Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Ketts rebellion - Coggle Diagram
Ketts rebellion
Causes
Enclosure
- South East and Midlands
- Sir William Fermour had 17 000 sheep
- 1517 Thomas Wosley issued commission
- 1533 Sheep and Farms Act
- 1549 Tax on sheep
- Commissions
- Liked in Suffolk and North Norfolk due to light soil, the manure fertilised the soil so crops could grow
Commonwealth man
- John Hales, Robert Crowley, Hugh Latimer
Population growth
- 1525 to 1551, increased from 2.3m to 3m
- 1547 Vagrancy Act
-
Debasement of coinage
- Pay for Scottish and French war
- Prices double 1549 than 1525
Somerset
- Pass bill to protect copyholders on his estates
- 1548/49 try introduce multiple bills, only success was tax on sheep
- Commissions, tore down Warwick park in 1549
- Letters to rebels, move parliament
- Court in home
Local government
- Article 12 : Feodary and local officals
- Article 29 : Fine of 4 per day of rebellion for corrupt officals
- Sir John Flowerdew
- John Corbet of Sprowson
- Oak of Reformation
Events
- Wymondham, destroy enclosures of Flowerdew
- Kett leader
- Set up Mousehold Heath
- Other camps set up like Bury St Edmunds
- Mayor and council help until government messenger arrives. Rebels offer truce, declined, attack.
- Marquess of Northampton, Italian mercenaries, offer pardon. 20 take then rest attack, has to leave.
- Control Norwich for 3 weeks.
- Warwick with 12 000 men, struggle until Swiss mercenaries arrive. Cut off supply line.
- Kett move camp to Dussindale.
- Battle of Dussindale, 3000 rebels killed, Warwick lost 40 men.
Norwich : 6% population own 60% goods and lands. 2nd largest city and also important administrative centre.
Individuals
Kett
- Natural leader : Local government, literate, persuasive, has 16 000 loyal subjects who most refuse pardons repeatedly.
- Organisation : good order, oak of reformation
- Rebel : Adamant not a rebel
Limits
- Not a military person
- Lacked tactics
- Scared to use violence
- Moved to Dussinsale
- 3000 rebels killed, Kett executed
Somerset
- Protector : Edward VI
- Dictorial : Rely on close aides and friends like William Paget
- Support : Friend of commons, held court at house, letters to rebels, commissions/bills/taxes
- Mishandling : Violent end was due to his dealing
- Alienate : Both commons and nobility
-
Warwick
- Interests : Protected own as did not want lands to be ruined but not want to go down with Somerset
- Tactics : Pardons, ordered gates of Norwich to be opened, strong military tactics, easily defeated at Dussindale as attacked before they set up defences
- 3000 rebels killed, lost 40 men
Extent of Threat
Threat
- Politically : Somerset government was weak as actively encouraged. Built own local government which authorities saw as legitimate.
- Economically : Bad economy, battles fought were expensive, resources stretched by Western Rising.
- Military : Rebels had huge army of 16 000, organised well and used guerrilla warfare tactics. Defeat Northampton, pressure Norfolk, control Norwich for 3 weeks.
Not a Threat
- Politically : Rebels did not want to challenge Somerset or the government, they wanted them to change the actions of officials and the nobility
- Economically : Commons led revolt meant there was no significant figures of nobility funding the rebellion, therefore lack of supplies so had to steal, easy to cut of supply lines which led to end of the rebellion.
- Military : Royal army under Norfolk was much more experienced and larger. Battle of Dussindale was easily defeated