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Calendar of Border Papers
… took 2 Liddesdale thieves to Lord Scroope, killing a third thief. In revenge, the Laird of Mainegerton spoiled …
Calendar of Border Papers
… "he had his deserts." Such an example would terrify the thief and comfort the houest subject. I have not yet heard …
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… Geordy Grame. Also when Wills Jock took a notorious Scots thief, whom I ordered him to bring before me, and "he offered … cloke" if he did not, yet he let him go, and another thief whom Captain Carvell "willed" him to bring before me. …
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… Nicholas Weldon of Weldon gentleman, is a most notorious thief, murderer, &c., yet is received in the Middle Marches, … warden and keeper. Lionell Charleton the like, a notorious thief and prison breaker, as deposed before uswas reset by … and taken to Yorkshire with one Eddie Hall a famous thief out of Mansfield's garrison, where they bought 2 gray …
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… Berwick, and evil speeches by Selby whether Nevill was a thief or a true man. That night William Selby the gentleman …
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… any of one March against their opposite, for executing a thief by justice, or killing him "redhand," to be put down by …
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… these who dare not for their lives speak against a great thief either openly or in secret, to further justice, not so much for fear of the thief's displeasure, but that of the officers and great …
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… that every gentleman in Northumberland seeks the Scots thief's favour and have long paid "blackmeale" as they call … broken country is in some better state: for the English thief, as bad or worse than the Scot, steals no more, and the …
Calendar of Border Papers
… burned up the door, killed Petti Armstrang, a notorious thief, outlaw, and murderer of Sir John Carmichael the …