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TKatthe Julian Year is, in it felf, a better form, 
and more advifable , than the New Gregorian , is ua* 
deniable 5 and , all Aftionomers , even Papifts thcm- 
felves (ifnototherwife Bigoted in favour of the Popes 
Supremacy^ and the Infallibility of t\\t Roman Church) 
cannot but know it: Infomueh, that in many cafes 
they are fain ( or find it advifable ) firft to Adjuft thttir 
Calculations to the Julian Year , and thence transfer 
them to the Gregorian. 
And there is no Inducement for our changing our 
Better Year, for a Worfe^, but ®nly in compliance 
with the Pope's pretended Supremacy y not only over all 
Churches and Kingdoms, but even the Ccleftial 
Motions , ( as Pope Gregory , in his Bull , doth wifely 
pretend. ) 
Now 'tis well known , that, long before Pope Gre- 
gory's Bull, £a?^/4W had renounced the Pope^s supremacy 
( and are therefore unconcerned in that Bull 5 ) and I 
fee no reafon why ( after fo long a Difclaimer) we 
fliouldbe now fond to readmit it. But what greater- 
Evidence ( of owning that Authority ) can (in pradiee) 
be expeded, than obeying their Commands^ in things' 
(otherwife) unadvifable^ HH Jtiacus velit ^ & magna • 
mercentur AtriJU. And no doubt but tbt kand ofjoah 
is in the matter , though perhaps we do not fee it. 
As to our felvcs 5 this canndt be done , without 
altering the A5i of Uniformity^ and altering the Commm^ 
Prsyer Book ; ( For, at leaft , all the Calendar muft be 
new framed : ) And your Lordfhip knows how warm 
fomewere a while fince, againft touching that in the 
leaft, forfo much as confidering (on the King's 
Commiffion for that purpofe, ) whether ought in it 
might be changed for the better. 
If yet your Lordfliip think it neceflary, that the seat 
of M^fier fliould be redify 'd 5 that may eafily be done, 
without altering the Cm/ Year : For if, mtht Kult for 
Eajler^ 
