William Lilly Size:XL: 100 x 75cm one being towed by a

one being towed by a horse on the towpath

in French Corme

and William Cole

Montage of images relating to the Winston Churchill Memorial Library

Fergal Sharkey

William Lilly Size:XL: 100 x 75cm one being towed by aWilliam 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),