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42 Legal History in the Making
west march for redress for raids into Eskdale by Sir Robert de Tilliol and Sir
Thomas de Lucy, since the relevant warden was that very same Sir Thomas de
Lucy of whom Lord Douglas was complaining. 72 And march procedure simply
would not work if the will to make it do so was absent. In 1398 it was laid down
that bills should be dealt with alternately, first a Scots one, then an English. 73 In
1426 the Scots brought proceedings to a standstill by demanding unrealistically
high compensation for the theft of six oxen and refusing to go on to the next
case until it was paid. 74 Yet the fact that Anglo-Scottish march procedure did
not go the way of that of Gascony, and in spite of the survival of some archaic
elements managed to adapt itself to changing circumstances, often marred but
sometimes made effective by politics, indicates that it was something better
than useless. Even if the tone employed be that of faint praise, it may still be
suggested that the laws of the marches are worth study and respect, for their
achievement as well as for the aspirations they embodied.
72 E 36/190, fo. 1.
73 Rymer, Foedera, viii, 54-57.
74 E 28/47 (unnumbered).