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BORDER RAIDS AND REIVERS.
BORDER RAIDS
AND
REIVERS
BY
ROBERT BORLAND
MINISTER OF YARROW
DALBEATTIE: THOMAS FRASER.
MDCCCXCVIII.
Printed at the Courier and Herald Offices,
Dumfries,
for
THOMAS FRASER, DALBEATTIE.
CONTENTS.
| PREFACE | xv. |
| I. | |
| THE AULD ENEMY. | |
| Page. | |
| Extent of Border reiving—Plunder and reprisal—All classes implicated—Double dose of original sin—Victims of an evil fate—Invasions—Threatened annexation of Scotland—Edward’s twofold policy—Sacking of Berwick—Feeling of hostility produced—Edward visits Scone and carries off Scottish Sceptre and Crown—Douglas and Edward Bruce—Borderers animated by a spirit of revenge | 1-14 |
| II. | |
| PERCY’S PENNON. | |
| Battle of Otterburn—Chief combatants—How the encounter was brought about—Destruction of the Abbeys—Meeting of the Scots at Aberdeen—Scottish army assembles at Yetholm—Method of attack determined upon—Earl Douglas marches through Northumberland—Ravages Durham—Returns to Newcastle—Hotspur and Douglas—Otterburn—Preparations for battle—The English assault—The Douglas slain—Hotspur taken prisoner—Humanity of Borderers | 15-32 |
| III. | |
| POOR AND LAWLESS. | |
| Condition of Scotland—Ancient monasteries—Description of country by Æneas Sylvius—Ignorance of the people—Laws cannot be enforced—The Barons supreme—Law against harbouring thieves—Every man’s hand against his neighbour—Pledges demanded—Banished north of the Forth—Scottish Borderers forbidden to marry daughters of “broken men” in England—No respect paid to the law—Execrable murders committed—Without religion—Hand-fasting | 33-54 |
| IV. | |
| RAIDS AND FORAYS. | |
| Invasions constantly occurring—Many lives sacrificed—How the reivers conducted their expeditions—Leslie’s account—Tracked by bloodhounds—Froissart’s description of Borderers—Invasion by Earl of Hertford—Raid by Sir Ralph Eure—Battle of Ancrum Moor—Lord Dacre’s devastations—Borderers retaliate—Horrid cruelties practised—Raid of the Reidswire—Indignation of English Queen—Morton’s concessions | 55-80 |
| V. | |
| WARDENS OF THE MARCHES. | |
| Generally officers of high rank—Scottish King limited in his choice—Wardens invested with arbitrary powers—Bonds of alliance—Of little or no value—Ignored when convenient—Wardens well remunerated—Duties pertaining to the office | 81-96 |
| VI. | |
| THE DAY OF TRUCE. | |
| Arrangements for dealing with offenders—Of a primitive character—Prisoners could not be detained in custody—Often took “leg-bail”—Day of Truce every month—Date and place made known by proclamation—The meeting of the Wardens—Regulations for conduct of business—Administering the oath—Three ways of trying cases—Bogus bills—Value of goods—Bills “fouled” or “cleared”—The hot-trod—Baughling—Lord Russell shot—Foster’s explanations | 97-115 |
| VII. | |
| THE DEADLY FEUD. | |
| Origin of the expression—Feuds of everyday occurrence—Occasioned by trifling circumstances—Inherited—Made the administration of the law difficult—Feud betwixt the Kers and Scotts—How occasioned—The Maxwells and Johnstones—A disastrous feud—Battle of Dryfe Sands—Murder of Johnstone—Lord Maxwell imprisoned—Returns to the Borders—Betrayed by Earl of Caithness—Beheaded in Edinburgh—Ker of Cessford slain—Pursuit of his murderers—How feuds staunched—Bonds of Assurance—Marriage—Pilgrimage—Assythment | 116-135 |
| VIII. | |
| THE THIEVES DAUNTONED. | |
| The “Family | |