The Dunmow Flitch: a procession of people follow the winning couple who are being carried in a chair on the shoulders of four men while others walk in front carrying a piece of bacon on a stick. Engraving by C. Mosley after D. Ogborne, 1751.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], January 1752.

1 print : engraving

An exact perspective view of Dunmow, late the priory, in the county of Essex. With a representation of the ceremony, & processsion in that mannor, on Thursday the 20th June 1751. ... ...When Thomas Shakeshaft of the Parish of Weatherfield, in the county aforesaid Weaver, & Ann his Wife came to Demand and did actually receive a Gammon of Bacon, having first kneelt down upon two bare stones, within the Church door, and taken the said Oath, pursuant to the Antient Custom, in manner and form prescribed as aforesaid...

Wellcome Collection 28446i