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In the 18th century this route was often used by cattle thieves, or reivers, as they hurried to escape government troops.
Despite a brief revival during the British civil wars, the reivers had disappeared by the end of the 17th century.
The Pass of Ryvoan in the Cairngorms is both the beginnings and the end of an ancient cattle reivers ' trail.
As an aside, I visited Tullie House museum a while ago and the section about the Border reivers is quite fascinating.
Courts were set up in the towns of the Middle Shires and known reivers were arrested.
What had been a promising start soon paled for the Reivers, and when flanker Matt Taylor was taken off injured, the writing was on the wall.
Edinburgh Rugby claim an average of 3,500 spectators for games this season, a fourfold increase from the previous year when they were known as the Edinburgh Reivers.
The Reivers, however, is an outlier in Faulkner's body of work.
The teams the Reivers have met in Wales are physically very hard, and the way he has handled himself against those tough Welsh props has really impressed us all.
The scrappy and disjointed play continued after the restart as the Reivers pack began to exert more and more pressure, and began to control events.
Both Townsend and Logan are streaky kickers, while Hodge's attempts to replicate his Reivers form in a Scotland shirt have been worryingly fitful.
As a consequence Edinburgh Reivers became simply Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow became Glasgow Rugby.
Two cycle routes pass through the town, the Sea to Sea Cycle Route from Workington to Tyneside, and the Reivers Cycle Route.
Northumberland was long a wild county, where outlaws and Border Reivers hid from the law.
These peoples were known as the Border Reivers and Carlisle was the major city within their territories.
The museum features resident exhibits detailing the history of Roman occupancy of the region, Hadrian's Wall and the Border Reivers.
Reivers could no longer escape justice by crossing from England to Scotland or vice versa.
Ford was part of the Border Reivers franchise disbanded by the Scottish Rugby Union in 2007, leaving him out of work.
Thousands of fans were expected to take part in the demonstration over the SRU's decision to axe the Border Reivers pro-team.
The act goes on to list the various Lowland clans, including the Maxwells, Johnstones, Turnbulls and other famous Border Reivers names.
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Somehow he had the sensation that reivers will and his own had leaped to a grapple.
Mr. reivers is a gentleman and can be depended upon to keep his word.
This, of course, was not true of all the reivers on the Borders.
In no circumstances were the Border reivers easily intimidated.
Then came the reivers of Kernsberg and burned the castle to the ground.
They were the greatest of reivers on both sides of the Border.
The reivers burst through the lines, and changed the fate of Hawksglen.
He was the boss man here, and Reivers granted him ungrudged admiration for it.
Mr. Reivers was a foreman for the company that my father was estimator for.
Reivers with more than human tenaciousness had retained a glimmer of consciousness.
Ill give you Davis on Fractures to read up on, said Reivers with a laugh.
Reivers had broken the deadlock with a Duncan Hodge penalty but from then on it was downhill all the way.
The former Newport fly-half quietened the crowd of 2,000 with the first points, a penalty, but it was the Reivers who scored the first try.
Mafi scored a try in each period as Dunvant staged a stirring fightback to push the Reivers all the way.
Edinburgh Reivers are set to carry Scotland's most realistic hopes of a European Cup quarter-final berth following yesterday's 24-team draw.
Mark Robertson capitalised on slack Reivers defending to run through for only try in the first half.
And Reivers only had themselves to blame, missing a series of clear-cut chances to put crucial points on the board when it mattered.
Reivers stand-off Stephen Jones thought he was on course for a dramatic early interception try but the ref ruled offside against centres Ben MacDougall and Nick De Luca.
Mr Sadler, from the School of Lifelong Learning, will focus on the Border Reivers, the Northumbrian Jacobites and the county's contribution to the 1914-18 Great War.
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