Editing Border reivers (section)

====Monition of Cursing====
In 1525, the [[Archbishop of Glasgow]], [[Gavin Dunbar (archbishop of Glasgow)|Gavin Dunbar]], issued the extraordinary fifteen-hundred word ''Monition of Cursing'', damning all who dwelled in the Borders to hell.<ref>Moffat, Alistair. The Border Reivers: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands. Birlinn, 2007., p163</ref><ref>Robb, Graham. The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England. Picador, 2018., p33</ref>

<blockquote>''I curse thair heid and all tha haris of their head; I curse thair face, thair ene, thair mouth, thair neise, thair toung, thair teith, thair crag, thair schulderis, thair breist, thair hert, thair stomok, thair bak, thair wame, thair armes, thair leggis, thair handis, thair feit, and everilk part of thair body, frae the top of thair heaid to the soill of thair feit, befoir and behding, within and without''.<ref>George MacDonald Fraser, ''The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers'' (London: HarperCollins, 1971), Appendix I. p383</ref></blockquote>

It was also during this time that the [[Bishop of Durham]] cursed the men of [[Tynedale]].<ref>Fraser, George MacDonald. The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers HarperCollins, 1989, pp. 226 n.1.</ref>