|
| In this issue... | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| 1549 Part Two |
|
|
|
Page 10 of 10 2006: The Attitude Remains Today, methods may have altered but the attitude remains. In 1999, it amused ‘English’ Heritage, at Restormel Castle to portray the Cornish uprising as ‘wicked Cornish rebels against a good English king’, making sure the truth remained hidden while also calling the police in an attempt to suppress a legitimate Cornish protest. To this day, the same organization refuses to acknowledge the five battle sites or enter them on the Catalogue of British Battlefields - even though they rank among the biggest and bloodiest battles ever fought on Britain’s soil - and then turned a blind eye to the construction of a supermarket on the very site where 1,000 Cornish fighters died and 900 prisoners were callously murdered by what ‘English’ Heritage also portray as ‘the colourful lanzknechts’. Also in 1999, many of Cornwall’s most respected people gathered at the site of the Battle of Fenny Bridges to unveil a memorial, only to find they were being covertly filmed by Special Branch officers. For those who choose to parade England’s St George’s Flag on Cornish soil, or wonder why Cornish folk call it The Butcher’s Apron, the above account explains its true symbolism in Cornish eyes and why it causes so much offence. Yet, what of the architects of genocide? Lord Russell went on to become one of the biggest landowners in England and one of Britain’s richest men. Thomas Seymour was arrested on charges of insurrection and thrown into the Tower in October 1549, knowledge of which must have boosted the morale of the Cornish leaders who were also languishing there. Seymour was later set free but re-arrested for treason in 1552. He finally met the axeman on Tower Hill. Archbishop Cranmer fared little better. Charged with heresy and treason in 1553, he was burnt at the stake. In 1556, Sir Anthony Kingston was implicated in the plot to overthrow the Catholic Queen Mary and her Spanish husband Philip. When summoned to answer charges, Kingston took his own life. Craig Weatherhill mys Gorefen 2006 |
||||||||||||