June 29.] St. Peter’s Day
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.