Chapter I: Appendix: The Last Prior and the "Fair Matilda"

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LAST LEGITIMATE PRESENTATION OF THE BACON.--This record of the Shakeshaft ceremony is from an old print, "The Manner of Claiming the Bacon," etc., published by Bowles and appearing in _Hone's Everyday Book_. Note the realistic "sharp-pointed stones"; also that the headgear of the Shakeshafts agrees with that represented in Ogbourne's picture.

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PROCESSION AT THE LAST LEGITIMATE PRESENTATION OF THE BACON.--This Hogarthian record of the Shakeshafts carried in procession with their Bacon is from a painting by David Ogbourne, a local artist who witnessed the ceremony. Local personages are represented in the crowd. The ladies in front of the laden basket are said to be members of the Strutt family. The man mopping his head is Pownall, "the fat butcher of Stebbing."

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