General characteristics of Border reivers--Kinmount Willie--Descendant of laird of Gilnockie--Encouraged to commit depredations on English border--Present at March meeting at Dayholm--Captured by Salkeld on his way home--Imprisoned in Carlisle--Violation of Border law--The bold Buccleuch determines to effect his rescue-- Arrangements made at a horse race at Langholm--Meeting at Tower of Morton--Marches on Carlisle--Breaks into the Castle--Carries off the prisoner--Relieves him of his irons--Names of principal assistants--Scrope indignant-- Addresses the Privy Council--Buccleuch on his defence-- Elizabeth demands his surrender--James complies 201-219 XII. FLAGELLUM DEI. International complications--The Queen difficult to pacify--Her letter to James--Scrope invades Liddesdale-- His conduct defended--Buccleuch retaliates--Invades Tynedale--Account of his depredations--_Flagellum Dei_-- Supported by King and Council--Elizabeth peremptorily demands his surrender--Places himself as a prisoner in the hands of Sir William Bowes--The Governor of Berwick afraid to undertake his safe custody--Surrender of Sir Robert Ker--Lives with Sir Robert Cary on terms of intimacy and friendship--Buccleuch returns to Liddesdale-- Adopts a new policy--Incurs the displeasure of the reivers--Inaugurates a new era in Border history--Appears before the Queen 220-236 XIII. MINIONS OF THE MOON. The kindly feeling with which the more famous reivers regarded--Auld Wat of Harden--At the "Raid of Falkland"-- The consequences of this episode--Carries off 300 oxen and kye, a horse and a nag, from Gilsland--Large demands on his hospitality--"Wat o' Harden's coo!"--The sow-backed hay stack--Destroys the town of Bellinghame--Marries Mary Scott of Dryhope--His son slain by one of the Scotts of Gilmanscleuch--The feast of spurs--Goes in pursuit of the Captain of Bewcastle--Revenge!--Willie Scott--His raid on Elibank--Taken prisoner--"Muckle-mou'd Meg"--Priest or hangman--A wise choice. "Jock o' the Syde"--Prisoner in Newcastle--Rescued by his friends--Pursued by the English-- Make good their escape.--"Christie's Will"--Two delicate colts--Lord Traquair--Lord Durie kidnapped--Scott's account of the incident--Description of balladist--Christie's Will carries important papers to Charles I.--Entrapped at Carlisle on his return--Spurs his horse over parapet of bridge.--Willie of Westburnflat--Tried at Selkirk--Breaks in pieces the oaken chair--Threatens to clear the court-- Dissuaded by his friends--Executed in due form of law-- Armstrong's good-night 237-266 XIV. UNDER THE BAN. State of the Borders--Decadence of Romanism--A strong hand needed--The Celtic Church--Its influence permanent--The Scots indifferent to fulminations of their spiritual superiors--Excommunicatio major--Excommunicatio minor-- Monition of Cursing by Archbishop of Glasgow 267-279 XV.