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Thomas Fairfax (Lord Fairfax) (1612-71). An English Parliamentary general. Fairfax, as commander general of the Parliamentary forces, and Cromwell as lieutenant general, gained a victory at Naseby. Fairfax refused to head the commission appointed to try the King when he discovered that they were determined to execute him.
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 402.
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