| Date |
Event Related to Towcester |
| 1702 June |
4d paid for watching a drunken woman in the stocks (The Towcester Constables accounts) |
| 1707/8 |
Fire causes £1057 of damage ( Church briefs & Royal Warrants for charitable objects, W A Brewes 1896) |
| 1708 |
The "Act for repairing highways from Old Stratford to Dunchurch in Warwickshire" improved Watling Street. |
| c.1720 |
Towcester had approximately 350 inhabitants. (Baker p.324) |
| 1722 |
Particular or Calvanistic Baptists established in the town. Joined with Independents and obtained a licence to hold meetings two Sunday mornings in succession and then went to Paulerspury for the third. (Baker p.323) |
| 1727 |
Churchwardens accounts: 6d given to a woman and 6 children to leave the town. |
| 1734 |
Charles Palmer, Vicar of Towcester, died on 7th December 1734. (NRO) |
| 1736 |
Abthorpe with Foscote & Challock were made into a separate parish. Previously Towcester Parish Church had been the mother church where parishioners were buried. |
| 1749 March 25th |
Fire at the George Inn - boy with candle accidentally ignited straw and kicked the burning straw into a stable which within a few hours had spread to 36 houses. (Baker p.324) |
| 1752 |
Small meeting house 22 foot square built for Independents and Baptists. (Baker p.333) |
| 1756-7 |
Turnpike Act for route from Towcester to Weston on the Green via Brackley. |
| 1762 |
Open fields of Towcester, Wood Burcote and Caldecote enclosed. (Baker p.312) |
| 1770 |
Decline of the Worsted industry. |
| 1777 |
Militia list of trades in the town included framework knitters and brick makers. |
| 1780 |
Sale of Gilbert Flesher's premises used as a woolstapler's business (NM 24/1/1780) |
| 1781 |
Jenkinson's bank started on a site which is still a bank, the HSBC. Jenkinson was a silk merchant, linen draper and woolstapler. |
| 1782 |
Baptists wanted a settled pastor in the town but the Independent preacher was unwilling to give up his 3rd Sunday slot. The two groups split. (Baker p.333) |
| 1783 |
John Jenkinson had a stone and tiled warehouse in the Buck & Bell yard.(Guildhall Library Ms 7523/9) |
| 1784 |
6th September - Bill for painting and gilding St. Lawrence's Church weather cock was £1 13s 0p (Hicks charity). |
| 1785 |
Independents erected a meeting house which was 33'2' long by 24'4" wide situated in a yard at the east end of the principal Street (Sun Yard?). It was galleried on 3 sides. (Baker p.323) |
| 1793 |
War with France and end of the Worsted trade. |
| 1794-5 |
Turnpike Act for the route from Towcester to Cotton End. |
| 1795 |
Gallery added to church. (Baker p.329) |
| 1798 |
The people of Towcester are employed in the manufacture of lace and silk. Here are annual horse races,. Easton Neston has very bad roads about it, particularly a considerable one from Northampton, through Towcester and Oxford to Bath.(Universal British Directory) |
