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heeded but the abatement of eight in fix hundred, his truster iod 

 confifting of 592 years, and that (according to Geminus) of whole 

 years, whole months, and whole days, as a period ought to do 1 , 

 viz* of 592 intire filar years, 7322 entire months (whereof 21 S> 

 are intercalary*) 216223 entire days, and 30889 entire weeks ^ 

 defining every Lunar month to confift of 29 days, i2 h , 44, 3 * 12 , 

 44 "", 3 V , 1 2 V1 . And the filar year of 365 ^js, 5 h , 47-', 50', 1 6 '", 6c 

 3 8 7 ; or 5 h and J* ; or 365 dkjtf and t J' 9 part of a </<jy : So that the' 

 whole period, or 592 Lydiatean years , do anticipate fo many Julian 

 ones by five days. 



19. According to this^nW found out in i4. 1605. exceed- 

 ing the Dionyfian but 60 years, he calculated the middle motions 

 of thefieven Planets for the ie firft periods entirely, and the /^/^ 

 fo far forth as it had gon in his time ; (fome MS* fragments of 

 which calculations I had lately in my poiTexlion, butnowdifpofed 

 of to the WorfhipfulDr. Lanphire, Principal of Hart-hall, care- 

 fully to be prefervedamongftthe reft of his writings. )And in An. 

 1620. viz. in the laft year of the firft half of his tenthperiod, he 

 put it forth, with his Menologium, or reformation of the Calen- 

 dar, which he oppofed to the new, but confuted, abfurd, and 

 falfe Pomifical Gregorian year, contrived by the fumptuous Col- 

 lege of Mathematicians at Rome ; and defended it againft the ob- 

 tractations of/ofeph Scaliger k , a man, 'tis true, of great Learning, 

 but withal fo confident and imperious, fo abufive and afliiming, 

 that whenever he wanted Arguments for the fupport of his 

 caufe, he always fought revenge upon the perfon of his Ad- 

 verfary. 



2c. Which was manifeftly the cafe of modeft Lydiat, whom 

 in an Epislle to Richard Thomfon (his correfpondent in England) 

 he calls, thegreateft monfier that ever England produced^ ; and in 

 another to the fame Thomfon, the veryefi fool in the whole world, 

 and that 'twas below hi* dignity, nor had he leifure to write againfi 

 fuch a Beetle m . But herein (as the Reverend Dr. Heylin very well 

 notes in another cafe) we muft pardon Jofieph ; for had 'not [corn and 

 contempt heenpart of his Effence, he had neither been a Scaliger, nor 

 the fin of Julius", who fcrupled not to pafs this rafti cenfure on 

 the whole Englijh Nation ; that we are, Ferfidi, inflati, fieri, con- 



' Periedus debet eomprebendere, o\*t ipi&t, % o'a*s pi**(, v^'ibm &utbc. Geminus in liiro <j><o^u'>v 

 . k Vtd- Lydiati So/is & Luna periodum, inTituto. ' Jef.Sca/igeriEpiflolar./ik ^.Epift- 240. m Jof. $ca- 

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