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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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1034 24 GEO. 2, CAP. 23, EASTER-DAY.
"775 *Tables and and Rules for the Moveable and Immovable Feasts; together wtth
the Days of Fasting and Abstinence, through the whole Year.
Rules to know when the Movealile Feasts 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, Easier-Day is the Sunday after.
Advent-Sunday, is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether
before or after.

Septuagesima •
Sexagesima (
Quinquagesma i
(Quadragesima
Rogation-Sunday •
Ascension-Day
Whit-Sunday (
Trinty-Sunday .
Sunday Nine
- ( Six
i ( Five Weeks
. \ Forty Days
i Seven Weeks
1 ( Eight Weeks
'- Works before Easter.
- After Suffer.

 

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A Table (to find Easter-Day, from
 
 

the present Time till the Year i This Tablc contains so much of the Cal-

1899, inclusive, according to the cudar as is necessary tor the determining

foregoing Calendar. of Faster; to find which, look for the

 
 
Golden Number of ( the year in the first col-

 
 
 
 
umn of the Table, against which stands the

Golden
Number.
Day of the
Month.
Sunday day of the Paschal Full Moon : then look
in the third column for the Sunday Letter,

 
 
- —. -—
next after the day of the Full Moon; and

-14
March 21
C (he Jay of the month standing against

3
22
D (hut Sunday Letter is Easter-Day. It the

23
E Full -Moon happen upon a Sunday, then

11 24
• (according to till' first, rule) (he next Sun-

26
19 26
(day after is Easter-Day.

8 27
T ( To find the Uolden Number or Prime, add

28
p 1 to Tbe year of our Lord, and then divide

16 29
D by 19; the remainder, it any, is the Golden

S; 30
K Number; but if nolhing remain, then 19

31
F is tlio (ioldi'n Numln r.

13 April 1
0 To find the I'ominii'al or Sunday Letter

2 2
A
.iccordiDg to (he Calendar until the year

3
B
1899, inclusive, add lo the year of our

10 4
5
C
D
Lord its fourth part, omitting fractious,

18 6
B
and also the Number 1: divide - -———

 
 

7 7
F
the sum by 7, and It there be - "

8
 
 
' 1 (^
no remainder, then A Is the ' - -

15 9
1
Sunday Letter; but If any ' 2 F

4 10
B
number remain, then the Let- , 3 ' •E

11
C
fer standlaff against that num- i 4 D

12 12
D
Ix'r in the small annexed Table "

1 13
14
E
F
is the Sunday Letter. iJ'-^JL.

B 15
G
For the next century, that is. from the

IS
A
year 1800 till the year 1899 inclusive, add to

17
17
B
the current year ouly its fourth part, and

6
18
C
lti-<'n dividr by T, and proceed as in the lasi

 
 
in
D
rule.

 
 
20
21
B
A"o<c.—That ID all Bissextile or Leap-

 
 
22
G
Years, the Letter found as above will be the

 
 
23
A
Sunday Letter from the intercalated flay ex-

 
 
24
B
clusive, to the end of the year.

 
 
25
C
 
 

 

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