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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Title: 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.
Author: I. C.
Publication: Edinburgh :: [s.n.],; printed for the year, 1675.
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XXXI. July begins on Thursday. Sun riseth 36. min. before 4. sets 36. min. past 8.

...Last quarter 4 day, 22 min, past 9 at night.
...New moon 12 day, 39 min, past 3 afternoon.
...First quarter 19 day, 13 min. past high noon.
...Full moon 26 day, 11 min. past 2 afternoon.

Fair and hot to the vii. day: thence to the xi. cloudy, with some thunder and rain: from the xi. to the xxi. very warm: the moneth seems to end with rain.

A fair in Stow the 1 day of this moneth holding 2 dayes, and at Edzerstoun upon the Border, for all sorts of Cattel, and in Culross, and Bigger the 1 day; Abernethy and Auchter∣mughty 2 day, S Martin of Bulzeon 4 day, S. Thomas 5 day, S. Palladius in Forden in the Mernes 6 day, S. Andrew in Glasgow 7 day, a fair in the Burgh of Annan, and at Dalkeith •• tuesday of this moneth, in Kilwinning 12 day; the 13. S. Mar∣garet in Killimure, 6 days, at the Kirk of Forrig, the third tuesday in this moneth: Moffat, and at Kirkaldy, a fair of Horse Neat and Sheep, &c. the 18 day, a fair in Stirling the 20 day, Magdalen day in Lauder 22 day, with a weekly mercat every friday, Mary Magdalene in Linlithgow, Pettenweem, and Fath▪ head 22, in Airth the 24 day. S. Christina in Corstor∣phine 24 day. S. James in Forfar, Cowper of Fife, Lanerk, and Roxburgh, Kinghorn, Alloway, Elgin in Murry, and in Musselburgh the 25. Pollinar fair in Inverury, and Lamba fair in Turreff both on the last tuesday. The last thursday July a fair in Lesly, and at Whithorn two days. At Longhol 15 day of this moneth.