able FEASTS; Together with the Days of Fafting and Abstinence, through the whole Year. RULES to know when the Moveable Feafts, and Holydays begin. After-day, on which the reft depend, is always the Firft Sunday after the Full Moon, which happens upon, or next after the Twenty First Day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Eafer-day is the Sunday after. Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew whether before or after. A TABLE of all the FEASTS that are to be obferv. 1 in the Church of England throughout the Year. ALL Sundays in the Year. The Days of the reatts of The Circumcifion of our Lord The Epiphany. The Converfion of S. Paul. S. Matthias the Apoftle. S. Mark the Evangelift. The Afcenfion of our Lord The Nativity of S. John Monday and Tufday in Eafter- A TABLE of the VIGILS, FASTS, and Days of Note, That if any of thefe Feaft-days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Faft-day fhall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sanday next before it, TH DAYS of Fafting, or Abftinence. He Forty Days of Lent. II. The Ember-days at the Four Seafons, being the Wednefday, Friday, and Saturday after the First Sunday in Lent, the Feaft of Pentecoft, September 14, December 13. III. The Three Rogation-days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Afcenfion of our Lord IV. All the Fridays in the Year, except Chrifimas-day. Certain Solemn DAYS, for which particular Services are appointed. T He Fifth Day of November, being the Day kept in Memory II. The Thirtieth Day of January, being the Day kept in Memory of the Martyrdom of King Charles the First. III. The Nine and twentieth Day of May, being the Day kept in Memory of the Birth and Return of King Charles the Second. IV. The Twenty fecond Day of June, being the Day on which His Majefty began his Happy Reign. TABLE His Table contains fo much of TABLE to find EAST the Calendar as is neceffary for TER-DAY from the prefent Time, till which, look for the Golden Number the determining of Eafter; to find the Year 1899 inclu-of the Year in the First Column of the five, according to the Table, against which ftands the Day foregoing Calendar. of the Pafchal Full Moon; then look in the Third Column for the Sunday Letter, next after the Day of the Full Golden Day of the Sunday Moon, and the Day of the Month Month. Letter standing against that Sunday Letter is Eafter-day. If the Full Moon happens D upon a Sunday, then (according to E the First Rule) the next Sunday after is Eafter-day. Number. 14 3 March 211 22 23 24 25 26 A FGA 23456 ~ 222 N N N N 233 27 28 29 B C Ꭰ 3C E 311 F April H 2345 To find the Dominical or o G Sunday Letter, according to the 1 G A Calendar, until the Year 1799 2 Bnclufive, add to the Year of 3E our Lord its Fourth Part, omit- Ꭰ Ding Fractions, and alfo the 5 C Number 1: Divide the Sum 6B by 7; and if there is no Remainder, Ghen 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 D Letter. 51 18. 6 E 7. F В G CARCDEFCHACAFFCABCDEFCARC G Α For the next Century, that is, from the Year 1800 till the Year 1899 inclu five, 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 LeapYears, the Letter found, as above, will be the Sunday Letter from the intercalated Day exclufive, to the end of the Year. Another T 10 make use of the preceding Table, find the Sunday Letter for the Year in the Uppermost Line, and the Golden Number, or Prime, in the Column of Golden Numbers, and against the Prime in the fame Line under the Sunday Letter, you have the Day of the Month on which Eafter falleth that Year. But Note, That the Name of the Month is fet on the Left Hand, or just with the Figure, and followeth not, as in other Tables, by Difcent, but Collateral. |