References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
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1669
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Maidstone, Kent
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The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from Wenceslaus Hollar’s maps:
- Built-up London – London before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – London after the Fire
Open location in Google Maps: 51.271315, 0.528853
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San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: In 1639 Peter Mundy wrote of Maidstone: 'For Many Miles about London there is Not a handsomer and cleaner place': Mundy, iii. 40.
To Celia Fiennes (ca. 1697) it was 'a very neat market town as you shall see in the Country, its buildings are mostly of timber work the streets are large . . . very pretty houses about the town look like the habitations of rich men, I believe it a wealthy place. . . . : Journeys (ed. Morris), p. 330.
Daniel Defoe called it 'a town of very great business and Trade, and yet full of Gentry, of Mirth, and of good Company',: Tour (ed. Cole), i. 115.
Its staple trade was the making of linen thread.
San Diego Sarah • Link
Maidstone was the center of a major battle during the Second English Civil War ... the Royalists were defeated.
Since it took place before the Diary, you can learn all about it at
http://www.kentpast.co.uk/battle_maidstone.html
http://bcw-project.org/military/second-civil-war/…