Rain on Processus and Martinian

The feast of Saints Processus and Martinian fell on 2 July. The 1849 edition of Brand prints two Latin lines on the day, copied by the antiquary Cole from an early manuscript into the forty-fourth volume of his collections. They warn that if it rains on this feast there will be heavy rain and the grain will be choked. The rule is one of several that read the summer’s weather from a single July saint’s day, like St Swithin’s a fortnight later.