For the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts; together with the Days of Fasting and Abstinence, through the whole Year.

RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holydays begin.

ASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First

Moon

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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 Saint Andrew, whether before or after.

Sunday is

Septuagesima
Sexagesima
Quinquagesima
Quadragesima
Rogation-Sunday
Ascension-Day
Whit-Sunday
Trinity-Sunday

Nine

Eight
Seven

All Sundays in the Year.

Six

Five Weeks
Forty Days
Seven Weeks
Weeks

Weeks before Easter.

A TABLE

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

-after Easter.

The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.
The Epiphany.

The Conversion of Saint Paul.

Of the Vigils, Fasts, and Days of Abstinence, to be observed in the Year.

The Evens or
Vigils before

The Nativity of our Lord.

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.

Easter-Day.
Ascension-Day.
Pentecost.

Saint Matthias.
Saint John Baptist.
Saint Peter.

Saint James.

Saint Bartholomew.

Saint Matthew.

Saint Simon and Saint Jude.

Saint Andrew.
Saint Thomas.
All Saints.

Note, That if any of these Feast-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast-Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it.

Days of Fasting, or Abstinence.

I. The Forty Days of Lent.

II. The Ember Days at the Four
Seasons, being the Wednesday,
Friday, and Saturday, after

III. The Three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, before Holy-Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord. IV. All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas-Day.

The Feast of Pentecost.
The First Sunday in Lent.
September 14.
December 13.

Certain Solemn Days, for which particular Services

are appointed.

I. The Fifth Day of November, being the Day kept in Memory of the Papists' Conspi

racy.

II. The Thirtieth Day of Janu-
ary, being the Day kept in
Memory of the Martyrdom of
King Charles I.

III. The Twenty-ninth Day of
May, being the Day kept in
Memory of the Birth and Re-
turn of King Charles II.
IV. The Twenty-ninth Day of
January, being the Day on
which his Majesty began his
happy Reign.

The Numbers prefixed to the several Days, (in the foregoing Calendar) between the 21st Day of March and the 18th Day of April, both inclusive, denote the Days upon which those Full Moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the 21st Day of March, in those Years, of which they are respectively the Golden Numbers; and the Sunday Letter next following any such Full Moon points out Easter-Day for that Year. All which holds until the Year of our Lord 1899 inclusive; after which Year, the Place of these Golden Numbers will be to be changed, as is hereafter expressed.