MRP: Maidstone
Maidstone
Editorial history
24/08/11, CSG: Created page
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Contents
Suggested links
See biographical profile of Thomas Stanley (Father-in-law of Maximillian Dallison, Elizabeth Dallison's son. He was commercially active in Maidstone in the 16XXs)
See wiki article Contrast of north weald and Medway valley with east Kent triangle
See Hearth tax (Contains extracts from Maidstone hearth tax returns for 16XX)
To do
Images
Maidstone, c. 1795
Maidstone, Thomas Allen, 1835
The Friary, Aylesford, former home of Sir John Banks, 1793
Image credits
(1) Farington, James, 'Maidstone', in XXXX, A history of the river Thames (XXXX, ?1795)
- Size: 320 × 420 mm. Copperplate engraving in full original colour
- Book is out of copyright; image shown with thanks to Peter Harrington, Old Church Galleries, Chelsea[1]
(2) Allen, Thomas, The picturesque beauties of Great Britain...Kent (London, 1835), plate: XX
(3) Anon, 'Lady Aylesford's called the Friary', (XXXX, 1793), plate, sepia, ca. 16.5cms by 11cms
- Plate out of copyright; image reproduced with thanks to B.B. Williams, antiquarians[2]
Profile of Maidstone
Notes
The Friars, Aylesford, Kent: bought by John Banks, 1657
"In 1633 Sir Peter Rycaut, a Dutch international financier, bought The Friars from the Sedley family. The Rycauts took the Royalist side at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642; during the war The Friars was sequestrated by Parliamentary forces and served for a time as the meeting place of the Parliamentary Committee for Kent. Sir Peter died penniless in 1653 and his wife and youngest son, Sir Paul Rycaut, struggled to pay off the family's debts....Dame Mary [mother of Sir Paul Rycaut] was forced to sell The Friars in 1657 to Sir John Banks, a businessman who sold supplies to the British Navy. In the 1670s he turned The Friars into fine Caroline mansion where his visitors included the diarist Samuel Pepys. Elizabeth Banks inherited The Friars from her father and her husband, Heneage Finch, became the 1st Earl of Aylesford."[3]
Mentions of Maidstone in Wiki primary sources
Sir George Oxenden correspondence
See 1st April 1663, Letter from John Bankes to Sir GO, London
- Sir John Banks, London merchant, son of Caleb Bankes, was born in Maidstone
Inventories
Law suits
See C 22/968/8 f. 1
- Interrogatory 13: "Did you heretofore know Walsall in Maidstone and "did not he then live iin a plentiful manner & in great esteeme & did not the other def:t Thomas Stanley then size and take all his the said Walsall estate & xxx force the creditors of Walsall to come to some unreasonable composition, how manie tymes before this tyme did the said Walsall fall into ?such decay & composicion made, him in a most plentifull manner & greate esteeme, and hath not he since bine mkaior once or twice of the cittie of Rochester...and in what condicion doe he & his familie nowe live as you knowe beleive or have heard?"
See C 22/968/8 f. 2
- Deposition by "George ?Ongley of Maidstone in the County of Kent gent aged ffiftie & three was deposed"
- Other depositions refer to commercial activities in Maidstone of Barnabas Walsall, a commercial associate of Thomas Stanley
Wills
Possible primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/331 Coke 103-166 Will of Caleb Bankes, Gentleman of Maidstone, Kent 09 November 1669
- Mayor of Maidstone in 16XXX; father of Sir John Banks
PROB 11/452 Pott 129-167 Will of Sir John Banks of Aylesford, Kent 11 December 1699
- Aylesford is three miles North-West of Maidstone
Possible secondary sources
- Cave-Brown, John, The history of the parish church of All Saints, Maidstone with illustrations (Maidstone, 1889)
Cave-Brown, John, The marriage registers of the parish church of All Saints, Maidstone: from the year 1542 to the middle of the eighteenth century (XXXX, 1901)
- Despite being out of copyright, no Internet Archive copy and Google Book no preview
Clark, Peter, and Lyn Murfin, The history of Maidstone: the making of a modern county town (XXXX, 1995)
Hasted, Edward, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, vol. 4 (London, 1798)
- Newton, William, The history and antiquities of Maidstone: the county-town of Kent (XXXX, 1741)
- ↑ http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/store/british-isles-2/product/maidstone/, viewed 01/01/12
- ↑
, viewed 20/01/12
- ↑ http://www.thefriars.org.uk/history.htm, viewed 20/01/12
