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| County of the Borough | } | Berwick. The spot where the | ||||
| and Town | } Continued | Castle stood upon was originally | ||||
| of | } | a Roman Camp. | ||||
| Berwick upon Tweed | } | The inhabitants of Berwick | ||||
| up to the period when their | ||||||
| Roman allies left them were the ancient Britons. On the completion | ||||||
| of the great wall by Severus, the inhabitants of Aberwicke were in a | ||||||
| manner excluded from holding any beneficial intercourse with their | ||||||
| more refined neighbours south of that Rampart, and given over | ||||||
| to the rude & savage barbarity of the Caledonians, the Picts, & the Scots. | ||||||
| A new invader now presented himself under the pretence of | ||||||
| guarding the Britons from the Pi[c]ts & Scots – namely the Saxon – | ||||||
| the Saxons became masters of the Counties of Berwick & East | ||||||
| Lothian & strengthened the fortifications of Berwick very much. | ||||||
| Berwick still remained in the hands of the Saxons, & in connection | ||||||
| with its history, the historian "Boethius" relates the following – | ||||||
| "Donald, King of Scotland, brother |
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| the conqueror of the Picts, after a blo |
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| of the Jed, in which he defeated Osbert, King of Northumberland | ||||||
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