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occupations in aim magna* & varias, veflrum Exemplar non fuit 

 ufquequaque correttum, hie ittrum feci tranferibi, isr correxi ; is? b<ec 

 ideofacio, ut certitudina liter confiderare iff conferre poffitis de hac ma- 

 teria cum quocunque velith s i. e. becau(e upon the account of haft 

 and various other bufinefles intervening, your Copy was not fuffi- 

 cicntly correct, I have corrected and tranferibed it again, that 

 you might confider and confer about it more certainly with whom 

 you pleafe. A perfect and fair MS. Copy of which Calendar, I hear 

 yet remains in the hands of one Mr. Theyer, a Gentleman of G/o- 

 cesler-fiire. 



13. From which, or fome other Calendar of his, PaulwsMid- 

 dlehurgenfis Biftiop of Foffombrone , in the Dukedom of Vrbin y 

 ftolehalf of his great Volum, which he calls his Paulina, con- 

 cerning the true time of keeping Eafter,and. day of the Paffion of 

 our Lord JESUS ; directed to Pope Leo the Tenth, in order to 

 the reformation of the Roman Calendar and Ecclefiaflical Cycles^ 

 written juft in the fame order and method generally and particu- 

 larly as Roger Bacon long before had done to Clement the Fourth ; 

 and yet full (lender mention (fays Dr. Dee a ) doth this Biflop 

 make of him, though his chief Inftru&or in the beft part of the 

 matter contained in his Book: In which defign, though the Via- 

 giary were unfuccefsful , his endeavors being fruftrated for a 

 time, yet 'twas he that ftirred up Nicholas Copernicus (as the 

 fame Nicholas honeftly confeffes in an Epi/ile of his to Paul the 

 Third h ) moreaccuratly to obferve the motions of the Sun and 

 Moon, and thence to define the quantities of years and months 

 more truly than they were before in the Julian Calendar ; upon 

 whofe foundations Aloyfim^ and the reft of the fumptuous Col-* 

 legeol Mathematicians at Rome having built their Reformation, it 

 is eafily deducible that whatever has been done in this matter 

 from the time of Frier Bacon, to that of Pope Gregory the Thir- 

 teenth, muft in great meafure be afcribed to him, their whole Re - 

 formation fcarce differing from his. 



14. Only in this (which is well worth the obfervation) that 

 whereas the Gregorian Reformers reduced the Equinoxes and Sol- 

 Jlices to the places they fuppofed they held in the time of the Ni- 

 cene Council? Bacon feems inclinable to have brought them (and 



a Dr. Dees proxifal to Queen /;&>. and her Co*ri/conceming the reformation of the vulgar Ca- 

 lendar. MS. in BMotb. c. C. . Oxon. lit- Z fol. fc In Prafat. in libros re volutionum. 



that 



