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Border Raids and Reivers

Gelesen von James R. Hedrick

A history of southern Scots families (reivers). "There are few more remarkable phenomena in the political or social life of Scotland than what is familiarly known as “Border Reiving.” In olden times it prevailed along the whole line of the Borders from Berwick to the Solway, embracing the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, and Dumfries. During a period of some three or four hundred years these districts were chiefly inhabited by hordes of moss-troopers, who made it the chief business of their lives to harry and despoil their English neighbours. …
"In coming to the consideration of this subject, there is one fact which it is well the reader should carefully bear in mind, and that is, that from the peculiar circumstances in which Borderers were placed in early times, the only alternative they had was either to starve or steal. The recognition of this fact will at least awaken our sympathy, if it does not always command our approval, when we come to consider the lives and characters of the Border Reivers." (Summary quoted from the text) (8 hr 10 min)

Chapters

Preface

2:41

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The Auld Enemy

21:10

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Percy’s Pennon

27:26

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Poor and Lawless

34:11

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Raids and Forays

39:43

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Wardens of the Marches

25:14

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The Day of Truce

28:55

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The Deadly Feud

31:30

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The Thieves Dauntoned

30:49

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Liddesdale Limmers

41:29

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After the Hunting

32:16

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The Corbie’s Nest

29:19

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Flagellum Dei

25:48

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Minions of the Moon

47:53

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Under the Ban

22:10

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The Triumph of Law

29:31

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The Harvest of Peace

20:26

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