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Border Raids and Reivers
The object we have had in view in the following pages has been (1) to indicate briefly the causes which produced Border reiving; (2) to show the extent to which the system was ultimately developed; (3) to describe the means adopted by both Governments for its suppression; (4) to illustrate the way in which the rugging and rivingto use a well-known phrasewas carried on; (5) to explain how these abnormal conditions were in the end effectually removed; and (6) to set forth in brief outline some of the more prominent traits in the lives and characters of the men who were most closely identified with this extraordinary phase of Border life. We have to acknowledge our indebtedness for much of the information conveyed in the following pages to Scotts Border Antiquities and Border Minstrelsy, Nicolsons Leges Marchiarum, Pitcairns Criminal Trials, Calendar of Border[Pg xvi] Papers (recently published), Carys MemoirsFroissart, Godscroft, Pitscottie, Pinkertonand host of other writers on Border themes. It is in no spirit of mock-modesty we acknowledge how inadequately the object we have had in view has been realised. The subject is so large and many-sided that we have found it difficult to compress within the compass of a single volume anything like an adequate outline of a theme which is at once so varied and interesting. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 32005
Author: Borland, Robert
Release Date: Apr 16, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English
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