APPENDIX
[The Last Prior and the "Fair Matilda"]
LAST LEGITIMATE PRESENTATION OF THE BACON.
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.