Printed at the Courier and Herald Offices,
Dumfries,
for
THOMAS FRASER, DALBEATTIE.
| PREFACE | xv. |
| I. | |
| THE AULD ENEMY. | |
| Page. | |
| Extent of Border reiving—Plunder and reprisal—All classesimplicated—Double dose of original sin—Victims of an evil fate—Invasions—Threatened annexation of Scotland—Edward’stwofold policy—Sacking of Berwick—Feeling of hostility produced—Edward visits Scone and carries offScottish Sceptre and Crown—Douglas and Edward Bruce—Borderersanimated 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 ofthe Scots at Aberdeen—Scottish army assembles at Yetholm—Method of attack determined upon—Earl Douglasmarches through Northumberland—Ravages Durham—Returns to Newcastle—Hotspur and Douglas—Otterburn—Preparationsfor battle—The English assault—The Douglas slain—Hotspur taken prisoner—Humanity of Borderers | 15-32 |
| [Pg viii] | |
| III. | |
| POOR AND LAWLESS. | |
| Condition of Scotland—Ancient monasteries—Description of country by Æneas Sylvius—Ignorance of the people—Lawscannot be enforced—The Barons supreme—Law against harbouring thieves—Every man’s hand against his neighbour—Pledgesdemanded—Banished north of the Forth—Scottish Borderers forbidden to marry daughters of “broken men”in England—No respect paid to the law—Execrable murders committed—Without religion—Hand-fasting | 33-54 |
| IV. | |
| RAIDS AND FORAYS. | |
| Invasions constantly occurring—Many lives sacrificed—How the reivers conducted their expeditions—Leslie’s account—Trackedby bloodhounds—Froissart’s description of Borderers—Invasion by Earl of Hertford—Raid by Sir RalphEure—Battle of Ancrum Moor—Lord Dacre’s devastations—Borderers retaliate—Horrid cruelties practised—Raid ofthe Reidswire—Indignation of English Queen—Morton’s concessions | 55-80 |
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