ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POLITICAL PROTEST Volume 22 REVOLT OF THE PEASANTRY 1549 REVOLT OF THE PEASANTRY 1549 JULIAN CORNWALL Firstpublishedin1977byRoutledge&KeganPaulLtd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2022 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 605ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10158 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1977JulianCornwall Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-03-203038-8(Set) ISBN:978-1-00-319086-8(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-03-204380-7(Volume22)(hbk) ISBN:978-1-03-204385-2(Volume22)(pbk) ISBN:978-1-00-319294-7(Volume22)(ebk) DOI:10.4324/9781003192947 Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. Revolt of the Peasantry 1549 Julian Cornwall Routledge & Kegan Paul London, Henley and Boston First published in 1977 by R ou Hedge d Kegan Paul L td 39 Store Street, London WC1E 7DD, Broadway House, New town Road, Henley-on-Thames, OxonRG9 1 EN and 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA Set in IBM Press Roman by Express Litho Service (Oxford) and printed in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Ltd Trowbridge and Esher ©Julian Cornwall 1977 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Cornwall, Julian Revolt of the peasantry, 1549. 1. Peasant uprisings - England 2. Kett's Rebellion, 1549 3. Great Britain - History - Edward VI, 1547-1553 I Title 942.05 '3 DA345 77-30119 ISBN 0 7100 8676 8 To Margaret Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Agrarian Problems and Others 8 2 A Land Apart 41 3 Protest and Provocation 64 4 Half Measures 83 5 The Siege of Exeter 98 6 War of Words 114 7 The Norfolk Rising 137 8 The Battle of Fenny Bridges 160 9 Fiasco at Norwich 168 10 Clyst St Mary and the Relief of Exeter 176 11 Sampford Courtenay and the Pacification of Cornwall 193 12 Dussindale 207 13 The Reckoning 226 Notes 242 Select Bibliography 244 Index 247