Excerpts from Revolt of The Peasantry 1549, Julian Cornwall 1977, Chapter 11, Sampford Courtenay and the Pacification of Cornwall, pages 196-7
Since 2016, 10 years ago, half of America has raged or sulked in the shadows of power, while the other half waxes ecstatic, hoping to purge the remainder of the heresy that opposes social perfection. I was thinking on this yesterday as I weeded for my sister. Then in the attic, putting things in storage, I came across this book I used some years ago for a Plantation America chapter. This seemed auspicious, so that I took this book, opened it to two random pages, those pages, and pulled the quotes assigned below.
The background on this book will shock the regular reader. There were many revolts, uprisings and rebellions in England after the passing of bully King Henry VIII. We moderns have been taught that peasants were the lowest class of The Middle Ages and Early Modern times, that we are their descendants, and that their lot was wretched, one step above, but forever racially barred from descent into slavery, an abyss which may only be occupied by “people of color.”
That is a lie, on many levels.
Peasants were free.
Peasants were four states from slavery: freeman, servant, serf, slave.
Peasants were the rural middle class, with the same social status as their urban counterparts: merchants, artisans, company captains, ships captains, bankers, jеwelers, slave drivers, tax collectors, etc.
Peasants owned slaves, had to own slaves to succeed, just a few household men and maids. Peasants had been clawing their way into the nobility and urban middle class by gaining slaves from among orphans, vagabonds and other homeless law breakers—for a man without a master was fair game. A peasant with enough slaves could arm them and attack freemen gardening, camping and herding on the commons, drive them off, and enclose a space with a wall and make it an estate. This put more freemen in poverty, forcing them to sell children, their wife, sister, brother, even themselves, and/or hire out as a soldier or sailor.
Thus a peasant could become a lord, even as a merchant captain might become a lord of a wooden castle upon the sea, a lord with many desperate men at his command.
The Peasant Revolts in England took many forms, over hundreds of years. One was Wat Tyler’s 1383 revolt against the tax collector that raped his daughter.
There was also another power base, Monasteries, whose abbots owned slaves and held serfs.
A serf was what we think of as a peasant. For, since every man wishes to think himself the scion of freedom or even nobility, we have been easily led to believe that the “worst” lot of European history was being a peasant! Freemen, serfs and slaves are thus erased, just as the idea that only Africans were slaves erases the majority of Americans from its history.
Ethnic Digression
For instance, I visited a graveyard in Flushing Queens, in 2017 I think, which was first an Indian burial ground, then from 1609 to 1859 a potters field where poor and unfree crackers were dumped in unmarked graves, ven after epidemic die offs. On top are 6, six, that is six, graves of black servants. A servant might be a perpetual or temporary slave or a paid employee on contract, until the 1860s, when they became wage earning employees, free to go. Modern historians have declared the site a %100 African American/Native Historical site, erasing over 90% of those whose bones were actually laid to rest there! Those six blacks did not have the social status to be buried across the street with their masters. They had just enough status to erase tens of thousands of dead, nameless, European souls, sold to a distant shore, denied by their descendants and replacements.
So, the rebellions were really feuds between the rural middle class peasants and the urban middle merchant class, with the old money nobility taking various sides. The Devon and Cornwall revolt was a prayer book dispute, an ideological feud, just as the progressive verses conservative feuds of our own day are ideological, not class based. The penalty was to be reduced in class or killed, mostly reduced: doxxed, your job as a manager lost, and thence waiting tables for your betters.
Below are a few excerpts. After each I will make some historical observations.
“He did not even trouble to discuss Russell’s fears that the rebels might seize some port and let the rebels in…”
The natural impulse of a rebellion against state control is to seek aid from another state, such as in the Peloponnesian War 430-400 B.C. from Persia, American Revolution 1774-83 [you were lied to about when it started] from France, American Civil War [from England], with U.S. aid to many, many revolts in small nations.
“…the Channel islands which had come under heavy attack from the French who had already occupied Sark…”
Revolts hence often coincide with foreign wars, such as riots and separatist agitation during Vietnam and the WOT in America.
“To land whatever men could be scraped together, probably not more than 200 or 300.”
Keep in mind, that this expeditionary force is the size of the crew of a man of war. This illustrates the power of a pirate captain.
“He could if he liked also strike a bargain with a pirate named Thompson, who was then lying at anchor in the Severn, holding out the offer of a free pardon for his assistance.”
A pirate captain opposed the Planting Of Maryland in 1634 with much success and another did crush the last of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia in 1676, after the governor’s army had been defeated by the rebels.
“… to write to the mayor of Exeter directing him to make a special levy on citizens who had refused to contribute to the cost of defence. The vanguard, which included the Italians and much of the horse…”
The vanguard are the most loyal troops other than the commander’s personal guard! Italians, were key to government control, just as Nigerian cops in Baltimore, and Chinese and Turkish cops in NYC, reflected state instincts to enlist foreign adventurers alongside internal elites and criminals, in a bid against the ultimate enemy, those people racially the closest, but living according to different ways. Gordon’s Ever Victorious Army of Christian English & Americans used by Doaist Chinese against Christian Chinese circa 1770 was a perfect example. An NYPD officer told me in 2017 that he was being trained to serve as muscle in Texas for the FBI, where local sheriffs might prove reluctant to go after their own.
“The following morning, Sunday, 17 August, the scouts encountered a patrol under the command of Maunders, the shoemaker, which was perhaps patrolling the crossing of the river Taw. In a brisk skirmish it was brushed aside and its leader captured.”
Shoemakers commanding small business owners against pirates and mercenaries accomplished just enough to be registered as losers in the history books. MODERN AMERICA, has made war on its own past far more ruthlessly than against the foes of WWII one of which it nuked, or the Soviet Union which U.S.G. actively supplied to keep up the phony Cold War. But, against the inner enemies, from runaway slaves to loyal British soldiers, or rebel Confederates, what remains is the shroud of lies. No nation has ever been more devoted to the LIE as a religious observance, than USG.
For instance: Tennessee voted to remain in the Union, yet was attacked by the Union, so joined the Confederacy. An openly planned postwar genocide by the governor was stopped by the formation of a militia in which the letter K figured thrice. Four men formed it, then asked their former commander to head it, which he did, until the genocide was called off. He then disbanded this group. Ever since he has been named as the founder, though he was the disbander. That white-on-white militia, later reformed by different men in different places to battle white-managed black crime, is now the only version permitted in memory. There is nothing The Deceiver hates more than the truth. Hence the past is the greatest enemy of USG.
To battle evil were money, and therefore evil, rules, is to fight a fight that can only win infamy.
