Article: Cornish rebellions, 1497-1648.(includes bibliography)

500 years after their uprising against Henry VII, Mark Stoyle discuss why the Cornish were different -- and often rebellious -- in Tudor and Stuart England.

May 1997 sees the 500th anniversary of the Cornish rising of 1497, a rebellion which not only came close to toppling Henry VII from his throne, but which also marked the beginning of a remarkable series of insurrections in the far south-west. Cornwall was a county which had never risen in arms before. Yet over the next 150 years no fewer than five major rebellions were to take place there, while `rebel' Cornish armies were to march into England on four separate occasions.

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