the regnal yeares stand periodicall or compleat against the yeares of our Lord so that the yeare Regnall standeth against that Eclesian yeare or yeare of our Lord it ended in and not against that it began in so that if a question in the Computation be put in the beginning of the regnal yeare or in this Concordancie in the ending of the regnal yeare the demand is easie but if the contrary happen it is more hard Therefore the matter and intent of this my worke is when a question is pronounded by the yeare of any King to know in what yeare of our Lord it was the is whether it were in the yeare of cur Lord. God that the regnall yeare did take beginning or ending in This considered all shall be made easie by the ensuing examples Seeke in your Tables for Edward the 6 then in the row vnder K. Reigne finde the 6. yeare of his reigne which you shall sinde placed against 1552 against which in the row vnder Time expired is 60. My leass is therefore expired in January the 8 day 1612. Or hauing found the yeare of our Lord count as in the first question or substract 1552 from 1612 as before but reckoning with the old Computation you haue 61. yeares which is false but to make all plaine worke as followeth Notes to bee obserued for this new kinde of of casie Computation YOu must first consider that in my Kalender in the Margent vpon the left hand the wéekes be numbred from our Lady day the which number for breuities sake is called the Hebdomadall Number Next here is an insuing Table wherein the names of all the Kings and Quéenes of England since the Conquest be writ and to them is added a certaine number of wéeks and daies as to Henry the 7 21 wéekes and 3 dayes which I call Epact which Bosco saith is Intercalare or addere But howsoeuer you may admit the word without offence since it is but for distinction or difference sake which had worke 〈◊〉 followeth A Table of the Epacts for each King KINGS Names Epact KINGS Names Epact w. da. w. da. Wil. Conquerour 29 0 Hen. the. fourth 27 1 Wil. Rufus 24 0 Henry the fifth 51 2 Henry the first 18 3 Henry the sixth 22 5 Stephen 36 0 Edw. the fourth 49 0 Henry the second 30 4 Edward the fifth 2 1 Richard the first 14 5 Rich. the third 11 2 Iohn 1 6 Hen. the seuenth 21 3 Henry the third 31 1 Hen. the eighth 4 0 Edward the first 33 5 Edw. the sixth 44 0 Edward the secoÌ„d 14 6 Mary 15 1 Edward the third 43 4 Elizabeth 33 6 Richard the secoÌ„d 12 4 King Iames. 51 5 When any question is propounded by the yeare of any King only without mention of the Ecclesâ—â—◠〈…〉 yeare you must note in what Kings reignâ—◠〈…〉 what moneth and day of the moneth it 〈…〉 date Next ' find the said moneth and 〈…〉 moneth sée what Hebdomadall 〈…〉 â—â—â—reth thereunto that is how 〈…〉 it is from the 25 of March 〈…〉 â—â—â—ble finde the name of the King 〈…〉 number of wéekes daâ—â—◠〈…〉 pact and against the 〈…〉 numbers viz. 〈…〉 consider which 〈…〉 If the Eâ—â—â—â—◠〈…〉 the demâ—â—◠〈…〉 yeare which standeth against the Ecclesian yeare periodically But if the Hebdomadall number be the greater the demand was made in the beginning of the Regnall yeare which answereth to the Ecclesian yeare or yeare of our Lord next before And of both these differences an example followeth Quest 3 I haue an Euidence bearing date the 13 of May in the 23 yeare of Elizabeth I would know 1612 what yeare of our Lord it was how long since how long after the Conquest it was ANSVVER To answer this question by this new Table first séeke the Epact of Elizabeth which is 33 wéeks 6 daies then the Hebdomadall number of the 13 of May is 13 wéeks here the Epact is the greater Therefore according to the first difference the demand is made in the ending of the regnal yeare that stands periodically against the yeare of our 〈◊〉 in the Concordancy Wherefore to resolue 〈…〉 â—â—estion find the 23 yeare of Elizabeth aâ—â—◠〈…〉 â—â—ich standeth 1581 in the first row in 〈…〉 15 in the fourth is 31 whereby 〈…〉 Euidence was dated in the 25 Anno Domini 1581 515 afâ—â—◠〈…〉 that it is 31 yeares since 〈…〉 see the answere to 〈…〉 Quest 4. I haue a lease bearing date the 5 of March in the 2 yeare of Elizabeth and is to continue for 60 yeares I demand what yeare of our Lord it was dated in and consequently how many yeares bee expired this yeare 1612. ANSVVER As in the last question conferre the Epact of Elizabeth and the Hebdomadall Number of the 5 of March together noting which is the greater In this question the Hebdomadall number is the greater therefore according to the second difference the demand was made in the beginning of the regnall yeare which answereth to the yeare of our Lord next before Séeke therefore the second yeare of Elizabeth against which in the first row is 1560 but for the causes before said you must take the yeare next before that is 1559 and that yeare of our Lord was the lease dated in the tune expired standing against the same as 53 and so many yeares of my lease bee expired But if you séeke how many yeares be expired in any other yeare after 1612 worke as in the first question Quest 5. To finde Easter day and the rest of the moueable feasts because many times Deeds c. beare date vpon such dayes without mention of the moneth as also to finde the Dominicall letter First seeke the yeare of our Lord God or yeare of the King against either of which in the last row vpon the right hand is the moneth and day of the moneth the Easter day fell vpon that yeare which had get the other moueable Feasts thus From Easter day count fixe Sundaies backewards so haue you Quadragessima or the first Sunday in Lent then goe backe vnto the next Tuesday so haue yee Shroue-tuesday Againe From Easter day forwards count fiue weekes or 35 dayes so haue you Rogation Sunday The next Thursday after is Ascension day Ten dayes after is Whitsunday The next Sunday following is Trinitie Sunday and foure dayes after is Corpus Christi day Hauing found Easter day see what day of the Moneth it happened on and finde that day in the Kalender for the letter answering thereto was Dominicall letter that yeare As 1611 Easter day was the 24 of March to which F answereth in the Kalender therefore F was Sunday letter that yeare But when it is Leape-yeare there be two Dominicall letters whereof that which beginneth the yeare and serueth till Saint Mathias day is noted by the time in the Table when Easter day happeneth and the other seruing to the end of the yeare is the next letter in the Alphabet that goeth before or this
letter is found by Easter day as before Quest 6. I haue a deed bearing date vpon Wednesday day in the Easter weeke in the yeare of our Lord 1556. I desire this present yeare 1612. to know in what Kings yeare it was what moneth what day of the Moneth and how long since it was dated ANSVVER First seeke 1556 against which vnder Easter day standeth Aprill 5. Wherefore Easter day was the 5 of Aprill D beeing Dominicall letter so that Wednesday in Easter weeke was the 8 of Aprill G standing for the same then you may see it was in Queene Maries time and remembring what was said before in the third yeare of her reigne and that it is 56 yeares since and 490 after the Conquest Now if any euidence beare date vpon the Kalends Nones or Ides of any moneth they bee easily found in the Kalender without further speech because they stand against the ordinary day of the moneth Note by the name of euery King deceased you shall finde one of these words Periodicall which signifieth the King reigned so many yeares as be in the Concordancie beside odde monethes c. or Defectiue which signifieth hee did not reigne compleat so many yeares but onely wrote of so many Quest 7. How shall I make a Concordancie of principall times of note that were in being long since ANSVVER In the ensuing Table is set downe how many yeares it is since at this present yeare 1612. Since the Creation 5582 Flood 3925 Promise of Abraham 3558 Israelits departure out of Egypt 3128 Entrance of Brute into England 2719 Building of the Temple of Salomō 2648 Building of Rome 2363 Captiuity of Babylon 2217 Death of Alexander 1936. Birth of Christ 1612 passiō of Christ 1579 England receiued the faith 1432 Conquest of England 546 Inuenting of Printing 152 Order of Templars 494 Time the London Paris were cōmanded to be paued 426 Building of London bridge with stone 435 But if you séeke how long it is since any of these times after 1612 séeke in your Table what number standeth against that proposed yeare of our Lord in the row vnder Time expired that adde to the time of note proposed if the demand were made in any yeare before 1612 take the number vnder the title Time expired answering to the yeare of our Lord out of the number in the former table as 1600 I would know how long it was thē after the Creation therefore according to what is said I take 12 from 5582 so haue I 5570 my demand Quest 8. How shall I finde the Golden number Circle of the Sunne and Epact by this Concordancy ANSVVER To the time of Post Conquestum adde three and from the Total reiect 19 so often as you may or diuide by 19 so is the which remaineth the Golden number and the quotient or number of 19 reiected the number of Reuolutions of the said Circle since the Conquest Now for the Circle of the Sunne to the time of post Conquestum adde 11 diuiding by 28 as before by 19 so is the remainder the Circle of the Sunne For the Epact worke as in the 30. Chapter To know if figures be mistaken in the Concordancy Adde Anno Domini and Time expired together for they must make both 1612 I meane in none of the Tables after 1612. Also adde Time expired and post Conquestum both together for they must make 1612. Also take 1066 from the proposed yeare and the remainder is post conquestum Lastly take Ann. Dom. proposed frō the present yeare of our Lord so haue you Time expired Let this suffice for the briefe vse of this Concordancy Of the foure times of pleading called Tearmes and of their Returnes For the hearing and determining of all kinde of cōtracts discords such like in that common weale there be foure times in the yeare appointed which be called Termes because in those dayes the learned Iudges set Finis Terminus Contentionum or Terminus litis that is an end of contention and debate betwixt party and party Now euery of these foure Tearmes consist of foure fiue or eight Returnes euery Returne of foure daies and euery day seruing vnto a seuerall purpose Note therefore that euery Tearme hath but part or all of these 6 kinde of Returnes viz. Crastino Octabis Quindeno Tres Mense and Quinque as you may gather hereafter Euery of which Returnes hath a Basis or knowne day from whence they take their denomination and bee reckoned The signification of which sixe kinde of Returnes is thus Crastino is the morrow after the Basis or day nominated as Crastino Trinitatis is the morrow after Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday being the Basis and the day that giues the denomination Octabis is 8 dayes after inclusiuely Quind is 15 dayes after Tres that day thrée-wéekes Mense that day moneth Quinq that day fiue wéekes Now euery of these Returnes hath foure seueral daies wherupon they consist The first whereof hath double signification the one is the day of Returne and the other the day of Essoyne for the defendant in a personall action or the Tenant in are all action to bee essoyned The second is the day of Exceptions for the Plaintiffe or Demaundant to lay an exception if no Essoyne bee cast that the Defendant shall not be essoyned or amerced The third is Returna Breuium that is the day whereon the Sheriffe must returne the writ And the fourth is the day of appearance for Parties and Iurors in the Court of Common Pleas. But if so any of these dayes fall vpon an Holy-day that is no Court day as in Easter Tearme vpon Ascension day in Trinity Terme vpon S. Iohn Baptists day in Michaelmas Terme vpon All-Saints day and in Hillary Terme vpon the Purification of our Lady or vpon any Sunday all which bee not Court dayes then must the next day following serue for both As if the Essoyne day fell vpon a Sunday then Munday must serue for Essoyne day and day of Exception both As for these dayes they haue all most vse in the Court of Common pleas where all sutes commence by originall c. But for Latitats or other processe vpon a bill certaine it is vpon a day certaine as Die lunae proxi post Purifi which must alwayes be reckoned from the essoyne day In the Starre-chamber Chauncery Court of Wards and Court of Requests they vse none of these Returnes but onely the day of appearance which is quarto die post Yet note well if a Capias Exigent Scri-facias or Destringas be executed after the day of Essoyne by the Sheriffe or a Commission seate vpon out of any of the foresaid Courts after the said Essoyne day it is neither iustifiable nor warrantable but for that these Termes may be found out easily by euery one for euer as also for that it is most fit for all men to know I haue deuised in performance thereof the ensuing Table for their sakes whose vse is thus To find
Cauda the taile because they appeare vnperfect or maimed being neuer séene all at once to vs but as it were the taile or some part cut off these two circles the one passe by the beginning of Cancer and Capricorne appointing the Sommer and Winter Solstitials the other by the beginning of Aries and Libra coequating the dayes and nights and crosse one the other with tight sphericall angles vpon the poles of the world and these 4 times are expressed in these 2 verses Hac duo Solstitium faciunt Cancer Capricornus Sed noctes aequant Aries Libra diebus CHAP. XII Of the foure lesser Circles in Heauen THese circles bee called lesser circles because they diuide not the spheare into two equall parts as the great circles doe and they bée foure in number called the two Polar circles and the two Tropickes of which Polar circles the one is called the Arctique the other the Antarctique both being made by the conuersion of the Poles of the Ecliptique so that they be alwaies distant as far from the poles of the world as the Sunnes greatest declination from the Equinoctiall commeth to which is 23 degrées 28 minutes the Arctique taketh his name of Arctos which is the Beare whose one fore-foote doth also describe this circle This circle is also called Septentrional of Septentrio which signifies 7 Oxen represented by the 7 starres in the lesser Beare The Tropickes take their names from the Greekes also à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is conuersio or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which with Cicero lib. 2. de natura Deor. is Reuersio so that taking the Tropique from Tropos it is a conuersion or reuersion of the Sunne because being in either of these circles hée alwaies turneth againe towards the Equinoctiall CHAP. XIII Of Time TIme is the measurer of motion and as Armandus saith of Rest and Quietnesse containing thrée parts Past Present and to Come Time present called Nunc being a moment indiuisible or the least part of Time and yet the beginner and ender of time euen as a point is the least part of a line and yet beginneth and endeth the same for Nunc now this instant doth knit Tempus praeteritum futurum ending time past and beginning time to come There is also a space or time called Seculum An age in English being an hundred yeares at the end of which time in Rome they were vsed to celebrate Plaies called Ludi seculares There is another space of time containing a thousand yeares called Aeuum being ten Ages But Iohannes de sacro Bosco diuides the lesser parts of time into fiue parts as Quadrans the fourth part of the day or six houres an houre being the 24 part of a natural day 2 Punctus in the Sunnes account the 4 part of an houre in the Moones the 5 part 3 Momentum the 10 part of Punctus 4 Vncia the 12 part of Momentum and the last is Atomos the 44 part of Vncia CHAP. XIIII Of the day both Naturall and Artificiall and their diuers beginnings THe day is of two sorts Naturall and Artificiall the Naturall day is the space of 24 houres in which time the Sunne is caried by the first Mouer from the East into the West and so round about the world into the East againe The Artificiall day continues from Sunne rising to Sunne setting and the Artificiall night is from the sunnes setting to his rising And you must note that this naturall day according to diuers hath diuers beginnings as the Romanes count it from mid-night to mid-night because at that time our Lord was borne being Sunday and so do we account it for fasting dayes The Arabians begin their day at Noone and end at Noone the next day for because they say the Sunne was made in the Meridian and so doe all Astronomers account the day because it alwaies falleth at one certaine time The Vmbrians the Tuscan◠the Iewes the Athenians Italians and Egyptians do begin their day at sunne set and so do we celebrate festiuall daies The Babylonians Persians and Bohemians begin their day at sunne rising holding till sunne setting and so do our Lawyers count it in England The Phisitians diuide the day into 4 quarters the first is from the 9 houre of the night to the 3 houre of the day warme and moist mouing to sanguine The second is from the 3 houre of the Artificiall day to the 9 houre warme and dry increasing choler The third is from the 9 houre to the 3. houre of the night cold and dry begetting melancholy The fourth is from the 3 houre of the night to the 9 againe cold and moist causing phlegme Ioannes de sacro Bosco diuides the Artificiall day thus into 4 quarters calling the first Rubens the second Splendens the third vrens the fourth Tepens whereupon the sunne is fained to haue 4 horses Eous Lampas Pyrois Phlegon The Iewes began at sun rising and so diuided the Artificial day into 4 quarters alotting to euery quarter 3 houres wherby also they diuided the day Artificiall into 12 equall parts calling euery part an houre and beginning at sunne rising so that 12 a clocke or high noone was their 6 houre and sunne set their 12 houre so that where the Scriptures say The Ague left him the seuenth houre that is at one a clocke so the labourers the came into the Vineyard at the 11 houre came at fiue of the clock but by this 5 a clock is meant the houre of the Artificiall day and not the Naturall day the which is knowne according to the time of the yeare for the Artificiall day is done some time of the yeare before 5 as in the 25 Chapter CHAP. XV. Of the names of the Dayes and their Etymologie THe Iewes call their first day Sabbatum the next Prima Sabbati the next secunda Sabbati c. according as is written Manè prima Sabbati surgens Dei filius that is the first day after the Sabboth which is our Sunday vpon which day the Romanes calling the Planets Gods began their account calling the first the day of the Sun the next of the Moone the next of Mars the next of Mercury the fifth of Iupiter the sixth of Venus and the last of Saturne still skipping to the third Planet because the 24 houres in the Artificiall day and night are giuen to the 7 Planets successiuely so that if Sol rule the first houre vpon Sunday as hee must because it is his owne day then Venus hath the next and so proceed giuing euery of the 24 houres a Planet in true succession you shall finde that the 24 houre which beginneth Munday falleth to the Moone therefore if any day be denominated by any one planet the next day following taketh denomination of the third Planet next following which order after the Christians obserued And you shall note that a day in Latine called Dies is so called à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Clarus or à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
10 50 Whitford bridge 10 40 Barkewaie 10 30 Puckeridge 5 25 Ware 5 20 Waltham 8 12 London 12  From Yarmouth to Colchester and so to London 92. miles From Yarmouth go first to Lestisse 6 miles thence to  miles * Blidbur 10 76 Snap-bridge 8 68 Wood-bridge 6 62 Ipswich 7 55 Colchester 12 43 Keluedon 8 35 Thelmsfoord 10 25 Brent-wood 10 15 London 15  From Walsingham to London 82 miles From Walsingham go to Pickam 12 miles thence to Brandon-Ferry 10 60 Newmarket 10 50 Whitford-bridge 10 40 to London as in Norwich way  From Cockermouth to Lancaster and so to London 223 Miles First go from Cockermouth to kiswike 6 miles thence to Grocener 8 217 Kendall 14 209 Burton 7 195 Lancaster 8 188 Preston 20 180 Wigan 14 160 Warington 12 146 Newcastle 20 134 Liechfield 20 114 Colesill 12 94 Couentry 8 82 Deuentry 14 74 Tocester 10 60 Stonystrat-ford 6 50 Brickehill 7 44 Dunstable 7 30 S. Albons 10 20 Barnet 10 10 London 10  From Shrewesbury to Couentry and so to London 126 Miles From Shrewsbury go to Watlingstréet 7 miles thence to  Miles * Shefnall 5 114 Bumingall 3 111 Woluerhampton 5 106 BremichaÌ„ 10 96 Meriden 10 86 Couentry 4 82 London as in Lancaster-way  From Cambridge to London 44 Miles First go to Royston from Cambridge 10 miles theÌ„ce to Barke-way 4 30 Puckeridge 5 25 Ware 5 20 Waltham 8 12 London 12  From Oxford to London 47 Miles First go to whatley-bridge from Oxford 5 miles theÌ„ce to Tetsworth 5 37 StokeÌ„-church 5 32 Wickham 5 27 Beconfield 5 22 Vxbridge 7 15 London 15  From Ludlow to Worcester and so to London 106 Miles From Ludlow go to Tenbury which is 5 miles thence to Worcester 16 85 Euisham 12 73 Chipingnorton 14 59 Islip 12 47 WickhaÌ„ 20 27 BecoÌ„field 5 22 Vxbridge 7 15 London 15  From Carmarthen to London Go first to Laundouery which is 20 miles theÌ„ce to  miles * Belth 14 135 Preston 12 123 VVorcester 26 85 London as in Ludlow-way  From S. Dauids to Hereford and Glocester and so to London 210 Miles From S. Dauids go to Axford 12 miles thence to CarmartheÌ„ 24 174 Newton 12 162 Lanbury 10 152 Breeknock 16 136 Hay 10 126 Hereford 14 112 Rosie 19 93 Glocester 12 81 Ciceter 15 66 Farington 10 56 Abington 10 46 Dorcester 5 41 Henley 12 29 Maidenhead 7 22 Colebrooke 7 15 Hounslow 5 10 London 10  From Carnaruan to Chester and so to London 207 Miles Go first vnto Conaway which is 24 miles thence to Denbigh 11 162 Flint 12 160 Chester 10 150 VVich 15 135 Stone 15 120 Liechfild 18 102 Colesill 12 90 Couentry 8 82 London as in Cockermouth-way  From Bristow to London 97 miles First go vnto Marefall which is 10 miles thence to Chipnam 10 77 Marleborow 15 62 Hungerford 8 54 Newbery 7 47 Reading 15 32 MaideÌ„head 10 22 Colebrooke 7 15 London 15  From Exceter to London 138 miles Goe first vnto Honiton which is 12 miles thence to Chartd 10 116 Crookborne 6 110 Sherborne 10 100 shafts-bury 12 88 Salisbury 18 70 Andeuer 15 55 Basingstoke 16 â—9 Hartlerow 8 31 Bagshote 8 23 Stanes 8 15 London 15  From Douer to London 55 miles First go vnto Canterbury which is 12 miles theÌ„ce to Sittingborne 12 31 Rochester 8 23 Grauesend 5 18 Dartford 6 12 London 12  From Rye to London 48 miles First go to Plimwell which is 15 miles theÌ„ to Tunbridge 11 23 Chepstow 7 15 London 1â— Â From Southampton to London 64 miles Go first vnto Twifor which is 8 miles thence to Alforth 8 48 Alton 7 41 Farnam 7 34 Gilford 9 25 Ripple 5 20 Cobbam 5 15 Kingston 5 10 London 10  From Couentry to Oxford 44 miles First go vnto Southam 10 miles theÌ„ to  miles * Banbury 10 24 VVoodstocke 12 12 Oxford 12  From Couentry to Cambridge 46 miles Go first to Dun-church which is 8 miles theÌ„ to Northampton 10 28 Higham ferries 10 18 S. Cedes 8 10 CaÌ„bridge 10  From Bristow to Oxford 48 miles Go first vnto Sadbury 10 miles theÌ„ to Cicester 12 26 Faringdon 14 12 Oxford 12  From Bristow to Shrewsbury 70 miles First go to Awfte which is 8 miles theÌ„ce to Munmouth 10 52 Hereford 12 40 Lempster 12 28 Ludlow 8 20 Shrewsbury 20  There is another way to goe to Shrewsbury from Bristow as to Glocester Tewkesbury Worcester and Bridgenorth c but it is 17. miles further and then you passe no Ferry From Yorke to Shrewsbury 103 miles Go first to VVetherby which is 7. miles thence to Oteley 13 83 Bradford 6 77 Halifax 6 71 Blackston-edge 6 65 Roch-dale 6 59 Manchester 8 51 Norwich 16 36 BestoÌ„-wood 9 26 whitchurch 10 16 Price 4 12 Shrewesbury 12  From Barwicke to Yorke 108 miles Go first to Belford which is 12 miles thence to Anwicke 12 84 Morpit 12 72 Newcastle 12 60 Durham 12 48 Darington 14 34 Noorthalerton 10 24 Topcliffe 7 17 Yorke 17  Of the distance of diuers other Citties out of England from the Citty of London c. VIrginia lyeth West South-west 3650 miles from London and their longest day is 14. houres min. 28. Sunne riseth at 8 a clocke 17. minutes Babylon lyeth East South-east 2710 miles their longest day being 14. minutes shorter then at Virginia Sun rising 4 houres 59 minutes Ierusalem lyeth South-east by East 2320 miles lying vnder the parallell with Babylon Sunneriseth 3. houres 6. minutes before vs Constantinople lyeth East South-east 1480 miles whose longest day is 15. houres 24 min Sunne riseth at 5 and 24 minutes Rome lyeth South-east 896 miles their longest day being 15 houres 4 minutes at 5 and 28 minutes the Sun riseth Lisbone lyeth South South-west 776 miles the longest day being 14 houres 44 min. at 5 and 26 min. the Sunne riseth Geneua lyeth South-east 440 miles the longest day being 15 houres 34 min. Sunne riseth at 5. hou 8 minutes Dublin lyeth North-west and by North 290 miles the longest day being 16 houres 44 min. Sunne riseth at 2 houres and 48 minutes in the morning Edenborough lyeth North North-west 286 miles the longest day being 17 houres 22 min. Sunne riseth 3 hou 9. minutes Paris lyeth Southeast by South 240 miles the longest day being 16 houres Sun riseth at 4. of the clocke and 3. minutes A Concordancy of Yeares containing a most exact Computation of time with briefe Notes of the best Chronicles against euery yeare Years of our Lord. post coÌ„q K. reigne time expired Easter day VVilliam Duke of Normandy base sonne of Robert the 5 Duke of that Dutchy and cousin germane to King Edvvard after the battell at Hastings came to London was crownd on Christmas day 1067 but according to the Church now 1066. Wil. Conque began Oct. 14 1066 1 1 546 April 16  1067 1 1 545 8 The King
 1494 428 9 118 mar 30  1495 429 10 117 aprill 10  1496 430 11 116 apri 3 C Iesus Colledge in Cambridge founded by Iohn Alcocke the 29 Bishop of Ely 1497 431 12 115 mar 26  1498 432 13 114 aprill 15  1499 533 14 113 mar 31 Gascoine wine at forty shillings the Tun. 1500 434 15 112 apr 19. E  1501 435 16 111 aprill 1â— Â 1502 436 17 110 mar 27 Prince Arthur married to Katherine daughter to Ferdinand King of Spaine 1503 437 18 109 april 16  1504 438 19 108 apr 7. G Christ Colledge in Cambr. first founded by Henry 6. who named it Gods house but this yeare Henry the 7. granted a Charter to his mother that it might bee translated at her pleasure for the benefite of Students prouiding it were euer called Christs Colledge 1505 439 20 107 mar 23  1506 440 21 106 aprill 12  1507 441 22 105 aprill 4  1508 442 23 104 aprill 30  1509 443 24 103 aprill 8  Anno Domini post conquestum K. Reigne Time expired 1612 Easter day King Henry the eighth was a mighty man and wise He abrogated the Popes authority in England and pulled downe their Abbies c. Henry the 7. dyed Apri 22 Defect Henry the 8. began Apri 22 Defect Henry 7. dyed at Richmond hauing reigned 23 years 10. mo 24. da. buried at Westmin 1509 443 1 103 april â—â— S Iohns Colledge in Cambridge being an ancient Hostell was conuerted to a Colledge by the Excecutors of the Countesse of Richmond and Derby and Mother to H. 7. in this yeare as her will was 1510 444 1 102 mar 31  1511 445 2 101 april 20  1512 446 3 100 apâ—il 10  1513 447 4 99 mar 27 1513. VVill Smith Bishop of Lincolne founded Brason nose Colledge in Oxford 1514 448 5 98 april 18  1515 449 6 97 aprill 8 Magdalen Colledge an Hostell first for diuers Moâ—kes of sundry Monasteries was this yeare translated by the Duke of Buckingham who this yeare built vp the Hall 1516 450 7 96 ap 23 F  1517 451 8 95 april 12  1516 452 9 94 aprill 4  1519 453 10 93 april 2â— Â 1520 454 11 92 apr 8. A  1521 455 12 91 mar 31  1522 456 13 90 april 20  1523 457 14 89 aprill 5  1524 458 15 88 mâ—â— 2. C  1523 459 16 87 apriâ—l 17  1526 460 17 86 april 1. Corpus Christs Colledge founded by Ri. Fox Bishop of Winchester 1527 461 18 85 apri 21  1528 462 19 84 apr 12. E  1529 463 20 83 mar 28 Queene Katherine brought before the two Cardinals her marriage at last found vnlawfull 1530 464 21 82 aprill 15  1531 465 22 81 aprill â— Â 1532 466 23 80 ma 31. G Sir Thomas Moore discharged T. Audley Lord Chauncelloâ— 1533 467 24 79 aprill 13  1534 468 25 78 aprill â— The Popes authority abrogated 1535 469 26 77 mar 20 Sir Thomas Moore beheaded 1536 470 27 76 apr â—6 B The King married the Lady Iane. 1537 471 28 75 aprill 1  1538 472 29 74 april 21 Christ-church in Oxford founded by Cardinall VVolsey 1539 473 30 73 aprill 6  1540 474 31 72 ma. 28 D Queene Katherine beheaded 1541 475 32 71 april 17  1542 476 33 70 aprill 9 The King married Ka. Parre and this yeare the King went to Boloin 1543 477 34 69 mar 25  1544 478 35 68 apr 13 F  1545 479 36 67 aprill 5  1546 480 37 66 april 25 Trinity Colledge in Cambridge founded Anno Domini post conquestuÌ„ K Reigne Time expired Easter day Edvvard the sixth began his reigne at nine yeares old who hauing his Councell appointed by his Father After him succeeded Mary his eldest Sister who restored the Popes authority And after her Elizabeth second daughter of Henry the eighth Henry the 8. dyed Ian. 28 period Edw. the 6. began Ian. 28 period He dyed hauing reâ—â—â— 37 yeares 10 moneths and two dayes buried at Westminster 1546 480 1 66 aprill 25  1547 481 1 65 april 10 Muskelborough field 1548 482 2 64 april 1. A The siege of Hadington 1549 483 3 63 april 21 Boloin yeelded 1550 484 4 62 aprill 6 The second fall of base money 1551 485 5 61 mar 20  1552 486 6 60 apr 17. C The new Seruice-booke in English 1553 487 7 59 aprill 2  Edward 6 dyed Iuly 6. Defectiu Mary began Iuly 6. Defectiu He died at Green-wich buried at Westminster when he had reigned 6 ye 23 wee 5. dai 1553 487 1 59 aprill 2 Bishops restored 1554 488 1 58 mar 15 VViat beheaded 1555 489 2 57 april 14 The first vse of Coches in England 1556 490 3 56 apr 5. E Trinity Coll in Oxf being in Anno 1370 a religious house called Durham Colledge was now refounded by Tho. Pope knight 1557 491 4 5â— april 1 8  1558 492 5 54 aprill 1â— Â Q. Mary died NoueÌ„ 17. periodi Q Elizab began NoueÌ„ 17. periodi She died hauing reigned 5 yeares 4 moneths and 22 dayes buried at Westminster 1558 492 1 52 april 10 Now the Masse was suppressed 1559 493 1 53 mar 25  1560 494 2 52 ap 14. G All base money suppressed 1561 495 3 51 aprill 6 Paules steeple burned 1562 496 4 50 mar 2 Going to New hauen 1563 497 5 49 aprill 11 108 parishes infected in London 1564 498 6 48 apri 2. B  1565 499 7 47 april 22 Thames frozen Anno Reg. 7. 1566 500 8 46 april 14 This yeare sir VVil Peter Knight augmented Exceter Colledge first founded by VValte Stapleton Bishop of Exceter 1556 1568 501 9 45 mar 3 C  1568 502 10 44 ap 28. D  1569 503 11 43 aprill â—0  1570 504 12 4 mar 26 Diuers ArmieÌ„s sent into Scotland 1571 505 13 41 april 15 The Duke of Norfolke arrained 1572 506 14 40 apr 6 F The Massacre in France 1573 507 15 39 mar 22 Edenborow yeelded to the English 1574 508 16 38 april 12 An Earth-quake 1575 509 17 37 aprill 3 The Family of Loue. Anno Domini post conquestum K. Reigne time expi Easter day Charles Iames the first of that name son to Henry Stevvard Lord Darley Mary King Queen of Scotl. borne at Edenburg whose god-father was Ch. K of France Phill. D of Sauov Q. Eliz. being his godmother who gaue him a Font of gold of 333. ounces whose true successor he is 1576 510 16 30 apr 22. A  1577 511 19 35 aprill 7  1578 512 20 34 mar 30  1579 513 21 33 april 10 Frobushers voyage to Cathay A blazing star Great snow great floods A generall earth-quake 1580 514 22 32 apr 3. C  1581 515 23 31 mar 26  1582 516 24 30 april 15 A blazing starre Strange tempest 1583 517 25
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Duo because the naturall day is diuided into 2 parts to wit into Day Night or it may be called Dies à Dijs for the Planets be called Dij Gods whereof the dayes take their names Nox the Night is so called à Noceo noces because it is Tempus nocentibus aptum a fit time to do hurt and mischiefe CHAP. XVI Of the Weeke A Wéeke hath diuers names in Latine it is called Septimana à Septem and Mane as it were hauing septem Matutina tempora seauen mornings And so pars is taken pro toto It is also called Hebdomada ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is septem as containing seauen daies It is also called Sabbatum by the Iewes and therefore it is said in Scripture Ieiuno bis in Sabbato c. wherby Sabbatum is Aequiuocum ad totam septimanam And you must note that the Iewes Sabboth day was Saterday but the Christians obserued Sunday for to begin their wéeke because on that day our Lord was borne rose and sent his holy Ghost vpon his Apostles CHAP. XVII Of a Moneth Solar and Vsuall OF Moneths there be thrée kinds Solar Lunar and Vsuall The Solar moneth is the space of time that the Sun runneth through one signe of the Zodiacke being 30 dayes The Vsuall Moneth is the number of dayes according as they bee in our Kalender and amongst the Latines Romulus first distinguished the moneths diuiding the yeare into 10 moneths because in that time a woman might bring forth a childe or because during that time it was not fit for a woman to marry after the death of her husband The first moneth he called Martius à Marte of Mars his Father or rather of Mars in respect of warre because as then the Romane Kings were vsed to procéed in expeditions for it is rather thought that Amulius was Romulus his Father then Mars Amulius being his vnckle The next moneth he called Aprill ab Aperiendo because then the poares of the earth opened The third is May à Maioribus the fourth Iunius à Iunioribus The rest of the moneths were called Quintilis Sextilis September October Nouember and December because they were 5 6 c moneths distant from March But after Numa Pompilius added two more moneths to make them twelue calling the one Ianuary à Ianua because as you passe per Ianuam in atrium so per Ianuarium in annum or of Ianus the God of Merchandize who hauing two faces so Ianuary hath two respects the one to the yeare past the other to the yeare to come The other moneth he called February à Februo that is a Plutone because then the Romans offered sacrifice to Pluto and the infernall Gods for the soules of their ancestors or it is called February à Febre because as then in warme regions men were accustomed Febricitare that is to be sicke of an Ague so also may September be said quasi septimus ab imbre which is à Tempore pluuioso And to these moneths he gaue some 30 daies others 31 daies orderly so that when he came to Ianuary he wanted a day which he tooke from February which he restored againe in the Leape-yeare Then commeth Iulius Caesar and altereth the moneth Quintilis to Iuly calling it after his name for that hee was borne in that moneth After whom commeth Augustus and calleth the moneth Sextilis Augustus after his owne name and grudging that his moneth August should haue lesser dayes in it then Caesars moneth hee taketh another day from February adding the same to August and thereby left February but 28 dayes whereby hee did disorder the daies of the moneth that before did consist of 30 and 31 daies successiuely making Iuly August and September haue 31 dayes altogether and February but 28 dayes wherefore to auoid this inconuenience he was forced to take a day from September giuing it to October another from Nouember for December The which ordination of the moneths and position of dayes is vsed to this present time according to these verses Sep. No. Iun. Ap. dato triginta reliquis magic vno Nisit bissextus februus minor esto duobus Which is Thirty daies hath September Aprill Iune and Nouember The rest haue thirty and one Saue February alone Which moneth hath but eight and twenty meare Saue when it is Bissextile or Leape-yeare CHAP. XVIII Of the Lunar Moneth and the diuersities thereof OF Moneths Ioan. de sacro Bosco noteth 4 kinds as the moneth of Peragration of Apparition Medicinall and the moneth of Consecution The moneth of Peragration is a space of time containing daies 27 houres 7 minutes 43 seconds 7 thirds 15 fourths 36 fifths 55. In which space the Moone runneth through the 12 signes of the Zodiacke and is called of some a yeare of which yeares it is not much for one to liue 1000 for 80 Solar yeares make as many within 40. But this moneth is accomplished certaine minuts sooner or later according to her swift or slow motion The second is the Moneth of Aparition consisting of 28 dayes vulgarly diuided into foure wéekes The Moneth Medicinall containeth according to Galen 26 daies and a halfe and is also diuided into 4 wéekes The last is the moneth of Consecution being a space of time that the Moone departing from coniunction with the Sunne passeth round about the circls of the Zodiacke returning to the point where she left the Sunne finishing her Moneth of Peragration but finding the Sunne not there because he is carried by his owne proper motion neere one signe further shee is forced to spend two daies 4 houres 44 I. 3 II. and 16 III. to ouertake the Sunne before shee can come into coniunction againe so that this moneth is produced vnto 29 daies and a halfe c. and is called the Moneth of Consecution for that the Moone prosecutes to ouertake the Sunne CHAP. XIX Of the Lunar Yeare both Common and Extraordinary OF Lunar yeares there bee two kindes the one is called in Latine Annus Communis the other Embolismalis The common Lunar yeare is the space of 12 Moones not Moneths or changes which the Latines call Lunations it is called the common yeare Lunar in respect of his accord with the Solar yeare for as the one containes 12 Moones Lunar so the other consisteth of 12 moneths Solar the one hauing 365 dayes the other 354 dayes but in both there is omission of fractions so that the Solar yeare excéeds the common Lunar yeare 11 dayes of which the Epact is made The yeare called Annus Embolismalis is a space of 13 Moones containing 384 dayes so that this yeare exceedeth the common Lunar yeare 30 daies the Solar yeare 19 dayes it is called Embolismus ab Embolismo as Bissextilis is à Bis sex Sacro Bosco castles it Embolismus ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is quiddam insertum CHAP. XX. Of the Solar yeare and the Etymology thereof THe Astronomers make many diuisions of this
Libra great drynesse in Scorpio plagues in Sagittarius or Capricorne raine and tempest in Aquarius drought and sicknesse in Pisces raine the insuing yeare But these Stadius saith be not knowne to him for truths for he holds them more substantiall that bee taken Exvarijs commixtionum causis The 3 day the Eagle setteth Cosmicall the South-west and by-west windes blowing with great heate Carda saith it raiseth the Etesian windes which with Ptol. do continue 21 daies the 8 Regulus riseth Cosmicall raising North-east by-north winds the 13 day the great Dogge riseth Heliacall which limits the beginning of the Grecian yeare and of this rising be diuers obseruations if then the heauen bee cloudy and darke it signifieth a heauy time with plagues c. but being faire and cleare it is good Also the 13 of August the Dolphine setteth Cosmicall bringing raine and beginning Autumne according to Ptol. The 24 is S. Bartholomewes day if the winde change not the following night the vulgar hold it good Stadius recounts tempests with haile c. to come from the West and North-west part in the end of August which often doe hurt The Abstract Reape Wheate and Rye sow Winter hearbes in the new Moone stirre land for Wheate and Rye and about the end of the Moneth downe with Oates or before according to the goodnesse of your soile Looke more in Iuly September THe first day of this moneth is Criticall if it do not raine then the rest of Autumne is like to bee dry the 12 day Arcturus riseth Cosmicall raine and with Ptol. after two dayes Swallowes leaue to be séene The 13 day is Equinoctiall windes from West North-west the 17 Lucida Coronae riseth Cosmicall Ptol. windes turne troubling the seas with winterly weather So many dayes old the Moone is on Michaelmas day so many flouds will happen that Winter The Abstract Cut downe your Lent-tilling gather the fruits of your trees conuerting them to vse as Crabbes for Veriuice c. About the middest of the Moneth sow wheat and Rye in cold and strong land sow winter parsneps and Carrots get hyues c. October THe 15 day the Dragons Taile setteth vespertine after this day wee must expect no more warmenesse and therefore the Germanes call it den Galen Sommer The 21 the East windes blow the 26 the left foot of Orion setteth with the 12 degree of Scorpio causing often great raine if leaues now hang vpon the trées some say it portends a cold winter or many Caterpillers The Abstract Sow Wheat and Rye the sooner the better for feare of raine The new Moone maketh a fit time to set and remoue yong trees as the Plum Peare Apple and Bay-tree to set Nuts Akornes c. after the full moone gather your winter fruits Nouember THe 4 or 5 day the Scorpions heart setteth vespertine which with Astrologers is a Critical day The 5 day the Dogge setteth bringing southernly wether the like iudge of Orion which setteth about this time The 8 day Succulae or Hyades sets Cosmicall frost or raine the 10 the Pleiades set Cosmicall if then the heauens bee cloudy it denunciates a wet winter if day a sharpe winter Pliny saith Succularum Pleiadarum occasum terrâ marique turbidum esse The 24 Arcturus setteth Heliacall causing often raine with Cardanus The Abstract The time is apt to make Malt to kill Bacons to cut Ashes to sow if you were too late the last moneth to set Crabbe-tree stockes to remoue Trees as in the last moneth in the increasing of the Moone but in the wane set beanes pease c. Also now vncouer the rootes of your Apple trees and so let them rest till March. December THe 6 of December is Dies Nicholai of which Cardanus thus saith Proximi septem Dies à . Bruma totidemque ante raro ventis infestantur they be called Halcyon dayes Stadius saith about the Brumall Solstitiall there doth happen Halcyon or most Tranquill weather the 26 day the faire starre Arcturus setteth vespertine and then with Carda the South winds blow Some say if Christmas day come in the new Moone it is a token of a good yeare and so much the better by how much it is neerer the new Moone the contrary happeneth in the decrease The Abstract The time is good to fall timber to vncouer the roots of Apple-trees to fallow land for Barley to set beanes pease c. the wether being not too hard and now Fowlers be busie with Lime-twigges and other engines to take Fowles Let a warme fire be thy bathe the Kitchin thy Apothecaries shop and good hoat meate thy dyet to which according to thy ability inuite thy neighbour Therefore to conclude If thou be poore and canst not feast at all Go feast with such as shall to feasting call CHAP. XXXI Predictions of euery day more particularly TO giue you iudgement of the temperature of euery particular day there must be great care had and many things obserued as the quality of the signe the Lord of the lunation the quality of the Absids and of the Planets for there is no great change of wether vnlesse Saturne Iupiter or Mars be aspected also the méeting of the planets mingling of their vertue with the Fixed Starres whose nature and magnitude are duely to bée obserued the want or not obseruing of these and many other which appertaine to preiudications cause our ordinary and common Prognosticators so grosly to erre as I noted in my Almanacke 1608 for as I said there so must I héere also Qui non potest in singulos dies de pruina niue grandine c. Distincte praedicere huic praedicenti abundantiam aut penuriam frugum nequaquam fides adhibenda est Ouer and beside what is said the aspects of the Planets amongst themselues are most heedfully to be regarded euen as in the ensuing Table set in Latine for the more breuity Enter this Table with the ♂ ☠or 〈◊〉 of the Planets noting the weather in the common Angle  ☽ ☿ ♀ ☉ ♂ ♃  ♄ Turb Hum. Hum. rem cal Neb. pruma Nub. Nix Venti pluu vēti et imber venti Nub. vent Niuosa Pluu frig Pluu subita Pluu frig Plu. aut Nix Pluu frig Grand toni Plu. frig nix vel Neb. Plu. vel tō Ton. gran Plu vel tur Remis fri. Tur. vel hu grand ton vēt vel plu Turbi V Ae A Hy ♃ AEris Temperam Ventos Magnos Temperam Ventos toni fulm ventos Rmiss frig Turb vent Toni tem Turb uent Remis fri Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis ♂ Minuit frigiditatem humid in sig cali ful in aestate Ventos ali quando nubi feros in aesta Toni Pluuiam Imbrem pluuiam Remiss frig Venti Sicc Tonit fulm Venti Sicc Remiss frig Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis ☉ Alterat aerem pro natura temporis Ventos aliquando cum humid plu presertim vento fig. Pluuiam Toni imbrem pluuiam humiditatem Veris AEstatis Autumm Hyemia ♀
Hu. vel Nub. Remiss calor Neb. Turb Turb vel Nix Ventos humidos vel saltem Nubi Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis ☿ Aliquando ventos Nubiferos Veris AEstatis Autumni Hyemis Ouer and besides these aspects you must likewise note the mansion that the Moone is in as in the 24 chapter so shall you conferring these things together produce more substantiall preiudications but indéed here is no place amply to deliuer such rules that should bee obserued before according to Art you can bee able to giue iudgement of any one day for I let passe all in resepect of the vnaptnesse of the volume CHAP. XXXII Of the Golden number Circle of the Sunne Dominicall letter and Epact c. THe golden number is a Periodicall reuolution of 19 of our ciuill yeares in which time the old Phylosophers thought that all the lunations or aspects betwixt the Sun and Moone returned to the same place they were at 19 yeares before for in that space the Dragons head made a Periodicall reuolution but this is not so for in 19 yeares there is an Anticipation of an houre and a halfe very néere wanting but 75 seconds so that looke what coniunction hapned this yeare in Aries at noone shall fall 19 yeares hence one houre halfe before this Circle is called Decem-nouenalis Circulus whose parts bee called the golden number for that it was writ in golden characters in Tables of siluer and so sent to Rome or for that they bee written in red or golden leters in the Kalender and is found thus Adde to the yeare of our Lord 1. for so much was the Prime when Christ was borne which diuide by 19 the remainder is the Prime or Golden number Of the Epact THe Epact is nothing else but a number of 11 daies which the common solar yeare doth excéed the common Lunar yeare the one consisting of 365 dayes the other of 354 daies and therefore they adde that excesse vnto the Lunar yeare to coequal thē for Epactae with the Greekes frō 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth intercalare or addere by the addition of which excesse in euery foure yeares there is gotten a number more then 30 which is greater then the Epact can bee because from change to change there can be but 30 dayes therefore 30 must be taken from that excesse and the remainder is the Epact for the next yeare as 1611 the Epact is 26 to which adde 11 so haue you 37 from which take 30 and you haue 7 the Epact 1612. To get the Epact for euer doe therefore thus multiply the Prime by 11 parting the product by 30 so is the remainder the Epact or as is said adde 11 to the Epact of this yeare so haue you the Epact of the next or see the age of the Moone the 11 Calends of Aprill for that is the number of the Epact But because I will ease you of calculation sée the ensuing Table which sheweth you in perpetuall the Concordancy betwixt the Prime and the Epact so that hauing one you may find the other answering thereunto and for your further ease I haue added the yeares of our Lord to it hauing the yeare of our Lord vnder it in order you haue the Prime and Epact and when the yeares in this Table be expired beginne them againe placing 1631 where 1612 is c. so shall your Table bee perpetuall A Table to finde the Golden number and Epact for euer An. Do. 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1612 1613 1614 Prime 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Epact 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 9 20 1 12 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 Of the Circle of the Sunne and Dominicall letter and to find them for euer THe Circle of the Sunne is nothing else but a reuolution of 28 yeares in which time the Dominical letters make all their seueral changes it is called the Circle of the Sunne not for that it sheweth any motion of the Sunne but because by meanes thereof the letter Dominicall is alwaies found as we had a circle called Cyclus lunaris by reason of the office it had because it was first inuented ad monstrandas lunationes so this is called the Solar Circle or rather in English the Sunday Circle because it comprehends all the varieties and changes that the Sunday letter can haue by reason of Byssextile or leap-yeare In briefe this Circle is called the Circle of the Sun because it acquaints you with the Sunday letter which is the day of the Sunne To finde the Circle of the Sunne either in the old or new Kalender do thus adde to the yeare of our Lord proposed 9 for our Sauiour was borne when the number was 9 which parted by 28 as by the number of yeares of the whole circle so shall the quotient shew you that number of reuolutions of the said circle the remainder the circle of the Sun Of the Dominicall letter THe Dominicall letter is alwaies one of these seuen letters ABCDEFG and doth shew the Sunday letter or day of the Sunne all the yeare vnlesse it be in Byssextile or leap-yeare for then there be two Dominicall letters whereof the first of the two in this Table serueth from the beginning of January to Saint Mathias eue and the other to the yeares end but for your more ease behold the ensuing Table where the Circle of the Sunne and Sunday letter are placed vnder the yeare of our Lord and when the yeares of this Table be expired set 1641 where 1612 is so will your table be perpetuall if you procéed as before A perpetuall Table for the Circle of the Sunne and Dominicall letter Ann. Do. 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624  ☉ Circle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  Dominicall letter GF E D C BA G F E DC  Ann. Do. 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633  ☉ Circle 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18  Dominicall letter B A G FE D C B AG F  Ann Do. 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1612 1613 1614 1615 ☉ Circle 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Sunday letter E D CB A G F ED C B A Note if it bee leape-yeare the first of the two letters beginnes the yeare Also note the Epact changeth alwaies the first of March and the Dominicall letter and Prime c. the first of January Of the Romane indiction Wee haue no great vse of this circle in England it is vsed of the Bishops of Rome in the instruments and writings of their Pronotations imitating thereby the old Romanes though theirs were to another purpose as to beare account of the payment of trybute it is a number of 15 yeare but for that it stands vs to little purpose in England briefly find it thus Adde to the yeare of our Lord 3
before and then resort vnto your Kalender finding the Moneth and the Prime in the head of the Table for that moneth Now descending downe the Columne which is vnder your Prime vntil you come against the day of the moneth there shall you finde against the said day of the moueth the true signe that the Moone is in that day Example 1612 the Prime is 17 I desire to know what signe the Moone is in the 7 day of May I therefore descend the Columne vnder 17 vntill I come against the 7 day which stands vpon the left hand the Table there I finde â™ I conclude the Moone is then in Sagittarius then the 8 day in ♑ Capricorne but the Computation and the rest of the bookes say the 8 day in Sagittarius which is false Lastly ouer each of my Tables for the Moone is placed the nature of the signe she is in To know what signe the Sunne is in The Degree and Signe that the Sunne is in stands in the last columne in the former Table for the place of the Moone vpon the right hand against the day of the moneth and vnder this Title ☉ place CHAP. XXXV Of the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone and to know when they shall happen and the quantity of obscuration THe Eclipse of the Sunne is nothing else but the conueying of the Moone which is a darke body betwixt our sight and the Sunne insomuch that the Sunne looseth no light but onely wee are depriued of the same in respect of the interposition of the Moone and this neuer happeneth but when the Sunne and Moone be in a visible coniunction for you haue your meane true and visible coniunction the which true and visible coniunction alwaies happen together when the Sunne and Moone haue no paralax which is when they bee in coniunction in the 90 degrée sâ—â— that the further the true coniunction is from the 90 degrée the greater is the difference of these two coniunctions so that you can haue no eclipse of the Sunne but when the visible coniunction is néere the Nodes Now all eclipses of the Sunne beeither totall without duration which happeneth when the Moone hath no apparent latitude at the time of the visible coniunction or partiall which duration may happen thrée manner of waies First when the diameter is only darkened as when the apparent latitude of the Moone is equal to her apparent semidiameter Secondly when there is more then his semidiameter darkened as when the Moones apparent latitude is lesse then her apparent semidiameter And lastly when there is lesse then the Sunnes diameter darkened as when the apparent latitude of the Moone is greater then her apparent semidiameter and you shall know if the apparent latitude of the Moone excéede 34 minutes 51 seconds the Sunne cannot be any thing eclipsed and the greatest eclipse the Sunne can suffer is when he is in the Auge of his Eccentricke and in his greatest eccentricity and the Moone in her opposite Auge whereby such places that bee sytuate within the compasse of the Moones shadow may loose the whele light of the Sunne the diameter whereof doth containe 280 of our English miles or thereabouts Further it may so fall out that you shall see the whole body of the Moone within the compasse of the Sunne the Sunne séeming to loose his light in the very middest and about the same will appeare a narrow shining circle of thrée quarters of an inch in bredth which happeneth when the Moone is in her Auge and the Sunne in his least eccentricity and in oppost Auge but this discourse is not fit for this volume therefore to the matter To finde the Eclipse of the Sunne You must know that the body of the Sunne is supposed to be diuided into 12 Digits and that hée is neuer eclipsed but at the new Moone therefore finde the new Moone as you bee taught before then in the row vpon your left hand vnder the title Digits ☉ sée if there stand any figure against the same for then may you conclude the Sunne to be Eclipsed the same houre that the new Moone happens and that there be so many parts of his body darkened as the figures vuder Digits ☉ expresse Example 1612. In May I finde the new Moone to happen the 20 day at 5 of the clocke and 43 min. before Noone then against the same vnder Digits ☉ stands 8 12 therefore I conclude that the Sun shall be eclipsâ—â— at that houre 8 parts and a halfe and if there â—ad stood such a marke as this â— he had bene eclipsed though not visible in our Horizon After the same order may you finde what eâ—â—ipses happen any day of any moneth for any yeare to come or thus séeke vnder the title of Digits ☉ what figures stand there and what Primes answere thereunto then finde the said Primes in the little Table before and ouer the head thereof is the yeare of our Lord God Of the Eclypses of the Moone To speake properly of an Eclypse it is an obscuration of light in the Sunne and a defection of the Moone for the Moone is a darke and grosse body hauing no light but such that thee receineth of the Sunne whereby she is neuer eclipsed but at such time that the earth is betwixt the Sun her which chanceth thee béeing at the full diametricall opposite to the Sunne and some what néere to the head or taile of the Dragon But these Eclipses of the Moone for diuers causes be not alwaies after one manner as first by reason of her vnequall latitude which sometime is nothing at all whereby the eclipse is greater in magnitude and longer in duration Another time her latitude is so great that thee falleth but a little within the shadow of the earth loosing but a little light sometime she commeth not in the shadow of the earth and then is not eclipsed for it is generall that when the Moones latitude at a true Opposition is lesser then the semidiameter of the shadow and the Moones body both being set together that the Moone will be eclipsed and the more those semidiameters exceed the latitude the greater is the Eclipse Againe these Eclipses differ in respect of the vnequall thicknesse of the shadow of the earth for the body of the Sunne as is said is greater then the body of the Earth and therefore the shadow cannot be Cylindricall or Calathoidall but onely Conicall rising beyond the earth and ending in a point but for all these and many other causes of the variety of lunar Eclipses yet we may reduce them for breuities sake into two principall heads as Totall and Partile the Totall is two-sold as either without continuance of time loofing all her light but for an instant because the semidiameter of the earth is as great as the Moones latitude and her semidiameter or totall with continuance loosing all her light for a certaine space because the semidiameter of the shadow of the earth
or Trine with Sol or Mars If of drynesse let the Moone bee in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces aspected as before with Jupiter or Venus Elections for Ablactation or weaning of Children For delicatenesse take the Moone in Gemini Virgo Libra or the first halfe of Sagittarius well aspected with Venus That they may be couetous the Moone must be in Leo aspected with Mars To be good husbands and bufie in the commodities of the earth take the Moone in Taurus Virgo and Capricorne well affected with Mars The Moone without Aspect and furthest from the Sunne maketh them forget the Nurse Elections for Husbandry Before you plant or graft consider the winde for if it bee in the North or East cease thy labour This foreknowne plant or graft generall the Moone increasing in Taurus or Aquarius Remoue and set yong trees in the last quarter the Moone in Taurus or Capricorne in September October Nouember and February Sow all kinde of Corne the Moone increasing in Cancer Set or sow all kinde of séeds the Moone well seated in Aries Taurus Cancer Virgo Libra Capricorne Aquarius or Pisces but with this prouiso that your seeds whose rootes be round be sowen three or foure dayes before or after the full moone but for store take the increase from February to Iune Gather fruits at the full c. Fell Coppice in the first quarter sheare shéepe in the increase and then cut haire to make it grow fast and thicke Cut vines in February March or September the Moone increasing in Aries Libra or Scorpio Libbe or geld cattell the Moone increasing in Aries Sagittarius or Capricorne Mucke your land that the weedes may not grow thereby in the decreasing CHAP. XXXIX Of the moueable Feasts and diuersities of Easter with the reason of our difference and the Romanes HAuing spoken of the changes of the Moone c. It followeth to speake of the moueable Feasts because they depend thereon and haue no fixed place in the Kalender being sixe in number to wit Septuagesima Quadragesima Easter Rogation Sunday Ascension and Whitsunday Septuagesima is so called of 70 as it were containing 70 dayes which the Church doth obserue in remembrance of the 70 yeares that the children of Israëll were vnder the Babylonicall seruitude and is alwayes three Sundayes before Quadragesima Quadragesima is simply said of 40 as containing 40 daies which the Church recounts in remembrance of the 40 daies that Moses fasted when he receiued the Lawes of our Lord Elias fasted so many daies so many daies fasted Christ before the tempter came and because the actions of Christ should be instructions to vs therefore we should endeuour to fast so many daies Easter is the principall of all other Feasts and so ordained by God at first and at this day there bee three sorts that is Pascha Hebraeorum the Iewes Easter Pascha Verum our Easter and Pascha Nouum the Romanes Easter The Iewes Easter was commanded to be kept the 14 day of the first moneth called Abib which day at Euen was the Lords Passouer and the 15 day should be the holy Conuocation as you may see Exod. chap. 12. verse 18. Leuit. 23.5 Deut. 16.1 Numb 28.16 Esdras 7.10 And this 15 day is taken for the first day after the first full Moone happening after the Spring Equinoctial which institution the Iewes altered holding a superstitious opinion of daies and thereby would not keepe their Easter vpon a Munday Wednesday or Friday breaking thereby the commandedament of God like stiffe-necked people as in the 2 booke of the Kings chap. 23. v. 22. Our Easter was ordained 322 yeares after the Incarnation for Constantinus Magnus noting the errors risen amongst the congregation of the Christians the many contentions that continually rose after the Apostles time about the celebration of Easter assembled from all Nations 18 Bishops other learned as wel Greeks as Latins AEgyptians such that could withall well determine of the motions of the celestial bodies Amōgst whom was Eusebius Bishop of Caesaria chiefe being an excellent Mathematitian and hee kept them there two yeares vpon his owne cost and charges and so 323 after the Incarnation there was a new Decemnouall or Golden Number instituted differing from that the Romanes then vsed which made it the longer before they would consent vnto it for by this new Circle Easter should be celebrated vpon the Sunday next following the first fuil Moone that should happen after the entrance of the Sunne into Aries and this new institution continued not passing seauen yeares after the Nicene Councell for in 330 there fell differences betwixt the Romanes and the Greekes about the same which continued neers 200 yeares and then in the time of Iustinianus the Emperour Dionysius Abbas a worthy Romane Anno 527 began to draw Paschall Tables and Rules Ecclesiasticall according as it was ordained at the former Councell which he finished Anno 532 and then at a Counceil at Calcedon it was established that whosoeuer held any other Easter then that after the statutes of Rome should ber counted an hereticke and therefore till 1582 no man durst presume to alter the Easter though they saw the Equinoctium still flye backwards from the 21 of March insomuch that it is now about the 11 day by reason of which anticipation sometimes there happens two full Moones before wee can keepe our Easter which was a cause the Romanes altered their Kalender and thereby is there 28 daies difference sometimes betwixt vs and them as in Anno 1557 60 71 84. and 87 also there may happen 35 dayes as in Anno 1565 68 76 79 in all which yeares there happens two full moones betwixt our Easter and the Spring Equinoctiall so did it 1595 and farre more late as 1603 and so shall it 1622 the which inconuenience the Romanes finding reformed their Paschall Tables whereby they produce Easter alwayes the Sunday following the first full moone according to the foresaid first generall Councell held at Nice in Pontus 322 yeares after the Incarnation But now whether it be best for vs to alter our Tables and Kalender according to that Councell I will not presume to argue if some say all Christians vsed this wee doe 1055 yeares I answere the Nicene Councel made no respect of the smal want that the day in cucry Leape yeare wanted of 24 houres being but 47 minutes 12 seconds as in the 21 Chapter but since there is passed 1289 yeares this present yeare 1611. whereby the Equinoctiall is gone before the 21 of March as it was then obserued 10 dayes and this is the cause of the difference betwixt vs and the Romanes whereby the Astronomers are forced in their Registers to distinguish thus betwixt vs and them Annus Nouus Vetus and so of the Kalender and of Easter and the other moueable feasts as before but this volume is too short for an ample discourse Now Easter hath diuers names according vnto the diuersity of Nations with the
Hebrewes it is called Pascha with the Greekes Basis and with the Latines Transitus with vs Easter Rogation Sunday is so called because nos rogat Ecclesia the Church commanded vs to contiune fasting processions and praiers as well against the bodily Woolues such as late were in â—â—tance as also against the spirituall Woolues Pentecoste is so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Quinquagesimus because there be 50 dayes betwixt Easter and Whitsunday inclustuely and this time the Church doth obserue in remeÌ„brance of the Law giuen vnto Moses in the burning mount as also in memoriall of the Holy Ghost that appeared to the Apostles like clouen tongues as you may read Acts 2.1 And these be called moueable Feasts for that they haue not any fixed place in the Kalender by reason of the celebration of Easter whereupon the finding of all the rest depend CHAP. XL. To finde all the moueable Feasts for cuer according to our English Kalender ENter this Table seeking the Golden Number in the first row descending vpon the left hand which hauing found proceed directly vnto the right hand vntill you comme vnder the Dominicall letter for the proposed yeare so shall the number in the common angle shew you the number of weÌ„eks of Interuallum Minus and the number iust ouer the Dominical Letter are odde daies to be added which is the distance of weeks and dayes betwixt the birth of our Lord and Quinquagesima or Esto mihi which is Shroue-sunday A Table of the distance betwixt Christmas day and Shroue-Sunday seruing for the English Kalender Prim 0 1 2 3 4 5 6  A B C D E F G 1 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 3 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 4 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 8 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 10 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 11 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 12 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 13 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 14 9 9 9 9 8 8 6 15 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 16 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 17 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 18 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 19 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 Example 1613. The Golden number is 18 and the Dominicall letter is C finding therefore 18 in the fist row vnder Prime and then proceeding rightwards vntill I come vnder C I finde seuen weekes and ouer C 2 I conclude Interuallum minus for from Christmas to Shroue-sunday is seuen weekes and two dayes This Interuallum minus being found find the same in the ensuing Table vpon the first row vpon the left hand answering to which shall you finde the rest of the moueable Feasts in order according as they bee written in the front of the Table Example 1613. I found Interual minus 7 weekes 2 dayes answering to which in the insuing Table is Quadragesima Feb. 2. Easter day April 4. Rogation Sunday may 9. and so forth and lastly Internal maius 25 weekes which is the number of weekes betwixt Trinity Sunday and Aduent Sunday A Table whereby to finde the Moueable Feasts in the English Kalender Interual Minus Quadragesima Easter day Rogation Ascension day Whitsunday Aduent Sunday Interuallum maius wee day 5 3 8 Febr. 22 Mar 26 Apr 0 Aprâ— 10 Ma. 29. No. 27 5 4 9 23 27 1 May. 11 30 27 5 5 10 24 28 2 12 1 DeceÌ„ 27 5 6 11 25 29 3 13 2 27 6 0 12 26 30 4 14 3 27 6 1 13 27 1 May 5 15 27 No. 26 6 2 14 28 2 6 16 28 26 6 3 15 29 3 7 17 29 26 6 4 16 30 4 8 18 30 No. 26 6 5 17 31 5 9 19 1. DeceÌ„ 26 6 6 18 1 April 6 10 20 2 26 7 o 19 2 7 11 21 3 26 7 1 20 3 8 12 22 27 No. 25 7 2 21 4 9 13 23 28 25 7 3 22 5 10 14 24 29 25 7 4 23 6 11 15 25 30 25 7 5 24 7 12 16 26 1 DeceÌ„ 25 7 6 25 8 13 17 27 2 25 8 0 26 9 14 18 28 3 25 8 1 27 10 15 19 29 27 No. 24 8 2 28 11 16 20 30 28 24 8 3 Mar. 1. 12 17 21 31 29 24 8 4 2 13 18 22 1 June 30 24 8 5 3 14 19 23 2 1 DeceÌ„ 24 8 6 4 15 20 24 3 2 24 9 o 5 16 21 25 4 3 24 9 1 6 17 22 26 5 27 Nou. 23 9 2 7 18 23 27 6 28 23 9 3 8 19 24 28 7 29 23 0 4 9 20 25 29 8 30 23 9 5 10 21 26 30 9 1 Dece 23 9 6 11 22 27 31 10 2 23 10 0 12 23 28 1 June 11 3 23 10 1 13 24 29 2 12 27 No. 22 10 2 14 25 30 3 13 28 22 One thing note in the vse of this Table that the Leap-yeare hath two Letters as GF BA DC FE AG CB or ED the first of these alwaies beginning the yeare as in Chap. 30. but you must enter this Table with the later To finde the Moueable Feasts otherwise Seeke the change of the Moone in February for that yeare as in Chap. 31. the next Tuesday after is Shroue-tuesday but if the change be vpon Tuesday then the next Tuesday following is Shroue-tuesday then the next Sunday is the first Sunday in Lent six Sundayes after is Easter day to which adde 5 weekes so haue you Rogation Sunday then is it foure daies more to Ascension day from which proceed forwards 10 dayes for Whitsunday the next Sunday after is Trinity Sunday and the next Thursday Corpus Christi day CHAP. XLI To finde the Moueable feasts according to the Romane Church THe Romans say they do obserue their Easter that moueable feasts both according to Gods commandement and according to the Edict in the Councel of Trent the truth thereof I leaue to the learned and here set downe how to finde it for Merchants and others that haue to doe beyond the seas To haue their Easter you must first finde the Epact for they haue reiected the Golden Number in that behalfe and yet doth their Epact often misse a day sometimes two and seldome hit truly the day of the new Moone euen as with vs it doth But to find the first find the Golden Number in the insuing Table vnder it is the Epact An. Do. 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 An. Do. 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1612 1613  Prime 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Prime 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18  Epact 19 1 12 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 Epact 10 21 2 23 24 5 26 27 8  And this is a perfect agreement of the Prime and Epact in the new Romane Kalender and is true vntill 1700. And for your more ease I haue
the beginning and ending of the Tearmes by a new Table for euer in a most easie maner Prim 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Â A B C D E F G 1 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 3 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 4 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 8 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 10 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 11 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 12 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 13 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 14 9 9 9 9 8 8 6 15 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 16 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 17 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 18 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 19 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 By the 32 chapter you must first get the Prime Dominicall letter which had enter this little ensuing table finding the Prime in the margent vpon the left hand from whence proceed rightwards vntill you come vnder the Dominical letter of the proposed yeare noting in the common angle the number answering thereunto also the number in the head of the Table ouer the said Dominical letter A new and perpetuall Table to find the beginning and ending of the foure Tearmes Intermin Easter Tearme Trinitie Tearme Michaelmas Tearme Hillarie Tearme W D begins ends begins ends begins ends begins ends 5 3 Apri 8 may 4 ma. 22 Iu. 10 Oct 9 No 28 Ia 23 Feb. 12 5 4 april 9 may 5 ma. 23 Iu. 11 Oct 9 no 2 Ia 23 feb 12 5 5 apri 10 may 6 ma. 24 Iu. 12 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 5 6 apr 11 may 7 ma. 25 Iu. 13 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 6 â— apr 12 may 8 ma 26 Iu. 14 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 13 6 1 apr 13 may 9 ma. 27 Iu. 15 Oc. 10 no 28 Ia 24 feb 12 6 2 apr 14 ma. 10 ma. 28 Iu. 16 Oct 9 no 29 Ia 23 feb 12 6 3 apr 15 ma. 11 ma. 29 Iu 17 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 6 4 apr 16 ma. 12 ma. 30 Iu. 18 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 6 5 apr 17 ma. 13 ma. 31 Iu. 19 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 6 6 apr 18 na 14 Iune 1 Iu. 20 Oct 9 no. 28 Ia 23 feb 12 7 0 apr 19 ma. 15 Iun. 2 Iu. 21 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 23 feb 13 7 1 apr 20 ma. 16 Iun. 3 Iu 22 Oc 10 no. 28 Ia 24 feb 12 7 2 apr 21 ma. 17 Iun. 4 Iu 23 Oct 9 no 29 Ia 23 feb 12 7 3 apr 22 ma. 18 Iun. 5 Iu 24 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 23 feb 12 7 4 apr 23 ma. 19 Iun. 6 Iu 25 Oct. 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 7 5 apr 24 ma. 20 Iun. 7 Iu 26 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 7 6 apr 25 ma. 21 Iun. 8 Iu 2â— Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 1â— 8 0 apr 26 ma. 22 Iun 9 Iu 28 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 13 8 1 apr 27 ma. 23 Iu. 10 Iu 29 Oc 10 no 28 Ia 24 feb 12 8 2 apr 28 ma. 24 Iu. 11 Iu. 30 Oct. 9 no 29 Ia 23 feb 12 8 3 apr 29 ma. 25 Iu. 12 Iuly 1 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 8 4 apr 30 ma. 26 Iu. 13 Iuly 2 Oct. 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 8 5 May 1 ma. 27 Iu. 14 Iuly 3 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 23 feb 12 8 6 may 2 ma. 28 Iu. 15 Iuly 4 Oct 9 no. 28 Ia. 23 feb 12 9 0 may 3 ma. 29 Iu. 16 Iuly 5 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 2 feb 13 9 1 may 4 ma. 30 Iu. 17 Iuly 6 Oc. 10 no 28 Ia. 24 feb 12 9 2 may 5 ma. 31 Iu 18 Iuly 7 Oct 9 no 29 Ia 23 feb 12 9 3 may 6 Iune 1 Iu. 19 Iuly 8 Oct 9 no. 28 Ia 23 feb 12 9 4 may 7 Iun. 2 Iu. 20 Iuly 9 Oct 9 no 28 Ia 23 feb 12 9 5 may 8 Iun. 3 Iu. 21 Iul. 10 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 23 feb 12 9 6 may 9 Iun. 4 Iu. 22 Iul 11 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 23 feb 12 10 0 may 10 Iun 5 Iu. 23 Iul 12 Oct 9 no 28 Ia. 23 feb 12 10 1 may 11 Iun 6 Iu 24 Iul 13 Oc 10 no 28 Ia 24 feb 12 10 2 may 12 Iun. 7 Iu. 25 Iul 14 Oct 9 no 29 Ia. 23 feb 12 The which two numbers keepe calling that you found in the body of the Table weekes and that in the front of the Table dayes then to find how the Tearmes shall happe enter the Table before and in the two rowes vpon your left hand vnder Interuallum minus finde the numbers formerly found in the little Table answering to which vpon your right hand is the beginning and ending of euery Tearme vnder their proper Titles Example 1613. The Prime is 18. and the Dominicall letter C as in the 32 Chapter then I enter the former little Table and finde 18 vpon the left side and so proceeding vntill I come vnder C. I finde 7 in the body of the Table and 2 ouer C the which 7 and 2 I finde in the Table of Termes in the rowes vnder inter min. whereby proceeding rightwards I may conclude that Easter Tearme shall begin Aprill 21 and end May 17. Trinity Tearme begins Iune 4 and ends Iune 23 and so forth The like for any other yeare As for the Returnes of euery Tearme they be these that follow Easter Tearme hath 5 Returnes Quindeno paschae Tres paschae Mense paschae Quinque paschae Crastino Ascensionis Trinity Tearme hath 4 Returnes Crastino Trinitatis Octabis Trinitatis Quindeno Trinitatis and Tres Trinitatis Hillary Tearme hath 4 Returnes Octabis Hilar. Quind Hill Crastino Purificationis and Octab. Purificationis Michaelmas Tearme hath 8 Returnes Octa. Michael Quind Mich Tres Mich. Mense Mich. Crastino Animarum Crastino Martini Octa. Marti Quindeno Marti Now if you would know what day any of these Returnes happen vpon remember what is faid before and it is easie The vulgar Notes of the Tearmes Easter Tearme beginneth 17 daies affer Easter and endeth 4 daies after Ascension day Trinity Tearme beginneth the next day after Corpus Christi day ending the wednesday fortnight Michaelmas Tearme beginneth the 9. or 10 of October ending the 28. or 29. of Nouember Hillary Tearme beginneth the 23 or 24 of Ianuary ending the 12. as 13. of February The Exchequer alwaies openeth eight dayes before any Tearme onely excepting Trinitie Tearme and then it openeth but 4 daies before A new Table for twenty yeares shewing the beginning and ending of the foure Termes the vse whereof is thus Seeke the yeare of our Lord in the Colume vpon the left hand answering to which in a right line rightwards is the day of the moneth that enery Terme beginneth and endeth vnder their proper titles