Scots in England in the Fifteenth Century

In the description of Scotland in his Commentaries, Pope Pius II, who had visited the country as an envoy for the Council of Basel in the 1430s, wrote, There is nothing the Scotch like better to hear than abuse of the English'.1 In view of the continual hostilities between the two countries for over a century, this is hardly surprising, but it is important to remem ber that this was only one side of the story. Despite the conflicts, there were areas in which a modus vivendi was reached, and there is evidence during the fifteenth century, not only of trading relations between the two countries, but also for Scots who made their way south to pursue their fortunes peacefully, some actually settling in England where they eventu ally became naturalised while others at least survived as established resident aliens. Others again may have been simply migrant or seasonal workers, particularly in the English northern counties. The surviving evidence is patchy, and does not always point in the same direction, but it possesses sufficient coherence for the historian to draw reasonably consistent conclusions

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