Redeswire, RAID OF THE

Redeswire, RAID OF THE, a battle fought 7th July 1575 close to the English border at the pass leading across the Cheviots into Redesdale, about 6 miles ESE. of Chesters in Roxburghshire. A number of Scots attacked an English force to avenge the slaughter of a countryman, but were beaten back and on the point of being utterly ronted, when the provost and townsmen of Jedburgh arrived hot from the 10 miles' march, and at once set on the enemy. The Englishmen were soon completely defeated, with the loss of several considerable prisoners. There is a prosy ballad on the subject in Scott's Border Minstrelsy.