The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...

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Title: The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...
Author: Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
Publication: London :: Printed by H. H. for John Leigh ...,; 1683.
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Subject terms: Rothmann, Johann.; Booker, John, 1603-1667. -- Bloody Irish almanack.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681. -- Merlini Anglici ephemeris -- 1647.; Astrology -- Early works to 1800.; Palmistry -- Early works to 1850.; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
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Of the Fast of Lent.

VErstegan saith, That the Old Saxons called March by the Name of Lenct-Monat, that is (according to our New Orthography,) Length-Month; because that then the days did first begin to exceed the Nights in Length. And this Month being by our Ancestors so called when they received Christia∣nity, and consequently therewith the ancient Christi∣an Custom of Fasting, they called this chief Season of Fasting, the Fast of Lent, because of Lenct-Monat, wherein the most part of the time of this Fasting al∣ways fell, and hereof it cometh that we now call it Lent, or rather the Fast of Lent. Sir Richard Baker saith, it was first Commanded to be observed in Eng∣land, by Ercombert the 7th King of K••nt, before the year of Christ, 800.