The Cornish march through Somerset attracted additional English recruits sympathetic to the rebels' grievance against taxation. The ability of a rebel army to march 300 miles without being intercepted demonstrated the weakness of early Tudor military organisation. Henry VII was in the north of England and had to rush south; his available forces in London were insufficient to intercept until the army had nearly reached the capital.
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