Lammas is one of the four cross-quarter days of the year, as they are now denominated. Whitsuntide was formerly the first, Lammas the second, Martinmas the third, and Candlemas the last. Some rents are yet payable at these ancient quarter-days in England, and they continue general in Scotland.--Timbs, _Things not Generally Known_, 1856, p. 154; see Soane’s _New Curiosities of Literature_, vol ii. p. 123; Brand’s _Pop. Antiq._ 1849, vol. i. p. 347. It was once customary in England to give money to servants on Lammas Day, to buy gloves; hence the term _glove-silver_. It is mentioned among the ancient customs of the Abbey of St. Edmund, in which the clerk of the cellarer had 2_d._, the cellarer’s squire, 11_d._, the granger, 11_d._, and the cowherd a penny.--_Med. Ævi Kalend._ vol. i. p. 334. DEVONSHIRE. The charter for Exeter Lammas Fair is perpetuated by a glove of immense size, stuffed and carried through the city on a very long pole, decorated with ribbons, flowers, &c., and attended with music, parish beadles, and the nobility. It is afterwards placed on the top of the Guildhall, and then the fair commences; on the taking down of the glove the fair terminates.--_Every Day Book_, vol. ii. p. 1059. ISLE OF MAN. The first Sunday in August is called, by the Manks peasantry, _yn chied doonaght a ouyr_. On that day they crowd in great numbers to the tops of the highest hills, in the north to the summit of Snafeld, and in the south to the top of Barule. Others visit the sanative wells of the island, which are held in the highest estimation. The veneration with which the Pagan deities were regarded having been transferred along with their fanes and fountains to Christian saints, sanctified and sanative wells became the resort of the pious pilgrim, and by the credulous invalid libations and devotions were, according to ancient practice, performed at these holy springs, which were believed to be guarded by presiding powers to whom offerings were left by the visitants. Many a wonderful cure is said to have been effected by the waters of St. Catherine’s Well at Port Erin; by the Chibbyr Parick, or well of St. Patrick, on the west end of the hill of _Lhargey-graue_; by Lord Henry’s Well on the south beach of Laxey, and by the well at Peel, also dedicated to St. Patrick, which, says the tradition, just sprang forth where St. Patrick was prompted by Divine instinct to impress the sign of the cross on the ground. Many extraordinary properties were ascribed to the Nunnery Well, but the most celebrated in modern times for its medicinal virtues is the fine spring which issues from the rocks of the bold promontory called Maughold Head, and which is dedicated to the saint of the name, who, it appears, had blessed the well and endowed it with certain healing virtues. On this account it is yet resorted to, as was the pool of Siloam of old, by every invalid who believes in its efficacy.