A new prognostication for the year of our Lord God, 1675. Being the third after bissextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, 5634. Wherein is contained the exact day, hour and minut of the new moon, her full and quarters; with the descriptions, and calculations of the visible eclipses; the daily disposition of the weather, and moveable feast; with the whole known fairs in Scotland. Exactly calculated according to art, for the meridian of the most famous city of Edinburgh. Whose latitude is deg. 56 min. 04. longitude is 21. 50. By I. C. mathematician.

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A new prognostication for the year of our Lord God, 1675. Being the third after bissextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, 5634. Wherein is contained the exact day, hour and minut of the new moon, her full and quarters; with the descriptions, and calculations of the visible eclipses; the daily disposition of the weather, and moveable feast; with the whole known fairs in Scotland. Exactly calculated according to art, for the meridian of the most famous city of Edinburgh. Whose latitude is deg. 56 min. 04. longitude is 21. 50. By I. C. mathematician.
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I. C.
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Edinburgh :: [s.n.],
printed for the year, 1675.
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"A new prognostication for the year of our Lord God, 1675. Being the third after bissextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, 5634. Wherein is contained the exact day, hour and minut of the new moon, her full and quarters; with the descriptions, and calculations of the visible eclipses; the daily disposition of the weather, and moveable feast; with the whole known fairs in Scotland. Exactly calculated according to art, for the meridian of the most famous city of Edinburgh. Whose latitude is deg. 56 min. 04. longitude is 21. 50. By I. C. mathematician." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23961.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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XXXI. May begins on Saturday. Sun riseth 2. min. before 4. sets 2. min. past 8.

  • ...Last quarter day, 26 min. past noon.
  • ...New moon 14 day, 56 min. past 3 in the afternoon.
  • ...First quarter 14 day, 40 min. past midnight.
  • ...Full moon 28 day, 48 min. past 7 at night.

This moneth beings fair and clear to the viii. day: thence to the xii. some thunder and rain: thence to the xx foggy and misty: the rest of the moneth pleasant weather.

The first day of May, called S. Philip, a fair in the Grange within the theriffdom of Linlithgow.

Holy Cross day, the second Beltan, in Monross, Kinrocher and in Peebles the 3 day, at Curlouk, and Drymen in the Le∣nox (with a weekly mercat every thursday) the 10 day at Bamff and at Kirkaldy, a fair of Horse, Neat and Sheep, &c. the 16 day, and in Stirling a fair 10 dayes before Whitsunday, Ascension day at the burgh of Annan.

Whiles in May, and whiles in June.

Whitsonmunday in Glasgow, Dumbartan, Lanerk and Jed¦burgh Whitsontuesday, called Pardon day, in the Chanrey of Ross, and at the Mirk of Ninans above Kircaldy, Trinity munday in Edinburgh, and Brichin 8 dayes: in S. Andrews

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one day, in Bruntiland one day, a fair in Kilsyth the friday before Whitsonday. A fair in the Burgh of Linlithgow. the first thursday after Whitsunday. Trinity tuesday in Rugland lasting 2 dayes, Trinity thursday in Falkland.

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