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A53943 Easter not mis-timed a letter written out of the countrey to a friend in London concerning Easter-Day. Pell, John, 1611-1685. 1664 (1664) Wing P1070; ESTC R19186 5,171 14

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Imprimatur Atque imprimi forte necesse est ut qui occasionem Schismatis hinc illinc quaerunt se sciant nec hinc habere nisi de ignorantiâ suâ aut malitiâ quod querantur Ex Aedib Lambethan April 4. 1664. M. Frank S. T. P. R. in Christ Pat. ac Dom. Archiepisc Cantuar. à Sacris Dom. EASTER not Mis-timed A LETTER Written Out of the Countrey to a Friend IN LONDON Concerning EASTER-DAY CR LONDON Printed for Timothy Garthwait at the Kings-head in St. Pauls Church-yard 1664. SIR YOur Letter tells me that you have met with very many men that say We ought to keep Easter this year upon APRIL 3. though all our English Almanack-makers have placed it upon APRIL 10. Yet you cannot be of that opinion because it seems unlikely that All our makers of Almanacks could be deceived in a thing of that nature or that they would conspire to miss-lead the whole Nation without any advantage to themselves You therefore desire to know my minde concerning this Controversie and that so fully and cleerly expressed as that it may enable you to escape undeceived by their seeming Reasons To satisfie your desire In the first place I answer that In England for this year 1664 Easter ought to be kept upon the tenth of April And that because no other day is designed by those old Rules which hitherto England hath alwayes followed and our Superiours have not yet substituted New Rules commanding us to use them in the place of the Old ones Witness the Book of Common-Prayer printed in Folio at London 1662 Wherein the second Page before the beginning of Morning-Prayer hath A Table to finde Easter for ever Which Table had been often printed in the former Common-Prayer-Books and by being re-printed in the Edition of 1662 did sufficiently shew that the Church of England had made no alteration for the time of celebrating Easter That Tables title promiseth to shew Easter for ever onely in opposition to the Table of Moveable Feasts in the fore-going Page which teacheth to finde Easter for forty years onely so that after the year 1700 it will be almost useless Yet that Table of forty years will alwayes afford forty examples of Easter found by the following Table and by the Precept under it If for exercise you seek all those forty Easters by the lesser Table you shall finde no other dayes then those that are set down in the greater Table in the column whose title is Easter-day The aforesaid Book of Common-Prayer hath two other old Touch-stones by which the forty years Table may be tried and whatsoever others tell you the forty Easters of that Table will endure all those three trials and no difference will be found in them if the Examiner have as much skill or sagacity as that Book requireth in those that look after higher rules and will not be content with the lowest and easiest sort of Precepts The forty years Table is fitted for mean understandings But if men will question the truth of that Table or the firmness of the grounds of its calculation let them not blame that Book because for the satisfaction of their curiosity it hath not other rules delivered in words sollicitously weighed and considered lest ought should be superfluous deficient or ambiguous If the High way be open straight plain firm and safe they that will run out of it should not blame the Surveyors if all the declivities and brinks of Rivers be not fenced with Guardefous To come nearer to your Controversie All the English Almanacks place Easter upon April the tenth this year The Book of Common-Prayer in its forty years Table tells you that in 1664. Easter-day is April the tenth yet some of your acquaintance say We ought to keep it sooner How much sooner Ten dayes say some who know no difference between fixed and moveable Feasts France keeps Christmass ten dayes before us in England therefore it keeps Easter so too But if you meet with any such tell them That if the French keep Easter ten days before us they must keep it on a Thursday The difference of Old and New Stile was introduced by skipping over ten dayes of the Moneth of October 1582 but keeping the names of the Week-dayes unchanged And therefore both Stiles calling the same day Sunday and keeping Easter upon Sunday must needs differ a just number of weeks or not at all Of the fourscore Easters kept since 1583 Weeks Easters 0 36 1 26 4 5 5 13 Summe 80 36 differed not at all 26 Roman Easters were a week before Ours 5 were 4 weeks before ours and 13 were 5 weeks before those that were observed in England as shall be particularly shewn hereafter if need be In all Roman-Catholick Countreys except Valesia easter-Easter-day will be kept upon their April 13. which we call Apr. 3 and so a week before us this year 1664. But in the rest of Christendome Holland and Zealand excepted this year the tenth of April will be observed for an Easter-day even in the remotest parts of Asia and Africa Because they as well as we finde Easter-day by the Rules which were generally received by all Christians Eleven hundred and thirty two years ago and were observed by all Christians ever since till the year of our Lord 1583 when in obedience to a Bull of Pope Gregory the Thirteenth many Countries celebrated Easter a fortnight sooner then the rest of Christendome And ever since that year they have followed new Rules for the finding of easter-Easter-day Which Rules 773 years hence will give them an easter-Easter-day six weeks before Ours but till then none more then five weeks before us as it was in 1663. But I need not speak any more of that Kalendar and its new Rules at this time although you tell me that divers Roman Catholicks and Priests are eager pleaders for the third of April I perceive that they pretend not to prove their Assertion by saying It is so in the Roman Kalendar For they know that Kalendar is not yet publickly received in England But they say It must be so because in the Common-Prayer-Book printed 1662 there is this Rule Easter-day is alwayes the first Sunday after the first full Moon which happens next after the one and twentieth day of March. But say they this year that full Moon is on the one and thirtieth of March a Thursday after which the first Sunday is the third of April the second Sunday is the tenth of April Therefore according to this Rule not April the tenth but April the third must be Easter-day This were a sufficient demonstration if the words full Moon had the same meaning in both places But the FULL MOON meant in the Rule this year is no other then the fourth of April Which being Munday the first Sunday after it must needs be April 10 which therefore by this Rule shall be Easter If the Priests you write of make difficulty to admit such full Moons pray them to search their