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Dunmow Flitch Trials

Great Dunmow, Essex, 09/07/2016

The Dunmow Flitch Trials exists to award a flitch of bacon to married couples from anywhere in the world, if they can satisfy the Judge and Jury of 6 maidens and 6 bachelors that in 'twelvemonth and a day', they have 'not wisht themselves unmarried again'.
A reference to The Dunmow Flitch can even be found in The Wife of Bath's Tale within Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales.
The Flitch Trials are held every 4 years in Great Dunmow, Essex, England.

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Great Dunmow, Essex, 09/07/2016<br />
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The Dunmow Flitch Trials exists to award a flitch of bacon to married couples from anywhere in the world, if they can satisfy the Judge and Jury of 6 maidens and 6 bachelors that in 'twelvemonth and a day', they have 'not wisht themselves unmarried again'.<br />
A reference to The Dunmow Flitch can even be found in The Wife of Bath's Tale within Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales.<br />
The Flitch Trials are held every 4 years in Great Dunmow, Essex, England. <br />
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Picture: MARK BULLIMORE PHOTOGRAPHY