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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.
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 ...
George Townsend: The West Gate, Exeter and the Siege of 1549 ( ) Artist: George Townsend (1813–1894) Description: artist: Date of birth/death: 1813 : 1894 ...
During the 1549 siege of Exeter, Arundell and his troops had little artillery and had taken some small calibre guns from Plymouth and other forts of the King, including those on St Michael's Mount, St Mawes Castle, Pendennis Castle and Trematon Castle.
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]
The Battle of Woodbury Common, which took place on 4 August 1549, was part of the Prayer Book Rebellion.. Reinforcements in the form of Italian mercenaries and German Landsknechts under the command of Lord William Grey arrived on 2 August to assist the king's troops under John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford., who was charged with defeating a large force of rebelling men from Cornwall and Devon.
Today Clyst Heath is a suburb to the south east of the city of Exeter, Devon, England. An area of relatively high ground to the west of the River Clyst, it remained heathland until the early nineteenth century when it was cultivated for the first time. [1] Two notable battles took place on the heath, in 1455 and 1549.
5 May – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, politician (died 1623) 6 June – Richard Grenville, soldier and explorer (died 1591) 1543 8 November – Lettice Knollys, noblewoman (died 1634) [20] Thomas Deloney, novelist and balladeer (died 1600) Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield, née Howard, lover of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (died ...