The Wychnor flitch

Beside the Dunmow flitch, Hone set out the similar custom of Wychnor in the Honour of Tutbury, from Dr Plot. Sir Philip de Somerville held the manor on condition that he kept a flitch of bacon hanging in his hall all year except in Lent, for any married man or woman after a year and a day of marriage, and for any priest a year after taking orders. The claimant brought two neighbours, knelt with his hand on a book laid over the bacon and a measure of wheat and rye, and swore he would not have changed his wife for any other, fairer or fouler, richer or poorer. He was then led out of the lordship with trumpets and minstrels, the bacon and corn carried before him on a horse.