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Old Books - Kent
Essentials for Local Historians, Genealogists & Family Historians

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Russells Maidstone - Maidstone in the Civil War

AUTHOR: J. M. Russell
FIRST PUB.: 1881
THIS EDITION: 2009

CD-ROM £10.00
 

24 page booklet, re-worked from the original publication. Extracted from "The History of Maidstone". Includes two line-drawing illustrations.

Supplied as a PDF document on CD-ROM.

CONTENTS:

The Kent Assizes in 1642
Petition to the Parliament
A Committee of Members sent to Maidstone
Petition to the King
Suggestions to the House of Commons
The King's answer
Agitation in 1643
Cause of the Kentish Rising in 1648
Lord Fairfax to suppress the Rising
Royalists at Rochester
March of Fairfax to the Medway
Maidstone stormed
Fairfax leading his troops to the Attack
No Relief from Rochester
Surrender of the Defenders
Pacification of Kent
Trial and Execution of the King
Old Soldiers
The Fairfax family