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Updated: May 10, 2025
A quick-tempered, revengeful lot were the men of those Border clans. On the Northumberland side the quarrels were as frequent as they were amongst those hot-headed Scots Kers and Scotts, Elliots and Turnbulls and Croziers. In the sixteenth century one of the most powerful of the clans in the wild Northumbrian country was that of the Reeds of Redesdale.
The great families one by one came round again; and, as the backward movement began, the Massacre of St. Bartholomew gave it a fresh and tremendous impulse. Even the avowed Catholics the Hamiltons, the Gordons, the Scotts, the Kers, the Maxwells quailed before the wail of rage and sorrow which at that great horror rose over their country.
In 1590 a Scotch which of the name of Agnes Sampson was convicted of curing a certain Robert Kers of a disease "laid upon him by a westland warlock when he was at Dumfries, whilk sickness she took upon herself, and kept the same with great groaning and torment till the morn, at whilk time there was a great din heard in the house."
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