id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 32005 Borland, Robert Border Raids and Reivers .txt text/plain 74530 3983 74 Border reiving--The Wardens often indifferent--The King's the peculiar circumstances in which Borderers were placed in early times, Scotland than what is familiarly known as "Border Reiving." In olden times the Border, and carried off whatever came readiest to hand--horses, cows, enemy to England." This may be said of nine-tenths of the Border reivers. Border, the English lords were well informed on nearly every point on In the Middle Ages the district of country known as the Borders must have on the English side of the Border, were all at feud at the same time. Not long after the King made another visit to the Borders, coming on this high hand on the English Border, burning, despoiling, and slaying to their King's authority did not extend beyond the Scottish Border. often made by the wardens on the English Border. But the great feature of Border life in more modern times has been the ./cache/32005.txt ./txt/32005.txt