In one of the documents we have the phrase ‘Thursday the six & twentieth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord according to the Computation now used in England on Thousand six hundred and sixtie’ the date that a Matthew Girling surrendered the land that he had taken after the death of his father Robert Girling in 1648.
We all know about the Gregorian and Julian Calenders. The date of the change was 1752, though the change actually appears at different times in Church Registers depending how the news spread and it can be any time between 1751 & 1753 and also gets muddled with the change to the start of the year which was not always 1st January.
Pope Gregorie had decreed that the calendars had got out of line by 11 days as early as 1582. Some countries accepted his new calendar and started the year at 1st January but Great Britain apparently didn’t until 1752
