Common-Riding

English

Noun

Common-Riding (plural Common-Ridings)

1. Alternative form of common riding
   • 1889 September 21, “The Woolen Factory”, in Fibre & Fabric, volume 10, number 238, page 238:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     The flag of the town, an old and battered pennon, has recently been replaced by a new one, which is carried in the Common-Riding.