Merlinus democritus; : or, The merry-conceited prognosticator : containing, a general judgment of the state of Great Brittain, France, and Ireland; and the great change and revolu[t]ion that will happen in the year of our Lord, 1655. Namely, the turning round of the wheel of fortune, and the calculating of every thing in its own proper center, the setting up of heaven vice-gerent, and the administering of truth in the equal scale of justice, the purging of the Commonwealth from caterpillars, the discarding of knaves, and the putting of honest men in their places, the reclaiming of lawyers from taking of fees, and an antidote prescribed for brokers and usurers, to cleer them of their extortionable malady of shaking whole lordships into a consumption. With the great and ominous eclipses that will be this year visible in our horizon, and the effects thereof. / By W. Liby, student in Astrologie.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Liby, W.

Series:

Thomason Tracts ; 256:E.8181.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrology--Humor--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

History.

Prophecies.

Great Britain--History--Prophecies--Humor--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

8 pages : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Merry-conceited prognosticator

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for G. Horton, and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange, 1656.

Notes:

With title page woodcuts illustrations.

W. Liby is a pseudonym.

A satire.

The "t" in "Revolution" has failed to print on title page of Thomason copy.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nou: 25".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1981. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Thomason Tracts ; 256:E.818[1]). s1981 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) L1971.

Thomason E.818[1].

OCLC:

61381483