The English and Scottish East March wardens met at Norham in 1557 for a Day of Truce to exchange formal complaints and negotiate settlements. These Days of Truce — meeting points on the border under a mutual truce — were the primary mechanism for managing border violence through diplomacy. The 1557 meeting occurred during the French-influenced period of Mary I's reign when Anglo-Scottish relations were complicated by the French alliance on both sides. The Norham meeting produced a long list of unresolved bills and several postponed trials, typical of the outcomes that made the warden court system simultaneously indispensable and ineffective.
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