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This Expedient is the fame that was (during our 
Civil-wars) fuggeftedly thofe then at Oxford in the 
Year 1^45:. viz. That, from thenceforward, we fliould 
omit ten fuch Intercalations. 
Againft which there feems to me this great Obje- 
dion. 
In the time oijdius and Augu^us C£jar^ there was a 
Year which was called A^ms co^tft^fionis : Upon the fet- 
tling, unfettling, and refettling the Julim Year. (Of 
which Kej?ler gives an Account, with the Mifchiefsof 
itj in his T abuU Rudolf hw^^ with the Title Tyfm An- 
ni conftiftonis.) And the like in the Year 158a, when 
Pope Gregory did at once ftrike out Ten Days of that 
Year. 
But, if this Advice fliould take place 5 we fliould now^ 
inftead of one A»nm confuftoms^ have a Confufton for 
P^^/^r^^^F^/'i^j' Years together, wherein we fliould agree 
neither with the Old not with the /v^^»? Account, But 
be fometimes 10 Days, fometimes 9 Days, fometimes 
8 Days, (and fo forthj later than the One, and fooner 
than the other account* And a Forreigner would not 
be able to judge of an Englifli Date,, without knowing 
in which of thefe Years, we vary 1O5 9, or 8 Days fand 
fo forth) from either of thefe Accounts. And this^ 
for 44 Years together. Which feems to me a much 
greater Confufion, then if (as in ijSzj we fliould 
(once for allj caftout 11 Days* But I cannot think it 
advifable to do either. 
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