[diggers350] Kett's Rebellion - Land Occupation

[Tony Gosling]

KETT'S REBELLION 1549 - 1999

LAND OCCUPATION
Saturday 10th July 
Meeting place - 12 noon - The Haymarket, Norwich

450 Years ago 20,000 common people led by Robert Kett rose up in Norfolk as
a protest against inclosure of land.  Kett was a landowner who sympathised
with the victims of inclosure and he led the people in tearing down fences
and filling in ditches returning great swathes of Norfolk to common
management.  He held court under Kett's Oak near Wymondham and ran the
region for 2 months from under the tree.  The worst inclosing landowners
were arrested, tried and locked up in Norwich jail for stealing the land.  
Kett issued a set of principles, aimed particularly at Edward VI, as part
of his and the peasants' plan to run the region more equitably.  Their main
demand was the end of private ownership of land.  The rebellion lasted for
2 months before being brutally suppressed with a loss of 4,000 lives.

To mark this important anniversary The Land Is Ours is organising an
occupation somewhere in Norfolk.  Bring acoustic instruments - tent -
sleeping bag and whatever else you'd expect to find.  Please no dogs or
amplified music.

Phone/fax     01865 722016 (TLIO)
              01603 484412 (Greta; local contact)
Rory - Pager  01523 773915

http://www.oneworld.org/tlio/    
office at tlio.demon.co.uk

Other Ketts events in the area include:
9th /10th /11th July  at Wymondham, Norfolk; three days of mixed events at the
original location of the rising. (Rail and bus access)

Kett Celebration links http://www.paston.co.uk/commonlot/links.htm

Common Lot: Theatre troupe performing The History of Kett's Rebellion this
summer
                        

-- 
Tony Gosling  tony at gaia.org
Tel +44 (0)117 955 6769
14 Lancaster Road
St Werburgh's
Bristol
BS2
England

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