A detachment from the main Kett camp at Mousehold Heath was sent toward Great Yarmouth in July 1549 to press the port town into the rebel cause and to control the supply of fish and trade goods. The Yarmouth authorities, under pressure from rebel sympathisers within and the threat of the detachment without, maintained an uneasy neutrality. Control of Yarmouth was important to Kett as it would have provided access to sea communications.
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