The Devon county muster at Exeter in 1588 was the largest mobilisation of county forces in Devon since the Western Rising of 1549. The Lord Lieutenant coordinated the deployment of trained bands and county militia along the full length of the Devon coast to resist any Spanish landing. The muster demonstrated how the Tudor trained band system, reformed in the 1570s, could rapidly produce a credible coastal defence force.
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Devon trained bands and county militia estimated at c.5,000 men; coastal deployments from Plymouth to the Exe
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