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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41236	Festa Anglo-Romana, or, The feasts of the English and Roman church, with their fasts and vigils being an exact and concise accompt of their various etymologies and appellations, with the reasons and grounds of their celebration : together with a succinct discourse of several other grand days in the universities, Inns of courts, and the collar and offering days at White-Hall, tending, to the instruction of all persons in all capacities, and the dilucidation of several seeming difficulties in the ancient, as well as modern English and Roman calendar / by a true son of the Church of England.	True son of the Church of England.	1678 (1678)	Wing F821; ESTC R7435	34,996	146

Licensed Octob. 11. 1677. Roger L'Estrange Festa Anglo-Romana OR The Feasts of the English and Roman Church with their Fasts and Vigils Being an Exact and Concise Accompt of their various Etymologies and Appellations with the Reasons and Grounds of their Celebration Together with a Succinct Discourse of several other Grand Days in the Universities Inns of Courts and the Collar and Offering Days at White-Hall Tending To the Instruction of all Persons in all Capacities and the Dilucidation of several seeming Difficulties in the Ancient as well as Modern English and Roman Calendar By a True Son of the Church of England London Printed for William Jacob and John Place and are to be sold at the Black Swan and Furnivals-Inn-Gate in Holborn 1678. MVNIFICENTIA REGIA 1715. GEORGIV● D.G. MAG BRVRET H●●●●● F.D. To the READER I Design not to Preface this small Tract with a Prolix Epistle for that were to make the Porch larger than the Temple but only to acquaint you that it is an Historical Collection of all the Feasts with the Fasts Vigils and Octaves Registred both in the English and Roman Rubrick together with their approved Etymologies Various Names and the True Grounds and Reasons of their Celebration A Treatise which differs from all others of this Nature that are hitherto extant both in its Method and Compendiousness for it begins according to the old Roman Computation of the year at the 1st of January and ends with the last of December giving an account of all the Festivals as they are placed successively in the Calendar And withal I must Advertise you to avoid Confusion that our Festivals are Intituled in an English and the Roman in an Italick Letter And thus I leave the Reader with these few necessary Instructions to the perusal of the Contents of this Book which may I presume tend to his more ample and plenary satisfaction The TABLE NEw-years Day Pag. 4 Epiphanie Pag. 6 St. Paul Pag. 10 Ianuary the 30th Pag. 11 Purification of the Blessed Virgin Pag. 12 St. Matthias Pag. 15 Sunday Pag. 20 Valentines-Day Pag. 23 Septuagesima Sexagesima Quinquagesima and Quadragesima Ibid. Shrovetide Pag. 27 Ash-Wednesday Pag. 28 St. David Pag. 29 St. Patrick Pag. 36 St. Joseph Pag. 37 Annunciation of the Holy Virgin ib. Palm-Sunday Pag. 39 Good-Friday Pag. 42 Easter Pag. 44 Low-Sunday Pag. 51 St. George Pag. 52 St. Mark Pag. 53 Misericordia Pag. 54 Phillip and Iacob ib. Holy-Cross Pag. 56 Rogation-Sunday Pag. 58 Holy Thursday Pag. 63 King Charles Birth Return Pag. 65 Penticost or Whitsontide Pag. 67 Trinity-Sunday Pag. 68 St. Barnabas Pag. 69 Corpus Christi Pag. 72 St. Iohn Baptist Pag. 74 St. Peter and St. Paul Pag. 75 Visitation of Mary Pag. 78 St. Swithins-Day Pag. 79 Dog-Days ib. Spanish Invasion Pag. 81 St. Iames. Pag. 86 St. Ann. ib. Lammas-Day Pag. 87 Gowrie's Conspiracy Pag. 91 Transfiguration Pag. 94 St. Lawrence Pag. 95 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Pag. 96 St. Bartholomew ib. Decollation of St. John Baptist Pag. 97 September the 2d the burning of London Pag. 98 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Pag. 99 Holy-rood-Day or Holy Cross ib. St. Matthew Pag. 100 St. Michael the Arch-Angel Pag. 102 The Apparition of St. Michael Pag. 103 St. Luke Pag. 104 Ursula a Brittish Virgin Pag. 105 St. Simon and Iude. ib. All Saints Pag. 108 All Souls ib. Gunpowder-Treason Day Pag. 110 Queen Catharines Birth-day Pag. 119 Presentation of the Virg. Mary Pag. 120 St. Clement Pag. 121 St. Andrew Pag. 123 Advent Sunday Pag. 124 Conception of the Virg. Mary ib. St. Lucia Pag. 125 St. Thomas ib. Christ Mass-Day Pag. 126 St. Stephan Pag. 128 St. Iohn Pag. 130 Innocents ib. In the Press a Printing in a Pocket-Volume Englands Remarks very much enlarged a fit Companion for all Travellers and others Festa Anglo-Romana HOly-Day in the Sacred Phrase is the same as separate or set apart to God being taken out of ordinary Days and dedicated to the Holy Service of God and his Worship tho none of them are certainly declared in the New Testament nor is any Christian obliged to the observance of those in the Old But the Holy Church hath thought fit and necessary for the Confirmation of Faith and the Exercise of the true Christian Religion that peculiar days should be cull'd out of the common whereon we should convene Politick affairs being laid aside in the Publick Assembly to hear God's Holy Word and to offer up the Calves of our Lips in Prayers to and Praises of the Almighty with Reading and Meditation Now as there is a Holy Feast Nehemiah the 8th and the 10th which our Church hath dedicated to the Religious Commemoration of some eminent Mercies and Blessings received among which some Festivals are of a superior degree in regard of the greatness of the Blessing remembred and the solemnity of the Service appointed to that purpose so there is an Holy Fast Joel 2. such as are Ash-Wednesday Good-Friday and the whole Week before Easter which the Church hath dedicated to God's solemn Worship in Fastings and Prayer The Holy-Days we divide into General and Particular The General are such as are generally celebrated by all Men and term'd Solemnities as the Circumcision Epiphany Purification Annunciation Resurrection Ascension c. the Particular are solemnized by some particular Church or some Country call'd Commune as those dedicated to the Apostles or by some Bishop's Sea Parish-Town or call'd the proper Holy-Days of the Place They are again divided in respect of the days whereon they fall in the Calendar into Moveable and Fixed The Moveable are those which tho celebrated on the same Week-day have no fixed seat in the Calendar The Fixed are such which fall upon divers days of the Week yet upon one and the same day of the Month. New-Years Day The first of January commonly called New-years Day of the old Roman Account which began the year from that day otherwise the Circumcision of our Lord being celebrated eight days after his Birth inclusively as it was on the Male-Children of the Jews according to the Judaical Law in memory of his Circumcision as the old Law commanded Genesis the 17th and the 12th when he was named Jesus Gr. a Saviour as the Angel had foretold St. Luke 1.32 Circumcision is deriv'd from the Latin Circumcido which signifies a cutting round about and in truth to speak more properly it is the cutting away of the Praepuce or double fore-skin which enfoldeth the Head or Extremity of the Virga Virilis and was perform'd with a very sharp Stone ordered and fitted for that use and not with an Iron Knife steel'd as some are of Opinion tho mistaken It was a Ceremony Prescribed by the Great Jehovah to Abraham the Father of the Faithful and his Posterity who were Heirs of the Divine Promise and Commanded to be sacredly observed by the Hebrews upon the severe penalty of Death as a sign and seal of the Covenant betwixt God and them and a