Following the victory at Byland, Robert Bruce conducted one of the most destructive Scottish raids into Yorkshire. The Scots reached as far south as Beverley. Religious houses paid enormous ransoms; Ripon paid 900 marks; Fountains Abbey was threatened. Yorkshire communities had already paid ransoms in 1315, 1316, and 1318. The cumulative impact of Scottish raiding was severe, leaving much of the North Riding depopulated.
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