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Returns of conventicles, the numbers and socio-economic status of Nonconformists, and the names of their teachers and principal supporters (2552)


Type of Data: Returns of conventicles, the numbers and socio-economic status of Nonconformists, and the names of their teachers and principal supporters (2552)

Faith Community: Christianity (Protestant Nonconformity)

Date: 1669, June

Geography: England and Wales

Population: Perceived Nonconformists

Keywords: Conventicles, Dissent, Nonconformity, places of worship

Collection Method: Returns by Anglican incumbents

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

Sponsor: Archbishop of Canterbury

Published Source:

  • Original Records of Early Nonconformity Under Persecution and Indulgence, ed. George Lyon Turner, 3 vol., London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911-14, Vol. 1, pp. 3-20, 27-126, 136-76, Vol. 3, pp. 69-139, 823-8
  • R. H. Evans, 'Nonconformists in Leicestershire in 1669', Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 25, 1949, pp. 98-143
  • David L. Wykes, 'The Church and Early Dissent: The 1669 Return of Nonconformist Conventiclers for the Archdeaconry of Northampton', Northamptonshire Past and Present, Vol. 8, 1991-92, pp. 197-209
  • Buckinghamshire Dissent and Parish Life, 1669-1712, ed. John Broad, Buckinghamshire Record Society, Vol. 28, [Buckingham]: the Society, 1993, pp. xii-xxi, 1-72, 261-5
  • David L. Wykes, 'The 1669 Return of Nonconformist Conventicles', Short Guides to Records, Second Series, Guides 25-48, ed. Kathryn M. Thompson, London: Historical Association, 1997, pp. 50-4

    BRIN ID: 2552

    Remarks:

    No information has survived for eight counties. A return of Nonconformist teachers, physicians and schoolmasters was also called for in 1665, but very little information is extant; Original Records of Early Nonconformity, ed. Turner, Vol. 1, pp. 178-91, Vol. 3, pp. 59-69

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