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The Laws of the Marches

Feb 19th, 2008 | By | Category: Law and order, Reiver Information

This chapter will now outline the laws by which Sir Robert Carey would rule, and then say something of the Commission of 1597. ((The Commission of 1597 was the last of the Commissions to be set up before the Union of the Crowns, and the 36 clauses printed in W. Nicolson, (1747), Leges Marchiarum, have […]

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