Robert Kett led the protests and they first protested in Norfalk. The large group then gathered to destroy fences of a landowner called Flowerdew. Robert Kett was also a rival of Flowerdew’s himself.
Kett led 16,00 protests to Norwich for six weeks where they camped outside of the city walls.
Kett and his people prepared a list 0f 29 grievances including high food prices, landowners raising rents and taking over common land. Kett and his people held their own courts and church services to stop the local landowners getting rich while the rest of them suffered while using the latest Protestant rites.
The King got fed up and then sent a local gentry leader to order them to disperse but they refused. The gentry leader them offered them a pardon for going against the Kings orders as long as they dispersed but Kett and his people weren’t having any of it and they assumed they were close of winning.
Kett and his people then entered Norwich and then tried to capture Yarmouth. This made the King much more anger so he took power and took over.
The King decided to get the Earl of Warwick’s army of 10,00 men to stop them protesting so they killed 3,00 rebels in battle.
The leader Kett was then hanged in chains from the walls of Norwich castle and at least 50 others were executed.
Execution
Derek Bentley who was hanged for murder under the controversial circumstances was one of the main cases of why execution wasn’t abolished till late. Derek Bentley case was whether the phrase ‘Let Him Have It’ meant let the policeman have the gun or for Craig to shoot him. This all got out of hand but in the end Derek was hung for urging Craig to shoot him. Even though Craig was the one who shot the police man he didn’t end up being hung because he was under aged so he was sentenced to goal but only spent 10 years there. This case was not fair; even though Derek was there and took the keys Derek had the mental age of a young child. It has been proven that ten years later Derek was innocent but hanged anyway.
The case of Ruth Elliss was the last female ot be executed in the United Kingdom. She was convicted for the mudered for shooting her boyfriend David Blakely six times. Blakely was then taken to hostipal but then pronoccued dead. Ruth Elliss was then found guilty for jealously and was then executed at Holloway prison in London.
