Cornwall in the age of rebellion, 1490-1690 /edited by Philip Payton.
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The desire for memorialization: physical evidence
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion: 1490-1690 -- Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Memorial -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion, Philip Payton -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Propaganda and the Tudor State or Propaganda of the Tudor Historians?, Bernard Deacon -- Introduction -- Review -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Where Cornish was Spoken and When: A Provisional Synthesis, Matthew Spriggs -- Introduction -- The case of Cornwall -- The decline of the Cornish language -- Where was Cornish spoken and when? Introduction -- Tudor centralism and Cornish rebellion -- Reversal of attainder and the Charter of Pardon -- Beunans Meriasek and the study of tyranny -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Beunans Meriasek-A Political Play?, Lynette Olson -- Introduction -- Three plays in one -- Teudar and tyranny -- In conclusion and addition -- The political context -- Arguments against and for specific political relevance -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Helston Shoemakers' Gild and a Possible Connection with the 1549 Rebellion, Joanna Mattingly -- Introduction -- A chance survival Difficulties of dating and identification -- Religious implications -- Rebellion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- APPENDIX 6.1: THE RULES OF THE SHOEMAKERS' GILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY AT HELSTON (ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL, BB/5/1) -- APPENDIX 6.2: BODMIN SHOEMAKERS' ORDINANCES, 1583 -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Glasney's Parish Clergy and the Tregear Manuscript, D.H. Frost -- Introduction -- John Tregear, vicar of St Allen, 1544-1583 -- Further references to Tregear at St Allen -- Thomas Stephyn, curate and vicar of Newlyn East -- Possible further references to Stephyn in the diocese Ralph Trelobys-a missing link? -- Trelobys and Glasney College -- Some speculations -- Where was John Tregear born? -- Was Tregear ordained outside the diocese? -- Were Tregear and Stephyn involved in the Western Rising of 1549? -- Why did Tregear remain in his parish? -- Was Thomas Stephyn a 'recusant priest'? -- Where was Trelobys educated? -- Was 'Rad Ton' connected with Trelobys, Stephyn or Tregear? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix 7.1 -- Notes -- Chapter 8: 'On My Grave a Marble Stone': Early Modern Cornish Memorialization, Paul Cockerham -- Introduction
This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revised form as a history of Cornwall in the early modern period, focusing especially on issues of language, identity and rebellion in the period 1490-1690.