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their warfare against the Scots and Pits. When Hongist and Horsa perceived the facility with which they could subdue the Britons, they wrote to Germany, upon this Ida a Saxon Prince arrived in the year 547 in Northumbria with his army and took after some resistance possession of it and the lowlands of Berwickshire. These "Black Dikes" are supposed to [have] been at one time part of the boundary of [?] possession or outer line of defence. The [?Saxons] appear to have first penetrated as far as [the] Banks of the Whiteadder where a fortified [?] has been observed and after some time ex[tended] their possession to the South Bank of the [Black] adder, where the Black Dikes indicate an[other]defence and finally they made their way[? as far] as Galashields and Jedburgh, where a simi [lar] entrenchment called "Catzail" forms th [e] [? third] of the three successive features.

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I have transcribed as much as I can but have put certain words in square brackets which I would like someone to check, thanks.