Re: The BBC interview

In message <60lj9tF1qtq6vU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Webster <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Has someone repealed the Calendar (New Style) Act (1750 c.23) then ?
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?ActiveTextDocId=1516754 Just because it is worth it ;-)

Whereas the legal supputation of the year of our Lord in England, according to which the year beginneth on the twenty-fifth day of March, hath been found by experience to be 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:

The old supputation of the year not to be made use of after Dec. 1751. Year to commence for the future on 1 Jan.The days to be numbered as now until 2d Sept. 1752; and the day following to be accounted 14 Sept. omitting 11 days. Hilary and Michaelmas terms, and all courts to be held on the same nominal days. Courts held with fairs or marts
>excepted. ....


In and throughout all his Majesty's dominions and countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, belonging or subject to the crown of Great Britain, the said supputation, according to which the year of our Lord beginneth on the twenty-fifth day of March, shall not be made use of from and after the last day of December one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one; and that the first day of January next following the said last day of December shall be reckoned, taken, deemed, and accounted to be the first of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two; and the first day of January which shall happen next after the said first day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two shall be reckoned, taken, deemed, and accounted to be the first day of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three; and so
>on ....


As luck would have it, I have just obtained a photocopy of the Parish register entry of my gggg-grandparents' marriage. It is clearly recorded as on the 11th Feb. 1751. By this Act, 1751 should have run from 25th March to 31st December. A year after Feb 1750 was Feb 1752. There were clearly some teething troubles with the new calendar.
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David Hartley
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