Fig. 3: Marriages in and around the Debatable Land and Liddesdale

Each arrow represents a bride’s journey to her new home. The map shows all the ‘alliances’ – not just those that bridged the border – for which both places can be identified. From Thomas Musgrave’s report to Lord Burghley (William Cecil) on ‘the riders and ill doers both of England and Scotland’, late 1583 (Calendar of Border Papers, I, 120–27).