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this Boys Education to Enable him of [[deletion]] presenting [[/deletion]] of personating with a degree of dignity Rich and Plantagenet Duke of YOrk who it was believed had Escaped Richards Hands. He shewed Himself first at Cork against many Partizans, from thence He went by invitation to France where the Kg [[unclear]] & received him with all the honor due to his supposed rank. The Admiration He met with in France diffused itself into England. Sr George Nevil, Sr John Taylor & above a 100 Gentlemen went over to Paris to offer their Services to him. Henry demanded the Imposter to be delivered into His Hands by the Kg of France but without effect, He was however dismissed from the Court, & went for Protection to the Dutchess of Burgundy who acknowledged him for Her Nephew, called him the White Rose of England & made the Flemings readily adopt the fiction of Perkins royal descent. Lrd Fitzwater, Sr Simon Mountfort, Sr Thomas Thwayters, Sr William Stanley the Lrd Chamberlain, Sr Robert Clifford, & William Barley, all were inclined towards him, & the two last went over to Flanders & offered their Services to Perkin. Henry ascertained the Death of the Duke of York
