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| | Earliest Combs &c. of Kent, England |
 | | Wilmington, a parish in the hundred of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington, lathe of Sutton At Hone, County of Kent, is 1 mile south of Dartford, "the living a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, the church dedicated to St. Michael... |
 | | Maidstone is a borough, market town, and parish, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of Maidstone, lathe of Aylesford, county of Kent, of which it is the county town, 8 mi. |
 | | Several charters were granted to it by succeeding monarchs; and under that of George II., in 1748, by which it is now governed, the civil power is vested in a mayor, recorder, twelve jurats, and forty common council-men, assisted by a town clerk and other officers. |
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