sentences:  In later years they were carried in the Flitch Chair, thought to be made from pew ends from the Priory Church.The original kneeling stones and 15C Flitch chair can still be seen within the church.The last recorded Priory trial was held in 1751 but the custom was revived in Victorian times following the 1854 publication of the novel "The Flitch of Bacon" by William Harrison Ainsworth
  
  , the Parish of Little Dunmow had an electoral population of 1459 divided between the old village (259) and the newer development of Flitch Green (1200).