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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution

Note 178 — Chapter V

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Life of Kettlewell. Appendix, Nos. ii., iii.

The following note to the Archbishop is among the Tanner MSS., xxvii. 101:—

“I find from St. Asaph’s that its your opinion, and some learned lawyers, that we are to be deprived the 15th or 16th of January, reckoning by the moon. I told him of Sir Edward Coke’s opinion—2d Instit. c. 5, fol. 361. and 6 Rep. Catesby—who, referring to a record in Edward the Second’s time in which the word menses occurs, says, ‘Qui menses in Calendario computantur.’

“27 December, 1689. W. Norw.”

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