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Census of Anglican conformists, Dissenters and Roman Catholics (2530)


Type of Data: Census of Anglican conformists, Dissenters and Roman Catholics (2530)

Faith Community: Christianity (Church of England, Dissent, Protestant Nonconformity, Roman Catholic Church)

Date: 1676

Geography: England and Wales

Sample Size: 2600000

Population: Adults

Keywords: Communicants, conformists, Dissenters, Holy Communion, Nonconformists, papists, recusants, Roman Catholics

Collection Method: Returns by Anglican incumbents

Collection Agency: Bishops of the Church of England and their clergy

Sponsor: Lord Treasurer, Thomas Osborne Danby

Published Source:

  • Anne Whiteman, 'The Census That Never Was: A Problem in Authorship and Dating', Statesmen, Scholars and Merchants: Essays in Eighteenth-Century History Presented to Dame Lucy Sutherland, eds. Anne Whiteman, John Selwyn Bromley and Peter George Muir Dickson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973, pp. 1-16
  • The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition, ed. Anne Whiteman with the assistance of Mary Clapinson, London: Oxford University Press, 1986
  • Anne Whiteman, 'The Compton Census of 1676', Surveying the People: The Interpretation and Use of Document Sources for the Study of Population in the Later Seventeenth Century, eds. Kevin Schurer and Tom Arkell, Oxford: Leopard's Head Press, 1992, pp. 78-96
  • Tom Arkell, 'A Method for Estimating Population Totals from the Compton Census Returns', Surveying the People: The Interpretation and Use of Document Sources for the Study of Population in the Later Seventeenth Century, eds. Kevin Schurer and Tom Arkell, Oxford: Leopard's Head Press, 1992, pp. 97-116
  • Peter Jackson, 'Nonconformity and the Compton Census in Late Seventeenth-Century Devon', Surveying the People: The Interpretation and Use of Document Sources for the Study of Population in the Later Seventeenth Century, eds. Kevin Schurer and Tom Arkell, Oxford: Leopard's Head Press, 1992, pp. 117-29
  • Anne Whiteman and Mary Clapinson, 'The Use of the Compton Census for Demographic Purposes', Local Population Studies, No. 50, Spring 1993, pp. 61-6
  • The Compton Census of 1676: The Lancashire Returns, ed. Margaret Pannikkar, Wigan: North West Catholic History Society, 1995
  • Alasdair Crockett and Keith D. M. Snell, 'From the 1676 Compton Census to the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: Religious Continuity or Discontinuity?', Rural History, Vol. 8, 1997, pp. 55-89
  • Elizabeth Parkinson, 'Interpreting the Compton Census Returns of 1676 for the Diocese of Llandaff', Local Population Studies, No. 60, Spring 1998, pp. 48-57
  • Marie Bernadette Rowlands, 'The Catholics of 1676 as Recorded in the Compton Census', English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778, ed. Marie Bernadette Rowlands, Catholic Record Society Publications, Monograph Series Vol. 5, London: the Society, 1999, pp. 78-114
  • Keith D. M. Snell and Paul Spencer Ell, Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 232-73

    BRIN ID: 2530

    Remarks:

    The methodological and interpretative challenges in using this source are highlighted in the introduction and notes to The Compton Census of 1676, ed. Whiteman; the bibliography in this work is an indispensable guide to the considerable earlier published literature on the census, which has accordingly not been referenced here. See also the discussion in Clive Douglas Field, ‘Non-Recurrent Christian Data’, Religion, Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol. 20, ed. Wynne Frederick Maunder, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987, pp. 192, 229-31

    Posted by: Clive D. Field

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