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The Steel Bonnets
George MacDonald Fraser
From the author of the famous ‘Flashman Papers’ and the ‘Private McAuslan’ stories.An historical narrative about the Anglo-Scottish border raiders in the 16th century
George MacDonald Fraser
THE STEEL BONNETS
The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
“If Jesus Christ were emongest
them, they would deceave him,
if he woulde heere, trust and
followe theire wicked councells!”
RICHARD FENWICK 1597
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Previously published in trade paperback by Harvill 1989
Reprinted five times
First published by Harvill 1986
First published in Great Britain by
Barrie &Jenkins 1971
Copyright © George MacDonald Fraser 1971
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DEDICATION (#ulink_425c7e65-2c84-5bf2-b98a-f6d28cfec6dd)
In memory of
Corporal IKE BLAKELEY
of the Border Regiment, killed
by a Japanese sniper at Kinde Wood,
Central Burma, 1945, and for
BOB GRAHAM and SLIM IRVINE
wounded in the same action.
MAPS (#ulink_f70fa689-7a57-5e48-ba63-4aef5b3a4852)
The Border Clans
CONTENTS
Cover (#u5e3c54ee-9a4b-5c35-8cc6-e93b80a426e5)
Title Page (#u9f787f0f-932f-5d69-b0c8-05b912401c2b)
Dedication (#u9a800250-7d96-5698-85bf-479a9321149b)
Maps (#u21796e88-9a45-5ae8-81cd-e90b41500876)
Introduction: The Border Reivers (#u5b550ac8-b390-5e60-99c9-700b3b935d68)
Part One: THE MAKING OF A FRONTIER (#u641c240d-d1d3-51ac-a741-db15882f2d7e)
I: Hadrian draws the line (#u49578e28-b88b-5361-be9c-8760b47c5f77)
II: The moving boundaries (#u7bd6c367-5cde-51b9-b61c-4f06f26576d1)
III: England v. Scotland, 1286–1500 (#u6d5ca2a8-ef11-5edc-ab5e-37e024ba95dc)
Part Two: PEOPLE OF THE MARCHES (#ucfbf64a9-9355-50ec-88fb-9ff788f9fcd1)
IV: Border country (#u7e7288df-3a40-5cc5-892c-e4af1b1d3c72)
V: “A martial kind of men” (#u94a313f4-936b-5033-a71c-8862d6caf068)
VI: Food and shelter (#ue9ba53ef-92b6-5d28-9cbf-7da8616cf29e)
VII: The riding surnames (#u065573c7-ab53-533d-babf-746b08feb047)
VIII: Hands across the Border (#u5e6e7342-60f1-5437-a77e-19bd4bf890a5)
IX: Bangtail and company (#u46d9c51d-81dc-56f0-b9df-fb134324af6b)
X: The game and the song (#u059ca16c-7633-5066-8206-1110a1fc9eeb)
Part Three: “SHAKE LOOSE THE BORDER” (#uc42d4a16-2f61-5736-814d-e06ca0eb5a72)
XI: Lance and steel bonnet (#u73dc8964-3a70-540b-9d14-d59c856d055d)
XII: How the reivers rode (#u40d287cc-66f8-5c60-b321-9ba4f0d4873d)
XIII: Nothing too hot or too heavy (#u01fadc9b-2294-59f4-92a9-719b595c31f7)
XIV: A parcel of rogues (William Armstrong of Kinmont, Walter Scott of Harden, Geordie Burn) (#u86a6526e-da56-5bfc-bcc3-1acfbeb4ee7e)
XV: Carleton’s raid (#litres_trial_promo)
XVI: Hot trod and red hand (#litres_trial_promo)
XVII: The ability to kill (#litres_trial_promo)
XVIII: The Wardens of the Marches (#litres_trial_promo)
XIX: Leges Marchiarum (#litres_trial_promo)
XX: Days of truce (#litres_trial_promo)
XXI: The unblessed hand (Maxwells v. Johnstones, Grahams v. Irvines, Kerrs v. Scotts, Scotts v. Elliots, Selbys v. Grays) (#litres_trial_promo)
XXII: Terror, blackmail, kidnapping and “decaie” (#litres_trial_promo)
XXIII: “Fyre and sword upon Tuesday next” (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Four: THE LONG GOOD-NIGHT, 1503–1603 (#litres_trial_promo)
XXIV: Flodden and after. Biographical note on Thomas Dacre (#litres_trial_promo)
XXV: The Devil, and Lord Angus (#litres_trial_promo)
XXVI: Armstrongs in action (#litres_trial_promo)
XXVII: A rope for Black Jock (#litres_trial_promo)
XXVIII: The violent peace (#litres_trial_promo)
XXIX: The road to Solway Moss. Note on the prisoners of Solway Moss (#litres_trial_promo)
XXX: The rough wooing (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXI: Wharton and Maxwell (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXII: England’s grip broken (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXIII: The Debateable Land (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXIV: The women’s touch (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXV: Queen on the Marches (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXVI: The Countess and the reivers (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXVII: The last armies (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXVIII: Reidswire and Windygyle (#litres_trial_promo)
XXXIX: The stirring world of Robert Carey (#litres_trial_promo)
XL: “Fyrebrande” (#litres_trial_promo)
XLI: Lances to Carlisle (#litres_trial_promo)
XLII: The Carleton Brothers (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Five: THE MIDDLE SHIRES (#litres_trial_promo)
XLIII: Carey’s ride (#litres_trial_promo)
XLIV: Breaking the Border (#litres_trial_promo)
XLV: Malefactors of the name of Graham (#litres_trial_promo)
XLVI: The thieves dauntoned (#litres_trial_promo)
XLVII: After the riding (#litres_trial_promo)
Appendix I: The Archbishop of Glasgow’s “Monition of Cursing” against the Border reivers (#litres_trial_promo)
Appendix II: The ballad of Kinmont Willie (#litres_trial_promo)
Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)
Glossary (#litres_trial_promo)
Index (#litres_trial_promo)
