Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/72

 Henry died 28th January, 1547, and was succeeded by his young son Edward VI.

In 1549 considerable disaffection pervaded the kingdom on religious matters. Henry had completed the Reformation, and Edward's protectorate sanctioned material alterations in the Book of Common Prayer; but many of the deposed clergy and of the superstitious populace were discontented with the great changes effected, and factious opposition and rebellion arose. In Cornwall Humphrey Arundell, governor of St. Michael's Mount, and in Devonshire Sir Peter Carew, had taken part with the so-called rebels. One struggle occurred between the contending parties at Launceston, where Arundell was defeated by the Royalists under Lord Mohun.

The Priory no longer existed, but its name seems for awhile to have absorbed that of Newport. In the year 1552, for instance, Edward summoned Launceston to send members to his parliament at Westminster, and Henry Kylligrewe and Francis Roskarrek were so sent. In 1553, also, Mary (the "Bloody Mary" of English history), who on the 6th July had ascended the throne, issued a similar mandate to Launceston, as she did again in the April of 1554. Later in the same year (November) she and Philip, her husband, required "Nuport Burgh, near Launceston," to send two members to Oxford and (by substituted writ) to Westminster. On the 21st October, 1555, the burgesses were summoned as of "Newport, otherwise Launceston Borough." The list, which we hereafter publish (see page 60), of all the ascertained members for Newport will show not only its subsequent occasional variations of name, but is extremely interesting when compared with our similar list of the contemporaneous members for Dunheved.

On the 16th January, 1556-7, Philip alone made the following grant to Newport [translation] :