Hot to Trot

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Hot to Trot

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Do you know the history of the term Hot to Trot, where it came from?

After 1000 A.D., border life was in turmoil. In 1246, six Chiefs from the Scottish side and six from the English side met at Carlisle and produced a set of laws governing all the border Clans. These were unlike any laws prevailing in England or Scotland or, for that matter, anywhere else in the world. For example, it was a far greater offence to refuse to help a neighbor recover his property, wife, sheep, cattle or horses than it was to steal them in the first place. Hence the expression Hot Trod, or a hot pursuit, from which we get the modern, Hot to trot. For refusal of assistance during a "Hot Trod", a person could be hanged on the instant, without trial. Frequently, the descendants of these clans or families apologetically refer to themselves as being descended from cattle or horse thieves when, in fact, it was an accepted code of life on the border.

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