Henry VIII sent the Earl of Hertford to devastate Edinburgh in an attempt to force Scotland into a marriage alliance. Hertford burned the city and Holyrood Abbey but could not take the castle. The systematic devastation of towns and monasteries across southern Scotland was intended to terrorise the Scots into compliance — instead it drove them closer to France.
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 Midlothian