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.
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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.
Author
Fox, George, 1624-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for Benjamin Clark ...,
1683.
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English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40205.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 125
A perpetual Almanack.
1
Dom. LETTER
Years of the Lord
2
7
4
9
6
3
11
5
10
21
8
D
1674
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
C
5
B A
6
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
G
7
F
8
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
E
9
DC
1680
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
B
1
A
2
29
30
31
G
3
FE
4
G
F
E
D
C
B
A
D
5
C
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
B
7
descriptionPage 126
THE EXPLANATION.
IN the three upper Columns are the 12 Months, and under them the Figures for the daies of the Month, from 1 till 31 under them the Dominieal Letters; and in the lower part the figures for the Days of the Week, from the first day to these∣venth, and on the two Columns on the left Hand, first has the Dominical Letters, and the other the Year of the Lord.
Now to know the Day, first find out the Year, next see what Dominical Letter is against that Year, which Letter find in the lower part of the Almanack, and the Figure under that is the Day of the Week for thy Observation for the whole Year, only every Leap-year hath two Dominical Letters; the first gives the Observation for the eleventh and twelfth Month, and and the next for all the Year after.
descriptionPage 127
In the Year 1675. C is the Dominical Letter for that Year, which directs to the fifth Day, being under it, which is the Observation for that Year: So that the first fifth Day of the first Month, is the fourth day of the Month; the first fifth Day of the second Month, is the first Day of the Month, and so reckon for∣ward.
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