Editing Lammas (section)

==Name==
The name 'Lammas' comes from [[Old English]] {{Lang|ang|hlafmæsse}} meaning "[[loaf]] [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]]".<ref name="Hutton">{{Cite book |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |title=Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1996 |pages=330–331}}</ref> 

Several antiquarians suggested that the name 'Lammas' came from '[[Sheep|lamb]] mass'. [[John Brady (author)|John Brady]]<ref>Brady, ''Clavis Calendaris'', 1812, etc. ''s.v.'' "Lammas-Day".</ref> supposed that tenants of the Cathedral of York, dedicated to St Peter in Chains, of which this is the feast, were required to bring a live lamb to the church.<ref>Reported without comment in John Brand, Henry Ellis, J.O. Halliwell-Phillips, ''Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain'', new ed. 1899: vol. I, ''s.v.'' "Lammas".</ref>

Another name for the feast in the Middle Ages was the 'Gule of August'.<ref>J. P. Bacon Phillips, inquiring the significance of "''gule''", "Lammas-Day and the Gule of August", ''Notes and Queries'', 2 August 1930:83.</ref> It has been suggested, following the 18th-century Welsh clerical antiquary [[John Pettingall]],<ref>Pettingall, in ''Archaeologia or, Miscellaneous tracts, relating to antiquity...'' (Society of Antiquaries of London), '''2''':67.</ref> that this is an [[English language|anglicisation]] of ''{{lang|cy|Gŵyl Awst}}'', [[Welsh language|Welsh]] for "feast of August".<ref name="Hutton"/>