On 27 May 1544, when England's ground mercenary forces and the royal fleet were withdrawn from the previous Battle of Edinburgh, Edward Seymour, the supreme commander of the ground forces, made a series of raids proposed to Henry VIII and the Privy Council. One of the proposals was to send a border guard force to launch a raid on the Scottish border town of Jedburgh. Later, Henry VIII and the Privy Council approved the proposal.

The town of Jedburgh, located in the middle of the Anglo-Soviet border, is a town with a population of no more than 100 people in the southern border region of Scotland. Since the town was less than 30 miles from the Anglo-Soviet border, the Scottish side built various forts and fortified houses against the English, and stationed 500 border hussars and artillery units with seven bronze front-loading guns.

Then, when the time came on 9 June, Sir William Earle, the captain of the guard at Berwick Castle, was assigned by his father to meet with his colleagues on the central frontier at Millfield, near the town of Woller, south of Berwick, and unanimously decided to carry out the raid on Fort Jed, approved by Henry VIII and the Privy Council.

A week later, Sir William led his father's (Baron Earl's) army and part of the border guard to carry out a battle plan to attack the town of Fort Jed. The battle soon ended due to the flight of the Scottish resistance. Next, Sir William burned down the town's abbey, fort and most of the fortified premises.

On his way back to England, which captured 500 horses and 7 cannons, he also burned down the Kellingcraig Tower, Sesford Castle, Morebart Church, Ottburn, Cattle Castle, and other towns. When Sir William's army arrived at the Anglo-Soviet border, he observed a fire in the Scottish town of Kirkeyetm that had been started by the Scottish border army, and many more Scots were captured or killed.

In October, the English-occupied town of Jedburgh and its citizens swore allegiance to Sir William's father, Baron Ralph Earle, who named his other son, Ralph, the squire on Isabelle's sneak attack. Later, Sir William took 21 civilians in the town hostage and sent them to Warkworth Castle, where his father was located. And, threatening the other Scots in the town of Jedburgh that if they failed to fulfill their oath of allegiance, the hostages would be executed by their father.

In December 1544, at the Scottish Parliament held in Stirling Castle, Earl II of Aaron and Queen Mother Guise, who had competed with him for power, reconciled with Archibald Douglas, Earl VI of Angus, and his brother, and pardoned the Earl and his brother for their previous treason against Scotland. In January 1545, Earl VI of Angus and Count IV of Rossius assembled on the southern border with about 2,500 light cavalry and spearmen to fight the English who occupied Fort Jed, and planned to expel them from the town.

A series of factors led to the Battle of Ankrummore in February 1545, when the Scots defeated the English. The victory of the Scots temporarily put an end to the sad fact that the Scottish borders and the Low Countries were plundered by the English. The town of Jedburgh, where the battle took place, has been listed in the Scottish Historic Battlefields Catalogue and is protected by the Scottish Historic Battlefields under the Historic Environment (Amendment) Act 2011.

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In October 1544, after Isabel met with Henry VIII's illegitimate son, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Richmond confirmed Queen Mary's hiding place, Stirling Castle, from the mouth of Sir Andrew, a Scottish hostage. Soon, Henry VIII, who was far away in London, received a letter from his illegitimate son from Sharif Hatton Castle.

After some discussion with the Privy Council, Henry VIII approved the bastard's plan to raid Stirling Castle and capture Queen Mary. However, Henry VIII and his kingdom were bankrupt by this time, and he had no more money to spend on the planned raid on Stirling Castle outside of the battle in the town of Jedburg.

In the end, he was able to divide half of the 3,000 mercenaries from the Holy Roman Empire and Spain who had taken part in the battle for the town of Jedburg for the assault on Stirling Castle. In addition, after consulting with Baron Earl I, who guarded the central border, 400 Scottish border dwellers loyal to England were handed over to his illegitimate son, the Duke of Richmond. Subsequently, a small part of the royal fleet was used to carry these mercenaries and the converted Scots to the Forth to fight.

In early February 1545, the Scots defeated the English army at the Battle of Ankrummore, which broke out in the town of Jedburg. In the battle against the Scots, 800 Englishmen, including Sir William Earl's fathers, Baron Earl I and Sir Brian Layton, were killed, and 1,000 mercenaries from Europe were captured by the Scots.

According to a war report by the Scots, Earl II of Aaron personally came to the town of Jedburgh at the end of the battle to congratulate Count VI of Angus. Count Aaron, in asking his captives to identify the body of Baron Earl I, said: "God has mercy on him, because he is a cruel and ruthless man, and is so cruel that many men and fatherless people may regret it." And those Christians who have been slaughtered and bloodied should be deplored. ”

Two weeks later, a royal fleet of 1,500 mercenaries, 400 Scotsman, and 200 nobles, commanded by Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount John Dudley (later Earl of Warwick, self-proclaimed Duke of Northumberland), broke into the Forth Bay north of Edinburgh and into the River Forth to the interior.

A few days later, ground troops from the royal fleet landed in the village of Fallin on the banks of the River Foss. The village of Farnish was only three miles away from the city of Stirling, and the landing force captured the old medieval town of Stirling in Scotland in an instant. At this time, Queen Mother Guise, who had stayed in Stirling Castle, immediately sent someone to secretly transfer her daughter, Queen Mary, out of the castle and to the abbey in Lake Mentis. After sending her daughter out of the castle, Queen Guise called on all the knights, soldiers, and people of Stirling Castle and the city of Stirling to resist the invasion of the English people.

Sadly, 1,500 mercenaries from the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, England's main ground forces who invaded Stirling, were busy plundering the city. At this time, 400 Scottish border residents wearing cuirass and armed weapons suddenly rebelled against the British on the battlefield. Not only did he kill most of the noble soldiers, including the two knights, but he also captured hundreds of mercenaries. In desperation, the Duke of Richmond and Viscount Lyle had no choice but to order the royal fleet to vigorously support the retreat of the ground forces with naval guns.