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Fig. 5: The partition of the Debatable Land on Bullock’s ‘platt’

The four straight lines on Bullock’s map show the Scottish proposal (1), the English proposal (2), the French ambassador’s compromise (3) and ‘the last and fynal Lyne of the particion concluded xxiiii Septembris 1552’ (4). The dotted line represents the Scots’ Dike or March Bank which marked the new Anglo-Scottish border (here).