Ket

Ket, ROBERT, a tanner of Wymondham, in Norfolk, who raised the standard of insurrection in that county in July 1549. The cause of the outbreak was a widespread dissatisfaction of the country-people against the gentry. Sixteen thousand men gathered round Ket, who raised his mimic throne beneath the 'Oak of Reformation' on Moushold Hill, overlooking Norwich. This city was twice captured by the rebels; on the second occasion they held it until they were driven out by the Earl of Warwick, and compelled to fight a battle, in which Ket was defeated and captured. He was afterwards hanged at Norwich. The insurrection never had more than a local significance. See the Rev. F. W. Russell's Kett's Rebellion (1860).