A TABLE TO FIND EASTER, FROM THE YEAR 1900, TO THE YEAR 2199 INCLUSIVE. THE Golden Numbers in the foregoing Calendar will point out the Days of the Paschal Full Moons, till the Year of our Lord 1900; at which Time, in order that the Ecclesiastical Full Moons may fall nearly on the same Days with the real Full Moons, the Golden Numbers must be removed to different Days of the Calendar, as is done in the annexed Table, which contains so much of the Calendar then to be used, as is necessary for finding the Paschal Full Moons, and the Feast of Easter, from the Year 1900, to the Year 2199 inclusive. This Table is to be made use of, in all respects, as the First Table before inserted, for finding Easter till the Year 1899. To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter for any given Year of our Lord, add to the Year its Fourth Part, omitting Fractions, and also the Number, which in Table I. standeth at the Top of the Column, wherein the Number of Hundreds contained in that given Year is found: Divide the Sum by 7, and if there is no Remainder, then A is the Sunday Letter; but if any Number remaineth, then the Letter, which standeth under that Number at the Top of the Table, is the Sunday Letter. To find the Month and Days of the Month to which the Golden Numbers ought to be prefixed in the Calendar, in any given Year of our Lord, consisting of entire Hundred Years, and in all the intermediate Years betwixt that and the next Hundredth Year following, look in the Second Column of Table II. for the given Year consisting of entire Hundreds, and Note the Number or Cypher which stands against it in the Third Column; then, in Table III. look for the same Number in the Column under any given Golden Number, which when you have found, guide your Eye Side-ways to the Left Hand, and in the First Column you will find the Month and Day to which that Golden Number ought to be prefixed in the Calendar, during that Period of One Hundred Years. The Letter B prefixed to certain Hundredth Years in Table II. denotes those Years which are still to be accounted Bissextile or LeapYears in the New Calendar; whereas all the other Hundredth Years are to be accounted only common Years. 5100 16 DAILY TO BE SAID AND USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THE Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed Place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it shall be otherwise determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past. And here is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth. MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER. (A) The first Rubric, as to the PLACE OF PRAYER, is the same which was inserted in 1559, and has considerable historic interest. In 1549 it was directed that the Service should be said "in the Quire," and "with a loud voice," so as to be heard in the body of the Church. In 1552, evidently to meet objection as to audibility, and possibly also the superstitious objection of some to the use of the Chancel, it was ordered that it "shall be said in such place of the Church, Chancel, or Chapel, and the Minister shall so turn himself, as that the people shall best hear;" and, in case of controversy, the decision of the place was left to the Ordinary. It was then added, probably to prevent needless alteration and destruction, "the Chancels shall remain as in times past." The Prayer Book of 1559 inclined, as usual, in the direction of the older arrangement. A direction was inserted (probably by Royal authority alone) that the Service should be said "in the accustomed place," which would probably, in most cases, be the Chancel; but discretion of ruling otherwise was left to the Ordinary. Out of the use of this discretion the "reading pue" or reading desk outside the Chancel appears to have originated, being first mentioned (as "a decent and convenient seat in the body of the church") in some Episcopal Articles of Visitation at Norwich in 1569. In 1662 the mention of it was introduced into the Rubric before the Commination Service. (B) The second, the wellknown" ORNAMENTS RUBRIC," has a still more remarkable history. It will be convenient to consider it under two heads, (1) the Vestments of the Minister, (2) the Ornaments of the Church. 1. The Rubric had no existence in 1549; but, so far as the dress of the minister was concerned, there was direction given in a Rubric preceding the Communion Service, that the Priest for that office should put on "a White Albe plain, with a Vestment or Cope,' and the assisting Priests or Deacons "Albes with tunicles" (sometimes called "Dalmatics"). At the end of the Preface "Of Ceremonies," &c., it was ordered, that in saying or singing of Matins and Evensong, Baptizing and Burying, the Minister in parish churches, and chapels annexed to the same, shall use a Surplice;" and that in Cathedrals and Colleges the academic hood might be worn by graduates. It was added that "in all other places every Minister shall be at liberty to use the Surplice or no;' " and that "it is seemly that graduates, when they preach, shall use such hoods as pertaineth to their degrees." It was also ordered "that the Bishop celebrating the Holy Communion, or executing any other public ministration, should have on him, besides his Rochet, a Surplice or Albe, and a Cope or Vestment." This Prayer Book was formally authorized by Parliament in 1549. In 1552, the Rubric was insertéd here, running thus: "The Minister, at the time of the Communion, and at all other times of his ministration, shall use neither Albe, Vestment, nor Cope; but, being Archbishop or Bishop, he shall have and wear a Rochet, and, being a priest or deacon, a Surplice only." In 1559, without reviving the Rubric to the Communion Service, or the other directions of 1549, this Rubric was altered thus: "The Minister at the time of the Communion, and at all other times of his ministration, shall use such Ornaments in the Church as were in use by authority of Parliament in the second year of Edward vI., according to the Act of Parliament set forth in the beginning of this book." The Act referred |