<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> attended with divers inconveniences, not only as it differs from the usage of neighbouring nations, but also from the legal method of computation in Scotland, and from the common usage throughout the whole kingdom, and thereby frequent mistakes are occasioned in the dates of deeds and other writings, and disputes arise therefrom . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> attended with divers inconveniences, not only as it differs from the usage of neighbouring nations, but also from the legal method of computation in Scotland, and from the common usage throughout the whole kingdom, and thereby frequent mistakes are occasioned in the dates of deeds and other writings, and disputes arise therefrom . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> In England and Wales, the legal year 1751 was a short year of 282 days, running from 25 March to 31 December . 1752 began on 1 January . To align the calendar in use in England to that on the continent, the Gregorian calendar was adopted: and the calendar was advanced by 11 days: Wednesday 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14 September 1752 . The year 1752 was thus a short year (355 days) as well . </P> <P> As well as adopting the Gregorian rule for leap years, Pope Gregory's rules for the date of Easter were also adopted . However, with religious strife still on their minds, the British could not bring themselves to adopt the Catholic system explicitly: the Annexe to the Act established a computation for the date of Easter that achieved the same result as Gregory's rules, without actually referring to him . The algorithm, set out in the Book of Common Prayer as required by the Act, includes calculation of the Golden Number and the Sunday Letter, which (in the Easter section of the Book) were presumed to be already known . The Annexe to the Act includes the definition: "Easter - day (on which the rest depend) is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon, which happens upon, or next after the Twenty - first Day of March . And if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter - day is the Sunday after ." The Annexe subsequently uses the terms "Paschal Full Moon" and "Ecclesiastical Full Moon", making it clear that they only approximate to the real Full Moon . </P>

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