Kett rebellion

• Kett rebellions


  Causes
• Causes of Kett rebellions

  • Enclosure
  • Increase rent
  • Corrupt unsympathetic landlords
• Location of Kett rebellions

  • Norwich - second largest town in London, major textile centre
  • East Anglia - most densely populated and highly industrial
• Demands of Kett rebels

  • End enclosure and rack renting (high rent)
  • Fishing rights
  • Limit the power of the nobility
  • Incompetent priest removed
• Sir John Flowerdew


  Bought up church land cheaply, disputed with local yeoman Robert Kett
• Robert Kett


  Well organised decisive leadership, became spokesman of the rioters
• Kett rebellion

  • Kett gathered an army of 16,000 men and set up for 6 weeks, were able to take over Norwich
• Outcomes of Kett rebellion


  • Kett ensured discipline, even set up a governing council for law and order
  • Eventually crushed by Earl of Warwick (later Duke of Northumberland)
  • Different to Western Rebellion as Kett rebels supported Protestant religious change, wanting economic conditions experienced under Henry VII
• Same time as Western Rebellions


  8th July 1549 - August