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TABLES AND RULES 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.

EASTER-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, 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.

A TABLE OF THE VIGILS, FASTS, AND DAYS OF ABSTINENCE,

TO BE OBSERVED IN THE YEAR.

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.

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I. The Forty Days of Lent.

1. The First Sunday in Lent.

3. September 14.
4. December 13.

3.

4.

II. The Ember Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, 2. The Feast of Pentecost. and Saturday after

III. The Three Rogation-Days, 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.

I. The Fifth day of November, being the Day
kept in Memory of the Papists' Conspiracy.
II. The Thirtieth Day of January, being the
Day kept in Memory of the Martyrdom of
King Charles the First.

CERTAIN SOLEMN DAYS,

FOR WHICH 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.

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A TABLE TO FIND EASTER-DAY, FROM THE PRESENT TIME
TILL THE YEAR 1899 INCLUSIVE, ACCORDING TO

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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 (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, according to the Calendar, until the year 1799 inclusive, add to the Year of our Lord its fourth part, omitting fractions; and also the number 1: 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 standing against that number in the small annexed Table is the Sunday Letter.

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ANOTHER TABLE TO FIND EASTER TILL THE YEAR
1899 INCLUSIVE.