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Easter, yet they all agreed in shewing 

 particular respect and honour to this fes- 

 tival : hence, in ancient writers, it is dis- 

 tinguished by the name of dominica gau- 

 dii t i. e. Sunday of joy. On tins day pri- 

 soners and slaves were set free, and tin- 

 poor liberally provided for. The eve, or 

 vigil, of this festival was celebrated with 

 more than ordinary pomp, which conti- 

 nued till midnight, it being a tradition of 

 the church that our Saviour rose u little 

 after midnight; but in the cast, the vigil 

 lasted till cock-crowing. 



It was in conformity to the custom of 

 the Jews, in celebrating their pussover on 

 the fourteenth day of the tirst month, that 

 the primitive fathers ordered, that the 

 fourteenth day of the moon, from the ca- 

 lendar new moon, which immediately 

 follows the twenty-first of March, at 

 which time the vernal equinox happened 

 upon that day, should be deemed the 

 paschal full moon, and that the Sunday 

 after should be Easter-day ; and it is 

 upon this account that our rubric has ap- 

 pointed it upon the first Sunday after 

 the first full moon immc-iiihtely following 

 the twenty-first day of March. Whence 

 it appears, that the true time for celebrat- 

 ing Easter, according to the intention of 

 the council of Nice, was to be the first 

 Sunday after the first full moon following 

 the vernal equinox, or when the sun en- 

 tered into the first point of aries ; and 

 'his was pope Gregory's principal view in 

 reforming the calendar, to- have Luster 

 celebrated according to the intent of the 

 council of Nice. 



Having first found the epact and domi- 

 nical letter, according to the method de- 

 livered, see CHRONOLUOT and EPACT, 

 Easter-day may be found by the two fol- 

 low rules. 



1. To find E.istcr-liinit, or the day of 

 the paschal full moon, counted from 

 March 1 inclusive, the rule is this : add 

 6 to the epact, and if this sum exceeds 

 30, take 30 from it ; then from 50 sub- 

 tract this remainder, and what is left 

 will be the limit ; if the sum of the 

 epact, added to 6, does not amount 

 to 30, it must be subtracted from 50, 

 and the remainder is the limit required; 

 which is never to exceed 49, nor full short 

 of 21. 



2. From the limit and dominical letter, 

 to find Easter-day : add 4 to the dominical 

 letter : subtract this sum from the limit, 

 and the remainder from the next higher 

 number which contains 7 without any re- 

 mainder; lastly, add this remainder to 

 the limit, and their sum will giv .the 



number of days from the first of March to 



i- -day, both iitcli; 



Thus, to find F.ast-r-duy for the year 

 1808, for instance. First find thr epact 

 3, winch added to 6 gives 9 : and as this 

 sum does not amount to 30, it must be 

 subtracted from 50, an>l the remainder 

 41 is the limit. Then adding -I to 2, the 

 number of the domini< ;.! leiu-r It, sub- 

 tract this sum, viz. 6, from the limit 41, 

 and the remainder 35 from 42, the next 

 superior number that contains 7 a certain 

 number of times without any remainder, 

 and there remains 7, which being added 

 to the limit 41, gives 48 for the number 

 of days from th<- first of March to Master- 

 day, both inclusive: hence, allowing 31 

 for March, there remains the 17th of 

 April for Easter-day. Here follows the 

 operation at length. 



3 + 6 = 9 



50 9 = 41 = paschal limit 

 Dominica! letter it = 2 

 2 + 4 = 6 

 41 6 =35 

 4J 35 =7 



41 + 7 = 48 from which subtracting 1 

 31, the number of da\s in 

 .March, 



17 there remains 17, the da]* 

 of April answering to Easter-day for the 

 year 18U8. 



1 \>TLAND company, under charter 

 from Queen Kli/aheih in 1579, traded to 

 the east country, meaning the ports in the 

 Haltic, but by statute '25 Car. 11. c. 7, ull 

 persons may use UK- Ka.-M.m.l trade; and 

 they may be admitted a live member of 

 the company for 40s. 



EAU de Luce, a fragrant liquor, pos- 

 sessing and retaining u milky 0] 

 made chietly of mastic dissolved in 

 alcohol, to which are added, eleini and 

 aqua ammoniz purse. See Nicholson's 

 Journal. 



EBENUS, in botany, a genus of the 

 Diadelphia Dccandria class and order. 

 Essential diameter : calyx with teeth, 

 the length of the corolla ; wings scarce- 

 ly any ; seed one, rough with 

 There are two spccic-p, ri:. E. cretica, 

 Creton ebony, and E. pinnata. pi, 

 ebony : the former grows naturally in 

 Crete, and some islands of the Archqu-l:i- 

 go ; the latter is found in Barbary and the; 

 Levant. 



!.IU')\1TES, in church history, here- 

 tics of the first century, so called from 

 their leader Ebion. They held tlie same 

 errors with the Na/ureiies, united the 



