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Prior to the first national census of 1801 our sources for the study of population consist largely of surrogates whose purpose was originally other than the enumeration of the people. A variety of these sources survive such as the various muster rolls, church visitation records and a range of taxes. More localised demographic information can be gleaned from the parish registers as many small scale studies, and now the country-wide work of the Cambridge Group for the study of Population, have shown.