The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549
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The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549
Craig Weatherhill
PART ONE
Prelude to War
Make no mistake. 1549, the blackest year in Cornish history, should not be minimized as merely a “Prayer Book Rebellion”, as is the trend of mainstream histories. It was nothing less than all-out war, instigated by injustice and fuelled by outrage, but most books say [...]
Little Fistral – Newquay
The old lifeboat hut…
The Huer’s hut on the cliff edge, once a lookout for pilchards.More about this from
Newquay Old Cornwall Society here.
Looking across to Pentire headland…
Crossing the Tamar – 1497 Cornish uprising.
Extract from John Angarrack’s ’Our Future is History‘…
To place additional pressure on Cornish society, the Duke’s father, Henry VII, rescinded the right of the Cornish to seek recourse to justice through their customary legal system. As soon as the limited protection from the Stannary Charters was withdrawn, a new imperial taxation measure was proposed. This [...]
Off down the pub…
(Craig Weatherhill not impressed with the new fences and gate at Carn Kenidjack.)
Craig Weatherhill off down the pub for a pint with his mate Paddy. Irish Paddy is half
Connemara, half Irish draught and is partial to a drop of beer himself.
Historian Weatherhill expert on Cornish Place names, Cornish history and language, has written various books, both fiction & [...]
Recognition of a Cornish genius
Cornish mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams was born into a poor farming family at Laneast, but had the gift of performing complex mathematics in his head. He was the first to recognise that something was causing irregularities in the orbit of Uranus and predicted the presence of an undiscovered planet beyond. [...]
Graham Hart – The Legends of ‘91
Nelson Mandela once said: “ Sport has the ability to change the World”. On a spring afternoon in April 1991, Cornwall at last reached the ‘County’ Rugby Championship final. Along with tens of thousands of others, albeit subconsciously at first ‘Our World’ was about to change forever as the great Cornish renaissance took [...]
King Doniert’s Stone
The stone of the ninth century Cornish King Doniert on the south east side of Bodmin Moor.
Across the hedge, in the distance the village of St Cleer.
