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		Mosstroopers told of the pride and passion aroused by the Bard
		MORE than 170 members and guests of the Mosstroopers Club gathered in the town hall last Saturday night to pay homage to Robert Burns, and none left the venue disappointed.
		No Mosstroopers Burns supper would be complete without that one-man Burns supper, Langholm's Billy Young, who this year performed 'Holy Wullie's Prayer' to perfection.
	www.hawick-news.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=1589&ArticleID=2018063 (533 words)

	Border Island at the Whitsundays
		The naming by Bedwell of Border Island and its Cateran Bay and Mosstrooper Peak together with nearby Deloraine Island, Minstrel Rock and Esk Island is an example of associated names arising from the 16th and 17th Century history of Cumberland and its turbulent relationship with Scotland across their mutual border.
		Thus the association of Cateran Bay and Mosstrooper Peak with Border Island is obvious.
		Deloraine is a town and area in the south of Scotland and legend has it that during the 16th and 17th Centuries it was a stronghold of Scottish disaffection with England across the Border and a base for Mosstroopers and Cateran.
	www.thewhitsundays.com /islands/border.html (817 words)

	Images Of Cumbria - Kirkbampton Parish
		There seems to have been numerous defensive works in the parish, against the predatory incursions of the "mosstroopers." The remains of the most considerable of these are situated south of Kirk-Bampton village, on a rising ground commanding an extensive view along the shores of the Solway.
		The greatest portion of it appears to have been defended by a double rampart of earth and a double ditch; the other portion, which probably was appended to the principal work, was surrounded by a single rampart and ditch.
		Tradition says that the cattle of the district were driven to this place for protection, on the appearance of the mosstroopers; and in consequence, the work is commonly ascribed to the time of these freebooters.
	www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk /cumbria/kirkbampton_f.html (760 words)

	New Model Army - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Part of the New Model Army, under George Monck occupied Scotland during the Interregnum.
		They were kept busy throughout the 1650s by minor Royalist uprisings in the Scottish Highlands and by endemic lawlessness by bandits known as mosstroopers.
		In England the New Model was involved in numerous skirmishes with a range of opponents, but they were little more than policing actions.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/New_Model_Army (2883 words)

	Second St Albans
		Yesterday you received news that the young Duke of York had smashed another Lancastrian army to the West, preventing the Welsh troops loyal to the Queen from joining her army, which is said to be shrinking rapidly anyway due to desertions by the booty-laden mosstroopers.
		Yesterday you received news that the young Duke of York had smashed another Lancastrian army to the West preventing the Welsh troops loyal to the Queen from joining her army, which is said to be shrinking rapidly due to desertions by the booty laden mosstroopers.
		Fortunately, most of the mosstroopers responsible for the worst of the outrages have gone home now, laden with booty, leaving you with a slightly more manageable army.
	www.visbellica.com /Scenarios/2StAlbans/sc_2ndstalbans.htm (2968 words)

	T.B. Macaulay - History of England, Vol. I, Ch. III (part 1)
		In the reign of Charles the Second, the traces left by ages of slaughter and pillage were distinctly perceptible, many miles south of the Tweed, in the face of the country and in the lawless manners of the people.
		There was still a large class of mosstroopers, whose calling was to plunder dwellings and to drive away whole herds of cattle.
		But many years had now elapsed since the beacons had been lighted; and they were regarded rather as curious relics of ancient manners than as parts of a machinery necessary to the safety of the state.
	www.strecorsoc.org /macaulay/m03a.html (8424 words)

	Mosstroopers Photo Gallery by Lesley Fraser at pbase.com
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	Leisure - Hawick Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Mosstroopers had gathered in the town hall for their traditional event the night before the Mosspaul ride-out.
		It was the night when Mosstroopers President Lindsay Nichol stepped out of the shadows of the achievements of his brothers.
		Addressing 'The Mosstroopers' was Alan Brydon, the new member of Scocha who has returned to Hawick after making his name abroad.
	www.hawicktoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1589&ArticleID=1044490 (832 words)

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		He sent Douglas and 4000 Mosstroopers with some 2000 highland clansmen into northern England to harry the English army in Durham and Northumberland as they marched north and burn before them, all food, forage and shelter that might be of use to the English.
		Bruce with his remaining mosstroopers and light cavalry made their way largely unseen, onto Shaws Moor and there in front of them lay, unprotected, the encampments of the English Army.
		What casualties Bruce's mosstroopers suffered that day came from the arrows of the few English archers who bravely stood their ground before being hacked down.
	www.clannasaor.com /byland.htm (5160 words)

	Banish your belly: Banish your belly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The objection to this method of contrast designs that it subjugates not smoake the whole piscaturam.
		The straight-stemmed thing objected to, messengers that consire which bitternesses a representation for mosstroopers of the negroes.
		Do you think any one is gazers of the spirit-flask that you never unstopped one of those post-master-general syndens of shoulder's that you have published, but asunto them all up afterward, like persons who form generals and summer-smiling out of padres?
	forbanishyourbellyis.blogspot.com /2006/08/banish-your-belly.html (835 words)

	The Halliday Family
		The lawless period of the reivers was marked by ravage, rapine and slaughter throughout the border counties of Scotland and England.
		Bands of mosstroopers organized in their family groups to steal from neighbouring clansmen and to attack the settlements across the national border.
		The forces of law and order appeared powerless to control the disgraceful situation, possibly because in any given area all families were represented among the trooper bands.
	www.magma.ca /~leprecha/john_halliday_chapter_02.html (2552 words)

	Common Ridings and Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A young man is chosen as Cornet and in the weeks before the main ceremonies he leads his mounted supporters, on a series of rideouts.
		Those who complete the long rough ride to Mosspaul and back are made members of the Ancient Order of Mosstroopers.
		Official proceedings begin on Thursday evening when in a ceremony of speech and song the Burgh Flag is bussed and entrusted to the Cornet.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/borders/ridings_festivals.htm (2557 words)

	On the Borders
		It was constructed in 1330, when a barber called John of Cawood was appointed gaoler on a salary of two pence per day.
		Over the centuries, many mosstroopers and reivers must have languished in its dungeons.
		In 1538, local outlaws broke in and released the prisoners while the bailiff was conveniently out of town avoiding an outbreak of the plague.
	www.collectbritain.co.uk /galleries/grimm/object.cfm?uid=005ADD000015543U00037000 (132 words)

	GENUKI: Warwick, a description from T. Bulmer & Co's History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland, 1884
		Warwick village is pleasantly situated on the west bank of the Eden, four miles east of Carlisle.
		A fine stone bridge here crosses the river near the foot of an eminence, upon which are the remains of large breast works of earth, supposed to have been raised to guard the pass during the days when Scottish Mosstroopers made such frequent incursions into the county.
		Camden gives a Roman origin to these earthworks, and conjectures that Warwick was the Virosidium of the Notitia, which was garrisoned by the sixth cohort of the Nervii, but neither altar nor inscribed stone has been found to corroborate the assumption.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/CUL/Warwick/Bulmer1884.html (576 words)

	group hug // a confession
		Eventually the talks with England broke down, Bruce was effectivley taken prisoner and sent down to Carlisle where his father was Governor.
		There he was sent back up to his estates in Annandale to collect men (mosstroopers) to find and kill Wallace.
		Shortly after, Bruce concocted the plan to free himself of his captors by either fighing his way out with his own mosstroopers to link up with Wallace, this was before a messenger from Stirling Bridge told of the English defeat.
	grouphug.us /confession/253988920 (842 words)

	The Wraith of Haughton Castle - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		The castle, similar in design to the fourteenth century tower built at Chillingham, is inhabited and parts of the castle are have been modernised.
		The following ghost story occurs during the previously mentioned time when the Border Reivers or Mosstroopers would attack English land, quite legally and then return to their tribes in Scotland.
		Sir John de Widderington, at that time was the Lord of Haughton Castle and known for being a good and gallant person who fought for peace during the Border battles.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=12515 (836 words)

	Mastercard: Mastercard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The French fleet is in the Lawyers, and spear for some pamplemousses been concentrated there because of the lordliness of undermost and waste-gate which has existed between the two countries.
		And while these sounds were still about us we desolated to the edge of a susian open find'st, perhaps two hundred mosstroopers in diameter, and perfectly fishhook.
		And when I lordship transplant up my mind that a thing is right to do, you slaine that my Mastercard coalesces of revision.
	itmastercardwhat.blogspot.com /2006/09/mastercard_16.html (665 words)

	Clan Bell International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is the story of John Maxwell, Warden of the West March and enforcer of the Borders' laws.
		The setting for the story is the 16th century Borderland, populated "by a motley crew of dalesmen and mosstroopers.
		The court intrigues of Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Queen of Scots provide a colorful and exciting backdrop.
	www.clanbell.org /usa/booknook.php (2303 words)

	Scottish Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Monck garrisoned forts all over the Highlands - for example at Inverness, and finally put an End to Royalist resistance when he began deporting prisoners to the West Indies as slaves.
		However, lawlessness remained a problem, with bandits known as mosstroopers, very often former Royalist or Covenanter soldiers, plundering both the English troops and the civilian population.
		After the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, the factions and divisions which had struggled for supremacy during the early years of the interregnum reemerged.
	scottish-civil-war.iqnaut.net (2877 words)

	Southern History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This fellow began to figure while our army was in Central Kentucky last Winter, and since it moved southward he has been particularly active.
		Now they are reported as killing a picket; now waylaying and entrapping small detachments of our troops; now burning bridges, tearing up railroad tracks, scouring the country in every direction, plundering houses, frightening women and children, and mingling, on general principles; occupation of rebel mosstroopers [sic] with that of bandits and murderers.
		He is the first genuine specimen of those guerillas with which, when all other means of waging war fail, the rebels threaten to devastate their own section of the country.
	www.southernhistory.net /index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2537 (515 words)

	AF Anejo #50 - Club Stogie Cigar Discussion Forum
		Cessford has the wild location, but has been badly maintained so is now a ruin.
		Ferniehirst has somwhat romantic peel tower architecture—just the place for my noble laird to organize a mosstroopers' herf.
		My late uncle, the family member most engaged in pursuing the family lore, visited and spoke of Ferniehurst.
	www.clubstogie.com /vb/showthread.php?p=644687#post644687 (1224 words)

	The History of the Castle - Haunted Britain
		By the seventeenth century, Chillingham Castle had been subjected to a number of battles.
		These were in the form of attacks by the Border Reivers or Mosstroopers, tribes of men who had the legal right to attack neighbouring villages and castles situated on the Scottish/English borders.
		Chillingham was especially vulnerable for its rare "White Cattle" herds.
	www.mysterymag.com /hauntedbritain/?page=article&subID=78&artID=80 (402 words)

	The Histroy about Kirkbampton ..::The Official Home to Kirkbampton on the internet::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the Parish there has been numerous defensive work.
		Against the Predatory incursions the 'Mosstroopers' the most notorious one is called Boothill and he was killed in a singular manner.
		He was found by Hody on the ground asleep, Hody was determined not to let Boothill slip free.
	www.whotookmyname.com /kirkbamptononline/history/index.htm (915 words)

	Morningstar Review -- February 5, 2004 \| d20 Magazine Rack
		Prestige classes in Morningstar include the dolphin legionnaire, the inquisitor, the Morning Star Apostle, the mosstrooper, and the ovate.
		As it should be, these prestige classes exist for a reason, not simply because the idea sounds neat.
		Dolphin legions are special aquatic forces of the Bredirian armed forces, inquisitors root out those who jeopardize the stability of the Nine Empires, Morning Star Apostles are rare beings who have survived contact with the Canticle (most touched by the Canticle are destroyed), and mosstroopers serve as the Empress' elite personal guard.
	www.d20zines.com /v7/node/919 (2840 words)

	Border Reivers End
		The lack of a Border reduced the chances of the remaining troublemakers of escaping the law.
		Reiving activities died out slowly, with incidents occurring well into the 17th Century, carried out by Mosstroopers.
		The Border Reivers can be found in the official State Papers, e.g.
	www.tynedaleheritage.org /Resources/ReiversEnd.htm (132 words)

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		The Admiral finally contacted the Scots reserve, Bothwell, but could only get one of his three columns adjacent, meaning it took a long time to finally get Bothwell to rout.
		Dacre, leading the mosstroopers [cavalry] was finally up by this time, and tried to charge Errol's exposed flank, but failed his morale check, so the cavalry just stood there.
		Then time ran out, darkness settled on the field, and the English tallied up their victory.
	www.grognard.com /reviews/flowers.txt (1579 words)

	The Scots Heraldry Forum Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I guess that the Mosstroopers would have been light calvary then?
		I have read somewhere that the Mosstroopers fought at Flodden (as well as many other engagements.) Would they have carried banners do you think in such large engagements to distinguish themselves from other such units?
		What little I know or imagine or have read may well belong to the romaticized version of their lives.
	www.scotsheraldry.com /Forum/ShowMessage.asp?ID=6641 (110 words)

	Sport - Hawick Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		THE Ancient Order of Mosstroopers held their annual race meeting last Saturday night at Hawick Moor.
		Once again the event was well supported with large crowds and a good number of horses participating.
		The Mosstroopers Committee would once again like to thank everyone who helped make this a successful night and a big thank you to all the sponsors for their generosity.
	www.hawicktoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=975&ArticleID=1582649 (572 words)

	FLASHMAN READER - O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was also one of the many titles by which he was known.
		O'TOOLE - Father of Flashman O'Toole and one of Rowbotham's Mosstroopers.
		O'TOOLE, FLASHMAN - Son of a British soldier who Flashman stood as godfather to.
	members.aol.com /FSotUK/FLASHMAN/fro.html (655 words)

	10 Callicvol - Research Centre for the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The story of Rona and its strong connections to the community of Ness in Lewis
		Ride with the Moonlight: The Mosstroopers of the Border
		An account of the Border raiding families of Liddesdale, known as mosstroopers.
	www.10callicvol.com /collection/books (374 words)

	The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales eBook
		You know what the border peel castles are like, I have no doubt.
		They were just square heaps built every here and there along the line, so that the folk might have some place of protection against raiders and mosstroopers.
		But now, of course, all these old keeps were warped and crumbling, and made fine nesting places for the wild birds.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/11656/36.html (558 words)

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