Common-Riding

English Noun en common riding. en September 21, 1889 Fibre & Fabric The Woolen Factory 10 238 238 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. en 1898 The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal R. S. Craig, Adam Laing 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. en 2014 Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time Peter Hempson Ditchfield 70 The flag of the town, an old and battered pennon, has recently been replaced by a new one, which is carried in the Common-Riding.