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Henry VIII.

CHAPTER I
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011) Bosworth, was implicated.

His sudden arrest disconcerted the plot, and when Perkin's fleet appeared off the coast of Kent, the rustics made short work of the few who were rash enough to land.

Perkin sailed away to the Yorkist refuge in Ireland, but Kildare was no longer deputy.

Waterford, to which he laid siege, was relieved, and the pretender sought in Scotland a third basis of operations.

An abortive raid on the Borders and a high-born Scottish wife[24] were all that he obtained of James IV., and in 1497, after a second attempt in Ireland, he landed in Cornwall.


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