An almanack for the island of Barbados, [electronic resource] : for the year of our Lord God 1797: Being the 1st after Bissextile or Leap Year. By Matthias Holst. Containing the Fixed and Moveable feasts. Lunations Sun's Rising and Setting. Length, Increase, and Decrease of Days and Nights. Eclipses. Entry and Court Days. Districts of the several precincts, Times of Surveyors of Highways to meet Vestries to Account. Public Officers. A plain and just Method of bringing and keeping Clocks and Watches to due Time. A correct Interest Table at 6l. per Cent, per Annum. A List of the Births and Reigns of the Crown'd Heads in Europe. The Guard and Excrcising Days. A Table of the Holidays observed at the Custom-House. The set Times of Meeting of the several Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons in this Island. A Table of all the Kings and Queen's Reigns, since the Conquest. A Calendar for the Hebrew Nation. A Table to lind the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon. With the Times of Closing the Mails in London, and Sailing of the Packets in every Month, for these Islands. A new Table of Chronological Events. And the new Commission of the Peace.