Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^ build-ings, such as houses, barns, rooms,registered to be used Avhile morepermanent meeting-houses Avere being erected. In 1715 DanielNeal obtained a return of the number of free churches inEngland and Wales, Avhich he gives as 1,150; but as this merelyincludes Independents and Baptists, and takes no note orQuakers, Avho had eighty permanent communities in Yorkshirealone, or of Presbyterians, Avho had from
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^ build-ings, such as houses, barns, rooms,registered to be used Avhile morepermanent meeting-houses Avere being erected. In 1715 DanielNeal obtained a return of the number of free churches inEngland and Wales, Avhich he gives as 1,150; but as this merelyincludes Independents and Baptists, and takes no note orQuakers, Avho had eighty permanent communities in Yorkshirealone, or of Presbyterians, Avho had from thirty to forty congre-gations in Lancashire and Avere nimierous in some other counties,the list is evidently defective. We shall probably not bo farfrom correct if Ave state that in the quarter of a century which. A NOXCONFOBMIST MINISTER, 1711(Tem^iest, Cryes of London.) N0XG0NF0B2IITY, lOSO-lSlS. .09 had elapsed between the accession of WilUani III. and the deathof Queen Anne some fifteen hundred places of worship had beenopened and kept open. Some of these had not been long built before they weredemolished. The Dissenters, whose interests were bound upwith the Hanoverian succession, Avere unanimously on the sideof the King against the Pretender; consequently, when in 1715
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