Kett's rebellion

• Collapse in textile industry caused people to be unemployed and badly affected
• Between 6-8th July Wymondham saw feast, drunk spirits caused crowds o break down the fences of John Flowerdew's
• Flowerdew was unpopular as he pulled down a local abbey
• Kett took hold of the rebellion and leading figures being Yeoman. by 10th July reach Norwich and by 12th set up camp at Mousehold Heath, had 16,000 rebels
• absence of clergy, gentry and nobility
• on 21st July pardon offered to rebels, but Kett rejected it . The noble offered to arrest Kett but he retreated
• by the end of July the nobles had taken Norwich
• Somerset sent a small army of 1,8000 under Marquis of Northampton to cut of the rebels. He offered a full pardon but the rebels rejected. Kett forced Northampton to retreat
• troops taken from Scotland (left Northern border open to attack), headed by Northumberland with 12,000 men on 23rd August (took a long time to come down from Scotland
• on the 26th August, after 3 days of fighting, Kett abandoned. Northumberland was given another 1000 mercenaries and 3000 rebels slaughtered with Kett arrested
• Kett tried for treason and hung
• they opposed enclosures; John Hales elected head of the hales commission to investigate enclosures , complained strongly after the increase in rents. Rack-renting was seen as way to increase costs for peasantry
• Somerset cannot be said a cause as presented as 'good duke' for trying to protect poor