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CXIV APPENDIX, NO. IT.
APPENDIX, No. II.
HISTORY OF GEORDIE BOURNE.
Jn the following passages, extracted from the Memoirs
of Sir Robert Carey, then deputy of his fathei*. Lord
Hunsdon, warden of the East Marches, afterwards Earl
of Monmouth, the reader will find a lively illustration
of the sketch given of Border manners in the preceding
Introduction.
" Having thus ended with my brother, I then beganne
to thinke of the chargel had taken upon mee, which was
the government of the East March in my father's ab-
sence. I wrote to Sir Robert Kerr,* who was my op-
posite warden, a brave active young man, and desired
him that hee would appoint a day, when hee and my-
selfe might privately meet in some part of the Border,
to take some good order for the quieting the Borders,
till my retourne from London, which journey I Avas
" Sir Kobert Kerr of Cessford, warden of the Middle Marches, and
aiiccstor of the house of Roxbur'^lie.