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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:18 AM Apr 2014

The Dunmow Flitch

The custom in Dunmow, Essex, is to award a flitch of bacon to any couple who would swear that for the past year and a day neither of them repented of their marriage. Instituted by Lord Fitzwalter in the reign of Henry III. "Whatever married man did not repent of his marriage or quarrel with his wife in a year and a day after it should go to his priory and demand the bacon on his swearing to the truth, kneeling on two stones in the churchyard."

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The Dunmow Flitch (Original Post) My Good Babushka Apr 2014 OP

It's bacon! shenmue Apr 2014 #1

Hey -- this is interesting! HeiressofBickworth Apr 2014 #2

Cool! nt My Good Babushka Apr 2014 #3

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. It's bacon!

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Apr 14, 2014, 07:30 AM

Apr 2014

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

2. Hey -- this is interesting!

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Apr 14, 2014, 08:11 PM

Apr 2014

Henry III lived between 1207-1272. My ancestor, Lord Robert Fitzwalter lived between 1247 - 1324. There were some years when they existed simultaneously. And my ancestor was living in Dunmow, Essex. I wonder if it's the same guy who started the Dunmow Flitch.

My Good Babushka

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3. Cool! nt

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Tue Apr 15, 2014, 05:38 AM

Apr 2014

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