FOR THE MOVEABLE AND IMMOVEABLE FEASTS; TOGETHER WITH THE DAYS OF FASTING AND ABSTINENCE, THROUGH THE WHOLE year. RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. E full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March; ASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First Sunday after the and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-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 OBSERVED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. Monday and Tuesday in Easter-Week. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week. A TABLE OF THE VIGILS, FASTS, AND DAYS OF ABSTINENCE, 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, Friday, and Saturday after The First Sunday in Lent. III. The Three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Certain Solemn Days, for which II. The Thirtieth Day of January, being particular Services are appointed. III. The Twenty-ninth Day of May, being the Day kept in Memory of the Birth and Return of King Charles the Second. IV. The Twentieth Day of June, being the Day on which her Majesty began her happy Reign. FROM THE PRESENT TIME TILL THE YEAR 1899 INCLUSIVE ACCORDING TO THE FOREGOING CALENDAR. THIS Table contains so much of the Calendar as is 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 (aecording 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, according to the Calendar, until the Year 1799 incluIsive, add to the Year of our Lord its Fourth Part, omitting Fractions; and also the Number 1: Divide 0 A if any Number remaineth, against that Number in the small an- 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. 1 G 2 F 3 E the Sum by 7; and if there 4 D is no Remainder, then A is the Sunday Letter: But 5 C 6 B To 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 same 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, or just with the Figure, and followeth not, as in other Tables, by Descent, but Collateral. 25 Dec. 2 24 Dec. § | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | || || Nov. 29 Dec. Nov. 27 Dec. Nov. 27 Nov. 27 Nov. 27 Dec. Nov. 27 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. |