98 Notices concerning Oxnam Parish. By J. Hardy. 



of Abernathie in Kothemay to make service in the court of the 

 sheriff of Bamf, A.E. £30., N.E. £40. (Eetours, Eox. no. 330). 

 The Earl of Roxburgh had acquired the teinds before 1626, and 

 it is probable that the barony also had been transferred to the 

 Eoxburgh Kers before that date, and it remained with them 

 subsequently. 



"The Earl of Eoxburgh, for the teynd sheaves of Plenderleith 

 and Middleknow, worth 8 bolls, payes the Earl of Lothian "20 lib." 

 (Morton's Annals of Teviotdale, p. 66). 



(2). Eaids, Border Thefts, Hot Trod, Sleuth Dogs, Spies, 

 and Quarrels. 



Oxnam water did not escape the ravages of warfare between 

 the realms, whether visited by the Warden Eaid, or the midnight 

 incendiarism and pilfering of the thieves of Eedesdale and 

 Tynedale, alike marked by the rudest forms of outrage; nor 

 were its inhabitants at a loss for the means of retaliation, which 

 degenerated into a trade regardless of all ties : for when they 

 durst not venture forth to prey in England they stole from 

 one another, or from their own countrymen in other districts. 

 The following examples, nearly in chronological order, may be 

 cited, omitting others, however, in reference to places that lie 

 outside the lines we have prescribed to ourselves in these 

 remarks, which may be taken up on some future occasion. 



The first is a domestic theft of early date by a member of a 

 well-known clan, whose name is one of the most frequent 

 occurrence as Border depredators. 



From "Pitcairn's Criminal Trials" Curia Itineris Justiciarie de 

 Jedworthe, inchoata die Lune, Nov. 17, 1493. 



(About 21st Nov. 1493). Stouthreif— Slaughter— Common Theft. 



" Peter Hall, in Newbiggin, produced a remission for thefttiously conceal- 

 ing of a target (shield) made of tanned hide, and a sword, from John Hall 

 and Edmnnd Hall, f nrth of Newbiggin : Item for art and part of the 

 Slaughter of John Henrisonne in Lyntounlee : Item, for stealing six ewes 

 from Thomas Henrisonne, dwelling in Jed-Forest : Item, for the Slaughter 

 of the said Thomas : and for common theft, before the date of his 

 Remission. — David Anysle became surety to satisfy the parties." 



1538. " Scottish Complaints to be shown by William Bishop of Aberdeen. 

 Robert Bishop of Orkney and Master Thomas Bellenden to tho King's 

 Majesty of England (Henry VIII.)" (From State Papers of Scotland- 

 Henrv VITI, vol. v. no. 29). 



