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The Protestant almanack : for the year since [brace] the creation of the world 5695, the incarnation of Jesus Christ 1689 ... : being the first year after bissextile or leap-year, wherein the bloody aspects, fatal oppositions, diabolical conjunctions, and pernicious revolutions of the papacy ... are described ... calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the pope is elevated an hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right and religion ... and may without sensible errour indifferently serve the whole papacy / by Philoprotest.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698Date: 1689
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A pronostycacyon [sic] of Erra Pater, Doctor in Astronomye, and phesyke : profytable for to kepe the body in helth, [and] Ptholome sayth the same.
Erra PaterDate: [1545?]]
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The country almanack, for the year, 1676, being bissextile, or leap-year : suited to the several capacities, humours, and occasions of gentlemen, scholars, travellers, and husband men, &c. and accompanied with remarks in verse, upon every month in the year, pleasant, and not scurrilous : to which are subjoyned, many additionals, old and new, delightful to be read and useful to be known.
Martindale, Adam, 1623-1686Date: 1676
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Perkins. 1626 : A new almanacke and prognostication for the yeere of our Lord God 1626. and from the creation 5588. being the second after the leape yeere. Made and set forth by Samuel Perkins, well-willer to the mathematicks.
Perkins, Samuel, active 1625-1643Date: [1626]
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A yea and nay almanack for the people call'd by the men of the world Quakers : containing many needfull and necessary observations from the first day of the first month till the last day of the twelfth month : being a great year for procreation notwithstanding it is the second after the leaping year : calculated for the meridian of the bull and mouth within Aldersgate and may indifferently serve for any other meeting-house either in Wales or England.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698Date: 1678
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Friend 1623 : a new almanacke and prognostication, with the accompt be[y?]ond seas : wherin you may behold the state of this present yeare 1623, being the third from the leap-yeare : calculated for the latitude and meridian of the honourable citie of London / by Gabriel Friend.
Date: [1623]
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Friend 1614 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeere of our Lord God, 1614, being the second yeare from the leape yeare : calculated for the famous citty of London, and generally for all Great Brittaine / by Gabriel Friend.
Date: [1614]
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Friend 1620 : a new almanacke and prognostication wherein you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lord God, 1620, being bissextile or leape-yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all England / by Gabriell Friend.
Date: [1620]
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Friend 1622 : a new almanacke and prognostication wherein you may behold the state of this present yeere 1622, being the second from the bissext[i]le or leape-yeare : calculated for the latitude and meridian of the honorable city of London / by Gabriel Friend.
Date: [1622]
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Freind 1617 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1617, being the first from the leape yeare : calculated for the famous citty of London, and generally for all England / by Gabriell Freind.
Date: 1617
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Angelus solis et lunæ; or astronomical calculations from the Caroline tables : lately published by the author with astrological predictions thereon for the year of Christ, 1661 also a calendar, with the motions and aspects of the planets, from the best ephemerides extant. Referred to the zenith of the famous City of London, but reducible & useful unto all parts.
Streete, ThomasDate: 1663
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Freind 1618 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1618, being the 2 from the leap yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all England / by Gabriell Freind.
Date: 1618
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Astrology and the popular press : English almanacs, 1500-1800 / Bernard Capp.
Capp, B. S.Date: 1979
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Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1698 : being the second after leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Kings-Lynn ... and may very well serve for any part of England.
FlyDate: 1698
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Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1699 : being the third after leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Kings-Lynn ... and may very well serve for any part of England.
FlyDate: 1699
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Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687 : being the third after leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Kingslynn ... and may very well serve for any part of England.
FlyDate: 1687
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Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1689 : it being the first after the bissextile or leap-year and from the creation of the world, (as commonly computed) 5690 : calculated for the meridian of Kingslynn ... and may very well serve for any other part of England.
FlyDate: 1689
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Freind 1616 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1616,being leape yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all of England / by Gabriell Freind.
Date: 1616
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English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine : 1550-1700 / Louise Hill Curth.
Curth, Louise Hill.Date: 2007
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The stationers' voice : English almanacs in the early eighteenth century / Tim Feist.
Feist, Tim, 1975-Date: 2005
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Hysbys rwudd, a di honglad : am y blyny ddod pros buth wrth yppim ar arwudd ybo y flwuddyn yn dechre.
Morgan, Einon, active 1693Date: 1693
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Edinburgh's true almanack, or A new prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1685 : Being the first year after bissextile or leap year, and from the creation of the world, 5634. Exactly calculated according to art, for the meridian of the most famous city of Edinburgh, whose latitude is 56 d. 00 m. and longitude is 11 d. 37 m. from Pico Taniriff according to the newest tables. / By James Paterson mathematician.
Paterson, James (Mathematician), active 1685-1692.Date: For the year 1685
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Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1688 : It being the bissextile or leap-year and from the creation of the world, (as commonly computed) 5689. Calculated for the meridian of Kings-Lynn, where the Pole Artick is elevated, 52 deg. 43 min. above the horizon, and may very well serve for any other part of England.
FlyDate: 1688
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Whereas divers scandalous untruths and treasonable assertions against Our Person and government have heretofore been annually dispersed, under pretence of predicting and prognosticating future events, in several books commonly called almanacks and prognostications.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)Date: [1660]
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The Maryland & Virginia almanac; or Washington ephemeris: for the year of our Lord, 1798; ... Likewise, The way to wealth, Advice to young tradesmen and several useful tables.
Date: [1797]

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A pronostycacyon [sic] of Erra Pater, Doctor in Astronomye, and phesyke : profytable for to kepe the body in helth, [and] Ptholome sayth the same.

Perkins. 1626 : A new almanacke and prognostication for the yeere of our Lord God 1626. and from the creation 5588. being the second after the leape yeere. Made and set forth by Samuel Perkins, well-willer to the mathematicks.

Friend 1623 : a new almanacke and prognostication, with the accompt be[y?]ond seas : wherin you may behold the state of this present yeare 1623, being the third from the leap-yeare : calculated for the latitude and meridian of the honourable citie of London / by Gabriel Friend.

Friend 1614 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeere of our Lord God, 1614, being the second yeare from the leape yeare : calculated for the famous citty of London, and generally for all Great Brittaine / by Gabriel Friend.

Friend 1620 : a new almanacke and prognostication wherein you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lord God, 1620, being bissextile or leape-yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all England / by Gabriell Friend.

Friend 1622 : a new almanacke and prognostication wherein you may behold the state of this present yeere 1622, being the second from the bissext[i]le or leape-yeare : calculated for the latitude and meridian of the honorable city of London / by Gabriel Friend.

Freind 1617 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1617, being the first from the leape yeare : calculated for the famous citty of London, and generally for all England / by Gabriell Freind.

Freind 1618 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1618, being the 2 from the leap yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all England / by Gabriell Freind.

Astrology and the popular press : English almanacs, 1500-1800 / Bernard Capp.

Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1698 : being the second after leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Kings-Lynn ... and may very well serve for any part of England.

Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1699 : being the third after leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Kings-Lynn ... and may very well serve for any part of England.

Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687 : being the third after leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Kingslynn ... and may very well serve for any part of England.

Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1689 : it being the first after the bissextile or leap-year and from the creation of the world, (as commonly computed) 5690 : calculated for the meridian of Kingslynn ... and may very well serve for any other part of England.

Freind 1616 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1616,being leape yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all of England / by Gabriell Freind.

English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine : 1550-1700 / Louise Hill Curth.

The stationers' voice : English almanacs in the early eighteenth century / Tim Feist.

Hysbys rwudd, a di honglad : am y blyny ddod pros buth wrth yppim ar arwudd ybo y flwuddyn yn dechre.

Whereas divers scandalous untruths and treasonable assertions against Our Person and government have heretofore been annually dispersed, under pretence of predicting and prognosticating future events, in several books commonly called almanacks and prognostications.

The Maryland & Virginia almanac; or Washington ephemeris: for the year of our Lord, 1798; ... Likewise, The way to wealth, Advice to young tradesmen and several useful tables.