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Kett and his people were aware of this, and that night they left their camp at Mousehold for lower ground in preparation for battle.
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Kett and people
By now Kett was their leader and they were being joined by people from nearby towns and villages.
In the 21st century the death of Kett is still remembered by the people of Norwich.
After the enclosures of local landowners around Norfolk were destroyed, thousands of people joined Robert Kett in a march on Norwich, forming a large organised camp at Mousehold Heath.
Kett and were
Kett and his followers were now officially rebels ; the authorities therefore shut the city gates and set about preparing the city defences.
Despite the increased threat, the rebels were loyal to Kett throughout and continued to fight Warwick's men.
After the rebellion the lands of Kett and his brother William were forfeited, although some of them were later restored to one of his sons.
Wymondham's most famous inhabitant was Robert Kett ( or Ket ), who in 1549 led a rebellion of peasants and small farmers who were protesting the enclosure of common land.
Abeloos ' figures of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, the Last Supper and the College motto were all incorporated into a much grander piece, the work of local carpenters Rattee & Kett and artist F. R.
The remaining anophelii were driven to a small island south of Gnurr Kett, where they are kept in isolation as captive scholars for the Gnurr Kett nobility.
In a bloody pitched battle outside the city, the rebels were routed and Kett was captured.
Kett and night
Kett and his followers camped for the night of 9 July at Bowthorpe, just west of Norwich.
Kett was captured at the village of Swannington the night after the battle and taken, together with his brother William, to the Tower of London to await trial for treason.
Kett and they
Having listened to the rioters ' grievances, Kett decided to join their cause and helped them tear down his own fences before taking them back to Hethersett where they destroyed Flowerdew's enclosures. Kett's Oak, beside the B1172, near Hethersett, Norfolk The following day, Tuesday 9 July, the protesters set off for Norwich.
Kett and left
Kett was now left with a decision.
Kett and their
One of their targets was yeoman farmer Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett had been prominent among the parishioners in saving their parish church when Wymondham Abbey was demolished and this had led to conflict with Flowerdew.
In the longer term the Kett family do not seem to have suffered from their association with the rebellion, but to have prospered in various parts of Norfolk.
Kett and camp
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16, 000, set up camp on Mousehold Heath to the north-east of the city on 12 July.
Once the camp was established at Mousehold the rebels drew up a list of 29 grievances, signed by Kett, Codd, Aldrich and the representatives of the Hundreds, and sent it to Protector Somerset.
Two days later Kett, who had his main camp outside the city, confronted the royal army, resulting in a slaughter of over 2, 000 peasants.
Kett made an attempt to recapture the city, but the arrival of mercenaries in support of Warwick forced him to abandon the camp.
Kett and at
Flowerdew bribed the rioters to leave his enclosures alone and instead attack those of Robert Kett at Wymondham.
Dudley offered Robert Kett a pardon on the condition that the peasant army disband at once.
Kett and Mousehold
An 18th century depiction of Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath
The army of Robert Kett encamped on nearby Mousehold Heath.
Kett and for
Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from Norwich Castle on 7 December 1549.
An anonymous work of 1843 was critical of Neville's account of the rebellion, and in 1859 clergyman Frederic Russell, who had unearthed new material in archives for his account of the rebellion, concluded that " though Kett is commonly considered a rebel, yet the cause he advocated is so just, that one cannot but feel he deserved a better name and a better fate ".
In 1948 Alderman Fred Henderson, a former mayor of Norwich who had been imprisoned in the Castle for his part in the food riots of 1885, proposed a memorial to Kett.
* Audio of a talk on Robert Kett by Peter Clark for Bristol Radical History Group.
* Paul Robinson, creator of the long-running " Etta Kett " comic strip for King Features Syndicate
The instigator, Robert Kett, was hanged for treason.
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.
Kett and ground
The first, sometimes called the Prayer Book Rebellion, arose mainly from the imposition of church services in English, and the second, led by a tradesman called Robert Kett, mainly from the encroachment of landlords on common grazing ground.
Kett and .
* Hirsch, E. D., Joseph Kett, Jame Trefil.
Kett was about 57 years old and was one of the wealthier farmers in Wymondham.
Kett was the son of Tom and Margery Kett and had several brothers, and clergyman Francis Kett was his nephew.
Kett set up his headquarters in St Michael's Chapel, the ruins of which have since been known as Kett's Castle.
Kett rejected the offer, saying he had no need of a pardon because he had committed no treason.
At first light on 22 July, Kett withdrew his artillery.
At this point an assault began, ordered by Kett or perhaps by other rebel leaders.
Kett had already seen how difficult it was to defend miles of walls and gates and had instead chosen to withdraw.
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