[1] The census provides returns of the inhabitants of most of the country, arranged in counties, baronies, parishes and townlands.
This census gives no Scotch settlers in the provinces of Munster and Connacht, where the Irish outnumber the English by a ten to one ratio.
[5] The original papers were discovered amongst the Lansdowne manuscripts in Bowood House, Wiltshire[6] by W. H. Hardinge.
[7] The census also allowed a population estimate for this period; Hardinge gave a figure of around 500,000 at the time.
More recent opinion, however, considers it to essentially be a poll tax, levied on every head of household counted.