Initial failures
- cautious - manor of Wymondham belonged to him, Kett on of his tenants
- Army contained German mercenaries - month's pay for a days work
- Prepared to negotiate - offered pardon to all but Kett
- Rebels feared his intentions - young boy shot and killed
Able to defeat rebels by...
- Ordered to open Norwich gates - rebels refused, opened fire on main gate
- Able to overrun city, capturing and executing some rebels
- Ordered men to take an oath to remain in city until rebels defeated
- Rebels launched counter-attack, some of Warwick's ammunition captured
- Arrival of additional Swiss mercenaries, decreased rebels' supplies
- Attack on 27th - Battle of Dussindale - final pardon offer refused, men charged
- Warwick lost 40 men
- Kett taken to Newgate jail in London, paraded through streets, sent to Norfolk, hanged in chains from walls of Norwich Castle - convicted for treason
- 9 rebels hung, drawn and quartered
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