Dec. 14.]

ST. TIBBA’S DAY.

This day was formerly celebrated in Rutlandshire by fowlers and falconers, who regarded the saint as their peculiar patroness. Camden mentions the town of Rihall as particularly addicted to this superstitious observance,[86] and the passage, which is strongly expressed, was ordered to be expunged from his Britannia by the Index Expurgationis, printed at Madrid in 1612 by Louis Sanchez.—Med. Ævi Kalend. vol. i. p. 82.