802 Broughton Gifford. 
good King Henry VI. for the Duke of York, so he deserted the 
helpless children of Edward IV. for Richard III. I deplore the 
success, though it was but for a time, of his faithlessness. Edward 
IV. rewarded him with many manors forfeited by his former honest 
associates, with a pension of £100 a year, with the stewardship 
of all the King’s manors in Dorset, and with the wardenship of 
Wardour Castle. Richard III. made him Lord Treasurer of Eng- 
land. His due came at last. Raro antecedentem scelestum Deserwit 
pede pena claudo. Deprived of his dignities by Henry VII. he 
lived the rest of his life in obscurity, and died the Sunday 
before Michaelmas, 26th September, 1490. His son, the 14th 
Lord Audley, was made a knight of the Bath at the creation 
of Edward Prince of Wales in 1475. He was not summoned 
to Parliament till 1496, six years after his father’s death, pro- 
bably from suspicions entertained against the son from the part 
the father had played. Nor were these unreasonable. They 
were justified by the event. The Parliament did what was 
wanted, voted a grant of two-tenths and two-fifteenths to restrain 
the Scots, who, under pretence of supporting Perkin Warbeck and 
putting down “that usurper Henry Tydder,” had severely ravaged 
the Northern counties. When these taxes were being collected in 
the West, the people of Cornwall objected to a contribution for a 
purpose, which did not, as they deemed, concern them, and which 
had been heretofore attained by the forces of the northern barons, 
who held their estates, so one of their leaders, Thomas Flammack, 
an attorney, informed them, under an obligation to defend the king- 
dom against the Scots. They marched, to the number of 16,000 men, 
to present a petition to the King. At Wells they found a leader 
in Lord Audley who had property in the neighbourhood. He is re- 
presented as a man of popular manners, but vain and restless. The 
insurgents, after uselessly attempting to raise the men of Kent, 
encamped on Blackheath, where they were entirely defeated on the 
22nd June. Henry wisely contented himself with the execution of 
their leaders, Audley, Flammock, and Michael Joseph (a farrier). 
The misguided multitude were simply dispersed. Lord Audley 
