286 A. D. 1 75 1. 



venience to merchants and other perfons correfponding with other na- 

 tions and countries, and will tend to prevent miftakes and difputes con- 

 cerning the dates of letters and accounts, if the like correction be re- 

 ceived and eftabliflied in his majefty's dominions ; it was therefor enabl- 

 ed, that throughout all his majefty's dominions the old fupputation 

 fhould not be ufed after the laft day of December 1751, and that the 

 firft of January following fhould be accounted the firft day of the year 

 1752, and fo on in every year after : and after the faid firft of January 

 1752 the days of the months ftiould go on and be reckoned in the fame 

 order, and the feaft of eafter, and other moveable feafts depending 

 thereon, fhould be afcertained according to the fame method they now 

 are till the 2d of September 17J2 inclufive, and the next day fliould be 

 accounted the 14th of September, omitting, for that time only, the eleven 

 intermediate nominal days ; and the following days fhould be num- 

 bered forward in numerical order from the faid 14th of September, as 

 now ufed in the prefent calendar : and all acfls and writings, executed 

 upon or after the laid firft of January 1752, fhould bear date according 

 to the new method of fupputation ; and the two fixed terms of St. Hi- 

 lary and St. Michael in England, and the courts of great feflions in the 

 counties Palatine and in Wales, and the courts of general quarter fef- 

 fions, and general feflions of the peace, and all other courts and meet- 

 ings and aifemblies of any bodies politic or corporate, for the eledion 

 of officers or members, or for officers entering upon the execution of 

 their reipective offices, or for any other purpofe, which by law or uf- 

 age, &c. are to be held on any fixed day of any month, or on any day 

 depending on the beginning, or any certain day of any month, except 

 courts ufually holden with fairs or marts, fhould, after the faid 2d of 

 September, be held on the fame nominal days and times whereon they 

 are now to be holden, but computed according to the new method of 

 numbering, that is, eleven days fooner than the refpeftive days where- 

 on the fame are now kept. 



The years iSoo, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, or any other hundredth 

 year, except every fourth hundredth, whereof the year 2000 fhall be 



made an error cf one whole day, and in ^.co Ju- ccrn, in a mercantile fcnfc, was to reduce our (lile 

 lian years an error of 3 days, 1 hour, 53 minutes, to uniformity with the rell of Europe ; the differ- 

 and 20 feconds, as above ; and that fincc the coun- ence of 1 1 days frequently occafioning errors and 

 cil of Nice in the year 325 the old ilile had made miftakes in bufinefs. Moreover, nothing certainly 

 an enor of upwards of 9 days, which in the year could be more inconvenient (not to lay abfurd) 

 1 7c I was computed to be 1 1 days, i. c. fo much than to begin our legal year on the 25th of March, 

 was our error at the commencement of the i8th whereby a whole year was frequently millaken in 

 centiir}" ; wlitrcby our old (lile made the vernal our hiftorics through inadvertency ; the year there- 

 equinox happen il days fooner than by the new- for was now to commence on the ifl of January 

 flile it really does ; fo that our loth of March with all the reft of Chriftcndom, and cfpecially 

 ought to be reckoned (as it will now be) the 21ft with Scotland ; though that counti^y, in other re- 

 of that month. Pope Gregory's main Intention fpccls, had, like England, till now kept to the old 

 in that alteration was to regulate the true time of ftile. j1. 

 tekbrating the fcaft of eafter ; but our grand con- 4 



