Married couples have taken home the bacon after going on trial to prove their undying love for one another. The Dunmow Flitch trials - a tradition going back at least to the 12th Century - were held ...
Dating back hundreds of years, the Dunmow Flitch trials involve five couples trying to convince a jury of bachelors and maidens that they are totally in love. Should they succeed, they win a flitch - ...
The Dunmow Flitch Trials are a coy folk ritual of some ­antiquity, whereby couples try to convince a jury of “six maidens and six bachelors” that they’ve spent the first year and a day of wedlock in a ...