r and Mrs Linacre at the swearing ceremony for the Dunmow flitch. Contestants who have convinced the jury of maidens and bachelors that they have not argued for a year and a day swear, in front of the bishop of Colchester that they have never wished themselves unwed. This ceremony id believed to be of Anglo-Saxon origin.

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