The phrase 'Jedhart Justice' — hang first, try afterwards — became proverbial from the methods of James VI's agent George Home, Earl of Dunbar, who conducted mass executions of reiver leaders in 1602–1603 without troubling overmuch with legal niceties. The campaign was extraordinarily effective precisely because it abandoned the corruption and half-measures that had characterised previous attempts at Border governance. It marked the end of four centuries of endemic border violence.
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