Isted Timeline

ISTED TIMELINE

Compiled by Kevin Isted & Bruce Isted

This ‘ISTED Timeline’ attempts to put into a historical context the lives and times of ISTEDs with whom Kevin and Bruce Isted believe they share a common descent (15^th, 16^th and 17^th centuries); and the earliest known ISTEDs (13^th & 14^th centuries) from whom it is possible that most Isteds are descended, although due to the sparcity of medieval records it has been unable to establish a direct link. The Timeline also shows some historical events associated with some of Kevin and Bruce Isted's collateral ancestors (i.e. not in their direct line of ascent but of the same ancestral family); and includes the earliest known references to the use of the ISTED name and its variants as place names, although there is no proof of a connection between these places and the ISTED family.

In the Timeline, references to ISTED and variants as place names are shown in green, early ISTEDs are shown in red, Kevin and Bruce’s ISTED ancestors are shown in blue and their collateral ISTED ancestors shown in brown . Amongst the dates and events in the Timeline, those relating to ISTEDs/ ISTEDs / ISTEDs / ISTEDs or those that may have had particular significance to them are shown in bold.

DATES NAMES EVENTS

EARLY ISTED PLACE NAMES

1066 Battle of Hastings: Harold, last of the Saxon Kings killed; William I (the Conqueror) crowned King of England

1086 ISTEDA referred to in Little Domesday Book as existing pre 1066

1087 William I (the Conqueror) killed in Normandy; William II (Rufus) succeeds to the of England

1100 William Rufus killed by arrow while hunting in New Forest; succeed

by his brother Henry I

1106 Henry I acquires Normandy

1135 Stephen succeeds his uncle Henry I; civil war ensues with Matilda, daughter of Henry I

1154 Henry II (Plantagenet), Matilda’s son, succeeds Stephen

1155 Royal Charter to the Cinque Ports (see 16^th Century Isteds)

1170 Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral

1186 Village of ISTED referred to in document of King Knut VI of Denmark

1189 Richard I (the Lionheart) succeeds Henry II.

Third Crusade launched

1199 Richard I, killed on campaign in France; succeeded by his brother John

1204 King John loses Normandy to France

Manor of HISTEDE, Suffolk given by Roger Bordemal to Abbey of Sibton (pre Magna Carta

1215 Barons force King John to sign Magna Carta at Runneymede

1216 The infant Henry III succeeds his father John

EARLY ISTEDs

Late 1200s William, Emma & John de ISTEDE/YSTEDE 1264 Battle of Lewes – Simon de MONTFORT defeats Henry II (Battle less than nine miles from Mayfield, Sussex)

1265 Simon de MONTFORT defeated at Battle of Eavesham, and killed ost horribly by Henry III

1272 Edward I succeeds his father Henry III

1284 Edward I completes conquest of Wales

1285 William, Emma and John de ISTEDE/YSTEDE appear in Custumals of Mayfield

1290 Edward I becomes Lord Paramount of Scotland when he is asked to arbitrate on who the next monarch of Scotland following the death of Margaret Maid of Norway; subsequently upsets Scots and First War of Scottish Independence starts

1295 First ever Parliament summoned by Edward I

1296 1297 & 1303 Edward I visits Mayfield (did he meet the de ISTEDEs? Did they supply iron/armaments for Scottish wars? Did William arrange a hunting party for the King whilst he was in Mayfield?)

1307 Edward II succeeds Edward I

1312 Robert de Elchingham, of Bibleham (in the parish of Mayfield) given Charter to raise 300 archers (were any de ISTEDs amongst the archers and/or did they supply any of the arrowheads?

Early 1300s Simone & Joha de ISTEDE/ISTED 1313 Scots defeat English at the Battle of Bannockburn (were the Bibleham Archers raised to fight in the Scottish Wars and were they at Bannockburn)

1327 Edward II deposed and murdered in an unspeakable way by the Queen and her lover; succeeded by Edward III

Simone and Joha de ISTEDE included in Subsidy Roll (Tax List) for Mayfield

1328 First Scottish War of Independence ends with Treaty of Edinburgh following English defeats 1332 Simone & Joha de ISTED included in another Subsidy Roll (Tax List) for Mayfield

1338 Hundred Years War begins between England and France (were de ISTEDEs amongst those from Mayfield believed to have supplied horse shoes and arrow heads for the wars)

1346 English victories at Battles of Crecy over France and Battle of Neville’s Cross over Scotland

1349 Black Death reaches England – up to 50% of population die

1356 English victory at Battle of Poitiers over French; Black Prince captures King John of France

1362 English becomes the official language of Parliament and the Law Courts

1377 Richard II, son of the Black Prince, succeeds Edward III

Late 1300s Symon YSTEDE 1381 Peasant’s Revolt led by Watt Tyler – the Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury,

the Tenant in Chief of lands in Mayfield and Framfield (where ISTEDs lived) had his head chopped off by Tyler and paraded through London on a spike.

1388 Symon YSTEDE recorded as holding land in Bokstede (Buxted, Sussex)

1399 Richard II (last of the Plantagenet Kings) deposed and murdered most horribly by Henry IV (first of the Lancastrian Kings)

1407 Commons given power over taxation

1413 Henry V succeeds Henry IV

1414 Battle of Agincourt; England defeats France

Full equality of Common and Lords on legislation

1422 Infant Henry VI succeeds his father Henry V

1431 Joan of Arc burnt at the stake

KEVIN & BRUCE ISTED’s ANCESTORS – 1400 to 1700

Mid/Late 1400s Laurence ISTEDE 1450 Jack Cade’s Rebellion; Cade allegedly from, and captured in Mayfield near where Isteds lived

1453 Battle of Castillon, and end of the Hundred Years War

1454 Wars of the Roses (between the Houses of York and Lancaster) starts at Battle of St Albans

1461 Yorkists win Battle of Towton; Henry VI deposed and put to death in the Tower of London by the victorious Edward IV.

Late1400s/ John ISTEDE 1474 Laurence ISTEDE of Framfield recorded as holding land in

Early 1500s Ashburnham, Sussex

1483 Edward V succeeds Edward IV and is allegedly murdered with his younger brother in the Tower of London by their uncle who succeeds to the throne as Richard III

1485 Richard III defeated and killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field; the victorious Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII

1486 John ISTEDE of Framfield recorded as son and heir of Laurence ISTEDE and of holding land in Ashburnham

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers America (actually the West Indies)

Early 1515?-56/7 John ISTED (= Ann) 1509 Henry VIII succeeds Henry VII

1518+ Manor of ISTED subject of court case heard before Cardinal Wolsey to determine disputed ownership between Walpole brothers. (The Manor of ISTED appears to be the same place as ISTEDA and the Manor of HISTEDE referred to in 1086 and early 13 century respectively.)

1528 Richard ISTED and his partner John Mone bring a case against William NYSELL, at the Court of Star Chamber, accusing him of conspiracy to murder Richard ISTED and destroy the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Park called the Plachett. The outcome of the case is not known, but a William NYSELL is recorded as being the under tenant of Newbridge Ironworks in 1539. (The enmity between Richard ISTED and NYSELL has been sited as an indication of Richard ISTEDs growing importance in the iron trade.)

1534 Act of Supremacy - Henry VIII takes over the Church in England

1536 Dissolution of the Monasteries

1541 Richard ISTED dies; his wife Joan ISTED carries on business as Ironmaster of Moat(e) Mill Forge, Mayfield

1544 John ISTED, Jurat of Cinque Port of Hastings, but may have been one of the barons (one of the 37 freemen of the franchise) much earlier.

John ISTED recorded in Benevolence Returns for Hastings as contributing £3

1545 John ISTED, Bailiff (Mayor) of Cinque Port of Hastings

John ISTED, elected MP for Hastings for last Parliament of Henry VIII

1547 Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII. Members of the Cinque Ports, as was their right accompanied the King in his procession on the way to the coronation at Westminster Abbey. (Was John ISTED amongst them?)

John ISTED, Bailiff to Yarmouth, Norfolk (a Cinque Port appointment)

John ISTED elected MP for Hastings for the first Parliament of Edward VI; the Parliament is not dissolved until April 1552. His fellow member for Hastings was Sir William STAFFORD, the brother-in-law of Ann Boleyn, the executed second wife of Henry VIII

Mid 1500s-1617 Richard ISTED (=Anne WARNETT) 1550 John ISTED, Bailiff of Hastings for second time.

John ISTED and 3 others (one of which was Philip CHUTE, Standard Bearer to the King) were ordered by the Privy Council to restore to Antonio Macuelo goods taken out of a Spanish ship by the captain of a ship they owned.

1553 John ISTED elected MP for Hastings; has permission to be absent from Parliament on 13 March as ‘Purveyor to the King’.

Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen on death of Edward VI from TB.

Mary I ousts and executes LJG and succeeds to the throne. (Did John ISTED exercise his right to attend Mary’s coronation?)

Sir Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports writes to the ports informing them of who he wants them to elect as Burgesses to the second Parliament of Mary I in 1554, (this includes John ISTED for Hastings) and that he intends to appoint the second members himself, i.e. effectively selecting both MPs. All Cinque Ports object; CHENEY writes again in threatening tone; John ISTED sent as part of delegation to make peace with the Lord Warden; and compromise apparently reached.

1554 WYATT Rebellion: Sir Thomas WYATT raises army in Kent and marches on London. Other senior plotters from other parts of the country fail in their commitments to raise armies, open gates of London etc. Wyatt surrenders at Charing Cross and later beheaded. Many other rebels hung drawn and quartered. CHANEY, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports allegedly implicated in rebellion, but no action taken against him, nor against many of the senior plotters who failed in their commitment to WYATT. (A number of the senior plotters would have been known to John ISTED, including WYATT, a fellow MP 1547 - 1552.)

John ISTED and John FRANK represent Hastings at second Parliament of Mary I – 2 Apr to 5 May. Amongst other things the Parliament passes a Bill of Attainder condeming WYATT and others for treason without a trial.

1555-7 Mary I has 17 Protestants burnt at the stake in Lewes, Sussex

1556 Archbishop Cranmer burnt at the stake by Queen Mary I.

John ISTED contacted by Joseph BEVERLEY, clerk of Dover Castle and William CRISPE, Lieutenant of Dover Castle, following their arrest by the Lord Chancellor’s sergeant after they had taken musters. (The arrest may have been in relation to the musters or the failure to deliver prisoners held on suspicion of piracy.) John ISTED takes letter from them to the Lord Warden, informing him of their arrest. BEVERLEY and CRISPE get off on a technicality relating to the Cinque Port Charter following intervention by Lord Warden

1556/7 John ISTED dies and leaves probate (will) mentioning family and property in Franfield and Hastings

1557 Joan ISTED dies and family relations - Baker and Fowle - look after the interests of the heir – Thomas ISTED – until he comes of age

1558 Elizabeth I succeeds Mary I

1570 Elizabeth I excommunicated by Pope

1574 Thomas ISTED (son of Richard and Joan) one of 40 Ironmasters required to sign a bond not to cast guns unless under a special licence, against suspicion that some were manufacturing cannon and shot for illegal export trade. (Coincidentally, Wealden iron industry starts a long decline.)

1584-1651 Edward ISTED (=Margaret AVERY) 1577 Drake starts circumnavigation of the globe

1582 Richard ISTED represents Hastings, as a 'commoner' (one of 37 Freemen) at a Cinque Ports Brotherheld meeting

1587 Mary Queen of Scots executed by Elizabeth I

1588 Richard ISTED represents Hastings as a Jurat at a Cinque Ports Brotherhood meeting

English Navy defeats Spanish Armada; Hastings contributes only one ship to the English Fleet

Queen Elizabeth presents a new Charter to the Cinque Port of Hastings; Richard ISTED resigns his position as a Jurat shortly after the introduction of the new Charter

1590 Thomas ISTED recorded as Ironmaster. No record of major ISTED involvement in iron industry after this date.

1601 Rebellion and execution of Earl of Essex

1603 James VI of Scotland succeeds Elizabeth I as James I of England

Early 1600s-1683 John ISTED (=Joane TIPPET) 1605 Gunpowder Plot fails; Guy Fawkes and other plotters hung, drawn

and quartered

1607 Virginia colonised by London Company; Jamestown founded

1611 Plantation of Ulster with Scottish and English colonists

1614 John ISTED, son of Richard and grandson of John, Jurats of Hastings, becomes one of the 37 Freemen of the franchise of the Cinque Port of Hastings; he is recorded as a brewer

1616 Death of William SHAKESPEARE

1620 Pilgrim Fathers settle New England

1625 Charles I succeeds James I/VI

1626/7- 1701 John ISTED (=Elizabeth MILLES) 1629 Charles dissolves Parliament and commences personal rule

1634 ISTED Coat of Arms confirmed by College of Arms

1641 Charles I defeated by Scots in Second Bishops War and forced to recall Parliament (the Long Parliament)

1642 English Civil War starts with the Battle of Edgehill

1647 Charles I handed over to Parliament by Scots, then seized by Army

1648 Second Civil War: New Model Army defeats Scots and Royalists. ‘Pride’s Purge’ of Parliament by Army leaving the ‘Rump Parliament’

1649 Regicide: Charles I executed; England governed as Commonwealth. Cromwell’s campaign in Ireland. Items of clothing worn by Charles I at his execution were taken to St Peter's Church, Ashburnham where they were believed to have healing powers. (Kevin's ancestors lived in Ashburnham from late 17th century to mid 19th century).

Edward ISTED and William PRICE fined at the Lewes Quarter Sessions for digging up the public highway to obtain iron ore for smelting, and were bound over for their refusal to pay.

1651 Third Civil War ends in defeat of Royalists at Battle of Worcester; Prince Charles (later Charles II) escapes to France

1653 Cromwell dissolves ‘Rump Parliament’ and rules England as Lord

Protector

1654 Marshall Law – Major Generals appointed to govern regions of

England

1658 Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard appointed Lord Protector

1660 Restoration of the monarchy – Charles II becomes King. Many Regicides tried and hung drawn and quartered; Cromwell’s body exhumed, dismembered, and his head stuck on a pole on London Bridge

Royal Society founded

1664 New York taken by English from Dutch

1665 Great Plague of London

1666 Great Fire of London

1673 Test Act deprives Catholics and non-conformists from public office

1679 Habeas Corpus Act passed

1683 John ISTED of Trumpets Farm in court case heard before the Exchequer Chamber, Westminster

1685 James II succeeds his brother Charles II

Monmouth’s Rebellion crushed at Battle of Sedgemoor; Duke of Monmouth (Charles II’s eldest illegitimate son) executed; Judge Jeffries tries and convicts 1400 rebels at the ‘Bloody Assizes’ – 300 hanged or hung drawn and quartered, and 600 transported to the colonies

1688 ‘The Glorious Revolution’: William of Orange lands in England;

James II flees the country

1689 Mary II (the Protestant daughter of the Catholic James II) and her

Husband William III of Orange crowned as joint sovereigns.

Scottish uprising in favour of James II collapses after their defeat by the English at the Battle of Kilikranckie

1690 James II defeated in Ireland at the Battle of the Boyne

1694 Queen Mary II dies; William III rules alone

Bank of England founded

1698 Thomas ISTED is proposed by Samuel PEPYS, the diarist, as Fellow of the Royal Society

1701 Act of succession provides for Protestant Hanoverian succession in England