Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-22
NYE'S HISTORY
OF ENGLAND.
Lambert the Pretender Becomes
a Scuiiion.
RIOTING POPULAR IN IRELAND.


Lose Their Lueease. but Gioriously Save
Their Lives by Daring Gross Country
Ridins-Wncs of Shabby King.
[Copyright 1895, by J. b. Ilippincott Company
CHAPTER XVIII.
AS result of the Bosworth victory
Henry Tudor obtained the use of the
throne from 1885 to 1909. He saw at
once by means Of an eagle eye that with
the house Of York SO popular among his
people, nothing but a firm hand and
eternal vigilance could maintain his
sovereignty. He kept the young Earl of
Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence,
carefully indoors with massive iron
gewgaws attached to his legs, thus
teaching him to be backward about
mingling in the false joys of society.
Henry Tudor is known to history as
Henry VII, and caused some adverse
criticism by delaying his nuptials with
the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Ed
ward ~
A pleasing practical joke at this time
came near plunging the country into
bloody war. A rumor having gone forth
that the Earl of Warwick had escaped
from the Tower, priest named Simon
instructed a good looking young man
about town named Lambert Simnel to
play the part, landed him in Ireland,
and proceeded to call for troops. Strange
to say, in those days almost any pre-
e,+o ol JoI
of winning renown or a hospitable grave
i'll this way. But Lambert was not
made of the material generally used in
the construction of great men, and,
though he secured quite an army and
the aid of the Earl of Lincoln and many
veteran troops, the first battle closed the
comedy, and the bogus sovereign, too
contemptible even to occupy the valua-
bic time of the hangman, became soul
lion in the royal kitchen, while Simon
was imprisoned.
For five years things were again dull,
but at the end of that period an under
study for Richard, duke of York, arose
and made pretensions. His name was
PerlIin Warbeck, and though the son of
a Flemish merchant, he was great IA
yorite at social functions and straw
rides. He went to Ireland, where any
thing i'll the way of a riot was even then
hailed with delight and soon the York
family and Others who cursed the reign
ing dynasty flocked to his standard.
France indorsed him temporarily I'M
til Charles became reconciled to Henry,
and then he dropped Perkin like heat
ed potato Perk, however, had been
we'll entertained i'll Paris as the coming
English king, and while there was not
permitted to pay for a thing. He now
visited the Duchess of Burgundy, sister
of Edward ", and made a hit at once.
She gave him the title of The White
Rose of England Q493), and he was
pleased to find himself so popular when
he might have been measuring molas-
ses i'll the obscurity of his fathers store.
Henry now felt quite mortified that
he could hot produce the evidence of the
murder of the two sons of Edward ",
SO as to settle this gay young pretend
er, but he did not succeed i'll finding the
remains though they We're afterward
discovered under the staircase of the
White tower and buried i'll Westmin-
ster abbey, where the floor is now paved
with epitaphs, and where economy and
grief are better combined, perhaps, than
elsewhere in the world, the floor and
tombstone being happily united, thus,
as it We're, killing two birds with one
stone.
But how sad it is today to contem-
plate the situation occupied by Henry,
forced thus to rummage the kingdom
for the dust of two murdered princes,
that he might, by unearthing most
wicked crime, prevent the success of a
young pretender, and yet fearing to do
so lest he might call the attention of the
police to the royal record of homicide,
regicide, fratricide and germicide!
Most cruel of all this sad history,
perhaps, was the execution of Stanley,
the kings best friend in the past, who