the day of St Peter ad vincula, which is celebrated on the fifth of August. It is called the gule of August, from the Latin gula, "a throat," for this reason, that one Quirinus, a tribune, having a daughter that had a distaste in her throat, went to Pope Alexander, the sixth from St Peter, and desired of him to see the chains that St Peter was chained with under Nero; which request being granted, and she, kissing the chains, was cured of her distaste; whereupon the Pope instituted this feast in honour of St Peter; and, as before, this day was termed only the calends of August, it was on this occasion called indifferently either the day of St Peter ad vincula, from what wrought the miracle; or the gule of August, from that part of the virgin wherein it was wrought.