The Fenwick and Gray families of Northumberland engaged in a sustained feud through the 1560s to 1580s, characteristic of the endemic intra-English violence of the East March. Both were established gentry families with border service obligations, making their mutual raiding doubly disruptive to march governance. The feud involved livestock theft, destruction of property, and at least several homicides. It illustrates that border violence was not solely a matter of English-versus-Scottish raiding but was deeply rooted in local English power struggles.
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