[Spellyans] Memorial to the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549

[Ken MacKinnon]

Very encouraging to hear that, Craig - please take my earlier remarks in 
that spirit.

- an Ken ken

Ken MacKinnon is now on Broadband  with new e-mail addresses:-

ken at ferintosh.org
and also at:-
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My former e-mail addresses are no longer able to be used.

(Prof) Ken MacKinnon
Ivy Cottage, Ferintosh,
The Black Isle, by Dingwall,
Ross-shire  IV 7 8HX
Scotland  UK

Tel: 01349 - 863460


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Weatherhill" <craig at agantavas.org>
To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Memorial to the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549


> Patience, a Ken ken.  I'm working on it.
>
> Craig
>
> On 14 Est 2009, at 16:12, Ken MacKinnon wrote:
>
>> A gowetha wheg,
>>
>> This may be getting the discussion off-course - but these responses
>> remind us that there is a considerable public need for an
>> authoritative history accessible by the public on what happened in
>> history to the Cornish language - and how this was brought
>> about.     The constitutional position of Cornwall likewise needs
>> retrieval fro its present position: swept under the carpet.  People
>> like Angarrack have fulminated on this - but a more measured
>> approach is overdue.  Tim Saunders has also written a series of
>> articles - but they are privately circulated and I do not think he
>> has ever published them.
>>
>> - an Ken ken
>>
>> Ken MacKinnon is now on Broadband  with new e-mail addresses:-
>>
>> ken at ferintosh.org
>> and also at:-
>> ken.ferintosh at googlemail.com
>>
>> My former e-mail addresses are no longer able to be used.
>>
>> (Prof) Ken MacKinnon
>> Ivy Cottage, Ferintosh,
>> The Black Isle, by Dingwall,
>> Ross-shire  IV 7 8HX
>> Scotland  UK
>>
>> Tel: 01349 - 863460
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Weatherhill" 
>> <craig at agantavas.org
>> >
>> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Memorial to the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549
>>
>>
>>> Exactly - it was an uprising. A 'rebellion' can only take place
>>> against a legitimate authority.  Just 41 years previously, the
>>> Charter
>>> of Pardon issued by Henry VII gave the Cornish Parliament the power
>>> of
>>> veto over Acts of the Westminster Parliament.  Cranmer's Act of
>>> Uniformity was forcibly imposed and trampled all over those rights.
>>> The Cornish veto was actually published in the form of the Articles
>>> of
>>> Demand sent from Castle Canyke and were ignored - an act that removed
>>> the legitimacy of the London Authorities.  I've actually researched
>>> and written a lengthy account of the whole event, intended to be part
>>> of a book giving true (and not politically distorted) accounts of
>>> several events in Cornish history.  These will include the non-
>>> conquest of Cornwall by the Wessex kings and a new account of the
>>> Spanish Raid of 1595, using the Spanish captain's own report, rather
>>> than the third-hand account given by Carew..
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 Est 2009, at 19:50, Ray Chubb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Glasney was not sold off and dismantled at the time of the
>>>> dissolution of the monasteries.  This was done at the time of the
>>>> Prayer Book Uprising.  It was almost as if the authorities wanted to
>>>> wipe the Cornish and their language off the face of the earth.  No
>>>> wonder there was an uprising.  I refuse to call a fight for human
>>>> rights a rebellion.
>>>>
>>>> Read:   The History of Glasney College by James Whetter ISBN
>>>> 0-907018-42-4
>>>>
>>>> On 11 Est 2009, at 15:02, Craig Weatherhill wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> The Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549 under Edward VI was quite a
>>>>>> different matter from the dissolution of the monasteries and
>>>>>> religious houses under Henry VIII and it is curious that the two
>>>>>> events have been confused in this memorial.
>>>>
>>>> Ray Chubb
>>>>
>>>> Portreth
>>>> Kernow
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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