It derives its name from the Latin Word Decem Ten, because it was the roth Month of the old Reman Year. Commodus in vain attempted to style this Month Amazon, in honour of his Concubine Martia: but after his Death it foon returned to its antient Name, A TABLE and RULES for the Moveable and Immoveable FEASTS; together with the Days of Fafting and Abftinence, through the whole Year. Rules to know when the Moveable Feafts and Holy-days begin. ASTER-DAY, on which the reft depend, is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon, which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-firft Day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, EafterDay is the Sunday after. ATABLE of all the FEASTS that are to be observed in the Church of England throughout the Year. A TABLE of the VIGILS, FASTS, and Days of Abftinence, to be Obferved in the Year. rs. John Baptift. S. Peters Note. That if any of thefe Feaft-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Faft-Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it. A Table to find EASTER-DAY from the prefent Time, till the Year 1899 inclufive, according to the foregoing Calendar. Golden Day of the Sunday, Number Month Letter. C 22 23 24 98 27 28 17 17 26 18 19 20 HIS Table contains fo much of the Calendar as is neceffary for the determining of Eafter; to find which, look for the Golden Number of the Year in the First Column of the Table, against which stands the Day of the Pafchal Full Moon; then look in the third Column for the Sunday Letternext after the Day of the Full Moon, and the Day of the Month standing against that Sunday Letter is Eafter-Day. If the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, (then according to the Firit Rule) the next Sunday after is Eatter, Day. To find the Golden Number, or Prime, add one to the Year of our LORD, and then divide by 19; the Remainder, if any, is the Golden Number; but if nothing remaineth, then 19 is the Golden Number. To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter, according to the CalenG dar, until the Year 1799 inclufive, add to the Year of our LORD its Fourth Part, omitting Fractions, and alfo the Number 1: Divide the Sum by 7; and if there is no Remainder, then A is the Sunday Letter: But if any Number remaineth, then the Letter ftanding against that Number in the fmall annexed Table is the Sunday Letter. 21 22 23 24 B 25 For the next Century, that is, from the Year 1800 till the Year 1899 inclufive, add to the current Year only its Fourth Part, and then divide by 7, and proceed as in the last Rule. Note, That in all Biffextile or Leap-Years, the Letter found, as above, will be the Sunday Letter from the intercalated Day exclufive, to the End of the year. Another TABLE to find EASTER till the Year 1899 inclufive. O make use of the preceding Table, To find the Sunday Letter for the Year in the Uppermost Line, and the Golden Number, or Prime, in the Column of Golden Numbers, ana against the Prime, in the fame Line under the Sunday-Letter, you have the Day of the Month on which Eater falleth that Year. But Note, That the name of the Month is fet on the left Hand, or juft with the Figure, and followeth not, as in other l'ables, by Defcent, but Collateral. XIV Mar, 26 XV Apr. 16 XVI Apr. 2 XVII Apr. 23 XVIII Pr. 9 27 28 22 XIX pr. 2 Mar. 27 A TABLE of the Moveable FEASTS for Forty-one Years according to the foregoing Calendar. 16 May 26251 I 1766 Mar. 30 1767 Apr. 19 1768 8 18 26 Nov 30 1770 Apr. 15 May 20 1771 Mar. 31 24 June 324 5 9 May 19 26 241 28 June 723 Nov 29 20 May 30 24| 28 12 2425 1764 Apr. 22 May 27 May 31 June 10 23 Dec. 2 Mar. 2211| Jan. 18 Feb. 4, Apr. 26 Apr. 30 May 10 27 Nov. 29 17651 7 2 31 1769 Mar. 26 Apr. 30 1772 Apr. 19 28 Jane 723 322 27 27 Apr. 13 25 June 424 Dec. 3 231 241 19 20 25 2 262 21 30 27 2 23 9 May 1 28/2 24 10 29 2 25 302 26 12 312 27 13 Note, That in Biffextile or Leap Year, the Number of Sundays after Epipha ny will be the fame, as if Easter Day had falien one Day later than it rea ally does. And for the fame reason, one symult in every Leap Year be ad. ded to the Day of the Month given by the Table for Septuagefima Sunday: and the like must be done for the first Day of Lent (commonly called AthWednesday) unless the Table gives fome Day in the Month of March for it; for in that cafe the Day given by right Day 27 233 29 823 9012378 90 23 29 30 28 29 30 30 31 28 June 2 3 29 301 123 923 Dec, 1 10:23 1123 12 22 Nov. 27 2 3 3 O find the Dom nical or Sunday Let- 4300 12 B 4400 12 4500 13 4600 13 4700 14 B 4800 14 490014 5.000 15 510016 8200 29 8300 29 B 8400 29 8500 Tonna the Month and Days of the Month, to which theGoldenNumbers ought to be prefixed to the Calendar, in any given Year of ourLord confisting of entire 100 Years, and in all the in termediate Years betwixt that and the next oodth Year fellowing, look in the 2d Column of Table II. for the given Year confifting of entire hun dreds, and note the Number or Cypher which ftands against it in the third Column; then, ia Table III. look for he fame Number in the Column under any given Golden Number, which! when you have found, guide your Eye ideways to the left Hand, and in the rft Columa you will find the Month nd Day, to which that Golden Number ought to be prefixed in the Calendar during that period of 100 Years. The Letter B denotes Leap Year. 617 28 920 11223 415 20 14:5 6 17 3 415 26 718 415 26 7 16.27 819 17,28 520 18 29 1021 516 27 819 C1122 9 20 :3 8 29 10 1 21724 71829102121324 5/16/27 8:19 0/11/221 I he Order for MORNING and EVENING PRAYER, TH HE Morning and Evening Prayer fhall be used in the accustomed place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it fhall be otherwife determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels fhall remain as they have done in times past. And here it is to be noted, That fuch Ornaments of the Church, and of the Minifters thereof, at all times of their Miniftration, shall be retained, and be in ufe, as were in this Church of ENGLAND by the Authority of Parliament, in the fcord Year of the Reign of King EDWARD the Sixth. 28 920 11223 415 20 291021 21324 5 16 27 819 011 22 31425 6 728 20 11223 415 26 71 8 9/10 1 9 J12 18 291021 213 213 24 16 27 19 0122 34.25 617'28 |