The Robson family of North Tynedale and Redesdale conducted sustained cross-border raiding in 1545, targeting Scottish Teviotdale settlements and also raiding against English neighbours in competing dales. The Robsons were one of the four great English Middle March reiver surnames and operated primarily from the upper Rede valley. Their 1545 operations exploited the chaos created by Hertford's Rough Wooing raids which had disrupted the normal border equilibrium, opening new opportunities for English reivers to raid into a destabilised Scottish border.
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