The Steel Bonnets
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George Fraser MacDonald. The Steel Bonnets
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MAPS. The Border Clans
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION. The Border Reivers
I. Hadrian draws the line
II. The moving boundaries
III. England v. Scotland, 1286–1500
IV. Border country
V “A martial kind of men”
VI. Food and shelter
VII. The riding surnames
VIII. Hands across the Border
IX. Bangtail and company
X. The game and the song
XI. Lance and steel bonnet
XII. How the reivers rode
XIII. Nothing too hot or too heavy
XIV. A parcel of rogues
XV. Carleton’s raid
XVI. Hot trod and red hand
XVII. The ability to kill
XVIII. The Wardens of the Marches
XIX. Leges Marchiarum
XX. Days of Truce
XXI. The unblessed hand
XXII. Terror, blackmail, kidnapping and “decaie”
XXIII “Fyre and sword upon Tuesday next”
XXIV. Flodden and after
XXV. The Devil, and Lord Angus
XXVI. Armstrongs in action
XXVII. A rope for Black Jock
XXVIII. The violent peace
XXIX. The Road to Solway Moss
XXX. The rough wooing
XXXI. Wharton and Maxwell
XXXII. England’s grip broken
XXXIII. The Debateable Land
XXXIV. The women’s touch
XXXV. Queen on the Marches
XXXVI. The Countess and the reivers
XXXVII. The last armies
XXXVIII. Reidswire and Windygyle
XXXIX. The stirring world of Robert Carey
XL “Fyrebrande”
XLI. Lances to Carlisle
XLII. The Carleton Brothers
PART FIVE. The Middle Shires
XLIII. Carey’s ride
XLIV. Breaking the Border
XLV. Malefactors of the name of Graham
XLVI. The thieves dauntoned
XLVII. After the riding
APPENDIX I. The Archbishop of Glasgow’s “Monition of Cursing” against the Border reivers
APPENDIX II. The ballad of Kinmont Willie
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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