Border Reivers clan names

[grrankin]

My great-grandmother was a Little from Stirlingshire and I suspect we may be from Reiver stock. I recently have discovered what Reivers actually were and the curse laid upon them by *that man*.

As my great-grandmother's and grandmother's family name was mentioned in that curse I have taken it very personally and am horrified that such a thing ever occurred. It's witchcraft of the highest order and I am very angry about it and feel very personally attacked by it!

If I ever meet a Dunbar I will not be held responsible for my actions (I probably would be, though, sadly).

We anybody else absolutely horrified by that curse? It's the foulest thing I have ever read and to know it was (most likely) aimed at my family just fills me with fury! I don't care what people did, they didn't deserve that tirade of filth aimed at them and from all the pulpits in the land, no less!

Off to quietly fume and plot revenge on behalf of the Reiving families! Down with the Dunbars (boo, hiss!!) 

[Ruskie]

Probably wise not to take it to heart grrankin.   

[Skoosh]

Archbishop Dunbar also burned alive two Franciscan friars outside Glasgow Cathedral, one was a Jerome Russell if memory serves, he later tried to pin the blame the Dominicans for organising their trial. The abuse of power & the burnings of reformers Patrick Hamilton the Abbot of Fearn & George Wishart brought about the Reformation.
 Having Dunbar's curse on Borderers carved on a boulder in Carlisle for the tourists wasn't a very sensible idea, I blame it for Brexit myself! 

Bests,
Skoosh.

[Skoosh]

Anent the monition cursing of Archbishop Dunbar, here is a prayer to counter his Grace's somewhat exuberant bell, book & candle curse on Borderers in general and doubtless folk called Little even,

https://www.hiskingdomprophesy.com/monition-cursing/

Good luck with that grrankin!

Yours,
Skoosh.

[clearly]

I think Sallyyorks and Iluleah back in 2018 seem to consign the Reivers to myth and legend. Nothing could be further from the truth. They were a very real and constant threat on both sides of the borders and as for evidence of their depredations, there is masses of it. So great was the threat that a whole new codex of law "Border Law" had to be drawn up to try and bring some sort of normality to the region.

Regarding the curse of Bishop Dunbar, do I feel cursed? As a Forster of reiver ancestry; not in the slightest.

[MANDY61]

My ancestors were reivers, Armstrongs and Johnstones. I have read the Steel Bonnets, great book. Not all the names were recorded, maybe it's because they didn't participate in raids regardless of whether they married into clans or not.