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Tables, and Rules for

the Moveable and Jmmoveable Feasts; together with

The daies of Fasting and Abstinence through the whole year.

Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts, and Holy-dayes begin.

Easter-Day, (on which the rest depend) is always the first Sunday after the first full Moon, which happens next after the one and twentith day of March. And if the full Moon happens vpon a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after.

Advent Sunday is alwaies the nearest Sunday to the Feast of Saint Andrew, whether before or after.

Septuagesima
Sexagesima
Quinquagesima
Quadragesima
Sunday is 9.
8.
7.
6.
Weeks before Easter.
Rogation Sunday
Ascension day
Whitsunday
Trinitie Sunday
is 5. weeks
40. daies
7. weeks
8. weeks
after Easter.

A Table of all the Feasts that are to be observed in the Church of England through the year.

All Sundaies in the year.
The dayes of the Feast of The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Epiphany.
The Conversion of S. Paul.

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