James IV's 1496 invasion in support of Perkin Warbeck was a serious gamble that failed because the English population of Northumberland showed no interest in rising for a Yorkist pretender. James retreated after a few days of raiding. The episode was strategically significant, however, because Henry VII's response — raising a war tax — provoked the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. The connection between the Scottish border and Cornish politics illustrates the integrated nature of late-medieval English political instability.
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