The death of Richard caused a problem for Yorkists they needed someone to rally support around. Simnel and Warbeck were serious challenges to Henry as they were involved with foreign politics and pressured his security a lot of the time.
Richard Symonds who was a priest in Oxford thought on of his pupils Lambert Simnel tried to pass him off as the younger son of Edward IV, Richard of York who was 'supposed' to have been murdered in the tower they then thought that Warwick hasnt been seen in a long time so decided to go off as him.
Simnel was taken to Ireland to gain support in the Autumn and Henry seemed to become aware of it in 1487.
Henry displayed the real Warwick round London to prove he was a pretender but Yorkists claimed that the one which Henry was showing was the pretender.
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