The Cornish army that had marched from Bodmin to Blackheath in protest against taxation for the Scottish war was attacked by Lord Daubeney's royal forces at Deptford Bridge on the southeastern approach to London on 17 June 1497. The Cornish, with no artillery and outnumbered, were routed. Michael An Gof was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn; Thomas Flamank was similarly executed. The Cornish dead numbered in the hundreds. Blackheath — the same ground used by Wat Tyler and Jack Cade — was the backdrop for this crushing of south-western resistance.
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