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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. 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 ...

  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. 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]

  6. Francis Lee (physician) - Wikipedia

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    Born at Cobham, Surrey on 12 March 1661, he was the fourth son of Edward Lee by his wife Frances. He entered Merchant Taylors' School on 11 September 1675, was admitted a scholar of St John's College, Oxford, on St. Barnabas day, 1679, proceeded B.A. on 9 May 1688, M.A. 19 March 1687, and was elected to a fellowship at St. John's in January 1682.

  7. 1540s in England - Wikipedia

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    19 July – Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (born 1500) 20 September – Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (born 1492) October/November – Hans Holbein the Younger, painter (born c. 1497 in Germany) Margaret Lee, lady-in-waiting, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (born 1506) 1544

  8. 1549 - Wikipedia

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    Year 1549 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England , it was known as "The Year of the Many-Headed Monster", because of the unusually high number of rebellions which occurred in the country.

  9. Siege of Exeter (c. 630) - Wikipedia

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    According to some early medieval sources, the siege of Exeter or siege of Caer-Uisc was a military conflict that took place in or around 630 CE, between the Mercians, led by Penda of Mercia, and the Britons occupying Caer-Uisc in the kingdom of Dumnonia.