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But from 1520 to 1574, through nearly all the drama of the English Reformation, Morebath’s only priest, Sir Christopher Trychay, kept the parish accounts on behalf of the churchwardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpinionated, eccentric, and talkative, Sir Christopher filled these vivid scripts for parish meetings with the names and doings of his parishioners. Through his eyes, we catch a rare glimpse of the life and pre-Reformation piety of a 16th-century English village. The work also offers a window into a rural world in crisis as the Reformation progressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSir Christopher Trychay’s accounts provide direct evidence of the motives which drove hitherto law-abiding West-Country communities to participate in the doomed Prayer-Book Rebellion of 1549—culminating in the siege of Exeter, which ended in bloody defeat and a wave of executions. 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