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Condition of the Border at the Union; Destruction of the Graham Clan
Condition of the Border at the Union Destruction of the Graham Clan Author:John Graham General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: G. Routledge Subjects: Scotland Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) Borders Region (Scotland) Great Britain Borders (Scotland) Border Region (England) History / Europe / Great Britain Reference / Genealogy Travel / Europe / Gre... more »at Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III LORD MAXWELL Behind the Armstrongs stood one of the ablest and most unscrupulous lords in Scotland, namely, Lord Maxwell, by whom they were secretly encouraged to fight. He was a born conspirator, and at this time the crafty warden of the Scottish western marches. A treaty of peace had been signed between Maxwell and Lord Cumberland, by which the conquest of the debateable land was left entirely to the discretion of the English, and would no longer be opposed by the forces of the Scottish Wardenry. This treaty was merely a trick to encourage Dacre to cross the Border, where he would find himself entangled in a well-devised ambush and cut to pieces by the Armstrongs and their allies, of whose strength Dacre seems to have been surprisingly ignorant. Believing that the Scottish warden's neutrality was secured under the treaty, and the way open for a great attack upon the Armstrongs, Dacre advanced into Canonbie with his finely equipped army of 2000 men. Along with him were Sir John Radcliffe, Sir Christopher Dacre, and William Musgrave, all commanders of note, against whose military skill and great powers the untrained mosstrooper would be likely to contend in vain. Their plan of invasion was cunningly devised to throw the Armstrongs off their guard, and to fall upon them where least expected, the objective being the strongh...« less