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An exciting and dramatic history of the raiders who ruled the lawless AngloScottish borderlands for over a century Cumberland News

Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era or indeed in Europe did civil order break down over such a wide area or for such a long time as on the border country between Scotland and England For more than a century the hoofbeats of countless raiding parties drummed over the border From Dumfriesshire to the high wastes of East Cumbria from Roxburghshire to Redesdale from the lonely valley of Liddesdale to the fortress city of Carlisle swords and spears spoke while the law remained silent Fierce family loyalty counted for everything while the rules of nationality counted for nothing The whole range of the Cheviot Hills its watershed ridges and the river valleys that flowed out of them became the landscape of larceny while Maxwells Grahams Fenwicks Carletons Armstrongs and Elliots rode hard and often for plunder

These were the Riding Times and in modern European history they have no parallel This book tells the remarkable story of the Reivers and how they made the Borders