The Scots briefly took and burned Berwick in February 1356 — the feast of Candlemas. Edward III retaliated immediately with a devastating raid into Lothian, burning everything in his path. Called 'Burnt Candlemas' by the English and 'Black Candlemas' by the Scots, it was one of the most destructive English raids into Scotland. The burning of churches and monasteries shocked contemporaries. It demonstrated that Scotland could not yet afford to provoke England directly while David II remained a captive.
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