'RIDINGS' AND 'CHAFFINGS.'
* : A singular custom used to prevail in 1 South Nottinghamshire and North | I Leicestershire. When a husband, forget- j ' ting his solemn vow to love, honour and 5 ' keep his wife, had recourse to physical | 1 force and beat her, the rustics organised j 1 what was called a "riding." A cart was j drawn through the village, in it two ! ' persons dressed so as to resemble the | 1 woman and her master. A dialogue j representing the quarrel was spoken and s ' a supposed representation of the beat- I • ing was inflicted. The performance was | 1 always specially enacted before the j 5 offender's door. Another and perhaps j less objectionable mode of shaming men S 2 out of a brutal and unmanly practice j was to empty a sack of chaff at the 1 offender's door—an intimation that ] "thrashing" had been "done within." j Perhaps the latter custom gave rise to I the term "chaffing." j
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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