Following the Catholic earl victory at Glenlivet, Huntly carried out a punitive campaign in his own heartland of Strathbogie against tenants suspected of Covenanting sympathies. The raid illustrated the religious character of Gordon power struggles — the earls used military force to maintain Catholic dominance in the northeast even after James VI forbade it.
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