Though fierce outbreaks still took place in the north, the country at large had tasted the new sweets of order and firm government, and that reaction of feeling, that horror of civil wars, which gave their strength to the Tudors had already begun to show its force.

The pretender's troops landed at Deal only to be seized by the country folk and hanged as pirates.

Their leader sailed on to Ireland.

Here too however he found a new state of things.
Since the recall of Richard and his army in 1399 English sovereignty over the island had dwindled to a shadow.

For a hundred years the native chieftains had ruled without check on one side the Pale, and the lords of the Pale had ruled with but little check on the other.