Mercenary troops, partly Irish and partly Scotch, maintained by the petty Irish chieftains, and employed in their inter-tribal wars up to the time of Elizabeth. They were also known as “Gallowglasses.”
Ket’s Rebellion.
A rising of the peasantry against the landed gentry, led by Ket, a tanner, in 1549. He collected some 16,000 followers in a camp near Norwich, and established a tribunal, on which he sat, with the Mayor of Norwich, to try obnoxious gentlemen. The rebellion was suppressed by the Earl of Warwick, and Ket and other leaders hanged.
Keys, House of.
The Lower House of the Isle of Man legislature.
Keystone State.
A name given to the State of Pennsylvania, as being the central State of the thirteen originally forming the Union.
Khalsa.
The Sikh Commonwealth in the Punjaub was known by this name.