Liddesdale, running through the Scottish side of the border, was the most lawless territory in Britain — even the Scottish crown struggled to govern it. English Wardens periodically launched punitive raids into Liddesdale in retaliation for raids into England. These counter-raids rarely suppressed reiving for long but temporarily satisfied demand for action from English border settlers. The raids and counter-raids formed an endless cycle of violence throughout the Tudor period.
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.
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