A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others ca.1650-1710

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A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others ca.1650-1710

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1 vol. (33 ff.), folio and quarto manuscript.

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GB 206 Leeds University Library

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Fairfax family

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Sophocles Early works to 1800

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Fairfax, Charles, 1597-1673

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Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) was an antiquarian, genealogist and compiler of the Analecta Fairfaxiana . He was born at Denton in Yorkshire, but spent most of his life at Menston, on his wife's estate. In 1646, his brother Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax, appointed him steward of the courts of Ripon and he later served as a colonel of foot in Monck's army. Following Monck's march into Yorkshire, Fairfax became governor of Kingston-upon-Hull, but after a year he retired to Menston to pursue his ant...