William Andrews (d. circa. 1713) was an astrologer, known mostly from his almanac. He published the ''Astrological Physician'' (1656), to which

William Lilly William Lilly (9 June 1681) was a seventeenth century English astrologer. He is described as having been a genius at something "that modern mainstream opinion has since decided cannot be done at all" having developed his stature as the most imp ...

contributed a preface. Among the

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's manuscripts, there is preserved a letter, dated from Ashdown, Essex, 31 March 1656, in which Andrews thanks Lilly for writing the preface. In 1672 he published ''Annus Prodigiosus, or the Wonderful Year 1672'', and ''More News from Heaven unto the World, or the Latter Part of the Wonderful Year 1672; being a further Account of the Portents and Signification of the Stars touching the United Netherlands''. His almanac first appeared in 1655 as ''The Caelestiall Observator'' and appeared under various titles until 1672, when it appeared as ''News from the Stars,'' the title it would bear for the remainder of its run. He lived at

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in Essex from 1668. The date of his death is unknown, but his will was proved in Radwinter in 1713.

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Text of the ''Astrological Physician''
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