“The Scottish navy was powerful enough and enterprising enough to interfere with the commerce of England” “Another Scottish vessel called the Great Spaniard lies at Dieppe, pursuing the same course, and is aided by France”…
The Scots are coming! Everyone get your weapons and assemble [muster] in Carlisle to defend against the Scots, if you don’t muster then it is a capital offence – The Scots may kill you but…
The Border Laws Printed in Bishop Nicholson's Leges Marchiarum. (London, 1705.) From which we are given blackmail, whitemail, the Hot Trod, The Cold Trod, The Fray, Broken Men, over-swearing, fishing in The Tweed, Hue and…
[This is raw database entry from file L records not used. This entry to be clarified and illustrated later.] L1002 Henry VII Order to Carlisle to Defend Against Scots Letter from Henry VII ordering Carlisle…
Unlawful Games 59- Item, if any person or persons suffer hereafter any unlawful games to be played at or within his house or garden shall forfeit for every time. And the player at the same…
Pacification of The Borders The Pennington Archive Cumbria: The West March of England. Cumberland and Westmorland The Warden of the West March of England was based in Naworth Castle, where the "capon tree" still has…
Bishops Curse THE ARCHBISHOP OF GLASGOW'S "MONITION OF CURSING" against the Border reivers Hear 25 seconds of cursing to hell! Or click to hear the full 9 minutes of cursing!: Gude folks, heir at…
Bishops Curse EXTRACT of THE ARCHBISHOP OF GLASGOW'S "MONITION OF CURSING" - one of the most comprehensive excommunications of all time. "I curse thair heid and all the haris of thair heid; I curse thair…
THE ARCHBISHOP OF GLASGOW'S "MONITION OF CURSING" An Interpretation of the Bishop’s Curse by Peter Nicholson Good folks, here at my Archbishopric of Glasgow letters under this round seal direct me or any other chaplain,…
John Armstrong The Lairds Jock By Walter Scott Enough has been said and sung about "The well contested ground, The warlike border-land---" to render the habits of the tribes who inhabited them before the union…
Scots' Dike earthwork marking Scotland / England frontier of 16th century Debateable Land The double ditch and embankment of the Scots' Dike are still identifiable in parts, though now little more than a low mound…
