A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom : adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved (1776)
Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778 · London : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers ..., & R. Baldwin ... · leaf 309
and here are two fairs held, fortoys only, one of which is on the fixth of May, and the otheron the eighth of November. The church ftands near a milenorth from the main ftreet, in a bottom, and is a large neatbuilding. In the parifti of Little Dunmow, which is two miles fromthe town of Dunmow,… … THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 179 the jocular tenures of England, none have been more talkedor than the Bacon of Dunmow. It does not appear whoinftituted this cuftom, but it is generally fuppofed to be oneof the family of Fitzwalter. The prior and canons wereobliged to deliver the bacon to the perfon…
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