Thomas and Ann Shakeshaft carried on a sedan chair by villagers to claim the Flitch of Bacon in Dunmow, Essex, 1751. Copperplate engraving after George Cruikshank from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

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