The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-09
Men Who Have Claimed To Be
What They We're Not.
Ferkin Warbeck Who Played the Part Of
Richard Duke Of York-A Fellow Who As
sumed to Be the Knight Of Malta.

ca pc from the Tower and his bringing up
in Portugal. King Charles recalled him to
France, where his presence aided in wiring
ing satisfactory peace out of Henry VII.
Then Duchess Margaret of Burgundy, the
house of Austria and King Of Scots COM
bined to take him up. Henry discovered
Perkins pedigree. He was the son OF a
Tourney trader, and in 1894 executed sew
eral who were in. conspiracy to bring him
in, and particularly Sir William Stanly,
Lord Chamberlain, " no set the crown upon
his head In 1895 the impostor sailed for
England with force as large as that which
had followed Henry, when Duke OF Rich
mond, seven years before. But his troops
landed at Deal, only to be seized by
the country folk and hanged as pirates.
Perkin sailed on to Ireland, but Kildare was
Lord Deputy there now, the Kings servant
land welcomed the pretender to his court
after his failure in Ireland, welded hun TO
his cousin, and in 1886 marched with him to
the south. But the Yorkists did not rise,
and one condition of the peace was that
Perkin should leave Scotland. An oppor-
tune rebellion broke out in Cornwall on ac-
count of taxes, and led by Lord Audley, the
valiant Cornishmen marched ON London, and
were only dispersed
BY THE KINGS ARTILLERY
On Blackheath. Lord Audley was taken and
executed. Perkin headed another Cornish
rising and marched at its head on Exeter,
but, not being able to take the town, he
marched on Taunton, and at the approach
of the royal army showed himself cock
tail, ran away from his followers and took
sanctuary. He surrendered on promise Of
his life, was taken up to London and shown
to the people. Two years after Perkin
made his escape, but was taken again and
IN 10 Tower. aud hara lac MIGHT have
grown gray but for the Spanish marriage
then arranged between Prince Arthur and
Catherine OF Arag0n. Ferdinand had no
lotion of permitting pretender to exist
who might endanger his daughters throne !;
so q charge of conspiracy with the Earl of
Warwick TO escape was trumped up, and
the absurd, ignoble claimant was executed
along with that nobeman. the last of the
male line of the Plantagenets.
But WaTbeck was one in line OF I'M
posters. Jack Cade, who assumed the name
of Mortimer, was an 1rishman 1t was in
1850 that he laid before the Royal Council
the complaint of the commons of Kent, and.
when they could get no redress, took Lon
don at the head OF 10000 OF them, and be.
headed divers persons of consequence"
This was rising against abuses practced
on agricultural labor. When they lost
ground a general pardon was proclaimed.
Cade was quickly deserted by his followers,
who lapsed into their condition of misery
and mo consequence and was killed by
the Sheriff of Kent. who thereby insured
the memory of his name, Alexander 1den.
Just before Warbeck, in 1887, Lambert
Simnel, having been tutored for the part
and supported by the Duke of Burgundy,
pers0nated the Earl of Warwick. Simnel'S
army was defeated by King Henry VII, and
himself made scullion i'll the Kings
kitchen.
In 1888 an insane Cornish publican named
John Nichols, but called Tom, assumed the
name of w. COurtenay,
KNIGHT OF MALTA
And King of Jerusalem, ran for Parliament
on an issue OF pOor-laW reform, and gath
cred considerable following, calling them
selves TonIites. Nichols himself and eight
or ten others were killed by the soldiers in
dispensing them.
After the death in prison of the Dauphin
Louis XVII, it was believed by some that
he escaped TO England and lived there as
Augustus Meyes, who died insane, January,
1880. In 1874. person calling himself Au-
gustuS de Bourbon set up claim to be his
son. In France also Albert de Bourbon,
son of one Naundorff, asserted claim to be
the son of Louis XVII At a trial in Paris,
when Jules Favre was his counsel, the YER
dict went against him in February, 1874.
An adVenturer who styled himself Count
Blanche and Prince Luis Maria Cesar de
Borbon, grandson of Ferdinand VII, of
Spain, was recognized at Paris in 1869 by
Queen Isabella and others. He was detected
by photographer as his son-in-law. He
was supported by rich English widow, and
kept a small court as King at Jurangon,
near Pau. The polite deposed and expelled
him. lie afterward went to Holland and
England, and died in London.
Eleazar Williams, an American clergyman,
claimed 10 be Louis XVII. He was born at
Caughnawaga, n. Y. about 1857, and died
in 1853 He was supposed to be the son of
Thomas Williams Indian phipf
grandson of Eunice, daughter of " the
redeemed captive" John Williams, minister,
of DeeIfeld, Mass. This worthy was cap
tured, with his family, by Indians. in 100,
and redeemed in 1706 Eunice remained be-
hind and married an Indian. About 1912
EleaZar Williams began to make known
his claim TO be the son Of Louis XVII and
Marie Antoinette, who. he asserted, had
been successfully distracted from his prison
in Paris and brought TO the United States
by an agent of the royal family. The Rev.
j. ii. Hanson set forth the story in Putnam's
Monthly in 1888 an article that attracted Il
great deal of attention. and afterward in a
book entitled The Lost Prince" which
attracted very little.
THE TICHBoRNE CASE.
For one season the line at the head
of this paragraph was leading ques-
plaintiff declared himself to be Sir Roger
Charles Tichborne, supposed to have
been lost at sea. and claimed the baronetcy
and estates worth about ga, eco year.
Roger Charles TichbOrne, the son of Sir
James, was born in 1929. He was educated
in France till about 1915. In 1S49 he entered
the army, proposed marriage to his cousin,
Kate Doughty, in January, 1852 sailed from
Havre for Valparaiso in March, 1858, and
arrived there June 18th following. On
April 20, 1854, he sailed from Rio Janeiro in
the Bella, which foundered at sea. On May
10, 1866, his mother advertised for her son.
The claimant, found by Gibbs aud Cubitt in
Australia, asserted that he and eight of the
crew we're saved from the wreck OF the
Bella; that he went to Australia and
roughed 1t there thirteen years under the
name of Castro; married as Castro in
January, 1866, and as Tichborne the
July following. He set up his claim
and was accepted by the Dowager as her son
at Paris in January, 1867. No others of the
family accepted him, but Sir Clifford Con-
stable and some brother officers did Mr..
Guildf0rd Onslow, who spent about 9150OO
in supporting the claimant, died in 1882
The claim was resisted on behalf OF Sir
Henry, minor, son of Sir Alfred Itch
borne, the younger brother of Sir Roger,
and the trial began in the Court OF Common
Pleas, before Chief Justice B0vill, MAY II,
1871. The claimant was examined twenty
two days. On March 4th, following, the
jury decided that the claimant was not Sir
Roger. The law proceedings cost the estate
$4,000. The claimant was put on trial for
perjury, and on February 2S, 1874, verdict
was rendered against him. The sentence
was fourteen years Imprisonment with hard
IgE