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 330 C 23. Anno vicelimo quarto Georgii II. A. D. 1751. be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the firfl: Day of the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-three ; and fo on, from Time to Time, the firft Day of 'January in every Year, which fhall happen in Time to come, fhall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the firft Day of the Year ; and tiiat each new Year fliall accordingly commence, and b. gin to be reckoned, from the firft Day of every fuch Month of Jamiiary next preceding the twenty-fifth Day of March, on which fuch '^'"^ ^-lyj '° ^ Year would, according to the prefent Supputation, have begun or commenced : And that from and after "o'"vHitil "^ '•'^^ ^'•*^ ^''^ ^^y °^ January one thoufand ieven hundred and fifty-two, the feveral Days of each Month Senr. 1752 ; ft^all go on, and be reckoned and numbered in the fame Order; and the Feaft oi Eajler, and other move- an'd the Day able Feafts thereon depending, fhall be afcertained according to the fame Method, as they now are, until following to be the fecond Day of Septetnlwr in the faid Year one thoufand kvtn himdred and fifty-tv/o inclufive ; and that Mcoumcd 14.^ fj^g natural Day next immediately following the faid fecond Day of September, fliall be called, reckoned i^Djys!'"'"" ^""^ accounted to be the fourteenth Day of September, omitting for that 'Fime only the eleven intermediate nominal Days of the common Cilendar ; and that the feveral natural Days, which fhall follow and fuc- ceed next after the faid fourteenth Day of iS^^j-^toz/ii??-, {hall be refpedtively called, reckoned and numbered forv/ards in numerical Order from the (aid fourteent'i Day of Septembtr, according to the Order and Succeffion of Days now u fed in the prefent Calendar ; and that all Acts, Deeds, Writings, Notes and other Inftrumenfs of what Nature or Kind foever, whether Ecclefiaftical or Civil, Pubiick or Pri'ate, which fhall be made, executed or figned, upon or after the faid firft Day of January one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-two, fhall bear Date according to ths faid new Method of Si;pputa£ion, and that the Hilary nnd Mi- ^^q j^^ed Terms of St..Hi!arv and 6V. Michael, in that Part of Great Britain called England, and the Courts anrln clu™'' °f Great Seffions in the Counties Palatine, and in If^ales, and alfo the Courts of General Qijartcr-Seffions to be held on ' and General Seffions ,of the Peace, anl all «ther Courts of what Nature or Kind foever, whether Civil, the fame nomi- Criminal or Eccleiiaftical, and all Meetings and Afieiiibli'es of any Bodies Politick or Corporate, either iial Days. for the Election of any Officers or Members thereof, or for any fuch Officers entering upon the Execu- tion of their refpe£tive Offices, or for any other Purpofe whatfoever, which by any Law, Statute, Char- ter, Cuftom or Ufage within this Kingdom, or within any other the Dominions or Countries fubjeA or belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, are to be holden and kept on any fixed or certain Day of any Courts held with Month, or on any Day depending upon the Beginning, or any certain Day of any Month (except fuch. Fairs or Marts Courts as are ufua,lly holden or kept with any F airs or Marts) fliall, from Time to Time, from and after excepted. ^i^g ^^^jj fecond Day of September, be holden and kept upon or according to the fame refpeftive nominal Days and Times, whereon or according to v/hich the fame are now to be holden, but which fliall be computed according to the faid new Method of numbering and reckoning the Days of the Calendar as aforefaid ; that is to fay, eleven Days fooner than the relpeiSlive Days whereon the fame are now holden and kept ; any Law, Statute, Charter, Cuftom or Ufage, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- ftanding. Hundtedth ff. And for the continuing and preferving the Calendar or Method of Reckoning, and computing the Years, ':=f"pt Days of the Year in the fame regular Courl'e, as near as may be, in all Times coming ; Be it further enr humkeT'to be afted by the Authority aforefaid, That the feveral Years of our Lord, one thoufand eight hundred, one common Years thoufand nine hundred, two thoufand one hundred, two thoufand two hundred, two thouiand three hun>- of 365 Days. dred, or any other hundredth Years of our Lord, which ftiall happen in Time to come, except only every fourth hundredth Year of our Lord, whereof the Year of our Lord two thouiand fliall be the firft, fliall not be efteemed or taken to be Bifiextile or Leap Years, but fhall be taken to be common Years, confifting of Years Biffextile three hundred and fixty-five Days, and no more ; and that the Years of our Lord tv.'o thoufand, two thoui- of 366 Days, fand four hundred, two thoufand eight hundred, and every other fourth hundred Year of our Lord, from the faid Year of our Lord two thoufand inclufive, and alfo all other Years of our Lord, which by tlie prefent Supputation are efleeijied to be Bifiextile or Leap Years, fnall for the future, and in all Times to come, be efteemed and taken to be Bifiextile or I^eap Years, confifting of three hundred and fixty-fix Days, in the fame Sort and Manner as is now u fed with refpedl to every fourth Year of our Lord. 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And whereas according to the Rule prefixed to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of ' England, Eajhr-day is always the firft Snaday after the firft Full Moon v.'hich happens next after the one ' ufed in the Church of England, and according to which the Table to find Eajlcr for ever, prcfixcdjo ' the fai .1 Book of Common Prayer, is formed, is by Procefs of Time become confiderably erroneous : ' And whereas a Calendar, and alfo certain Tables and Rules for the fixing the true Time of the Cclc- ' bration of the fild Feaft of Eafler, and the finding the Times of the Full Aloons on which the fame de- ' pendeth, fo as the fame ihall agree as nearly as may be with the Decree of the f.iid Circncral Council, and ' alfo with the Praflice of foreign Countries, have been prepared, and arc hereunto annexed ;' Be ic Eafler and the therefore further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, l^hat the faid Feaft ci Eqjhr, or any of the moveable nihcr moveable Feafts thcrcon depending, fliall, from and after the laid feoond Day of September, be no longer kept or Lj(,s, to leo - o|jfg,-ypj ill that Part of Great Britain called England, or in any other the Dominions or Countries fub- Icrvcd according . ^, , . i ^-i - ^-. t^ ■ • i- i ,■ • i n t i i r .-« ■ - i to the new Ca- ject ot belougmg to tiie Crown ot Oreat Britain, according to the laid Aicthod ot Supputation now ulcd, lendar, lablts or the faid Table prefixed to the faid Book of Common Prayer; and that the faid Table, and alfo the and Rules, Column of Golden Numbers, as they are now prefixed to the refpcdive Days of the Month in the faiJ Calendar, fhall be left out in all future Editions of the faid Book of Common Prayer ; and tha.t the faid new
 * and twentieth Day of March, and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Eajicr-dav is the Sunday
 * after ; which Rule was made in Conformity to the Decree of the faid General Council of Nice, for the
 * Celebration of the faid Feaft of Eajler : And vidiereas the Method of computing the Full Moons no-*'