When Did You last See Your Father? WF Yeames' famous painting of Parlimentarians questioning Royalist children. (Courtesy www.bbc.co.uk)
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Tudor & Stuart Timeline:
1485 - 1714 Patty Baldwin January 2016 Patty compiled this timeline of Box and we have added details of national events. We would love to hear from you if you are able to extend or amend the Box details. |
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Box Timeline
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National Timeline
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Tudor Box
1496 John Stone appointed vicar of Box 1516 Bonham family appointed Steward for the Monkton Farleigh Priory 1531 Halley's Comet appears in Box 1535 Dissolution of Monkton Farleigh Priory 1536 Abolition of the cult of St Thomas à Becket 1539 Muster (military list) for Box Tithing 1540 John Leland recorded his visit to Hazelbury and called Chapel Plaister a hermitage 1540 Box manor called Super Wedere confiscated and held by the Duke of Gloucester (afterwards restored to Hungerfords) 1540 John Bonham bought the dissolved abbey at Lacock and quarries in Box. He was knighted in 1540 and appointed Wiltshire Commissioner for the Muster 1544 John Bonham bought Monkton Farleigh Priory’s possessions in Box from Sir William Sharington 1553 Official church visit recorded that no sermons or preaching made by the vicar in Box 1573 Sir John Thynne acquired Hazelbury quarry and later built Longleat using the stone 1575 Queen Elizabeth I visited Hazelbury on 23 August 1578 Sir John Smyth of Long Ashton took possession of the advowsons of Box and Hazelbury Churches from John Bonham 1578 Anthony Long of Ashley burled ln Box 1580 Earliest surviving Box register for baptisms and weddings 1580 Sir John Young of Bristol acquired remainder of Bonham estate 1601 John Coren appointed vicar of Box Stuart Box 1602 Hugh Speke bought Bonham estate from the estate of Sir John Young 1603 Denial of prayer book and homilies outside Box Church by weaver and rough mason 1604 William Pinchin mentioned as being from the Mill 1614 Register record of John dying at Baylies house (believed to be The Bear) 1616 Earliest surviving Box register of burials 1624 Hugh Speke dled, succeeded by George Speke 1626 John Aubrey born 1626 Francis Allen draws first map of Box 1628 Rate and Valuatlon of Hazelbury and Dltterldge 1636-74 Richard B, rector of Ditteridge 1637 Stephen Fowler was llcensed to sell tobacco to Box and Bratton. Fowler's llcence cost him £4. 1644 Queen Henrietta Maria flees to France visiting Cheyney Court. 1644 Walter Bushnell appointed vicar of Box 1647 Jewell Long buried in Box church 1650 First record surviving of Box apprenticeships 1656 Death of George Speke 1656 Walter Bushnell, vicar of Box, was ejected by the Commitee of Ejectors for being a scandalous minister 1660-61 John Aubrey visited Hazelbury 1661 Sir Hugh Speke of Hazelbury died 1668 Hugh Speke died, succeeded by George Speke aged 8 1670 Spa at Mlddlehill was dlscovered 1678 Eclipse of sun and moon 1697 John Aubrey died 1697 Dyrham House bought stone from Box quarries 1702 Quaker meetinghouse registered in Box 1707 George Miller appointed vicar of Box 1711 Dame Rachel Speke helped finance Box Charity School 1726 Thomas Speke sold Box estate to the Northey family |
1485 Henry VII crowned first Tudor king
1497 Cabot sails to Newfoundland, Canada 1492 Magellan sailed around the world 1509 Death of Henry VII, succeeded by Henry VIII 1513 Laws against enclosure of common fields 1533 King Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled; King married Anne Boleyn 1534 Act of Supremacy over Church in England 1536 King married Jane Seymour, Ann Boleyn beheaded 1537 Pilgrimage of Grace 1545 Warship Mary Rose sunk 1547 Henry VIII died Edward Seymour, appointed Protector of the new king Edward VI, aged 10 years 1549 Devon & Cornwall uprisings against Latin mass abolition 1549 Act of Uniformity promotes single church in England 1553 Edward VI died and Mary, a Catolic, became Queen 1555 Surveyor of the Highways appointed to maintain the condition of roads and bridges 1558 French take control of Calais 1558 Death of Mary and succession of Queen Elizabeth 1562 John Hawkins takes first British slave trading ship 1563 Plague returns to Britain 1563 Overseers of the Poor established 1564 William Shakespeare born 1564 Tobacco introduced to London 1579 Francis Drake claims California for Queen Elizabeth 1588 Spanish Armada tries to invade England 1591 Shakespeare writes Henry VI 1592 Plague killed 15,000 people in London 1601 Poor Law established 1603 Queen Elizabeth died; succeeded by James I 1603 Plague widespread in England 1603 Shakespeare wrote Hamlet 1606 Gunpowder plot led by Guy Fawkes 1611 Authorised Version of The Bible 1616 Shakespeare died 1620 Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America 1622 Oliver Cromwell born 1625 James I died; succeeded by Charles I 1629 Parliament dissolved for 11 years 1640 The Long Parliament began 1642 Charles I starts First Civil War at Nottingham 1648 Second Civil War started 1649 Charles I executed; succeeded by a Commonwealth 1650 Nell Gwyn, mistress of Charles II, born 1652 Tea introduced into England 1653 Oliver Cromwell appointed Lord Protector 1658 Oliver Cromwell died 1660 Charles II proclaimed King 1660 Church of England established; feudal tenure abolished 1663 Hearth (or Chimney) Tax introduced 1663 Isaac Newton conceives of gravitation 1665 Great Plague killed 70,000 people in London 1666 Great Fire of London 1668 East India Company controlled Bombay (Mumbai) 1672 Freedom of Worship allowed 1675 Christopher Wren started work on St Paul's Cathedral 1685 Charles II died; succeeded by his brother James II 1685 Judge Jeffreys' Bloody Assizes 1689 James II deposed; succeeded by William III and Mary 1689 Toleration Act permitted non-conformity 1694 Bank of England founded 1696 Window Tax introduced 1702 William III died; succeeded by sister-in-law Queen Ann 1712 Last witch trial in England 1714 Queen Ann died; succeeded by George I |