ABSTRACT
The townsmen were inordinately proud of their noble church, with its two great towers, which they had shared with the monks, and had petitioned the king to spare those parts of it which were scheduled for demolition, offering to pay the full value of the lead, bells and other items. The creation of a camp council — two deputies from each of the 22 Norfolk hundreds and one of Suffolk — was only the beginning. To it was grafted an embryonic machinery of government which scrupulously adhered to the proper legal forms. It was alleged that the rebels intercepted royal writs addressed to various gentlemen ordering measures for the preservation of the peace, erased the names of the addressees and substituted their own. To Kett good relations were something to be valued. As he at no time contemplated a march on London, having made up his mind to stand fast and address himself to the task of reforming Norfolk.
