Tombland

1 . Jones, W. R. D., The Tudor Commonwealth (1970), chapter 1.

2 . Woodcock, M., ‘Thomas Churchyard and the Medieval Complaint Tradition’, in King, A. and Woodcock, M. (eds), Medieval Into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper (2016), pp. 123–41.

3 . Jones, p. 214.

4 . Quoted in Elton, G. R., ‘Reform and the “Commonwealth-men” of Edward VI’s Reign’, in Clark, P., Smith, A. G. R. and Tyacke, N. (eds), The English Commonwealth 1547–1640 (1979), p. 27.

5 . Bush, chapter 3.

6 . Jones, p. 214.

7 . Ibid., pp. 43, 50.

8 . Fletcher and MacCulloch, pp. 12–14.

The Enclosure Commissions

1 . Discussion of the 1548 enclosure commission and the sheep tax follows Jordan, pp. 427–36.

2 . The discussion of the 1548 Northaw rising is based on Jones, A., ‘Commotion Time’ : The English Risings of 1549 , University of Warwick PhD (2003), chapter 2.

3 . For the issue of enclosure, see Cornwall, J., Revolt of the Peasantry (1977), chapter 1; Hammond, R. J., The Social and Economic Circumstances of Kett’s Rebellion (1934), chapter 1; Kerridge, E., Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After (1969); and a particularly good summary in Youings, J., Sixteenth-Century England (1984).

Was Enclosure a Major Problem?

1 . Youings, p. 171.

2 . Kerridge, chapter 4.

3 . Fletcher and MacCulloch, p. 83.

4 . Hammond, p. 64.

5 . Ibid., p. 75.

1549: A Perfect Storm

1 . Jordan, chapter XIII.

2 . Jones, p. 253.

3 . Bush, p. 59.

The May ‘Stirs’

1 . Heinze, R. W., The Proclamations of the Tudor Kings (1976), p. 217.

2 . Ravensdale, J. R., ‘Landbeach in 1549: Kett’s Rebellion in Miniature’, in Mundy, L. M. (ed.), East Anglian Studies (1968).

3 . MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996), p. 429.

4 . Heinze, p. 217.

The Western Rebellion

1 . Youings, J., ‘The South-Western Rebellion of 1549’, Southern History (1979), pp. 100–22.

2 . Jones, pp. 89–90.

3 . Greenwood, A., A Study of the Rebel Petitions of 1549 , University of Manchester PhD (1990), Part 1.

4 . MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer , pp. 430–1.

The Rebellions of Commonwealth

1 . Jones, Map 1.2.

2 . Ibid., pp. 69 and 183–238.

3 . Ibid., pp. 194–222 for discussion of the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire rebellions.

4 . MacCulloch, D., ‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, Past & Present 84 (1979).

5 . See for example Cornwall, op. cit.

6 . Jones, p. 5.

Rebel Coordination

1 . Heinze, p. 218.

2 . Somerset to Hoby, 24.8.1549. Quoted in Bush, M. L., ‘Protector Somerset and the 1549 Rebellions: A Post-Revision Questioned’, English Historical Review (February 2000).

3 . MacCulloch, ‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, p. 47.

4 . Jones, pp. 115–20.

5 . Alsop, J. D., ‘Latimer, The “Commonwealth of Kent” and the 1549 Rebellions’, Historical Journal 28.2 (1985), pp. 379–83.

6 . Cooper, C. H., Annals of Cambridge 2, p. 43, quoted in Jones, p. 146.

7 . MacCulloch, ‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, p. 43.

8 . Fletcher and MacCulloch, p. 77.

9 . Sotherton, N., The Commoysion in Norfolk (1549), reproduced by Beer, B., in Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 6 (1976), p. 1.

10 . For discussion of the Canterbury rebels, see Jones, pp. 169–74.

East Anglia: Background to Revolt

1 . Fletcher and MacCulloch, p. 23.

2 . Wood (2007), pp. 58–9.

3 . MacCulloch, ‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, pp. 53–5.

4 . MacCulloch, D., ‘A Reformation in the Balance: Power Struggles in the Diocese of Norwich, 1533–1553’, in Counties and Communities , pp. 97–114.

5 . Information on Norwich is taken from Pound, J. F., Tudor and Stuart Norwich (1988).

6 . Wood, A., ‘Kett’s Rebellion’, in Rawcliffe, C. and Wilson, R. (eds), Medieval Norwich (2004), p. 294.

7 . Wood (2007), p. 59.

Wymondham

1 . Neville, A., Norfolk Furies (1575), translated from the Latin by Richard Woods, 1615. Pagination follows that of the edition held in the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, Norwich.

2 . MacCulloch, ‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, p. 43.

3 . Hoare, A., An Unlikely Rebel: Robert Kett and the Norfolk Rising, 1549 (1999), p. 22.

4 . MacCulloch, ‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, pp. 41–4.

5 . Land, S. K., Kett’s Rebellion: The Norfolk Rising of 1549 (1977), p. 144.

6 . Hoare (1999), pp. 16–23, on Flowerdew.