Huntingdon — Oliver Cromwell's birthplace — lay on the western edge of the Eastern Association's territory. Royalist cavalry from Newark frequently raided into Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Parliamentary garrisons at Huntingdon and the surrounding towns engaged in frequent skirmishing to protect the Association's western flank and secure Cromwell's home county.
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