(1513-1550) Landowner, of Lanherne, Cornwall, England, born England; died Tyburn. He was executed at Tyburn as leader of the uprising of Cornish-speaking people (1549) in favor of the Catholic Church and against the imposition of the Book of Common Prayer.
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