Census of Anglican communicants, non-communicants and Roman Catholics (2529)
Type of Data: Census of Anglican communicants, non-communicants and Roman Catholics (2529)
Faith Community: Christianity (Church of England, Dissent, Roman Catholic Church)
Date: 1603
Geography: England and Wales
Sample Size: 2300000
Population: Adults
Keywords: Communicants, Dissenters, Holy Communion, non-communicants, papists, recusants, Roman Catholics
Collection Method: Returns by Anglican incumbents
Collection Agency: Bishops of the Church of England and their clergy
Sponsor: King James VI and the Privy Council
Published Source:
The Diocesan Population Returns for 1563 and 1603, eds. Alan Dyer and David Michael Palliser, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. liv-lxxxv, 297-523
BRIN ID: 2529
Remarks:
See also the discussion, including of the methodological shortcomings of this source, 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
Posted by: Clive D. Field
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