Editing Bodmin (section)

===Rebellions===
Bodmin was the centre of three Cornish uprisings. The first was the [[Cornish Rebellion of 1497]] when a Cornish army, led by [[Michael An Gof]], a [[blacksmith]] from [[St. Keverne]] and [[Thomas Flamank]], a [[lawyer]] from Bodmin, marched to [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]] in London where they were eventually defeated by 10,000 men of the King's army under Baron Daubeny. Then, in the autumn of 1497, [[Perkin Warbeck]] tried to usurp the throne from [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]. Warbeck was proclaimed King Richard IV in Bodmin but Henry had little difficulty crushing the uprising. In 1549, Cornishmen, allied with other rebels in neighbouring [[Devon]], rose once again in rebellion when the staunchly Protestant [[Edward VI]] tried to impose a new [[Book of Common Prayer|Prayer Book]]. The lower classes of Cornwall and Devon were still strongly attached to the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] religion and again a Cornish army was formed in Bodmin which marched across the border into Devon to lay siege to [[Exeter]]. This became known as the [[Prayer Book Rebellion]]. Proposals to translate the Prayer Book into Cornish were suppressed and in total 4,000 people were killed in the rebellion.<ref>Sturt, John (1987) Revolt in the West: the Western Rebellion of 1549. Exeter: Devon Books</ref>