Walter Scott of Harden, ancestor of Sir Walter Scott the novelist, was one of the most celebrated reivers of the late sixteenth century. His raids into England were both economically significant and romantically embellished in later tradition. His wife, 'the Flower of Yarrow', allegedly served him a dish with a pair of spurs as the beef ran out — a hint to go raiding again. The reiver culture Scott embodied was the last flowering of medieval border lawlessness before James VI's pacification after 1603.
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