As James VI's expected English succession drew closer, attempts at Anglo-Scottish border coordination intensified. Joint patrols of the Solway Firth and surrounding areas in 1599 — unprecedented in their deliberate cooperation between Scottish and English warden forces — anticipated the Middle Shires policy that would follow the Union. The joint patrols were difficult to organise and riven with mutual suspicion but represented a genuine attempt to treat the border as a shared policing problem rather than a national boundary requiring armed vigilance.
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