In 1549, two major rebellions and several minor uprising occurred spontaneously throughout England.
In East Anglia, Robert Kett, aggrieved at the abuses of enclosure, laid siege to Norwich until defeated by Royal forces at the bloody battle of Dussindale.
At the same time, thousands of commoners of Devon and Cornwall rose up against the introduction of the English-language Book of Common Prayer and the systematic destruction of their traditional faith.
Like Norwich, Exeter was besieged throughou.
Helion & Company The commotion time: tudor rebellion in the west, 1549, paperback/e. t. fox
