In the 18th century this route was often used by cattle thieves, or reivers, as they hurried to escape government troops. |
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Despite a brief revival during the British civil wars, the reivers had disappeared by the end of the 17th century. |
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The Pass of Ryvoan in the Cairngorms is both the beginnings and the end of an ancient cattle reivers ' trail. |
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As an aside, I visited Tullie House museum a while ago and the section about the Border reivers is quite fascinating. |
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Courts were set up in the towns of the Middle Shires and known reivers were arrested. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Reivers, however, is an outlier in Faulkner's body of work. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Both Townsend and Logan are streaky kickers, while Hodge's attempts to replicate his Reivers form in a Scotland shirt have been worryingly fitful. |
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As a consequence Edinburgh Reivers became simply Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow became Glasgow Rugby. |
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Two cycle routes pass through the town, the Sea to Sea Cycle Route from Workington to Tyneside, and the Reivers Cycle Route. |
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Northumberland was long a wild county, where outlaws and Border Reivers hid from the law. |
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These peoples were known as the Border Reivers and Carlisle was the major city within their territories. |
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The museum features resident exhibits detailing the history of Roman occupancy of the region, Hadrian's Wall and the Border Reivers. |
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Reivers could no longer escape justice by crossing from England to Scotland or vice versa. |
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Ford was part of the Border Reivers franchise disbanded by the Scottish Rugby Union in 2007, leaving him out of work. |
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Thousands of fans were expected to take part in the demonstration over the SRU's decision to axe the Border Reivers pro-team. |
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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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Edinburgh merged with the Border Reivers to form a team to be known as Edinburgh Reivers. |
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In the Heineken Cup, the Scarlets were drawn in Pool Four along with Northampton Saints, Agen and Border Reivers. |
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Llanelli have struggled to see off Border Reivers and a Heineken Cup final-distracted Munster in their two home games since being beaten by Wasps in the Powergen Cup final. |
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Since the early days of the Bullnose Bedford there have also been Ford D series, two-stroke Commers, Leyland Constructors, Clydesdales and Reivers and now the Volvos. |
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There was perennial trouble from Border Reivers, but Elizabeth was inclined to forgive even their depredations rather than pick a quarrel with her Protestant neighbour. |
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