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  2. Prayer Book Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising [1] was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon in 1549. In that year, the first Book of Common Prayer, presenting the theology of the English Reformation, was introduced.

  3. File:The West Gate, Exeter and the Siege of 1549.jpg

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    George Townsend (1813–1894) Description: ... 1894 : Authority file: Q116235911; Title: The West Gate, Exeter and the Siege of 1549. Depicted place: Exeter: Date ...

  4. Humphrey Arundell - Wikipedia

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    On 19 August, he was transferred to the dungeons of Rougemont Castle in Exeter, before being taken with other rebels to the Tower of London in September. In November 1549, Arundell was taken to Westminster Hall where he was found guilty of high treason and condemned to be taken back to the Tower and later hanged, drawn and quartered. He was ...

  5. Siege of Exeter - Wikipedia

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    The Mercian Siege of Exeter (c. 630), also known as the Siege of Caer-Uisc. Almost certainly fictional. The Danish Siege of Exeter (893) The Siege of Exeter (1068), during the Norman Conquest of England; The Siege of Exeter (1549) which took place during the Prayer Book Rebellion; One of the sieges of Exeter that took place during the First ...

  6. John Hooker (English constitutionalist) - Wikipedia

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    A map of Exeter in the time of Hooker, with his quartered arms at bottom left. During the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 Hooker experienced at first hand the siege of Exeter, and left a vivid manuscript account of its events in which he made no effort to conceal his anti-Catholic sympathies. [8]

  7. John Hull (MP for Exeter) - Wikipedia

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    John Hull (by 1503 – 10 or 16 September 1549), of Larkbeare, [1] Exeter, Devon, was an English lawyer and politician. He was the MP for Exeter from 1539 to 1542 with William Hurst, and again in 1547–49 with Griffith Ameredith. [2] At the time Exeter was one of the wealthiest cities in England, rivaling London.

  8. Devon Trained Bands - Wikipedia

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    Maurice raised the siege of Lyme on 18 June and fell back to Exeter. Essex then pushed further into the West Country, reaching Tavistock on 23 July, upon which Sir Richard Grenville raised the siege of Plymouth and retired over the Tamar. After Barnstaple was recaptured by the Parliamentary forces, Rolle recalled his North Devon TB regiment ...

  9. George Carew (priest) - Wikipedia

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    Carew was archdeacon of Totnes from 1534 to 1549, becoming canon of Exeter in 1535 and precentor of Exeter in 1549, and was archdeacon of Exeter from 1556 to 1569. He was dean of Bristol from 5 November 1552, but he was ejected in 1553 under Mary I. He resumed the post on the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 and filled it until 1571.