The Rebellions

The Western Rebellion - June - August 1549

key facts:

• Led by Humphrey Arundell

• unrest in cornwall - Cornish Rebels raised a rebellion in Bodmin.

• ‘kill the gentleman’

• William Body attempted to try and introduce religious reform - he was protestant and people didn’t like that

• the rebels began to blockade Exeter

Government responses

• most of the uprisings were put down by local gentry

• somerset was forced to issue proclamations and look into enclosures

why it failed

• no noble leadership

• rebels did not advance to london