Nothing was really accomplished except devastation in France.

Even this useless warfare exhausted English energies, and left the Borders defenceless against one of the largest armies ever collected in Scotland.

Wolsey and Henry were only saved, from what might have been a most serious invasion, by Dacre's dexterity and Albany's cowardice.

Dacre, the warden of the marches, signed a truce without waiting for instructions, and before it expired the Scots army disbanded.

Henry and Wolsey might reprimand Dacre for acting on his own responsibility, but they knew well (p.