1549 Prayer Book Rebellion

The Battle of Sampford Courtenay was one of the chief military engagements in the Western Rebellion of 1549.The Prayer Book Rebellion, Prayer Book Revolt, Prayer Book Rising, Western Rising or Western Rebellion was a popular revolt in Devon and Cornwall in 1549. In that year, the Book of Common Prayer, presenting the theology of the English Reformation, was introduced. The change was widely unpopular – particularly in areas of still firmly Catholic religious loyalty (even after the Act of Supremacy in 1534) such as Lancashire.

[rustybrand]

02:35 The massacre of the 900 rebels took place on Clyst Heath on the evening of the Battle of Clyst St.Mary. When the rebels learned of the massacre they attacked the Royal camp on Clyst Heath the next day resulting in the Battle of Clyst Heath.
I find it shocking that there is still no battlefield marker (as at Fenny Bridges) and no memorial to the men who died there. The site of the Clyst Heath massacre and battle is now covered by a large retail park and modern housing estate. The route through the retail park and housing estate now includes a road called 'Russell Way'. The Crown's army was led by Lord John Russell. I have long wondered if Exeter City Council chose to name this road after John Russell, thereby commemorating the individual who was responsible for the massacre rather than creating a memorial to the 900+ men of Cornwall and Devon who died there

[connortierney]

Many Cornish people at the time didn't understand English and didn't want to.

[TmorrowTheFox]

I thought this was a really good little clip right up until she suggested that the rebels were armed only with pitchforks. The rebels had many thousands of weapons at their disposal due to the militia system then in place and were, on the whole, armed in exactly the same way as the Royalist forces sent against them (who were mostly militia from Somerset and Wiltshire). The rebels even had artillery, the only thing they really lacked was cavalry.
Also, for what it's worth, the 900 rebels had their throats cut at Clyst Heath, not Clyst St. Mary, roughly on the site of the old Exeter Toys R Us.

[whatistheevidence]

That wasn't on, they should have offer the people a choice.

[Lagerfanny-ge]

Should’ve told the Cornish that Christ never spoke Latin.

[Jyromi]

people is retarded! they rather not understand than understand????