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 The Dunmow Flitch is not a dish, but a side (flitch) of bacon awarded on Whit-Monday every four years, after a light-hearted ‘trial’ and great ceremony, to a married couple who can swear that they have neither quarrelled nor repented their marriage for one year and one day.  19th Century (?) Dunmow Trials Image: Unknown It is mentioned in Chaucer’s 14th century Canterbury Tales by the many-husbanded Wife of Bath; I sette hem so a-werke, by my fey, That many a nyght they songen “weilawey!” The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe.  Picture courtesy of The Dunmow Flitch Trials Committee  |
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