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F. F. Smith's 1929 work A History of Rochester quotes a 1735 glossary by the Rev. Samuel Pegge on the subject: A Man of Kent and a Kentish Man is an expression often used but the explanation has been given in various ways. Some say that a Man of Kent is a term of high honour while a Kentish Man denotes but an ordinary person.
Kent is a county in the South East England region, ... For most of its history since the local government reforms instituted by the Local Government Act 1972, ...
This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.. The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from Bede.Some kings are known mainly from charters, of which several are forgeries, while others have been subjected to tampering in order to reconcile them with the erroneous king lists of chroniclers, baffled by blanks, and confused by concurrent reigns and kings with ...
Roman fort wall at Regulbium. In the Romano-British period, the area of modern Kent that lay east of the River Medway was a civitas known as Cantiaca. [1] Its name had been taken from an older Common Brittonic place-name, Cantium ("corner of land" or "land on the edge") used in the preceding pre-Roman Iron Age, although the extent of this tribal area is unknown.
History of Ramsgate; Ramsgate Lifeboat Station; HMS Restoration (1678) History of Rochester, Kent; Rolling stock of the Kent & East Sussex Railway (heritage) Romney Marsh; Romney Marshes Area IDB; Royal Military Canal
History of Kent (40 C, 140 P) L. Local government in Kent (14 C, 7 P) M. Mass media in Kent (5 C, 35 P) O. Organisations based in Kent (7 C, 24 P) P. People from Kent ...
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The constituency consisted of the historic county of Kent. (Although Kent contained eight boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Kent was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and the ownership of property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election.