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Show KEPT THE RACES APART. Btrlngant Laws Pnvtntsd Mixing of Scotch and English. In the time of James II. of Scotland the relations botween tho Scotch and En I lsh were bad Indeed. The ktnc objected to any business dealings between be-tween tho Scotch and their southern neighbors. To his subjects he thought nothing could result therefrom bat evil. To preserve them, therefore, from any approach to amity nnd intercourse inter-course with the hated southron, he actually decreed "outlawry" against those who should desire, even In that time of peace, to smooth down tho differences dif-ferences which divided tho two peoples. peo-ples. Against Englishmen visiting Scotland without leave the law waa especially severe, nor was any Scotsman Scots-man to bo allowod to becomo security or guaranty for an Englishman under any circumstances whatever, unlem he wished to be accused of high treason. trea-son. Even legitimate trado was forbidden. for-bidden. No Scotsman was to supply the English garrisons In Berwyck or Roxburgh with "ony victual, fowal or uthcr supportatlon" under tho pain of treason, while no Intermarriage was to bo allowed betweon "the Scottts and English, that men's affection be na' lod away fro their air klnrlk." |