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 Dunmow Flitch.Dun’stable. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Duns Scotus.
 
A schoolman, called Duns from Dunce in Berwickshire. (1265–1308.) Not John Scotus, Erig&echeck;na, the schoolman, who died A.D. 875.   1
 


 Dunmow Flitch.Dun’stable. 

 
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