SOLLOM-MOSSE, (Cumberland) lyes on the N. side of Esk, in that tract which is now reckoned English ground, though before
the union of the two kingdoms, it was called bateable or debateable ground, the inh. on both sides always contending for
it, and yielding it to neither. In 1543, the English, not above 300, under Sir Thomas Wharton, Ld.-warden of the W.
marches, took above 1000 men prisoners here, for which, 'tis said, K. James V. died soon after of grief.