During David I's great invasion of England in 1138, Scottish raiding parties penetrated deep into Lancashire — further south than any Scottish army had reached for centuries. At Clitheroe a local English force attempted to intercept a Scottish raiding column and was defeated. The atrocities committed by David's Galwegian troops in northern England — including the killing of women, children and clergy — shocked contemporaries and were reported by writers like Aelred of Rievaulx.
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