Entries for the tag ‘Seamer Rebellion’
A brief revolt in 1549 which began in Seamer, spread over the East Rising and called for the restoration of Catholicism, the abolition of monarchy, and the extinction of all the different ranks of society. 
- 21 September 1549: Egalitarian, republican and Catholic, the leaders of the Seamer Rebellion against the Edwardian Reformation are hanged at York
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