The Cornwall county muster at Bodmin in 1588 mobilised the county force that would be the first land army to face a Spanish landing if the Armada had put troops ashore in the south-west. Bodmin, as the county town of Cornwall, was the administrative centre of the muster system. The rapid deployment of Cornish trained bands to Pendennis and St Mawes castles demonstrated how effectively Henry VIII original Device Fort garrisons had been integrated into the county defence system over the preceding fifty years.
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