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Lilliard's Stone | Lilliard's Stone | continued | the French people quarrelled with the English, at St. James's Fair, & burnt the town - This affray having taken place during a subsisting truce between the two kingdoms, Commissioners were appointed to enquire into, & remedy the grievances of the Border Subjects, and by whose fault the truce had been broken - They met in October 1380, at Lyliot's Cross, Maxton & Muirhouselaw, but the Conferences were adjourned to Berwick, at which it was agreed to meet at Ayton in the following June (1380) - The Commissioners accordingly met and after having Continued the discussion for several days, agreed to hold another March day at "Lyliot's Cross" on the 1st day of July 1383 - At the time agreed upon they met at Lyliot's Cross and Continued their Conferences at Muirhouselaw for ten days - There can hardly be a doubt that the broken stones, about one hundred years ago were fragments of the Lyliot's Cross - It is important to notice, |
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