[MR] Wikipedia: Perkin Warbeck Hanged

[Garth Groff via Atlantia]

Noble Friends,

On this day in 1499, the pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck 
was hanged on the orders of King Henry VII. Warbeck claimed to be one of 
the lost Princes of the Tower, Richard of Shrewsbury, Prince of Wales: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkin_Warbeck .

Perkin Warbeck was the more successful of the two young imposters who 
were put forward to claim the English throne by the remnants of the 
House of York, the other being Lambert Simnel: 
https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Simnel . Henry VII apparently tried 
to deal gently with both imposters, perhaps recognizing they had been 
cruelly used by his enemies. Simnel was pardoned and given a job in 
Henry's kitchens (no doubt where he was carefully watched). Warbeck, the 
more dangerous, as he was supported by Margaret of York and James IV of 
Scotland. Warbeck was held in the tower for a number of years. When he 
tried to escape with the feeble-minded Edward of Warwick (another 
Yorkist pawn with a real royal claim), both were hanged.

In the 1972 BBC television series The Shadow of the Tower, Warbeck was 
portrayed by British actor Richard Warwick. Both Warbeck and Henry VII 
are given sympathetic portrayals.

Yours Aye,


Lord Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot