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English Raid supporting King's Party 1570

Q: When did English Raid supporting King's Party 1570 take place?

English Raid supporting King's Party 1570 took place in 1570, Scotland. In 1570, following the assassination of Regent Moray and the collapse of the Northern Rebellion (whose leaders Percy and Westmorland had fled into Liddesdale and been sheltered by the Armstrongs), an English force under Sussex, Hunsdon and Forster launched a major punitive raid into the Scottish Borders, burning over 300 towns and homesteads and around 50 towers and castles in Liddesdale and Teviotdale, devastating the area and its Marian-sympathising inhabitants.

1570

Scotland

Era

Tudor

Battle Type

Raid

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated

Marian-sympathising Border reiver clans (Armstrongs, Elliots and others) sheltering the fled Northern Rebellion leaders

Victor

English forces under the Earl of Sussex, Lord Hunsdon and Sir John Forster

Outcome

In 1570, following the assassination of Regent Moray and the collapse of the Northern Rebellion (whose leaders Percy and Westmorland had fled into Liddesdale and been sheltered by the Armstrongs), an English force under Sussex, Hunsdon and Forster launched a major punitive raid into the Scottish Borders, burning over 300 towns and homesteads and around 50 towers and castles in Liddesdale and Teviotdale, devastating the area and its Marian-sympathising inhabitants.

The Battle

History & Significance

English Raid supporting King's Party 1570 was a Tudor raid, fought in Scotland in 1570. English forces under the Earl of Sussex, Lord Hunsdon and Sir John Forster prevailed over Marian-sympathising Border reiver clans (Armstrongs, Elliots and others) sheltering the fled Northern Rebellion leaders. In 1570, following the assassination of Regent Moray and the collapse of the Northern Rebellion (whose leaders Percy and Westmorland had fled into Liddesdale and been sheltered by the Armstrongs), an English force under Sussex, Hunsdon and Forster launched a major punitive raid into the Scottish Borders, burning over 300 towns and homesteads and around 50 towers and castles in Liddesdale and Teviotdale, devastating the area and its Marian-sympathising inhabitants.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of English Raid supporting King's Party 1570 lies on Crawford Group And Moffat Shale Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is mudstone, chert and smectite-claystone.

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Scheduled Monuments near English Raid supporting King's Party 1570

Cauldshiels Hill,fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.5 mi

Cauldshiels Hill is a univallate Iron Age hill fort situated in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument occupies a naturally defensive hilltop position and comprises a single defensive rampart enclosing an interior settlement area. The underlying bedrock comprises Wenlock-period wacke…

Huntly Burn,earthworks

Scheduled monument · ~0.9 mi

Huntly Burn is a group of earthworks located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2528. The site lies on bedrock of the Hawick Group, formed during the Wenlock epoch, comprising wacke that ty…

Lindean,earthwork

Scheduled monument · ~1.6 mi

Lindean is a earthwork monument located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The site sits upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke sandstone dating to the Wenlock period of the Silurian era, which provides a sturdy but weathered foundation characteristic of this region's geolo…

Rink Hill,fort 700m NE of

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.7 mi

Rink Hill is an Iron Age fort situated 700 metres north-east of Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument occupies high ground underlain by Hawick Group wacke, a hard sedimentary rock formed in the Wenlock period of the Silurian era. This durable bedrock would have provided a stable foun…

Lindean,old church

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~1.8 mi

Lindean old church is a medieval ecclesiastical ruin located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The church stands on bedrock belonging to the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke deposits laid down during the Wenlock period of the Silurian epoch, some 427 to 423 million years ago. This hard,…

Rink Hill,fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.8 mi

Rink Hill is a hillfort of Iron Age date, located in Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders. The fort occupies a naturally commanding position on wacke bedrock of the Hawick Group, a geological formation dating to the Wenlock period. This solid foundation provided the Iron Age inhabitants with a de…

Sunderland Hill,earthwork

Scheduled monument · ~2.4 miles

Melrose Abbey

Scheduled monument · ~2.7 miles

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