During Douglas's 1318 Yorkshire raid, Ripon was forced to pay a substantial ransom to avoid destruction. The minster town, with its important ecclesiastical establishment, purchased a short-term truce from the Scottish raiders who threatened to burn the buildings if payment was not forthcoming. The Ripon ransom, alongside similar payments at Knaresborough, Richmond and elsewhere, represented the systematic monetisation of Scottish raiding power and the extraction of wealth from deep inside England.
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