Editing Border reivers (section)

===End of the Border===
By the death of [[Elizabeth I]] of England, things had come to such a pitch along the border that the English government considered re-fortifying and rebuilding [[Hadrian's Wall]].<ref>George McDonald Fraser, ''The Steel Bonnets'' (London: Harvill, 1989), p.210</ref> When Elizabeth died, there was an especially violent outbreak of raiding known as "Ill Week", resulting from the convenient belief that the laws of a kingdom were suspended between the death of a sovereign and the proclamation of the successor.<ref>George McDonald Fraser, ''The Steel Bonnets'' (London: Harvill, 1989), p.360</ref> Upon his accession to the English throne, [[James VI and I|James VI]] of Scotland (who became James I of England) moved hard against the reivers, abolishing border law and the very term "Borders" in favour of "Middle [[Shire]]s", and dealing out stern justice to reivers.<ref>Fraser, George MacDonald. The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. HarperCollins, 1995., p360-365</ref>