The Kentish Royalist rising began at Canterbury on Christmas Day 1647 when Royalist sympathisers seized the city in protest against the parliamentary ban on Christmas celebrations. The symbolism of fighting for Christmas was powerful in Kent. Parliamentary forces under Colonel Ireton suppressed this initial rising, but the episode fed into the larger Kentish revolt of May-June 1648 that culminated at the Battle of Maidstone. Canterbury remained a centre of Royalist and Anglican sentiment throughout the war.
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