[Footnote 2: The name of Isabella (Helisabet) is also omitted in the title of one of Plannck's editions; it is found in the two other Roman editions.] [Footnote 3: The correct form is Gabriel Sanchez.] [Footnote 4: April 29th.] [Footnote 5: A mistake of the Latin translator. Columbus sailed from Palos, August 3, 1492; on September 8th he left the Canaries, and on October 11th, or thirty-three days later, he reached the Bahamas.] [Footnote 6: In Spanish, San Salvador, one of the Bahama Islands. It has been variously identified with Grand Turk, Cat, Watling, Mariguana, Samana, and Acklin Islands. Watling's Island seems to have much in its favor.] [Footnote 7: Perhaps Crooked Island, or, according to others, North Caico.] [Footnote 8: Identified by some with Long Island, by others with Little Inagua.] [Footnote 9: Identified variously with Fortune Island and Great Inagua.] [Footnote 10: The island of Cuba.] [Footnote 11: China.] [Footnote 12: Hispaniola, or Hayti.] [Footnote:13 From Catalonia by the sea-coast to Fontarabia in Biscay.] [Footnote 14: Identified with Dominica.] [Footnote 15: Supposed to be Martinique.] [Footnote 16: March 14, 1493.] [Footnote 17: The name given by Marco Polo to an island or islands supposed to be the modern Japan, for outlying portions of which Columbus mistook the West Indies.] CONSPIRACY, REBELLION, AND EXECUTION OF PERKIN WARBECK A.D. 1492 FRANCIS BACON Soon after his accession to the throne of England, Henry VII married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the rival houses of York and Lancaster. But notwithstanding this adjustment of the rival interests, the rule of Henry, the Lancastrian, failed to satisfy the Yorkists; and this party, with the aid of Margaret of Burgundy--sister of Edward IV--and James IV of Scotland, set up two impostors, one after the other, to claim the English throne. At the same time there was living a real heir of the house of York--young Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence, brother to Edward IV. Henry had taken the precaution to keep this genuine Yorkist in the Tower. In 1487 a spurious earl of Warwick appeared in Ireland. Receiving powerful support in that country, he was actually crowned in the Cathedral of Dublin. In order to defeat this imposture Henry exhibited the real earl to the people of London. He also vanquished the army of the pretender at Stoke, in June, 1487. This false earl was found to be Lambert Simnel, son of an Oxford joiner. He became a scullion in King Henry's kitchen.