ABSTRACT
Kett’s easy victory over the marquis of Northampton was a tactical one only; it led to nothing, indeed it gravely weakened his cause by reducing to absurdity his claim to be acting as the King’s representative in Norfolk. Recruitment of the army and concentration at Cambridge was completed in about two weeks, and since the full resources of the state were mobilised in an atmosphere of extreme urgency it could not really be maintained that Russell had done badly by comparison, left as he had been so long to his own resources. Warwick concentrated the greater part of his army at Cambridge by 19 August. The suggestion made by some historians that his object was to keep Kett penned in Norfolk does not square with the fact that the latter never showed the least sign of leaving the vicinity of Norwich.
