Jack Cade's rebel army marched through Rochester and Dartford on the march route between Maidstone/Sevenoaks and London. The Medway towns were strongholds of rebel sympathy — the Kentish commons had genuine grievances about taxation, the loss of France and corrupt government. Officials and lords who had profited from government corruption fled rather than resist. The rebel control of the road through Rochester demonstrated that the government had lost control of the entire county.
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