Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 201,

which I believe good lord Henry VII and Ireland.

Last week we heard about the appearance of Perkin Warbeck and heard how after four years

of being faded, wind and dined around the grandest halls of Europe as rich of the fourth

of England, Perkin, probably unfortunately in his view, was presented with an opportunity

to prove it, with the present of money from Margaret of Burgundy.

Now Margaret was a wealthy woman but she wasn't the king of France, so the amount of

Doshyka give young Perkin was a little limited when it came to the furiously expensive business

of hiring and equipping an army.

But it bought the new colours of an army, about 150 men, and Perkin could after all hardly

say no thanks.

Now it was time to deliver and pay for all those pies and patty, and preparations began.

In England Henry and Bray had heard enough.

Henry's obsession now was to secure his borders and the authority of his crown against all

to uncover and root out any plots against him to close the door against pretenders.

He was prepared to go to pretty much any lengths.

He tried with all his might to get Maximilian and Margaret to expel Perkin from Flanders

to the extent of imposing trade sanctions on Flanders.

No English merchant was now allowed to trade with Flanders.

Maximilian immediately retaliated in kind, now all this was massively disruptive.

The life and fortunes of merchants and their employees on both sides of the channel, depended

on the trade, goods piled up in warehouses, riots spread out as Londoners in particular

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