Henry VIII ordered the Earl of Hertford to devastate Scotland as punishment for Scottish refusal to ratify the Treaty of Greenwich, which would have betrothed the infant Mary Queen of Scots to Prince Edward. Hertford landed by sea, avoided the castle, and spent a week burning Edinburgh and the Lothians. The operation was meticulous — Hertford kept lists of everything destroyed. Holyroodhouse, the royal palace, was burned. The raid began the 'Rough Wooing', Henry's violent attempt to force a dynastic union.
Extensive property destruction; some hundreds of Scots killed
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