...feast of Saint Michael the Archangel would have fallen in AD 1845 if the Act &c. (24 G. 2. c. 23., " for regulating the commencement of the year ; and for correcting the calendar now in use ") had not been passed, that is to say, until and on and during llth October, AD 1845, and from...

...should be apprised, that in the year 1751 an important alteration was sanctioned by Act of Parliament for regulating the commencement of the year, and for correcting the calendar as it was then in use. It had been usual up to that time in England for the year to kegin on the 25th...

...the 25th of March, until 24 Geo. II., c. 23, (1751,) in which year an Act of Parliament was passed, entitled, " An Act for regulating the commencement...of the year, and for correcting the Calendar now in use." It was ordered that the 1st day of January next 238 should be reckoned as the first day of the...

...King Charles I. An Act for confirming Public Acts. An Act for confirming Three Acts therein mentioned. Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year and for correcting the Calendar. Observance of 29th Day of May. Observance of 23d Day of October. County Courts. Oaths. Stamps and Assessed...

...chronological apparatus there is no trace whatever in Bishop Cosin's Prayer Book. In 1752 (24 Geo. II.) " an Act for regulating the commencement of the year, and for correcting the Calendar," was passed, and from this the present tables of the Prayer Book arc printed, not from the Sealed Books....

...fubfequently, of the adoption of the Gregorian, or New Style, in England. " 24 George II, 1751, c. 23. " An A& for regulating the commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calendar now in ufe." " Whereas, the legal fupputation of the year of our Lord, in that part of Great Britain called England,...

...an Act of Parliament made in the twentyfourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, (intituled, An Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calendar now in Use) it is among other Things enacted, That the Natural Day next immediately following the second Day...

...fubfequently, of the adoption of the Gregorian, or New Style, in England. " 24 George II, 1751, c. 23. " An Aft for regulating the commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calendar now in ufe." " Whereas, the legal fupputation of the year of our Lord, in that part of Great Britain called England,...

...fubfequently, of the adoption of the Gregorian, or New Style, in England. " 24 George II, 1751, c. 23. " An AGt for regulating the commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calendar now in ufe." " Whereas, the legal fupputation of the year of our Lord, in that part of Great Britain called England,...

...modes of reckoning« At length in 1752 an Act of Parliament was passed, entitled an Act (23 Geo. II.) for regulating the commencement of the year, and for correcting the calendar. It declared that "Easter day, on which the rest depends, is always the first Sunday after the first...