Sentence:  Indeed she knew how to make young Deelbelicket, old Dougald Baresword, the Laird of Bandybrawl, and others, pay for the hospitality which she did not think proper to deny them, by rendering them useful in her negotiations with the <WSD>lighthanded</WSD> lads beyond the Cairn, who, finding their late object of plunder was allied to "end folks, and owned by them at kirk and market," became satisfied, on a moderate yearly composition, to desist from their depredations. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Thieving.