"Lammas Day, or the First of August is suppose to be so called, because formerly on that day our ances -tors offered bread made of new wheat; and anciently those tenants that held lands of the Cathedral church o York, were by Tenure to bring a lamb alive into Chur at high mafs." Dyche's Dictionary.

It is still a custom in Wales for the parochial Clerg to collect their tythes in Lambs on the first of Auguft

*See Denteronomy, Chap. XVI.