The rebellion that bears Robert Ketts name began at Wymondham fair on 6-7 July 1549 when a crowd that had gathered for the fair turned to pulling down the enclosures of a local gentleman John Flowerdew. Robert Kett, himself a tanner who had his own dispute with Flowerdew, sided with the commons and offered to lead the levellers. The Wymondham fair fight was an impromptu beginning that rapidly escalated into the most serious English revolt of the sixteenth century after the Pilgrimage of Grace.
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