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See also:LAMMAS (0. Eng. hlammaesse, hlafmaesse, from hlaf, See also:loaf, and maesse, See also:mass, "loaf-mass") , originally in See also:England the festival of the See also:wheat See also:harvest celebrated on the 1st of See also:August, O.S. It was one of the old See also:quarter-days, being See also:equivalent to midsummer, the others being Martinmas, equivalent to Michaelmas, See also:Candlemas (See also:Christmas) and Whitsuntide (See also:Easter). Some rents are still payable in England at Lammastide, and in See also:Scotland it is generally observed, but on the 12th of August, since the alteration of the See also:calendar in See also:George II.'s reign. Its name was in allusion to the See also:custom that each worshipper should See also:present in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church a loaf made of the new wheat as an offering of the first-fruits.
A relic of the old " open-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field " See also:system of See also:agriculture survives in the so-called " Lammas Lands." These were lands enclosed and held in severalty during the growing of See also:corn and grass and thrown open to pasturage during the See also:rest of the See also:year for those who had See also:common rights. These commoners might be the several owners, the inhabitants of a See also:parish, freemen of a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, tenants of a See also:manor, &c. The opening of the See also:fields by throwing down the fences took See also:place on Lammas See also:Day (12th of August) for corn-lands and on Old Midsummer Day (6th of See also:July) for grass. They remained open until the following See also:Lady Day. Thus, in See also:law, " Lammas lands " belong to the several owners in See also:fee-See also:simple subject for See also:half the year to the rights of pasturage of other See also:people (Baylis v. Tyssen-See also:Amherst, 1877, 6 Ch. D., 50).
See further F. Seebohm, The See also:English See also:Village Community; C. I. See also:Elton, See also:Commons and See also:Waste Lands; P. See also:Vinogradoff, Villainage in England.
End of Article: LAMMAS (0. Eng. hlammaesse, hlafmaesse, from hlaf, loaf, and maesse, mass, "loaf-mass")
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