Image 016, folio 6b, A Prognostication; hours of moonlight, moveable feast dates
| A prognostication. | ||||
| is entred in [Virgo]* the 14 daye of the month. I must for every day past anye | ||||
| entrye adde one degree. There are seaven dayes past that entrye, then | ||||
| I conclude the sunne ready to have place in the 8 degree of [Virgo] ye 21 of Auguste. | ||||
| To know how long the moone shineth. | ||||
| For her shineinge in the encrease, multiply the age of the moone by 4. In the | ||||
| wane augmente the rest of the age which shee lacketh of 30 by 4. & divide by | ||||
| 5. The quotient sheweth the howres: the remaynes if there be any, multi= | ||||
| plied by 12 bringeth minutes to be added. | ||||
| How the moveable feastes are found readily. | ||||
| Seeke the chaunge of the moone in February, for that that yeare ye require | ||||
| these moveable feastes. Note what day it falleth on, the nexte tuesdaye is | ||||
| Shrove Tuesday. But if the chaunge be on tuesdays, the next tuesday ensue= | ||||
| inge is it. The nexte Sundaye is the first Sundaye of Lent. Sixe Sundaies | ||||
| after it Easter day. Adde 35 dayes, or five weekes to Easter day, yee have | ||||
| Rogation Sunday. To that adde 4 dayes, so yee have Ascention day. Then have | ||||
| yee 10 dayes to Whitsunday. Seaven dayes after is Trinity Sunday. And | ||||
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| Without tables, at all times to | ||||
| know the tides. | ||||
| Learne as is declared the age of the moone, allso remember the howre of the | ||||
| full or chaunge, for your place or poynte which doth never varie: these | ||||
| knowen, worke thus. | ||||
| Ensample. | ||||
| When the moone is 10 dayes olde, I desire to knowe at what of of ye clocke | ||||
| it is full sea at London bridge. Multiply 10 by fourty eighte, so have ye 480: | ||||
| divide that by 60, ye have eighte houres. To that adde three, which is the | ||||
| howre of the full or chaunge appoynted for that place. All then cometh | ||||
| unto eleaven of the clocke high water at London bridge. If anye thinge | ||||
| remayne they are minutes of an howre. If the howres amounte above | ||||
| twelve, cast the twelves awaye, the reste is your requeste. | ||||
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| These twoe rounde tables that nowe ensue,conduce to the rest follow= | ||||
| inge. |
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Transcribed by LF and JW