A more formidable trouble broke out in the north.

The enmity of France roused as of old the enmity of Scotland; the Scotch king Robert the Third refused to acknowledge Henry, and Scotch freebooters cruised along the northern coast.
[Sidenote: Richard's death] Attack from without woke attack from within the realm.

Henry had shown little taste for bloodshed in his conduct of the revolution.

Save those of the royal councillors whom he found at Bristol no one had been put to death.

Though a deputation of lords with Archbishop Arundel at its head pressed him to take Richard's life, he steadily refused, and kept him a prisoner at Pomfret.