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Confufions and Inconveniences, which thereby hapned 
and I doubt not, but that the Year 1382. in which the 
Defalcation of Ten Days was made by the Bull or Edidk 
ofPope {/r^^^r/, might juftlyalfo be dykd Aftnu^ Coptfth 
Jpms. But fuch Examples, as thefe, are not to be imita- 
ted. For what C^/ir did as Diiiator, or what Gregory the 
xiiith. did as Pope, the one by the Power of the Tempo- 
ral Sword, the other of the Spiritual Sword, is not to be 
praftifed by Gracious Princes. 
I fliall therefore humbly recommend to His Majefty's 
Wifdom, and favourable Confideration;, that Courfe^ 
which was long fince propofed by many able Mathema- 
ticians to Pope Gregory, upon the firft Notice of his Pur- 
pofe of CorrcAing the Calendar 5 which if it had been 
known, either to Mr. Dee^ or to his Learned Judges, or 
to the Wife and Honourable Lord Burleigh^ the Refor- 
mation with us had long fince been finifced, and not 
one Man prejudiced in hisEftate. The manner was 
this that for Forty Years fpace there fhould be no Bif- 
fextile or intercalary Years, or as we call them Leap- 
years, inferted in the Calendar, By which courfeitis 
moft evident5that ten Dayswiin:>e Subtraded in fouiy»'^ 
Yearsj, and thefe forty Years will be each of them a/f/ii 
aqmhUesy confifting of 365 Days, as our commoxi and or- 
dinary Years do, without «ny alteration in the v/role 
Year, And this being b^ji^^ild all Exception>had been rea- 
dily entertained by i^opt Gregory, had not his Atiibitii:n 
been greater than his Judgmeai • for he -ms willing to • 
havetheHonciur of this- Emendation^ and nor to leave 
it to his SucceOors ; whereby the Year ever fioce ha^s 
been called A/^r^us Gregorkms. My Opinion therefore 
is^ thatbyHisM'^jefty's Letters Patents^ Tome. Skillul 
Aftrbnomer fliould be apwintedto have the Cornpiiing 
and Pubiifliing, wirhin His Majefty*s Domkions/of a-ll 
Calendars and Almanacks- for forty Years, in which 
fpaccj by omitting the imercalations> we Jiaii at length 
come 
