Editing Yorkshire (section)

====1300s: Scottish War of Independence and Mass Deaths====

The population of Yorkshire boomed until it was hit by the [[Great Famine of 1315–1317|Great Famine]] of 1315.<ref name="rulocal" /> It did not help that after the English defeat in the [[Battle of Bannockburn]] in 1314, the Scottish army rampaged throughout northern England, and Yorkshire was no exception. During [[The Great Raid of 1322]], they raided and pillaged from the suburbs of York, even as far as East Riding and the Humber. Some, like Richmond, had to bribe the Scots to spare the town. The [[Black Death]] then reached Yorkshire by 1349, killing around a third of the population.<ref name="rulocal" />