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Raiders along the Anglo-Scottish Border
- A History of those ‘Pacified’ by King James
Af: Jon Tait
Engelsk
Bogcover for Raiders along the Anglo-Scottish Border af Jon Tait, 9781036135638
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781036135638
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1036135632
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
28 feb 2026
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
28 feb 2026
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Raiders along the Anglo-Scottish Border

- A History of those ‘Pacified’ by King James
Af: Jon Tait
Engelsk
Hardback 2026
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Like Gomorrah with horses – that’s probably the best way to describe the stories of those inhabiting the heather-clad hills between England and Scotland who were strung up on gallows during the turbulent period of the border reivers and after, when King James I/VI attempted to ‘Pacify the Border’. The condemned here were cattle rustlers, counterfeiters, burglars, protection racketeers, thieves and murderers who rode in family-based gangs, terrorised the countryside on both sides of the dividing line, and were essentially the mafia of their time. They were executed in places such as Edinburgh, Dumfries, Jedburgh, Hawick, Peebles, Selkirk, Berwick, Morpeth, Alnwick, Newcastle, Hexham and Carlisle in a period marked by conflict between the two great nations where their land became a warzone. Anyone interested in the darker side of the history of the bloodstained border can trace the lineage of those families embroiled in criminal society from the Scottish Wars of Independence right through to the Acts of Union between the countries in 1707. The March Laws that the border reivers lived under were finally ended in 1603 when King James ascended to the English throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth I – and the ‘pacification’ of the criminal gangs began.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781036135638
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1036135632
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
28 feb 2026
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
28 feb 2026
Forfatter(e):
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