Appendix 2 - Congregations in 1772

Summary

In 1772 Josiah Thompson also collected information about the number of dissenting congregations in England and Wales, as part of the political campaign to exempt nonconformists from the subscription required by the Toleration Act. He had access to a copy of the Evans List (App. 1), but made his own enquiries. Unfortunately he did not obtain information about the numbers of hearers and voters in each congregation.

This information is taken from the copy of the List in Dr Williams's Library (MS. 38.5). There are other copies extant. The following abbreviations are used by Thompson: B - Baptist, C - number of congregations, M - number of ministers.