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Walter Grame of Netherby, Rob of the Fald, alias Willie's Johnie, Dick's Will, for Burning of 800 onsets (L.3000 Scots) 800 kine and oxen, 300 horses and mares, 3000 sheep, prisoners and ransomers, L.500 Sterling.
Walter Grame of Netherby, Rob Grame of the Fald, and their complices, for Burnt house and corn, 4000 marks Scots, 120 kine and oxen, 180 sheep, insight 500 marks.
Walter Grame of Netherbie, Davie and Willie his brother, Richie's Will, Rob of the Fald, for Burning of Goddesbrig, 3000 kine and oxen, 4000 sheep and gaite, 500 horses and mares, estimated at L.40,000 Scots.
Walter Grame, Davie and Willie his brother, Rob of the Fald, Richies Will and others, for Burning of Tinwell Rawshawe and Mickle Woodside, 600 kine and oxen, 60 horses and mares, insight L.10,000 Scots.
Walter Grame, Rob of the Fald, Will his brother, for Burning the Laithes at Rose, 20,000 marks, Cumrew 2000 marks, 20 kine and oxen, 40 horses and mares, 500 sheep.
Hutchin's Andrew, Hutchin's Richie, Will of the Rosetrees, Francis of the Moate, and others, for Burning of Loughwood, L.5,000 Scots 600 kine and oxen, 80 horses and mares, 500 sheep and gaite.
Grame of the Fald, Walter Grame of Netherbie, George Grame, son to Little Tom, and others, for Burning of Langholme, 400 kine and oxen, 1000 sheep, 200 horses and mares, L.300 Scots.
Walter Grame, Richie of the Moate, and others, for Bigging houses and depasturing cattle in Scotland, and sowing corn to the value of 40 chalders of corn for ten years by past, estimating the hard corn every bow 30s Scots, pasturing of 2000 head of nolt and horse, every head 30s Scots, 200 sheep, every head three-pence Scots.
John Foster,
John Selbie,
Richard Lowther,
Carmigell,
Alexander Hume of Hutton,
Mr George Young.
The reader will now have formed an idea of the miserable state of this country in those times, when the inhabitants were stripped almost every year of their household
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