Bodmin was the assembly point for the Cornish contingent of the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549. Under Humphrey Arundell and Henry Bray the mayor, the commons of Cornwall gathered here and formally constituted their army before marching east into Devon to join their Devon counterparts. The Bodmin muster produced the articles of the western rebels, demanding restoration of the old Latin mass and dissolution of the new prayer book.
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