MRP: Kent
The bibliography below provides a list of secondary and primary texts relevant to understanding the geographic and social context of the Oxenden and Dalyson families in C17th west and east Kent
Primary books
Denne, Vincent (in collaboration with Shrubsole, William), The history and antiquities of Rochester and its environs: to which is added, a description of the towns, villages gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings, situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover, 2nd ed. (Rochester, 1817). First pub. 1772.
[1]
Ireland, Samuel, Picturesque Views on the River Medway (XXXX, 1793)
Tombleson's Views of the Thames and Medway" (London, 1833-1834)
= Secondary books =
Chalkin, C.W., Seventeenth century Kent (XXXX, 1965)
Clark, Peter, The English ale house: a social history, 1200-1830 (London, 1983)
Dews, Nathan, A history of Deptford (XXXX, 1884)
Evertt, Alan, The local community and the Great Rebellion (London, 1969)
Hart, Ann, Engravings of Kent (London, 1989)
Hull, Felix, Guide to the Kent archives (XXXX, 1958)
Lee-Warner, Edward, The Life of John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, 1637-1666 with appendix containing some account of his successors, the Lee-Warner family (London, (1901)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, West Kent and the Weald, vol. 38, 2nd ed (London, 1976)
Smetham, Henry, The history of Strood (Chatham,1899)
Zell, Michel (ed.), Early modern Kent, 1540-1640 (Woodbridge, 2000)
[2]
See especially Ch. 2 'Landholding and the land market in early modern Kent', Michael Zell, pp. 39-74 & Ch.3 'Agricukture inKent, 1540-1640', Joan Thirsk, pp.75-103
= Journals =
Aveling, S.T., ‘Rochester Inns’ in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 21 (London, 1895), pp. 315-326
Laslett, Peter, 'The gentry of Kent in 1640', Cambridge Historical Journal, ix (1948), pp.148-64
