With regard to the tables more immediately under notice, namely those which profess to show the comparative progress of Church and Dissent during the last half-century, the mode of proceeding was as follows:—The buildings were first of all arranged under six heads—those erected or appropriated to religious purposes prior to 1801, and those erected or so appropriated during five subsequent periods. Thus:— Built before Churches. Meeting Houses. Total. 1801 9,667 3,427 13,094 1811 55 1,169 1,224 1821 97 1,905 2,002 1831 276 2,865 3,141 1841 667 4,199 4,866 1851 1,197 4,397 5,594 Dates not assigned 2,118 2,428 4,546 Mr. Mann’s next step was to distribute the last line amongst the six previous ones, “according to the proportion which the number actually assigned to each of the intervals bears towards the total having dates assigned at all.” Multiplying the results so arrived at by the present average number of sittings in churches (377), and by that in Dissenting meeting houses (240), Mr. Mann obtained two tables (5 and 13) of which the following is a summary:— Churches. Sittings. Meeting Houses. Sittings. Total Total Buildings. Sittings. 1801 11,379 4,289,883 3,701 881,240 15,080 5,171,123 1811 11,444 4,314,388 5,046 1,209,960 16,490 5,524,348 1821 11,558 4,357,366 7,238 1,737,120 18,796 6,094,486 1831 11,883 4,481,891 10,530 2,525,200 22,413 7,207,091 1841 12,668 4,775,836 15,319 3,778,800 28,017 8,554,636 1851 14,077 5,317,915 20,390 4,894,648 34,467 10,212,563 {11}