Lovel took sanctuary in Colchester, escaped, then raised troops at Middleham (Yorkshire) to overthrow Henry VII
he failed and fled to flanders
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Stafford 1486
Humphrey and Thomas Stafford escaped after the Battle of Bosworth and took sanctuary at Colchester abbey
they fled to Worcester, escaped again
captured at Culham church (Oxfordshire)
Humphrey was executed
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Simnel 1486-7
Simnel claimed to be the Earl of Warwick who had better claim to throne than Henry VII
won the support of several English and Irish nobles, including Lincoln and Kildare, plus foreign troops
captured on battlefield of East Stoke
king made him a servant in the royal household
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Yorkshire 1489
unwilling to pay taxes against France
protestors in Yorkshire led by Sir John Egremont killed the Earl of Northumberland before royal troops dispersed them
some rebels executed
Egremont escaped to France
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Warbeck 1497
Warbeck claimed to be Duke of York
won support from a few English nobles- William Stanley, the Lord Chamberlain- from Cornish peasants still annoyed from treatment at Blackheath, and at sometimes foreign states
captured, imprisoned in Tower and executed in 1499
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