During the six weeks of the Kett rebellion the Norfolk countryside was effectively under rebel control. Gentry were dragged before the Oak of Reformation court at Mousehold. Enclosures were thrown down systematically. The rebels showed considerable self-discipline and avoided random violence. This period of rebel governance was the closest Tudor England came to a peasant revolution challenging the entire social order of enclosure and rack-renting.
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