Excerpt from Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Gloucester, Vol. 1 of 2 The state of the Catholic religion in these two counties Of Devon and Cornwall, alias the diocese of Exeter, conveys a melancholy proof of the instability of the human mind. NO portion of the English realm could be more devoted to the ancient faith; and the formidable insurrections which blazed forth in the reign of King Edward VI. Demonstrate the hostility of the population to the innovations in religion which the State was forcing upon them. But the savage and brutal massacre of all the prisoners at Woodbury, as ordered by John Lord Russell in 1549, the putting of the Whole country (in the words of Hoker, an eye-witness) to the spoil, where every soldier sought for his best profit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.