 | Robert Borland - Border reivers - 1898 - 338 pages
...but, " notwithstanding this letter," he says, " within a month after they came and hunted as they used to do without leave, and cut down wood and carried it away. I wrote to the warden, and told him I would not suffer one other affront, but if they came again without... | |
 | Robert Carey Earl of Monmouth - Great Britain - 1905 - 174 pages
...to hinder them. Notwithstanding this letter, within a month after they came and hunted as they used to do without leave, and cut down wood and carried it away. I wrote again to the Warden, and plainly told him I would not suffer one other affront, but if they... | |
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I prayed him, therefore, to let them know, that if they would, according to the ancient custom, send to me for leave, they should have all the contentment I could give them ; if otherwise they would continue their wonted course, I would do my best to... 
