CHAPTER V.

Pretenders to Royalty numerous--Contest between the Houses of York and Lancaster gives rise to various Pretenders--Insurrection of Jack Cade--He is killed--Lambert Simnel is tutored to personate the Earl of Warwick--He is crowned at Dublin--He is taken Prisoner, pardoned, and made Scullion in the Royal Kitchen--Perkin Warbeck pretends to be the murdered Duke of York--He is countenanced by the King of France--He is acknowledged by the Duchess of Burgundy--Perkin lands in Scotland, and is aided by King James--He is married to Lady Catherine Gordon--He invades England, but fails--His Death--Pretenders in Portugal--Gabriel de Spinosa--He is hanged--The Son of a Tiler pretends to be Sebastian--He is sent to the Galleys--Gonçalo Alvarez succeeds him--He is executed--An Individual of talents assumes the Character of Sebastian--His extraordinary Behaviour in his Examinations--He is given up to the Spaniards--His Sufferings and dignified Deportment--His Fate not known--Pretenders in Russia--The first false Demetrius--He obtains the Throne, but is driven from it by Insurrection, and is slain--Other Impostors assume the same Name--Revolt of Pugatscheff--Pretenders in France--Hervegault and Bruneau assume the Character of the deceased Louis XVI. 73