Thomas Neville, the Bastard of Fauconberg, raised the Kentish Lancastrians and sailed up the Thames with a fleet from Calais in May 1471, while Edward IV was occupied at Barnet and Tewkesbury. His forces assembled at Blackheath and attacked London Bridge and Aldgate — but the city held firm. When Edward IV returned victorious from Tewkesbury, Fauconberg submitted. He was briefly pardoned but later executed. The raid showed that Kent remained a reservoir of Lancastrian and popular grievance even after Tewkesbury.
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