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See also:DUNMOW (properly See also:GREAT DuxMow) , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Epping (W.) See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, on the See also:river Chelmer, 40 M. N.E. by N. from See also:London on a See also:branch of the Great Eastern railway. Pop. (1901) 2704. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary is Decorated and Perpendicular. The town was corporate from the 16th See also:century until 1886. See also:Roman remains have been discovered. Two See also:miles E. is the See also:village of LITTLE DUNMOW, formerly the seat of a priory, remarkable for the See also:custom of presenting a flitch of See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
bacon to any couple who could give See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that they had spent the first See also:year of married See also:life in perfect See also:harmony, and had never at any moment wished they had tarried. In See also:place of the monastic judicature a See also:jury of six bachelors and six maidens appear in the 16th century. A
rhyming See also:oath, quoted by See also:Fuller, was taken. The institution of this See also:strange matrimonial prize—which had its parallel at Whichanoure (or Wichnor) in See also:Staffordshire, at St Moleine in See also:Brittany, and apparently also at Vienna—appears to date from the reign of See also:John. The first instance of its See also:award recorded is in 1445, and there are a few others. But there are references which suggest its previous award in Piers Plowman and See also:Chaucer. The Chaucerian See also:couplet conveys the See also:idea of an award to a patient See also:husband, without reference to the wife. A revival of the custom was effected in 1855 by See also:Harrison See also:Ainsworth, author of the novel The Flitch of Bacon, but the See also:scene of the ceremony was transferred to the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of Great Dunmow. It has since been maintained in altered See also:form. (For details see See also:Chambers's See also:Book of Days, ii. 948-751; and W. See also:Andrews, See also:History of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon Customs, 1877.) See also:Close to Little Dunmow is See also:Felsted (q.v.) or Felstead; and See also:Easton See also:Lodge (with a railway station), a seat of the See also:earl of See also:Warwick, is in the vicinity.
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