During the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, Scotland exploited English weakness to recover Berwick. The town's control was a perennial diplomatic and military issue throughout the fifteenth century. Scotland used English civil wars as opportunities to advance border claims, with Berwick changing hands several more times before finally becoming definitively English under Edward IV in 1482.
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