Lambert's old friends rallied round Perkin; the re-animated Duke was promptly summoned to the Court of France and treated with princely honours.

When Charles VIII.

had used him to beat down Henry's terms, Perkin found a home with Margaret, aunt to all the pretenders.

As usual, there were traitors in high places in England.

Sir William Stanley, whose brother had married Henry's mother, and to whom Henry himself owed his victory at (p.