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KET (or KETT), ROBERT (d. 1549)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 761 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KET (or KETT), ROBERT (d. 1549) , English
rebel
 , is usually called a
tanner
 , but he certainly held the manor of Wymondham in Norfolk. With his brother William he led the men of Wymondham in their quarrel with a certain Flowerden, and having thus come into prominence, he headed the men of Norfolk when they rose in rebellion in 1549 owing to the hardships inflicted by the extensive enclosures of common lands and by the generalpolicy of the
protector
  Somerset. A feast held at Wymondham in July 1549 developed into a riot and gave the
signal
  for the outbreak. Leading his followers to
Norwich
 , Ket formed a camp on Mousehold Heath, where he is said to have commanded 16,000 men, introduced a regular
system
  of discipline, administered justice and blockaded the city. He refused the royal offer of an amnesty on the ground that innocent and just men had no need of pardon, and on the 1st of August 1549 attacked and took possession of
Norwich
 . John Dudley,
earl
  of
Warwick
 , marched against the rebels, and after his offer of pardon had been rejected he forced his way into the city, driving its defenders before him. Then, strengthened by the arrival of some foreign mercenaries, he attacked the main
body
  of the rebels at Dussindale on the 27th of August. Ket's men were easily routed by the trained soldiery, and Robert and William Ket were seized and taken to London, where they were condemned to death for treason. On the 7th of December 1549 Robert was executed at Norwich, and his
body
  was hanged on the top of the castle, while that of William was hanged on the
church
  tower at Wymondham.
See F. W. Russell, Kett's Rebellion (1859), and J. A. Froude, History of England, vol. iv. (London, 1898).


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