Note 104 — Robert Ket and The Norfolk Rising 1549
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“Robert Ket was not a mere craftsman: he was a man of substance, the owner of several manors: his conduct throughout was marked by considerable generosity: nor can the name of patriot be denied to him who deserted the class to which he might have belonged or aspired, and cast in his lot with the suffering people.”—Canon Dixon, History of the Church of England.
In 1588 a grandson of Robert Ket was burnt as a Nonconformist heretic by order of Elizabeth.