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The Boydell Press; Rowman and Littlefield, Published 1977. Hardcover, 165 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition; illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Lord Protector Somerset and three black-and-white maps.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine; mild edge wear to covers; binding tight; pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket reproduces the Cunningham Prospect of Norwich (1558) on the front, back, and endpapers; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with mild shelf wear; price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.A full-length scholarly study of Kett's Rebellion of 1549, one of the central events of Edward VI's reign. Land's account focuses on local conditions in Norfolk and the policies of Edward VI's government that gave rise to the rising, in which the citizens and countrymen of Norfolk under the leadership of Robert Kett besieged and held Norwich for nearly four weeks before being defeated by an army under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. The work treats the rebellion both as a case-history of mid-sixteenth-century unrest and as a recreation of one of the most significant episodes of Norfolk history.Contents: Preface; The Lord Protector; Economic Problems; The Protector's Policies; Wymondham; Civil Unrest; The Military Situation; The Situation in Norfolk; The March on Norwich; The Norwich Defences; Kett's Administration; The Twenty-nine Demands; Matthew Parker; The King's Messenger; Northampton's Army; Northampton's Defeat; Attempts to Spread the Rebellion; Warwick's Army; Warwick's Victory; After the Battle; The Fall of Somerset; Kett's Trial; The Ketts and the Rebellion; Bibliography.