The Nazareni, a scurvie Sect, begun, that boasted much of Revelations and Visions.
About a year after Nero was proclaimed enemy to the State of Rome." Again, "Anno 1157, in September, there were seen three Suns together, in as clear weather as could be: And a few days after, in the same month, three Moons, and, in the Moon that stood in the middle, a white Crosse.
Sueno, King of Denmark, at a great Feast, killeth Canutus: Sueno is himself slain, in pursuit of Waldemar.

The Order of Eremites, according to the rule of Saint Augustine, begun this year; and in the next, the Pope submits to the Emperour: (was not this miraculous ?) Lombardy was also adjudged to the Emperour." Continuing this list of peculiar phenomena he comes down to within a few years of his own time.
"Anno 1622, three Suns appeared at Heidelberg.

The woful Calamities that have ever since fallen upon the Palatinate, we are all sensible of, and of the loss of it, for any thing I see, for ever, from the right Heir.
Osman the great Turk is strangled that year; and Spinola besiegeth Bergen up Zoom, etc." Fortified by the enumeration of these past events, he then proceeds to make his deductions.

"Only this I must tell thee," he writes, "that the interpretation I write is, I conceive, grounded upon probable foundations; and who lives to see a few years over his head, will easily perceive I have unfolded as much as was fit to discover, and that my judgment was not a mile and a half from truth." There is a great significance in this "as much as was fit to discover"-- a mysterious something that Lilly thinks it expedient not to divulge.

But, nevertheless, one would imagine that he was about to make some definite prediction about Charles I., since these three suns appeared upon his birthday and surely must portend something concerning him.