Identifier: ancestryofabr1284leaj (find matches)
Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln family (Samuel Lincoln, 1619?-1690)
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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— known to this day as " Kett's Castle "¹ — a precipitous hill-
side fell away to Dussindale, where the Wensum then as now
flowed sinuously between the hill and the city wall — on this
side low, out of repair, distant from the citys centre and diffi-
cult of defence. Behind him, for supplies, lay the fattest landsin Norfolk.
On this spot, beneath a spreading oak named by Kett him-
self "The Oak of Reformation," he set up his court, exercis-
ing freely all the functions of the power he dreamed of.
Reinforcements, such as they were, flowed in apace. To hold
this growing rabble in check, to direct its restless energies

¹The ruins of St. Michael's chapel, otherwise Kett's Castle, stand on the
left-hand side as you ascend Gas-Hill to the brow of the Heath, in what is now
the garden of the manager of the city gas-works. The chapel anciently stood
in Tombland, within the city, whence it was removed to its present site by
Herbert de Losinga, Bishop of Norwich, when, founding the monastery and
the cathedral, he sought to improve the approach on the west.
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VIEW OF NORWICH CASTLE

THE NORFOLK FURIES 53

into the channel of his ambitions, was a task more than suf-
ficient even for one of Kett's calibre. Supplies were plentiful,
and his lawless followers, waxing fat and unruly, ravaged the
countryside for miles around, indulging in wholesale plunder,
sacking mansions, haling before their chief all who resisted
their exactions. To cool their misdirected ardour, and at the
same time to further his own projects, Kett resolved to attack
the city without delay. His resolution was both confirmed
and quickened by the arrival on the scene of the Marquis
of Northampton, a general, according to repute, " better
acquainted with the witty than the warlike side of Pallas,"
" more skilled in leading a measure than a march." At his
back the Marquis had about 2500 men; Kett, 20,000.
The first intimation the startled watchers upon the ram-
parts had of Kett's design was supplied by the emergence from
the river of a dripping band who hurled themselves with irre-
sistible fury upon the defences, where these were weakest.

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