Gents Mag 1828 part 2 p.420

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1828 part 2 p.420
Debateable Lands
	The Debateable Lands Review of an article in Archaeologia vol.22 part 1:- XII. copy of a Manuscript Tract, addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border Topography of Scotland, A.D. 1590; with a Platt or Map of the Borders, taken in the same year. Communicated by Henry Ellis, esq. The military spirit of the Borderers was kept up, it seems, by mutual fears of incursion; and 'diamond cut diamond.' - A curious elucidation of surnames, taken from clans, and in England, occurs in this documentand it shows that families, like hares and rabbits, kept together in the same district. 'Eske. - Upon both sides of the river dwell the Grames, which is the greatest surname at this day upon the West Border. For the Grames of Eske and Leven are able to make vC. serviceable men. There dwelleth also a surname of Stories, but they are sore decayed.' 'Leven. - Upon this river also dwelleth many Grames, and above Kirklynton on Sompert dwelleth a great surname of Fosters, and about Hethersgill is a surname of Hetheringtons.' P.169. The private life and demoralized habits of these Borderers we have recently exhibited and explained in our Review of Mr. Hodgson's Redesdale. (See p.53)
	gazetteer links
	-- Debatable Land
	-- Esk, River
	-- "Leven, River" -- Lyne, River

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