^{page 154 note a} This has been done particularly in regard to Perkin's supposed Oration to James the Fourth of Scotland, which Dr. Henry ascribes to Lord Bacon. Walpole and Laing go a step further, and assign it to Grafton. But the fact is, that Grafton copies it literatim from Hall, who translates it from Polydore, therefore it is to the latter alone we are to look for the share of invention displayed in its composition. It is much to be regretted that in the reprints of our Chroniclers, some critical hand had not pointed out how far the later are indebted to the earlier authorities; for who would quote from Holinshed or Grafton, when the same passage totidem verbis is in Hall?

^{page 154 note b} MS. Cott. Dom. A. xvm.

^{page 154 note c} In Rymer, vol. xii. p. 317, is the order for an annuity of ten marks to him, dated 2nd Nov. 1486. As late as 1510 is the following entry relative to him in a Household Book of Henry VIII. in the Chapter House: “Jan. 1. Hen. VIII. It'm. to Mast' Bernard the blynde poyete, 100s.” See Tanner, , Warton's, Hist. E.P. vol. ii. p. 232,Google Scholar andExcerpta Historica, p. 109.Google Scholar The Cotton MS. Dom. A. xvm. contains the largest portion of his Annals, from the birth of Henry VII. to the year 1498. Subsequently he appears to have annually presented to the King an outline of the transactions of his reign. Two only of these portions are preserved, namely for the 20th year [Aug. 1504—Aug. 1505], and 23rd year [Aug. 1507—Aug. 1508], MS. Cott. Jul. D. in. and iv. Speed, who first consulted this work, says of it,“in such points as he hath professed to know [it is] not unworthy to be vouched, for there is in him a greate deale of cleaje elocution and defaecated conceit, above the ordinary of that age.” Hist, of Brit. ed. 1611, fol. 728Google Scholar.

^{page 155 note d} Append. No. 1. of the Documents attached.

^{page 155 note e} Among the Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. No.7084, is a fair copy of Lord Bacon's History, which had been submitted to the perusal of King James; and f.2, the following passage occurs after the words “for the reversall of their atteyndors,” which is omitted in the printed editions: “But the Judges left it there, and made no mention whither after such reversall there should need any new election or no, nor whither this sequestering of them from the House were generally upon their disabilitie, or upon an incompetency that they should be Judges and Partyes in their own cause. The point in lawe was whither any disabilitie in their naturall capacitie, could trench to their politicke capacitie, they being but Procurators of the Commonwealth, and Representatives and Fiduciaries of Countyes and Burrowghes, consideringe their Principals stood upright and cleere, and therefore were not to receive prejudice from their personall atteyndors.” The whole of this is crossed out with a pen, and in the margin, opposite to the words in Italics, Lord Bacon has written in his own hand, “This to be altered, as his Ma^te told Mr. Mewtus.”

^{page 158 note f} The original text of this letter, with a fac-simile of the signature, will be annexed to this communication, Append. No. 2.

^{page 158 note g} The Earls of Desmond and Kildare were at this time induced to offer Perkin their aid, as asserted in his letter, and confirmed by historical evidence. According to Lord Bacon, Perkin's letters to these Earls were extant in his time. See his Hist. Hen. VII. p. 118. Sir James Ware repeats the fact from Bacon, in his Annales, p. 38, ed. 1658. In Rymer, xii. p. 567, is a pardon granted to the Earl of Desmond for his treason, dated 12 Dec. 1494, and he is also included in the general pardon to the Irish rebels, 26 Aug. 1496. ibid. p. 634.

^{page 158 note h} Household Book, MS. Add. 7099.

^{page 159 note i} Hall, fol. xxviii. ed. 1550. Cf. Pol. Verg. p. 586, ed. 1555.

^{page 159 note j} llli [exploratbres] in Galliam profecti, duni alii alia loca peragrant, quidam Tornacum perveniunt, ibique intelligent Ricardntn humili loco natum, nomenqne à primo habere Petrum, cognomento Varbechum, idque raultorum testimonro constare.” Pol. Verg. p. 591.Google ScholarComp. Hall's translation here and elsewhere, when Polydore is quoted.

^{page 159 note k} k Rymer, xii. 544.

^{page 160 note l} So also in the King's letter to Sir Gilbert Talbot, written from Kenelworth, 20 July [1493 ?] he expressly charges Margaret with the contrivance of the plan. Ellis's, Orig. Lett. i. 20, 1st ser.Google Scholar The Tudor historians all join in the same accusation, and Hall quaintly writes, the Duchess thought “to have, gotten God by the foote, when she had the deuell by the tayle,” f. xxx. But the alteration in the King's affairs with regard to Flanders at a subsequent period, will account very satisfactorily why Margaret's name was omitted in Perkin's Confession.

^{page 160 note m} “Je suis esté informé à la verité, que ung seigneur portant l'Ordre de pardeca, se advanchoit de secretement advertir les villes tenans parties Franchises, que je me vouloie donner en vostre service, et qu'ilz se donnissent garde, et feissent bon guet. Et d'avantaige, pour plus demoustrer son couraige, il escript certaines lettres en Frangois, lesquelles j'ay fait prendrc, dont je vous envoye les coppies. Sire, le personnaige se nome Mess^e Hue de Mellum, et est celui qui conduisy toute I'affaire de Pierekin, qui se cuidafaire Roy de vostre Royalme d'Angleterre. J'espere avec l'aide et adveu de vostre noble personne, de lui moustrer qu'il n'est pas vostre serviteur.” Dated from Brussels, 1513. MS. Cott. Galb. B. vi. fol. 120.

^{page 161 note n} Maurice, , Hist, de la Toison d'Or, p. 121, fol. 1667Google Scholar.

^{page 161 note o} Of the same character is the Proclamation issued by Perkin on the expedition of James V. into England, in 1490, printed in the Appendix to Henry's History of England, No. I. and so unwarrantably altered by Lord Bacon.

^{page 161 note P} See a communication sent by me to the Gents. Mag. January 1831, p. 25. Sir Harris Nicolas with his usual acuteness had already fixed the Duke's birth in the year 1472. See his preface to the Wardrobe Accounts of Edw. IV. p. xvi. 80. 1830.

^{page 163 note q} Hist. Hen. VII. p. 114.

^{page 163 note r} Hist. Doubts, p. 90.

^{page 163 note s} Speed's words are, “This youth was borne (they say) in the city of Torney, and called Peter Warbecke, the son of a converted Jew, whose godfather at baptisme King Edward himselfe was.” Hist, of Brit. 1611, p. 737.Google Scholar He gives Bern. Andr. in the margin, as his authority for this. It must be observed that Speed is also in error, in making Perkin son, instead of servant, of the Jew.

^{page 163 note t} If the Privy Purse expenses of Edward IV. should hereafter be discovered, they might perhaps afford some entry respecting this baptism of the Jew, to confirm André's statement. This is only one proof among a thousand of the invaluable information contained in this class of documents, by means of which we are enabled to test the accuracy of nearly every contemporary writing. There exists a precedent for the story, in the reign of Edward the Third, who stood god-father to a converted pagan, in the year 1361. The incident is thus alluded to in a contempory chronicle:“Eodem anno, 6 die Nov. venit rex Ciprie Londoniis, conducens secum unum regem paganum De Lecto dictum, prisonarium, et unum alium magnatem non prisonarium, sed magnatem paganum, vocatum Dominum de Jerusalem, qui conversus est ad fidem Christianam; quem rex Anglie de sacro fonte levavit, et ipsum Edwardum nominavit.” MS. Cott. Galb. E. vn. f. 1881^b.

^{page 164 note u} The fact of this Confession having been printed, as we learn from André, is a sufficient answer to those who contend against its genuineness because it is omitted by Fabyan and Polydore. Lord Bacon's reasoning on it is worth but very little.

^{page 164 note x} This individual was Roger Machado, a foreigner, who was in Henry's service before he ascended the throne. He died in 1516. See Noble's, Hist. Coll. Arms, pp. 87, 111.Google Scholar In Rymer, vol. xii. is a licence to him and to John Meautis, the King's French secretary, to import 100 casks of Gascon wine free of expense, dated 17 Nov. 1494.

^{page 164 note y} MS. Cott. Cal. D. vi. fol. 18. This volume is one of those that suffered in the fire of 1731, and several lines at the bottom of each page are burnt. The date of the month is also destroyed, but fortunately it had been written in pencil at the commencement by some antiquary, previous to the accident. The original text will be annexed to this paper, No. 3.

^{page 164 note u} Robert Briconnet, Archbishop and Duke of Rheims, premier peer of France, and afterwards made Chancellor, at Turin, 30 Aug. 1495. He was brother of the Cardinal of St Malo. See Hist, de Charles VIII. rec. par Godefroy, fol. Par. 1684. p. 721.

^{page 164 note a} Louis de la Trimouille, called “la Chevalier sans reproche,” principal Chamberlain to Charles VIII. and Knight of his Order. He died in 1498. See ibid. p. 207.

^{page 165 note b} See a minute account of this expedition by André de la Vigne, and other historians, in the same work; by de Comines, torn. i. p. 440, and by Guillaume de Vileneuve, in the Preuves des Memoires de Phil, de Comines, tom, iv. p. 82. 4to. 1747.

^{page 165 note c} Martin Swart was sent over with 2000 Germans in 1487, to assist Lambert Simnel and the Earl of Lincoln, and was slain at the battle of Stoke, near Newark. He was, says Hall (translating from Polydore) “a noble man in Germany, and in marciall feactes verye expert” fol. ix. There was a ballad made on him, probably, not long after, which is alluded to by Skelton, and in the comedy called “The longer thou livest the more fool thou art,” of which the burden seems to have been:

“Martin Swart and his men, sodledum, sodledum,

Martin Swart and his men, sodledum bell.”

^{page 166 note d} Alphonso had received the Garter when Duke of Calabria, and was installed 18 May, 9 Hen. VII. He succeeded to the throne of Naples on the death of his father Ferdinand, 25 Jan. 1493-4. Ashmole's, Reg. Ord. Gart. ii. 236.Google Scholar According to Polydore Vergil, it was with the hope and expectation of being assisted by Henry against Charles VIII. that he desired so much to be a knight of the Order. Hist. p. 587, Hall, f. xxviii.

^{page 166 note e} See the description given by Polydore of th e two sorts of Irish, p. 594. Hall in translating the passage, says of the latter. ’The other kynde is cleane coutrary from this, for they be wylde, rustical, folish, fierce, and for their vnmanerly behauior and rude passions, are called wilde and sauage Irishmen. And to these wilde coaltes Perkyn shewed hym selfe first, easely perswading them to believe that he was the same veryperson whom he falsely fayned and countrefeated.” fo. xxxvi.

^{page 166 note f} Sir Edward Poynings, K. G. was appointed deputy of Ireland, 13 Sept. 1494, and was sent shortly after with an army “to serche and purge all such townes and places where Perkin was receyued, relieued, or fauoured,” as Hall, copying Polydore, tells us. His proceedings in Ireland may be learnt from the historians.

^{page 167 note g} MS. Cott. Cal. D. vi. fol. 20. He was afterwards to proceed to Rome, as is apparent from the entry in the King's Household Book, where is an item of £22. 10. 0. for the costs of Richmond Herald to Rome, for three months, dated 1st Jan. 1494-5. MS. Add. 7099.

^{page 167 note b} The words of the original are: “Lesquelles sont telles. Que, graces à Dieu, le Roy n're d' souuerain s^r est en bonne santé & prosperip[té] de sa personne, aussi bien aymé et obey en son Royaulme, que fue jamais Roy en Angleterre, et que les affaires de son pais d'Irlande vou… avant, tout ainsi qu'il les sauroit ou vouldroit demander. Et pour te … certain, les notables prelatz, gens d'eglise, grans seigneurs, gens d'onn[eur] et de façon, et tous autres dud’ pais d'Irlande, aussi bien ceulx de la … sauluaige, que celle de la langue Angloisse, se sont tons venuz rend … lieutenant general du Roy n're d' souuerain sr estant de p'nt oud' pa[is] d'Irlande, en faisant les foy et hommaige au Roy n're d‘souuerain s^r. Rest e tant seullement, fors de mettre icelluy pais en bonne justice, or[dre], et police. Ce que le Roy n're d' souuerain s^respoire sera fait de brief [sans] aucune difficulté, à son tres grant honne^r” et prouffit.

“Item on cas que led' bon frere & cousin du Roy n're d' souuerain s^r… estans alentour de luy, entient aucunement en parolles ton[chant le roy des] Romains, et du garson qui est en Flandres, Led' Richmont [pourra] respondre, co'me il fist a l'autre voyage, et que ses … tent, Lesquelles il pourra porter avecques … Et dira que d'eulx le Roy n're d' … nulle, parce qu'ilz ne luy sauroient en facon quelconque nuyre, ou porter p'iud[ice]. Et appert l'ung jour plus que autre à vng ch'uu du lieu dout est yssu led' garson, et qu'il est.”

MS. Cott. Cal. D. vi. fol. 20 ^b.

^{page 168 note i} Letter s of safe-conduct to the Scottish Ambassadors were granted 28 July 1494; but the negotiation (which had been begun in May, when a commission was issued to the Bp. of Durham and others) came to nothing. Rymer, xii. 555.

^{page 169 note k} See the extracts from Henry's Privy Purse Expenses, in the Excerpta Historica, pp. 100,101. Our historians have placed the apprehension of the conspirators too early (anno 9) since it must have taken place after Clifford's return (anno 10). The bill of attainder against them passed in the following October. Rot. Part. V. 504 b.

^{page 169 note l} Hist. Hen. VII. p. 115.

^{page 170 note m} None of the English historians take notice of the landing of Perkin in Ireland, or the siege of Waterford at this time. The fact, however, is undoubted, since in the Royal MS. 18 C. xiv. are the original accounts of the sub-treasurer of Ireland, giving all the details of the expenses incurred on the occasion. The L. Deputy took the field with the King's Standard displayed before the 23d July. The names of the Captains of the gunners, who raised the seige, and captured the ships, were Adam van Edyngton and Will. Wanewick, in reward for which they received 41. on 26 Aug. One of the ships, named the Kekeout, was sold to Henry Wyot on 14 Aug. for 261. 13s. 4d.; another was sold to John Clerc for the same sum, and the third, called “le Mare,” was sold to the same for cloth to the amount of 401. The account of the siege of Waterford, given in Ryland's History of that City, pp. 30, 31, 8vo. 1824, and placed under the year 1497, ought undoubtedly to be referred to 1495.

^{page 171 note n} Rymer, xii. 378. Henry's Hist. Engl. vi. 33, ed. 4to.

^{page 171 note o} Perkin's descent took place in March, and seems to have been very sudden, for in the accounts of Will. Hatteclyffe, sub-treasurer of Ireland, I find 66s. 8d. allowed for two horses, which were lost by John Wyse, proceeding towards the Earl of Desmond, in Munster, “eo quod Perkynnus Warbec hoc vice applicuit in partibus illis cum rebellis d'ni Regis,” so that he was compelled to fly and leave the horses behind him. MS. Reg. 18 C. xiv. f. 451^b.

^{page 171 note p} I can find no other particulars concerning this individual than what he relates of himself.

^{page 172 note q} Rymer, xii. 112. Dat. 29 Apr. 1480. The medal (which in all probability was executed in Italy) is engraved in Pinkerton's Medallic History of England, 4to. 1790. On the reverse is his shield of arms, viz. a fret, in chief a cross of Rhodes. The same arms impaled with those of England, are said to decorate the walls of an hotel at Rhodes to this day. His family is supposed to belong to Yorkshire; but respecting this I have been unable to gain precise information. He had obtained from the Pope the power of granting certain religious indulgences to those who should contribute to the support of the Order, and had for that purpose printed forms on parchment, with blanks left for the names of the parties. My friend the Rev. Joseph Hunter informs me he has seen one of these forms, granted to Richard Cattlyn, chaplain, and John Cattlyn (a Yorkshire family) dated 16th Apr. 1480, and in it he is styled “Frater Johannes Kendale, Turcipolerius Rhodi, ac Commissarius h. Sanctissimo in Christo Patre Sexto Papa Quarto, et vigore litterarum suarum pro expeditione contra perditos Turchos, Christiani nominis hostes, in defensionem Insule Rhodi et fidei Catholice facta et facienda concessarum, per universum orbem deputatus.” It is dated from the House of St. John, Clerkenwell, and Mr. Hunter concludes, with great probability, that these forms were printed in England.

^{page 172 note r} Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 670. Monast. Anglican, vi. 779, new ed. He is stated to have died in November 1501.

^{page 173 note s} Rymer, xii. 481.

^{page 173 note t} Ib. xii. 578.

^{page 173 note u} Ib. xii. 487.

^{page 173 note v} Vol. i. p. 62. He succeeded John Forster as Archdeacon soon after 1490, and resigned in 1513. He was Chancellor to Richard Fitzjames, Bishop of London, and made Precentor of St. Paul's, 27 Mar. 1514, which he held till 1531. He died about April 1543. In the Privy Purse Expenses of Hen. VII. is an item of 20s. paid to him for preaching before the King, 10 March 1492-3. Excerpt. Hist. p. 93.

^{page 173 note x} This was Sultan Zemi or Zimitne, brother of Bajazet II. who, after rebelling against his brother, retired to Rhodes, and was delivered up to the custody of Pope Innocent VIII. He remained at Rome till 1494, when he was transferred by Pope Alexander VI. to the king of France, and died not long afterwards,—as was supposed from the effect of poison. See Memoires de Comities, torn. i. pp. 396, 471, 477 5 iv. 118.

^{page 176 note y} The King was at Worcester during his progress, on the 4th July 1495, the day after Perkin's attempt at Deal. See Excerpt. Hist. p. 103.

^{page 176 note z} Melchburn or Mechelburn, a Preceptory of St. John of Jerusalem, given to the Order in the reign of Hen. I. Leland speaks of it in his time as being “a right fair place of square stone, standing much apon pillered vaultes of stone.” Tanner, and Monast. vi. 803.

^{page 176 note a} The colors of York are stated on competent authority to be blue and murrey (or tavvney), and such was the livery of the guard appointed by Margaret to attend on Perkin, when in Flanders. See Willement's Regal Heraldry, p. 55.

^{page 176 note b} Probably the Sir Thomas Brandon who was Master of the Horse to Hen. VII. and Ambassador to the King of the Romans in 1502, See Excerpt. Hist. p. 127, 129.

^{page 176 note c} Thomas Langton, who was translated from Sarum by papal authority, and received the temporalities, 27 June 1493. He died 27 Jan. 1500. Le Neve's Fasti, p. 28C.

^{page 177 note d} See the pedigree of Tyrell in the Archaeologia, vol. I. 383. It is not at present clear to me who this Sir Tho. Tirel was. He is not mentioned in the Act of Attainder, nor by the Chroniclers. The name, indeed, in the original MS. is not so certain as to preclude all doubt on the subject.

^{page 177 note e} MS. Cott. Cal. D. vi. f. 30. Rymer seems to have contemplated inserting it among his collections, and caused a transcript to be made, whilst the original was in a perfect state, which is now in MS. Add. 5485, f. 230. See a copy in the Appendix to this communication, No. 4.

^{page 178 note f} Hist, of Engl. iii. 611—613, ed. 4to. 1823.

^{page 178 note g} Fibyan, Pol. Verg. Hall.

^{page 178 note h} Rot Parl. vi. 482b, 504^b.

^{page 178 note i} Acts and Monuments, vol. ii. pp. 8-17, ed. 1684. Fox adds that he retired to Exeter on a guilty conscience, and durst never return to London.

^{page 179 note k} MS. Cott. Cal. D. vi. f. 22.

^{page 179 note l} In a separate memorandum given to Richmond, relative to a statement said to have been made by Sir Charles Somerset to the French king, that Henry would shortly pass over to Boulogne, to have a personal conference with Charles, he is to say, that this was merely a suggestion of Somerset himself, without any authority.

^{page 179 note m} A curious proposal is introduced by Henry in this part of the Instructions. He had heard from the French ambassadors that the Queen of France expected to be confined shortly, and he informs Charles, that the Queen of England was in the same interesting situation, and if by God's pleasure, the one should prove a son and the other a daughter, it would be a very desireable match to unite them! This was a pure fiction, or else the Queen miscarried, for she had no child between Elizabeth, born 2 July, 1492, and Mary, afterwards Q. of France, born in 1498.

^{page 179 note n} It was urged that lending this money was contrary to the interests of the king of Naples, although a knight of the Order, and also to the injunctions of the Pope. The king confesses the difficulties which surround him, and says he should be glad to assist Charles, on the score of gratitude for the favors formerly received, if he could do it without incurring censare from other quarters.

^{page 179 note o} Henry afterwards joined the League. See the instrument of confirmation, dated 23 Sep. 1496, in Rymer, xii. 638.

^{page 180 note v} “Item s'il aduient q' le Roy Francois ou aucun grans personnaiges de [son] conseil facent aucune question ou demande à Richemont, comme accordent et font le Roy n're souuerain s^r et le Roy d'Escosse, vue qu'il supporte et entretient le garson en ses pais, ou de telles ou sem-blables parolles. Et si d'auenture on ne luy en parle point, qu'il se mette en deuoir par tous bons moiens de doner occasion q' on luy en puisse parler.

Et ce fait, pourra respondre, quant à ce, que le Roy n'red' souuerain sr ne s'en soucye que bien appoint, et qu'il croit q' c'est le moind[re] de tous ses soucys. Car led' Roy d'Escosse ne luy sauroit nuyre en facon quelconque, si ce n'est de luy faire despendre argent en vain.' MS. Cott. Col. D. vi. f. 28.

^{page 180 note q} MS. Cott. ibid.

^{page 180 note r} Guillaume Brigonnet, who had previously held the military rank of General under Louis XI. and was made Bishop in 1490, and Cardinal in 1494. In 1497 he succeeded his brother Robert in the archbishopric of Rheims. He died in 1514. A contemporary writer says of him “lequel pour ce temps la avoit plus credit qu' aucun autre aupres la personne du Roy.” See Hist, de Ch. VIII. rec.par Godefrey, pp. 98, 638-9.

^{page 181 note s} Natural son of Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. He was employed in many negotiations, made K.G. and in 1519 created Earl of Worcester.

^{page 181 note t} This was John, son by a second marriage of Alexander Stuart, Duke of Albany, whose estates were forfeited in 1479 for his rebellion against his brother. This “boy” afterwards became Regent of Scotland, in the reign of James V. and finally died in France, in 1536, s. p. I. Douglas's Peerage, by Wood, vol. i. p. 59.

^{page 181 note u} MS. Cott. Cal. D. vi. f. 26.

^{page 181 note x} Previously also printed, but less correctly, in Pinkerton's History of Scotland, 4to. 1797, Append. 1, 2. The originals are in MS. Cott. Vesp. C. xvi. See aa account of Bothwell in Ellis, i. 22, and Excerpt. Hist, p. 193.

^{page 181 note y} Probably John Heron, a mercer and bankrupt, who accompanied Perkin afterwards to Cornwall, and fled with him to Beaulieii. See Hall, fol. xlvi. and the King's letter to the town of Waterford, in Ryland's, Hist, of Waterford, 8vo. 1824, p. 33Google Scholar.

^{page 182 note z} Commission dated 2 Sept. 1496. Rymer, xii. 635.

^{page 182 note a} Ellis, i. p. 27. Bothwell adds, that the French Ambassador showed him “how great in-quesicion was maid to onderstand of Perkin's byrthe ba^t be y^e Admirall and him; and than I schew him y^e writing I had of Meautes, and he planly said he neuer onderstud it, but rather trouit y^e contrary.” In all probability this alludes to some statement respecting Perkin's origin drawn up by Meautis, Henry's French secretary, which it was now the interest of France to throw doubt upon.

^{page 182 note b} See his Commission, Credentials, and Instructions in MS. Harl. 433. ff. 241, 244, 245 ^b The Credentials are dated from York, 12 Sept. 1483. See also a letter from Richard to the Lords of his Council, relating to the same individual. Orig. Lett. vol. i. p. 154, 2d ser.

^{page 184 note c} The seal is gone, and only the mark of the wax remaining. No paper mark. On half sheet of paper. Letter fastened by a band or ribbon.

^{page 184 note d} Perkin is also stated to have written at the same period to the Earl of Desmond, begging him to send forces to Scotland, but without avail, for the Earl had by this time learnt experience. Ware's, Annales, p. 53, ed. 1658Google Scholar.

^{page 184 note e} It is printed in Henry's Hist. Brit. vol. vi. App. 1, from a transcript of Birch, and in Bayley's Hist, of the Tower, (from MS. Harl. 283) App. p. xxxvii. It is signed R. R. Bacon's paraphrase of it is unwarrantable in any historical writer. The introductory part, which mentions his escape from the tower, and residence abroad, agrees generally with Perkin's own letter previously copied.

^{page 184 note f} Pol. Verg. p. 598. Cf. Hall, fol. xl.

^{page 185 note g} 22d June, 1497.

^{page 185 note h} The King alludes to the peace of 25 June, 1493.

^{page 186 note i} Some of our modern historians, misled by Bacon, represent Ayala as having been ambassador to Henry, and sent by him to Scotland, which is not true. The Spanish envoy, then resident at London, was Don Rodriguez Gonzales de Puebla, sent in July, 1497, to arrange the alliance of marriage between Catharine and Prince Arther, Rymer, xii. 658. See p. 189.

^{page 186 note j} Rymer, xii. 673.

^{page 186 note k} In the articles of truce made at Aytoun, the 6th stipulated that rebels and enemies were not to be received in the dominions of either sovereign, but banished within twenty days, or surrendered. Then comes a clause—“Salvis conductibus per principes predictos aut eorum aliquem de praeterito concessis.” Rymer, xii. 675. The letters patent of James, confirming these and the other articles of 5th Dec. were dated 10 Nov. 1497-8; but Henry did not like the above clause, and in his Instructions to Christopher Carhill, Norroy, sent to the king of Scots subsequently, preserved in MS. Cott. Vesp. C. xvi. f. 115, a proposal is made relative to it as follows. “It'm in the same article be left out thies wordes salvis conductibus, &c. For the pryncipall cause moeving his seid Cousyne [James] to put in the seide wordes salvis conductibus, &c. was for a graunt of saue conductes made by [hym] to Perhjne, and othere his adherentes, the Kynges rebelles. And forasmuch as [at] this tyme the said Perkyne is in the Kynges kepying, and at the commandement of his grace, and shalle never vse the benefaicte of the said saue conductes; and also his adherentes, the Kinges rebelles, be departed out of his seid Cosyne his realnie; and if thei shuld vnder the coloure of theire seid saue conductes resorte and repaire into the same real me agayne, and there to haue aide and socure, there myght growe a gruge betwene the Kynges grace and his seid Cousyn; and to thentent that betwene the Kyng and his seid Cosyne there should be no gruge, nor coloure of gruge, it is thought expedient tlioes words touchying suche saue conductes to be left out.”

^{page 187 note l} See a letter from the King to the mayor and citizens of Waterford, thanking them for the information they had conveyed by their letters of the 1st. Aug. of Perkin's landing, and his intention to sail thence to Cornwall, and praying them to send forth ships to the sea for the taking of Perkin, for whom the sum of 1000 marks is offered in reward. Dated Westm. 6 Aug. (1497). Ryland's, Hist. of Waterford, p. 32.Google Scholar It is to be regretted that the curious letters in this local work are given in so unsatisfactory a form, both to the antiquary and historian. The compiler of the book does not even think it worth his while to inform his readers where the originals are deposited, but I presume they exist in the archives of the city of Waterford. Comp. Ware's, Annales, p. 60Google Scholar.

^{page 187 note m} Bacon, p. 179.

^{page 187 note n} Comp. the King's letter to Sir Gilbert Talbot, dated 12 Sept. in Ellis's Orig. Lett. i. 32. 1st. ser. Hall, fol. xlvb, and act of attainder, Rot. Part. vi. 544b.

It seems that Perkin narrowly escaped being captured whilst on his transit, for he was pursued by “four great ships,” fitted out at the expense of the citizens of Waterford, who in a petition to the King a few years afterwards (1499) claim thereby the merit of having caused him to fall into the King's hands. Hist, of Waterford, p. 38.

^{page 188 note o} Orig. Lett. i. 1st ser. from transcripts in vol. 50 of Dodsworth's Collections. The originals seem to have been found among the papers of the Plumpton family. It is also stated, that a paper giving an account of Perkin's landing, signed by Sir Henry Wentworth, and dated 16 Sept. 1497, exists in Mr. Upcott's hands. Report of the Committee on the British Museum, pt. 2 (3781). See also a long and valuable letter from the King to the city of Waterford on the subject, dated from Exeter, 18 Oct. in Ryland's History, p. 33.

^{page 188 note p} See Excerpt. Hist p. 114.

^{page 188 note q} Polydore merely says, “ad regem captivam duxerunt,” which Hall translates, “brought her streight like a bonde woman & captyve to the Kyng.” fol. xlvii^b.

^{page 188 note r} In the same manner the King writes to the Mayor of Waterford:-“And so the said Perkin came unto us to the town of Taunton, from whence he fled; and immediately after his first coming, humbly submitting himself to us, hath of his free will openly shewed, in the presence of all the lords here with us and all nobles, his name to be Pierce Osbeck, whence he hath been named Perkin Warbeck; and to be no Englishman born, but born of Tournay, and son to John, sometime while he lived comptroller of the said town, with many other circumstances too long to write; declaring by whose means he took upon him this presumption and folly; and so now the great abuse which hath long continued, is now openly known by his confession.” Hist, of Waterford, p. 35. All this is very important, because it tallies with André's account, and with the Confession subsequently published, which therefore could not have been so deliberate a fabrication at or after Perkin's trial, as Walpole and the writers on his side would have us believe.

^{page 189 note s} Hall, ibid. In Henry's Privy Purse Expenses, on the 15th Oct. occurs the payment of £7.13s. 4d. to Robert Suthewell, for horses, saddles, and other necessaries for conveying her to the Queen. Excerpt. Hist. p. 115.

^{page 189 note t} This of course was Pedro de Ayala. See p. 186.

^{page 189 note u} The entire letter is printed in the Appendix, No. 5. from the original in the British Museum.

^{page 189 note w} Fabyan, Stowe.

^{page 189 note x} The expenses of Perkin's “horsemete” is accounted for to the end of April, 1498, at 5d. a day, and on the 23rd of May, 11s. were paid for his riding gown. Excerpt. Hist. p. 117.

^{page 189 note y} Pol. Verg. and Hall.

^{page 189 note z} Hall, f. xlixh^b.

^{page 189 note a} It appears from Smith's History of Cork, 8vo. Dubl. 1774. vol i. p. 422. that this John Water (or, as he is there called, Walters) was Mayor in the years 1490, 1494, and 1499. At the time of Perkin's first landing or shortly after, the Mayor was John Lavallen, who is named also in the Confession, but it is stated in the same paper, that John Water was one of the first promoters of his enterprise. Ware adds in his Annals a singular report, that Perkin had been an apprentice to him, p. 38. In 1493, the same Water, together with his son Philip, Dean of Limerick, were cited to appear before the Parliament at Dublin, ib. p. 41; and in the general pardon to the rebel Irish, 26 Aug. 1496, Lord Barry and John Water are expressly excepted. Rymer, xii, 634. In the articles also sent to the Irish House of Commons, as registered on the Patent Rolls, 28 March, 13 Hen. VIII. [1497-8] there is a clause: “Item, prayen the Commons, that forasmoche as William Barry, called the Lord Barry, of Monster, and oon John Water, of our Cite of Cork, merchant, have nowe of late at severall tymes receyved as well lettres with certain instructions from Parkyn Wosebeck, and the same hath conceled, and as yet kepith secret from the knowlege of our sovereigne lord, and all and every of his most honorable Councell, contrary to their naturall duet of allegiaunce, &c. it be ordeyned and enacted by autorite of this present parlement, that the said William Barry and John Water, and either of them, be atteyned and convyct of high treason.” &c. Inedited collections of Rymer, MS. Add. 4618. No. 2.

^{page 190 note a} Hall, f. li.

^{page 190 note b} Speed, p. 738. ed. 1611.

^{page 191 note u} It is not impossible, that among the miscellaneous documents at the Tower, there may exist some of the private correspondence relating to Perkin. I am one of those who regret, that all papers of this description, in whatever Office of Record they may exist, have not been transferred to the British Museum, where they might be consulted with far greater facilities, as in the case of the Pipe Rolls.

^{page 193 note a} Blank spaces are left in the MS. for the names.

^{page 193 note b} Bacon says on Henry's accession: “He entered the city upon a Saturday, as hee had also obtained the victory [at Bosworth] upon a Saturday, which day of the weeke, first upon an observation, and after upon memory and fancy, he accounted and chose as a day prosperous unto him.” Hist. Hen. VII. p. 7. ed. 1641.

^{page 194 note c} A blank is left in the MS. The Dean's name was William Worseley.

^{page 195 note d} A blank left in the MS.

^{page 195 note e} A blank is left. The lady in question was Lady Catharine Gordon, daughter of George second Earl of Huntly, and a near relation of the king of Scotland, by her mother Annabella, daughter of James the First. After Perkin's death, she was married secondly to Sir Matthew Cradock, and lies buried with him in Swansea church, co. Glamorgan. (SeeWalpole's, Hist. Doubts, p. 135, ed. 4to. 1768,)Google Scholar and Excerpta Historica, p. 115.

^{page 195 note f} André omits, as Pinkerton has already noticed, all mention of the expeditions of James IV. into England, and has also confounded, apparently, the rising of the Cornish rebels under Joseph and Flammock, with Perkin's attempt on Exeter.

^{page 196 note g} See a letter from the Earl of Devonshire to the King, dated 18 Sept. [1497] giving an account of the attack, in Ellis's, Orig. Lett. vol. i. p. 36.firstSeriesGoogle Scholar.

^{page 196 note h} A blank space of several lines is here left in the MS.

^{page 196 note i} A blank space in the MS. of three lines.

^{page 197 note z} In the margin is written by the same hand Pirquini vita imprimitur. This is important, as it at once overthrows the objections against Perkin's Confession, because it is omitted bv Fabian and Polydore Vergil.

^{page 198 note lc} A blank is left for the names.

^{page 198 note m} Another blank. The king arrived at Exeter on the 7th Oct. 1497, and remained several weeks. See Excerpta Historica, p. 114.

^{page 199 note n} This word is interlined.

^{page 205 note q} The margins of the original have been burnt, but the words wanting are supplied from Rymer's transcript made when the document was complete, in MS. Add. 5485, fol. 230. The few letters in italics are supplied conjecturally.