An analysis and compendium of all the returns made to Parliament, since the commencement of the 19th century, relating to the increase of population, and the amount and appropriation of the parochial assessments, tithes, &c.

  • Marshall, John, 1783-1841.
Date:
[1835]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An analysis and compendium of all the returns made to Parliament, since the commencement of the 19th century, relating to the increase of population, and the amount and appropriation of the parochial assessments, tithes, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1 AN •Analysis and Compendium of all the lletiirns made to Parliament^ SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE l»th CENTI UV, RELATINX; TO THE INCREASE OP POPULATION, AND TMC Amount aucl Appropriation of the Parochial Assessmeiils* Tithes, Sic., Arrayiged as folloics, viz,: I, A District arrangement of 6000 of the principal Towns and Parishes of England and Wat.es; classed in reference to the preponderance of their productions, a:id rh»* occupation of their Inhabitants, numbered in consecutive order ; showing the locality and relation of each place, the number of Inhabited Houses in each in 18()I, and ^ • number of Families in 1821, distinguishing the proportion returned as being employed in AGRICULTURE, distinct from lliose returned as being chielly eiufdoyed in 1 ItA m-., manufactures, or HANDICRAFT ; and all others not included under either of the two preceding heads ; the Annual Value of Real Property as assessed In the I RO- PERTY-TAX, in 1815 ; the amount annually expended for the IMAINTENANCE of the POOR, on an average of three Years, at each of two periods, ending the 25lli of lUarch, 1815 and the 25th of March, 1824 ; the number of Persons relieved out of the PAROCHIAL RATES, distinguishing tlie proportion in WORKIIOUSL, and of those out house - the proportion relieved occasionally, from those relieved permanently; the number of Persons in FRIENDLY S0(HEI1ES, ami the amount of CHARI I A llLl, BEQUESTS at the disposal of the Parochial Officers, in each of the 6000 Parishes and towns enumerated. This arrangement was adopted, to enable the conclusions to be arrived at, of the proportion of the Population engaged in, or dependant upon, each great branch of PRODUCTION or OCCUPATION, for sutisistenco, as exhibited in the annexed Sum- marr on the fallowing page, the places not enumerated in this arrangement being Small Parlslies, Towni»lilpe, Hamlets, or Titliings exclusively Agricultural, aw exliil>ited In line 25 oi that page. II. A Statistical Display, in which the AREA, or SUPERFICIES in Statute Acres, as deduced from the Trigonometrical Surveys made by order of the Board of Onlnaiicr, is exhibited in juxta-position with tlie Annual Value of Real Property as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815 ; the amount expended for the maintenance of the Poor, in the \ t ar ending tlie 25th of March, 1829; and the total number of Persons, as returned to Parliament, at each of the four periods of 1801, 1811, 1821, and 18.>1, in County, Hundred, Division, City, Town, Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, Tithing, Libertv, and Extra Parochial Place in ENGLAND, and separately (without the AreiO in W ALES, emh respectively arranged Alphabetically. In this arrangement, all the new Sub or Electoral, and Sessional Divisions of the Counties under the act of 2nd of \\ m. l\ . cap. 45. [I8.il j are exhibited, and the tJatocbtal ^bapelviT^, aub oturactes, are distinguished by tlieir respective initials. The CITIES are printed in ©lit l^omiin, the Market Towns (those being distinguished that make weekly returns of the average price of Corn) are printed in Smalt. Capitals ; Sea Ports having Custom Houses; the Towns and Places with resident Deputy Postmasters ; those at which hairs are hehl, and those at which Sittings are held for collecting of Excise Duties ; the recently disfranchised, as well as the newly enfranchised, and Old Boroughs; Polling Places for Couuty Members, &c., &c.,are all distinguished by characteristic notations. (Vide pages 91 and 197.) III. A Synoptical view of SCOTLAND, in which the number of HOUSES, FAMILIES, and PERSONS, and the proportion of the Population engaged in Agriculture, and in Trade, Manufactures, &c., in every County, District, and Parish, are perspicuously displayed in a Geographical arrangement, in which the 970 Parishes, Ac., are iiumhered in consecutive order, from 1 to 970, accompanied by an Alphabetical display in which every County, District, and Parish is referred by its number to its place in the Geographical or District arrangement, and in which the Annual Value of Real Property, the Population in 1755, and 1793-8, and as returned to Parliament at each of the Ten \ early Periods or 1801,1811, 1821, and 1831, in every County, District, and Parish, are exhibited. The Cities and Royal Burghs, are all distinguished by being printed m 019 txomamthe 14 Electoral Districts are interestingly exhibited, and the Sea Ports, Post and Fair Towns, &c., distinguished as in England and Wales by characteristic notations. See page 231. i. ACCOMPANIED BY ^ ©lasstficSj statistical 3Bisplap, SHOWING THE PROPORTION OF THE MALE POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN EMPLOYED OR ENGAGED IN EACH OF 600 VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF PRODUCTION OR SERVICE, IN EACH COUNTY OF GREAT.BRITAIN, IN 1831 ; AND A VARIETY OF OTHER ACCOUNTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE NATURAL INFLUENCE OF EACH COUNTY, AS INDICATED BY THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN EACH YEAR, THROUGH A PERIOD OF MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY, AND THE RESOURCES AND CONDITION OF EACH, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS Production, Rental, Taxation, Pauperism, and Crime. 15,609 places in ENGL.4ND and WALES, made separate returns of Population in 1831, but as in the Alphabetical arrangements herewith, all the places with compound or subjoined names, as well as Joint Townships, being specified under both names ; and all the Hundreds or other subdivisions of Counties being also included, it extends the num- ber to upwards of 20,000, exclusive of Scotland ; each place enumerated in the district arrangement, being referred to bv its number, and the small Agricultural Parishes, Sic., not included, being referred to their nearest place in the district arrangement, it enables the LOCALITY, RELATION, RESOURCE, CIRCUiMSTANCE, AND CONDITION OF EVERY PARISH, TOWN, &C., ^ As tvell in regard to the Amount and Inequality of the ©ccUstasttcal or ©ttitrs) AS OF PAROCHIAL OR LOCAL ASSESSMENTS IN GENERAL to be determined with a facility and precision, and an approximation to accuracy, never before arrived at, and which renders them the most interesting and important development of the resource and relation of this or any other community, ever yet portrayed. To Professional 9Ien, whose attention is frequently directed to the \ alue of Property in different parts of the Kingdom, and to the Man of business desirous of extending his operations, they will serve as a constant and unerring guide ; while the results deduced from the facts in detail, contained in a series of Summaries or Abstracts, commencing at page 239, disclose the most egregious fallacies that prevail in regard to the assumed and generallv supposed preponderance of the Manufacturing Population, and the assumed importance of the Manufacturino- over the Agricultural Interest; and the equally fatal and hollow delusions that so ^tensively prevail respecting the effect of the Corn L.iws, Free Trade, the CuRRENCv, National Debt, 6cc., all these great and important'subjects, as far as they depend on Number, Quantity, Amount, and Proportion (and they depend exclusively thereon for a right understanding respecting them, and the means of giving them a right direction), being placed in such simple, clear, and perspicuous points of view, as to enable all who are desirous of arriving just conclusions, so to do ; and to^leave the Statesman and Legiskitor without an excuse for any longer subjecting this unparalleled combination of interests to the speculative expedienev. to which thev have so long and so latally been expo-ied.