After the Northern Earls rebellion of 1569, Scottish Border reivers had provided refuge and assistance to the English rebels. Elizabeth I authorised a punitive expedition by Lord Hunsdon that burned the principal towers and settlements of Teviotdale. The raid was diplomatically sensitive — an English army burning Scottish territory — but the weak Scottish regency government could not prevent it. It was one of the last significant English military operations into Scotland before the Union of Crowns.
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