[166] See Seabury, The theory and use of the Church Calendar in measurement and distribution of time, p. 120. Other devices of the astronomers which would reduce the error to only one day in a thousand centuries are noticed in the same work.
[167] Sir Harris Nicholas, Chronology of History, pp. 32-34; Giry, Manuel de Diplomatique, pp. 165-167.
[168] Notices of these Menologies will be found in Kellner’s Heortology, 387-393: and on both the Menology and the Menaea (in twelve volumes, corresponding to the months from September to August) see the Dissertation de libris et officiis ecclesiasticis Graecorum appended to Cave’s Historia Literaria.
[169] Nilles’ Kalendarium Manuale, tom I., and Prince Maximilian’s Praelectiones, pp. 122-221, may be consulted by the curious.
[170] The great doxology corresponds substantially to Gloria in excelsis; and the little doxology to Gloria Patri, etc.
[171] See Suicer’s Thesaurus, s.v.
[172] The 318 bishops at Nicaea in A.D. 325.
[173] p. 84.
[174] See Neale’s Holy Eastern Church, II. pp. 743, 749, 753.
[175] See Gee and Hardy, Documents illustrative of the history of the Church of England, pp. 150, 173.