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Four Days before a Full-Moon^ which fell 

 out in the Night time. The time of this In* 

 vafion will be determined to a Day : For by 

 the Eclipfe of the Moon, whereof JDr^^/^^ 

 made fo good ufe to quiet a Mutiny in the 

 Tannonian Army, upon the News of the Death 

 of Auguftm^ it follows that Augufim Died An-- 

 no Chrifii 14. which was rcc\.oxitdi Anno Vr- 

 his conaka -j6j. and that this Adion was 68 

 Years before, -z^^';^. Jn the ^'^th Year before 

 (Ghrift Gurrent. In which Year the FuUMooa 

 fell out Auguft 30. after Midnight, or 3 1 iii 

 the Morning before Day^ and the preceed- 

 ing Full-Moon, was Augtifi i. foon after 

 Noonv fo that this could not be the Full- 

 Moon mentioned, as falling in the Day time : 

 nor that in the beginning of Jvl% it being 

 not 10 Days after the Summer foiftice,. w jiem 

 it would not have been faid exigna parte afia-^ 

 fis relicjua. It follows therefore that the Full- 

 Moon fpoken of, was on Augufi 30. at Night, 

 and that the Landing on Britain was Augufi 

 2(5. in the Afternoon, about a Month before 

 the Autumnal equinox which agrees to all 

 the Circumftances of the Story in point of 

 Time. 



6. As to the Place, the high Land and 

 Cliffs defcribed, could be no other than thofe 

 of Daver^ and are allowed to have been fa. 

 by all, it remains only to examine whether 

 the Defcent was made to the Northward or 

 Southward of the place where he firft An- 

 chored. The data to determine this are firft 

 that it was Four Days before the Full-Moon. 

 2. That that Day by Three of the Clock in 

 the Afternoon the Tide raa the fame way he 



Sail'd* 



