HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 



he being now in float for treasure : for that he had 

 newly received the peace- money from France, the 

 benevolence-money from his subjects, and great ca 

 sualties upon the confiscations of the Lord Cham 

 berlain and divers others. The first noted case of 

 this kind was that of Sir William Capel, alderman 

 of London ; who, upon sundry penal laws, was con 

 demned in the sum of seven and twenty hundred 

 pounds, and compounded with the king for sixteen 

 hundred : and yet after, Empson would have cut 

 another chop out of him if the king had not died in 

 the instant. 



The summer following, the king, to comfort his 

 mother, whom he did always tenderly love and revere, 

 and to make open demonstration to the world, that the 

 proceedings against Sir William Stanley, which was 

 imposed upon him by necessity of state, had not in 

 any degree diminished the affection he bare to 

 Thomas his brother, went in progress to Latham, to 

 make merry with his mother and the earl, and lay 

 there divers days. 



During this progress, Perkin Warbeck finding 

 that time and temporising, which, whilst his prac 

 tices were covert and wrought well in England, 

 made for him ; did now, when they were discovered 

 and defeated, rather make against him, for that 

 when matters once go down the hill, they stay not 

 without a new force, resolved to try his adventure 

 in some exploit upon England; hoping still upon the 

 affections of the common people towards the house 

 of York. Which body of common people he thought 



