I agree with Phoenix. My non cons were often just independent enough not to have to kowtow to an employer and this independence was because they were free men. They were mostly weavers who had small parcels of land for subsistence farming. They also were remarkably well educated, mostly self education, and must have been a thorn in the side of the established church.
I have one or two adult c of e baptisms, mostly young females and I suspect these were servants being baptised at the behest of their new employer.
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