The theft of livestock, kidnapping for ransom, murder, mutilation, burglaries and tit-for-tat feuds had been ongoing in the areas since the late Thirteenth century and he resorted to hanging his way ...

Jon Tait, from Rothbury, has collected a grisly record of hangings, beheadings, and drownings doled out as capital punishment to the cross-border raiders who plagued the area from the 13th to the 17th ...