Francis Kett

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Francis Kett (* around 1547 in Wymondham ; † January 14, 1589 in Norwich ) was an English doctor and alleged heretic .

He was born in the small town of Wymondham, Norfolk, to Thomas Kett (1500–1553). His uncle was the rebel Robert Kett (1492-1549), who in 1549 the peasant revolt (along with his brother William Kett (1485-1549) Kett Rebellion , or Norfolk Rebellion ) in Norfolk with temporary 16,000 armed men during the reign of the Tudors led . The uprising was directed against the conversion of the commons into state or private property and the expulsion of many small tenants from their land.

Kett studied at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , received his BA in 1569 and his MA in 1573. In 1580 he resigned from his scholarship and left the university. After that he appears to have lived in Norfolk. In a book published in 1585 he is referred to as " Arian Martyrs of late Elisabethan and Jacobean times ".

He was a fellow and tutor at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University , and is believed to have influenced the beliefs of Christopher Marlowe , who studied at the same college.

In 1588, Kett was brought before the Bishop of Norwich Edmund Scambler , convicted of heresy , and burned at the stake in the moat of Norwich Castle on January 14, 1589.

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  • DD Wallace, jr, From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d.1589), Harvard Theological Review 1974

Individual evidence

  1. Engl. Wikipedia Kett's Rebellion
  2. ^ Roger Ward, Francis Kett, The Glorious and beautiful Garland of Mans Glorification , London 1585

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