James remonstrated, Henry was firm, and the Border feud of Ker and Heron was festering; moreover, Henry was a party to the League against France, and France was urging James to attack England.

He saw, and wrote to the King of Denmark, that, if France were down, the turn of Scotland to fall would follow.

In March 1513, an English diplomatist, West, found James in a wild mood, distraught "like a fey man." Chivalry, and even national safety, called him to war; while his old remorse drove him into a religious retreat, and he was on hostile terms with the Pope.

On May 24th, in a letter to Henry, he made a last attempt to obtain a truce, but on June 30th Henry invaded France.

The French queen despatched to James, as to her true knight, a letter and a ring.