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(though with fome Inconvenience") (hould not be 
f a(hly alter'd. Such changes may have a further profpeft 
than Men at firft fight arc aware of, and may beat- 
tended with thofe Evils which are not prefently ap- 
prehended. 
In the bufinefs Geography . upon removing the Ftrjl^ 
MerUtan (upon (ome plaufible pretence; from where 
Vtolomy had plac'd it ( though a thing at firft purely 
arbitrary) it is now come to pafs, that we have (in 
a manner) no Firjl-Meridian ^ at all-, that is, none 
Fixed 5 but every New Map-maker placeth his Firft- 
Meridian where he pleafeth : which hath brought a 
great Confufion in Geography. 
And, as to the point in queftion^ the Diforder in the 
Pafchal Tables v/as a thing noted, and complained of 
for three or four hundred years y before Pope Gregory 
did (unhappily) attempt the Correftion of the Ca- 
lendar. But it was , all that time, thought advifeable, 
rather tofufferthat Inconvenience, than, by correding 
it, to run the hazard of a greater Mifchief, 
And it had been much better , if it had fo continued 
to this Day , rather, than Pope Gregory (upon his own 
fingle Authority ) fliould take upon him to impofe a Law 
on all the Churches ^ Kingdoms and States of Chriften- 
dom , to alter both their Eccleftaflical and Civil year, 
for a worfe form , than what before we had. 
Or if merely upon account of the -Pa[chd tahks 
( for he made no other pretence ) it wut thought ne- 
ceflary to make a Change ^ he might have corredied 
the Pafchal Tables (or given us New Pafcha! Tables 
inftead of thofe of Dionyjim^), withont altefing the 
Civil year. ' Which hath introduced the confufion 
( which we now complain of ) of the Old and New 
Stile. And which now can never be remedied 5 unlefs 
all Nations ftiould, at once^ agree upoa ones which 
is not to be fuppofed» 
