I fay:, at once* for if fome fooner and fome later do 
alter their Stile , the 'Confufion ( in Hiftory ) will yet 
be greater than now it is. 
lis true, that upon pretence of the Popes (ufur- 
ped ) Supremacy in Spirituals ( and in Temporals alfo in 
order to Spirituals ) moft Popifli Countries (but I think, 
not all) have fubmitted their Civil year (as vi^ell as 
their Ecclefiaftical ) to the fingk /Authority of the Pope's 
Bull. 
But your Grace knows very well, that the Church 
of England had ( long before this pretended Corredlion ) 
Renounced the Pofis Sii^Ycm^cy ^ and ( that being fap- 
pofed) there is no pretence for the Pope of Rome'% 
impofing a Law cn the Church and Kingdom of En- 
gUnd^ to change our Ecclefiaftical^and Civil year • more 
than, in Us ^ for that in Rome. 
And, upon this account, the Church and Kingdom 
of England y did at firftnot admit of that change, and 
have hitherto retained our Old Conftitution of the Ju* 
lUn year ; notwithftanding the Pope^s ( pretended ) 
Supremacy 5 and I fee not why we (hould now admit it, 
after having fo long renounced it. 
And really y though it may not yet appear and be 
owned above board 5 and , thofe who now prefs 
for an alteration , be not aware of it , and be far from 
any Popiih defign, I cannot but think there is, at 
bottom , a latent Popifh intereft, which f under other 
fpecious pretences ) fets it on foot \ in order to obtain 
(in pradtife) a kind of tacit fubmiffion to the Pope's 
Supremacy , or owning his Authority. And though 
they be fo wife as to fay nothing of it at prefent (for the 
Bait is defigned to Hide the hook till the Fifli be caught, j 
they will pleafe themfelves to have gain'd de fach^ 
what in words we difclaim. Fcr there is nothing but 
the Pops Bull, which (hould induce the Change oithe 
{Civil) Jullm year ( which is much better) for the 
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