[1] [2] The whole companies of these rebels amounted little lesse than to the number of ten thousand stout and valiant personages,The number of the rebels in Deu [...]n|shire. able indéed (if their cause had beene good and fauoured of the Lord and giuer of vic|tories) to haue wrought great feats. But being (as they were) ranke and malicious traitors, the almigh|tie God confounded their deuises, and brought them to their deserued confusion. A strange case, that those mischéefous and wicked traitors could not be war|ned by the euill successe of their diuelish attempted outrage, in the yeare last past: at what time certeine seditious persons in Cornewall fell vpon one of the kings commissioners named master Bodie, sent thither with others for the reformation of matters in religion, in like manner as other were sent at the same time into other shires of the realme, for the which murther a priest being apprehended, arreig|ned, and condemned, was drawne into Smithfield, and there hanged and quartered the seauenth daie of Iulie, in the said last yeare before mentioned, to wit, 1548. Other of his complices and associats were ex|ecuted and put to death in diuerse other parts of the realme.