Appendix. 44^ 



♦* ufe and inftruftion of the gentry, exhorting them to the 

 " ftudy of divers fciences, obferved how much this fcience 

 *' above the reft was fo fnatched at, fo beloved, and even 

 ** devoured by moft perfons of honour and worfhip, that 

 ** they needed -no incitements to this but a bridle rather: ' 

 *' not a trumpeter to fet them on but a reprover to take them 

 " off from their heat," p. 138, Ann. 1556. See alfo to the 

 fame purpofe the lives of Lilly and Aflimole, and Dr. John- 

 fon's life of Dryden. Dr. Jofeph Wharton in the firft 

 volume of his Effay on Pope obferves that Sir Ifaac Newton 

 in the former part of his life was addifted to judicial 

 aftrology. 



Aftrology then, appears to have flourifhed at the fame 

 period with phyfiognomy, to have been treated by the 

 fame authors, and to have been regarded as effentially con- 

 Be£led v/ith phyfiognomy ; the difgrace of the former there- 

 fore, could not but affeft the reputation of the latter. 



The fame obfervations, but in a degree fomewhat lefs 

 extenfive, may be applied to magic. This fcience (if it may 

 be fo called) feems to have been in vogue among every 

 people civilized and uncivilized and in every period, from 

 the Egyptian magicians Jannes and Jambres, and the 

 witch of Endor, through the claflical period of Roman 

 literature, and down to the more technical magicians of the 

 fixteenth and feventeenth centuries. 



The fcriptural magicians, as well the witches of Horace, 

 Virgil and Locan,* appear to have been chiefly if not 

 entirely necromantic ; but the refinement of the period juft 

 mentioned has produced a variety of devifions and fub- 

 divifions of the fubjefl, which will of themfelves fufficjcntly 

 Ihew the great attention paid to magic at that time. 1 1 



Magicians are dillinguiihed f into diviners witfr, or 

 without communication or conjuration of fpirits. Magic 



• The procefs is very minutely deferlbed in Lucan, lib, VI. 



t I pwe a part of this enumeration to my deceafed friend John 

 Henderfon of Pembroke College, Oxford, 



of 



