Forced to quit Scotland the youth threw himself on the Cornish coast, drawn there by a revolt in June, only two months before his landing, which had been stirred up by the heavy taxation for the Scotch war, and in which a force of Cornishmen had actually pushed upon London and only been dispersed by the king's artillery on Blackheath.

His temper however shrank from any real encounter; and though he succeeded in raising a body of Cornishmen and marched on Taunton, at the approach of the royal forces he fled from his army, took sanctuary at Beaulieu, and surrendered on promise of life.

But the close of this danger made no break in Henry's policy of winning Scotland to a new attitude towards his realm.

The lure to James was the hand of the English king's daughter, Margaret Tudor.

For five years the negotiations dragged wearily along.