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Title: Berwick and Scotland
Post by: castlebob on Tuesday 15 January 13 06:43 GMT (UK)

Can anyone confirm that Berwick was under Scottish control between 1328 to 1338, please? I'd also like to know what the situation was in 1371 regarding North berwick.
Cheers,
Bob

Title: Re: Berwick and Scotland
Post by: davidft on Tuesday 15 January 13 10:59 GMT (UK)

Between 1315 and 1318, Scottish armies, sometimes with the help of Flemish and German privateers, besieged and blockaded the town, finally invading and capturing it in April 1318.
England retook Berwick some time shortly after the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.

Further reading at

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/berwick/chapter03.htm
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/berwick/chapter04.htm
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/berwick/chapter05.htm
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/berwick/chapter06.htm

Title: Re: Berwick and Scotland
Post by: castlebob on Tuesday 15 January 13 13:18 GMT (UK)

Thanks David,
Much appreciated.
Bob

Title: Re: Berwick and Scotland
Post by: jessden on Wednesday 16 January 13 15:19 GMT (UK)

You asked about North Berwick in 1371.  It is in the county of East Lothian (not near Berwick on Tweed) and would have been part of the Kingdom of Scotland. Much earlier, before AD1000, it would have been part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria (which ran from the Humber to the Forth) but it was never part of England (which took over the southern parts of Northumbria from the Tweed southwards).

Jessie

Title: Re: Berwick and Scotland
Post by: castlebob on Wednesday 16 January 13 15:46 GMT (UK)

Thanks Jessie.
That's useful.
Cheers,
Bob