The Second Uprising of the Kornians of 1497

Perkin Warbeck , an impostor and illegal pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII . He claimed to be Richard Shrewsbury, the Duke of York , the youngest son of King Edward IV , one of the so-called " princes in the Tower ." Warbeck became a serious threat to the recently (at that time) reigning Tudor dynasty and managed to gain support outside of England.

In 1497, a Cornish popular uprising broke out in Cornwall, displeased with tax increases.

In the spring of 1497, the first rebellion was brutally crushed, but the unstable situation in England and in Cornwall itself inspired Perkin Warbeck to take advantage of the situation.

Warbeck promised the residents of Cornwall to abolish established predatory taxes. The Cornish nobility who suffered heavy losses warmly welcomed Warbeck; in the city of Bodmin, he was proclaimed King Richard VI. ^{[1] The} Kornites, under the banner of the newly-minted “king,” gathered a six-thousand-strong army and marched on Exeter before heading to Taunton . ^[2]

Henry VII sent his general Lord Daubni, who had previously participated in the suppression of the Korni uprising, to attack the newly assembled army. Warbeck, learning about the king's spies and assuming that Henry knew everything about his plans, panicked and left the army of rebels. As a result, Warbeck was captured by the royal forces in the abbey of Buglia and imprisoned in Taunton. Then he was transferred to London, where he was seated on a horse under the ridicule of the townspeople. ^[3] On October 4, the army of the king forced the army of rebels to surrender, the instigators were executed, the rest were subjected to a huge fine of 15 thousand pounds at that time. November 23, 1499, "King Richard" from the Tower was sent to Tyburn . In Tyburn he was elevated to the scaffold, where he confessed to a crime against the crown and was hanged. ^{[4] [5]}