The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England & Scotland
The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England & Scotland: being a brief history of the Marches,
the Laws of March, and the Marchmen together with some account of the Ancient Feud between England and Scotland,
A look at the turbulent history of the Borders — that area around the Anglo-Scottish border, that included the Debatable Lands, that hosted the activities of the reivers and saw many a Hot Trodd.
The narrative looks at all these things from the point of view of the Lord Wardens, Scottish and English, showing how they attempted to manage the perennial clashes between powerful and mistrustful neighbours without the two nations going to war.
The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England & Scotland: Amazon US / Amazon UK
The Dunnett connection:
In Disorderly Knights a meeting of Wardens at the Hadden Stank
on the Scottish–English Border proves pivotal in Lymond's relationships and career at that time.
