Manuscript documents and letters from the Civil War period

65 documents, many are letters addressed to Captain Thomas Brodnax of Canterbury and Godmersham Park, giving military commands and are signed by key figures including John Dixwell, one of the regicides. They provide information about day to day life in the parliamentary army with details about pay and the importance of exercising the troops. There is a remarkable account of the peasants revolt at Sevenoaks and Tonbridge that followed Parliaments order that all clergy and their parishoners should take an oath of allegiance