Kett was the son of Tom and Margery Kett and had several brothers, and clergyman Francis Kett was his nephew.

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.

Kett rejected the offer, saying he had no need of a pardon because he had committed no treason.

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.

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.

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 was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from Norwich Castle on 7 December 1549.

Kett was about 57 years old and was one of the wealthier farmers in Wymondham.

By now Kett was their leader and they were being joined by people from nearby towns and villages.

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.

Kett was now left with a decision.

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 was hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on 7 December 1549 ; on the same day William was hanged from the west tower of Wymondham Abbey.

It was only in the 19th century that more sympathetic portrayals of the rebellion appeared in print and started the process that saw Kett transformed from traitor to folk hero.

George Kett's son, also George, was mayor of Cambridge on three occasions and compiled a genealogy of the Kett family.

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.

The instigator, Robert Kett, was hanged for treason.

Tony Kett ( 1 June 1951 – 19 April 2009 ) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and member of Seanad Éireann.

Born in Woodlawn, County Galway, Kett was a former administrator of the Central Remedial Clinic.

Kett and his followers were now officially rebels ; the authorities therefore shut the city gates and set about preparing the city defences.

Flowerdew bribed the rioters to leave his enclosures alone and instead attack those of Robert Kett at Wymondham.

* Hirsch, E. D., Joseph Kett, Jame Trefil.

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.

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 his followers camped for the night of 9 July at Bowthorpe, just west of Norwich.

Kett set up his headquarters in St Michael's Chapel, the ruins of which have since been known as Kett's Castle.

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.

Despite the increased threat, the rebels were loyal to Kett throughout and continued to fight Warwick's men.

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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The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

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The experiments of Romagnosi and others have already been noted but no one had determined the cause-and-effect relationship between these two primary forces.