William Lilly rights 'The Sea near Hastings'

'The Sea near Hastings'

He was a front-runner in F3 throughout the 1950s

characters in the fairy tale and pantomime

14th October 1806

William Lilly rights 'The Sea near Hastings'William 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),