Surrey's 1523 raid was one of the most destructive English incursions into the Borders before the Rough Wooing. Kelso Abbey — the largest and richest abbey on the Scottish Borders — was ransacked and burned. Jedburgh, Dryburgh and other settlements were razed. The raid was part of the endemic Anglo-Scottish warfare of the post-Flodden decade when England repeatedly exploited Scottish weakness. The burning of the Border abbeys left scars on the Scottish ecclesiastical landscape that were never fully repaired.
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