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%'^ extiIe to this Year. The Year, thuswas from thence call’d the Julian

Eut the fix Hours, added by Julius^ G is too much, that is, exceeds 5 H.

by 11' 3and therefore the Sun\ J^ ear begins his Course 1 1 3" before\^ U ^ an Year is ended, which in 131, S Counts to a whole Day. Hence^, e Council of Nice, A. D. 325, (ati *be Time of Eajier was fixed) theof ^ "

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Equinox being upon the 21st Dayto arc h, it was found in the Year 1582fiJVn on the 11 th of March, 1 o Days■ 3' r than before.

W' ^ 0PE Gregory XIII. thought the Ka-to ° erroneous, and resolved to re-fo r lt > by restoring the Equinox to itsof Js r Elace in the Year, viz. to the 21st°iit arc h' To do this, he took 10 Days°f r?~ ^be Kalendar, by ordering the 5 th

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'er 1^82 to be call’d the 15th ; andV f Vent the Regress of the Equinox forto ^tUre, ordered every ioodth Yearth e ^bst 0 f only 365 Days, whereas in\irf tan it: bas 366, as being Bissextile.^formation is therefore called the.y^ an Account, or New-Stile, and isK y Papijls in Italy , Spam , France , Ger-ari d by some Protejlants abroad; but

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