Chapter I

HENRY VII (i), 1485-1492-THE NEW DYNASTY 1485. Henry's Title to the Crown— Measures to strengthen the Title—1486. Marriage—The King and his Advisers —Henry's enemies—1487. Lambert Simnel—The State of Europe—France and Brittany—1488. Henry intervenes cautiously—England and Spain—1489. Preparations for war with France—Spanish treaty of Medina del Campo—The Allies inert—1490. Object of Henry's Foreign Policy—1491. Apparent Defeat —1492. Henry's bellicose Attitude—Treaty of Etaples.