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Trial and Execution of Perkin Warbreck and Edward Earl of Warwick
Trial and Execution of Perkin Warbreck and Edward Earl of Warwick is in Jun 1497-1499 Cornish Rebellion and Perkin Warbreck.
Chronicles of London. 28 Nov 1497. The Tuesday before Seynt Andrewis day, beyng the xxviij day of Nouembre, the sayd Perkyn (age 23) was conueyd vpon horse bak thorowh Chepe [Map] and Cornehyll [Map] vnto the Towr of London; and after hym was also on horse bak, clad in armittes abyt, a man, ffast bound hondes and ffete, which some tyme was, as it was reportyd, Sargeaunt fferrour vnto owir Souerayn Lord the kyng Henry the vijth, also lad vnto the sayd Towir and ther lefte as prisoner; which said fferrour departyd oute of the kynges seruice long tyme before and went vnto the said Perkyn, and became his seruant and was wt hym yeris and days, and after the said Perkyns takyng, wandrid abowte in the habit and ffourme of an Ermyte, and so was takyn and browght vnto the kyng. And after thys prisoner thus lafte in the Tower the said Perkyn was conueyd ayen thorwth Candylwyke strete, and so ageyn thorwth Chepe toward Westmynst'. with many a curse and wonderyng Inowth.
Hall's Chronicle 1499. 16 Nov 1499. Perkyn (age 25) (of whom rehearsal was made before) being now in hold, could not leave with the destruction of himself, and confusion of other that had associate themselves with him, but began now to study which way to fly and escape. For he by false persuasions and liberal promises corrupted Strangways, Blewet, Astwood and long Rogier his keepers, being servants to Sir John, Digby Lieutenant. In so much that they (as it was at their arraignment openly proved) intended to have slain the said Master, and to have set Perkyn and the Earl of Warwick (age 24) at large, which Earl was by them made privy of this enterprise, and thereunto (as all natural creatures love liberty) to his destruction assented, but this crafty device and subtle imagination, being opened and disclosed, sorted to none effect, and so he being repulsed and put back from all hope and good luck with all his accomplices and confederates, and John Awater sometime Mayor of Corffe in Ireland, one of his founders, and his son, were the sixteen day of November arraigned and condemned at Westminster.
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan 1499. 16 Nov 1499. In thys yere, the. xvi. day of Nouember, was areyned in the Whyte Halle at Westmynster, the forenamed Parkyn (age 25), &. iii. other;
The History of Richard III Book 3. [21 Nov 1499] Now I will add to this tragedy of these Plantagenets one act more, and of the Earl of Oxford (age 57), and worthy to be well regarded [for example's sake,] besides that here it also may make [somewhat for the cause] and for the innocency of the two young men, Edward, Earl of Warwick, and Richard, Duke of York. And this it is. [T]he Earl of Oxford, Sir John de Vere, who was much affected and devoted to this King Henry VII, as we have seen here by some good instances, was a great ene[my to] this Richard, alias Perkin, and I think the only [en]emy which he had of the greater nobility. And wheth[er his] evil will grew out of incredulity, or were it out of malice, or because he hated King Edward and all the House of York; or else because he applied himself very obsequiously [to o]bserve and to humour the king then reigning in everything - but [I] cannot determine whether of these. But this is certain, [th]at he was so vehement a persecutor of Perkin (age 25) as that he and t[he Cardinal were] said to be the chief persuaders and procurers of the more hasty dispatching of Perkin out of the way and of his destruction. And this earl also [pronounced the] cruel [sentence against the] Earl of Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence (for he was High Judge or Constable in that action), [whose dealing thus in those matters] was much misliked.
On 21 Nov 1499 John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 57) presided at Westminster Hall [Map] during the trial of Perkin Warbreck (age 25).
Hall's Chronicle 1499. 23 Nov 1499. And on the three and twenty day of the same month, Perkyn (age 25) and John Awater were drawn to Tyburn [Map], and there Perkyn standing on a little scaffold, read his confession, which before you have heard, and took it on his death to be true, and so he and John Awater asked the King forgiveness and died patiently. This was the reward of the pernicious Alye and comment of Perkyn Warbeck, which as in his life with false persuasions and untrue surmises had brought many noble personages to death and utter perdition, so at his death he brought with him other of the same sort to their not undeserved punishment. And amongst other Edward Earl of Warwick which as the same went, consented to break prison, and to depart out of the realm with Perkyn (which in prisoners is high treason) was the 21st day of the said month arraigned at Westminster before the Earl of Oxford, then high Constable of England, of the said treason, which whether it were by the enticement of other or of his own freewill (many men doubt, because of his innocence) confessed the fact and submitted himself to the King's mercy.
Chronicles of London. 23 Nov 1499. And vpon the satirday folowyng next, beyng seynt Clementes Obitus day, was drawen from the Tour vnto Tybourne Perkyn or Peter Warbek (age 25) and one John a Water, some tyme Mair of Corf1, as before is said; at which place of Execucion was ordeyned a small Scafold, whervpon the said Perkyn stondyng shewed to the people there in greate multitude beyng present, that he was a straunger born accordyng vnto his former and took it vpon his dethe that he was neuer the persone that he was named for, that is to sey the second son of kyng Edward the iiijth. And that he was forsed to take vpon hym by the meanes of the said John a Water and other, wherof he asked god and the kyng of forgiveness; after which confession he took his dethe meekly, and was there vpon the Galowes hanged; and with hym the said John a Water; And whan they were dede, stryken downe, and their hedes striken of; and after their bodies brought to the ffrere Augustynes, and there buryed, and their heedes set after vpon London Brigge.
Note 1. Read Cork.
Wriothesley's Chronicle 1485-1509. 23 Nov 1499. Perkin Werbeck (age 25) putt to death at Tyburne [Map];
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan 1499. [23 Nov 1499] ... the whych Parkyn (age 25) and one Iojn̄ Awatyr, were put shortly after in execucion at Tyborne [Map].
On 23 Nov 1499 Perkin Warbreck (age 25) and John Atwater were hanged at Tyburn [Map]. He was buried at Austin Friars.
Hall's Chronicle 1499. 28 Nov 1499. And upon his [Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick (age 24)] confession he had his judgement, and according thereunto, the 28th day of November 1499 was brought to the scaffold on the Tower Hill, and there beheaded. The same after his death sprung abroad, the Ferdinand King of Spain would never make full conclusion of the matrimony to be had between Prince Arthur and the Lady Katheryn his daughter nor send her into England as long as this Earl lived. For he imagined that as long as any Earl of Warwick lived, that England should never be cleansed or purged of civil war and privy sedition, so much was the name of Warwick in other regions had in fear and jealousy.
On 28 Nov 1499 Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick (age 24) was executed at Tower Hill [Map].
Earl Warwick, Baron Montagu forfeit.
Documentation held in Spain apparently describes Catherine of Aragon's (age 13) parents Ferdinand II King Aragon (age 47) and Isabella Queen Castile (age 48) expressing concern that Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick was a potential claimant to throne, and being reluctant for their daughter to marry Arthur Prince of Wales (age 13) whilst there was a threat to his accession causing King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 42) to use Perkin Warbreck's (deceased) attempted escape with Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick as a means to an end.
Wriothesley's Chronicle 1485-1509. 28 Nov 1499. ... and the Earle of Warwyke (age 24),b sonne to the Duke of Clarence, who had bene kept in the Tower [Map] from the age of 11 years unto the end of 14 yeares, was beheaded at the Tower Hill [Map].c A great pestilence throughout all England.
Note b. Edward Earl of Warwick was the last remaining male of the honse of Plantagenet. He bore the title of Earl of Warwick, though it does not appear that his father's attainder had been reversed.
Note c. Warbeck (deceased) was executed at Tyburn [Map] on the 23rd Norember, together with O'Water, Mayor of C!ork, and the Earl of Warwick on the following day, or, according to some anthorities, on the 28th.
Note. "though it does not appear that his father's attainder had been reversed." Edward's claim was from through his mother Isabel Neville Duchess Clarence, daughter of Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury and Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick, whose claim had come from her mother Anne Beauchamp, so his father's attainder was irrelevant.
Chronicles of London. 28 Nov 1499. And vpon the Thursday folowyng, which was the xxix [28th] day of Nouembre, was therle of Werwyk (age 24) beforesaid brought out of the Tour bitwene two men, and so ledde vnto the Scaffold and there beheded; and after the body wt the hede leide Into a Coffyn and born ageyn vnto the Tour; which execucion was done bitwene ij and iij of the Clok at after none: vpon whose Soule and all christen Jhesu haue mercy!
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan 1499. [28 Nov 1499] And soone after was the erle of Warwyke (age 24) put to deth at the Towre Hylle [Map], & one Blewet & Astwood at Tyborne [Map].