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Flitch (bacon)
The awarding of a flitch of bacon to married couples who can swear to not having regretted their marriage for a year and a day is an old tradition, the remnants of which still survive in Great Dunmow, Essex. The Dunmow tradition originated at the nearby Little Dunmow, where it was practiced until the mid-eighteenth century. The origin of the custom is unknown, but according to tradition it was instituted by Robert Fitzwalter in the 13th century. The Dunmow flitch was referred to in ''Piers Plowman'' and by Chaucer, and seems to have already been widely-known at that time. A similar tradition practiced at Wychnor in Staffordshire can be traced back to the fourteenth century; related customs are also known from mainland Europe in Brittany and Vienna. The Dunmow tradition died out after 1751. Over the following century, several couples attempted to claim the flitch but were turned down, before the tradition was revived in 1855, largely inspired by the novel ''The Flitch of Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruikshank Shakeshaft
Cruikshank ( ) is a surname of Scottish origin, and is a spelling variation of Cruickshank. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Cruikshank (1820–1859), Australian politician * Brad Cruikshank (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player * Chester Cruikshank (1913–1970), American athlete * Dan Cruikshank (born 1949) architectural historian and broadcaster * Dane Cruikshank (born 1995), American football player *George Cruikshank (1792–1878), English caricaturist *Holly Cruikshank (born 1973), American dancer *Isaac Cruikshank (1756–1811), Scottish painter and caricaturist *Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789–1856), caricaturist, illustrator, and portrait miniaturist *Lucas Cruikshank (born 1993), web producer and creator of ''Fred'' * Marcus Henderson Cruikshank (1826–1881), Confederate States of America politician * Margaret Cruikshank (born 1940), American feminist writer and scholar * Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1878–1955), American academic administrator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coggeshall
Coggeshall ( or ) is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in Essex, England, between Braintree and Colchester on the Roman road Stane Street and the River Blackwater. In 2001 it had a population of 3,919. It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by King Henry III. Etymology There has been a long history of debate about the meaning of the name Coggeshall. Different pronunciations and spellings have been used throughout its history and many theories as to the name's origin have arisen. The name appears as ''Kockeshale'' around the year 1060. while the first element may be an Old English personal name (''Cocc'' or ''Cogg''). Margaret Gelling associated the name Coggeshall with the landscape in which it is situated, believing that ''-hall'' comes from Anglo-Saxon ''healh'', meaning a nook or hollow, thus rendering the name as "Cogg's nook" (with Cogg as a proper name), corresponding to Coggeshall's sunken position in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husbandman
A husbandman in England in the Middle Ages and the early modern period was a small landowner. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman. The meaning of "husband" in this term is "master of house" rather than " married man". According to anthropologist Charles Partridge, in England "Husbandman is a term denoting not rank but occupation... Knights, esquires, gentlemen and yeomen were also husbandmen if occupied in agriculture, but were never styled ''husbandmen'' because of their right to be styled knights, etc. The agriculturist who had no right to be styled knight or esquire or gentleman, and who, not being a forty-shilling freeholder was not a yeoman, was described as husbandman." It has also been used to mean a practitioner of animal husbandry, or in American English, a rancher. Origin and etymology The term ''husband'' refers to Middle English , from Old English , from Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bawburgh
Bawburgh () is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, lying in the valley of the River Yare about west of Norwich city centre. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 466, increasing to 595 at the 2011 census. Bawburgh is very close to the relatively new Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the Bowthorpe Estate. The name is first recorded as ''Bauenburc'' in 1086 and is from Old English 'stronghold of a man called Beawa.' The mill at the centre of the village was the original site of the manufacture of Colman's mustard. There is a pub called The King's Head. Bawburgh is a significant location in the legend of St Walstan, the 10th-11th century patron saint of farm labourers. According to legend, Walstan was born at Bawburgh (or possibly Blythburgh in Suffolk) into a Saxon noble family circa 970, but at the age of 12 gave up his privileged life, choosing instead to work as a farm labourer in Taverham. His initial jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeoman
Yeoman is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of Serfdom, servants in an Peerage of England, English royal or noble household. The term was first documented in Kingdom of England, mid-14th-century England. The 14th century witnessed the rise of the yeoman English longbow, longbow Archery, archers during the Hundred Years' War, and the yeoman outlaws celebrated in the Robin Hood ballads. Yeomen joined the English Navy during the Hundred Years' War as Sailor, seamen and archers. In the early 15th century, yeoman was the rank of chivalry between Page (servant), page and squire. By the late 17th century, yeoman became a rank in the Royal Navy for the common seamen who were in charge of ship's stores, such as foodstuffs, gunpowder, and sails. References to the emerging social stratum of wealthy land-owning commoners began to appear after 1429. In that year, the Parliament of England re-organized the House of Commons of Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his ''Worthies of England'', published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen (and his many patrons).Stephen, Leslie (1889). " Thomas Fuller". In ''Dictionary of National Biography''. 20. London. pp. 315-320. Early life Fuller was the eldest son of Thomas Fuller, rector of Aldwinkle St Peter's, Northamptonshire. He was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608. Dr John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to John Aubrey, Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit". At thirteen he was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge, then presided over by John Davenant. His cousin, Edward Davenant, was a tutor there. He did well academically; and in Lent 1624–1625 he became B.A. and in July 1628, at only 20 years of age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Peabody Magoun
Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. MC (6 January 1895 – 5 June 1979) was one of the seminal figures in the study of medieval and English literature in the 20th century, a scholar of subjects as varied as soccer and ancient Germanic naming practices, and translator of numerous important texts. Though an American, he served in the British Royal Flying Corps (later Royal Air Force) as a lieutenant during World War I. Magoun was victor in five aerial combats and was also decorated with Britain's Military Cross for gallantry. Early life and military career Magoun was born to a prosperous family in New York City. His parents were Francis Peabody Magoun (1865–1928) and Jeanne C. Bartholow (1870–1957). He received his primary education at the St. Andrew's School in Concord, Massachusetts, and at the Noble and Greenough School in Boston. He took his bachelors degree at Harvard in (1916), and in February of that year signed on with the American Field Service. From 3 March – 3 Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon
Gammon may refer to: People * Archer T. Gammon (1918–1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * James Gammon (1940–2010), American actor * James Gammon (engraver) (), English engraver * Kendall Gammon (born 1968), American football player * Reg Gammon (1894–1997), English painter * Richard Gammon (born 1898), English World War I flying ace * Richard Von Albade Gammon (1879–1897), American football player * Roland Gammon (1915–1981), American writer * Russell Gammon (1906–1968), Canadian rower * Steve Gammon (born 1939), Welsh footballer * Wayne Gammon (born 1950), Australian rower Other uses * De Gammon, the language of Irish Travellers * Gammon (tables games), a double win in Backgammon and other tables games * Gammon, a word in Australian Aboriginal English with various meanings, mainly relating to lying or pretence * Gammon (insult), a British pejorative insult term * Gammon (meat), a cut of quick-cured pork leg * Gammon, the rope las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunmow Flitch Oath , a village located about 3 miles outside the town of Great Dunmow
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Dunmow may refer to: *Great Dunmow, a town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England **Dunmow railway station, a disused station *John Dunmow, a Canon of Windsor *Little Dunmow Little Dunmow is a village situated in the Uttlesford district, in rural Essex, England, in the vale of the River Chelmer about east-southeast of the town of Great Dunmow. It can be reached from the Dunmow South exit of the A120 by following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ogborne
David Ogborne (died 1800–1801) was an English artist. He depicted local events and curiosities in his home county Essex. Life Ogborne married and settled before 1740 in Chelmsford, Essex, where he is described in the register as a "painter" or "limner". He gained a certain reputation by his portraits of local provincial monsters, such as a winged fish taken at Battlebridge, and a calf with six legs produced at Great Baddow; but he painted also a portrait of Edward Bright, a grocer of Maldon, Essex, who weighed 43½ stone. This portrait was engraved by James MacArdell, and published on 1 January 1750, Another of his portraits was of Thomas Wood, the miller of Billericay. Ogborne is better known as the artist of "An exact Perspective View of Dunmow, late the Priory in the County of Essex. With a Representation of the Ceremony and Procession in that Manor, on Thursday the 20 June 1751. Engraved from an Original Painting taken on the Spot by David Ogborne, published January 1752. En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
