[Mick]

Here is another one i found while doing my family tree

This custom was still observed in Accrington upto 1857 when a wife has beaten her husband.
The neighbours put a small boy on a "stang or pole" and carry him through the streets in the neighbourhood where the beating took place,
Every now and again the procession stops and the boy recites this doggeral,to the accompaniment of pans and kettles struck by the crowd
"Ting,tong to the sign o the pan !
She has beat her good man
It was neither for boiled or roast,
But she up with her fist an
Knocked down mester post!

IT was notorious in Accrington that a six foot collier ,sturdy and strong in proportion to his height,
was constantly thrashed by his wife, who was a diminutive person with the temper of a spitfire.
One day a friend reproached him saying he wondered he allowed her to beat him,
and that it was making a scandal.
"Aw don't care," replied the goodnatured giant "it pleases her,an' it don't hurt me !"