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Title: The western rebellion of 1549 : an account of the insurrections in Devonshire and Cornwall against religious innovations in the reign of Edward VI
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Rose-Troup, Frances James, 1859-
Subjects: Reformation
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is a heavy payment——£433—â—for 140 black corslets and
70 white and black demilances. This may have been
in the regular course for soldiers already sent to Scotland,
or the armourers may have required a payment on
account before supplying arms for the West, for the
Government credit was then notoriously bad.
At this moment the Council had their hands full with
French and Scotch affairs, as well as with the economic
and agrarian crisis, not to mention their own internal
dissensions, when messengers brought news of outbreaks
in Hertfordshire, and of smouldering discontent else-
where ; rumours of risings came from Somerset, Glou-
cester, Worcester, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Essex,
Kent, Yorkshire, Rutland,¹ and Norfolk. It must have

¹ The Rutlandshire rising has received little notice but was evidently
of some importance. The Earl of Huntingdon writes, 12th Sept., 1549, of
a rising there for which already divers had suffered and that next week
many in Leicester were to be arraigned (Lodges Illustrations, III. p. 163).
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SIR PETER CAREW.
an Engraving by J. J. Chant after the Portrait at
Hampton Court.

THE BURNING OF THE BARNS 139

been the last straw when a man, exhausted with hard
riding, brought certain information of an outbreak in
Cornwall under a person of such local importance as
Arundell, and close on his heels came the bearer of letters
from the Devon justices about the Sampford Courtenay
movement, which at first they thought could be sup-
pressed by the power they had, but now feared would
result in a combination with the Cornish rebels.
Hasty letters had been sent by Somerset on the 11th
June, the very day after the Sampford movement,
warning the authorities in various counties to be ready
to cope with any rising, whether it were for " seeking
redress of enclosures," or, as in some places, " through
the instigation of seditious priests and other evil people
set forth to seek restitution of the old bloody laws." ¹
Oxfordshire and Berkshire were at this moment added
to the list, and in despair some member of the Counsil

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