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5 October 1497
Perkin Warbeck, another pretender to the throne, is captured in Devon after invading England. He claims to be Richard, duke of York (the younger of the two 'princes in the Tower' who may have been murdered by Richard III) and raises troops in Ireland and from Europe (his Neapolitan mercenaries bring syphilis to Scotland). Warbeck is imprisoned in the Tower and hanged on 23 November 1499. |
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