Edward's queen and the Woodvilles seem to have joined in the plot, and Margaret sent troops which enabled the pretender to land in Lancashire.

But Henry was quick to meet the danger, and the impostor's defeat at Stoke near Newark proved fatal to the hopes of the Yorkists.

Simnel was taken and made a scullion in the king's kitchen, Lincoln fell on the field.
[Sidenote: Henry's Government] The victory of Stoke set Henry free to turn to the inner government of his realm.

He took up with a new vigour and fulness the policy of Edward the Fourth.

Parliament was only summoned on rare and critical occasions.