Border Raids and Reivers
Robert Borland
Read by James R. Hedrick
A history of southern Scots families (reivers). "There are few more remarkable phenomena in the political or social life of Scotland than what is familiarly known as “Border Reiving.” In olden times it prevailed along the whole line of the Borders from Berwick to the Solway, embracing the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, and Dumfries. During a period of some three or four hundred years these districts were chiefly inhabited by hordes of moss-troopers, who made it the chief business of their lives to harry and despoil their English neighbours. …
"In coming to the consideration of this subject, there is one fact which it is well the reader should carefully bear in mind, and that is, that from the peculiar circumstances in which Borderers were placed in early times, the only alternative they had was either to starve or steal. The recognition of this fact will at least awaken our sympathy, if it does not always command our approval, when we come to consider the lives and characters of the Border Reivers." (Summary quoted from the text) (8 hr 10 min)
Chapters
Preface | 2:41 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Auld Enemy | 21:10 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Percy’s Pennon | 27:26 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Poor and Lawless | 34:11 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Raids and Forays | 39:43 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Wardens of the Marches | 25:14 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Day of Truce | 28:55 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Deadly Feud | 31:30 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Thieves Dauntoned | 30:49 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Liddesdale Limmers | 41:29 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
After the Hunting | 32:16 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Corbie’s Nest | 29:19 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Flagellum Dei | 25:48 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Minions of the Moon | 47:53 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Under the Ban | 22:10 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Triumph of Law | 29:31 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Harvest of Peace | 20:26 | Read by James R. Hedrick |