HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 275 



bridle to France. It was received by Alphonso with 

 all the ceremony and pomp that could be devised, as 

 things use to be carried that are intended for 

 opinion. It was sent by Urswick ; upon whom the 

 kino- bestowed this ambassage to help him after 

 many dry employments. 



At this time the king began again to be haunted 

 with spirits, by the magic and curious arts of the 

 Lady Margaret ; who raised up the ghost of Richard, 

 Duke of York, second son to King Edward the 

 Fourth, to walk and vex the king. This was a 

 finer counterfeit stone than Lambert Simnel ; better 

 done, and worn upon greater hands ; being graced 

 after with the wearing of a King of France, and a 

 King of Scotland, not of a Duchess of Burgundy only. 

 And for Simnel, there was not much in him, more 

 than that he was a handsome boy, and did not 

 shame his robes. But this youth, of whom we are 

 now to speak, was such a mercurial, as the like hath 

 seldom been known ; and could make his own part, 

 if at any time he chanced to be out. Wherefore this 

 being one of the strangest examples of a personation, 

 that ever was in elder or later times ; it deserveth to 

 be discovered, and related at the full. Although the 

 king s manner of shewing things by pieces, and by 

 dark lights, hath so muffled it, that it hath left it 

 almost as a mystery to this day. 



The Lady Margaret, whom the king s friends 

 called Juno, because she was to him as Juno was to 

 /Eneas, stirring both heaven and hell to do him mis 

 chief, for a foundation of her particular practices 



