Giles Daubeney
1st Baron Daubeney
1451 CE to 1508 CE
Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney KG (June 1, 1451 – May 21, 1508) is an English soldier, diplomat, courtier and politician.
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Warbeck, hoping to capitalize on the Cornish people's resentment in the aftermath of their uprising only three months earlier, lands on September 7, 1497, at Whitesand Bay, two miles north of Land's End, in Cornwall .
Warbeck proclaims that he can put a stop to extortionate taxes levied to help fight a war against Scotland and is warmly welcomed.
His wife, Lady Catharine, is left in the safety of St Michael's Mount.
He is declared "Richard IV" on Bodmin Moor and …
…his Cornish army, some six thousand strong, enters Exeter before advancing on Taunton.
Henry VII sends his chief general, Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney, to attack the Cornish, and when Warbeck hears that the King's scouts are at Glastonbury he panics and deserts his army.
Warbeck is captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire, where he surrenders.
Don Pedro de Ayala, acting as the commissioner of the Scottish King, helps negotiate a treaty between England and Scotland signed on September 30, 1497, at St Dionysius's Church in Ayton in Berwickshire.
The commissioners for England are William Warham, Richard Foxe and John Cartington.
The other Scottish commissioners are Bishop Elphinstone, Andrew Forman, Sir Patrick Hume of Fastcastle, and Master Richard Lawson.
A seven-year truce between England and Scotland is agreed, from sunrise that day until sunset on September 30, 1504.
Shipping and trade are to be conducted according to the previous Treaty of York of 1464.
Border wardens on either side are given new powers, especially regarding the execution of cross-border murderers after twenty days detention, and capital punishment for thieves caught red-handed.
Criminals seeking cross-border asylum will be returned or banished after twenty days.
Neither King should harbor the other's rebels.
Berwick, a disputed border town, is specifically included in the abstinence from war.
Neither King is to demolish or restore the fishgarth, a salmon trap at Kirkandrews on Esk.
James gives Ayala authority to negotiate extensions and revisions.
In its final form, the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella are appointed to arbitrate future disputes and unresolved issues such as redress for damages caused by the recent invasions.
On either side a number of men are appointed as Conservators of the truce with powers to oversee border justice to maintain the Treaty.
Henry VII reaches Taunton on October 4, 1497, where he receives the surrender of the remaining Cornish army.
The ringleaders are executed and others fined an enormous total of thirteen thousand pounds.
Warbeck is imprisoned, first at Taunton, then at …
…the Tower of London, where he is "paraded through the streets on horseback amid much hooting and derision of the citizens".
Warbeck is initially treated well by Henry.
As soon as he confesses to being an impostor, he is released from the Tower of London, and is given accommodation at Henry's court.
He is even allowed to be present at royal banquets.
He is, however, kept under guard and is not allowed to sleep with his wife, who is living under the protection of the queen.