In the weeks before the Battle of Maidstone, Royalist sympathisers in north Kent seized control of several towns including Sittingbourne and Faversham. Parliamentary committee men were expelled and Royalist county committees briefly installed. Faversham, a significant port town, was contested. These actions reflected the depth of Royalist and popular resentment in Kent — the county had suffered heavily under parliamentary taxation and free quartering and was one of the most restless in England by 1648.
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