Ceeʹlict (St.)

or St. Calixtus, whose day is the 14th of October, the day of the Battle of Hastings.

Brown Willis tells us there was a tablet once in Battle parish church with these words:

“This place of war is Battle called, because in battle here

Quite conquered and oʹerthrown the English nation were.

This slaughter happenëd to them upon St. Ceelict’s day,” etc.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.