Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Timeline: 1661 - 1767
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1662Act of Uniformity
Reinstates the Book of Common Prayer.
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1665Five Mile Act
Barred dissenting ministers coming within five miles of any parish where they had been minister or preached since 1660.
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1672Licence taken out to establish a Presbyterian meeting at Mill Hill
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1673The Test Act
Anyone who does not take communion under the Church of England rite is denied civil rights.
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1675The Mill Hill license was officially revoked but services continued in secret
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1682Services suspended for five years
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1687James issues a new declaration of indulgence
Services resume at Mill Hill.
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1689Williams III’s Toleration Act
This legitimises dissenting worship.
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1693Timothy Manlove succeeds Thomas Sharp as minister at Mill Hill after Sharp's death
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1705William Pendlebury becomes Minister of Mill Hill
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1748Thomas Walker becomes Minister of Mill Hill
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1661Corporation Act
Enforces oaths of allegiance, recognition of the religious supremacy to the King and non-resistance to the King.
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1664Conventicle Act
Prevented gatherings for religious worship outside the Church of England.
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1672Royal declaration and indulgence (abolished 1673)
Suspends penal laws against Catholics and Protestant Dissenters to go to war with Holland.
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1672Richard Stretton appointed minister of Mill Hill
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1674Completion of the first Mill Hill chapel and first record of services
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1677Thomas Sharp is appointed minister after the death of Richard Stretton
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1685Death of Charles II
Accession of his Catholic brother James II and VII.
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1688The ‘Glorious Revolution’
Catholic King James deposed in favour of the Protestant William of Orange and James’s daughter Mary.
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1690Battle of The Boyne
Confirms James II’s defeat.
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1699Peter Peters becomes Minister of Mill Hill
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1730Joseph Cappe becomes Minister of Mill Hill
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1763Nathaniel White becomes Minister of Mill Hill
