The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 was a popular uprising in 1497 by the tin miners of Cornwall in the south west of Britain. Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries. ... Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is a county of England, the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau. ...

The main cause of the rebellion was the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII for a campaign against Scotland. The tin miners lived in poverty, earning very small amounts of money, much of which was taxed, and they felt they had no involvement in wars with Scotland as they lived so far from it. Therefore, when the people of Cornwall were charged extra war taxes in 1497 - possibly as a result of the brief skirmish by Scotland into England inspired by Perkin Warbeck's pretence to the English throne - the Cornish had had enough. To cap their resentment of the tax, it intruded into a previous jurisdiction that Cornwall was exempt from all taxes of 10ths or 15ths of income by demanding one of these amounts. Most of the Cornish would not have been English speaking at this time. Tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty and is generally acknowledged as one of Englands most insidious kings. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... General Name, Symbol, Number tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 5, p Appearance silvery lustrous gray Atomic mass 118. ... Perkin Warbeck (c. ...

In reaction to the tax, Michael Joseph - a local blacksmith - and Thomas Flamank - a lawyer from Bodmin - worked the townspeople of St. Keverne, the hometown of Joseph, up into an armed revolt against the King and his tax. The force raised by the two men set off to London, gathering supporters as it went. Michael An Gof (also known as Michael Joseph; An Gof is Cornish for blacksmith) and Thomas Flamank (a Bodmin landowners son and London lawyer) led the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, in which rebels marched on London to protest at King Henry VIIs levying of a tax with which... Blacksmith Blacksmith at work Blacksmith at work Blacksmiths fire Hot metal work from a blacksmith A blacksmith is an artisan specializing in the hand-wrought manufacture of metal objects, such as wrought iron gates, grills, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, weapons, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils and tools. ... Thomas Flamank was a lawyer from Cornwall who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish Rebellion against taxes in 1497. ... A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). ... Map sources for Bodmin at grid reference SX074667 The town of Bodmin lies in the centre of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, along the western edge of Bodmin Moor. ... St. ... St. ...

On reaching Somerset, a local lord by the name of Lord Audley took command of the rebel army, and it grew to be several thousand men by the time it had reached Blackheath, outside London. The leaders of the rebellion had moved to Deptford hoping to capitalise on the sympathetic feelings between the people of Cornwall and Kent. However, after Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450, and its subsequent defeat, the Kentish people refused to join the rebels, and so the Cornish rebels remained in Blackheath. There, they were surrounded by 10,000 men of the King's army under Baron Daubeny where the two armies formed for a brief battle, the Battle of Deptford Bridge. The skirmish cost the lives of 200 Cornish rebels, and Lord Audley and Flamank were captured on the field of battle. Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. ... Blackheath is a place in London, divided between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich. ... Deptford is an area of the London Borough of Lewisham, on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Jack Cade was the leader of a popular revolt in late medieval Europe in the 1450 Kent rebellion which took place in the time of King Henry VI in England. ... Events March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. ... The Battle of Deptford Bridge took place on 17 June 1497 on a site in present-day Deptford in south-east London, adjacent to the River Ravensbourne. ...

Joseph was caught later, fleeing for Greenwich, where he joined the other rebel leaders in the Tower of London. On June 27, Flamank and Joseph were hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, and they were followed the next day by the beheading of Lord Audley on Tower Hill. The remaining rebels were sent home, ending the rebellion. Greenwich (pronounced gren-itch , or by the locals) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... The Tower of London, seen from the river, with a view of the water gate called Traitors Gate. ... June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... Tyburn is a place name, and may refer to: Tyburn, London Tyburn, Birmingham This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Tower Hill is an elevated spot outside the Tower of London and just outside the limits of the City of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...