Having lured the royal force south from Blackheath toward Sevenoaks, Jack Cade ambushed it at Solefields near the town on 18 June 1450. Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother William were both killed along with many of their men. Cade stripped Sir Humphrey's gilt armour and wore it himself. Henry VI, appalled, fled London. Cade returned in triumph to Blackheath and then entered London. The Sevenoaks defeat was the most humiliating royal military reverse of Henry VI's troubled reign to that point.
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