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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Maps

Introduction: The Border Reivers

Part One: THE MAKING OF A FRONTIER

I: Hadrian draws the line

II: The moving boundaries

III: England v. Scotland, 1286–1500

Part Two: PEOPLE OF THE MARCHES

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

Part Three: “SHAKE LOOSE THE BORDER”

XI: Lance and steel bonnet

XII: How the reivers rode

XIII: Nothing too hot or too heavy

XIV: A parcel of rogues (William Armstrong of Kinmont, Walter Scott of Harden, Geordie Burn)

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 (Maxwells v. Johnstones, Grahams v. Irvines, Kerrs v. Scotts, Scotts v. Elliots, Selbys v. Grays)

XXII: Terror, blackmail, kidnapping and “decaie”

XXIII: “Fyre and sword upon Tuesday next”

Part Four: THE LONG GOOD-NIGHT, 1503–1603

XXIV: Flodden and after. Biographical note on Thomas Dacre

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. Note on the prisoners of 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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