Download or read book The Compton Census of 1676 written by Anne Whiteman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition makes available for the first time a complete text and criticism of the so-called Compton Census, a count of conformists, papists and nonconformists for many of the parishes of England and Wales, which has long been of interest to demographers and ecclesiastical historians.