'Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession', 1897. Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is ridiculed as he sits in the stocks. (Warbeck (c1474-1499), who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, was imprisoned in the Tower or London eventually hanged). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]