While the main Prayer Book Rebellion occurred in the south-west, the summer of 1549 saw related unrest across much of England including Oxfordshire. Local enclosure rioters and those sympathetic to the Western rebels caused disturbances in several Oxfordshire towns. The government\'s preoccupation with Kett\'s Rebellion in the east and the Western rebellion simultaneously stretched its resources severely. Oxfordshire\'s proximity to the Royalist strongholds of the following century is foreshadowed in the support for traditional religion that local disturbances expressed.
Local: enclosure rioters and religious conservatives. Royal: government commissioners and local justices
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