Redesdale, the valley of the Rede running south from Carter Bar, was the principal English reiver territory of the Middle March. Its leading families — the Halls, Reeds, and Hedleys — raided into Scotland and against adjacent English dales on a near-continuous basis through the 1520s to 1540s. Redesdale was described by English administrators as more dangerous than Liddesdale. Royal attempts to plant garrisons at Redesdale failed repeatedly because the local population regarded external authority as the greater enemy.
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