Dominical Letters C B, in a Leap-year.

c. 9. Mon. d.

9. Tues. e.

9. Tues.

e.

9. Wed. f.

9. Thur. g.

9.

9. Sun.

10. Thur. g. 10. Fri.

a.

Io. Sat.

c. 1o. Mon.

a. II. Sat.

BII. Sun.

d. 11. Tues.

a. 8. Fri. g. 8. Fri.

b. 9. Sat. a. 9. Sat.

C 10. Sun. B 1o. Sun. d. 1o. Tues. e.
d. 11. Mon. c. 11. Mon. e. 11. Wed. f.
e. 12. Tues. d. 12. Tues. f. 12. Thur. g. 12. Fri.
f. 13. Wed. e. 13. Wed. g. 13. Fri. a. 13. Sat.
g. 14. Thur. f. 14. Thur. a. 14. Sat.
a. 15. Fri. g. 15. Fri.

10. Wed. f. 10. Wed. f. 11. Thur. g. 11. Thur. g. 11. Fri. a. 12. Fri. a. 12. Sat. B 12. Sun. c. 12. Mon. e. 12. Wed. b. 13. Sat. B13. Sun. c. 13. Mon. d. 13. Tues. f. 13. Thur. B14. Sun. C 14. Sun. c. 14. Mon. d. 14. Tues. e. 14. Wed. g. 14. Fri. B15. Sun. c. 15. Mon. d. 15. Mon. d. 15. Tues. e. 15. Wed. f. 15. Thur. a. 15. Sat. b. 16. Sat. a. 16. Sat. c. 16. Mon. d. 16. Tues. e. 16. Tues. e. 16. Wed. jf. 16. Thur. g. 16. Fri. C 17. Sun. B 17. Sun. d. 17. Tues. e. 17. Wed. f. 17. Wed. f. 17. Thur. a. 17. Sat. d. 18. Mon. c. 18. Mon. e. 18. Wed. f. 18. Thur. g. 18. Thur. g. 18. Fri. B18. Sun. c. 19. Tues. d. 19. Tues. f. 19. Thur. g. 19. Fri. a. 19. Fri. a. 19. Sat. B 19. Sun. c. 19. Mon. e. 19. Wed. f. 20. Wed. e. 20. Wed.g. 20. Fri. a. 20. Sat. b. 20. Sat. B 20. Sun. c. 20. Mon. d. 20. Tues. f. 20. Thur. g. 21. Thur. f. 21. Thur. a. 21. Sat. B21. Sun. C21. Sun. c. 21. Mon. d. 21. Tues. e. 21. Wed. g. 21. Fri. a. 22. Fri. g. 22. Fri. B 22. Sun. c. 22. Mon. d. 22. Mon. d. 22. Tues. e. 22. Wed. f. 22. Thur. a. 22. Sat. c. 23. Mon. d. 23. Tues. e. 23. Tues. e. 23. Wed. f. 23. Thur. g. 23. Fri. B23. Sun. C 24. Sun. B 24. Sun. d. 24. Tues. e. 24. Wed. f. 24. Wed. f. 24. Thur. g. 24. Fri. a. 24. Sat. c. 24. Mon. d. 25. Mon. c. 25. Mon. e. 25. Wed. f. 25. Thur. f. 25. Thur. g. 25. Fri. a. 25. Sat. B25. Sun. d. 25. Tues. e. 26. Tues. d. 26. Tues. f. 26. Thur. g. 26. Fri. a. 26. Sat. B 26. Sun. c. 26. Mon. e. 26. Wed. f. 27. Wed. e. 27. Wed. g. 27. Fri. B 27. Sun. c. 27. Mon. d. 27. Tues. f. 27. Thur. g. 28. Thur. f. 28. Thur.a. 28. Sat. c. 28. Mon. d. 28. Tues. e. 28. Wed. g. 28. Fri. B 29. Sun. d. 29. Tues. e. 29. Wed. f. 29. Thur. je. 30. Wed. f. 30. Thur. g. 30. Fri. f. 31. Thur. a. 31. Sat.

A Calendar for any Year

(Julian or Gregorian),

commencing on the 1st of January with

Saturday.

Dominical Letters B A, in a Leap-year.

c. 10. Mon. b. 10. Mon.

d.

1o. Wed. e.

10. Thur. f. 10. Thur. f. 10. Fri.

11. Thur. f.

11. Fri.

g. II. Sat.

12. Fri.

g. 12. Sat.

g. 13. Sat.

A 14. Sun.

g. 15. Sat.

g. 18. Fri.
a. 19. Sat.
B 20. Sun.

g. 10. Sat.
A11. Sun.

A 10. Sun. c. 10. Tues.

b. 11. Mon. d. 11. Wed.

A 15. Sun.

g. 16. Sat.

b. 16. Mon.

g. 17. Sat.

A 17. Sun.

d. 11. Tues. c. 11. Tues. e. g. 11. Fri. c. 12. Wed. d. 12. Wed. f. a. 12. Sat. A 12. Sun. b. 12. Mon. c. 12. Tues. e. 12. Thur. f. 13. Thur. e. 13. Thur. A 13. Sun. B13. Sun. b. 13. Mon. c. 13. Tues. d. 13. Wed. f. 13. Fri. f. 14. Fri. g. 14. Fri. b. 14. Mon. c. 14. Mon. c. 14. Tues. d. 14. Wed. e. 14. Thur. g. 14. Sat. a. 15. Sat. b. 15. Mon. c. 15. Tues. d. 15. Tues. d. 15. Wed. e. 15. Thur. f. 15. Fri. B16. Sun. A 16. Sun. c. 16. Tues. d. 16. Wed. e. 16. Wed. e. 16. Thur. f. 16. Fri. c. 17. Mon. b. 17. Mon. d. 17. Wed. e. 17. Thur. f. 17. Thur. f. 17. Fri. c. 17. Tues. d. 18. Tues. c. 18. Tues. e. 18. Thur. f. 18. Fri. g. 18. Sat. A 18. Sun. b. 18. Mon. d. 18. Wed. e. 19. Wed. d. 19. Wed. f. 19. Fri. g. 19. Sat. A 19. Sun. b. 19. Mon. c. 19. Tues. e. 19. Thur. . 20. Thur. e. 20. Thur. g. 20. Sat. A 20. Sun. b. 20. Mon. c. 20. Tues. d. 20. Wed. f. 20. Fri. f. 21. Fri. g. 21. Fri. A 21. Sun. b. 21. Mon. c. 21. Mon. c. 21. Tues. d. 21. Wed. e. 21. Thur. g. 21. Sat. b. 22. Mon. c. 22. Tues. d. 22. Tues. d. 22. Wed. e. 22. Thur. f. 22. Fri. A 22. Sun. c. 23. Tues. d. 23. Wed. e. 23. Wed. e. 23. Thur. f. 23. Fri. g. 23. Sat. b. 23. Mon. . 24. Mon. b. 24. Mor. d. 24. Wed. e. 24. Thur. f. 24. Thur. f. 24. Fri. g. 24. Sat. A 24. Sun. c. 24. Tues. i. 25. Tues. c. 25. Tues. e. 25. Thur. f. 25. Fri. f. 25. Fri. g. 25. Sat. A 25. Sun, b. 25. Mon. d. 25. Wed. e. 26. Wed. d. 26. Wed. f. 26. Fri. g. 26. Sat. g. 26. Sat. A 26. Sun. b. 26. Mon. c. 26. Tues. e. 26. Thur. F. 27. Thur. e. 27. Thur. g. 27. Sat. A 27. Sun. A 27. Sun. b. 27. Mon. c. 27. Tues. d. 27. Wed. f. 27. Fri. f. 28. Fri. A 28. Sun. b. 28. Mon. b. 28. Mon. c. 28. Tues. d. 28. Wed. e. 28. Thur. g. 29. Sat. b. 29. Mon. c. 29. Tues. c. 29. Tues. d. 29. Wed. e. 29. Thur. f. 29. Fri. A 30. Sun. c. 30. Tues. d. 30. Wed. e. 30. Thur. f. 30. Fri. g. 30. Sat. b. 31. Mon. d. 31. Wed. e. 31. Thur. f. 31. Fri.

g. 22. Sat.

. 22. Sat. B23. Sun. A 23. Sun.

g. 28. Fri.
■. 29. Sat.
B 30. Sun.
31. Mon.

A 31. Sun.

g. 28. Sat.
A 29. Sun.
b. 30. Mon.
c. 31. Tues.

Roman and Church Calendar,

A

with historical notes,

from the

Black Book of the Exchequer.

S part of the original library of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer, we may reckon the volume, termed the "Black Book," from the colour of its ancient binding, well known by that name. It contains:

I. A lift of Dominical Letters, extending from the year 1184 to the year 1715.

II. A Calendar or Almanac for the twelve months of the year, in which, at various periods, fhort notices or memoranda have been introduced, of remarkable occurrences, fuch as births and deaths of kings, battles, appointments of treasurers, chamberlains, and other officers of the exchequer.

III. Drawings in outline (apparently coeval with the Calendar), viz., the Eagle, the emblem of St. John, the Bull, the emblem of St. Luke; an Angel, the emblem of St. Matthew; and a winged Lion, the emblem of St. Mark; accompanied by verses from the several gospels. "It is poffible," fays Sir Francis Palgrave, in his account

of the Calendars and Inventories of H. M. Exchequer, "that these representations and verfes were used for the " purpose of administering an oath, as upon the gospels." In the cabinet of M. Baudot at Dijon was to be seen, in 1815, a volume, if it can be fo called, confifting of four wooden tablets, containing paintings or representations of the Evangelifts, together with the initial verses of each gospel, upon which the ancient Dukes of Burgundy took the oath of inauguration. Tablets of the same description are still used for the purpose of administering the oaths in fome of the London companies.

IV. Entries of writs, and official memoranda, made from time to time, evidently to serve as precedents.

The precise year when the "Calendar of the Black Book" was begun, cannot be given with certainty. The earliest memorandum in it records the death of King John [A.D. 1216] noted thus, "O. R. J." written in a church text hand, fimilar to that in use at the time of King John. From the colour of the ink, the character of the handwriting, and other fimilar circumftances, all the entries appear to be coeval with the events which they commemorate. The Dominical Letter "D," which appears in the margin on each page of the Calendar, ferves fomewhat as a guide to the year when the Calendar was begun, probably in one of the following years, 1187, 1198, 1209, or 1215, to which the Letter "D" belongs.

The following tranflations have been made as well from the "memoranda" in the Black Book, as from an Exchequer book of Fifteenths and Tenths, which last book bears date 3 Henry 5.

These memoranda are evidences of the fact that the year beginning on the 25th of March, known as the

English legal year, was written, and not the Julian

year.

4 January. This day Ralph Lord Cromwell Knight, one of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, died A.D. 1455, and 34th year of Henry vj.

28 January. Death of King Henry the viijth A.D. 1546.

31 January. This day, Monday, King Edward the vjth was proclaimed King at Westminster A.D. aforefaid [1546].

1 February. Coronation of King Edward, the third from the Conquest [1326].

16 February. The Aliens had reftitution of all their poffeffions, 35 Edward III.

25 February. Coronation of Edward [II.], son of King Edward, A.D. 1307.

"Cum bifextus fuerit, quarta die a cathedrâ Sancti "Petri fiat feftum San&ti Matthiæ Ap: F littera bis "numeretur." [Exchequer Book of Fifteenths and Tenths, 3 Henry V. A.D. 1415].

4 March. This day, A.D. 1460, the most illuftrious Prince Edward, Earl of March, fon and heir of Richard Duke of York, began to reign.

20 March. This day King Henry the IV th died, in the 14th year of his reign.

21 March. This day Henry the Vth, his fon, began to

reign.

22 March. This day, Dominical Letter C, 15 Edward II, Thomas Earl of Lancaster was beheaded at Pontefract.

3 April. This day, 41 Edward III, was a battle at Navaret, in Spain, between the excellent Prince of Aquitain, eldeft fon of the fame king, and the