This is an extensive history of the Border families which occupied the lands
between the English and Scottish borders, particularly in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, when England and Scotland were independent kingdoms and
when warfare between the two created an area often free from the law of either
kingdom.
While the Dicksons are the major focus of this work, there are numerous other
families which are dealt with in detail, including such major families as:
Armstrong, Batie, Brown, Carlisle, Carruthers, Charteris, Cockburn, Cranstoun,
Douglas, Eliot, Fraser, Gordon, Graham, Haliburton, Home or Hume, Irving,
Jardine, Johnstone, Ker, Maxwell, Murray, Pringle, Ridpath, Rutherford, Scott,
Turnbull, and Vaitch. These families engaged in what the crowns of England and
Scotland often regarded as lawless behavior, and both the English and Scottish
monarchs employed Border wardens with extensive troops to try to bring the
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