Hertford's after-action report listed the destruction with bureaucratic thoroughness: 243 villages, tower houses, and farmsteadings; 5 market towns; numerous churches. The systematic nature of the devastation was deliberate — Henry VIII wanted Scotland's ruling class to feel that accommodation with England was less costly than resistance. The campaign also destroyed irreplaceable monastic libraries and manuscripts in the abbeys of the Borders.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near East Lothian