The Strange Story of the Dunmow Flitch

by J. W. Robertson Scott

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About this eBook

Author: Robertson Scott, J. W. (John William), 1866-1962
Title: The strange story of the Dunmow flitch
Original Publication: Dunmow: Dunmow: D. Carter, 1909.
Credits: Al Haines
Language: English
LoC Class: GT: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Manners and customs
Subject: Great Dunmow (England)
Category: Text
Project Gutenberg: eBook-No. 71995
Release Date: October 31, 2023
Copyright: Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1.The Strange Story of the Dunmow Flitch — INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I A Narrative of Nine Hundred Years — CHAPTER II The Priory and the Rhymester — CHAPTER III A Yeoman, a Husbandman and Thomas le Fuller — CHAPTER IV The Vanished Cloisters — CHAPTER V A Tale of Tyranny and War — CHAPTER VI The Jury of Spinsters — CHAPTER VII —And Bachelors — CHAPTER VIII The Bacon Refused — CHAPTER IX Enter the Novelist — CHAPTER X The Winners of the Bacon — CHAPTER XI The Scene at the Modern Ceremony — CHAPTER XII Another Flitch Custom — CHAPTER XIII The Bacon Over Sea — APPENDIX The Last Prior of Dunmow

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