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The Battle Report of Lord Fairfax īeachborough Park, in Kent: the Brockman family's estate.
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Lord Clarendon terms it a sharp encounter very bravely fought with the general's whole strength". In somewhat flowery prose, the 1836 edition of Burke's Commoners summed up the Battle of Maidstone as follows: "Few actions displayed more of that chivalric courage and devoted resolve which characterised the adherents of the King during the civil wars than this. Fairfax's report to Parliament confirms that Sir William and the other leaders were captured, and so began Sir William's second period of imprisonment. They were eventually persuaded to surrender on conditions that guaranteed their personal safety. The battle continued in this way until midnight, still in rain, around which time the surviving Royalists were driven into a churchyard where they regrouped and prepared for the next phase. The conflict degenerated into house-to-house fighting. Royalists fought from hasty barricades in the streets and from the houses on either side. The resistance of the townsmen was determined and the battle gradually spread out into every street. The assault began about seven o'clock that evening, in driving rain. Meanwhile, the Royalist strength had been boosted by Sir William, who had managed to bring in a large force of reinforcements, numbering about 800 men, during the preliminary skirmishing. Lord Fairfax crossed the river at East Farleigh Bridge and prepared to storm the town. The garrison initially comprised approximately 1, 000 men, but some of these were apparently sailors and some were raw recruits. Separated from the main loyalist forces, the detachment in Maidstone had to fight unsupported against a large force of the New Model Army, under Sir Thomas Fairfax, or Lord Fairfax of Cameron as he had just become, having inherited the family peerage from the Kingdom of Scotland.įairfax marched on Maidstone, with his division of veteran troops, numbering approximately 6, 000 men. In 1648, when the second period of conflict flared up, Sir William became directly involved in the fighting for the first and only time, under the command of Sir John Mayney. William remained in custody until August 1645, although from June 1644 he transferred back to Kent, on the grounds that his health was deteriorating in the squalid London prison, to the fortified manor house known as Westenhanger Castle, only a couple of miles from his home at Beachborough. The action seemed to have been a tactic to remove potentially influential Royalist supporters from the scene, and Brockman was replaced as Sheriff by Sir John Honeywood. In 1642, Sir William was appointed High Sheriff of Kent by the King, but almost immediately he was arrested and imprisoned in Winchester Palace in Southwark, in London. On the outbreak of the Civil War, the recently-knighted Sir William Brockman remained loyal to King Charles I and the Royalist cause. In 1632, William Brockman, Esq., was knighted by King Charles I. The couple had seven children the first born son, Henry, and a daughter died in infancy. He was educated at Oxford University and married an heiress: Ann (Bunce), the only daughter of Dorothy and Simon Bunce, Esq., of Lynsted on. William Brockman was born in England in 1595, at Lyminge in Kent, the son of Henry Brockman and Helen (Sawkins).