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Four market towns fill up the rest of this part of the country Dunmow, Braintree, Thaxted, and Coggeshall all noted for the manufacture of bays, as above, and for very little else, except I shall make the ladies laugh at the famous old story of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, which is this: One Robert Fitzwalter, a powerful baron in this county in the time of Henry III., on some merry occasion, which is not preserved in the rest of the story, instituted a custom in the priory here: That whatever married man did not repent of his being married, or quarrel or differ and dispute with his wife within a year and a day after his marriage, and would swear to the truth of it, kneeling upon two hard pointed stones in the churchyard, which stones he caused to be set up in the Priory churchyard for that purpose, the prior and convent, and as many of the town as would, to be present, such person should have a flitch of bacon.
At last, in May, 1647, an assembly of freemen from the four towns of Portsmouth, Newport, Providence, and Warwick met at Portsmouth, and proceeded to make laws in the name of the whole body politic, incorporated under the charter. The first president was John Coggeshall; and Roger Williams and William Coddington were two of the first assistants.
To these may be added the Chronicle of Ralph Niger, with the additions of Ralph of Coggeshall, that of Gervase of Canterbury, and the interesting life of St. Hugh of Lincoln.
John's charter of concession, however, expressly affirms this consent, and the barons on one occasion seem to have confirmed the assertion. See J.H. Round's article on William in Dict. Nat. Biogr., vi. 229. See C.L. Falkiner in Proc. Royal Irish Acad., xxiv. c. pt. 4 . See Round, Commune of London, 261-277. Ralph of Coggeshall, 164-165. Walter of Coventry, ii, lviii. n. 4.
The bride Margaret, who was somewhat after this merry fashion brought home to Coggeshall, came from Clare, the ancient home of the Coggeshall Paycockes.
"When, in 1816, George Coggeshall coasted the Mediterranean in the 'Cleopatra's Barge, a magnificent yacht of 197 tons, which excited the wonder even of the Genoese, the black cook, who had once sailed with Bowditch, was found to be as competent to keep a ship's reckoning as any of the officers.
His family originally came from Clare, in Suffolk, but about the middle of the fifteenth century a branch settled at Coggeshall, a village not far distant. His grandfather and father would seem to have been grazing butchers, but he and his brother and their descendants after them followed 'the truly noble manufacture' of cloth-making, and set an indelible mark upon the village where they dwelt.
Paris, ii. 455. Rymer, Foedera, i. 140. Rymer, Foedera, i. 75. But see Guilhiermoz, Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes, lx. , 45-85, whose argument is, however, not convincing. Roger of Wendover, iii. 170. Ralph of Coggeshall, 139-141. L'Histoire de Guillaume la Marechal, ll. 12737-12741.
Your heads must come To the cold tomb: Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall This was a gallant cloathier sure Whose fame for ever shall endure. The great and noble trade of cloth-making has left many traces upon the life of England, architectural, literary, and social.
The "Leo," for example, at this time was under command of Captain George Coggeshall, the foremost of all the privateers, and a man who so loved his calling that he wrote an excellent book about it. Under an earlier commander she made several most profitable cruises, and when purchased by Coggeshall's associates was lying in a French port.
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