Robert Kett led 16,000 Norfolk peasants and yeomen to Mousehold Heath overlooking Norwich, the second city of England, in protest against enclosures and landlord abuses. The camp became a remarkable self-governing community dispensing justice under an oak tree. When Lord Northampton brought a royal army, the rebels defeated it, killing Lord Sheffield, and held Norwich for six weeks. The camp represented one of the most significant popular political movements of Tudor England.
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