=14. Battle of Sauchieburn.=--The King, who had not learned wisdom by the lesson of Lauder Bridge, grew more and more unpopular. A confederacy was formed, and a large army was raised by the lords south of the Forth. To give a show of justice to their doings, they placed _James_ the _Prince of Scotland_ at their head, professing to have deposed his father, and to have accepted him as their lawful king. North of the Scots Water the country was true to James, and there he collected a considerable force. The two armies met at _Sauchieburn_. The King, who was not brave, turned and fled at the first sign that the day was going against him. In his flight he was thrown from his horse and carried to a mill built on the _Bannock Burn_, where he was murdered by an unknown hand, 1488. =15. Church Matters.=--In 1471 _St. Andrews_ was raised to an _Archbishopric_. Pope Sextus the Fourth sent the pallium to _Robert Graham_ the bishop, but this increase of dignity only proved a source of torment to him, for his suffragans, out of jealousy, accused him of all manner of heresies and crimes. He was deposed and degraded, and ended his days in confinement. =16. James IV., 1488-1513.=--The first thing to be done after the affair of Sauchieburn was to find out what had become of the King, and, when his death was made sure of, an inquiry was set on foot as to the cause of it. The offices of state were transferred to the party in power, and an act of amnesty was passed, to take in all persons who had taken part with the late King in the struggle which the nobles pleased to call the late rebellion. Two ineffectual risings to avenge the murder of the King were made by the Lords _Lennox_ and _Forbes_, and three years later, to pacify the clamours of the people, a reward of one hundred marks was offered for the discovery of the actual murderers. =17. English Intrigues.=--Just at this time Henry the Seventh of England had his hands too busy at home to allow of his making open war upon Scotland, but he carried on secret schemes with _Angus_, _Ramsay_, and others for the capture of the King. James, on the other hand, upheld that _Perkin Warbeck_ was really _Richard, Duke of York_, received him at his court as the son of King Edward, and gave him in marriage his kinswoman _Lady Katharine Gordon_. A force of _French_ and _Burgundians_ came to aid him, and an army crossed the Border, but it did nothing, as the rising which had been planned, and was to have been made at the same time in the north of England, did not take place. At last James got tired of Perkin, sent him off to Ireland, though with a princely escort, and renewed a truce with Henry, in 1497. The two kings were drawn still closer by the marriage of _James_ with _Margaret Tudor_, eldest daughter of Henry, in 1502.