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Latest Issue 31 Spring 2021 
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      • Kingsdown's Menhir Secrets
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      • Early History Hoard
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      • Ancient Discovery
      • Roman Mosaics in Box
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      • Magna Carta in Box
      • Monk's Tale
      • Norman Conquest of Box
      • Tracing Bartholomew Bigod
      • When it Rained and Rained
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      • Napoleon versus Box
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      • Box Churchyard
      • Sheridan's Duel
      • Tree of Life at Middlehill
      • Box's Highwayman
      • 1752: Very Odd Year
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      • The New Road, 1761
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      • Crane 57
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When Did You last See Your Father? WF Yeames' famous painting of Parlimentarians questioning Royalist children. (Courtesy www.bbc.co.uk)
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.
Box Timeline
National Timeline
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
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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

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