William Lilly rights 19th May 1952

19th May 1952

14th October 1806

Constable Milne takes down the particulars of an abandoned vehicle

Michael Faraday was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824

Details of the sexual organs

William Lilly rights 19th May 1952William Lilly, English astrologer, 1647 (late 19th century). Lilly (1602 1681) aroused controversy in 1666 for having supposedly predicted the Great Fire of London 14 yaers before it happened. He was actually tried for allegedly having started the fire himself but was found innocent of the charge. Lilly was the model for 'Sidrophel' in Samuel Butler's satire Hudibras. Portrait from Lilly's best known book, Christian Astrology, (London 1647),