Lord William Dacre of Naworth managed the English West March in the 1530s from Naworth Castle, his principal Cumberland stronghold. Dacre's tenure as warden was characterised by persistent accusations that he was too accommodating of Scottish reivers — he was twice tried for treason on charges of colluding with Scottish borderers. The complex relationship between the English Warden and the Scottish clans that raided England was inherent in the border system: effective governance required a degree of personal relationship with border leaders on both sides that easily became collusion. Dacre's 1534 crisis illustrated this structural ambiguity at its sharpest.
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