Scotland appointed a Keeper of Liddesdale with responsibility for governing the most lawless valley in the Borders — a post held at various times by the Earl of Bothwell and later by the powerful Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch. English pressure for Scotland to exercise effective governance over Liddesdale, from which raids into England were constantly launched, was a recurring diplomatic demand throughout the 1540s. The Keeper system was the Scottish crown's principal mechanism for attempting to control the Armstrong, Elliot, and other clans of Liddesdale, with very limited success.
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