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The Uncounted: Who Is Here Without a Name
Every return the realm takes of this town is wrong and the overseers are the first to say so. The rate books count houses. The settlement examinations count people who have applied for something. The parish registers count births, marriages and burials among those who used a parish. Between them they miss a population that at Dover is larger than in any comparable town in the realm, for reasons that are structural rather than administrative. The simplest way to see it is to stand at the head of the eastern quay on a cold morning and count the men waiting. About a third of them are in no book at all.
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