The Scottish occupation of Durham was deeply shocking to English Protestant opinion. The use of Durham Cathedral as a stable for Scottish cavalry horses was a calculated insult — mirroring what Puritan critics said Laudian bishops were doing to the English Church. The occupation lasted nearly a year and the financial burden of paying the Scottish army forced Charles I to keep Parliament sitting, making constitutional conflict inevitable.
Scottish occupation forces c.10,000-15,000 in Durham
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Durham