William Lilly rights characters in the fairy tale

characters in the fairy tale and pantomime

Constable Milne takes down the particulars of an abandoned vehicle

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

Players at the roller skating rink l-r Ron Boyce

19th May 1952

William Lilly rights characters in the fairy taleWilliam 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),