A concordancy of yeares. Containing a new, easie, and most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Also the vse of the English and Roman kalender, with briefe notes ... Newly composed and digested, by Arthur Hopton, Gentleman. The contents follow after the epistles.

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A concordancy of yeares. Containing a new, easie, and most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Also the vse of the English and Roman kalender, with briefe notes ... Newly composed and digested, by Arthur Hopton, Gentleman. The contents follow after the epistles.
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Hopton, Arthur, 1587 or 8-1614.
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[London] :: Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for the Company of Stationers,
1612.
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"A concordancy of yeares. Containing a new, easie, and most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Also the vse of the English and Roman kalender, with briefe notes ... Newly composed and digested, by Arthur Hopton, Gentleman. The contents follow after the epistles." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03648.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

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Quest. 1 I haue a Lease for an hundred yeares, bearing date in Aprill 1514, and I would know this yeare 1612. what time I haue remaining.

ANSVVERE.

Séeke first the yeare of our Lord, 1514, & their begin to tell at the next yeare forwards, calling 1515. one, 1516. two, and so procéed, vntill you come to 1612: so shall you count to the number

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of 98 yeares, and so many of your 100 yeares be expired: But in the numbring thus, you must re∣member, that before & after the change of euery Prince, one & the same yeare of our Lord is twice placed, therefore omit the one in your reckoning.

Or take 1514 out of 1612, so haue you 98 years: Or séeke (with more ease) in the third row vnder Time expired, what figures stand against 1514, so shall you finde 98, as before, and so ma∣ny yeares be expired, 1612. But if you had sought this any other yeare after 1612. as 1614, then must you haue séene what figures in ye fift row had béene against 1614, as 2, the which 2 must haue béene added to 98: so had you 100 yeares. The like for any other yeare after, to 1646.

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