[1] But to returne to Perkin:Such long and looked for alterati [...]n of states. the brute of whome in England, blowne throughout the realme, sore dis|quieted the people, insomuch that not onelie the mea|ner sort, but also manie of the nobles and worshipfull personages beléeued and published it abroad, that all was true which was reported of him. And not onelie they that were in sanctuaries, but also manie other that were fallen in debt, assembled in a companie, and passed ouer the seas into Flanders, to their coun|terfeit duke of Yorke, otherwise rightlie named Perkin Warbecke. Truelie the realme of England [page 777] was in maner diuided (with the rumor and vaine fable spred abroad of this twise borne duke) into par|takings and contrarie factions.False rumors [...]casions of great disqui|etnes. And some of the no|ble men conspired togither, purposing to aid the fore|said Perkin, as the man whome they reputed to be the verie sonne of king Edward; and that the matter was not feigned, but altogither true, iust, and not imagined of anie malicious pretense or euill pur|pose.