I from harlow essex have returned to tell you of this most violent episode in the history of my nation

I shall now leave

Let's test your knowledge of English geography. Which one is not in England? a) Wessex b) Essex c) Sussex d) Buttsex e) Sheepsex

You were supposed to be taking a break from this place, Harlow lad

My last name is actually from Northumbria, it basically means "from this town"

>>25641182 Godspeed, brother

CLAN RUTHERFORD Neither by chance nor fate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_of_the_Redeswire 7 July 1575 Carter Bar, by the Cheviot Hills, near Redesdale Result Scottish victory 11 - Thomas Rutherford of Edgerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1550 - 1615 "The Black Laird" - the victor at Reidswire Married Jean Elliot During the Battle of the Reidswire at Carterfell in July of 1575 a force led by Thomas Rutherford "The Black Laird of Edgerston" was able to defeat the English force and capture several of it's officers. Among them were Sir John Forster. Sir John was made prisoner and taken with several others to the Scottish Regent, the Earl of Morton, at Dalkeith, where he was kept for a few days to cool off, then sent back home. "The Rutherfords with great renown, Convoyed the town o' Jedburgh out." ....Sir Walter Scott - from an old ballad "The Raid o' the Reidswire"

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>>25641189 >>25641194 >>25641195 >>25641196 glaikit scunnerit dunderheid numpties tae a maun

Take me back.

nooo dont go youre so sexy aha

>>25641147 >>Australians >>Canadians >>Americans nice order, and new zealand in their rightful place

thoughts on him?

>>25641308 australia is the greatest country on earth

Hello, Brazilians are Northumbrians too u know

Border Reivers Edgerston is just a few miles north of the English Border; so, the Rutherfurds of Edgerston were often the first line of defense against the English. The Scottish Borders is a unique and distinct culture unlike the rest of Scotland because of the violence and turbulence of its past. Quoting from the book The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser, "In the making of Britain, between England and Scotland, there was prolonged and terrible violence, and whoever gained in the end, the Border country suffered fearfully in the process. It was the ring in which champions met; armies marched and counter-marched and fought and fled across it; it was wasted and burned and despoiled, its people harried, robbed and slaughtered, on both sides, by both sides. Whatever the rights and wrongs, the Borderers were the people who bore the brunt; for almost 300 years, from the late thirteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth, they lived on a battlefield that stretched from the Solway to the North Sea. War after war was fought on it, and this, to put it mildly, had an effect on the folk who lived there. Constant strife, or the threat of it, bred up a race of hard people along the Border lines. They lived in a jungle, and they had to live by jungle rules. This is not to excuse them, but to explain. If a man cannot live, and ensure that his family lives, within the law, he has no alternative but to step outside it. It was inevitable that the way of life which the Borderer had to follow in time of war should be carried over into what was nominally peacetime; habits are hard to break, and here they became so deeply ingrained as to be almost instinctive. By the sixteenth century robbery and blood feud had become virtually systematic. That century saw the activities of the steel bonneted Border riders-noble and simple, robber and lawman, soldier and farmer, outlaw and peasant-at their height. In the story of Britain, the Border reiver is a unique figure…. he would probably be described as an agricultural labourer, or a small-holder, or gentleman farmer, or even a peer of the realm; he was also a professional cattle rustler. In addition he was a fighting man who, on the evidence, handled his weapons with superb skill; a guerrilla soldier of great resource to whom the arts of theft, raid, tracking and ambush were second nature. He was also often a gangster organized on highly professional lines,…He gave the word "blackmail" to the English language…. this practice is probably as old as time, but the expression itself was coined on the Borders, and meant something different from blackmail today. Its literal meaning is "black rent"- in other words, illegal rent- and its exact modern equivalent is the protection racket." The Borders are divided into six areas, three on the Scottish side and three on the English side, Edgerston is in an area known as the Scottish Middle March. Some of the riding surnames in the Sixteenth century in the Scottish Middle March are; Scotts, Kerrs, Elliots, Douglases, Rutherfords, Olivers, Youngs, Pringles, Turnbulls, Armstrongs. Some of these families were Rutherfurd allies, with others they were feuding. The most notable and longest lasting feud was between the Rutherfurds and the Kerrs.

>>25641343 I like portugal muito bom :)

my clan invented nuclear physics

Rutherford is one of the few border names that isn't here locally. must have got lost on the way

>>25641382 :)

>>25641382 we are a very selective clan we dont spread our wild oats

Hey schizo brit Bye schizo brit

>>25641403 buh bye

>>25641343 Monkey

That yellow bit on the border is my ancestral lands

>>25641431 Our lands split the Kerr's lands in twain and the Kerrs are our enemies I will slay any Kerr where he may be

why are you gay?

>>25641434 nih kerrs?

>>25641398 more common than I thought the Kerrs must have been keeping them out of my county

>>25641446 death to every Kerr

>>25641458 How did this blood feud start?

>>25641461 :(

>>25641467 It's okay. You can tell us sweetie-pie brit

I thought cheviot sheep were french

>>25641496 LOL

>>25641488 you have to work for it do your research