The Steel Bonnets by Fraser, George MacDonald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Also by Title Page Dedication Copyright Page Acknowledgements Table of Contents The Border Marches of England and Scotland in the Sixteenth Century INTRODUCTION - The Border Reivers PART ONE - The Making of a Frontier

I - Hadrian draws the line II - The moving boundaries III - England v. Scotland, 1286-1500

PART TWO - People of the Marches

IV - Border country V - “A martial kind of men” VI - Food and shelter VII - The riding surnames VIII - Hands across the Border IX - Bangtail and company X - The game and the song

PART THREE - “Shake Loose the Border”

XI - Lance and steel bonnet XII - How the reivers rode XIII - Nothing too hot or too heavy XIV - A parcel of rogues XV - Carleton’s Raid XVI - Hot trod and red hand XVII - The ability to kill XVIII - The Wardens of the Marches

TROUBLESHOOTERS LOCALS AND OUTSIDERS TROUBLEMAKERS KEEPING THE BALANCE WARDEN/RAIDER DANGERS OF OFFICE DISFAVOUR AND DELAY ESPIONAGE

XIX - Leges Marchiarum XX - Days of truce XXI - The unblessed hand

MAXWELLS v. JOHNSTONES GRAHAMS v. IRVINES AND OTHERS KERRS v. SCOTTS SCOTTS v. ELLIOTS SELBYS v. GRAYS

XXII - Terror, blackmail, kidnapping and “decaie” XXIII - “Fyre and sword upon Tuesday next”

PART FOUR - The Long Good-night, 1503-1603

XXIV - Flodden and after

Biographical note on Thomas Dacre

XXV - The Devil, and Lord Angus XXVI - Armstrongs in action XXVII - A rope for Black Jock XXVIII - The violent peace XXIX - The road to Solway Moss XXX - The rough wooing XXXI - Wharton and Maxwell XXXII - England’s grip broken XXXIII - The Debateable Land XXXIV - The women’s touch XXXV - Queen on the Marches XXXVI - The Countess and the reivers XXXVII - The last armies XXXVIII - Reidswire and Windygyle XXXIX - The stirring world of Robert Carey XL - “Fyrebrande” XLI - Lances to Carlisle XLII - The Carleton Brothers

PART FIVE - The Middle Shires

XLIII - Carey’s ride XLIV - Breaking the Border XLV - Malefactors of the name of Graham XLVI - The thieves dauntoned XLVII - After the riding

AFTERWORD - “They’re Still a Pretty Hard Lot” APPENDIX I - The Archbishop of Glasgow’s “Monition of Cursing” against the Border reivers APPENDIX II - The ballad of Kinmont Willie BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX