Hundreds met and gathered in North-East Billericay on 27 June, digging trenches and chaining carts together.

It is thought that 500 Essex men were killed and buried at Great Burstead churchyard,[2] and 800 horses were captured.

The few survivors who didn't desert tried in vain to rally the people of Colchester to fight, and then to Sudbury, only to find hostile Royal forces.

The details comprising this overview have been summarised from a piece written for the Norsey Wood Society[3] newsletter by Billericay historian Julian Whybra.

[4] His ultimate sources were the Westminster Chronicle attributed to Robert of Reading, and the Historia Anglicana by Thomas Walsingham.