Tag Archives: WEST MARCH

Border-Reivers-Their-Part-in-the-Northern-Rebellion-of-1569

In the autumn of 1569 Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, rose in rebellion against the English queen, Elizabeth 1 and her government. Ostensibly the rebellion, to which thousands of men from the north of England flocked in sympathy, was to smash the stranglehold that the Protestant religion,Continue reading “Border-Reivers-Their-Part-in-the-Northern-Rebellion-of-1569”

Border-Reivers-The-Clay-Biggin & Border-Reivers-Pele-Tower-as-a-Refuge

To the left is a little map of the Border Marches on each side of the English Scottish Border from the Solway Firth in the west to the North Sea in the east. This is the area that dominated the national history of England and Scotland from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. These Marches were theContinue reading “Border-Reivers-The-Clay-Biggin & Border-Reivers-Pele-Tower-as-a-Refuge”

Border-Reivers-Sir-Richard-Lowther

Richard Lowther was born about 1530. His date of birth is often given as 1529,1530 or 1532. He died in 1607 and is interred in the Lowther Church Mausoleum in what is now Lowther Park near Penrith, Cumbria, England.                               The-Tomb-of-Sir-Richard-LowtherContinue reading “Border-Reivers-Sir-Richard-Lowther”