a ENGLAND. 
e Statisties, 
Number Number of Nam ber of Per- Number of SS 
Dioceses. of Population, | Churches | sony will ~ 
Parishes. |) and Places of 
P Chapels. Worship. | 
Brought forward 888 | 2,111,780 | 1175 834,984 || 1877"| "" 
BAR RE 11 | 28,200 21 12,350 | * °42° ‘a 
Lichfield and Coventry, | 429 |" 480,291 |" 199 |" 199,750 on vie 2 
Lincoln... 2. 129 215,033 165 104,644 eng” | ne ; 
London ......... 132 | 661,39+ | 186 162,962 | °265 Jo" °F 4 
Norwich . 70 135,900 78 64,668 [°° 114° Hh) 4 
AAS. wack) 30 36,251 50 35,520 ‘| °38° mms, 
Peterborough. ..... 17 $4,825 20 19,450 |°* 87 : 
Rochester. ....... 24 105,142 86 25,280 44° , 
Salisbury -. 0. 2. 83 142,609 134 72,243 |° 142° us 
Winchester. 2... . 120 $71,206 193 115,711 1° °165~} 
Worcester; ....... 40 75,239 66 36,263 ‘59° 
Sega Re i! 108 591,972 220 149,277' | °892° 
OIA At Ree: 1,881 | 4,937,782 | 2,533 | 1,856,108 |°3,438 - ; 
A i to the last diocesan return, the total num- ties in which they are most numerous after these, are 
ber of in England and Wales (including 133 Durham, Cheshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, et sod Wate 
The total number. in all these counties is 
be 200,000; in London, Surry, 
supposed there are 50,000; 
» and 
in Bristol, via on eae 
thampton, Exeter, ‘oan fea 
dignities), was 10,582; the number of non-resident 
was 5037, of which, however, 986 
did duty ; and the number of residents 5397 ; the num- 
ber of curates en livings where the incumbents were mouth, Plymouth, Sow 
not resident, was 3926. The following Table exhibits and in a few other places, 50,000 more ; 
the respective number of curates who had salaries from 300,000. There are 900. Roman ‘Catholie chapeles of 
£10 per annum to above 270. _ which 100 are in Pence etd ce seal £ 
a9 from £10 to £20- 5. of « . £140 sare apo. Care we re ead aig lod soak 70 about 70 Meodne 
217 a ee eS nh 
os as ite 160 lowers of Whitfield, who are Calvinists ; these are 
org are tes. Cbs.) Gath ee top not numerous, bomhanthes. 3 increasing : and the follow. 
“ Se Hepes . . 190 crontab whose creed is Arminia, These have 
. . 2 ss in number 
347 ~-. = : ts x ores an in England and Wales s being ame Fay 1 a 
= 7 Ms a Fay a The soerety 108 Sonera Friends as th style Quakers 
ec o + Si D . 270 themselves, in England ; but_ 
9a5" AIO! “32° cae | 0 not numerous, oars B probably not increasing, not 
. Se sayeth or pl being anxious to make converts. The greatest number 
oF ogy SS of them is in London, and in the northern 
perucolarm Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Westmore« _ 
d. The followers of Sweden are far from nu~ 
merous. The modern Unitarians, 
ley may be considered the founder a oe 
numerous, being rincipall ound in N and 
West of England, Fad in the metropolis, 
The civil and religious freedom -which Englishmen 
enjoy, and Pil wor are Arye. I ily dis- the civil and 
all the pe ought religious ii- 
not, esadeing to be emobery de Fo, constitu. berty of 
tion and laws under. which they'live. » The same con- ~ 
stitution and laws would fail. to Berger wary 
The convocation, the highest of the ecclesiastical 
courts, has already been mentioned: the next in dig- 
nity is the court ot deh legates, then the court of arches: 
there are also courts of F widieace: of prerogative,"and 
of iars. 
he special tenets of the church of England are given 
in the 39 articles ; but some sre aot learned and 
conscientious of her divines have doubted whether they 
are Calvinistic or Lutheran. 
The law considers all as dissenters, who do 
not conform to the churc! vaisp, Bpglene a ga establish- 
ed mode of religious wo to the statutes. 
1 Elizabeth, poe oh and 13 Charles it. chap. 4. eal- 
led the Acts of niformity. Latterly, however, and 
especially ly during the present reign, eration has been 
tly extend 
find. The principal classes of dissenters are the Pres- 
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Swedenborgians, and Unitarians. Presbyterians 
“—_ ts are scattered: over all England and 
2 Papists, ¢ Roman Coben ee Seer 
mt confined to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Stafford- 
arwickshixe, and Northumberland... The coun- 
security 
wold Paeiblgent, er Een attem) 
Seen eae 4 
they as rulers, as well as the people. over 
rule, are much more secure and , whi 
religious liberty is entire, en ot ait to be broken. 
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