The rescue of Kinmont Willie from Carlisle Castle in 1596 was the most audacious Border incident of the Elizabethan period. Willie Armstrong was captured in violation of march truce law. When the English warden Scrope refused to release him, Walter Scott of Buccleuch — the Scottish march warden — led a night raid on Carlisle Castle itself and freed him. The English were furious; Elizabeth I protested furiously. Buccleuch reportedly told her that any man of honour would have done the same. The incident became one of the great Border ballads.
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