Common Ridings, if not quite a modern invention, were of course revived - though at Lauder, at least, there were still people alive who remembered them from their childhood.

The Lauder Common Riding seems to have been originally connected with the Ascension of the BVM (Lauder being on the pilgrimage route to St Mary's Haddington). Hence the incredibly Mariological town coat of arms - one does rather wonder how that went down at various points in time, though suspect that the answer was simply that local patriotism trumped Protestantism...