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Gregorians, than the increafing one of them by 1 2 
inftead of 11. For, in every Gregorian Solar Year, 
whofc Date confifts of any Number of entire Hun- 
dreds not divifible by 4, it is fuppofed that the Equi- 
nox has anticipated one whole Day ; and therefore 
one Day, that which ought to be the intercalary 
one, is omitted ; and confequently the preceding 
Solar Year, where one Day was loft, exceeded the 
Lunar Year by 10 Days only inftead of 1 1. 
In order therefore to adapt the before-mention J d 
Rule to the Gregorian Account, and to know in 
what Years the Epadts fhould either be extraordinarily 
augmented or diminifhed, and the Golden Numbers 
fhould either be fet backwards or forwards in the 
Calendar 5 the following Rules and Directions muft 
be oblerved. 
Firft. That in the Years i8co, 2100, 2700, 3000, 
&c. where the Number of entire Hundreds is divifi- 
b.e by 3, but not by 4, the Gregorian Solar, as well 
as the Lunar Year, will have lolt a Day j and conic- 
quently the Difference betwixt them will be the 
fame as ufual : Therefore in thofe Years there muft 
be no Alteration, either in the Epadts or the Golden 
Numbers 5 but the former mttft go on in the fame 
manner, and the latter ftand prefixed to the fame 
Days in the Calendar, for another, as they did for 
the laft hundred Years. 
2 d 1 y . The like will happen in the Years 2000, 2800, 
3200, &c. where the Number of entire Hundreds is 
diviftble by 4, but not by 3 : For neither the Gre- 
gorian Solar nor the Lunar Year is to be altered j 
and therefore the Epacts muft go on, and the Golden 
Numbers ftand, as they did before. 
But, 
