The prayer book rebellion began at Sampford Courtenay on Whit Monday 1549 when parishioners forced their priest to use the traditional Latin mass; the subsequent assembly of armed men from the surrounding parishes created the nucleus of the rebel army that would march to besiege Exeter.
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