Download or read book The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Illustrated written by Mary Shelley Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long series of civil dissension--after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands--after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August 1415, whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white and red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this unhappy country.