Saffron Walden lay in the northern Essex corner of the Eastern Association. Royalist cavalry from the Oxford army occasionally probed northward through Hertfordshire and Essex. Parliamentary garrisons at Saffron Walden and nearby Cambridge engaged these raiders. The town later served as a major army headquarters in 1647 during the army's negotiations with Parliament over arrears of pay and the New Agitators movement.
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