ABSTRACT
The executioner was himself hanged at end of the rebellion. This, it must be observed, was the only attested case of anyone being done to death in cold blood by the insurgents, and it is evidence of the special hatred felt for government’s foreign hirelings. The soldiers lit bonfires in the market place to minimise the effect of the darkness, while the sentinels were ordered to watch ‘more painfully and diligently than commonly they were wont’. Several officers counselled the rampiring of a number of points on the perimeter farthest away from the enemy so that they could be held with fewer troops; there were of course not nearly enough to man the defences adequately. The wild behaviour ceased as suddenly as it had begun when Kett entered the city and quietly reimposed his authority. The insurgents were once more in undisputed control of Norwich, and this time they stationed a garrison which on wet nights camped in the cathedral.
