The Launceston council established after the crushing of the Western Rising was the military administration that imposed the Protestant Reformation on Cornwall and Devon by force. Russell acted with considerable brutality — hanging rebel leaders and imposing collective punishments on villages. The council effectively militarised the Reformation settlement in the southwest, replacing the popular religion of the monasteries with a coercive state church.
Multiple rebel leaders executed; Humfrey Arundell and other captains hanged
Royal garrison and commission under Russell
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