Common-Riding

plural Common-Ridings

1. alternativeAlternative form of common riding.

   The flag of the town, an old and battered pennon, has recently been replaced by a new one, which is carried in the Common-Riding.

   2014, Peter Hempson Ditchfield, Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time, page 70

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   Mr. Scott, who was present at the Common-Riding this year, left for Boston, which had become his adopted home, by the steamer Celtic little more than a fortnight ago, accompanied by Mrs. Scott and his son, Mr. James Scott.

   1889 September 21, “The Woolen Factory”, in Fibre & Fabric, volume 10, number 238, page 238

   The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.

   1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240