Timeline 3

1400

1423-1422. King Henry the Fifth.

1422-1461. King Henry the Sixth.

1455	The Wars or the Roses.

1461-1470. King Edward the Fourth.

1470	King Henry the Sixth restored.

1471-1483. King Edward the Fourth.

1474	Caxton prints books in English.

1480	Stephen Swan born approximately.

1483-1485. King Richard the Third.

1485-1509. King Henry the Seventh.

1500	The Reformation begins. Dissolution of the Monasteries.

1509-1547 King Henry the Eighth..

1505	Robert Swan born approx.

1510 Thaxted Church completed.
1520 Horham Hall at Thaxted built
1530 Robert Swan marries his first wife approximately.

1538	Cromwell's Mandate. Some Parish Registers begin.

1547-1553 King Edward the Sixth.

1553-1554 Queen Mary.

1553	Robert Swan married Isabel Coo?? 16 July at Arrington, Cambs.

1554-1558 Philip and Mary.

1555 Statute for maintenance of the highways. Parish surveyors accounts begin. Statute labour levied.

1558-1603 Accession of Queen Elizabeth I. More Parish Registers begin.
1559 Act of Uniformity. Punishment of recusants and non-conformists.
1561 William Swan born 20 July in Ickleton, Cambs.
1566 Statute enjoining churchwardens to destroy vermin.
1567 Joan Clayden born approximately.

1571 Statute enjoining churchwardens to enforce wearing of woollen caps on Sundays.

1588 The Spanish Armada.

1589 William Swan and Joan Clayden married 13 July in Ickleton, Cambs.

1598 Elizabeth I approves Canterbury Constitution. Many more Parish Registers begin.

1598 Thomas Swan baptised 15 January in Saffron Walden, Essex.
1600