Excerpt from The Border Papers, Vol. 2: Calendar of Letters and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the Borders of England and Scotland, Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London; A. D. 1595-1603 With these few preliminary remarks, we proceed to consider the wide field of domestic affairs contained in the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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