In 1530 the authority of the English Middle March warden collapsed amid competing claims among Percy, Dacre, and Ogle factions. The conflict between rival border magnates over warden authority was as damaging to border security as the reiver raids themselves. When the warden was disputed, the entire legal framework of march governance — the Days of Truce, the system of bills and responses, the Hot Trod — broke down. The 1530 crisis was typical of the recurring administrative failures that kept the border in disorder throughout the first half of the sixteenth century.
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