C 9 1 3 
Size with the Originals. One is cut on a Beam run- 
ning from the North Eafl Corner of the Steeple to 
the School in the Church of Afhford in Kent , and 
exprefl'es the Year 1295 (a). The other is cut in a 
Beam (over a great paflage) that is Part of a very old 
Houfe at Cambridge , called the Half Moon-, near 
Magdalen-College, and denotes the Year 1332 (£).. 
The Figures of both are very rude, agreeable to thofe 
Times, being the oldeft I have yet met with, except 
thofe at Helmdon (c). 
II. A Letter from the Rev. Mr. Jofeph Betts, 
M. A. and Fellow of University College, 
Oxon, to Martin Folkes, Efq\ Pr. R. S. 
containing Obfervatiojis on the late Comet, 
made at Sherborn and Oxford *, with the 
Elements for computing its Motions. 
Read June 1 4. ' ■ 'HE Comet which appeared towards 
1744 End ^ Hecember , and ia 
the following Months January and February , 1744* 
was firft feen in England , at the Obfervatory of the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield , Hec. 23. 
between 5 and 6 0 Clock in the Evening. It formed, 
at that time, an obtufe-angled Triangle, with ( a ) of 
Andromeda , and (y) Pegafii , the Comet being at the 
(a) See Tab. Figure III. (b) See Tab. Figure IV. (r) See Philof. 
Tranfad. n. 439. 
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