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[David Price]

The Church and the Census, by James Skinner                              64877
   [Subtitle: A Tract for the Times]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/4/8/7/64877 ]
   [Files: 64877-0.txt; 64877-h.htm]


For those wishing to know: when the 1861 census was coming up in England, 
there was debate about whether a question asking about a person's religion 
should be included.  Rev. Skinner who was very pro-Church of England, and 
very anti everyone else, wanted none of it, because it would show the 
Church of England was losing support and wrote this tract.  He condemned 
the Government for including it.  The dissenters got the clause removed, 
and Rev. James added an appendix conemning the Government for listening to 
dissenters(!)

All the best,
David
Overcast England