Of the Vigils, Fasts, and Days of Abstinence, to be observed

The Evens or

Vigils before

in the Year.

The Nativity of our Lord.

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.

Easter-Day.

Ascension-Day.

Pentecost.

Saint Matthias.

Saint John Baptist.

Saint Peter.

Saint James.

Saint Bartholomew.

Saint Matthew.

Saint Simon and Saint Jude.

Saint Andrew.

Saint Thomas.

All Saints.

Note, that if any of these Feast-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast-Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it.

Days of Fasting, or Abstinence.

I. The Forty Days of Lent.

II. The Ember-Days at the Four

Seasons, being the Wednesday,

1. The First Sunday in Lent. 2. The Feast of Pentecost.

3. September 14.

Friday, and Saturday, after 4. December 13.

III. The Three Rogation-Daus, being the Monday, Tuesday, and

Wednesday, before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our

LORD.

IV. All the Fridays in the Year, except CHRISTMAS-DAY.

Certain Solemn Days, for which particular Services are appointed.

I. The Fifth Day of November, | III. The Nine and twentieth Day

being the Day kept in Memory of the Papists' Conspi

racy.

II. The Thirtieth Day of Jan-
uary, being the Day kept in
Memory of the Martyrdom of
King Charles I.

of May, being the Day kept

in Memory of the Birth and Return of King Charles IL IV. The Nine and twentieth Day of January, being the Day on which His Majesty began his happy Reign.

From the present Time till the Year 1899 inclusive, according to

the foregoing Calendar.

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X

XVIII

VII

XV

IV

11

XII

12

1

13

14

IX

15

16

XVII

17

THIS Table contains so much of the Calendar

necessary for the determining of Easter;

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 Paschal Full Moon; then look in the Third Column for the Sunday Letter, next after the Day of the Full Moon, and the Day of the Month standing against that Sunday Letter is Easter-Day. If the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, then (according to the First Rule) the next Sunday after is Easter-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, ac. cording to the Calendar, until the Year OTA 1799 inclusive, add to the Year of our Lord its Fourth Part, omitting Fractions; and also the Number 1: Divide the Sun 3 by 7; and if there is no Remainder, then 4 A is the Sunday Letter: But if any Numher remaineth, then the Letter standing 61 against that Number in the small annexed Table, is the Sunday Letter.

For the next Century, that is, from the Year 1800 till the Year 1899 inclusive, 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 Bissextile or Leap Years, the Letter found as above will be the Sunday Letter, from the intercalated Day exclusive to the End of the Year.

Another TABLE to find EASTER till the Year 1899 inclusive.

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XI

XIX

VIII

XVI

April

XIII

Advent Sunday.

Sundays after Trinity. 100NNN060

according to the several Days that Easter can possibly fall upon.

from the Year 1900,
to 2199 inclusive.

Goid. Days of the Sund.
Num. Month. Lett.
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III

23 24

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May

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-1427

XVIII

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VII

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28

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23

27

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28 out the Days of the Pas

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29 chai Full Moons, till the

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823

30 Year of our Lord 1900;

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23

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Note, that in a Bissextile or Leap-Year, the Number of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same, as if Easter-Day had fallen One Day later than it really does. And for the same Reason, One Day must, in every Leap-Year, be added to the Day of the Month given by the Table for Septuagesima Sunday: And the like must be done for the First Day of Lent (commonly called Ash-Wednesday) unless the Table gives some Day in the Month of March for it; for in that Case, the Day given by the Table is the right Day.

at which 'Time, in order that the Ecclesiastical Full Moons may fall nearly on the same Days with the real Full Moons, the Golden Numbers must be removed to different Days of the Calendar, as is done in the annexed Table, which contains so much of the

Calendar then to be used, as is necessary for find ing the Paschal Full Moons, and the Feast of Easter, from the Year 1900, to the Year 2199 inclusive. This Table is to be made use of, in all respects, as the First Table before inserted, for finding Easter till the Year 1899.

For finding the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the Places of the Golden

Numbers in the Calendar.