The English Warden's bill of complaint for 1532 recorded massive Scottish raiding into Cumberland — thousands of cattle, hundreds of horses, and numerous captives taken for ransom. These bills, maintained by both English and Scottish March Wardens, are the primary evidence for the scale and intensity of border raiding. They demonstrate that the border remained a zone of systematic economic predation even in peacetime.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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