Keswick Convention - held, wymondham and ket

KESWICK CONVENTION, an annual summer reunion which was held at the above town for the main purpose of "pro moting practical holiness" by meetings for prayer, discussion and personal intercourse. The convention, which met first in 1875, had no denominational limits, but was largely supported by the "Evangelical" section of the Church of England.

In the History of the C.M.S., vol. iii. (by Eugene Stock), the mis sionary influence of the "Keswick men" in Cambridge and elsewhere may be readily traced. See also The Keswick Convention: its Message, its Method and its Men, edited by C. F. Harford (1906).

KET

(or KETT), ROBERT (d. 1549), English rebel, is usually called a tanner, but he certainly held the manor of Wymondham in Norfolk. With his brother William he led the men of Wymondham in their quarrel with a certain Flowerden, and he headed the men of Norfolk when they rose in rebellion in 1549 owing to the hardships inflicted by the extensive en closures of common lands and by the general policy of the protector Somerset. A feast held at Wymondham in July

developed into a riot and gave the signal for the outbreak. Lead ing his followers to Norwich, Ket formed a camp on Mousehold heath, where he is said to have commanded 16,000 men, intro duced a regular system of discipline, administered justice and blockaded the city. He refused the royal offer of an amnesty on the ground that innocent and just men had no need of pardon, and on Aug. 1, 1549 attacked and took possession of Norwich.

John Dudley, earl of Warwick, marched against the rebels, and forced his way into the city, driving its defenders before him.

Strengthened by the arrival of some foreign mercenaries, he at tacked the main body of the rebels at Dussindale on Aug. 27. Ket's men were easily routed by the trained soldiery, and Robert and William Ket were seized and taken to London, where they were condemned to death for treason. Both were executed early in Dec. See F. W. Russell, Kett's Rebellion (1859).