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Kett and had
Kett was the son of Tom and Margery Kett and had several brothers, and clergyman Francis Kett was his nephew.
Kett rejected the offer, saying he had no need of a pardon because he had committed no treason.
Kett had already seen how difficult it was to defend miles of walls and gates and had instead chosen to withdraw.
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.

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

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.
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.
By now Kett was their leader and they were being joined by people from nearby towns and villages.
Kett and his people were aware of this, and that night they left their camp at Mousehold for lower ground in preparation for battle.
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 church
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 Wymondham
Flowerdew bribed the rioters to leave his enclosures alone and instead attack those of Robert Kett at Wymondham.
Kett was about 57 years old and was one of the wealthier farmers in Wymondham.
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.
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.

Kett and was
Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from Norwich Castle on 7 December 1549.
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.
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 led
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 with
In August 1549 Dudley went to Norfolk with his father and his younger brother Robert to fight against the rebel peasant army of Robert Kett.

Kett and .
* 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.
Kett and his followers camped for the night of 9 July at Bowthorpe, just west of Norwich.
Kett and his followers were now officially rebels ; the authorities therefore shut the city gates and set about preparing the city defences.
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.

had and been
If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.
But the luck that had been running their way left him.
His shout had been taken up and repeated.
A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.
The worst part had been the waiting ; ;
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
And one had been too many.
That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

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