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=== The Murder of Robert Ker === Sometime between 1500 and 1511,<ref>Robson, Ralph. ''The English Highland Clans: Tudor Responses to a Mediaeval Problem''. Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers, 1989., p75</ref><ref name="Fraser, George MacDonald 1995. p173">Fraser, George MacDonald. ''The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers''. HarperCollins, 1995., p173</ref> John "the Bastard" Heron murdered Robert Ker of Cessford, Warden of the Middle March, during a March Day meeting—an extraordinary breach of protocol.,<ref name="Fraser, George MacDonald 1995. p173"/> The act sparked a violent feud, with reprisals including the murder of Heron's accomplice in York.<ref name="Fraser, George MacDonald 1995. p173"/> James IV viewed the unresolved killing as a major insult, referencing it in a letter to Henry VIII in August 1513—weeks before Flodden.<ref>Goodwin, George. ''Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513''. Phoenix (Orion Books Ltd), 2013., p87</ref>
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