Henry VII Crime and Punishment Timeline

William Catesby, who had been Richard III’s Chancellor, was executed.

Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, was released from the Tower. He had been imprisoned following the Battle of Bosworth Field because he had fought for Richard III.

Sir William Stanley, a Yorkist who had changed sides and fought for Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth Field, was found guilty of treason for supporting the claim to the throne of Perkin Warbeck and executed by beheading at the Tower of London.

Thomas Flamank and Michael Joseph were hanged at Tyburn.

James Touchet, Baron Audley was beheaded at Blackfriars, London.

Perkin Warbeck was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Perkin Warbeck escaped from a window in the Tower of London, where he was imprisoned and made for the coast. He later surrendered to the abbot of the monastery at Sheen. He was made to sit in a pillory on a scaffold before being returned to his cell in the Tower.

Ralph Wulford, a new pretender to the throne, who claimed to be the imprisoned Earl of Warwick had been quickly captured and sentenced to death.

While in prison, Perkin Warbeck exchanged letters with the Earl of Warwick, son of Edward IV’s brother George. They plotted to escape and overthrown Henry VII.

The pretender Perkin Warbeck was hanged at Tyburn.

Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of Edward IV’s younger brother George, was beheaded for plotting to depose the King.

With only one surviving male heir, Henry feared a conspiracy against him and imprisoned William de la Pole, brother of the Earl of Suffolk who had exiled himself and William Courtenay son of the Earl of Devon.

James Tyrrell was executed for murdering the Princes in the Tower.

Philip of Burgundy had arranged for Edmund de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, to be handed over to the English authorities in Calais. He was now imprisoned in the Tower of London.