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

Kett and up
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 and have
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 been
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 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.

Kett and known
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 Kett's
George Kett, a descendant of Kett's younger brother Thomas, moved to Cambridge and co-founded the architectural masonry company of Rattee & Kett.
George Kett's son, also George, was mayor of Cambridge on three occasions and compiled a genealogy of the Kett family.
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 ).

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

Kett and .
* Hirsch, E. D., Joseph Kett, Jame Trefil.
One of their targets was yeoman farmer Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
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 the son of Tom and Margery Kett and had several brothers, and clergyman Francis Kett was his nephew.
By now Kett was their leader and they were being joined by people from nearby towns and villages.
Kett and his followers camped for the night of 9 July at Bowthorpe, just west of Norwich.
Kett rejected the offer, saying he had no need of a pardon because he had committed no treason.
Kett was now left with a decision.
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.
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.

set and up
Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.
He said now, `` I've got the perfect headquarters set up.
C'mon, buddy, help me set up the kitchen and we'll have food in a minute or two ''.
The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.
We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
An entire theater had been set up for his diversion, with a 200-man Italian orchestra under the well-known Sarti.
To document his charge, Pike set up two parallel columns in The Advocate showing the price charged by The Gazette and the considerably lower price for which the work could be done elsewhere.
He held that no group of colonists could set up or maintain a government without royal sanction.
I don't know how and I don't know why but the two stores, the one in Margaretville and the one in Fleischmanns that had been set up as a partnership, were dissolved, separated from each other.
And his performances attracted much attention, as the frequency of his surviving pieces in any calendar that may be set up for his undergraduate activities testifies.
This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.
When Partisan and Kenyon set up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??
Let him bounce back, and he could really set up the staff.
In entering this union we will be surrendering most, if not all, of our economic autonomy to international bodies such as the Atlantic Institute ( recently set up ) or the O.E.C.D., I.M.F. and others.
During the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the various shades of grey in between.
We set up the Lloyd's Neck school, worked out its curriculum, and taught there.
The purchase was effected and they made their way towards the hotel again, the hen, with whom some sort of communication had been set up, nestling in the doctor's arms.
At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.
During the discharge the magnetic forces set up by the passage of current cause the edges of the foil to roll inward toward its center line, thus allowing light to pass into the camera.
Personally, I think we ought to set up an immediate naval blockade of Cuba.
Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.
It has been suggested many times that a Class be set up for the Juniors who are overage and cannot enter the Junior Classes.
The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.
At Cypress Gardens special bleachers are set up for photographers at water-ski shows and lovely models pose for pictures in garden settings.

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