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 collaterally.

A TABLE of the DAYS on which EASTER will fall for 38 Years, being the Time

of two Cycles of the Moon.

Note, That in a Bissextile or Leap-Year, the number of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same as if Easterday 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 for the first day of Lent; 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.

A TABLE TO FIND EASTER DAY,

From the Year 1900, to the year 2199, inclusive.

Golden No. Day of Mo. Sun. Letter.

March 22

А

THE Golden Numbers in the foregoing Calendar will point out the Days of the Paschal full Moons, till the year of our Lord 1900; (1.) 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 finding 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.

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14

Ꭰ

В

13

32

В

4

11

12

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12

13

Ε

1

14

15

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17

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16

Α

17

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18

(1.) In the English Book, there is a note underneath the months of March and April, in the Calendar, intended to show the use of the golden numbers, in a column attached to these months only. It is as follows. "The numbers here prefixed to the several days, between the 21st day of March, and the 18th day of April, both inclusive, denote the days upon which those full moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the 21st day of March, in those years, of which they are respectively the golden numbers: and the Sunday letter next following any such full moon points out Easter Day for that year. All which holds until the year of our Lord 1899 inclusive; after which year, the place of these golden numbers will be to be changed, as is hereafter expressed."

"On investigating this subject," says Bishop White, "we found that the note was wanting in the prayer books edited before the adoption of the Gregorian style in 1751, but was found in a the succeeding editions consulted. From these circumstances it seems probable, that in making out the calendar for the American church, there was taken a book prior to the said date. The column, with the golden numbers, may have been called for at the crisis of the change of style; but, as it is insufficient for the finding of Easter, from its not showing how the golden numbers are to be found; and as this, with the whole process for the finding of the festival, is provided for by a table appropriated to that object; it was thought proper to omit the column and the figures included in it."

T. C. B.

GENERAL TABLES,

For finding the DOMINICAL or SUNDAY LETTER, and the places of the GOLDEN NUMBERS in the Calendar.

To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter for any given look in the Second Column of Table II. for the given Year of our Lord, add to the year its fourth Part, omit- Year, consisting of entire Hundreds; and note the ting Fractions, and also the Number, which in Table I. Number or Cypher which stands against it in the Third standeth at the top of the Column, wherein the Num- Column; then in Table III. look for the same Number, ber of Hundreds, contained in that given Year is in the Column under any given Golden Number, which found; Divide the Sum by 7, and if there be no Re- when you have found, guide your eyes sidesways to the mainder, then A is the Sunday Letter; but if any Num-left hand, and in the First Column you will find the ber remain, then the Letter which standeth under that Number at the Top of the Table, is the Sunday Letter. To find the Month and Days of the Month to which the Golden Numbers ought to be 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,

month and day to which that Golden Number ought to be 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 other Hundredth Years are to be accounted only common Years.