In 1530 the English Middle March warden attempted to hold a justice session at Hexham to address the accumulated complaints of reiver violence across Tynedale, but the assembled reiver clans — Charltons, Robsons, Milburns, and Dodds — intimidated witnesses and jurors into silence. Hexham served as the administrative centre of the Middle March but royal authority there was chronically weak. The 1530 episode illustrated how completely the reiver social order had supplanted formal law in the English upland dales.
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