At one time, the tradesmen of Limerick marched, on Midsummer Day, arranged under their respective leaders, decorated with sashes, ribbons, and flowers, and accompanied with a band of musicians, and the shouts of the delighted populace, through the principal streets of the city, while their merry-men played a thousand antic tricks, and the day generally ended in a terrible fight between the Garryowen and Thomond-gate boys (the tradesmen of the north and south suburbs).--Fitzgerald and Macgregor’s _History of Limerick_, 1827, p. 540. JUNE 25.] YORKSHIRE. In the village of Micklefield, about ten miles east of Leeds, it is the custom on the second day of the feast, (June 25th) for about twelve of the villagers,[73] dressed, in their best garb, and wearing a white apron _à l’épicier_, to carry a large basket (generally a clothes-basket) to each farm-house in the village, the occupier of which seems to consider it his bounden duty to give them a good supply of confectionery of some kind to take away with them, and ale _ad libitum_ to drink in his house.--_N. &. Q. 3rd S._ vol. iii. p. 263. [73] These villagers call themselves “_Joss Weddingers_.” (?) JUNE 29.] ST. PETER’S DAY. On this day many of the rites peculiar to the festival of St. John the Baptist were repeated. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. It appears from the _Status Scholæ Etonensis_ (A.D. 1560) that the Eton boys had a great bonfire annually on the east side of the church on St. Peter’s Day, as well as on that of St. John Baptist. KENT. The stranger who chances to attend Divine service in Farnborough parish church on the Sunday next after the feast of St. Peter, has his attention arrested by the floor of the porch being strewed with reeds. By an abstract of the will of George Dalton, Gent., of Farnborough, dated December 3rd, 1556, set forth on a mural tablet in the interior of the church, he learns that this gentleman settled a perpetual annuity of 13_s._ 4_d._ chargeable upon his lands at Tuppendence: 10_s._ to the preacher of a sermon on the Sunday next after the feast of St. Peter, and 3_s._ 4_d._ to the poor. Local traditional lore affirms that Mr. Dalton was saved from drowning by reeds, and that the annual sermon and odd manner of decorating the porch are commemorative of the event. This day is called by the inhabitants of the village, Reed Day or Flag Day.--_Maidstone Gazette_, 1859. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.