1600s: Baptists The Baptist religion was founded by John Smyth.
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1601
1601: Provision of the Poor Laws A system of Settlement was laid down by law, and from 1697 parochial churchwardens were empowered to issue a parishioner with a settlement certificate acknowledging his right to their aid. Armed with this, a poor man could travel and take up residence elsewhere, and the wardens of his new parish would accept him because they had documentary evidence on which to return him, if necessary, to the parish that acknowledged responsibility for him.
1600 - 1602 (~ 2 years)