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A41236	Festa Anglo-Romana, or, The feasts of the English and Roman church, with their fasts and vigils being an exact and concise accompt of their various etymologies and appellations, with the reasons and grounds of their celebration : together with a succinct discourse of several other grand days in the universities, Inns of courts, and the collar and offering days at White-Hall, tending, to the instruction of all persons in all capacities, and the dilucidation of several seeming difficulties in the ancient, as well as modern English and Roman calendar / by a true son of the Church of England.	True son of the Church of England.	1678 (1678)	Wing F821; ESTC R7435	34,996	146

hard Eggs and Green-sauce The Robigalia and Ambarvalia of the Antient Romans did after their Heathenish manner in something resemble these In●●itutions They were call'd Robigalia from Robigus one of their numerous Deities to whom they ascribed the preserving of Corn from Blasting therefore these Feasts were sacred to him particularly And Ambarvalia quòd victima arva ambiret because the Sacrifice to be offered at that time did walk round the Fields May the 21th 1662. K. Charles was Married at Portsmouth to Donna Catarina Infanta of Portugal by Gilbert Bishop of London May the 22. is a Feast dedicated by the Romanists to one Julia a Holy Devout Virgin and is placed in their Rubrick not mention'd in our Calendar Holy Thursday or ascension-Ascension-Day The next Feast celebrated by our Holy Mother the Church is Holy-Thursday or ascension-Ascension-Day which is the 40th day after Easter or his Resurrection call'd Holy-Thursday because so Holy a Work was perform'd on this Holy-day and Ascension-day in memory of our Saviour's Ascension into Heaven in the sight of his Apostles and Disciples then present Acts 1.9 there to prepare a place for all true Christians being preceded by whole Legions of Angels and attended by Millions of Saints whom he had discharged set at large out of their imaginary Prison of Limbo as the Romanists fondly conceive In short and in truth this Festival of Christ's Ascension is the Consummation of all he did and taught during his Residence here upon Earth and therefore it was not without great reason termed by the Antients Felix Clausula totius Itinerarii Filii Dei the Sabbath or Consummation of all his labour in the Great and stupendous Work of Man's Redemption This is one of his Majesties Offering-dayes Next comes the 6th Sunday after Easter call'd Exaudi from the beginning of the 27th Psalm Exaudi Domine vocemmeam c. The Week after Ascension-Day is Expectation-Week for now the Apostles were earnestly expecting the promise of our Lord If I go away I will send the Comforter to you Jo. 16.7 King Charles 2d Nat. May the 29th is Celebrated upon a double account first in Commemoration of the Birth of our Soveraign King Charles the Second the Princely Son of his Royal Father Charles the First of happy Memory and Mary the Daughter of Henry the 4th the French King who was born the 29th day of May Anno 1630. and also by Act of Parliament 12 Car. 2. by the Passionate desires of the People in Memory of his most Happy Restauration to his Crown and Dignity after 12 years forced Exile from his undoubted Right the Crown of England by Barbarous Rebels and Regicides and on the 8th of this Month his Majesty was with Universal Joy and great Acclamations Proclaim'd in London Westminster and after throughout all his Dominions the 16th he came to the Hague the 23th with his two Brothers Embarqued for England and on the 25th he happily Landed at Dover being received by General Monk and some of the Army From whence he was by several Voluntary Troops of the Nobility and Gentry waited upon to Canterbury and on the 29th 1660 he made his Magnificent Entrance into that Emporium of Europe his Stately and Rich Metropolis the Renowned City of London On this very day also Anno 1662. the King came to Hampton-Court with his Queen Catharine after his Marriage at Portsmouth as is before mention'd This as it is his Birth-day is one of his Collar-days without Offering Pentecost or Whitsunday After this succeeds the Grand Solemnity of Pentecost or Whitsunday Pentecost from the Greek because 't is the 50th day from Easter or Christ's Resurrection and Whitsunday or White-Sunday from the Catechumeni who were apparell'd in White Garments and on the Eve of this Feast admitted to the Sacrament of Baptisme But Verstegan affirms That it was of old nam'd by our fore-fathers Wied-Sunday or Wihed-Sunday because Wied or Wihed in the Saxon Tongue signifies Sacred Now this Festival was antiently celebrated among the Jewes on the 50th day after the Passeover in the memory of Promulgation of the Divine Law of God on Mount Sinai and our Whitsunday is kept 50 dayes after Easter by all True and Good Christians to commemorate the Mission of the Holy Ghost on that day which descended on the heads of the Apostles in Tongues resembling fire Act. 2.3 who is the only and most Infallible Interpreter of the Divine Law This is one of his Majestie 's Offering-dayes and a Houshold-day when the Besant is given by the Lord Steward or one of the other White Staff-Officers and all the Holy-dayes in Whitsun-Week are collar-Collar-days without Offering Ember-Week follows whitsun-Whitsun-day which is one of the 4 Grand Seasons of the Year as is before specified at large Trinity-Sunday Trinity-Sunday falls next in course which is always the Lord's day following and the Octave of Whitsunday so nominated in Honour of the most Blessed Trinity and to signifie unto us that the holy Works of our Redemption and Sanctification which were then Consummated are common to all Three Persons in the Trinity This Festival was first Instituted by Gregory the 4th who then sate in the Episcopal Chair in the year of our Lord 827. It is one of his Majesties Offering-days at White-Hall St. Barnabas June the 11th St. Barnabas the Apostle comes next in the Calendar commonly call'd Barnaby The Name is Hebrew signifying Son of the Master of Prophecy or of Comfort The proper Name given him at his Circumcision was Joses for Joseph by a sweeter Termination or Cadence From the Apostles he received the Sirname of Barnabas He was born in the Isle of Cyprus an Island in the Mediterranean between Cilicia Syria and Aegypt whose Ancestors fled thither for their greater safety in the Tumultuous and Distracted Government of Antiochus Epiphanes or as some imagine when Pompey with his Romans Conquered Judaea He descended of the Tribe of Levi his Parents were Opulent and Pious he was committed to the Tutelage of the Great Doctor of the Law Gamaliel at whose Feet he was educated with his Fellow-Pupil St. Paul He was an Eye-witness of the Miracle in the Cure of the Paralytick at the Pool of Bethesda which soon convinced him of the Divinity of our Saviour He was one of the 70 sold all his Lands on Earth to Purchase in Heaven and when God gave Saul his Fiat for an Apostle's Place they two were Joynt-Commissioners for the Church Fellow-Travellers Consorts and Zealots for Christ c. Dr. Brough on the Fest And both Preached the Gospel in Seleucia Salamis Paphos Cyprus Perga in Pamphilia and here Mark the Son of Barnabas his Sister Mary whom they took with them as their Minister and Attendant weary of this Troublesome Itinerant Life departed from them which occasion'd the unhappy Difference between these two Apostles Paul and Barnabas afterwards they Travell'd to Iconium Lystra Derbe and so back to Antioch and then they parted with some discontent because Barnabas would take

and furnish the Tables in the Inns of Court with good Chear In the Colledges at the Universities they are usually call'd Gawdy in the Inns of Court Grand-Days and at His Majestie 's Court White-Hall Collar-Days for on these Days at Court the King Knights of the Garter and Judges wear their Collars of S.S. It is also one of His Majestie 's Offering-days St. Matthias On February the 24th but in Leap-year the 25th is Celebrated the Feast of St. Matthias who was one of the 70 Disciples and elected Apostle by lot in the room of that Arch Traytor Judas after the Ascension of our Blessed Lord He Preached the Holy Gospel in Macedonia and after Travelled into Judaea where he was first cruelly stoned by the Jews and then Beheaded according to the Roman Custom Anno Dom. 51. and it is also one of His Majesties Collar-Days without Offering here we may properly come in with our Discourse concerning Bissextile or Leap-year 'T is term'd Bissextilis because the 6th of the Calends of March are twice reckon'd viz. on the 24th and 25th of February so that Leap-year has a supernumerary day more than other years according to that old Rhythm Thirty Days hath November April June and September February hath Eight and twenty alone And all the rest have thirty and one But when of Leap-year cometh the time Then Days hath February Twenty and nine Observe also this Latin Distich tho in old Monkish Rhythm regardless of true Quantity Bissextum Sextae Martis tenuere Calendae Posteriore die celebrantur Festa Mathiae This Leap-year is observed every fourth year and was first invented by Julius Caesar the Perpetual Dictator of Rome to accommodate and even the year with the Course of the Sun and takes the name of Julian Account from him who before the Incarnation of Christ the space of 44 years observing the erroneousness of the Account then in use ordered the year to consist of 365 days and six hours which six hours in four years time made 24 hours or a Civil Day and were added to the end of February and upon this account every fourth year contained 366 days and was call'd Annus Bissextilis for the reason premention'd and the thing it self Intercalatio an Interlacing or puting any odd thing between even ones meaning the odd day in Leap-year in which account for many years there was no sensible Error discovered yet in process of time it was found not to be so exactly agreeable with the Sun 's natural Motion for the Julian exceeded the true Solar year by 10 Minutes and 48 seconds and caused the Aequinoxes and Solstices yearly to alter and change their places and recede or fly back so many Minutes and seconds in consideration whereof Pope Gregory the 13th of that Name by the advice ●nd assistance of Antonius Lilius ●is Brothers and other Eminent Mathematicians did in the year of our Lord 1582. correct the Roman Calendar appointing the year to contain 365 days 5 hours 49 Minutes and 12 seconds and that the Vernal Aequinox which was then on the 11th of March might be reduced to the 21th as it was at the time of the first Council of Nicaea he commanded that 10 days in October should be totally omitted viz. from the 4th to the 14th so that the 4th day of the Month was counted the 14th Hence it is that the New Foreign Gregorian or Lilian is 10 days before the old or our Julian account Here it is also observable that every Leap-year to prevent all Ambiguities that may arise at Law it is provided by the Statute de Anno Bissextili 21 H. 3. that the 24th and 25th of February in Suits at Law shall be accounted for one day only Britton f. 209. Dyer 17 Eliz. 345. but for keeping of Fairs it is ordered that those which use to be on the 24th of February shall be kept on the 25th because the Feast of St. Mathias is not till the 25th of February in the Leap-year It is call'd Leap-year from the Dutch Loop-iare qu. Leap-year because it exceeds the bounds of other years by a day Sunday As for Sunday or the Lords-Day it is the weekly Feast of the Refurrection of Christ not Instituted by him or God himself but by his own Apostles in the place of the rejected Sabbath of the Jews for these ensuing Reasons 1. That Christians should not be obliged to the observance of Judaical Ceremonies but testifie the Abrogation of their Feasts and the liberty receiv'd by the coming of Christ 2. That as the Jewish Sabbath did continually put them in mind of the former World finished by the Creation so the Lord's-Day ought to keep us in the constant Remembrance of a far better world begun by our Saviour who came to restore all things and make Heaven and Earth new therefore for this Reason did they Honour the Last day we the First in every seven annually 3. In regard that the Lord rose from the Dead on this day and perfected the great and wonderful Work of Man's Redemption 4. We cannot more congruously apprehend the Majesty of the Super-eminent and Puissant Jesus by any other Creature than by the most resplendent and glorious Light of the Sun the Ruler of this day for it is written Et in sole posuit Tabernaculum suum exiit de Tribu Judae cujus Signum Leo est Solare Animal The Lord's-Day when any happens between Candlemas and Twelfth-Day hath no certain Name but is call'd the first or second Sunday on which it falls after Christmas but those that succeed the Epiphanie are denoted according to the Numeral order as the first Sunday after it is styl'd the first Sunday after Epiphanie the next the second c. whereof there are five this present year sometimes only four but more or fewer according to the greater quantity of the Intervallum majus tho the Sunday immediately preceding Septuagesima is ever counted the last Sunday after Epiphanie Valentine's-Day Valentine's-Day is on the 14th of February so call'd from Valentine Powerful Lat. a Roman Bishop whose Feast is kept this day about this time the Birds make choice of their Mates for the ensuing year and we among us of our Valentines that is Men and Women chosen for special Loving Friends it signifies also Saints chosen for special Patrons for the year The next 4 Sundays are known by the Name of Septuagesima Seragesima Quinquagesima and Quadragesima The three first have their Names from the Order in which they precede the 4th Quadragesima and so of the rest Septuagesima was Instituted as 't is generally believ'd for these three Reasons 1. For Suppletion i.e. making up what is wanting for because some did not use to fast on the Friday and therefore Sexagesima was Instituted as you shall understand by and by neither upon the Saturday in regard that our Saviour on that day rested in his Grave to denote our future Rest and 't is observ'd by St. Augustin that the

year as it were in a Circle These Ember-Weeks are four in the year and they of old in every one of them fasted on Wednesday Friday and Saturday as you will find it in this ancient Couplet Post Cineres Pentec post Crucem postque Luciam Mercurii Veneris Sabathi Jejunia fiant That is the next Week after Ash-Wednesday Whitsunday Holy-Rood or the Exaltation of the Cross and St. Lucie's Day They are of great Antiquity in the Church being times of Publick Prayer Fasting and Procession and styl'd Quatuor Anni Tempora by the Ancient Fathers for besides the first Institution of them for quarterly Seasons of Devotion proportion'd to every part of the year that the intire year each Division thereof might be blessed thereby they were partly instituted for the successful Ordination of Priests in the Roman Church and partly to beg a Blessing on the Fruits of the Earth and render thanks to God for the same nay besides their answerableness to those Jejunia Quatuor or solemn Fasting-days instituted by the Jews and mentioned by the Prophet Zachary ca. 8. that we Christians might not be inferior to them in so Holy a Duty the Church hath assigned them an Excellent use in imitation of the Apostles Acts 13.3 See a Book Intituled A View of the Directory fol. 56. Much about this time the Aequinox happens which is an Imaginary phancied Line passing just between the two Poles in the midst of Heaven which Lines the Sun travels to twice a year namely about the 11th of March which is call'd the Vernal and the 11th of September the Autumnal Aequinox and equals the Day and Night for length throughout the Universe except with the Inhabitants directly under the Poles and therefore term'd Equinox The second Sunday in Lent is nam'd Reminiscere from the Entrance of the 5th Verse of Psal 25. Reminiscere miserationum tuarum Domine c. Call to Remembrance O Lord thy tender Mercies c. The third Sunday in Lent is call'd Oculi from the entrance of the 14th v. of the 25th Psalm Oculi mei semper ad Dominum c. My Eyes are ever looking unto the Lord. March the 17th St. Patrick's Day a great Saint Worker of Miracles and the much honoured Patron of Ireland The fourth Sunday is call'd Laetare from the beginning of the 10th v. of the 66th Chap. of Isaiah Laetare cum Jerusalem c. Rejoyce with Jerusalem c. It is also term'd Dominica de Rosa from the Golden Rose which the Pope of Rome carrieth in his hand when he walks before the People in the Temple as also Dominica de Panibus or Refectionis because the Miracle of the five Loaves in the Holy Gospel is explained on this Day in the Roman Church but we here in England truly style it Mid-Lent Sunday March the 19th in the Roman Church is Celebrated in Commemoration of St. Joseph Confessor the Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation of the Holy Virgin The 25th of this Month is the Feast of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin the Conception of our Saviour vulgarly Lady-Day and this is Celebrated in Commemoration of that most Happy Message or rather Embassy from God which was pronounced by the Angel Gabriel in which she was Declar'd and Proclam'd the Blessed Mother of God St. Luke 1st 31 32. The fifth Sunday in Lent is call'd Judica and Passion-Sunday from the entrance of the 35th Psalm Judica me Deus Discerne Causam meam c. Judg me O Lord Plead thou my Cause c. 'T is term'd Passion-Sunday from the Passion of our Lord which is then near approaching and was Instituted to prepare us worthily for the Religious Celebration thereof On this Day the Romanists clothe all their Crucifixes in their Churches with Mourning Colours in remembrance of our Saviour's going out of the Temple and absconding Himself in order to Dispose us to a Compassion with him Palm-Sunday Palm Sunday Dominica Palmarum or Dominica Magna is the 6th and last Sunday in Lent immediately preceding Easter 'T is call'd Palm-Sunday or Dominica Palmarum which is the same in Latin from the Branches of Palm which the Jews strewed under his feet at his Triumphant Entrance into Jerusalem upon an Ass crying Hosanna to the Son of David St. Matth. 21.25 and hence it is that the Romanists do annually on this day blesse the Palm and go solemnly in Procession in honour of our Saviour's Triumph all the people carrying Boughs or Branches of Palm in their hands It hath the Name Dominica Magna or the Great Lord's-Day because of the Great and many Infallible good things that were confer'd on the Faithful the Week ensuing namely Death abolished Slander and the Tyranny of Satan remov'd by the painful and ignominious Death of our Saviour This is call'd the Holy-Week because Men gave over their worldly employ Courts were shut up Prisoners freed and many Prayers and Offices perform'd by the Holy Church in order to our Preparation for the Grand Feast of Easter and the Week of Fasts because fasting was then increas'd with Watching Prayer for they did lye on the ground and when they did eat on these six days their Food was only Bread Salt and Water The next Wednesday after Palm-Sunday was the Day whereon the Scribes and Pharisees sate in Council against the Lord of Life the Thursday following the Parasceue Greek or Preparation of the Legal Passeover and the Institution of the Lord's Supper that very night which is otherwise nam'd Maundy Thursday quasi Mandati Thursday being the last Thursday in Lent and first before Easter from fulfilling the Mandate or Command of our Saviour which arose from an ancient Ceremony frequently practis'd by Prelates in Cathedral Churches and Religious Houses and is in imitation of Christ who on the Evening of this Day after his last Supper and before he Instituted the Blessed Sacrament washed his Disciples feet acquainting them withal that they must do so likewise to one another which is the Mandate whence the Day takes Denomination At the beginning of the said Ceremony Christ utter'd these words soon after he had washed their feet Joh. 13.34 which are sung as an Antiphone Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos Good Friday The next Day is styl'd Good-Friday because the Good Work of Man's Redemption was then Consummated the Cause of all our good and true ground of all our joy it being the most Sacred and Memorable Day of the Bloody Passion of Christ on the Cross which was a sufficient Attonement or Satisfaction for the Sins of Mankind And here it will not be amiss for the Reader to take notice in order to his understanding it when he meets it in Authors that in the Roman Church the Offices call'd Tenebrae are Sung on Thursday Friday and Saturday of this Holy or Great Week and that in Lamentation of our Saviour's Passion and because these are still anticipated in the Rehearsal the