DUNMOW FLITCH
WON BY LABOUR M.P. AND WIFE
(Per Press Associatiour—Copyright.) LONDON, June 9. Mr T. I. Mardy Jones, Labour M.P. for Pontypridd, and his wife have won the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon. Mr Jones declares that their connubial existence has been so full of concord that he has never experienced the pleasure of "'making it up " with his wife.
[The Dunmow Flitch of Bacon was a prize instituted in 1244 by Robert Fitzwalter. The conditions of the award laid it down "that whatever married people will go to the oriory [of Little Dunmow, in Essex] and, kneeling on two sharp-pointed stones, will swear that they have not quarrelled nor repented of their marriage within a .year and a day after its celebration, shall receive a flitch of bacon. The prize was first claimed in ' 1445, 200 years after it had been instituted, and there had been only 13 awards up to the beginning of the present century. Of late years several couples have sustained their claim to the flitch.]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10134, 11 June 1924, Page 5
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