DUNMOW FLITCH.
WON BY LABOUR M.P. AND WIFE
(BI CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 COSIBIOHT.) 4 (AO ST2 ALIAS AND, K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) j
(Received June 10th, 8.25 p.m.) 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 tho pleasure of "making it up" with his wife. - ■
[The Ihinmow Flitcli of Bacon was a prize instituted in 1244 by - Robert Fitz waiter. The condition of the award laid it down "that whatever married \>eoplo will g;o to the priory [of Little Dunmow, m Essex] and, Kneeling on two sharp-pointed stones, Avi.ll swear that they have not quarrelled nor repented of their marriage within a year and a day after its celebration, shall receive a, flitcli of bacon. The prize was first claimed in 1445, 200 years after it had beem instituted, and there had been only 13 awards up to the beginning of the present oentury. Of late years several couplesi "have sustained their claim to the flitch.]
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18096, 11 June 1924, Page 9
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