Chapter V

Pretenders to Royalty numerous--Contest between the Houses of York and
Lancaster gives rise to various Pretenders--Insurrection of Jack
Cade--He is killed--Lambert Simnel is tutored to personate the Earl
of Warwick--He is crowned at Dublin--He is taken Prisoner, pardoned,
and made Scullion in the Royal Kitchen--Perkin Warbeck pretends
to be the murdered Duke of York--He is countenanced by the King
of France--He is acknowledged by the Duchess of Burgundy--Perkin
lands in Scotland, and is aided by King James--He is married
to Lady Catherine Gordon--He invades England, but fails--His
Death--Pretenders in Portugal--Gabriel de Spinosa--He is hanged--The
Son of a Tiler pretends to be Sebastian--He is sent to the
Galleys--Gonçalo Alvarez succeeds him--He is executed--An Individual
of talents assumes the Character of Sebastian--His extraordinary
Behaviour in his Examinations--He is given up to the Spaniards--His
Sufferings and dignified Deportment--His Fate not known--Pretenders
in Russia--The first false Demetrius--He obtains the Throne, but
is driven from it by Insurrection, and is slain--Other Impostors
assume the same Name--Revolt of Pugatscheff--Pretenders in
France--Hervegault and Bruneau assume the Character of the deceased
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