A RELIC OF MOB LAW.
A correspondent of the . London "Daily Telegraph" writes: The incident of "rantanning" reported recently as having taken place in the village of Quadring, Lincolnshire, to express local indignation against a woman whose tongue was apt to- "run"away with her,'"seems to have an analogy to a custom prevalent in Yorkshire in my boyhood days, called, if my memory is not at fault,"riding the stang," but now probably abandoned. A stang is a rod or long pole, and the practice consisted, when some unhappy individual, say, an habitual wife-beater, was deemed fitted for local derision, in a stang boing procured, of ton' from a fence, and borne on the shoulders of two men. On this a third individual would balance himself astride—a feat requiring some adroitness—and bo carried backwards and forwards in front of the house of the victim, to the accompaniment of can-beating arid shouting by a host of abettors. '
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 144, 20 June 1928, Page 19
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154A RELIC OF MOB LAW. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 144, 20 June 1928, Page 19
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