The Scotch king bought his release in 1175 by owning Henry's suzerainty.

The Scotch barons did homage, and English garrisons manned the strongest of the Scotch castles.

In England itself church and baronage were alike at the king's mercy.

Eleanor was imprisoned; and the younger Henry, though always troublesome, remained powerless to do harm.
The king availed himself of this rest from outer foes to push forward his judicial and administrative organization.

At the outset of his reign he had restored the King's Court and the occasional circuits of its justices; but the revolt was hardly over when in 1176 the Assize of Northampton rendered this institution permanent and regular by dividing the kingdom into six districts, to each of which three itinerant judges were assigned.