Francis Kett

Francis Kett ( * ca 1547; † January 14, 1589 ) was an English physician and alleged heretics.

He was born in Norfolk, probably born in Wymondham, the son of Thomas Kett ( 1500-1553 ). His uncle was the rebel Robert Kett (1492-1549) of 1549 along with his brother William Kett ( 1485-1549 ) in Norfolk led the peasant revolt (warp rebellion, or Norfolk rebellion ) with 16,000 armed men at times during the reign of the Tudors.

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

He was a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and to have had an influence on the beliefs of Christopher Marlowe, who was studying at the same college.

1588 Kett was brought before the bishop of Norwich Edmund Scambler, convicted of heresy and burned at January 14, 1589 at the stake of the moat of Norwich.

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