The Flitch of Bacon: Or the Custom of Dunmow; A Tale of English Home (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Harrison Ainsworth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330532244 ISBN 13 : 9781330532249

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

England, none have been more talked of than the BACON OP DUNMOW. So says Grose, and truly. The Dunmow Flitch has passed into a proverb. It is referred to by Chaucer, in a manner which proves that allusion to it was as intelligible in his day, as it would be in our own. The origin of the memorable Custom, hitherto enveloped in some obscurity, will be found fully explained in the course of this veracious history. Instituted by a Fitzwalter in the early part of the Thirteenth Century, the Custom continued in force till the middle of the Eighteenth the date of the following Ta JeT he last delivery of the Flitch occurred on the 20th June, 1751; and I possess a very curious print, quite Hogarthian in its character, from a drawing taken on the spot by David Ogborne, representing (apparently with great accuracy) the Ceremony and Procession on that occasion. This print has furnished me with a few hints for my Story. AC ustom, almost precisely similar to that of Dunmow, existed at Whichenoure, in Staffordshire, but is much less generally known. Pennant, who visited Whichenoure House in 1780, states, that it was remarkable for the painted wooden Bacon Flitch, still hung up over the hall chimney, in memory of the singular tenure by which Sir Philip de Somervile, in the time of Edward the Third, held the Manor. The Oath ran as follows :H ear ye, Sir Philip de Somer vile, lord of Wichenoure, maintainer and giver of this Bacon, that I, A., syth I wedded B.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330532244
• ISBN 13: 9781330532249
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 347
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