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Show The defcription of England. Sin like ‘fort for the night wwe haue none other Freawike to Woven the fift as called Freadach, cocks crowing: aheras the Latinsdinide the fame fuypote them fo mrane by Tho2,Juptfer,byTionen, parts thaithetioilight, Darkenightmidnight ; md Crepufculum, Concubium, Intempefiomn. Gallicinium, Conticinium, Matutinum, Ditucnlum, Qibeit thereare (and not-amifie, as Sithinke,) that jut 7 pais, as eer 02 Peferago, a8 Plautus cal let it, as Virgil bloth the toro weper the euentng , Percurie, by sirea (o2-Frigga as Saxotalleth bir) Genus, andfinallie by Theut, Mars: tichif it be fo, thet it is arveaGe matter fo find out the. german pufiulum he thotltght (thich foe call Prima few bes Pars,Tienus, Mercurie, and Supiter, thereof pou hich is inunediatlicatter the fetting of the fun.cre- map read moze hereatter i mip cyonologte... The canfenier begin then tolighteantles) ‘aye tt is bes truthis,that Freaalbett that Saxo gineth bir (canta tiene date and night, lightano darkenelle , 02 p20 potlic neityer Date noznight . Concnbinm the frillof 10 gadreport, for that the loucd oneef bir bufuands men better than bimclfe, had feanen-fennes by the might, then ech onets latd to refk. intempestum, Woden;the fir j father to Witesca, of Abomte del the Dull o; deadof thenight, ubichis miontght, ther cended thofethat tucre afterwards kings of dent, men be in theftfirtt oxdead lepe « Galicinsum s the cocks crowing. Conticininm , ohen: the cocks haue lefkcrowing, 2zatutinums, the breach of thedaie, and ilucilam/ine autora, toevuddie,oenge, golven 02 {ht ning colonr,féenemmedtatlic befoze the rifing of Fethelgeta was the fecoud, and of hicame; the kingsof Mercia. WBaldate the: third, father to-the kings of the weft Sarons.belvagiusthe fourth,pas rent tothe kingsof izenitiao2 Rorthumberland, the fart, ann ts oppofite to the euening, as azatsssnm Watches, Wiheogodach the fiff, autho: of the hingsof Deira. Caler,the firt race of the eal Angle race,t Pafcad c+ isto thetwwilight. Diber there are hich do reckon bytwatches;pint; 20 riginall burgeantofthe kings of Ciler.. As for the Ding the night after fur fetting into foure' equall parts. DE thich the firtt beginnett at euening cal lonthe firt wate), and continucthbp thee buequall plsfocd as befoxe, into calends'; 1des andinones, aldcitthat tn mp dDaies, the dfe of the fame bee but Gail, and thetr oder reteined oneli¢in our calen ders; fo the better vnderfanding of fuch times, as the biffortograyhers and old autho2s bw remember, Rherechoningalf&of cachof thele goeth(as pou fe) alter aprepofterous order, hereby the Momans dio from the precedent than contrarttuife,as by perufall Dates thereto, therby to makeit agree to the peere of were confecrated to Fumo,and facrifice made to Wat gosvetle onthe Gane.Dnthele daics alfo,ann onthe eight and fiventic daics,o2 foure tyeckes, without as nie further curfofitie. 3fo2 we reckon not our tine clans fignifien fo well the foure quarters ofthe piere, bp the peare of themonte,, as the Jews, Grecians , 6 the foure and tiventith part of thedatemdlfmits 02 Romans bivat the firf;:02 asthe Darks , Araof ante forte, Wut that Handy opow thele things 4° biangand Perfians donot : neither ante parcell to let my purpofe fate 2 Lo procedthercfare. thereof by the fain planet, as informe partof the elk Ofnatural dates is the weke conrpaiten, which Buvies, where thephane netther werke, moneth, noz Hontiteth of (caucivor them, the frivaie being cont peere, but onlie agenerallaccompt of hundzeds and montte cailedaimong the bulgar fort either king o2 thoufamns of mones . Wherefore tf tne fate 02 iwzife inogling, bicaule ttisetther the fairetho? foulett of Dattonefh}itis to be erpounded of eight and tiventie fhe feaurwralbeitthat % cannot ghedeof amie reas Dates , 02 foureioeks onelie; andnot of bir pfaall fontxie thepMould f titagine. Lhe fil of there period of nineand twentic daiesand one and thirtie entroth with miondaie, Ljercbp ttcoummeth to patle, dhinnts, Oz (\tfpou take it at large) for amoneth _,; thattueret pon thefundate, ubidbis the feaucnth of the common calender, Obidy nenerthele@e itt tniwmnber, al alirightic God hath comnmanoed in so ples and (utesis nothing at all allowed of , fith the bis Wow) ye Tews beaih thetr weeke ‘pon our fa, mone maketh bt fall reuclution tu eight ano tivens furdaie at the fettire of the fur: andthe aorks int tie bates o2 foure turks, thatis,onto the place there thefedatem with the faterdate , aherebp it'commreth fhe lett the fun: notwithitanving that be be now to padle,thatas the Fetus make our lahoate the firtt gone, and at bivreturne not te be founnberie often of thetrtweeke:, fo the Curks make the Feluih fa in that figne therin fhe before bad lesthint. Plucarda baoth the beginning of their webdona : bicaufe gpa Anpiteth of divers barbarous nationsibichreckoned hometthotr pophetias thepfaie)ivas boone'and dead @moreo2leile number of thele moneths for ahole pon thefidAée, and fo be was tnded, execpt their Peares t.andthat of thefe me accompted but thre, Akdhgrdn decctue them. Lhe Feivs do reckon their as the Archanians divfoure, the AcarnansAiy , and Dates bytheir DiMance fromtheir fabaath; fo that the So the Argpptians but one for arebole peare y tebids felt dale of their Warhe ts the irl oaieat the faba: caufeth them tomake fuch a largeaccompt of their Oth, andfofarth wnt thefrt. Che Lating and Aeantiquitioandorfginall, Wut foyfemunh asi teerare Spplanwaccompted their daics athertheLeaurn plas hottroubled with anic fads difadery ityall (uffice Rets , chafing the fnve for the Denominator of the that % have generallie fain nfanoneths anv thnte date, thatontreth his regiment twith the firtt vnies quantities nt this tive. Mow alyozd.optiwe of the Qual bonre of the fameatterthe fun berifen.. Yorn. cuicient Romane calender. Lott, as this order is nat Abolie retetted with Vs, fo Swold:time tach moneth of the Womane calery She veil Were qvangen bp the Barorisy tubo in res Detwasteckened after tht courte of thenrone, and thet enterantes tuere bueerteing, as were allo the changes of that plariet : aherebp it) camefo pafle, the bleof the fang tandtpet Altogither aboli{hed,as Iapaperre by ourfundaprmondaie and faturdaic, wiembrance of Cheut fomotime their painee, talled the ferono dap of chetmect MheutMadd,the third Co. ieee GSdon,or WodenMady Ali "SF OEP RAND thefourth daie Thoghach,and of thatthe Date of the change twas thefirff of the mo nethbotnioener it feltyout. utatter Fulius Cefar bad artce cotertey the fame, the feneratl begimings of cutriconent; them ni not onelie remaine fired, but moneth,bicaufe he would not alter the cclebzation of their bfuall feats, ubereof the hiefe were'balperal, {wales bponthe bap of the ides) theti came they Mort of the nniaDdeltfometime by two o2 thre daies.. In 10es' AMD Nones they would hot marie, Likelvife thefe therefme ( chic) alwaies are eight) the mer. the inojolw after each of them tere called Dies atri, chants ban leifure to packe bp and conuete their mers blacke baies, ag tere allo diuerle other, and thofe either by reafon of fome notable ouerthzotw o2 mil: 3 thanvize,to pap their creditorsano make merie with thetr friends. Yap that befell tuto the Romans dpon thole daies,o2 intefped of fome {uperttitious imagination concet: ued of cuill fucceffelikelie tofall out bpon the fame, Df foe thep were called Dies Legyptrace. Waherbpit 3 Ithemaner of wekes our monethsare made, Borer middeft, But afterward oben he hadadvencerteine the funne (abtey be intruded about the end of evierie aypeareth that this peeutth efimation of thefe dates came from that nation. And as Wwe dw note ourbolie frbich are fo called of the mone, cath one confeining oberin the people bong ht,folo,-rchanged 02 barteren, and dtd nothing elfe, The toes are fo named of the Bethznfcan woyn, Jdware,tadiuide: and before that Cefar altered the The vates allo of the change of the monefh of the mone, are called Calende,ehich in thine of paganthne Gs certeine of our daics {uficred this alteration Asforthe originall of the word: houre ;it is beric ancients but pet not fo old as that of the twateh,where 3° pope Syluetker, thoughother fate by Contrantine; Albeit another fort Dw affirme , that Spluctter caue of ine (hall vead abundantlie in the fcr iptuves; thich twas beutfed fir among fouldtors for their better fed the fundaie onelte to be called the AL ods day,and fafegard and change of watchmen in thefe camps; dealt not toith the reff. acoftomeamong the Roamans, Luftrare snfantes ce.noroiinn racvilis soponere, AS thep dib with their mate chil, Dien Opon the eight: but hotwfocuerthis be fure itis that they were the mart dates of eurrte moneth, of the farne pouMall itro2¢ eafilte perceiue, by the Saxons, fo in our churches ive reteined fora long time the number of daics o20f *feries front the peice, fabaoth, after the mannerof the Ses, ¥ meane bne till the ferntce after the iKomane dfe twas abolifheo, btch cuftome was fir recefucd (as fonie thinke)by of Nometobe bir nameof the nones,abereon tt twas rather note holy many dates were to the nertcange ;> calender,thep Dintoed the moneth commanite by the tieveat the fourth watch entreth, thichiscalicn the moming tate, bicaule it concurreth partlic with the Darke night, anv'partlie twith the moming and the like thereof is almoft bfed among our feafaring mien,Labteh thep call clearingof the glattejaiv perfor nicd from finte fo ime With great hed wiIpfomtefo. lomnitic. Berebnto the tuo ora among the Gre- weke, contiiucd Hill ohaltered: fo that the monet) is pet hotires and fo forth ontill the end of the ninth boure, bacach of the date before the rifing of the fun. Woure, Rings of Sudey, although thep twere of. the fame people, pet were they not'of the fame ffre(ne,as our Hlomonumentsdoerpretleut. to proceed; Thedefcriptionof England. brit allo the oldinzoer tt the niuffiowof their parts and feitiuall baics with red letters tn our calenders, fo DID the Rowranrstheir pzineipall feats ¢ circle of After the ides Dw the calends follow, but ina bes creafing o2det(as ZF noted)as the moneda tn light then the is paff the full. 25ut herein liethall the mps fterie , if pou can fap fo mante daies before the nert change 02 ney mone, as the number there crpzeflen doth betoken, as for 1 6 calends fo manieDates be: fore the nert confundion,ec: (as ts aboue remeny bred.)Dfthele calends,¥% meane touching their nume bictories in tite , 1 their publike o2 confularie ta, 30- ber in eucriemoneth,J find thete berfes infuing ; Janus (7 Augufivs denas nonime, December, bles, This alfois moze tobe avded, that ifanie gov the mone,either inred o2 goloenletters, and their luccefle baypened aftertward bpon {uch dap as was alreadie blacke tn thelr calender, thep ‘would for lemnlie enterit in tbtte letters by racing outof the blacke, iherebp the blacke daie tuas turned into hhiteand whereinthey notalittle retoifen. The torn Calende(in Oreecke reomenia) ts Berined Of Cule,to calls fox bport the firft Dap of euerte mo, neth,the pref bien to call the people of the citie ano Countrie fogtther in-Calabzia , fo2 fo the place was called fthere thep met, ano fhelothem bya cuffome 40 bow manie daies tere from the fatd calendsto the Lunius Aprilis September co sple Nowember Terfenas retinent,Febrin bis ofto calendas, Liline ofober Mars Maiusepta dectmgy, Bn Engli thus. December. Iunc and Auguft month full nineteene calends haue, Septemb Aprill Nouemb and Iune twife nine they doo defire, Sixteene foule Februari¢ hath, nomorecanhe well craue, Otober Maieand Iulie hot but feuenteene doorequire. Anlike maner do the nones and (bes, hones , ¢ that featts tere to be celebzated betivene that and the nert change. Hhetr oder is retrograde, becanfe that after the moneth twas balfe erpired, 03 the mone paft the full, thep reckonedbythe dates to come ontill the nert change , as feuentene dates, Tolulie, Mars,O &ober,Maic, didin thelatter decad onelic, for thep had no ble of The rett but foure,and as for ides Gstene daies, fourteene dates,ec sas the Greekes talends. The verie dap thereforeof the changets cals Sex Daina nonas,oFober, Iuliusye~ Mdarsy Quatuor at: reliqui,dabitidus quilibet otto. fix nones I hight, they keepe {till eight. 120 Culendededicated to Zuno, tho thereof was alfo 50 Againe touching the number of dates inenerie mo» Called Calendar, At the firlk allo the fatts o2 featk neth: é daies there kriotwne bp none other meanes onto the Lunins,Aprilis,Septong,, Noutrag, tricenosy People but by the denunclation of the picts (as ¥ Pnsimplus reliqus,iebrys tenet ofto vicenss, faid)Opon this date.till Flauius Scriba canfen them to At filifrextusfuerit faperadditur vans. Contratie to the twill and meaning of the fenat , fo> Thirtie daies hath Nouember, Apzill, lune,and September, be Written ¢ publithed hrthe(c common calenders, the cafe ano Benefit of the peoplejas hepretended, Ehe nonescommonlie are not aboue foure o2 fir in euerie moneth: amd fo long as the noneslatten, fo Twentie and eight bach Februaric alone; and all the reft thirtie andone, butin the leape you muftad one; long did the markets continue; and therefore thep Go Mur peare is countedafter the courte of thefunne, Were calle one quafinundine. An them alto were and although the churd) bath fomebie of that of the Neither holiedaiés Hide than ts at this pzefent ( ex Ceptthe dap of the'parificat foof oar ladte)no facet fice otteredto ‘thegnds, but cach one applicd bis butt hell ano kepthisniarket;rechoning the firlt papa ter the calends xchange, to be the fouriy 02 firt date mone for obferuation of certeine moueable featts, pet it ts reducible to that of the funne, abieyin our talled one, ofthe {020 Nonjguid in yldems dy non colan~ Sanuarie; fo that with bs Chaift is boine before he be conceited: Durfundiie officers alfo haue fundzie entrances into thetr charges of cultome, tbtch becepeth great confufion,ubereas-tf all thefe night be ree before the faire enbed, Some thinke that thep were tor. $02 a8 Olid faith,vonarsim tutelades caret, 03 £03 hat the nones there altpates onthe ninth baie before theres t Other becaufe nandina deans honored the ninth Dav before the ites, albcit J fuypolerather that Whadina des (a gaddeme far pongerthan the name ciuill dealings is chichie had in ble.bereft onelte J find a feruple, that the beginning thereof te not buts forme and certeine, for moff of our records beate Date the 25 of Parch, anv our catenders the firof ferred to one original (and that tobe the firff of Ja: nuarie) 3 donot thinke but that there wouldbe moze Dj, certeintic, |