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the Methods ufed by the Gregorians , or thole of the 
Church of Rome , or by any other Nations or Coun- 
tries, for finding the Time of that Fcaft. As to our 
own, I fhall only obferve, that the Method now ufed 
in England , for finding the fourteenth Day of the 
Moon, or the Ecclefiaftical Full Moon, on which 
Eajler dependeth, is, by Procefs of Time, become 
confiderably erroneous : as the Golden Numbers, 
which were placed in the Calendar, to point out the 
Days on which the New Moons fall in thofe Years 
of which they arc refpcctively the Golden Numbers, 
do now (land feveral Days later in the fame than thofe 
New Moons do really happen. Which Error, as was 
before obferved, arifes from the Anticipation of the 
Moons fince the Time of the Council of Nice : And as 
the Vernal Equinox has alfo anticipated eleven Days 
fince that time; neither that Equinox, nor the New 
Moons, do now happen on thofe Days upon which 
the Church of England fuppofes them fo to happen. 
When Pope Gregory XIII. reformed the Julian 
Solar Year, he like wife made a Correction as to the 
Time of celebrating the Feaft of Eafler , by placing 
the Epacts (which he directed to be made ufe of 
for the future inftead of the Golden Numbers) much 
nearer to the true Times of the New Moons than 
the Golden Numbers then ftood in the old Calendar : 
I fay, much nearer to the true Times ; becaufe in 
fact the Epacts, as placed by him, were not prefixed 
to the exact Days upon which the New Moons then 
truly fell. And this was done with Defign, and for a 
Reafon which it is not material to the Purpofe of 
this Paper to mention. 
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