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Perkin Warbeck: Court

A noble at the Court of Louis XIV was extremely like the King, who on its being pointed out to him sent for his double and asked him: "Was your mother ever at Court?"

Bowing low, he replied: "No, sire; but my father was!"

Of course Perkin Warbeck's real adventures, in the sense of dangers, began after his claim to be the brother of Edward V was put forward.

Henry VII was not slow in taking whatever steps might be necessary to protect his crown; there had been but short shrift for Lambert Simnel, and Perkin Warbeck was a much more dangerous aspirant. When Charles VIII invited him to Paris, after the war with France had broken out, Henry besieged Boulogne and made a treaty under which Perkin Warbeck was dismissed from France.