able FEASTS; Together with the Days of Fafting and Abstinence, through the whole Year. RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts, and Holy days begin. FAfter-day, on which the rest depend, is always the First 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, Eafter-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 obferved in the Church of England throughout the Year. ALL Sundays in the Year. The Circumcifion of our Lord The Epiphany. The purification of the Blef The Nativity of S. John Monday and Tuesday in Eafter S. Andrew the Apostle. S. Thomas the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord. S. Stephen the Martyr. S. John the Evangelift. (The Holy Innocents. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsunweek. week. A TABLE Abstinence, to be observed in the Year. Nate, That if any of these Feast-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, DAYS of Fasting, or Abstinence. The Forty Days of Lent. II. The Ember-days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the First Sunday in Lent, the Feaft of Pentecost, 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 Christmas-day. Certain Solemn DAYS, for which particular Services are appointed. The Fifth Day of November, being the Day kept in Memory of the Papifts Conspiracy. 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 IV. The Twenty second Day of June, being the Day on which Memory of the Birth and Return of King Charles the Second. His Majesty began his Happy Reign. TABLE TABLE to find EASHis Table contains so much of T the Calendar as TER-DAY from is necessary for the determining of Eafter; to find the present Time, till which, look for the Golden Number the Year 1899 inclu-of the Year in the First Column of the five, according to the Table, against which stands the Day foregoing Calendar. of the Pafchal Full Moon; then look Golden Day of the Number. Month. in the Third Column for the Sunday Letter, next after the Day of the Full Sunday Moon, and the Day of the Month Letter standing against that Sunday Letter is Eafter-day. If the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, then (according to the First Rule) the next Sunday after is Easter-day. 'D E A To find the Golden Number, or prime, add one to the Year of our Lord, and then divide by 19: the ReC mainder, if any, is the Golden NumD ber; but if nothing remaineth, then B E 19 is the Golden Number. To find the Dominical or o A G A Calendar, until the Year 1799 2 F 3 Binclusive, add to the Year of 3 E our Lord its Fourth Part, omit- 4 D Dting Fractions, and also the 5 C E Number 1: Divide the Sum 6B F by 7; and if there is no Remainder, G then A is the Sunday Letter: But if Aany Number remaineth, then the Letter, standing against that Number in C the small annexed Table, is the Sunday D Letter. O make use of the preceding Table, find the Sun- day 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 Easter falleth that Year. But Note, That the Name of the Month is set on the Left Hand, 4 5 Маг.30 31 April 1 |