Non corrected original
1600s style spelling
"A Note of the
gentlemen and surnames of the Marches of England and
Scotland, dated July, 1583:"
EAST MARCHE: ENGLAND,
gentlemen:- Forsters, Selbies, Graies, Strowders,
Swiners, Mustains; surnames - Johnsons, Vardes,
Ourdes, Wallises, Stories, Flukes,
Armstrongs, Dunnes.
SCOTLAND SIDE:,
gentlemen - Humes, Trotters, Bromfields, Dixons,
Craws, Crinstons.
MIDDLE MARCHE: ENGLAND, gentelmen - Ogeles, Fenickes,
Hernes, Withringtons, Medfords, Shafters, Ridlies,
Carnabies. Surnames - Ridesdale-Halls, Hedleys,
Milburns, Andersons, Potts, Reades, Dunnes,
Tindale-Charletons, Dodds, Millborns, Stapletons,
Robsons, Yaroes.
SCOTLAND SIDE:
gentlemen; East Tividale - Carrs, Yongs, Pringles,
Burnes, Tattes, Davisons, Gillcries;
Liddesdale-Rudderfords, Carrs, Dowglasses, Trombles,
S(c)ottes, Piles, Robsons, Halls, Olivers,
Ladlers, Armestongs, Elwoods (Elliots), Nixons,
Crosers, Turners, Fosters.
WEST MARCHE: ENGLAND,
gentlemen - Musgraves, Loders, Curwenes, Sawfelde;
Surnames - Greames, Rutlitches, Armestrongs, Fosters,
Nixons, Tailors, Stories.
SCOTLAND SIDE: Maxwells, Johnsons, Urwins, Grames, Bells, Carlills,
Battison, Litles, Carruders."
More Border Clanns
Added by Linda Merle:
To the west march Add:
BELLs, CARLISLES, CARRUTHERS, BEATTIE, ELLIOT,
HENDERSON, OLIVER, LAIDLAW, ROBSON, HAIR, CROSERS,
KERR.
Middle March:
TURNBULL, ELLIOT, DOUGLASS, RUTHEFORD, CHRICHTON,
HOGGS, HAYS, TELFERS. He has TWEEDIE up near Hangshaw...
English side of the west
marches:
GRAHAMs, STOREY, FORSTER, NOBLE, ROUTLEDGES,
MUSGRAVE, MILBURN, BELL , DACRE, CARELTON, SALKELD,
RIDLEY, OGLES, WOODRINGTON, FENWICK, DOBBS.
Some riding clans
eventually took an oath to the British Crown. As
their reward, their lands were protected. Some heads
of households were named, "Wardens" of the
Marches. Hated Warden Dacre was one of those traitors
who's families did not survive.
The riding clans
caused so much trouble for so many people that their Bishop
put a curse upon them . This curse, sometimes called
the, Mother of all Curses was pronounced upon the
riding clans by the Archbishop of Glasgow.
You have to read it to believe it. Boy was he pissed.
(translated)
words are as spelled.
"Good folks,
(herewith) my Archbishop of Glasgow's letters, under
his round seal, directed to me, or any other
chaplain, making mention with great regret, how heavy
he bears the pitious, lamentable, and dolorous
complaint that passes over all realms and comes to
his ears by open voice and fame, how our Sovereign
Lord's true lieges, men, wives, and children, bought
and redeemed by the precious blood of our Saviour
Jesus Christ, and living in his laws, are innocently,
some murdered, some slain, burned, hurt, despoiled
and cut openly by daylight and under silence of
night, and their farms and lands laid waste, and
themselves banished therefrom, also church lands as
well as others, to be common traitors, rapists and
thieves, dwelling in the south part of this realm,
namely, Tevidale, Esdale, Liddesdale, Ewisdale,
Nedisdale, and Annandereaill; they have been, in
diverse ways, pursued for punishment by the temporal
sword of our Sovereign Lord's authority, and they
fear not the same. (The church has condemned them in
fear for their souls, and it has no prohibitory
effect on their actions)"
"And therefore, my said Archbishop of Glasgow
has thought it necessary to strike them with the
terrible sword of Holy Church, that they may not long
endure and resist; and has charged me, or any other
chaplain, to denounce, declare and proclaim them
openly and generally cursed, at this market
crossroads, and all other plublic places."
"Herefore, through the authority of Almighty
God, the Father of Heaven, His Son our Saviour, Jesus
Christ, and of the Holy Ghost; through the authority
of the Blessed Virgin, Saint Mary, Saint Michael,
Saint Gabriel, and all the angels; Saint John the
Baptist, and all the Holy patriarchs and prophets;
Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Saint Andrew, and all holy
apostles; Saint Stephen, Saint Lawrence, and all holy
martyrs; Saint Giles, Saint Martin, and all holy
confessors; Saint Anne, Saint Katherine, and all holy
virgins and matrons; and of all the saints and holy
company of Heaven; by the authority of our Holy
Father the Pope and his cardinals, and of my said
Lord, Archbishop of Glasgow, by the advice and
assistance of my lords, archbishop, bishops, abbots,
priors, and other prelates and ministers of Holy
Church:"
"I denounce, proclaim and declare all the
committers of the said senseless murders, slaughters,
burning, torturing, plundering, raping and pillaging,
openly by daylight and under silence of night, even
on such peaceful ground as church lands; together
with their families, henchmen, suppliers, and willing
conspirators who give them refuge, their receivers of
goods stolen by them, and any benefit or part
thereof, and their counsellors and defenders of their
evil deeds, generally CURSED, denounced, execrated,
in sum total, with the GREAT CURSING."
"I curse their head and all the hairs of their
head; I curse their face, their brain (innermost
thoughts), their mouth, their nose, their tongue,
their teeth, their forehead, their shoulders, their
breast, their heart, their stomach, their back, their
womb, their arms, their leggs, their hands, their
feet, and every part of their body, from the top of
their head to the soles of their feet, before and
behind, within and without."
"I curse them going and I curse them riding; I
curse them standing and I curse them sitting; I curse
them eating and I curse them drinking; I curse them
rising, and I curse them lying; I curse them at home,
I curse them away from home; I curse them within the
house, I curse them outside of the house; I curse
their wives, their children, and their servants who
participate in their deeds. I (bring ill wishes upon)
their crops, their cattle, their wool, their sheep,
their horses, their swine, their geese, their hens,
and all their livestock. I (bring ill wishes upon)
their halls, their chambers, their kitchens, their
stanchions, their barns, their cowsheds, their
barnyards, their cabbage patches, their plows, their
harrows, and the goods and houses that are necessary
for their sustenance and welfare."
"May all the malevolent wishes and curses ever
known, since the beginning of the world, to this
hour, light on them. May the malediction of God, that
fell upon Lucifer and all his fellows, that cast them
from the high Heaven to the deep hell, light upon
them."
"May the fire and
the sword that stopped Adam from the gates of
Paradise, stop them from the glory of Heaven, until
they forebear, and make amends."
"May the evil
that fell upon cursed Cain, when he slew his brother
Abel, needlessly, fall on them for the needless
slaughter that they commit daily."
"May the
malediction that fell upon all the world, man and
beast, and all that ever took life, when all were
drowned by the flood of Noah, except Noah and his
ark, fall upon them and drown them, man and beast,
and make this realm free of them, for their wicked
sins."
"May the thunder
and lightning which rained down upon Sodom and
Gomorra and all the lands surrounding them, and
burned them for their vile sins, rain down upon them
and burn them for their open sins. May the evil and
confusion that fell on the Gigantis for their
opression and pride in building the Tower of Babylon,
confound them and all their works, for their open
callous disregard and opression."
"May all the
plagues that fell upon Pharoah and his people of
Egypt, their lands, crops and cattle, fall upon them,
their equipment, their places, their lands, their
crops and livestock."
"May the waters
of the Tweed and other waters which they use, drown
them, as the Red Sea drowned King Pharoah and the
people of Egypt, preserving God's people of
Israel."
"May the earth
open, split and cleave, and swallow them straight to
hell, as it swallowed cursed Dathan and Abiron, who
disobeyed Moses and the command of God."
"May the wild
fire that reduced Thore and his followers to
two-hundred-fifty in number, and others from 14,000
to 7,000 at anys, usurping against Moses and Aaron,
servants of God, suddenly burn and consume them
daily, for opposing the commands of God and Holy
Church."
"May the
malediction that suddenly fell upon fair Absolom,
riding through the wood against his father, King
David, when the branches of a tree knocked him from
his horse and hanged him by the hair, fall upon these
untrue Scotsmen and hang them the same way, that all
the world may see."
"May the
malediction that fell upon Nebuchadnezzar's
lieutenant, Olifernus, making war and savagery upon
true christian men; the malediction that fell upon
Judas, Pilate, Herod, and the Jews that crucified Our
Lord; and all the plagues and troubles that fell on
the city of Jerusalem therefore, and upon Simon Magus
for his treachery, bloody Nero, Ditius Magcensius,
Olibrius, Julianus Apostita and the rest of the cruel
tyrants who slew and murdered Christ's holy servants,
fall upon them for their cruel tyranny and murder of
Christian people."
"And may all the
vengeance that ever was taken since the world began,
for open sins, and all the plagues and pestilence
that ever fell on man or beast, fall on them for
their openly evil ways, senseless slaughter and
shedding of innocent blood."
"I sever and part them from the church of God,
and deliver them immediately to the devil of hell, as
the Apostle Paul delivered Corinth. I bar the
entrance of all places they come to, for divine
service and ministration of the sacraments of holy
church, except the sacrament of infant baptism, only;
and I forbid all churchmen to hear their confession
or to absolve them of their sins, until they are
first humbled / subjugated by this curse."
"I forbid all
christian men or women to have any company with them,
eating, drinking, speaking, praying, lying, going,
standing, or in any other deed-doing, under the pain
of deadly sin."
"I discharge all
bonds, acts, contracts, oaths, made to them by any
persons, out of loyalty, kindness, or personal duty,
so long as they sustain this cursing, by which no man
will be bound to them, and this will be binding on
all men."
"I take from
them, and cast down all the good deeds that ever they
did, or shall do, until they rise from this
cursing."
"I declare them
excluded from all matins, masses, evening prayers,
funerals or other prayers, on book or bead (rosary);
of all pigrimages and alms deeds done, or to be done
in holy church or be christian people, while this
curse is in effect."
"And, finally, I condemn them perpetually to the
deep pit of hell, there to remain with Lucifer and
all his fellows, and their bodies to the gallows of
Burrow moor, first to be hanged, then ripped and torn
by dogs, swine, and other wild beasts, abominable to
all the world. And their candle (light of their life)
goes from your sight, as may their souls go from the
face of God, and their good reputation from the
world, until they forebear their open sins,
aforesaid, and rise from this terrible cursing and
make satisfaction and penance."
WHEW: Does this mean we are excommunicated for ever?
I wonder what it would cost to make it right.
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