Jack Cade's rebel army assembled at Blackheath in May-June 1450, presenting formal complaints (the Complaint of the Commons of Kent) about government corruption and misrule under Henry VI. When a royal army under Sir Humphrey Stafford advanced to disperse them, Cade conducted a tactical withdrawal to Sevenoaks — drawing the royal force into an ambush. The Blackheath muster itself showed that the movement commanded significant Kentish gentry support, not merely peasant participation.
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