Briggs (mathematician)

Henry Briggs (1 February 1561 – 26 January 1630) was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour.

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Hersham

Hersham is a suburban village in Surrey, within the M25.

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History of astrology

Astrological belief in correspondences between celestial observations and terrestrial events have influenced various aspects of human history, including world-views, language and many elements of social culture.

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Horary astrology

Horary astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts to answer a question by constructing a horoscope for the exact time at which the question was received and understood by the astrologer.

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Hudibras

Hudibras is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678.

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John Booker (astrologer)

John Booker (1603–1667) was an English astrologer, respected in that career for over 30 years. William Lilly and John Booker (astrologer) are English astrologers.

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John Brinsley the Elder

John Brinsley the Elder (fl. 1581–1624) was an English schoolmaster, known for his educational works.

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John Dee

John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. William Lilly and John Dee are English astrologers.

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John Napier

John Napier of Merchiston (1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.

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John Selden

John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Logarithm

In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Parliament

The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660.

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Lord Keeper of the Great Seal

The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and later of Great Britain, was formerly an officer of the English Crown charged with physical custody of the Great Seal of England.

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Market Bosworth

Market Bosworth is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.

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Olivia Barclay

Olivia Barclay (12 December 1919 – 1 April 2001) was a British astrologer who played an important role in the revival of traditional forms of astrology in the late 20th century. William Lilly and Olivia Barclay are English astrologers.

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain.

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Philip Stapleton

Sir Philip Stapleton of Wighill and of Warter-on-the-Wolds, Yorkshire (1603 – 18 August 1647) was an English Member of Parliament, a supporter of the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

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Prediction

A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said") or '''forecast''' is a statement about a future event or about future data.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

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Prophecy

In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity.

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Queen Mab

Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, where "she is the fairies' midwife".

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Samuel Butler (poet)

Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist.

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Simon Forman

Simon Forman (31 December 1552 – 5 or 12 September 1611) was an Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and herbalist active in London during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. William Lilly and Simon Forman are English astrologers and English occultists.

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Strand, London

The Strand (commonly referred to with a leading "The", but formally without) is a major street in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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Valentin Naboth

Valentin Naboth (also spelled Valentine Naibod or Nabod) (13 February 1523 – 3 March 1593), known by the latinized name Valentinus Nabodus, was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. William Lilly and Valentin Naboth are Christian astrologers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lilly

Also known as Lilly, William, William Lilly (astrologer).

, Strand, London, Surrey, Translation, United Kingdom, University of Cambridge, Valentin Naboth, Western astrology, William Lenthall, Worshipful Company of Salters, Yeoman.

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Christian astrologers

English astrological writers

English occultists

People from Hersham

People from North West Leicestershire District

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