When James VI inherited the English throne in 1603, one of his first priorities was pacifying the Scottish-English border. The Middle Shires — as he renamed the Borders — were to be a model of settled governance under the Union of Crowns. He personally supervised a campaign of hanging that wiped out hundreds of reivers in Liddesdale and Teviotdale. Clan Graeme was forcibly relocated to Ireland. The brutal efficiency of the campaign effectively ended the reiver way of life that had persisted for centuries.
Government forces under James VI; border reiver communities
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