ABSTRACT
From the 1320s through to the sixteenth century, Anglo-Scottish warfare followed a repetitive pattern, in which long periods of cold war-truces-were interspersed with much shorter periods of open hostilities. Thus in the later fourteenth century there was a sequence of truces from 1357, culminating in the long, fourteen-year truce agreed in 1369. When that expired, on 2 February 1384, open warfare broke out. Fighting continued, with raid and counter-raid (one of which produced the battle of Otterburn), until 1389. Then another period of continuous truce started, which lasted until the first year of Henry IV’s reign.
