Of OXFO%T>^SHI%E. 2ip 
thej^jr, which he made to confift of 365 days, and a whole 
fourth part of a day. which fourth part colle^led at four years 
end, made, that in the 5/^x//7 there was one day more than in 
any otherje^^r : But 'tis manifeft (fays he) to all Aftronomershot\\ 
old and new, and 'tis plain from the rules of Aflronomy^ that the 
quantity of the Solar year is not fo much, but lefs, and that as 'tis~ 
judged by wife men, by the 130''' part of a day; whence it 
comes to pafs, thatin 130 years we have one fuperfliious day, 
which were it but taken away, the Calendar would be correSed as 
ro this error. 
11. And then he proceeds to fliew, that upon this account 
it is that the /Equinoxes and Solfiices are not fixt, but continually 
afcend in the C^2/^W(/<3r, thatin the beginning of the Church they 
were not, where they are now in his time ; and in the conclufioil 
of the Difcourfe, Debet autem nunc temporis remedium apponi pro- 
pter ijlos errores manifeftos^ is^c^. But that now fome remedy mud 
be found for thofe palpable errors, and that to take off fcandal 
from the Church ; for (fays he) all the learned in ^Jlronomy know 
,this, and laugh at the ignorance of the Prelates that fuffer it. Nay, 
the In^dd Arabians, Hebrews^ and Greeks-, abhor the folly they fee 
in the Chriftians in ordering the time they fet afide for their greater 
Solemnities: But now C^ri/2i^;?5 have fo much fkill in J§lrono7ny^ 
that they can amend all thefe things. Therefore your Holynefs 
(meaning F6)/^^r/e/7z^«/) may command, isr invenieths homines qui 
pYdichra retnedia apponent in hac parte, 
1 2 . Thus earneftly wrote he for the reformation of the Calen- 
dar^ not only in this but in feveral other Books ; in one whereof 
he m.akes alfo this complaint^ Non tamen aliquvs prd^fumit tradere 
Calendarium corre£ium^ propter hoc quod Concilium generate pr ohi- 
bet ne quis mute t C^lenddinum, fine licentia fedls Apoftolic^ge/^er^j- 
li ^, i. e. Yet no body prefumes to corred this Calendar^ becaufe 
it is forbid by a General Council that no man (bould offer to alter 
it, without fpecial licenfe firft obtained of the y^poflolick. S^^- 
Which licenfe I gather at length was given him^ for I find him in 
the end of the aforefaid Chapter^ mentioning a more correft Copy 
of a Calendar fent to the aforefaid Pope by his Boy "^ohn^ than 
any i'e had fent /j/wz before. Cumpropter fe§finantiam^ (^propter 
'3 Loco citato (uh finem Faragraphi, ^ hi Operis Minor, part. 3. 4.'^. MS- in Bibliotheca Bodhiana- 
sap. 67. 
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