During the Weardale campaign of 1327, Scottish raiding forces swept through Northumberland. Alnwick — the Percy stronghold and the most important castle in northern Northumberland — was approached and threatened. The Scots could not take it without siege artillery but the fact that they roamed freely around one of Englands strongest border castles illustrated the impotence of English military power in the north in the final years before the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
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