An act for regulating the commencement of the year; and for correcting the calendar now in use. [With] The new calendar, tables and rules1751 |
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Acts of Parliament alfo Annuities Book of Common Britain called Eng cafe this Act Church of England Common Prayer confift contrary thereof Council of Nice Cuftom Date according Day of January Day of March Day of September deemed diftinct Property Eleven Days fooner Equinoxes eſteemed faid Book faid Feaft faid firſt Day faid Fourteenth Day faid General Council faid New Calendar faid New Method faid Second Day faid Table fame ſhould fand ſeven hundred Feaft of Eafter fhall become payable fhould fhut firft fuch Lands Full Moons further enacted Grounds as aforefaid Hereditaments hundred and fifty inclufive increaſe Kind foever Lands and Grounds lendar Majeſty's Marts mence Method of Supputation Miſtakes Money whatſoever Month Nature or Kind Nominal Days numbered obferved prefent prefixed Purpoſe putation received and eſtabliſhed Rents ſaid Scotland ſeveral ſhall temporary and diftinct thouſand ſeven hundred tile or Leap Twenty fifth Day Ufage ufed Uſage uſe uſually holden
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Page 8 - Lord one thousand eight hundred, one thousand nine hundred, two thousand one hundred, two thousand two hundred, two thousand three hundred, or any other hundredth years of our Lord which shall happen in time to come, except only every fourth hundredth year of our Lord, whereof the year of our Lord two...
Page 3 - ... but also from the legal method of computation in that part of Great Britain called Scotland , and from the common usage throughout the whole kingdom, and thereby frequent mistakes are occasioned in the dates of deeds, and other writings, and disputes arise therefrom...
Page 11 - 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...
Page 4 - ... to fall at very different times in the civil year from what they formerly did, which might tend to mislead persons ignorant of the said alteration : And whereas a method...
Page 12 - Act had not been made; that is to say, eleven Days later than the same would have happened, according to the nominal Days of the said 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 Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Page 11 - Purpose, which are either fixed to certain nominal Days of the Month, or depending upon the Beginning, or any certain Day of any...
Page 9 - Eafter-day 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 Eafter.
Page 16 - Statute had not been made ; any Thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 7 - Time, from and after the said second Day of September, be holden and kept upon or according to the...
Page 4 - Calendar, hath been discovered to be erroneous, by means whereof the vernal or spring equinox, which at the time of the general council of Nice in the year of our Lord three hundred and...