Note 36 — Chapter I

It is as well to remind the reader that before the year 1752, the civil or legal year began on the 25th of March (Lady Day), while the historical year began on the 1st of January, for civilians called each day within that period one year earlier than historians. The alteration in the calendar took place by Act of Parliament, on the 2nd day of September, 1752, when it was enacted that the day following should be the 14th instead of the 3rd of September.—“Nicolas’s Notitia Historica.”