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Perkin Warbeck

Whitesand Bay, Cornwall

A young man who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower.

Perkin Warbeck claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower, miraculously alive. For years he was backed by foreign rulers.

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When
1497
Where
50.0800, -5.7000
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Whitesand Bay at Sennen Cove is a beautiful beach near Land's End.

Cover of Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful? by Cale Mills
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Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?

This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.

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