The Prayer Book rising in the West Country is ended
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- Editors
Short Note 
Lord Russell relieves Exeter, ending the Prayer Book rising in the
West Country. This had sought to restore the Catholic liturgy, in
the face of the recent imposition of the Book of Common Prayer. For
those in the west of Cornwall at least, one of the causes of
offence in this new obligatory prayer book was that it was entirely
in English, while the people of these parishes still used Cornish
in their everyday life and had been accustomed to use it in church.