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The Battle of Ancrum Moor was fought during the War of the Rough Wooing in 1545. The Scottish victory put a temporary end to English depredations in the Scottish border and lowlands. The battlefield has been included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and protected by Historic Scotland under the Historic Environment (Amendment) Act 2011.^[2]

Background

As his reign drew to a close, King Henry VIII sought to secure the alliance of Scotland and the marriage of the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, to his son Edward. He had the support of some Scots nobles who had been taken prisoner at the Battle of Solway Moss and mixed diplomacy with the threat of force, but in December 1543, the Scottish Parliament, after much internal dissension, decided to reject Henry's overtures and instead renew the alliance with France.^[3]

Campaign

Henry's reaction was to declare war against Scotland. This attempt to cajole Scotland into alliance was another episode in England's long history of antagonism with her northern neighbour. Henry VIII desired a diplomatic marriage that would neutralise the effects of Scotland's own international relations on his borders. The war was later called the "Rough Wooing".

Henry ordered the Earl of Hertford to devastate Edinburgh, Leith and many other towns. Hertford dutifully laid waste to much of southern Scotland in two expeditions in 1544, burning Edinburgh in May.^[4]

In 1545, an army under Sir Ralph Eure (alternatively spelt "Evers") continued to pillage in the borders. Perhaps their worst atrocity was the burning of Brumehous Tower with the lady of the house and her children and servants inside.^[5] The attacks had forged an unlikely alliance between the Earl of Arran, Regent for the infant Mary, and the Earl of Angus. These two Scottish nobles had long been bitter rivals for many years, and had even fought a pitched battle in the streets of Edinburgh in 1520. However, Angus's estates had suffered during the recent English raids and his family tombs at Melrose Abbey had been vandalised by Ralph Eure.^[6] Angus learned that Eure had been granted some of his lands in the Scottish borders by Henry VIII, and he declared that he would witness the title deeds with a sharp pen and red ink.^[5] Internal Scottish politics were set aside, Arran and his rival for power Mary of Guise were reconciled with the Earl of Angus and his brother George Douglas of Pittendreich at the Parliament of Scotland in December 1544, when the Douglases were pardoned for their previous treasons with England.^[7]

The Scottish army consisted initially of between 300^[5] and 1,000^[8] "lances" under Angus, and a similar number of troops from Fife under George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes and Norman Leslie, Master of Rothes. They were joined by borderers under Scott of Buccleuch, whose lands had also suffered devastation at Eure's hands. Together, they moved to confront the English army near Jedburgh.

Battle

The English Army consisted of 3,000 German and Spanish mercenaries, 1,500 English borderers under Sir Brian Layton and 700 "assured" Scottish borderers.^[8] As they settled into an encampment under Gersit Law, a small Scottish force made a feint attack and then retreated southwest towards Palace Hill. Much of the English force followed in pursuit. As they crossed the top of Palace Hill and chased down the far side, they found that the whole Scottish army had been hidden on the far side of the hill.^[8] The Scots had the advantage of surprise, and of the setting sun which was behind them, dazzling the English, and of the westerly wind which blew gunpowder smoke from arquebuses and pistols towards the English.^[9]

A charge by Scottish pikemen drove the English back in disarray. Here the longer Scottish pikes were used to advantage;

Regent Arran visits the field

According to an English report, Regent Arran came to the battlefield and congratulated the Earl of Angus. He asked a prisoner to identify Ralph Eure's body. Arran wept, and said;

Outcome

The English lost 800 men killed (including Eure and Layton) and 1,000 taken prisoner. This temporarily stopped their harrying of Scotland. News of the victory also induced Francis I of France to send troops to aid the Scots, although they achieved little.^[9] The war came to an end shortly afterwards on the death of Henry VIII, only to break out again with perhaps even more violence when Hertford, now Protector Somerset ruling on behalf of Edward VI, sought to impose his own political and religious settlement on Scotland.

Fair maiden Lilliard

A monument on the site of the battle, also known as Lilliard's Edge, records the following traditional verse:

The monument was erected in the 19th century, although it replaced an earlier stone with the same inscription, which is recorded as being in pieces in 1743.^[15] Lilliard is said to have fought at the battle following the death of her lover.^[16] However, her story is entirely apocryphal, as the name of the location is recorded as "Lillesietburn" in the 12th century, and as "Lillyat Cros" in 1378.^[15]

The verse itself is based on the earlier English border ballad of Chevy Chase.^[17]

See also

References

1. ^27 February 1545 is the New Style date, 1544 in Old Style due to the year beginning on 1 March.
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/heritage/battlefields/battlefieldsunderconsideration.htm |title= Inventory battlefields|publisher=Historic Scotland | accessdate=2012-04-12}}
3. ^Warner, p.99
4. ^Warner, pp.99-100
5. ^¹²Fraser, p.260
6. ^Reid, David, ed., David Hume of Godscroft's History of the House of Angus, vol.1 STS (2005), p.117
7. ^Merriman, Marcus, The Rough Wooings, Tuckwell (2000), pp.157-8
8. ^¹²Warner, p.100
9. ^¹Fraser, p.261
10. ^Lindsay of Pitscottie, Robert, Chronicles of Scotland, vol. 2, Edinburgh (1814), 441.
11. ^Warner, pp.102-103
12. ^Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 20 part 1 (1905), no.301
13. ^Lindsay of Pitscottie, Robert, The History of Scotland, 1436-1565, Edinburgh (1778), p.289: Lesley, John, History of Scotland translated by Father Dalrymple, STS vol.2: Unpublished Latin exchequer records of the Regent's Household in the National Records of Scotland mention provisions for the household at Lauder and a celebration at Hume Castle after the battle, NRS E31/13 fol.258r:
14. ^Merriman, Marcus, The Rough Wooings, Tuckwell (2000), p.359
15. ^¹²{{cite web |url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/57010/details/lilliard+s+stone+lilliard+s+edge/ |title=Lilliard's Stone |work=CANMORE |publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland |accessdate=2010-07-09}}
16. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.electricscotland.com/history/gazetteer/vol1page49.htm |title=Ancrum |work=Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland |author=Groome, Francis H |year=1892 |volume=1 |page=49 |accessdate=2010-07-09}}
17. ^{{cite book |title=St. Cuthbert's Way |last=Low |first=Mary |year=2000 |publisher=Wild Goose Publications |location=Glasgow, UK |isbn=978-1-84952-153-6 |page=88 |accessdate=August 30, 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qhqkh2ZPu-UC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}