Home Castle in Berwickshire was held by the pro-English faction of the Home family and besieged by Scottish government forces in 1548. The siege was part of the broader struggle for control of the eastern Borders. The castle's position commanding the Merse made it strategically vital. Its eventual capitulation removed an English forward base east of Berwick and demonstrated that even castle-holding English sympathisers could not hold out indefinitely against a determined Scottish siege.
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