M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme.

How to find out the moouable Feastes euerie yeare, onely by knowing the day of coniunction in the moneth of Febru∣arie. Chapter. 7. (Book 7)

THe way to finde out the Coniunction in euerie moneth is before taught in the fift proposition. And hauing the day of the coniunction in Febru∣arie, you may assure your selfe that the next tues∣day following is alwayes Shrouetuesday, for though the coniunction it selfe doe fall vppon a Tuesday, yet the next Tuesday after that, shall bee Shroue∣tuesday, and the next Sunday after that, is called Quadragesi∣ma, which is the first Sunday in Lent, and sixe weekes next af-that is Easter day, whereunto if you adde fiue wéekes more, that is to say, 35. dayes, you shall haue Rogation Sunday, and 4.

dayes next after that is Ascention day, and tenne dayes next after Ascention day is Pentecoste or Whitsunday, and seuen dayes next after that is Trinitie Sunday, and foure dayes next after that is the Feastiuall day called Corpus Christi. And you haue to note that the Sunday called Adventus Domini, which wee call the first Sunday in Aduent, is alwayes the fourth Sunday before Christmasse day, and the Sunday called Septuagesima is the third Sunday before Quadragesima, other∣wise called the first Sunday in Lent, and betwixt Septuage∣sima and Quadragesima there are other two Sundayes, where∣of that which is next before Quadragesima is called Quinqua∣gesima, and the next Sunday before that is called Sexagesima.