Abstract
Abstract The preceding chapters have painted a picture of south-western political culture that challenges the stereotypes often applied to the peripheries of the Tudor state. Although lying at the geographical extremities of the kingdom, Cornwall and Devon were not lawless borderlands akin to the militarized marches of the north, or the lordships of Wales before the Acts of Union of 1536–43. By and large, the institutions of local government—magistrates and ministers, constables and tithing-men, churchwardens and civic corporations-passed the test imposed by reform and reformation from the center. Royal policy may sometimes have been irksome, but it was seldom ignored, and even more rarely opposed. The Tudor south-west should not be judged solely by the crises of 1497 and 1548–9.
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