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- 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. CDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFGABC 28293031234567890 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. -23 1 -19 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, Goid. Days of the Sund. 23 24 Mar.22 1 Jan.18 Feb. 4 Apr26 Apr 30 May 10 27 Nov.29 II 1234567890 278960601234567890 -27 May 1 May 456789012 11222222233333334 12345678 -11/27 30 -12 27 Dec. 1 X -1327 -1427 XVIII -15 26 Nov.27 VII 1626 28 -28 25 123788030123 -26 523 Nov.27 ing Calendar will point 23 27 623 28 out the Days of the Pas -24 29 chai Full Moons, till the -25 20 823 30 Year of our Lord 1900; -26 -30 9/23 Dec. 1 -27 -31 -10 23 2 -28 June 1 -29 30 23 -12 22 Nov.27 -13/22 28 -246 -20 -256 21 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. 6600 700 6900 7000 7100 7300 7400 76007700 7800 7000 8100 8200 8500 &c. O find the Dominical or Sun Year of our Lord, add to the Year its Fourth Part, omitting Fractions, and also the Number, which in Table I. standeth at the Top of the Column, wherein the Number of Hundreds contained in that given Year is found: 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, which standeth under that Number at the Top of the Table, is the Sunday Letter. 7700 26 4200 12 7800 27 4300 12 7900 28 B 4400 12 B 8000 27 4500 13 8100 28 4600 13 8200 4700 14 find the Month and Days of the Month prefixed in the Calendar, in any given Year of our Lord, consisting of entire Hundred Years, and in all the intermediate Years betwixt that and the next Hundredth Year following, look in the Second Column of Table II. for the given Year, consisting of entire Hundreds, and Note the Number or Cypher which stands against it in the Third Column; then, in Table III. look for the same Number in the Column under any given Golden Number, which when you have found, guide your Bye side-ways to the Left Hand, and in the First Column you will find the Month and Day to which that Golden Number ought to te prefixed in the Calendar, during that Period of One Hundred Years. The Letter B prefixed to certain Hundredth Years in Table II. denotes those Years which are still to be accounted Bissextile or Leap Years in the New Calendar; whereas all the other Hundredth Years are to be accounted only common Years. 4900 14 8500 5000 15 &c. 5100 16 |