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Francis Bolstrod

Male 1661 - 1706  (44 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1662 
  • 1662: Hearth Tax Imposed
  • 1662: Act of Uniformity - 2,000 plus vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists.
1665 
  • 1665: Great Plague of London
1666 
  • 1666: Act of Parliament - burials to be in Woolen
  • 1666: The Great fire of London 2 Sept after a drought from 27 June
1670 
  • 1670: Hudson's Bay Company established - early settlers in Canada
1673 
  • 1673: Test Act was passed to try to help differentiate between Anglicans and Catholics. Public officeholders were required to swear an oath of allegiance (which recognised the monarch as the head of the Church of England) and accept communion by Protestant form
1675 
  • 1675: Whig party formed under Shaftsbury
1679 
  • 1679: Tories first named
  • 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England
1682 
  • 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
1684 
  • 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
10 1685 
  • 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
  • 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
11 1688 
  • 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
  • 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
12 1689 
  • 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
13 1694 
  • 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
14 1695 
  • 1695: Freedom of Press in England
  • 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
15 1696 
  • 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
16 1697 
  • 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
17 1701 
  • 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
18 1702 
  • 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
  • 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
19 1705 
  • 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine