( iii6 ) 
m^&i^s follow from the Intercalation. < 2. If this Colour 
were true, it were too great a nicety to have been probably 
regarded by thi^ Church. 3. This By^othefis puts more 
force upon the words of the Rule than mine. And, laftly, 
if it were admittedjit would folve the difficulty only in Leap- 
yearsi and my fecond Obfervation would ftill remain ne- 
ceflary, becaufe the cafe happens as well in Common as in 
Lsap-years^ whereof we have an Example in the next year 
( 1706.) Nor will my fecond Obfervation be much bog- 
gled ai by thofe that know and confider the inclufive way 
of reckoning ufed by the Romans^ and from them derived to 
all the Latin Churches, and particularly that of England 5 
lor 'tis as proper to (ay [next after March 21.3 with the 
meaning 1 contend tor, as to fay, Tertia (ante) Calendaiy 
Nonas vel Idus in the fenfe of the Roman Kalcndar, or, as 
to fay (as our Church doth a little after this Rule for Eajler) 
that Afcevpon-daji is forty days after £</^^r, intending Eafter* 
day hldt to be one of thofe forty. And 'tis oblervable in 
this very Rule, that, after it had been faid, that Eajier day is 
always the firft Sunday aitQt the full Moon, &c. 'tis added, 
that if the full Moon happens on a Sunday, Eafier- day is the 
Sunday 2LkQT which had beefi a grofs Tautology, it by the 
firft Sunday after the full Moon might not be underftood the 
day of the full Moon itfelf,when happening to be&W^jr.And 
a thQ Sunday of the full Moon may be fignified by the firft 
Sunday after the full Moon, then the full Moon of Marc6 
21. may be fignified by the full Moon next Siittr MareA 21* 
3- I prove that my two Obfervations are fufficient to recon- 
cile the Rule and the Table 5 becaufe I my felf have drawn 
up a Tabie to find Eajier for ever by the Rule underftood 
according to thofe Obfervations, and in the plain and ob- 
vious fence in all other refpefts, and, upon comparing, have 
found it to agree in every particular with the Table for the 
fame purpofe in the Common Prayer Book 5 and any body 
clfe may make the fame tryal : which method, if others 
had taken to examine their Explications of the Rule by,they 
muft have difcovered their miftakes. 
Stoa^l eigh houfe^ 0^. 13; 1705. IIL P^^r^ 
