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 A. D. ly^i. Anno vicefimo quarto Georgii II. C. 23. 331 new Calendar, Tables and Rules, hereunto annexed, (hall be prefixed to all fuch future Editions of the faid Book, in the Room and ftead thereof; and that from and after the faid fecond Day of Scptemkr, allFeafts andFafis, and every the fixed Feaft-days, Holy-days and Faft-days, which are now kept and obferved by the Church -^'=^j.'° ^J'^^^^- oi EngLv:d, and alfo the feveral folemn Days of Thankfgiving, aiid of Failing and Humiliation, which by "yj-ji^u^iir. virtue of any Aft of Parliament now in being, are, from Time to Time, to be kept and obferved, fliall be kept and obferved on the refpedfive Days marked for the Celebration of the fame in the faid new Ca- lendar ; that is to fay, On the fame refpedtive nominal Days on which the fame are now kept and ob- ferved ; but which according to the Alteration by this Aft intended to be made as aforefaid, will happen eleven Days fooner than the fame now do; and that the faid Feafi: o^ Eq/Ie>-, and all other moveable Feaits thereon depending, (hall, from Time to Time, be obferved and celebrated according to the faid new Calendar, Tables and Rules hereunto annexed, in that Part of Grrat Britain called EnglarJ., snd in all the Dominions and Countries aforefaid, wherein the Liturgy of the Church of England now- is, of hereafter (liall be ufed ; and that the two moveable Terms of Eajier and Triiiity, and all Courts of v/hat" Nature or Kind foever, and all Meetings and Affemblies of any Bodies Politick or Corporate, and all Markets, Fairs and Marts, and Courts thereunto belonging, which by any Law, Statute, Charter, Cu- ftom or Ufage are appointed, ufed or accuftomed to be holden and kept at any moveable Time or Times depending upon the 1 ime of Eqfter, or any other fuch moveable Feaft as aforefaid, (hall, from Time to 'I'ime, from and after the faid fecond Day of September, be holden and kept on fuch Days and Times' whereon the fame (hall refpe<Si:ivcly happen or fall, according to the happening or falling of the faid Feaft' oiEajhr, or fuch other moveable Feafts as aforefaid, to be computed according to the faid new Calendar,' Tables and Rules. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That the feveral Meetings of the Court of Courts of Seffioa Seffion, and Terms fixed for the Court oi Exchequer in Scotland, the April Meeting of the Governor, Bai- I'^'^^^^'^^^^^^l""^^ lifts and Commonalty of the Company of Confervators of the great Level of the Fens, and the holding j^jrl^ets, Fairs and keeping of all Markets, Fairs and Marts, whether for the Sale of Goods or Cattle, or for the hiringam! Marts to be of Servants, or for any other Purpofe, which are either fixed to certain nominal Days of the Month, or held upon the depending upon the Beginning, or any certain Day of any Month, and all Courts incident or belonging ^f^™*"^^"" to, or ufually holden or kept with any fuch Fairs or Marts, fixed to fuch certain Times as aforefaid, (hall °^^"_ not, from and after the faid fecond Day of September, be continued upon, or according to the nominal Days of the Month, or the Time of the Beginning of any Month, to be computed according to the faid new Calendar, but that from and after the faid fecond Day of Septe?nber, the faid Courts of Seffion and Exchequer, the faid April Meeting, and all fuch Markets, Fairs and Marts as aforefaid, and all Courts incident or belonging thereto, fhall be holden and kept upon, or according to the fame natural Days, upon or according to which the fame fliould have been fo kept or holden, in cafe this A61: had not been made; that is to fay, eleven Days later than the fame would have happened, according to the nominal Days of the faid new Supputation of Time, by which the Commencement of each Month, and the nominal Days thereof, are anticipated or brought forward, by the Space of eleven Days ; any Thing in this Adl con- tained to the contrary thereof in any wife notv/ithftanding. ' V. And whereas, according to divers Cuftoms, Prefcrlptions and Ufages, in certain Places within ' be opened for Common of Failure, and o:her Purpofes ; and at other Times, the Owners and Occu- ' piers of fuch Lands and Grounds have a Right to inclofe or (hut up the fame, for th-ir own private ' Ufe ; and there is, in many other Inftances, "a temporary and diflindi Property and Right vefted in dif- ' ferent Perfons, in and to many fuch Lands and Grounds, according to certain nominal Days and Times ' the Space of eleven Days, according to the faid new Method of Supputation, might be attended with ' many Inconveniencies ;' Be it therefore further declared, provided and enafted by the Authority afore- faid. That nothing in this A£l: contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to accelerate or anti- The Times for cipate the Days or Times for the opening, inclofing or (hutting up any fuch Lands or Grounds as afore- "P'="'^?^''? '_"^ faid, or the Days or Times on which any fuch temporary or diftindt Property or Right in or to any fuchj^°jj"°^iji. °''*" Lands or Grounds as aforefaid is to commence ; but that all luch Lands and Grounds as aforelaid fhall from altered. and after the faid fecond Day of September be, from Time to Time, refpeftively opened, inclofed or fhut «p, and iuch temporary and diftindt Property and Right in and to fuch Lands and Grounds as aforefaid, ihall commence and begin upon the fame natural Days and Times on which the fame (liould have been {o Tefpe(SliveIy opened, inclofed or (hut up, or would have commenced or begun, in cafe this Aft had not been made ; that is to fay, eleven Days later than the fame would have happened, according to the faid liew Account and Supputation of Time, fo to begin on the iaid fourteenth Day o'i September as aforefaid, VL Provided alfo, and it is hereby further declared and enafted. That nothing in this prefent Aft con^Tlme; of Pay- tained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to accelerate or anticipate the Time of Payment of any ■"<?"' "fR^n-'i Rent or Rents, Annuity or Annuities, or Sum or Sums of Money whatfoever, which fliall become pay- Annuities, &e, able by Virtue or in Confequence of any Ctiftdm, Ufage, Leafe, Deed, V^'^riting, Bond, Note, Contraft or other Agreement whatfoever, now fubfifting, or which (Irall be made, figned, fealed or entred ijito, at any Time before the faid fourteenth Day of Sepicm.ber, or which (hall become payable by irtue of any Aft or Afts of Parliament now in Force, or which (hall be made before the faid fourteenth Day of Septem- ber, or the Time of doing any Matter or Thing direfted or required by any fuch Aft or Afts of Parliament to be done in relation thereto-; or to accelerate the Payment of, or increafe the Litereil of, any fuch Sum U u a of
 * this Kingdom, certain Lands and Grounds are, on particular nomit'.al Days and Times in the Year, to
 * in the Year : And v/hereas the anticipating or bringing forv.'arJ the faid nominal Days and Times, by