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| Reidswire Raid | Reidswire Raid | Sir Walter Scott | 103 Chains N.W. of | "The skirmish of the Reidswire | ||
| (Site of the last Border Battle) | Site of last | Sir Walter Scott’s | Whitelee Farm House | happened upon the 7th of June 1575, | ||
| Border Battle | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border | at one of the meetings held by the Wardens | ||||
| (McKenzie’s History) | of the Marches for arrangements necessary upon | |||||
| the Borders Sir John Carmichael was the | ||||||
| Scottish Warden & Sir John Forster | ||||||
| held that office on the English Middle | ||||||
| March in the course of the day which was | ||||||
| employed as usual in redressing wrongs | ||||||
| a bill or indictment at the instance of a | ||||||
| Scottish complainer was fouled (i.e. found | ||||||
| a true bill against Farnstein a notorious | ||||||
| English freebooter Forster alleged that | ||||||
| he had fled from Justice Carmichael | ||||||
| Considering this as a pretext to avoid | ||||||
| making compensation for the felony | ||||||
| bade him play fair, to which the English | ||||||
| Warden retorted, by some injurious expressions | ||||||
| respecting Carmichael’s family | ||||||
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| Jno Mulligan Civil Assistant |
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