Perkin Warbeck — the most serious Yorkist pretender after Lambert Simnel — made his first landing attempt in England. His expedition attracted no English support and he sailed away. Henry VII's intelligence network and the loyalty of Midlands gentry prevented the uprising from spreading. The episode demonstrates how completely Bosworth and Stoke Field had settled the Tudor succession in the Midlands.
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