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  1. Village in Essex, England, scene every four
  2. years of the Dunmow Flitch trial (dating from
  3. 1111), in which a side of bacon is presented
  4. to any couple who `will swear that they have
  5. not quarrelled nor repented of their marriage
  6. within a year and a day after its
  7. celebration'; they are judged by a jury whose
  8. members are all unmarried.
  9.