Kett's Rebellion

Question 1

How did the rebellion start?

Answer 1

As an enclosure riot in Norfolk against local lawyer Flowerdew, who had enclosed land

Question 2

What else did the rebels oppose?

Answer 2

Abuse of office in local government and the inequality in society

Question 3

What was the social inequality within Norfolk?

Answer 3

6% of the population owned 60% of the goods

Question 4

Where else were there similar protests?

Answer 4

Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey

Question 5

What were the rebels’ economics demands? (3)

Answer 5

• Measures to limit enclosure
• Limited use of common land by the lord of the manor when grazing sheep
• Action against rising rents

Question 6

What were the rebels’ religious demands? (2)

Answer 6

• Removal of ineffective priests

- Rules that priests must be present in their parishes

Question 7

Key events of the rebellion: (5)

Answer 7

• Kett assembled a force of 16,000 and set up camp outside of Norwich
• The local forces offer the rebels a pardon, they would refuse
• The rebels would go on to brutally murder Lord Sheffield
• Marquis of Northampton’s force of 14,000 would be defeated
• Earl of Warwick sent, leading to the massacre of the rebels at Dussindale

Question 8

How was discipline maintained within the camps: (3)

Answer 8

• Troops would set up their own administration
• Maintained discipline at a series of camps, issuing commissions for food and drink
• Set up the ‘tree of reformation’ where local gentry was seemingly tried by the mob

Question 9

What were the concequences of the rebellion? (2

)

Answer 9

• 3000 would be killed at Dussindale in August

- Kett was tried and executed, and only 49 others were killed

Question 10

In contrast to the peasants revelot what did both revolts fail to do?

Answer 10

Advance on the capital

Question 11

What it easy or hard for the rebellions to be put down by government?

Answer 11

Easy