Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox.

The Significations of divers Words com∣monly used, but hard to be under∣stood.

ACcent, (Latin word) due sound, or an insisting particularly upon one Syllable of any Word more than another, and is threefold, Acute, Grave, and Cir∣cumflex; the Circumflex insisteth very long upon a Syllable, and is thus chara∣ctered (̄) the Grave very little, and is thus charactered (`) the Acute insisteth upon a Syllable, but not with so full a Sound as the Circumflex, and is thus cha∣ractered (´).

Bible, (Greek) containing several Books.

Evangelist, (Greek) a bringer of glad Tidings, a Preacher of the Gospel.

Ephemerides, (Greek) Journals, or Books wherein daily Actions are registred, also Astronomical Calculation.

Epact, A certain number of daies, by which the Solary Year exceedeth the Lu∣nary, which number of Excess is eleven, in regard the Lunary consisting but of 29

daies, and one and a half maketh but 354 daies in a year, whereas the Solary Year hath 365 days and a quarter: For the Equation of which Years differing thus eleven daies, certain daies are yearly sup∣plied by the Epact, never exceeding 30 (because the daies between change and change of the Moon never exceed that number) until a thirteenth Month be∣added, whereby every third year be∣comes Embolismal, being a Lunary Leap∣year.

Embolism, (Greek) signifieth a casting in of the day which is added to the Leap∣year.

To find out the Epact of each year, do thus; To the Epact of the last year add 11. and the sum of these two make the Epact, if it surmount 30 then take 30 out, and that which rests above 30 is the Epact for that year.

To know the age of the Moon by the Epact without an Almanack; add the daies of the Month wherein thou wouldst know the Epact; and as many daies; more as are Months from the first Month called March, to that Month, including

both Months, out of the which substract 30 as often as may be the age remaineth; if nothing remain, the Moon changeth that day.

The Golden Number, so called because it was written in the Kalender with Letters of Gold, right at the day whereon the Moon changed; and it is the space of 19 Years in which the Moon returneth to the self-same day of the Year of the Sun, and therefore is called the Circle of the Moon, in the which the Solstices and Equinoctials return to all one point in the Zodiask.

To find it every Year, add one Year to the Year of Christ, then divide the whole by 19. and that which resteth is the Golden Number for that Year, if there be no Surplusage, it is then 19.

Note, That the Golden Number and Do∣minical Letter doth change every year the first day of the eleventh Month, and the Epact the first day of the first Month for ever; and the Year alwaies begins the twenty fifth of the first Month.