The Percy garrison of Alnwick Castle repelled Scottish raiders in 1381, during a period when English attention was focused on the Peasants' Revolt in the south. Alnwick Castle was the key fortress of the English East March, home of the Percy family whose power in Northumberland underpinned English border defence. The 1381 episode illustrated the perpetual drain of border defence on Percy resources and the way Scottish raiders exploited any English internal distraction to strike south.
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