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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 AEneas Sylvius--