 The real problem was not amongst the nobles and gentry, nor with recusants (there were relatively few of these in the 1597 count in the diocese of Carlisle compared with the number in Lancashire), but with the people themselves, who had other things on their minds.As regards the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the sixteenth-century and their effect on Cumbria, the English policy was often one of either fomenting trouble for the Scottish Crown, sometimes using the reiving clans to do this, or else promoting open warfare.The attempt to further the Protestant cause in Scotland, either by support or coercion, was also a part of Tudor policy (with the exception of Mary I of England).