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In 1640 he was at war with the Scots for their opposition to episcopacy, and it was at Ripon that the disgraceful negotiations were begun, by which a sum of £850 a day was to be paid to maintain their invading army, pending a more permanent settlement. The house in which the 'Treaty of Ripon' was negotiated stood near Ailcy Hill, and disappeared about the beginning of the century.
It is thought that about the year 860 they burned the town and did some damage to the church, and the remarkable mound known as =Ailcy Hill=, near the Canons' Residence, and due east of the Cathedral, is probably a relic of some battle of this period. The town probably grew up around the monastery.
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