134 – The Era of Diocletian was the prevalent one at this time,
and till the general adoption of the Christian Era, which
did not become established until the 8th Century. See
Mr. Hensley’s article ‘Era’ in Dict. of Christ. Antiq. He
gives there the rule for reducing the Era of Diocletian,
the epoch of which is Aug. 29th A.D. 284, to the Christian
Era, viz. to add 283 years and 240 days to the given date
of Diocletian’s Era. According to this the Easter of the
89th year of Diocletian would be A.D. 373, and that of
the 93rd would be A.D. 377. The ‘times lately past’ would
probably refer to A.D. 383, when, as may be seen by the
Table, the ‘fourteenth moon’ fell on a Sunday.
135 – There is a slight error here. The interval is 32 days,
not 31.
136 – There is some uncertainty about the reading here. The
original reading in the text was ‘biennium,’ and, as
this clearly did not agree with the facts the Benedictine
Editors adopted a suggestion that ‘biennium’ was a
mistaken rendering of a MS. which had ‘vi-ennium.’ But
the period of 6 years would not be precise, as the year
referred to must be A.D. 379, (see table,) which would be
seven years before.