The man who would be king Blair Worden praises this vivid Life of Perkin Warbeck, the Flemish boatman's son who staked a claim for Henry VII's throne

The Sunday Telegraph London | April 6, 2003| | Copyright

Perkin: A Story of Deception

by Ann Wroe

Jonathan Cape, pounds 20, 528 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

TO POSTERITY the reign of Henry VII, over the quarter of a century that followed his victory at Bosworth in 1485, seems to mark the transition from the medieval to the modern state. The chaos of the Wars of the Roses was quelled; the baronage was tamed; the government's finances and administration were sorted out; the security of the Tudor succession was established.

We forget, however, the precariousness of Henry's survival. Fear, famously the instrument of his supremacy, was ...

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