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Archbishops Palace and All Saints Church, Maidstone c.1910
The Palace showing Undercliff and All Saints Church from across the River Medway. Boats can be seen on the river and people are feeding swans from the Undercliff
Maidstone High Street, Maidstone c.1910
Looking north from near the Queen Victoria Monument and the Town Hall. The postcard shows shopfronts and the Kent Fire Office along with tram lines and a horse-drawn cart.
Title Leeds Castle: The Topography and Mensuration of Leeds Castle Park and Estate, 1748
Castle: The Topography and Mensuration of Leeds Castle Park and Estate - surveyed by Thomas Hogben and including lands in Leeds, Broomfield and Hollingbourne
Letter from Jane Austen, 1817
This letter was written to Jane Austen’s niece Fanny Knight, prior to her marriage to Sir Edward Knatchbull. At this time Fanny was living with her family at Godmersham Park in Kent. This letter is one of five in our collections all of which are long and gossipy and refer to Fanny’s suitors, to Aunt Jane’s novels (obliquely) and the final one to Jane’s declining health in the year of her death
King Wihtred’s Charter, AD 699
This charter is a grant of immunity from public taxation from the King of Kent to the churches and monasteries in his kingdom. It is signed by the King himself and all the most important dignitaries of the church at the time including Adrian, Abbot of St Augustines, who was of North African descent. The charter testifies to Kent as a kingdom and is therefore one of the earliest manifestations of Kent as a political entity
Sir Roger Twysden’s Map Book 1681-1685
This beautifully illustrated map book belonged to Sir Roger Twysden who was a well-known Kentish royalist and historian, who had estates at East Peckham and Great Chart in Kent