Xxx. June begins on Friday.
Sun riseth 44. min. before 4. sets 44. min. past 8.
- Bull Moon on Tuesday 5. day, 45 m. past 10 morning.
- Last quarter on Tuesday 12. day, 11 m. past 2 morning.
A new prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord 1677 Being the first after leap-year. Containing the moveable feasts: the eclipses the four quarters of the year: the changes of the moon, with the disposition of the weather. The dismal dayes. And the whole known fairs of Scotland. With other observations. Serving most fitly for the most part of the Kingdom of Scotland, but more especially for our city of Glasgow, where the pole is elevated 55. deg. 55. min. At Aberdene, by an expert mathematician.
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- A new prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord 1677 Being the first after leap-year. Containing the moveable feasts: the eclipses the four quarters of the year: the changes of the moon, with the disposition of the weather. The dismal dayes. And the whole known fairs of Scotland. With other observations. Serving most fitly for the most part of the Kingdom of Scotland, but more especially for our city of Glasgow, where the pole is elevated 55. deg. 55. min. At Aberdene, by an expert mathematician.
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"A new prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord 1677 Being the first after leap-year. Containing the moveable feasts: the eclipses the four quarters of the year: the changes of the moon, with the disposition of the weather. The dismal dayes. And the whole known fairs of Scotland. With other observations. Serving most fitly for the most part of the Kingdom of Scotland, but more especially for our city of Glasgow, where the pole is elevated 55. deg. 55. min. At Aberdene, by an expert mathematician." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A24427.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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- Change on Wednesday 20. day, 15 m. pas•• 1 morning.
- F••••st quarter on Thursday 28. day, 18 m. past 1 morning.
Hot and dry to the 14. day: thence to the n••••••so ••••••mer ••howers, thence to the 19. very hot dry o••ther: thence the 24.25. some thunder and lig••••ning and all the rest of the moneth fair and pleasant sum•••• weather.
In this moneth at the full of Moon; gather herbs to keep dry the whole year. Weed your corn fields and gardens•• set, rosem and gilly-flowers: sow lettice, shear sheep, the Moon increasin•…•…
Drink new or sweet, caste not at all, For thereby grows no danger small: And to thy self such pastime take, As may in God thee merry make.
A fair in Kinross the first tuesday of June. Bernard f•…•… 〈…〉〈…〉 second tuesday: in Stramiglio, Aberdour and Ennerkei•…•… •…•…ng the 6. A weekly mercat in Forfar, beginning the 8. of Ju•• of neat, sheep, horse, &c. continuing till the first of Octob. fair in Forgondeny the 10. S. Barnabie in Lawder and Dyse•• Dowglas, S. Laurence in Grinock the 11. day. S. Marga•• ••n. Abernethy: Ceres in Fise the 13. Midsummer on S. Jo••••y in S. Joh••ston five dayes, in Air four dayes; in Wig•• Bamff and Athelston the 14. in Auchtertueil & Chiskina•••• and Bocklyvie in the Parish of Kippon the 15. Saint. M••∣gares in Dumsermling, and at Mossat the 18. day ••n which place there is a weekly mercat every friday. Ear•••• ••slon the 19. Methil the 22. day. Midsummer day in Hawi•• in the South, hard by the river of Teviot, for horse, sheep, ox•••• and ••••at, &c. on the 24. day, together with a weekly mere•• ••ay always upon the thursday. Also in Forres, Townyetum•• the border the 24. day, of horse, neat and sheep, &c, the 24. wil•• a weekly mercat. In Alathy in Angus, called S. Emagolath 25. S. Peters day at Forfar the 26. holding four dayes. A•••••• also in Falkland, Burntiland, Bamff, and Kelso the 26. Gallas∣••iels the ••9. In Peeble••th ••9. S. Seriss fair the last tuesday of this moneth. S John Baprist day a fair in Frazerburgh the ••4. day. There is also a fair called S. Margarets fair on the thir••
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tuesday of this mon••th upon the Mains of Keith-hall, someti•…•… ••legde••ed Caskiben, continuing the whole week, and to be custom 〈…〉〈…〉 for two years.