Following the decisive defeat of the western rebels at Sampford Courtenay on 17 August 1549, royal forces under Sir Anthony Kingston pursued survivors westward into Cornwall. Kingston conducted a brutal pacification, hanging rebel leaders at their own doorsteps and executing the mayor of Bodmin who had led the original muster. The pursuit and subsequent hangings ended Cornish armed resistance.
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