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Dowie Dens O'
Yarrow
A simple brief
thought on Scottish
Independance.

Were the outdated
union not of some very
high value to England and
the English, why would
they fight so to try to
keep it?

There are only so many
slices to a pie, for one to
have more, another must
have less.

Lastly - to those Scottish
"Loyalists" - to whom are
you loyal?
Scots royalty died in the
1700's so it can be no
Scots crown - And
certainly not it appears to
those who came before,
that bled for Scotland
and her freedom !  
In the words
of Burns, as he
wrote from the heart.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victorie.

Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power,
Chains and slaverie.

Wha would be a traitor-knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a Slave?
Let him turn and flie:

Wha for Scotland's king and law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Free-man stand, or free-man fa',
Let him follow me.

By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your Sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!

Lay the proud Usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us Do - or Die!!!

Choose your destiny.
Yarrow - Scotland
A Border Area






Selkirkshire
In the 1st Century AD Selkirkshire formed part of the
lands of the Gadeni who hunted it rather than settled
there. Neither the Romans nor the Saxons cleared
much of the forestry there and for centuries





Selkirkshire was known for its forest coverage. Indeed
an alternative name for the county was Ettrick Forest.
Under the Scottish kings the forest was regarded as
Royal. Despite this it was not until the reign of James V
that sheriffs were appointed to administer the county
on the Crown's behalf. Under Edward I of England, the
forest was granted to the Earl of Gloucester. Later, the
Earl of Pembroke assumed the hereditary sheriffdom.
Under Robert Bruce, the Clan Douglas administered
the county on behalf of the Crown. Folk ballads written
of the county commemorate the Battle of Philiphaugh
in 1645, the 'Dowie Dens' at Yarrow and Tibbie Shiels at
St Mary's Loch.