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A. D. 1751.
Anno viceſimo quarto Georgii II.
C. 23.
345

Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feaſts; together with the Days of Faſting and Abſtinence through the whole Year.

Rules to know when the Moveable Feafts and Holy-days begin.

EAſter-day, on which the reſt depend, is always the firſt Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-firſt Day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Eaſter-day is the Sunday after.

Advent Sunday is always the neareſt Sunday to the Feaſt of S. Andrew, whether before or after.

Septuageſima Sunday is Nine Weeks before Eaſter
Sexageſima Eight
Quinquageſima Seven
Quadrageſima Six
Rogation Sunday
Aſcenſion-day
Whitſunday
Trinity Sunday


A Table of all the Feaſts that are to be obſerved in the Church of England throughout the Year.

The Days of the Feaſts of

ALL Sundays in the Year.
The Circumciſion of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.
The Epiphany.
The Converſion of S. Paul.
The Purification of the Bleſſed Virgin.
S. Matthias the Apoſtle.
The Annunciation of the Bleſſed Virgin.
S. Mark the Evangeliſt.
S. Philip and S. James the Apoſtles.
The Aſcenſion of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.
S. Barnabas.
The Nativity of S. John Baptiſt.

The Days of the Feaſts of

S. Peter the Apoſtle.
S. James the Apoſtle.
S. Bartholomew the Apoſtle.
S. Matthew the Apoſtle.
S. Michael and all Angels.
S. Luke the Evangeliſt.
S. Simon and S. Jude the Apoſtles.
All Saints.
S. Andrew the Apoſtle.
S. Thomas the Apoſtle.
The Nativity of our Lord.
S. Stephen the Martyr.
S. John the Evangeliſt.
The Holy Innocents.

Monday and Tueſday in Eaſter-week.

Monday and Tueſday in Whitſun-week.