230 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 



custom, to be first or second in all his warlike ex 

 ploits, making good his word, which was usual with 

 him when he heard of rebels, that he desired but to see 

 them. For immediately after he had sent down the 

 Earl of Surrey, he marched towards them himself in 

 person. And although in his journey he heard news 

 of the victory, yet he went on as far as York, to pa 

 cify and settle those countries ; and that done, re 

 turned to London, leaving the Earl of Surrey for his 

 lieutenant in the northern parts, and Sir Richard 

 Tunstal for his principal commissioner, to levy the 

 subsidy, whereof he did not remit a denier. 



About the same time that the king- lost so good 

 a servant as the Earl of Northumberland, he lost 

 likewise a faithful friend and ally of James the Third, 

 King of Scotland, by a miserable disaster. For this 

 unfortunate prince, after a long smother of discon 

 tent, and hatred of many of his nobility and people, 

 breaking forth at times into seditions and alterations 

 of court, was at last distressed by them, having taken 

 arms, and surprised the person of Prince James, his 

 son, partly by force, partly by threats, that they 

 would otherwise deliver up the kingdom to the King 

 of England, to shadow their rebellion, and to be the 

 titular and painted head of those arms. Whereupon 

 the king, finding himself too weak, sought unto 

 King Henry, as also unto the Pope, and the King of 

 France, to compose those troubles between him and 

 his subjects. The kings accordingly interposed their 

 mediation in a round and princely manner ; not only 

 by way of request and persuasion, but also by way 



