[1] Anno Reg. 15The eighteenth of Nouember in the morning was séene a star northward verie bright and cléere,A strange star appeared; the bignesse ther|of, and of what continuance. in the constellation of Cassiopeia, at the backe of hir chaire, which with thrée chéefe fixed stars of the said constel|lation made a geometricall figure losengwise, of the learned men called Rhombus. This starre in bignes at the first appeering séemed bigger than Iupiter, & not much lesse than Uenus when she seemeth great|est. Also the said starre neuer changing his place, was caried about with the dailie motion of heauen, as all fixed starres commonlie are, and so continu|ed (by little and little to the eie appearing lesse) for the space of almost sixtéene moneths: at what time it was so small, that rather thought by exercises of off vewing might imagine the place, than anie eie could iudge the presence of the same. And one thing is herein cheefelie to be noted, that (by the skill and con|sent of the best and most expert mathematicians, which obserued the state, propertie, and other circum|stances belonging to the same starre) it was found to haue beene in place celestiall far aboue the moone, otherwise than euer anie comet hath béene séene, or naturallie can appéere. Therefore it is supposed that the signification therof is directed purposelie and spe|ciallie to some matter, not naturall, but celestiall, or rather supercelestiall, so strange, as from the begin|ning of the world neuer was the like.