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.

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.

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 had already seen how difficult it was to defend miles of walls and gates and had instead chosen to withdraw.

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.

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 ".

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the 21st century the death of Kett is still remembered by the people of Norwich.

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.

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

An 18th century depiction of Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath

At first light on 22 July, Kett withdrew his artillery.

The Oak of Reformation on Kett House, an office block in Station Road, Cambridge

* Audio of a talk on Robert Kett by Peter Clark for Bristol Radical History Group.

Dudley offered Robert Kett a pardon on the condition that the peasant army disband at once.

The army of Robert Kett encamped on nearby Mousehold Heath.

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.

* December 7 – Robert Kett, English rebel ( executed )

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

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.

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

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.