[timeline]
timeline
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| YEAR | MONARCH | HISTORICAL EVENTS | MARSHFIELD |
| 55 BC | Julius Caesar invades Britain. | ||
| AD 43 | Claudius invades Britain. | ||
| 301 | Diocletian fixes price of British beer (to twice price of Egyptian beer). | ||
| 410 | Romans abandon Britain. | ||
| 927 | Athelstan of Wessex | ||
| 931 | Royal estate of Marshfield may have been in existence. | ||
| 939 | Edmund I | ||
| 946 | Eadred | ||
| 955 | Eadwig | ||
| 959 | Edgar I | ||
| 975 | Edward 'The Martyr' | ||
| 978 | Ethelred 'The Unready' | ||
| 1013 | Swein Forkbeard | Danes conquer England. | |
| 1014 | Ethelred 'The Unready' | ||
| 1016 | Edmund II | ||
| Ironsides (Apr) | |||
| Cnut (Nov) | |||
| 1037 | Harold I 'Harefoot' | ||
| 1040 | Harthacnut | ||
| 1042 | Edward 'The Confessor' | ||
| 1066 | Harold II | Norman Conquest. | |
| 'Godwinson' (Jan) | |||
| William I of Normandy (Dec) | |||
| 1086 | Marshfield listed in Domesday Book as 'Meresfelde'. | ||
| 1087 | William II 'Rufus' | ||
| 1100 | Henry I | ||
| 1106 | Manor of Marshfield given for maintenance of Bath Priory by John de Villula, Bishop of Wells. | ||
| 1135 | Stephen of Blois | ||
| 1154 | Henry II | ||
| 1168 | Earl of Gloucester passes Manor of Marshfield to abbot & convent of Keynsham. | ||
| 1189 | Richard I | ||
| 1199 | John | ||
| 1216 | Henry III | ||
| 1234 | Abbot of Keynsham granted charter for fair & Tuesday market, but objections from Bristol lead to suppressing of fair. | ||
| 1265 | Abbot granted charter for fair & market in Marshfield. | ||
| 1272 | Edward I | ||
| 1280 | Abbot granted taxes on bread & beer in town. | ||
| 1307 | Edward I | ||
| 1327 | Edward III | ||
| 1334 | Marshfield is 4th most prosperous town in Gloucestershire (after Bristol, Gloucester & Cirencester). | ||
| 1340-1453 | Hundred Years' War. | ||
| 1348-9 | Black Death. | ||
| 1377 | Richard II | ||
| 1399 | Henry IV | ||
| 1407 | Abbot Thomas Clyve erects three buildings 'in the kings highway, without license ... to the nuisance of the king and his people', which may be ancestors of the Lord Nelson Inn. | ||
| 1413 | Henry V | ||
| 1422 | Henry VI | ||
| 1455-85 | Wars of the Roses. | ||
| 1458 | Pardon of outlawry granted to Richard Porter, maltman of Marshfield, for not appearing in court on charge of trespass. | ||
| 1461 | Edward IV | ||
| 1462 | New charter adds another fair & changes market day to Friday. | ||
| 1470 | Monks of Tewkesbury Abbey rebuild church. | ||
| 1471 | Battle of Tewkesbury. | ||
| 1483 | Edward V (April) | ||
| Richard III (June) | |||
| 1485 | Henry VII | ||
| 1509 | Henry VIII | ||
| 1536-9 | Dissolution of the monasteries. | ||
| 1547 | Edward VI | ||
| 1551 | Population: 500 communicants. | ||
| 1553 | Jane (July) | ||
| Mary I (July) | Church & rectorial tithe given to New College, Oxford in lieu of property taken by Henry VIII. | ||
| 1558 | Elizabeth I | ||
| 1563 | Population: 62 households. | ||
| 1588 | Spanish Armada. | ||
| 1603 | James I | Population: 561 communicants. | |
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot. | ||
| 1608 | Of 147 adult males recorded, 22 are maltmen. | ||
| 1612-19 | Almshouses built by Elias Crispe. | ||
| 1625 | Charles I (executed 1649) | ||
| 1641-6 | English Civil War. | ||
| 1649 | England proclaimed a Commonwealth. | ||
| 1650 | Population: 200 families. | ||
| LORD PROTECTORS | |||
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell | ||
| 1658 | Richard Cromwell | ||
| MONARCHS | |||
| 1660 | Charles II | Restoration. | |
| 1665-6 | Great Plague. | ||
| 1676 | Population: 600 communicants & 50 non-conformists. | ||
| 1685 | James II | Monmouth's Rebellion. | |
| 1689 | William III & Mary II | ||
| 1701 | Sir Christopher Codrington buys farmland around Marshfield. | ||
| 1702 | Anne | Population: 800 inhabitants. | |
| 1706 | Marshfield Company of Bellringers founded. | ||
| 1714 | George I | ||
| 1727 | George II | ||
| 1730 | Codringtons buy Marshfield and begin enclosure. | ||
| 1745-7 | Jacobite Rebellion. | ||
| 1756-63 | Seven Years' War. | ||
| 1760 | George III | ||
| 1776-82 | American Revolution. | ||
| 1779 | Rudder, in his county history, writes: 'The business of making
malt to supply the cities of Bath & Bristol ... has been for some
time declining, yet it is still pretty considerable.' Population: 1,237 inhabitants. |
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| 1796-1813 | James Wyatt builds Dodington House for C B Codrington. | ||
| 1801 | General Enclosure Act. | Population: 1,246 inhabitants. | |
| 1803-15 | Napoleonic Wars. | ||
| Slave trade abolished. | |||
| 1820 | George IV | ||
| 1830 | William IV | Agricultural riots in Wiltshire; Dodington & Marshfield Troop of Yeomanry formed. | |
| 1837 | Victoria | ||
| 1841 | Tithe map lists 19 malting houses. | ||
| 1844 | Codringtons sell Marshfield. | ||
| 1854-6 | Crimean War. | ||
| 1859 | Three Shire Stones quarried and erected. | ||
| 1860 | Majority of land owned by New College, Oxford auctioned at the Catherine Wheel. | ||
| 1861-5 | American Civil War. | ||
| 1861 | Population: 1,742 inhabitants. | ||
| 1866 | School built. | ||
| 1867 | 2nd Reform Act enfranchises virtually all men in towns & extends franchise in country but excludes poorer agricultural labourers. | ||
| 1870 | Only 8 maltings & one brewery remain, divided between 5 maltsters. | ||
| 1871 | Population: 1,780 inhabitants. | ||
| 1881 | Population: 1,527 inhabitants. | ||
| 1882 | Brewer Henry Woodward of Weir Farm bankrupted after vat bursts & releases beer across road & down valley. | ||
| 1884 | 3rd Reform Act: uniform male suffrage in town & country; some 2 million farm workers get vote. | ||
| 1891 | Population: 1,350 inhabitants. Only three maltings remain. |
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| 1897 | Tom Robinson born. Kelly's County Directory records smithies, cooperages, timber yards & hat-making among other industries. |
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| 1899-1902 | Boer War | ||
| 1901 | Edward VII | Population: 1,223 inhabitants. | |
| 1910 | George V | ||
| 1911 | Population: 1,189 inhabitants. | ||
| 1914-18 | World War I. | ||
| 1918 | Women win right to vote (at 30). School-leaving age raised to 14. |
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| 1921 | Population: 1,030 inhabitants. | ||
| 1931 | Population: 1,063 inhabitants. Paper Boys (mummers) re-established (after gap of 50 years). |
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| 1934 | Coming of mains water. | ||
| 1936 | Edward VIII (January) | ||
| George VI (December) | |||
| 1939-45 | World War II. | Barrow cemetery on Marshfield Down destroyed by bulldozing. | |
| 1950-1 | Korean War. | ||
| 1951 | Coming of electricity. | ||
| 1952 | Elizabeth II | ||
| 1960s/70s | Building of Marshfield by-pass. | ||
| 1982 | Falkland War. |
