The final battle of the Prayer Book Rebellion took place where it had begun, at Sampford Courtenay, in mid-August 1549; the rebel remnant was defeated and the leaders captured; executions at Sampford Courtenay and elsewhere followed as Russell carried out the brutal pacification of Devon.
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