Number of Independent, Baptist and Presbyterian meetings, ministers and hearers (including their ‘quality and substance’ and voters) (2532)

Type of Data: Number of Independent, Baptist and Presbyterian meetings, ministers and hearers (including their ‘quality and substance’ and voters) (2532)

Faith Community: Christianity (Dissent, Protestant Nonconformity)

Date: 1715-1729 (but mainly 1716-1718)

Geography: England and Wales

Population: Hearers attached to Independent, Baptist and Presbyterian meetings

Keywords: Baptists, church attendance, churchgoing, Dissenters, hearers, Independents, Nonconformists, Presbyterians, social status, voting

Collection Method: Network of Presbyterian and Independent correspondents

Collection Agency: John Evans

Sponsor: Committee of the Three Denominations

Published Source:

Dr Williams's Library MS 38.4

Thomas Rees, History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales, from its Rise in 1633 to the Present Time, second edition, London: John Snow, 1883, pp. 259-65

[William Thomas Whitley], 'The Baptist Interest Under George I', Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society, Vol. 2, 1910-11, pp. 95-109

Evelyn Douglas Bebb, Nonconformity and Social and Economic Life, 1660-1800: Some Problems of the Present as They Appeared in the Past, London: Epworth Press, 1935, pp. 36-9, 50-2, 175-7, 179-83

Roger Thomas, 'The Evans List: The Hidden Neal List', Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, Vol. 19, 1961, pp. 72-4

Neil Caplan, 'The Evans List: Queries on Sussex', Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, Vol. 19, 1961, pp. 75-9

John Creasey, Index to the John Evans List of Dissenting Congregations and Ministers, 1715-1729 in Dr Williams's Library, Dr Williams's Library Occasional Paper No. 11, London: Dr Williams's Trust, 1964

Neil Caplan, 'Religious Dissent in Sussex in 1717', Sussex Archaeological Society Newsletter, No. 21, April 1977, pp. 116-17

Michael Robert Watts, The Dissenters: From the Reformation to the French Revolution, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, pp. 267-89, 491-510

Alan Rogers and Michael Robert Watts, 'The Evans List and Dissenting Congregations in the East Midlands, 1715-29', Bulletin of Local History, East Midlands Region, Vol. 13, 1978, pp. 14-27

James Edwin Bradley, 'Whigs and Nonconformists: Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists in English Politics, 1715-1790', University of Southern California Ph.D. thesis, 2 vol., 1978, pp. 588-602

Islwyn Williams, 'Spatial Distribution of Religious Bodies in Wales', University of Wales (Aberystwyth) Ph.D. thesis, 1982, Vol. 2, pp. 987-94

'The John Evans List of Dissenting Congregations and Ministers in Bristol, 1715-1729', ed. Kenneth Morgan, Reformation and Revival in Eighteenth-Century Bristol, eds. Jonathan Barry and Kenneth Morgan, Bristol Record Society Publications, Vol. 45, Stroud: printed for the Society by Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994, pp. 63-73

Chichester Diocesan Surveys, 1686 and 1724, ed. Wyn K. Ford, Sussex Record Society, Vol. 78, Lewes: the Society, 1994, pp. 250-2

BRIN ID: 2532

Remarks:

Information on the Quakers is also recorded for five counties. For comments on the accuracy of this source, see Clive Douglas Field, ‘Non-Recurrent Christian Data’, Religion, Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol. 20, ed. Wynne Frederick Maunder, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987, p. 250

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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