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Fairfax, p. 6 (23  November  1817) Unable to identify specific work with certainty.
Possibly the following recorded by WG on 1804-07-15:
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, baronShort Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax. Written by himself. 1699
OR
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, baronThe memoirs of General Fairfax. Wherein is contained an account of all his sieges and battles in the north of England; especially the battles of Leeds, Wakefield, Manchester, &c. Written by himself; with improvements, selected from the noted historians of those times. Also a full and genuine account of the various skirmishes before and at the taking and pillaging of Bradford, in the time of the civil war; taken from a manuscript of Joseph Lister, and others. With copper plates. 1776
In his History of the Commonwealth of England, WG cites Fairfax's Memorials (1: 107) and Memoirs (3:307), but also several other briefer works by Fairfax.

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