Northumberland in support of the pretender Perkin Warbeck. A public convenience is built on the "Old Welsh Bridge" in Shrewsbury. 1497 May Cornish Rebellion incited by war taxes. John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on the ship Matthew (principally owned by Richard Amerike) looking for new lands to the west. 17 June – Cornish rebels under Michael An Gof are soundly defeated by Henry VII at the Battle of Deptford Bridge near London. 7 September – Second Cornish Uprising: Perkin Warbeck lands at Whitesand Bay near Land's End. 10 September – Warbeck proclaimed as King in Bodmin. 30 September – Treaty of Ayton establishes 7-year peace with Scotland. 4 October – leaders of the Second Cornish Uprising surrender to the King at Taunton. 5 October – Warbeck, having deserted his army, is captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire. John Alcock's Mons Perfectionis is published, the first printed sermon by an English bishop. Possible date – first performance of the earliest known full-length secular play wholly in English, Fulgens and Lucrece by Henry Medwall, the first English vernacular playwright known by name, perhaps at Lambeth Palace in London. 1498 May Merchant Adventurers granted a trade monopoly with the Netherlands. Cabot leaves Bristol on his second voyage to the Americas; he is never to be seen again. Summer – the final Welsh revolt of the medieval era breaks out in Meirionnydd, North Wales; Harlech Castle is captured by the rebels before the revolt is suppressed. 1499 19 May – 13-year-old Catherine of Aragon, the future first wife of Henry VIII, is married by proxy to his brother, 12-year-old Arthur, Prince of Wales. 23 November – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English crown, is hanged at Tyburn following an alleged attempt to escape from the Tower of London. 28 November – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last legitimate male heir to the House of York, is beheaded for allegedly conspiring in Warbeck's escape. Giggleswick School is founded by Reverend James Carr. Births 1490 Approximate date Thomas Elyot, diplomat and scholar (died 1546) John Taverner, composer and organist (died 1545) 1491 28 June – King Henry VIII of England (died 1547) 1492 2 July – Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII (died 1495) Edward Wotton, physician and zoologist (died 1555) Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (died 1543) 1494 John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554) William Tyndale, religious reformer (died 1536)