Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk and the Prayer Book Rebellion in Devon and Cornwall simultaneously created a crisis during a time when invasion from Scotland and France were feared.

Instead of heading to London from her residence at Hunsdon, Mary fled into East Anglia, where she owned extensive estates and Dudley had ruthlessly put down Kett's Rebellion.

According to the leaders of Kett's Rebellion ( 1549 ), " all bond men may be made free, for God made all free with his precious blood-shedding.

* July – Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia, against land enclosures ; rebellion in Oxfordshire against landowners associated with religious changes.

* August 26 – Battle of Dussindale in England: Kett's Rebellion quashed.

In 1549 Robert Dudley participated in crushing Kett's Rebellion and probably first met Amy Robsart, whom he was to wed on 4 June 1550 in the presence of the young King Edward.

Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land.

Kett's Rebellion is remembered on Wymondham's town sign

Norwich at the time of Kett's Rebellion

In 1550 the Norwich authorities decreed that in future 27 August should be a holiday to commemorate " the deliverance of the city " from Kett's Rebellion, and paid for lectures in the cathedral and parish churches on the sins of rebellion.

The rebellion is remembered in the names of schools, streets, pubs and a walking route in the Norwich and Wymondham area, including the Robert Kett Junior School in Wymondham, Dussindale Primary School in Norwich, the Robert Kett pub in Wymondham and Kett's Tavern in Norwich, and in a folk band, Lewis Garland and Kett's Rebellion, and a beer, Kett's Rebellion, by Woodforde's Brewery in Norwich.

Tansley's For Kett and Countryside ( 1910 ), Jack Lindsay's The Great Oak ( 1949 ), Sylvia Haymon's children's story The Loyal Traitor ( 1965 ), and Margaret Callow's A Rebellious Oak ( 2012 ); plays, including George Colman Green's Kett the tanner ( 1909 ); and poetry, including Keith Chandler's collection Kett's Rebellion and Other Poems ( 1982 ).

1977 Kett's Rebellion: the Norfolk rising of 1549.

* MacCulloch, D. 1979 Kett's Rebellion in context.

1859 Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk.

* Virtual Norfolk: The ' Commotion Time ' in Norfolk: Kett's Rebellion of 1549

simple: Kett's Rebellion

Kett's Rebellion was evidence of an undercurrent of ferment in sixteenth-century Wymondham.

Kett's rebellion, or " the commotion time " as it was also called in Norfolk, began in July 1549 in the small market town of Wymondham, nearly ten miles south-west of Norwich.

Two or possibly three of Kett's brothers were dead by 1549, but his eldest brother William joined him in the rebellion.

During the country-wide uprisings of 1549 Dudley put down Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk.

The duke's family descended from Sir Edmund Sheffield, second cousin of Henry VIII, who in 1547 was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Sheffield and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

The Sheffield family descended from Sir Edmund Sheffield, second cousin of Henry VIII, who in 1547 was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

The first creation, as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick, was in the Peerage of England in 1547 for Edmund Sheffield ( 1521 – 1549 ), second cousin of Henry VIII, who was murdered in Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.

In 1549 he assisted in suppressing Kett's Rebellion, and received £ 272, 19. 6 for his services.

During Kett's rebellion in 1549 the house was broken into and looted.

In 1549 Robert Kett, rebelling against agricultural hardships, led a large group of men who camped for six weeks on the heath before the uprising, known as Kett's Rebellion, was suppressed.

Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent.

Then followed a long period of contention which included the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion, the Persecution of Recusants, the Poor Laws, and the English Civil War and Commonwealth ( 1642 – 1660 ).

The Prayer Book Rebellion, Prayer Book Revolt, Prayer Book Rising, Western Rising or Western Rebellion was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon, in 1549.

* 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion

After a period of conflict with the Kingdom of Wessex, it became part of the Kingdom of England by the late 11th century and was eventually incorporated into the Great Britain and the United Kingdom, yet maintained an independent language and culture into the Early Modern period, demonstrated by the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.

The Cornish also rose up in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.

Following the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, William Mayow the Mayor of St. Columb was hanged by Provost Marshal, Anthony Kingston outside a tavern in St Columb as a punishment leading an uprising in Cornwall.

* The Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 in Cornwall and Devon.

The dissolution of Glasney College helped trigger the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.

He wrote an eye-witness account of the siege of Exeter that took place during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549.

During the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549 he experienced at first hand the siege of Exeter, leaving a vivid account of its events in which he made no effort to conceal his religious sympathies.