Gules of August (The)
.The 1st of August (from Latin, gula, the throat), the entrance into, or first day of that month. (Wharton: Law Lexicon, p. 332.)
“‘Gula Augustiʹ initium mensis Augusti. Le Gule dʹAugust, in statuo Edw. III., a. 31 c. 14, averagium œstivale fleri debet inter Hokedai et gulam Augusti.”—Ducange: Glossarium Manuale, vol. iii. p. 866.
(“Hokeday est dies Martis, qui quindenam Paschœ expletam proxime excĭpit.”—Vol. iv. p. 65 col. 1.]
