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longed to every century; by which the times ofthe new moons might be readily discovered.

This is a concise account of the Gregorianreformation; and if you are desirous of furtherinformation, I must refer you to works writtenexpressly upon the subject ; for to have given aminute detail of every particular, would haverequired a large volume. If what has been said,however, be properly attended to, it will enableyou to form a general idea of this intricatebusiness, which,as the matter is now fully settled,is all that is requisite. It only remains just to men-tion, what reception this alteration of the stylemet with, from the different states of Europe.

Pope Gregory ordered all the ecclesiasticsunder his jurisdiction to conform to this newmethod of reckoning, and exhorted the christianprinces to adopt it in their dominions. But theprotestant states, at that time, refused it; thereformed religion was in its infancy; the zeal ofits professors was violent, and their oppositionto the pope unbounded: whatever bore the ap-pearance of his authority, was rejected as anunwarrantable encroachment upon their newly-acquired liberties ; and though the propriety ofthe alteration was acknowledged, it was con-demned, on account of its originating with aparty so extremely obnoxious to them.

But the difference between the old and newstyle, as the Julian and Gregorian accounts are

generally