In July 1495 Perkin Warbeck, the pretender claiming to be Richard Duke of York, attempted a landing at Deal. A party of his followers who landed on the beach were surrounded and cut down by the local county levies; several hundred were taken prisoner. Warbeck himself stayed aboard his ships and then sailed away to Ireland, having not set foot on English soil. The Deal fiasco demonstrated the improved coastal warning systems under Henry VII and the loyalty of the Kentish commons to the Tudor dynasty.
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