The rebellion had begun at Sampford Courtenay when parishioners forced their priest back into his Catholic vestments on Whit Sunday 1549. It fittingly ended there. The final battle was hard-fought — the rebels knew what defeat meant. The rebel leaders, including the Mayor of Bodmin Humphrey Arundell and the priest Henry Bray, were captured and later executed in London. The rebellion cost an estimated 4,000 lives in total — a substantial proportion of the adult male population of Devon and Cornwall.
c.4,000 total deaths in the rebellion; hundreds at this final battle
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