MRP: Kent
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C17th Kent bibliography
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
Anononymous, News from Maidstone: or, A true narrative of the proceedings at Kent-Assizes...: giving an exact relation of the tryals... of four notorious house-breakers. And of two women for murder... Likewise... of a woman for witchcraft... (XXXX, 1678)
- 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.
Harrington, Duncan W., Kent hearth tax assessment: Lady Day 1664 (London, 2000)
Ireland, Samuel, Picturesque Views on the River Medway (XXXX, 1793)
Tombleson's Views of the Thames and Medway" (London, 1833-1834)
Calendars
Cockburn, J.S., Calendar of assize records: Kent indictments. Charles I (Woodbridge, 1995)
Cockburn, J.S., Calendar of Assize records: Kent indictments, 1649-1659 (London, 1985)
- Cockburn, J.S., Calendar of Assize records: Kent indictments, Charles II, 1676-1688 (Woodbridge, 1997)
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)
Everitt, Alan, The community of Kent and the Great Rebellion (London, 1969)
[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029243412#page/n7/mode/2up - Fielding, Cecil Henry, The records of Rochester (Dartford, 1910)
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)
- See especially Ch. 2 'Landholding and the land market in early modern Kent', Michael Zell, pp. 39-74 & Ch.3 'Agriculture in Kent, 1540-1640', Joan Thirsk, pp.75-103
- Sweetingburgh, Sheila (ed.), Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Woodbridge, 2010)
- See especially Ch. 10 'The Landed elite, 1300-1500', Peter Fleming, pp.209-233
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
Images
Hart, Ann, Engravings of Kent (London, 1989)
- Contains reproductions of eighty C18th & C19th engravings
- Available for purchase from Kent Family History Society. See - KFHS on line shop
Tombleson, XXXX, Engravings of Kent (XXXX, 1835)
