Natural and Political 
OBSERVATIONS 
Mentioned in a following INDEX, 
and made upon the 
Bills of Mortality. 
B Y 
Gape. JOHN GRAV NT] 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
With reference to the Government, Reli- 
gion, Trade, and the 
feveral Changes of the faid CJ1TY. 
— ‘Non,me ut miretur T&rfaUbmi, 
Contents panel* Left ff, ' v< 
The Fifth Edition, much Enlarged. 
LONDON; 
Printed by John Martyn , Printer to the 
Royal Society, at the Sign of the Bell in St. PauP& 
Church-yard. MDCLXXVIS TO THE 
RIGHT HONOU RABLE 
JOHN Lord ROBERTS, 
Baron of Truro, Lord Prixy Seal, 
and one of His Majefties tnoft Honourable 
Privy Council, 
My Lord, 
BS the favours I have 
received from your 
Lord Hup oblige me 
to prefent you with 
fome token of my gratitude : 
fc the e/pecial Honour I have 7be Epifile 
for your Lordfhip hath made 
me folicitom in the choice of 
the Prefent. For, if I could 
have given' your Lordfhip 
any choice Excerptions out 
of the or Latin Learn- 
ing, I fhould ( according to 
our Englijh Proverb) there- 
by but carry Coals to Nem- 
cajlle , and but give your 
Lordfhip Puddle-mater, who, 
by your own eminent Knom- 
ledge in thole learned Lan- 
guages , can drink out of 
the very Fountains your 
feif. 
Moreover, to prelent your 
Lordlhip with tedious Nar- Dedicatory. 
rations , were but to (peak 
my own Ignorance of the 
Value , which His Majefly, 
and the PubJick , have of 
your Lordfhip’s Time. And 
in brief, to offer any thing 
like what is already in other 
Books, were but to derogate 
from your Lordfhips learn- 
ing,;: which the world knows 
to be univerfal , and unac- 
quainted with few ufeful 
things contained in any of 
them. 
Now having ( 1 know not 
by what accident) engaged my 
thoughts upon the Bills of 
Mortality, and fbfar fucceed- The Epiflle 
ed therein, as to have redu- 
ced teveral great confuted Vo- 
lumes into a few perlpicuous 
Tables , and abridged fuch 
Observations as naturally flow- 
ed from them , into a few 
teiccin£t Paragraphs , without 
any long Series of multilo- 
quious Deductions , I have 
prelumed to lacriflce thete 
my fmall, but firft publifh’d, 
Labours unto your Lordlhip, 
as unto whole benign accep- 
tance of' Ibme other of my 
Papers , even the birth of 
thete is due ; hoping ( if I 
may without vanity lay it) 
they may be of as much ule to perfons in your Lord- 
ftips place , as they are of 
little or none to me , which 
is no more than the faireft 
Diamond? are to the Journey- 
men Jeweller that works 
them, or the poor Labourer 
that firft digg’d them from 
the Earth. For, with all 
humble fubmiflion to your 
Lordfhip, I conceive , That 
it doth not ill become a 
Peer of the Parliament , or 
Member of his Majefies 
Council, to confider how few 
ftarve of the many that beg : 
That the irreligious Profofals 
of fome , to multiply people 
Dedicatory. The Epiftle 
by Polygamy , is withal irra- 
tional, and fruitlels : That 
the troublefome feclufions in 
the Plague-time are not a re- 
medy to be purchaled at 
vaft inconveniencies : That 
the greateft Plagues of the 
City are and quick- 
ly repaired from the Coun- 
try : That the wafting of 
Males by Wars and Colo- 
nies do not prejudice the due 
proportion between them and 
Females: That the opinions 
of Plagues accompanying the 
Entrance of Kings , is falle, 
and ieditious: That London, 
the Metropolis of England, Dedicatory. 
is perhaps a Head too big 
for the Body , and poflibly 
too ftrong: That this Head 
grows three times as faft as 
the Body unto which it 
belongs; that is, It doubles 
its People in a third part of 
the time ; That our Parijhet 
are now grown madly difi 
proportionable : That our 
Templer are not finable to 
our Religion : That the Trade, 
and very City of London, re- 
moves Weftimrd : That the 
walled City is but a fifth 
of the whole Pyle : That 
the old Streets are unfit for 
the prelent frequency ofiCoaches: The Epidle 
That the paffage of Ludgate 
is a throat too ftreight for 
the Body : That the fight- 
ing men about London are 
able to make three as great 
Armies as can be of u(e in 
this Jjland : That the num- 
ber of Heads is fuch, as hath 
certainly much deceived fome 
of our Senators in their ap- 
pointments of Foil money, &c. 
Now , although your Lord- 
flnp’s mod excellent Dilcourf 
es have well informed me, 
That your Lordfhip is no 
illranger to tnele Portions ; yet 
becaufe I knew not, that your 
Lordfhip had ever deduced Dedicatory, 
them from the Bills of Mor- 
tality , I hoped it might not 
be ungrateful to your Lord- 
fhip, to fee unto how much 
profit that one Talent might 
be improved, befides the ma- 
ny curiofities concerning the 
Waxing and waning of Di- 
leafes , the relation between 
healthful and ft uitful Seafonri 
the difference between the 
City and the Country Air} 
&c. All which being new, 
to the beft of my know- 
ledge , and the whole Pam- 
phlet not two hours reading, 
X did make bold to trouble 
your Lordfhip with a per- The Epijlle, &c. 
ufal of it, and by thi£ hum- 
ble Dedication of it, let your 
Lordfhip and the world lee 
the Wildom of our City , 
in appointing and keeping 
thefe Accompts , and with 
how much affe&ion and fuc- 
cds, 1 am, 
My Lord, 
Birchen-lane, 
2 5 January, 
iW* 
Tour Lordfhip mojl obedient, 
and moft faithful Servant, 
John Graunt. To the Honourable 
Sr Robert Moray,K night, 
One of His Majeftie’s Privy 
Council for His Kingdom of 
Scotland\ and Prejident of the 
Royal Society of Philofo- 
pbers meeting at Grejham-Col- 
ledgy and to the reft of that 
honourable Society. 
H E Obfervations which / 
2jra! ||1| happened to make (forlde- 
wM Mw figned them not ) upon the 
g-j|s Qf MQrcaIicy, have 
fain out to be both Political and Natu- 
ral, fome concerning Trade and Go- 
vernment, others concerning the Air, The Epiftle 
Countries , Seafons , Fruitfulnefs, 
Health, Difeafes, Longevity, and the 
proportions between the Sex and Ages of 
Mankind. All which (becaufe Sir Fran- 
cis Bacon reckons bit Difcourjes of Life 
and Deaths Natural Hiftory ; and 
becaufe I underjland your [elves are alfo 
appointing means, how to meafure the De- 
grees of Heat, Wetnejl, and iVindmefi in 
the feveral Parts of His Maffiles Domi- 
nions) / am humbly bold to think. Natural 
Hiftory alfo, and confequently that lam 
obliged to cajl in thia \mall Mite into 
your great Treafury of that kind. 
Hit Majefly being not only by ancient 
Right [upreamlj concerned in matters of 
Government and Trade, but alfo by 
hppy accident Prince of Philofophers, 
and o/Phyfico-Mathematical Learnings 
not called fo by Flatterers and Parasites, Dedicatory. 
but really foy a* mil by his own perfonal 
Abilities , as Affeftion concerning thofe 
matters ; upon which account / fhould 
have humbly dedicated both forts of my 
Obfervations unto His mofl Sacred Ma- 
jefly : but, to bejhort, I \new neither my 
Work nor my Perfon fit to bear His Name, 
nor to deferve His Patronage. Neverthe- 
left, as 1 have prefumed to prefent this 
Pamphlet, fofar as it relates to Govern- 
ment and Trade, to one of His Majeflies 
Peers, and eminent Minifiers of State : fo 
Ido defire your leave to prefent the fame 
unto Tou alfo, as it relates to Natural 
Hiftory, and as it depends upon the Ma- 
thematicks of my Shop- Arithmetick. For 
Tou are not only His Majeflies Privy 
Council for Philofophy, but alfo His 
Great Council Tou art the three Eflates, 
viz. the Mathematical, Mechanical, The Epiftle 
and Phyfical, Tou are his Parliament of 
Nature; and it is no lefl dijftaragement 
to the meanefl ofyour number, to fay there 
may be Commoners as well as Peers in 
Philofophy among ft you, For my own 
part, I count it bappinefs enough to my 
felfy that there is fucb a Council of Na- 
ture, as your Society is, in Being ; and 
Ido with as much earneftnefs enquire af- 
ter your Expeditions againft the Impe- 
diments of Science, as to know what Ar- 
mies WNavies the feveral Princes of 
the World are fetting forth. I concern my 
felf as much to know who are Curatours 
of this or the other Experiment, as to 
know who are Marefchals of France, or 
Chancellor of Sweden. I am as well 
pleafed to hear you are fatisfied in a lu- 
ciferous Experiment, as that a breach hath 
'been made in the Enemies Works; and Dedicatory, 
your ingenious arguings immediately from 
fenfe7 and fall, are as pkafant to me as 
the wife of vifloriou* Guns and Trum- 
pets. 
Moreover, as I contend for the De- 
cent Rights and Ceremonies of the 
Church , fo I alfo contend againft the 
envious Schifmaticks of your Society 
( who think, you do nothing unlefi you 
presently tranfmute Metals, maks- Butter 
and Cheefe without Milk; and (as their 
own Ballad hath it) make Leather with- 
out Hides ) by ajferting the ufefulnefi of 
even all jour preparatory and luciferoua 
Experiments, being not the Ceremonies, 
but the fubftance and principles of ufeful 
Arts. For, I find in Trade the want of 
an univerjal meafure, and have heard 
Muficians wrangle about the juft and 
uniform keeping of time in their Confortsy The Epiftle 
and therefore cannot with patience hear, 
that, your Labours about Vibrations, 
eminently conducing to both, jhould be 
Jlgbted, nor your Pendula calledSmng- 
fwangs with {corn. Nor can I better en- 
dure 7 that your Em citations about Air 
jhould be termed fit imployment only for 
Airy Fancies, and not adequate Tasks 
for the mojl folid and piercing beads. This 
is my Opinion concerning you-.and although 
1 am mm of your number, nor have the 
lea§l ambition to be fo, otherwi/e than to 
become able for your fervice, and worthy of 
your Trufl ; yet I am covetous to have 
the right of being reprefented by you ; to 
which endldefire, that this little Exhi- 
bition of mine may be looked upon as a 
Free-ho!der’s Vote for the choofing of 
Knights and Burgeffes to fit in the 
Parliament of Nature, meaning thereby, Dedicatory. 
that u the Parliament owns a Free- 
holder, though he hath but forty fbiU 
lings a year, to be one cf them ; fointhe 
fame manner and degree, lalfo dtfirt to 
be owned a* one ofyouy and that no longer 
than I continue a faithful Friend and 
Servant of your Defigns and Perfons. 
J. G. An INDEX 
OF THE 
Portions , Obfervatiom 3 and 
Quejiiom contained in this 
Difcourfe. 
I. r | Occajian of keeping the Accompt 
I of Burials arofe Jirfi from the 
Plagu 1592. pag.z 
Z- Seven Alterations , and Augmentations 
of the publifbcd Bills , between the years 
159 2rand 1662. 17 
3. Reafons, why the Accompts of Burials and 
Chriftenings ffjould be kept univerfaHy, and 
now called for, and perufed by the Magi* 
fir ate, p. r 8 
4. A true Accompt of the Plague cannot be 
kept without the Accompt of other Difea- 
fcs, ibid. 
3. 7be hncrarce of the Searchers no impede ment to the keeping of fufficienf, and ufefui 
ccompts, p. 19 
6. That about one third of all that were ever 
quick die under five years old , and a- 
bout thirty fix per Centum under fix, 
p.2o 
7. That two parts of nine die of Acute, and 
feventy of two hundred twenty nine of 
Chronical Difeafes, and four of two hundred 
twenty nine of ou tward Griefs, p.2 2 
8. A Table of the Proportions dying of > the 
mofi notorious, and formidable Difeafes, or 
Cafualties, w- p:24 
9. That [even per Centum die of Age, p. 26 
10. That fome Difeafes, Cafualties keep a 
confiant proportion, whereas fome other are 
very irregular, ibid. 
11. That not above one in four thoufand are 
Starved, p.27 
12. That it were better to maintain all Beg- 
gars at the publick Charge, though earning 
nothing , than to let them beg about the 
Streets ; and that imploying them without 
difere tints , m*y do more harm than good, 
. ibid. 
That riot one in two thoufand are Murtber- 
ed in London, with' the Reafins thereof 
p.30 
The fndex. *4- That not one in fifteen hundred dies 
tick, p.31 
15. That few of thofe0 who die of the French-* 
Pox, are fet down, hut coloured under the 
Confumption, &c. p.33 
16. That the Rickets is a new Dijedfe, both as 
to name , and thing ; that from fourteen 
dying thereof An. 1654. it hath gradually 
increajed to above five hundred. An. 1660. 
P34 
17. That there is another new Dijeafe appear- 
ing ; as A Stopping of the Stomach ,which 
hath increafed in twenty years, from fix, to 
near three hundred, p*3 7’ 
18. That the Rifing of the Lights (fuppofed in 
mofi Cafes to be the Fits of the Mother ) 
have alfo increafed in thirty years , from 
fourty four , to two hundred fourty nine, 
P-38 
19. That both the Stopping of the Stomach, 
of the Lights, are probably Re* 
liques of or depending upon the Rickets, 
P'39 
20. That the Stone decreafes, and is wearing 
away, p.40 
21. The Gout ftandsat aflay, ibid. 
22* The Scurvy increafes, ibid. 
23. The Deaths by reafenof Agues,f4r* tothofe 
ctufed by Fevers, as one to forty, p.41 
The Index. 24* Abortives , and Stilborn» to thofe that 
are as one to twenty, ibid. 
25. ThatJince the differences in Religion, 
the Chriftnings have been negletfed half in 
half ' ibid. 
26. That not one Woman in an hundred dies in 
Child-bed, nor one of two hundred in her 
Labour, p.42 
27. Three Reafovs why the Regiftring of Chil- 
dren hath been neglected, p. 4 3 
28. There was a confujionin the Accompts of 
Chryfoms, Infants, <WConvu]fions 3 but 
rectified in this Difiourfe, ibid. 
2£. There have been in London, within this 
Jge, four times of great Mortality, viz, An* 
no 1592, 1609,1625, and 1.636*, whereof 
that of 1603 was the great eft, p.46 
30. Annis 1603, and 1625, about a fifth part 
of the whole died, and eight times more than 
were born, p.47 
3 r. That a fourth part more die of the Plague 
than are jet down, p.48 
32* The Plague Anno 1603 lajled eight years 
that in 1636 twelve years, but that in 1625 
continued but one fingleyear, p.49 
33. That Alterations in Che Air do incompara- 
bly more operate as to the Plague, than the 
Contagion of Converfe, p.50 
The Index. The Index. 
§4* That Purples , Small Pox , and other 
malignant Difeafes, forerun the Plague, 
ibid. 
35. A diffofition in the Air towards the 
Plague doth alfo diffofe Women to Abor- 
tions, p.52 
36. that as about one fifth part of the whole peo- 
ple died in the great Plague-years, fo two 
other fifth parts fled, ibid, which(hews the 
Urge relation, and interefi, which the Lon- 
doners have in the Country, P* 53 
$7. That ( be the Plague great or f mall) the 
City is fully re-peopled within two years, 
ibid. 
38. The years, 1618, 20, 23, 24, 32, 33, 34, 
1649, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 6 r, were fickly 
years, p.$5 
39. The more fickly the year is, the lefi fertile 
of Births, ibid. 
40. That Plagues always come in with King’s 
Reigns is mofi falfe, ibid. 
41. The Autumn, or the Fall, is themfiun- 
healthful feafon, p. 5^ 
42. That in London there have been twelve 
Burials for eleven Chrifinings, p. 5 7 
43« That in the Country there have been, con- 
trariwtfe , (ixty three Chrifinings for fifty 
two Burials, p 3 8 The Index- 
44* A Supposition, that the people in and about 
London, are a fifteenth part of the people 
of all Wales, ibid. 
45. That there are about fix and an 
half of people in England, and Wales, ibid. 
46. That the people in the Country double by 
Procreation but in two hundred and eighty 
years, and in London in about feventy, as 
hereafter will be (hewn; the reajon where- 
of is, that many of the Breeders leave the 
Country, and that the Breeders of Lon- 
don come from all parts of the Country, 
fuch perfons breeding in the Country almoft 
only as were born there, but in London mul- 
titudes of others, p.59 
47. That about 600d' per Annum come up to 
London out of the Country, ibid. 
48. That in London about three die yearly out 
of eleven Families, p.6o 
49. There are about twenty five Millions 
of acres of Land in England, and Wales, 
ibid. 
50. Why the Proportion of Breeders in Lon- 
don, to the reft of the people, is left than in 
the Country, p.6 r 
51. That in London are more impediments of 
Breeding, than in the Country, ibid. 
52. That there are fourteen Males for thir- 
teen Females in London , and in the The Index. 
Country but fifteen Males for fourteen Fe- 
males, P‘^4, 
53. Polygamy ufelefs to the multiplication of 
Mankind, without Caftrations, p. 6 5 
54. Why Sheep, and Oxen out-breed Foxes, 
and other Vermin- Animals, p.66 
5 5. There beingfourteen Males to thirteen Fe- 
males , and Males being prolifque forty 
years, and Females but twenty five, it fol• 
lows, that in ejjetf there be 560 Males to 
325 Females, P-^7 
56. The faid inequality is reduced by the Utter 
marriage of the Males, and their imploy- 
ment in Wars, Sea-voyages, and Colo- 
nies, ibid, 
5 7 • Phyficians have two Women Patients to 
one Man ; and yet more Men die than Wo- 
men, ibid, 
58. The great emiffion of Males into the Wars 
out of London Anno 1642 was infiantly 
fupplied, p.68 
5 9 - Caftration U not ufid only to meliorate the 
flefb of Eatable Animals , but to promote 
their increafe alfo, p. 69 
60. fhe true ratio formal is of the evil of A- 
dulteries and Fornications, p.70 
6 L Where Polygamy is allowed, Wives can 
be no other than S ’rvanrs, ibid. The Index. 
62. That ninety feven, andfixteen Ratifies of 
London are in twenty years encreafed from 
Jeven to twelve 3 and in forty years from 
twenty three to fifty twoy V*12 
6%.The fixteen Parifhes have encreafed farther 
than the ninety feven, the one havtng en- 
creafed hut from nine to ten in the faid forty 
years, P-73 
64. The ten OutFarifhes have in fifty four 
years encreafed from one to four, p. 7 r 
65. The ninety [even, fixteen, and ten Tarifloes 
have in fifty four years encreafed from two 
to five, ibid. 
£6, What great Houfes within the Walls have 
been turned into Tenement, p.76 
67. Cripplegate-Parifh hath mfi encreafed, 
&Cw p.77 
63. The City removes Wefhvards, with the 
reafons thereof i b id. 
69. Why Ludgate is become too narrow a throat 
for the City, ibid. 
70. That there be fime Farifbes in London 
two hundred times as big as others, ibid* 
7 1. T he natural bignefs and Figure of a Church 
for the Reformed Religion, p. 7 8 
72. The City of London and Suburbs, being 
equally divided , would make 100 Parifie/f 
about the Urgentfi //Chrift-Church, Biack- 
Colemanftreet, ’ ibid* The Index. 
73* There are about 24000 Teeming women 
in the ninety feven,Jixteen,and ten Panjbts 
in and about London, . p. 81 
74. That about three die yearly out of eleven 
Families containing each eight perfons , 
ibid. 
7$. There are about 120©© Families within 
the walls of London, p. 8 3 
76. The boujing of the Jixteen and ten Suburb* 
Parijhes is thrice ns big as that of the ninety 
feven Parifhes within the walls, ibid. 
77. The number of fouls in the ninety feven, 
Jixteen , and two out-Farijhes is about 
384000, ibid. 
78. Whereof 199000 are Males, and 185000 
Females, ibid* 
79* Ji Table fjjewing of 100 quick conceptions 
how many die within fix years, how many 
the next Decad, and fo for every Decad 
till 76, p.84 
So. Tables, whereby may be code [led how many 
there be in London of every Age Affign*d% 
ibid. 
81. That there be in the 97, 16, and ten Pa- 
rifhes near 70000 Fighting Men, that is, 
Men between the 4ges,cf 16,and 56, p,S 5 
82. That Weftminfter, Lambeth , Iflingron, 
Hackney, Redriff, Stepney , Newington, 
contain us many people as the 97 Parijhes The Index. 
within the walls, and are consequently * of 
the whole Pile, ibid. 
8 3. So that in, and about London are about 
81000 Fighting men, and 460000 in all, 
ibid. 
84. Adam and Eve in $610years might have 
by the ordinary proportion of Procreation, 
begotten more people, than are now probably 
upon the face of the earth, p. 86 
85. Wherefore the World cannot be older than 
the Scriptures reprefentit, ibid. 
36. That every Wedding one with another 
produces four Children, p. S 7 
87 .That in feveralplaces the proportion between 
the Males and Females differ, ibid. 
88. That in ninety years there werejufl as ma- 
ny Males as Females iBuried within a certain 
great Parifh in the Country, ibid. 
89. That a Parifh, conftfting of about 2700 
Inhabitants, had in 9 o years but 1059 more 
Chriftnings, than Burials, p.88 
90. There come yearly to dwell at London a- 
bout 6000 (Irangers out of the Cuuntrey y 
which fwells the Burials about 200 per 
Annum, ibid. 
91. In the Country there have beenfive Chri Hr- 
nings for four Burials, p.89 
92. A Confirmation, that the mojl healthful 
years arealfp the fruitful, ibid. The Index. 
93- The proportion between the greateft, and 
lead mortalities, in the Countrey are greater 
than the fame in the City, p.91 
94. The Countrey Air more capable of good, 
and bad impreffions, that of the City, 
p.92 
95. "the difference alfo of Births are greater 
in the Councrey, than at London, p.9 3 
96. In the Countrey but about one of fifty dies 
yearly, but at London one of thirty, ever 
and above the Plague, ibid. 
97. London not fo healthful now as heretofore, 
P-94 
98. It is doubted whether increafe of people, 
or burning of Sea*coal were the caufe, 
or bothy p.9 $ 
99. The of making of Gold would be nei- 
ther benefit to the World,or the p.97 
1 oo. The Elements of true Policy are to under- 
fiand throughly the Lands, and, hands of any 
Countrey, . p.9 3 
101. Upon what confiderations the intrinfick 
value of Lands dcfhdependy ibid. 
102. Andin what the Accidental, P-99 
103. Some of the few benefits of having * true 
Acpompt of the people, ibid. 
104. That but a fmallpartof the whole people 
are imployed upon neceffary affairs, ibid. The Index. 
105. That a true Accompt of people u ntm 
cejfary for the Government, and Trade of 
them^andfor their peace and plenty,p* r 00 
r 06. Whether this Accompt ought to he confined 
to the chief Govern ours, ibid- PREFACE 
been born , and' 
91 j||d || bred in theCity ofLon- 
demand having always 
obferved, that mofl of them, who 
conflantly too\ in the weekly Bills 
of Mortality, made little other 
nfe of them, than to loofy at the 
foot,how the Burials increafed or 
decreafed;and,,among the Cafual- 
ties, what had happened rare,and 
extraordinary in the week cur- 
rent :fo as they might tal\e the fame 
as a Text to talfupon in the next 
Company; and withal, in the The Preface. 
Plague-time, how the Sicknels 
increasedyor de ere a fed, that fo the 
Rich might judg of the necejfty 
of their removal,and Tradef men 
might conjeBure what doings 
they were libg to have in their 
refe&ive dealings: 
2. Now, I thought that the 
Wifdom of our City had certainly 
defgned the laudable -practice of 
taking,and distributing thefe Ac- 
comptsfor other >and greater ufes} 
than thofe above-mentioned,or at 
lea ft,that form other ufes might be 
made of them: and thereupon I 
cafting mine Eye upon fo many of 
the General next came to 
hand,!found encouragement from The Preface. 
them, to loo{ out all the Bills 1 
could, and (to be jhort') to furnifh 
my felf with as much matter of 
that bfnd,even as the Hall of the 
Parilh-Clarks could afford me; 
the which when I had reduced 
into Tables (the Copes whereof 
are here infested) fo as to have a 
view of the whole together, in 
order to the more ready compa- 
ring of one Year,Sealbn,Parilh3 
or other Divifion of the City, 
with another,in rejfietf of all the 
Burials, and Chriftnings, and of 
all the Dileaies, and Cafualties, 
happening in each of them rejfe- 
clively; 1 did then begin not only 
to examine theConceits,Opinions, The Preface, 
andConje&ures,which upon view 
of a few fcuttered Bills I had ta- 
ken up J but did alfo admit new 
ones,as 1 found reafon,and occafi- 
on from my Tables. 
2. Moreover, finding feme 
Truths, and not commonly-be- 
lieved Opinions to arife from my 
Meditations upon thefe negle&ed 
Papers, I proceeded further, to 
confider what benefit the fnow- 
ledg of the fame would bring to 
the W>or Id; that 1 might not en- 
gage my felf in idle, and ufelefs 
Speculations :but,( thofe No- 
ble Virtuofi of Grefham-Col- 
ledg, who reduce their fubtile 
Difquifitions upon Nature into The Preface. 
downright Mechanical ufes, pre- 
fent the World with fome real 
Fruit from thofe airy Bloffoms. 
4. How far 1 have fucceeded 
in the Premilfes, I now offer to 
the World's cenfuredVhofl hope, 
will not expe& from me, not pro- 
fejfng Letters, things detnotlpTd- 
ted with the fame certainty, 
wherewith Learned men deter- 
mine in thetr Schools • hut will 
taty? it well, that 1 jhould offer at 
a new thing, and could forbear 
prefuming to meddle where any 
of the Learned Pens have ever 
touched before, and that 1 have 
the pains, and been at the 
charge of fetting out thofe Ta- The Preface. 
bles, whereby all men may bGtb 
con ell my Pofitions, and raife 
others of their own. For herein 
I have} a filly School-boy, 
coming to fay myLefJon to the 
World(that Peevijh,andTetchy 
Mafier) brought a bundle of 
Rods, wherewith to be whip'd 
for every I have com- 
mitted. Natural and Political 
OBSERVATIONS, &c. 
CHAP. I. 
Of the Bills of Mortality, their beginning, 
andprogrefs. 
E firft of the continued Week- 
SpT ||§g| ly Bills of Mortality extant at 
|p||! Me Farifb Clerks Hall, begins 
fke Twenty ninth of December 
1603, being the firft year of 
lng James his Reign ; fince when a weekly 
hath been kept there of Burials 
Cbrifinings, ft is true, There were Bills before, viz, for the Years 1592, -93,-94 5 
but fo interrupted fince, that 1 could not de- 
pend upon the fufficiency of them, rather re- 
lying upon thofe Accompts, which have been 
kept fince in order, as to all the ufes 1 fliall 
make of them. 
2. I believe, that the rife of keeping thefe 
Accompts -was taken from the Plague: for 
the faid Bills (for ought appears) firft began 
in the faid year 1592, being a time of great 
Mortality, and, afterfome difufe, were re- 
fumed agam in the year 1603, after the great 
Plague then happening likevvife. 
3, Thefe Bills were printed and published, 
not only every Week on Thurfdays, but alfo 
a general Accotnptof the whole Year was gi- 
ven in upon the Thttrfday before chrijlmas- 
day: which faid general Accompts have been 
prefentedin the feveral manners following, 
vi%. from the Year 1603, to the Year 1624, 
inclujive, according to the Pattern here infer- 
ted. 
1623. 
1624. 
The getter Billfir the whole Tear, of all the 
Burials and Chriftnings , as well within 
the City of London , and the Liberties 
thereof’ as in the Nine out Parijhes ad' 
pynittg to the City, with the Pefc-houfe be- longing to the fame: from Thurfday the 18* 
of December 1623, to Thurfday the t 6* 
of December 1624, according to the Report 
made to the King’s moft Excellent Majejly 
by the Company of the Farijh-Clerks of 
London. 
BUried this Year in the Fourfcor< 
and feventeen Parifhes of Lon 
don within the Walls, 
33S6 
Whereof of the Plague, 
- r 
Buried this Year in the Sixteen Pa*' 
rifhes of London, and the JPejiboufe, 
being within the Liberties, and 
without the Walls, 
59H 
Whereof, of the Plague, 
The whole Sum ofall the Burials in" 
London, and the Liberties thereof, is 
this Year 
5 
9310 
Whereof, of the Plague, 
6 
Buried of the Plague without the 
Liberties, in Middle[ex and Surrey, 
this whole Year, 
>o 
Chriftened in London, and the Li* 
btrties thereof, this Year, 
636S 
Buried this Year in the Nine our- 
Bariflies, adjoyaing to London, and 
out of the Freedom, 
2900 
Whereof, of the Plague, 
5 The Total of all the Burials in the 
places aforefaid, is 
12210 
Whereof, of the Plague, 
11 
Chriftened in all the aforefaid 
places this Year, 
S29? 
Panflies clear of the Plague, 
116 
Parifhes that have been InfeftedT 
this Year, 
6 
4. In the Year 1625, every Pariffi was 
particularized, as in this following Bill: 
where note, That this next year of Plague 
caufed the Augmentation , and Correflion 
of the Bills; as the former year of Plague did 
the very being of them. 
1624. 
1625. 
ji general, or great Etll for this Year, of the 
whole number of Burials, which have been 
buried of all Difeafes , and alfo of the 
Plague in every Pari/h within the City of 
London, and the Liberties thereof • as alfo 
in the Nine out Parifhes adjoyning to the 
/aid City ; with the Peft-houfe belonging to 
the fame: from Thurfday the 16. day of 
December, 1624. to Thurfday the 1 *>My 
1625. according to the Report wide to the King's mofl Excellent Majejly 
by the Company of Parifh Clerks of Lon- 
don. 
LONDON; 
Bur. 
tty. 
\ Lbanes in Woodftreec 
r 88 
7* 
j[\ Alhallows Barking 
397, 
263 
Alhallows Breadftreet 
34 
14 
Alhallows the Great 
442 
302 
Alhallows Hony-Iane 
xS 
8 
Alhallows the Lefs 
259 
20f> 
Alhallows in Lombard-ftreet 
86 
44 
Alhallows Stainings 
183 
138 
Alhallows the Wail 
301 
1 55 
Alphage Cripple-gate 
240 
190 
Andrew-Hubbard 
146 
ioi 
Andrews Underfliaft 
2 T9 
149 
Andrews by Wardrobe 
373 
191 
Anns at Alderfgate 
196 
r 28 
Anns Black-Fryers 
336 
2f5 
Antholins Parifli 
62 
3 r 
Auftins Parifli 
72 
4° 
Bartholomew at the Exchange 
24 
Bennets Fink 
I08 
57 
Bennets Grace Church 
48 
H 
Bennets at Pauls Wharf 
226 
131 
Bennets Shearhog 
24 
8 
Botolphs Billings-gate 
99 
ChrifFs-Church Parifli 
* / ? i * 
6i i 
371 LONDON, 
Bur. 
PL 
Chriftophers Parifli 
48 
28 
Clements by Eaftcheap 
8? 
72 
Dionys Back-Church 
99 
59 
Dunftans in the Eafl: 
335 
225 
Edmunds Lumbardftreet 
78 
49 
Ethelborow in Bifliops-gate 
205 
ioi 
St. Faiths 
89 
4$ 
St. Fofters in Fofter-Iane 
149 
102 
Gabriel Fen-Church 
71 
54 
George Botolphs-lane 
30 
19 
Gregories by Pauls 
296 
196 
Hellens in Bifliops-gate ftreet 
136 
71 
James by Garlick-hith 
180 
109 
John Baptift 
122 
79 
JohnEvangelift 
7 
0 
John Zacharies 
r43 
97 
James Dukes-place 
310 
154 
Katherine Colemanftreet 
26 
175 
KatherineCree Church 
886 
1 373 
Lawrence in the Jewry 
9i 
1 55 
Lawrence Pountney 
206 
127 
Leonards Eaftcheap 
55 
26 
Leonards Fofter-Iane 
292 
2C9 
Magnus Parifli by the Bridge 
137 
85 
Margarets Lothbury 
114 
64 
Margarets Mofes 
37 
25 
Margarets new Fifhftreet 
123 
82 
Margarets Pattons 
77 
50 LONDON, 
Eur. 
El 
Mary Ab-Church 
9S 
58 
Mary Aldermanbury 
126 
79 
Mary Aidermary 
92 
54 
Mary Ie Bow 
35 
T9 
Mary Bothaw 
22 
H 
Mary Coal-Church 
26 
1 r 
Mary at the Hill 
152 
84 
Mary Mounthaw 
7 6 
58 
Mary Sommer let 
27° 
192 
Mary Srainings 
7° 
44 
Mary Woolchurch 
5s 
33 
Mary Wool noth 
82 
50 
Martins Ironmonger-lane 
25 
18 
Martins at Ludgate 
254 
164 
Martins Orgars 
88 
47 
Martins Outwich 
60 
30 
Martins in the Vintry 
339 
20S 
Matthew Friday-ftreec 
24 
r 1 
Maudlins in Milk-ftreet 
401 
23 
Maudlins Old-fifh-flreet 
22$ 
142 
Michael Baffifhaw 
199 
139 
Michael CornhilI 
i S9 
79 
Michael Crooked lane 
144 
9 1 
Michael Queen-hith 
2 15 
1 57 
Michael in the Quern 
53 
30 
Michael in the Royal 
111 
6 r 
Michael in Wood-ftreet 
189 
1 68 
Mildreds Bread-(1 reet 
60 
44 LONDON, 
Bur. 
PL 
Mildreds Poultrey 
94 
4S 
Nicholas Aeons 
S3 l 
Nicholas Coal-Abby 
87 
67 
Nicholas Chaves 
' 7o 
43 
Olaves in Hart-ftreec 
2 66 
J95 
Olavesinthe Jewry 
43 
25 
Olaves in Silver-ftreec 
274 
103 
Pancras by Soper-lane 
17 
8 
Peters in Cheap 
68 
44 
Peters in Cornhill 
318 
78 
Peters at Pauls Wharf 
97- 
1 68 
Peters Poor in Broad-flreet 
$2 
1 27 
Stevens in Coahnan-ftreet 
506 
35o 
Stevens in Walbrook 
25 
13 
Swithins at London-ftone 
99 
60 
Thomas Apoftles 
141 
107 
Trinity Parifh 
148 
87 
Buried within the 97 ParijJjes 
within the Walls of all Di- 
feafes 
r434° 
Whereof \ of the Plague 
9197  
Bur. 
tu*. 
Andrews in Holborn 
2190 
1636 
Bartholomew the Great 
516 
360 
Bartholomew the Lefs 
111 
65 
Brides Parifli 
148 r 
1031 
Botolph Algate 
2573 
1653 
Bridewel Precinft 
213 
152 
Botolphs Bifliops-gate 
2334 
714 
Botolphs Alders-gate 
578 
307 
Dunftans the Weft 
b6o 
’ 642 
Georges Southwark 
I 608 
912 
Giles Cripplegate 
3988 
233s 
Olaves in Southwark 
3689 
2609 
Saviours in Southwark 
2746 
1671 
Sepulchres Panfh 
3425 
2420 
Thomas in Southwark 
335 
277 
Trinity in the Minories 
131 
87 
At the Pefthoufe 
194 
is? 
Buried in the 16 FariJJjes with- 
out the Walls, /landing part\ 
within the Liberties, and part 
without, in Middle]ex,and Sur-! 
rep,and at the Pefl-houfe, 
26972 
Whereof, of the Plague 
r7i<3 Buried in the Nine out Farifhes. 
Bur. 
Blag. 
Clements Temple-bar 
1284 
755 
Giles in the Fields 
1333 
947 
James at darken-well 
119 r 
903 
Katherins by the Tower 
998 
744 
Leonards in Shoreditch 
1995 
1407 
Jyfertins in the Fields 
1470 
973 
Mary White-chapel 
33°5 
2272 
Magdalens Bermondfey 
1127 
889 
Savoy Parifli 
250 
176 
Buried in the Nine out Parijhes,in 
Middle fex and Surrey, 
12953 
Whereof, of (he Plague, 
9067 
The Total of all the Burials of all 
Difeafes,within the Walls,wit h-\ 
out the Walls, in the Liberties, 
in Middle fex and Surrey: with\ 
the Nine cut Parijhes, and the 
54265 
Whereof, Buried of the Plague, this 
prefect year, is 
JPefl-koufe, 
•35417 
Chrijlnings this prefentyear, is 
6983 
parijhes clear this year,is 
I 
Parijhes infected this year, is 
f 21 5. In the Year 1626, the City of Weft* 
minfer, in imitation of London,was inferted. 
The grofs Accompt of the Burials and chrU 
fienings, w ith difiind ion of the Plague being 
only taken notice of therein5 the fifth, or 
laft Canton , or Lined-fpace , of the faid 
Bill, being varied into the form following, 
viz. 
In Weflminfler this Year. 
Buried 471 
1 Plague 13 
Chrijlnings 361 
6. In the Year 1629, an Accompt of the 
Dijeafes and Cafualties, whereof any dyed, 
together with the diftin&ion of <CMales and 
Females, making the fixth Canton of the Bill, 
was added in manner following. 
2he Canton of Cafualries ; and of the Bill 
for the Year 1632, being ofthe fame form 
with that of 1629* The Difeafes and Cafualties this 
Year, being 1632. 
f A Bortive and Stilborn 4 r 5 
Affrighted 1 
Aged 62 8 
Ague 43 
Apoplex and Meagriin 17 
Bit with a mad Dog 1 
Bleeding 3 
Bloody flux,Scowring,and flux, 348 
Bruifed,IfTfaes, Sores,and Ulcers, 28 
Burnt and Scalded 5 
Burft and Rupture 9 
Cancer and Wolf 10 
Ganker r 
Childbed 171 
Chrifomesand Infants 2268 
Cold and Cough 5 5 
Colick, Stone, and Strangury 5 6 
Confumption 1797 
Convulfion 241 
Cut of the Stone 5 
Bead in the ftreet,and ftarved 6 
Bropfieand Swelling 267 
Browned 4 
Execu ted and P reft to death 3 8 Falling Sicknefs 17 
Fever 1108 
Fiftula 13 
Flox and Small Pox 531 
French Pox 12 
Gangrene 5 
Gout 4 
Grief 11 
Jaundies 43 
Jaw-fain 7 s 
impoft hume 44 
Kill’d by feveral accidents 6 
Kings Evil 38 
Lethargy 2 
Livergrown 87 
Lunatick 5 
Made away themfelvcs 15 
Meades 80 
Murthered 7 
Overlaid,and ftarved at Norfe 7 
Pal fie 25 
Piles 1 
Plague 8 
Planet 13 
Fieurefie and Spleen 36 
Parples and Spotted Fever 3 8 
Quinfie 7 
Riling of the Lights 98 
Sciatica 1 Scurvy and Itch 9 
Suddenly 62 
Surfer 86 
Swine Pox 6 
Teeth 470 
Thrufli and Sore-mouth 40 
Tympany 13 
Tiflick ' 34 
Vomiting 1 
Worms 27 
Chrift- 
ned 
'Males 4994' 
|Femaies459o 
Jin all 9584 
Buried 
Males 4932 
J Females 4603 
Jn all 9535 
Whereof, of the Plague 8 
Increafed in the Burials in the 122 
Parifhes, and at the peft-houfe 
this year, 
991 
Decreafed of the Plague in the 122 
Pariflies, and at the Peft-houfc 
this year, 
66 2 
7* In the Year 1636, the Accompt of the 
'Burials and Chrijlnings, in the Parifhes of 
JJlington , Lambeth , Stepney, Newington , 
Jiackney, and Redriff were added in the man- 
ner following, making a feventh Canton, 
viz, In Margarets 
O 
Wejlminjlcr 
Chriftned 44© 
Buried 89a 
Plague o 
Chriftned 36 
Buried 113 
Plague o 
Ijlington 
Lambeth 
Chriftned 132 
Buried 220 
Plague o 
Chriftned 892 
Buried i486 
Plague o 
Stepney 
Cbriftned 99 
Buried 18 r 
Plaguk o 
Newington 
Hackney 
Chriftned 30 
Buried 95: 
Plague o 
Cbnftned *6 
Buried 4^ 
i iague o 
Redrijf 
The Total of ail the Buri- 
als in the [even la ft Pa 
riftjes this Tear 
2958 
Whereof of the Tlague, 
The Total of ail the 
Chriftnivgs t 
o 
i*4S 8. Covcnt- Gat den being made a Parifli ? 
the Nine out Parishes were called the Ten 
out Parishes, the which in former years were 
but Eight. 
9. In the Year 1660, the laft-mentioned 
ten Pari flies, with Wejlminfter, \Jlington,Lam- 
beth, Stepney, Newington, Hackney, and Re- 
drijf, are entred under two Divifions/i//«c. the 
one containing the Twelve Pariflies lying in 
Mtddlefex and Surrey., and the other the 
Five Parifhes within the City and Liberties 
of Wejlminfter,v\z.St-Clement Danes,Sc. Paul's 
Covent-Garden, Sr. Martin s in the Fields,Sr. 
Mary-Savoy, and St. Margaret's Weftmin- 
jler. 
10- We have hitherto deferibed the fevc- 
ral fteps whereby the Bills of Mortality are 
come up to their prefent flate; we come next 
to (hew how they are made and compOfed, 
which is in this manner, viz,. When any one 
dies, then, either by tolling, or ringing of a 
Bell, or by befpeaking of a Grave of the 
Sexton, the fame is known to the Searchers5 
correfponding with the Paid Sexton. 
it. The Searchers hereupon (who are 
ancient Matrons, fworn to their Office) re- 
pair to the place where the dead Corps lies, 
and by view of the fame, and bv other en- 
quiries, they examine by what Vifeafe or Ca foalty the Corps died. Hereupon they make 
their Report to the Parifh Clerk, and he, e- 
very Tuefday night, carries in an Accompt of 
all the Burials and Ckriflnings happening that 
Week, to the Clerk of the Hall. On Wednefo 
day the general Accompt is made up and 
printed, and on Ihurjday published and dif- 
perfed to thefeveral Families who will pay 
four Shilling$p<rr Annum for them* 
12. Memorandum, That although the ge- 
neral yearly Bills have been fet out in the fey 
veral varieties aforementioned, yet the Ori- 
ginal Entries in the Hall* books were as exa& in 
the very firli year, as to all particulars, as 
now; and the fpecifying of Cafualties and 
Difeafes was probably more. 
General Obfervatiom upon the Cafualtieu 
IN my Difcourfes upon thefe Bills, I fhall 
firfl (peak of theCafuallies, then give my 
Obfervarions with reference to the Places 
and Parijbes comprehended in [he Bills \ and 
next of the Tears and Seafons. 
i. There feetns to be good reafotf, why th,e 
zZMdgijlrate fliould hinifelf take notice of the numbers ofBurials and Chriftmugs, viz. to 
fee whether the City increafe or decreafe in 
People $ whether it increafe proportionably 
with the reft of the Nation ; whether it be 
grown big enough, or too big, &c, But 
why the fame ftiould be made known to the 
People, otherwife than to pleafethem,as with 
a curiofity, I fee nor, 
2. Nor could I ever yet learn ( from the 
many 1 have asked, and thofe not of the lead 
Sagacity) to whatpurpofe thediftin&ion be- 
tween Males and Females is inferred, or at all 
taken notice of } or why that of Marriages 
was not equally given in ? Nor is it obvious 
to every body, why the Accompc of Cafu- 
alties (whereof we are now fpeaking) is 
made? Thereafon,which feetnsmoft obvious 
for this later, is, That the date of health in the 
City may at all times appear, 
3. Now it may be Ob;eded5That the fame 
depends mod upon the Accompts of Epide- 
mical DifeafeSyZnd upon the chief of them all, 
the Plaguewherefore the mention of the reft 
feems only matter of curiofity, 
4. But to this we Anfwer,That the know- 
ledge even of the numbers which dye of the 
JPlague, is not diffidently deduced from the 
meer Report of the Searchers, which only the 
Bills afford 5 but from other Ratiocinations, and com pa rings of the Plague with fome o* 
ther Cafualttes, 
5* For we fliall make it probable, that in 
the Years of Plague, a quarter part more dies 
of that Difeafe than are fet down ; the fame 
we fliall alfo prove by other Cafualttes,^here- 
forejif it be neceffary to impart to the world 
a good Accoinpr of fome few Cafualttes, 
which fince it cannot well be done without 
giving an Accompt of them all, then is our 
common praflice of fo doing very apt and 
rational. 
6, Now, to make thefe Corrections upon 
the, perhaps,ignorant and carelefs Searchers 
Reports, I confidered fir ft of what Authori- 
ty they were of themfelves, that is, whether 
any credit at all were to be given to their 
Diftinguifhments: and finding that many of 
the Cafualttes were but matter of fenfe , as 
whether a Child were Abortive or Stilborw 
whether men were Aged, that is to fay, above 
fixty years old, or thereabouts when they di- 
ed , without any curious determination 5 
whether fuch Aged perfons died purely of 
Age, as for that the innate heat was quite ex- 
tinft, or the "Radical moiflure quite dried up 
(Tor I have heard fome Candid RhjficianS 
complain of the darknefs which themfelves 
Were in hereupon,) I fay, that thefe Diftin- guifliments being but matter of fenfe, I con- 
cluded the Searchers Report might be fuffi* 
cient in the Cafe. 
7. As for Confumptims, if the Searchers do 
but truly Report (as they may) whether the 
dead Corps were very lean and worn away, 
it matters nor to many of our purpofes, whe- 
ther the Dileafe were exa&ly the fame, as Phy- 
ficians define it in their Books. Moreover, 
In cafe a man of feventy five years old died 
of a Cough (of which had he been free, he 
might have pofiibly lived to ninety; 1 efieem 
it litele errour (as to many of our 
if thisPevfonbe in the Table of Casualties , 
reckoned among the Aged, and not placed un- 
der the Title of Coughs, 
8. In the matters of Infants I would defire 
but to know clearly, what the Searchers mean 
by Infants, as whether Children that cannot 
fpeak, as the word Infant feems to fignifie, or 
Children under two or three years od, ab 
though I fhouldnot be fatisfied, whether the 
Infant d ed of Hind, or of Teeth, or of the 
Convulftonfkc.or were choaked with Phlegm, 
or elfe of Teeth, Convuljion, and Scorvnng, a- 
part, or together, which, they fay, do often 
caufe one another ; fay, it isfomewhat 
to know how many die ufually before they 
can fpeak,pr how many live paftany afligned 
number of years. 9. I fay, it is enough, if we know.frpttV 
the Searchers but the. moft predominant, 
Symptoms; a5 that one died of the Head- 
acht\\Fo was forely tormented with it, though" 
the BhyjicUns"were ofOpinion, that theDi- 
feafe was in ihe Stomach. Again, if one died 
fuddenly, the matter is not great, whether it 
be reported in the Bills, Suddenly, Apoplexy, 
or Flanet ftruckenfac. 
10. To conclude, In many of thefe Cafes 
the Searchers we able to report the Opinion 
of the Fhyfician, who was with the Patient, 
as they receive the fame from the Friends of 
the Defund: and in very many Cafes, fuch 
as Drowning, Scalding, Bleedings Vomiting , 
waking away themfihes, Lunaticks , Sores, 
Smallpox,&c. their own fenfes are fufficienr, 
and the generality of the World are able pret- 
ty well to diftinguifh the Gout,Stone,Drcpfier 
Falling ficknefsyFalJie, Agues, Vkurefie, Kick: 
ets, one from another. 
11. But now as for thofe Cafualties, 
which are apt eft to be confounded and mifta- 
ken, I fhall in the enfuing Difcourfeprefume 
to touch upon them fo far, as the Learning of 
thefe Bills hath enabled me. 
t 2. Having premifed thefe general Adver- 
tifements , our Brit Obfervation upon the 
Cafualties fhall be, That in Twenty Years there dying of all Difeafes and Cafualties 
229250,that 71124died of theThruJb>Con- 
vulfion, Rickets, Teeth and Worms \ and as A- 
horttvesy Chryfomes, Infant/, L/zYrgttmw, and 
Overlaid; that is to fay, that about \ of the 
whole died of thofe Difeafes, which weguefs 
did all light upon Children under four or 
five years old. 
13. There died alfo of the Small Pox, Swine 
Pox, and Meajles, and of Worms without Con- 
vulfions, 1221 o. of which number we fuppofe 
like wife, that about \ might be Children un- 
der fix years old. Now, if w’e confider 
thatfixteenof the fa id 229250 died of that 
extraordinary and grand Cafualty,the Plague, 
we (hall find that about thirty fix per Centum 
of all quick conceptions died before fix years 
old. 
14. Thefecond Obfervation is, That of 
the (aid 229250 dying of all Difeafes, there 
died of acute Difeafes (the Plague excepted) 
but about 50000, or|parts. The which 
proportion doth give a meafure of the State, 
and difpofitionof this Climate and Air as to 
health; thefe acute and Epidemical Difeafes 
happening fuddenly and vehemently, upon 
the like corruptions and alterations in the 
Air. ■ 15. The third Qbfervatiotus,. That of the 
faid 229 2 50,about feventy died of Chromed 
Difeafes, which fhews (as I conceive) the 
State and Difpofition of the Country ( in- 
cluding as well its Food as Air) in reference 
to health, or rather tolongevity*, for as the 
proportion of acute and Epidemical Difeafes 
fhews the aptnefs of the Acr to fudden and 
vehement ImprefTions; fo the chronicd Pi- 
feafesfhew the ordinary temper of the place : 
fo that upon the proportion of Chronical Di- 
feafes feems to hang the judgment of 1 he fitnefs 
of the Country for Congtife* For, I conceive, 
that in Countries fubjed to great Epidemical 
fweeps,men may live very long, but, where 
the proportion of the Chronical ditempers is 
great, it is not likely to be fo ; becauk men 
being long fick, and alwaies fickly , cannot 
live to any great Age, as we fee in feverai 
forts of Metal-men, who, although they are 
lefs fubjed to acute Difeafes than others, yet 
feldom live to be old, that is,not to reach un- 
to thofe years, which David fays is the Age 
of Man. 
16. The fourth Obfervation is,That of the 
faid 229250 , not 4000 died of outward 
Griefs,as of Cancers, FijluUs, Sores. Ulcers, 
broken and hr hi fed Limbs , Impojlhumes , 
\tch y King's Evil, Leprcjse , Scald-head , Swine Pox, Wens, &c. viz,, not one in fix* 
r7* 
r 7. In the next place, whereas many per- 
fons live in great fear and apprehenfion of 
fome of the more formidable and notorious 
Difeafes following; I fliall only fet down 
how many died of each: that the refpe&ive 
numbers, being compared with the Total 
2292$o,thofe perfons may the better under- 
hand the hazard they are in. 
Table of notorious Dijeafes. 
Apoplex 1306 
Cut of the Stone 38 
Falling Srcknefs 74 
.Dead in the Streets 243 
Gout 134 
Head-ach 5* 
Jaundice 99 S 
Lethargy 67 
Leprofie 6 
Lunatick 15 S 
Overlaid and Starved 529 
Falfie 423 
Rupture 201 
Stone and Strangury 863 
Sciatica 5 
Suddenly 4 4 Table of Cafualties. 
Bleeding 69 
Burnt and Scalded 125 
Drowned 8^9 
Exceflive drinking 2 
Frighted 22 
Grief '279 
Hanged theuifelves 222 
Kill’d by feveral accidents 1021 
Murdered 86 
Poyfoned 14. 
Smothered 2 6 
Shot 7 
Starved 51 
Vomiting 136 
18. In the foregoing Obfervations we 
ventured to make a Standard of the heakh- 
fulnefsof the Air from the proportion of a- 
cute and Epidemical Difeafes, and of the 
wholfomnefs of the Food, from that of the 
Chronical. Yet, for as much as neither of 
them alone do fhew the longevity of the In- 
habitants, we (hall in the next place come 
to the more abfolute Standard and Correftion 
of both, which is the proportion of the A- 
g?d, viz. 15757 to the Total 229250. That is, of about i to 15 , or 7 per Cent Only 
the queftion is, What number of years the 
Searchers call Aged, which I conceive muft be 
the fame that David calls fo, viz. 70. For 
no man can be faid to die properly of Age, 
who is much lefs. It follows from hence* 
That if in any other Country more than feven 
of the ico live beyond 70, fuchCountry is 
to beefteemed more healthful than this of our 
City. 
19. Before we fpeak of particular Cajual- 
ties, we fhall obferve,That among the feveral 
C a fealties Tome bear a conftant proportion 
unto the whole number of Burials ■, fuch are 
Chronical Difeafes,and the Difeafes whereun- 
to the City is tnoft fubjefl; * as for Example, 
Confumptions, Dropfies, Jaundice, Gout, Stone, 
Talfee,Scurvy,Riftng of the Lights or Mother, 
Rickets, Aged, [Agues, Fevers, Bloody Flux 
and Scowring: nay,fome Accidents, as Grief, 
Drowning, Mens making away themselves, 
and being Killed by feveral Accidents, &c. do 
the like , w hereas Epidemical and Malignant 
Difeafes, as the Plague, Purples, Spotted Fe- 
ver, Small Pox and Mea/les do not keep that 
equality: fo as in fome Years, or Months, 
there died ten times as many as in others. chap. in. 
Of ? articular Cafuahks. 
i. fifftObfervation is, That few are 
JVf flarved. This appears, fonhat of 
the 22925c, which have died, we find not 
above fifty one to have been flawed, except* 
ing helplefs Infants at Nurfe, which being 
caufed rather by carelefsnefs, ignorance, ana 
infirmity of the Milch-women, is not pro-, 
perly an effect or fign of want of food in the 
Country, or of means to get it. 
2♦ The Obfervation which I fhall ad<4 
hereunto, is, That the vaft number of Beg-> 
gars, fwarmingupand down this City, do all 
Jive, and feem to be rnoft of them health y an4 
ftrong ,* whereupon I make this queftion, 
Whether, fince they do all live by begging, 
that is, without any kind of it were 
not better for the State to keep them, even 
although they earned nothing ? that fo they 
might live regularly, and not in that Debau* 
chery, as many Beggars do; and that they 
might be cured of their bodily Impotencies, or taught to worker. each according to his 
condition and capacity; or by being imploy- 
ed in Tome work (not better undone) might 
beaccuftomed and fitted for labour ? 
3. To this fome may Objeft, That Beggars 
are now maintained by voluntary Contribu- 
tions, whereas in the other way the fame 
muft be done by general Tax ; and confe- 
quently, the Objefts of Charity would be 
removed and taken away. 
4. To which we Anfwer,That in Holland, 
although no where fewer Beggars appear to 
charm up comtniferation in the credulous, yet 
no where is there greater or more frequent 
Charity: only indeed the Magiftrate is both 
the Beggar, and the Difpofer of what is got 
by begging ; fo as all Givers have a Moral 
certainty that their Charity (hall be well ap- 
plyed; 
5. Moreover, I qtieftion, Whether what 
we give to a Wretch that fhews us lamentable 
fores and mutilations, be alwaies out of the 
pureft Charity > that is, purely for God’s 
fake • for as much as when we fee fuch Ob- 
je&s, we then feel in our felves a kind of 
pain and paflion by confent, of which we 
cafe our felves, when we think we eafe them, 
with whom we fympatbized 5 or elfe we be- 
fpeak aforehand the like comraiferation in others towards our felves, when we (hall fas 
vve fear we may) fall into the like diftrefs. 
6. We have laid, ’Pvpere better the Pub- 
licly (hould fyep the Beggarsy though they earn- 
ed, nothings &c. But mod men will laugh to 
hear us fuppofe, That any able to work ( as 
indeed mod Beggars are, in one kind oftnea- 
fureoranother)fbould be kept withoutearn- 
ing any thing. But we Anfwer, That if there 
be but a certain proportion of work to be 
done, and that the fame be already done by 
the non-beggars , then to imploy the Beggar $ 
about it, will but transfer the want from one 
hand to another; nor can a Learner work fo 
cheap as a skilful pra6ifed Artift can. As 
for example, a pra&ifed Spinner ft)all fpin a 
pound of Wool, worth two (hillings, for fix 
pence; but a Learner 9 undertaking it for 
three pence,(hall make the wool indeed into 
yarn, but not worth twelve pence* 
7. This little hint is the model of the 
greateft work in the World , which is the 
making of England as confiderable for Trade 
as Holland; for there is but a certain propor- 
tion of Trade in the World , and Holland is 
prepoffefted of the greateft part of it,and is 
thought to have more skill and experience to 
manage it; wherefore, to bring England in- 
to Holland’s condition, as to this particular, is the fame, as to fend all the Beggars about 
London into the Weft Country to Spin, where 
they fliall only fpoil the Clothiers Wool, and 
beggar the prefent Spinners ac beft * but, at 
worft, put the whole Trade of the Country 
to a ftand, until the Hollander, being more 
ready for it, have fnapt that with the reft. 
8. My next Obfervation is, That but few 
are Murtbcred . v'tz,. not above 86 of the 
129250, which have died of other Difeafes 
and whereas in Paris few nights 
fcape without their Tragedy. 
9. The Reafons of this we conceive to be 
Two : One is the Government and Guard of 
the City by Citizens themfelves, and that 
alternately. No man fetling into a Trade for 
that employment. And the other is, The 
natural and cuftomary abhorrence of that 
inhuman Crime, and all Bloodjhed, by moft 
Englifb men: for of all that are "Executed, 
few are for Murther. Befidesthe great and 
frequent Revolutions and Changes in Go- 
vernment fince the Year 1650, have been 
with littlz bloodjhed ; theUfurpers themfeives 
having Executed few in comparifon, upon 
the Accompt of difturbing their Innovati- 
ons. 
10* In brief, when any dead Body is found 
in England, no Algebraift, or Uncypherer of Letters , can ufe more fubtife fuppofitions 
and variety of conje&ures to find out the 
Lemonftration or Cipher, than every com- 
mon unconcerned perfon doth to find out the 
Murtherers, and that for ever, until it be 
done* 
11. The Lunaticks are alfobut few, viz, 
158 in 229250, though I fear many more than 
are fet down in our Bills, few being encred 
forfuch, but thofe who die at Bedlam; and 
there all feem to dye of their Lunacy, who 
died Lunaticks ; for there is much difference 
in computing the number of Lunaticks, that 
die (though of Fevers ana all other Difeafes, 
unto which Lunacy is no Superfedeas) 
and thofe chat dye by reafon of their Mad* 
nefs4 
12. So that, this Cafualtp beingfouncer- 
tain, I ffall not force my felf to make any 
inference from the numbers and proportions 
we find in our Bills concerning it: only I dare 
enfure any man at this prefenr, well in his 
Wits, for one in a tboufand, that he fhall nor 
dye a Lunatic kin Bedlam within thefe feven 
years, becaufe [ find not above one in a- 
bout one thoufand five hundred have done 
fo* 
13. The like ufe may be made of the Ac* 
comptsof men that made away themfelves* who are another fort of Mad men, that think 
to eafe themfelves of pain by leaping into 
Hell 5 or elfe are yet more Mad, fo as to 
think there is no fuch place ; or that men 
may go to reft by death, though they dye in 
Selfmurther, the greateft Sin. 
14. We (hall fay nothing of the numbers of 
thofe that have been Drowned, Killed by falls 
from Scaffolds, or by Carts running over them, 
&c becaufe the fame depends upon the ca* 
fual Trade and Employment of men, and up- 
on matters which are but circumftantial to 
the Seafons and Regions we live in, and af- 
fords little of that Science and Certainty we 
aim at. 
15. We find one Casualty in our Bills, of 
which, though there be daily talk, there is 
little effect, much like our abhorrence of 
Toads and Snakes as moft poifonous Crea- 
tures, whereas few men dare fay upon their 
own knowledge they ever found harm by ei- 
ther 5 and this Casualty is the French Pox, 
gotten, for the moft part, not fo much by 
the intemperate ufe of Venery (which rather 
caufeth the Gout) as of many common Wo- 
men. 
16. I fay, the Bills of Mortality would take 
off tbefeBars, which keep fome men within 
bounds, as to thefe extravagancies s for in the aforementioned 229250, we find not a- 
bove 392 to have died of the Fox, Now j 
forafmuch as it is not good to let the World 
be lulled into a fecurity and belief of Impu- 
nity by our Bills, which we intend fliall not 
be only as Deaths heads to put men in mind 
of their Mortality, but ajfo as Mercurial St a- 
*ues to point out the moft dangerous waies 
that lead us into it and mifery} We fhali 
thereforefhew, that the Fox is not as the 
Toads and Snakes aforementioned, but of a 
quite contrary nature, together with the rea- 
fon why it appears otherwife. 
17. Forafmuch as by the ordinary dif- 
courfe of the World it feems a great part of 
nienhave, at one time or other, had fome 
fieciesof this Difeafe, I wondering why fo 
lew died of it, efpecially becaufe I could 
Hot take that to be fo harmlefs, whereof fo 
toany complained very fiercely ; upon en- 
quiry, 1 found that thofe who died of it out 
°f the Hofpitals (efpecially that of Kings- 
h»d, and the Lock in Southwark ) were re- 
turned of Ulcers and Sores, Aod in brief, 1 
found, that all mentioned to dye of the 
French Fox we re returned bv the Clerks of 
Saint Giles's and Saint Martin sin the Fields 
°nly, in which place I underftood that moft 
°f the vileftand moft miferabieHoufes of Tin- cleannefs were : from whence I concluded, 
that only bated perfons,and fuch,whofe very 
Nofes were eaten off, were reported by the 
Searchers to have died of this too frequent 
%Sftlalady. 
j 8. In the next place, it fhall be examin- 
ed,under what Name or Cafualty fuch as die 
of thefe Difeafes are brought in : I fay, un- 
der the Conjumption ; forafinuch as all dying 
thereof dye fo emaciated and lean (their 
Ulcers disappearing upon Death ) that the 
Old-women Searchers, af.er the mift ofa Cup 
of Ale, and the bribe of a Two-groat fee, in 
(lead of one given them, cannot tell whether 
this emaciation or leannefs were from aPbtht- 
fis, or from an Heftick Fever, jitrephy, &c. 
or from an Infe&ionof the Spermatick parts, 
■which in length of time, and in various dif- 
guifeshathat Jaft vitiated the habit of the 
Body, and by difabling the parts to digeft 
their nouriftiment, brought them to the con- 
dition of leannefs abovementioned. 
19* My next Obfervation is, That of the 
’Rickets we find no mention among the Cafetal- 
ties, until the Year 1634, and then but of 
14 for that whole Year. 
2q. Now the Queftion is, Whether that 
Difeafedid firfi:appear about that time; or 
whether a Difeafe, which had.been long be- fore, did then firft receive its Name? 
2 r.To clear this Difficulty out of the Bills 
(for I dare venture on no deeper Arguments) 
I enquired what other Cafualtie before the 
Year 1634, named in the Bills, was moft like 
the Rickets; and found, not only by Preten- 
ders to know it, but alfo from other Bills, 
lhat Livergroxvn was the neareft. For in 
fome years 1 find Liver grown , Spleen, and 
Rickets, put all together, by reafon (as I 
conceive) of their likenefs to each other. 
Hereupon I added the Livergrowns of the 
Vear 1634, vi%. 77, to the Rickets of the 
fame Year, viz. 14, making in all 91: which 
Votal, asalfothe Number 77 it felf, I com- 
pared with the Livergroxvn of the precedent 
Year 1633, viz, 82; All which (hewed me* 
foat the Rickets was a new Difeafe over and a- 
bove. 
22. Now,this being but a faint Argument, 
* looked both forwards and backwards, and 
found, that in the Year 1629, when no Rick- 
efs appeared,there were but 94Livergrovons\ 
in the Year 1636 there were 99 Liver- 
though there were alfo 50 of the 
tickets: only this is not to be denied, that 
the Rickets grew very numerous (as in 
foe Year 1660, viz. 52O then there ap- 
Peared not above 15 of Livergrown. 23. In the Year 1659 were 441 Rickets* 
and 8 Livcrgrown. In the Year 1658 were 
476 Rickets, and 51 Liver grown. Now, 
though it be granted that thefe Difeafes were 
confounded in the Judgment of the Kurfes , 
yet it is moft certain , that the Liver grown 
did never but jinno 1630 exceed 
100$ whereas Anno 1660, Livergrown and 
Rickets were 536. 
24. It is alfo to be obferved, That the 
Rickets were never more numerous than now, 
and that they are ftil! increafing; for Anno 
1649, there were but 190, next year 260, 
next after that 329, and foforwards, with 
Tome little ftartingbackwards in fome years, 
until the Year 166c, which produced the 
greateft of all. 
25. Now, fuch back-dartings feem to be 
univerfal in all things 3 for we do not only 
fee jn the progreflive uiotion of the wheels of 
Watches, and in the rowing of Boats, that 
there is a little ftarting or jerking backwards 
between every ftep forwards, but alfo (if I 
am not much deceived) there appeared the 
like in the motion of the Moon, which in the 
long Telefcopes at Grefhaw Colledge one may 
fenfibly difeern. 2 6. There Teems alfo to be another new 
kifeaPe, called by our Bills the flopping of 
the Stomach , firft mentioned in the Year 
1636, the which Malady, from that Year to 
*647, increafed but from 6 to 29 » Anno 
1655 it cameto 145. In 57, to 277. In 
*>o to 3 r 4. Now tbefe proportions far ex- 
ceeding the difference of proportion general* 
]y arifingfrom the increafe of Inhabitants, 
and from the report of Advent to the City, 
fhews there is Pome new DiPeaPe, which ap- 
pearethtothe Vulgar, as A flopping of the 
Stomach. 
27. Hereupon I apprehended that this 
Stopping might by the Greenficknefs, foraf- 
Uiuch as I find few or none to have been re1 
turned upon that Account, although many 
be vifibly ftained with it. Now, whether 
the fame be forborn out of fhame, I know 
not: For fince the World believes that Mar- 
riage cures it, it may feem indeed a fhame, 
that any Maid Phould dye uncured , when 
there are more Males than Females, that is , 
an overplus of Husbands to all that can be 
Wives. 
28. Tn the next place, I conje&ured that 
this flopping of the Stomach might be the Mo* 
*her, foraPmuch as I have heard of many 
troubled with Mother-fits fas they call them') although few returned to have died of them 5 
which conje&ure, if it be true, we may then 
fafely fay, That the Mother-jits have alfo in- 
creafed. 
29. But I was fomewhat taken off from 
thinking this flowing of the StomAch to be the 
Mother, becaufe I ghefled rather the Riflng 
cf the Lights might be it. For I remembred 
that fome Women, troubled with the Mother- 
fits,d\d complain of a choaking in their Throats. 
Now; as I underftand, it is more conceiva- 
ble, that the Lights or Lungs (which I have 
heard called The Bellows of the Bcdj') not 
blowing, that is, neither venting out, nor 
taking in breath, might rather caufe fuch a 
Choking, than that the Mother Should rife up 
thither, and do it.For methinks, when a Wo- 
man is with Ghild, there is a greater riling, 
and yet no fuch Fits at all. 
30. But what I have faid of the Rickets 
and flopping of the Stomach, I do in fomemea- 
fure fay of the Riflng of the Lights alfo, 
viz.that thcfe Rifings (be they what they will) 
have increafed much above the general pro- 
portion; for in 1629 there were but 44, and 
in 1660, 249, viz, almoft fix times as ma- 
ny. • l' ' 3t.Now forafmuch as Rickets appear much 
in the Overgrowing of Childrens Livers and 
Spleens (as by the Bilis may appear) which 
furely may caufe flopping of the Stomach by 
fqueezing and crowdingupon-tbat part. And 
forafmuch as thefe Choking* ov Riflings of the 
Lights may proceed from the fame ltuffings, 
as make the Liver and Spleen to otfer*grow 
their due proportion. And laftiy, forafmuch 
as the Rickets , flopping of the Stomachy and 
rifling ofl the Lights, have all increafed toge- 
ther, and in forne kind of correfpondent 
proportions; it feems to me (hat they de- 
pend one upon another, And that what is 
the Rickets in Children, may be the other in 
more grown Bodies j for furely Children, 
which recover of the Rickets , may retain 
fomewhat to caufe what I have imagined: but 
of this let the Learned Rhyflicians confider, as 
I prefume they have. 
32. 1 had not medlcd thus far,,bur that I 
have heard, the firft hints of the circulation 
of the Blood were taken from a common Per- 
fon’s wondering what became of all the blood 
vyhich iffued out of the heart,fince the heart 
beats above three thoufand times an hour, al- 
though but one drop fliouid be pump’d out 
of it at every ftroke. 33* The Stone Teemed todecreafe: for in 
1632, 33, 34, 35, and 36, there died of the 
Stone and Strangury 254. And in the Years 
1655, S6> $7, 59> and » but 250, 
which numbers,although indeed they bealmoft 
equal, yet confidering the Burials of the firfl 
named five Years were but half thofe of the 
later, it Teems to be decreaTed by about one 
half. 
34. Now the Stone and Strangury are Di* 
Teafes which moft men know that feel them, 
unlefs it be in Tome few cafes, where ( as I 
have heard phyficUns fay) a Stone is held up 
by the Films of the Bladder,and To kept from 
grating or offending it* 
35* The Gout (lands much at a (lay , that 
is, ic anfwers the general proportion of Bu- 
rials; there dies not above one of too® of 
the Gouty although I believe that more dye 
Gouty. The reafon is, becaufe thofe that 
have the Gout, arefaid to belong livers5and 
therefore, when fuch dye, they are returned 
as j4ged. 
36, The Scurvy hath likewife increafed, 
and that gradually from 
Anno 1660. 
3 7. The Tyffick Teems to be quite worn a- 
way, bur that it is probab'e the fame is en- 
tred as Cough or Confumption♦ Agues and Fevers are cntrcd promifcuouf- 
ly, yet in the few Bills wherein they have 
been diftinguifhed, it appears that not above 
i in 40 of the whole are Agues. 
39. The Abortives and Stilbormxz about 
the twentieth part of thofe that are CbriJl* 
ned, and the numbers feemed the fame, thirty 
Years ago as now, which (hews there were 
more in proportion in thofe years than now: 
or elfe that in thefe later years due Acconipts 
have not been kept of the Abortives, as ha- 
ving been buried without notice,and perhaps 
not in Church yards. 
40. For that there bath been a negleft in 
the Accoropts of the chrijlnings, is moft cer- 
tain, becaufe until the Year 1642, we find, 
the Burials but equal with the Chrifinings,or 
near thereabouts, but in 1648, when the dif- 
ferences in Religion had changed the Govern- 
ment, the Chrijlnings were but two thirds of 
the Burials. And in the Year 16 59, not half, 
viz. the Burials were 14720 (of the jPlague 
but 36) and the Chrijlnings were but 5670; 
which great difproportion could be from no 
o.her Caufe thau that abovementicned, for- 
afunich as the fame grew as the Confufions and 
Changes grew. 41. Moreover, although the Bills give us 
in Anno 1659, but 5670 Chrijlnings,yzt they 
give us 421 jibortives, and 226 dying in 
Child bed; whereas in the Year 1631, when 
the Abortives were 410, that is,near the num- 
ber of the Year 1659, the Chriftnings were 
8288. Wherefore by the proportion of 
jibortives, Amo 1659, the Chrijlnings fliould 
have been about : but if we (hall reck- 
on by the Women dying in Childbed, of whom 
a better Accompt is kept than of Stilborns 
and Abortives, we (hall find Anno 1659, 
there were 226 Childbeds 5 and Anno 1631, 
112, viz,, not Wherefore I conceive that 
the true number of the Chrijlnings, Anno 
1659, is above double to the $690 fet down 
inour Bills; that is, about 11500, and then 
the Chrijlnings will come near the fame pro- 
portion to the Burials, as hath been obferved 
in former times. 
42. In regular Times, when Accompts 
were well kept, we find tlhat not above three 
in 200 died in Childbed, and that the number 
of Abortive* was about treble to that of the 
Women dying in Childbed: from whence we 
may probably colled, that not one Woman 
of an hundred (I may fay of two hundred ) 
dies in her Labour ; forafmuch as there be 
ocher Caufes of a Womans dying with- in the Month , than the hardnefs of her La- 
bour* 
43. If this be true in thefe Countries, 
where Women hinder the facility of their 
Child bearing by affefted ftraiteningof their 
Bodies; then certainly in America,where the 
fame is not pra&ifed, Nature is little more 
to be taxed as to Woman, than in Brutes, a- 
mong whom not one in fome thoulands do dye 
of their Deliveries: what I have heard of the 
Irijb women confirms me herein. 
44. Before we quite leave this matter, we 
fball infert theCaufes, why the Accomptof 
Chriflnings hath been negletfedmore than that 
of Burials: one, and the chief whereof, was 
a Religious Opinion again# Baptizing of In- 
fants, cither as unlawful, or unnecefiary* If 
this were the only reafon, we might by our 
defers of this kind conclude the growth of 
this Opinion, and pronounce, that not half 
the People of England, between the years 
1650 and 1660, were convinced of the need 
of Baptizing. 
45. A fecond Reafon was, The fcruples 
which many publick Minifters would make 
of the worthinefs of Parents to have their 
Children Baptized, which forced fuch que- 
stioned Parents, who did alfonot believe the 
necefficy of having their Children baptized by fuch Scruplers, to carry their Children 
unto filch other Minifters,as having perform- 
ed the thing, had not the Authority or Com- 
mand of the Regifter to enter the Names of 
the bdptized. 
46. A third Rcafon was, That a little Fee 
was to be paid for the Regiftry. 
47. Upon the whole matter it is moft cer- 
tain, That the number of Heterodox Believers 
was very great between the faid year 1650 
and 16603 and fo peevifh were they, as not 
to have the Births of their Children Regi- 
fired, although thereby the time of their 
coming of Age might be known, in refpeft 
of fuch Inheritances as might belong unto 
them *, and withal, by fuch Regiftring it 
would have appeared unto what Parijb each 
Child had belonged, in cafe any of them 
fhonld happen to want its relief. 
48. Of Convulfions there appeared very 
few, viz. but 52 in the year 1639, which in 
1636 grew to 709, keeping about that flay 
till 1659, though fometimes rifing to about 
iooo. 
49. It is to be noted, That from 1629 
to 1636, when the Convuljions were but 
few, the number ofChryfoms and Infants was 
greater; for in 1629, there were of Chryfoms 
and Infants 2596, and of the Convujfion 52, viz. of both 2 648. And in 1636 there were 
of Infants 1895, and of the Convulfions 7095 
in both 26C4, by which it appears, that this 
difference is likely to be only a confufion in 
the Accounts. 
50. Moreover, we find that for thefc la- 
ter years, fince 1636, the total of ConvuJff- 
cm and Ckryfoms added together are mud) 
lefs, viz. by about 4C0 or 500 per Annum\ 
than the like Totals from 36, which 
makes me think, that Teeth alfo were thruft 
in under the Title of Chryfonts and Infants , 
inafmuchas in the faid years , from 1629 to 
1636, the number of Worms and Teeth wants 
by above 40c per Annum of what vve find in 
following years. CHAP. IV. 
Of the Plague. 
i. xjEfore we leave to difcourie of the Ca- 
|J [whies, we (hall add fomething con- 
cerning that greateft Difeafe or Cajualty of 
all,. The Plague. 
There have been in London, within this 
Age, four times of great *J\/Lortality, that is 
to fay,the years 1592 and 1593, *603,1625 
and 1636. 
There died Anno 1592, from March to 
December, 25 586 
Whereof of the Plague 1150 3 
Anno 1593* 17844 
Whereof of the Plague 10662 
Chrijlned in the faid year 4o 2 r 
- Anno *603,-within the fame fpace of 
time, were Buried 37294 
Whereof of the Plague 30561 
Anno 1625, within the fame fpace 51758 
Whereof of the Plague 354*7 
■ * Anno 1from April to Decemh, 23359 
Whereof of the Plague 10460 2. Now it is manifeft of it felfj in which 
of thefe years moft died ; but in which of 
them was the greateft Mortality of all Difea- 
fes in general, or of the Plague in particular, 
we difeover thus. In the Years 1592, and 
1636, we find the proportion of thofe dying 
of the Plague in the whole to be near alike, 
that is, about 10 to 23, or 11 to 25, or as a- 
bout 2 to 5. 
3. In the Year 1625, we find the Plague 
to bear unto the whole in proportion as 3$ 
to 5r, or 7 to 10, that is almoft the tripli- 
cate of the former proportion; for the Cube 
of 7 being 343, and the Cube of 10 being 
1000, the faid 343 is not J-of roooz 
4. h\ Anno 1603, the proportion of the 
Plague to the whole was as 30 to 37, viz, as 
4 to 5, which is yet greater than the laft of 7 
to 10 : For if the year 1625 had been as 
great a Plague year as 16133, there muft have 
died not only 7 to 10 , but 3 to 10, which 
in thofe great numbers makes a vaft differ- 
ence. 
5* We mu ft therefore conclude the year 
1603 to have been the greateft Plague year of 
this Age. 
6. Now to know in which of thefe four 
was the greateft Mortality at large, we rcafon 
thus: Anno _ 
1592I 
! Buried 
|Chriftned 
26490! 
4277 
or. 
as 1 
6 
\i 
Anno 
1603 
There died in the whole 
year of all 38244 
'Chriftned 4784 
or 
as 
S 
Died in the 
) whole year 
) S4265 
.Chriftned 6983 
1 to 8,or 
1 \ to 10 
Anno 
162$ 
or 
’ as 
IS 
} t 
'There died, ut fopra, 23359 
.Ghriftned 9522 
Anno 
1636* 
or 
as, 
5 
2 
7. From whence it appears, That Anno 
1636, the Chriftnings were about \parts of 
the Burials: Anno 1592 but in the 
year 1603 , and 1625, not above an eighth: 
fo that the faid two years were the years of 
great eft Mortality. We fa id that the year 
1603 was the greateft Plague year. And now 
vvefay, that the fame was not a greater year 
of Mortality than Anno 1625. Now to re- 
concile thefe two Petitions, we muft alledge* 
that Anno 162 5,there wasaoerrour in the Ac- 
compts or Diftinflions of the Cafualties *, that 
is, more died of the FUgue than were re* counted for under that name. Which Alle* 
gation we alfo prove thus, vtz> 
8. In the faid year 1625 there are faid to 
have died of the Plague 354175 and of all 
other Difeafes 18848 ; whereas in the years, 
both before and after the fame, the ordinary 
number of Burials was between 7 and 8000 . 
io that if we add about 11000 (which is the 
difference between 7 and r 8) to our 3 5, the 
whole will be 46000, which bears to the 
Whole 54000, as about 4 to 5, thereby ren- 
dring the faid year 1625 to be as great a 
Plague* year as that of 1603, and no greater; 
Which anfwers to what we proved before, 
that the Mortality of the two years was 
equal. 
9. From whence we may probably fufpefr, 
that about j part more died of the Plague than 
are returned for fuch ; which we further 
Prove by noting, that Anno 1636 there died 
*0400 of the Plague, the whereof is 2600* 
there are faid to have died of all other 
difeafes that Year 129 59, out of which num- 
ber deducing 2600 , there remain 10359, 
niore than which there died not in feveral 
Vear$ next before and after the faid Year 
* 636. 
to. The next Obfervation we (hall offer is, 
*hat the Plague of i6o3lafted eight Years. In Tome whereof there died above 4000, in 
others above 2000,and in but one fewer than 
600: whereas in the Year 16 24 next prece* 
ding, and in the Year 1626 next following 
the faid great Plague-year 1625, there died 
in the former but 1 r, and in the later bur 134 
of the Pltgui\ Moreover, in the faid Year 
1 <$25, the Plague decreafed from its utmoft 
number 4461 a week, to below 1000 within 
fix weeks. 
ir. The Plague of 1636 Jafted twelve 
Years, in eight whereof there died 2000 per 
annum one with another, and never under 
300. The which fliews, that the Contagion 
of the Plague depends more upon the Difpo- 
fition of the Jir , than upon the jEjffluvit 
from the Bodies of men. 
12. Which alfo we prove by the fuddain 
jumps which the FUgue hath made, leapifg 
in one Week from 118 to 927 ; and back 
again from 99 3 to 258 •, and from thence a* 
gain the very next Week 10852. The which 
EfFefts mufi: furely be rather attributed to 
change of the Air, than of the Conftttutiofl 
of Mens Bcdi?s, otherwife than as this de* 
pends upon that; 
13. Ir may be alfo noted,That many time5 
other Pefhlential Difeafes, as Pur fie Fevers, 
Small-Pox, See. do fore-run the Plague * Year, two or three3 for in 1622 there died 
but 8000: in 1623, 11000: in 1624, about 
12coo % till in 16 2 $ there died of all Difea- 
fes above 54000. 
CHAP. V. 
Other Observations upon the Plague, 
, and Cafitalties,. 
i. 'T'H E Decreafe and Imreafe of Peo 
X pie is to be reckoned chiefly by 
Chrijlenings, becaufe few bear Children in 
London but Inhabitants, though others die 
there. The Accounts of Chrijlenings were 
well kept, until differences in Religion occa* 
Honed fome neglcft therein, although even 
thefe neglefts we muft confefs to have been 
tegular and proportionable. 
2. By the numbers and proportions of 
Chrijlenings therefore we obferve as follow* 
eth, vizi, 
Firft, That ("when from December i6o2, 
to March following, there was little or no 
Plague) then the Chrijlenings at a Alodium 
Were between no and 130 per Week, few Weeks being above the one, or below the o- 
therjbut when from thence to July the Plague 
increafed, that then the Cbrijlenwgs decreaf- 
ed founder90. 
Secondly, The Queftion is,Whether Teem- 
ing- Women died, or fled, or mifcarried ? The 
Jatter at this time feems moft probable, be- 
caufe even in the faid fpace, between March 
and July, there died not above 20 per Week 
of the Plague 5 which fmall number could 
neither caufe the death or flight of fo many 
Women, as to alter the proportion j pare 
lower, 
3, Moreover, We obferve from the 21 of 
July tosthe 12 of October, the Plague increas- 
ing reduced the Chriften'tngs to 70 at a Medi- 
um, diminifliing the above proportion down 
to Now the caufe of this muft be flving, 
and death, as well as Mifcarriages and Abor- 
tions 5 for there died within that time about 
2$ooo, whereof many were certainly Wo- 
child : befides , the fright of fo 
many dying within fo fmall a time, might 
dive away fo many others, as to caufe this 
EfFetf. 
4. From December 1624, to the middle 
of April 1625, there died not above five a 
W(ekof the Plague, one with another. In 
do is time, the Qjrijtcmngs were one with ano- ther 180. The which decreafed gradually 
by the 22 of September to 75, or from tha 
proportion of 1 z to 5>which evidently fquares 
with our former Obfervation. 
5. The next Obfervation we (hall offer is, 
The time, wherein the City hath been Re-peo- 
fled after a great Plague; which we affirm to 
be by the fecond year. For in r627 the Chri- 
Jlenings (which are our Standard in this Cafe) 
were 8408, which in 1624, next preceding 
the Plague-year 1625 (that bad fwept away 
above 54000 } were buc 8299 3 2nd the 
Cbriflentngs of 1626 (which were but 6701) 
mounted in one year tothefaid 8408. 
6. Now the Caufe hereof, forafmuch as it 
cannot be a fupply by Procreations; Ergot 
it muft be by new Affluxes to London out of 
the Country. 
7. We might fortifie this Affertion by 
fliewing, that before the Plague*year 1603, 
the Chrijlenings were about 6000, which 
Were in that very year reduced to 4789, but 
crept up the next year 1604 to 5458, reco- 
vering their former ordinary proportion in 
*6©5 of 6504, about which proportion it 
flood till the year r6io. 
8. I fav, it followeth, that, let the Mor- 
tality be what it will, the City repairs its lofs 
°f Inhabitants within two years 5 which Ob^ fervation leflensthe Qbjeftion made againft 
the. value of Houfes in London, as if they 
were liable to great prejudice through the 
3ofs of Inhabitants by the Plague. 
CHAP. VI. 
{'•>. * v • r i oicjh . '■ ■ ~ 
Qfitbe Sicklinefs, Healthfulnefs and 
':::; L; p Fruitfulnefs of Seafons. 
f • T T Aving.fpoken of Cafualties,we come 
171 next to ..compare the Sicklinefs, 
Healthful nefs,. and f ruitfulnefs of the feveral 
•Years, and $eafons one with another. And 
firft, having in the Chapters afore going men- 
tioned the fevecahyears of Plague, we (hall 
n£XC prefent the feyeral other fieldy years; 
tye meaning by a [tckly Year fuch wherein the 
Burials exceed ttiofe, both of the precedent 
and.fubfequent years,and not above two hun- 
dred dying of tht Plague, for fuch we call 
Plague-Years; and this we do,that the World 
may fee, by what fpaces and intervals we 
may hereafter expeft fuch times again. Now, 
we may not call'that a morefickly year,where- 
in more die 3 beqnjfe fuch excefs of Pariah may proceed from increafe and acccfs of 
People to the City only. 
2. Suchfickly years were 1618, a®, 23, 
24, 1632,33,34, 1649, $2,54,56,58,61, as 
may be leen by the Tables. 
3* In reference to this Obfervation we 
fiiall prefent another, namely,That the more 
fickly the years are, the lefs fecund or fruit- 
ful of Children alfo they be. Which will ap- 
pear, if the number of Children born in rhe 
Caid fickly years be lefs than that of the years 
both next preceding and next following: all 
which, upon view of the Tables, will be 
found true, except in a very few Cafes,where 
fometimes the precedent, and fometimes the 
fubfequent years vary a little, but never both 
together. Moreover, for the confirmation 
of this Truth, we prefent you the year 1660, 
where the Burials were fewer than in either of 
the two next precedent years by 2000, and 
fewer than in the fubfequent by above 4000.- 
And withal, the number of Chriflen'tngs in the 
faid year 1660 was fir greater than in any of 
the three years next afore going. 
4. As to this year 1660 , although we 
would not be thought Superflitiout, yet it is 
not to be negle&ed, that in the faid year was 
fheK/'/ig’s Rejlauratiov to His Empire over 
ihcfe three Nations, as if Cod Almighty bad caufed the healthfulnefs and fruitfulnefs there- 
of to repair the Bloodjhed and Calamities fuf- 
fered in His abfence. I fay , this conceit 
doth abundantly counterpoife the Opinion of 
thofe who think great Plagues come in with 
King s Reigns, becaufeit hapned fo twice, 
viz. Anno 1603,and 1625 5 whereas as well 
the year 1648, wherein the prefent King 
commenced His Right to reign, as alfo the 
year r66o, wherein He commenced theexer- 
cife of the fame, were both eminently health- 
ful : which clears both Monarchy, and our 
prefent King's Family, from what feditious 
men have furmifed againft them. 
5. The Difeafes, which befide the Plague 
make years unhealrhful in this City, are Spoh 
ted-Fevers, Small-Pox, Dyfentery, called by 
fome The Plague in the Gutstand the unhealthr 
fulSeafonis the jiutumn. CHAP. VII. 
Of the difference between Burials and 
Cbrifienings. 
i. r I £ next Obfervation is, That in 
X the faid Bills there are far more Bu- 
rials than Chrijlenings. This is plain, de- 
pending only 
for, in 40 years, from the year 1603, to the 
year 1644, exclujive of both years, there 
have been fet down fas hapning within the 
fame ground, fpace, or Parifhes) although 
differenrly numbred and divided , 363935 
burials, and but 330747 chrijlenings within 
the97, 16, and 10 Out Parifhes; thofe of 
Wejlminjler, Lambeth, Newington, Re dr iff, 
Stepney, Hackney, and ijlington, not being 
included. 
2. From this fingle Obfervation it will fol- 
low, That London fhould have decreafed in 
its People; the contrary whereof we fee by 
its daily increafe of Buildings upon newFoun- 
dations, and by the turning of great Palaci- 
os Hcufes into final] Tenements. It is there- fore certain,that London is fupplied with Peo- 
ple from out of the Country, whereby not 
only ro fupply the overplus differences of 
Burials above mentioned, buclikewife to in- 
creafe its Inhabitants according to the faid in- 
creafeof hauling, ; 
3, This fupplying of London feems to be 
the reafon, why Winchefier, Lincoln, and 
feveral other Cities have decreafed in their 
Buildings and confequently in their Inhabi- 
tants. The fame may be fufpeded of many 
Towns in Cornwall and other places, which 
probably, when they were firff allowed to 
fend Burgeffes to the Parliament, were more 
populous than now’,and bore another propor- 
tion to London than now • for feveral ofthofe 
Burroughs fend two Burgeffe/, whereas Lon- 
don \t felf fends but four, although it bears 
the fifteenth pare of the charge of the 
whole Nation in all Bubiick Taxes and Le- 
vies. 
4. Bur, if we confider what I have upon 
exaft enquiry found true, viz. Thar in the 
Country, within ninety years, there have been 
6339 Chrijlenings, and but 5280 Burials, the 
increafe of London w ill be (alved without in- 
ferring the decreafe of the People in the 
Country 5 and withal, in cafe all England 
have but fourteen times more Feople than London, it will appear,how the faid increafe 
of the Country may increafe the People,both 
of London and it felf; for if there be in the 
97, 16, 10, and 7 Pariflies, ufually compre- 
hended within our Bills, but 460000 Souls, 
as hereafter we fliall fhew, then there are in all 
England and Wales 6440000 Perfons, out of 
which fubtradt 460000, for thofe in and a - 
bout London, there remain $980000 in the 
Country, the which increafing about part in 
4© years, as we fhall hereafter prove doth 
happen in the Country, the whole increafe of 
the Country will be about 854000 in the 
faid time; out of which number, if but a- 
bout 250000 be fent up to London in the faid 
40 years, viz,, about 6000 per Annum, the 
faid Mi/fions will make good the alterations, 
which we find to have been in and about Lon- 
*b#,between the years 1603 and i644above- 
men?ioned:But that 250000 will do the fame, 
l prove thus, viz. in the 8 years, from 1603 
to r6i2, the Burials in all the Pariflies, and 
of all Difeafes, the Plague included, were at 
a Medium 9750 per Annum. And between 
1635 and 1644 were rScoo, the difference 
whereof is 8250, which istheToral of the 
increafe of the Burials in 40 years, that is, 
about 206 per Annum. Now, to make the 
burials increafe 206 per jtinnum, there mu ft be added to the City 30 times as many (ac- 
cording to the proportion of 3 dying out of 
ir Families) viz,. 61 So Jdvenat the which 
number multiplied again by the 40 years, 
makes the Produft 247 200,which islefs than 
the 250000 above-propounded *, foas there 
remain above 600000 of increafe in the 
Country within the faid 40 years, either to 
render it more populous, or fend forth into 
other Colonies, or Wars, Buc that England 
hath fourteen times more People, is not im- 
probable, for the Reafons following. 
r. London is obferved to bear about the 
fifteenth proportion of the whole Tax. 
2. There are in England and Wales about 
39000 fquare Miles of Land, and we have 
computed that inoneofthegreateft Parifhes 
in Hantjhire, beingalfoa Market-Town, and 
containing twelve fquare Miles,there are 220 
Souls in every fquare Mile, out of which I 
abate' for the over-plus of People more in 
that Parifh than in other wild Counties. So 
as the a- parts of the faid 220, multiplied by 
the Total of fquare Miles, produces 6400000 
Souls in all London included. 
3. There are about 10000 Parifhes in 
England and Walts, the which.although they 
fiiould not contain the of the Land, 
northed of the People of that Country-Pa- rift, which we have examined, yet may be 
fuppofed to contain about 600 People, one 
with another: according to which Account 
there will be fix Millions of People in the Na- 
tion. I might add, that there are in England 
and Wales about five and twenty Millions of 
Acres at 16 \ Foot to the Perch 5 and if there 
be fix Millions of People, then there is about 
four Acres for every head, which how well 
it agrees to the Rules of Plantation, 1 leave 
Unto others, not only as a means to examine 
my Aflertion, but as an hint to their enquiry 
concerning the fundamental Trade, which is 
Husbandry, and Plantation. 
4. Upon the whole matter we may there- 
fore conclude, That the People of the whole 
Nation do increafe, and confequently the de- 
creafeof Winchejler, Lincoln, and other like 
places, mutt be attributed to other Reafons, 
than that of re-furnifhing London only* 
5. We come to (hew, why although in the 
Country the Chrijlenings exceed the Burials, 
yet in London they do nor. The general Rea- 
fon of this muft be, that in London the pro- 
portion of thofe fubjeft to die, unto thofe ca- 
pable of breeding , is greater than in the 
Country 5 That is, let there be an hundred 
Perfons in London, and as many in the Coun- 
try ; we fay, that, if there be fixty of them Breeders in London,there are more than fixty 
in the Country, orelfe we muft fay* that 
London is more unhealthful,or that ic inclines 
Men and Women more to Barrennefs, than the 
Country: which by comparing the Burials 
and Chriftenings of Hackney , Newington, 
and the other Country-Parishes, with the 
moft Smoky and Stinking parts of the City, is 
fcarce difcernible in any confiderable de- 
gree. 
6. Now that the Breeders in London are 
proportionably fewer than thofein theCoun- 
try, arifes from thefe Reafons, viz. 
i. All, that have bufinefs to the Court of 
the King, or to the Courts of Juftice, and all 
Country-men coming up to bring Provifions 
to the City, or to buy Forein Commodities, 
Manufactures, and Rarities, do for the moft 
part leave their Wives in the Country. 
2* Perfons coming to live in London out 
of curiofity and pleafure , as alfo fuch as 
would retire and live privately, do the fame, 
if they have any. 
3. Such as come up to be cured of Difeafes 
do fcarce ufe their Wives pro tempore; 
4. That many Apprentices of London, 
who are bound feven or nine years from Mar- 
riage, do often ftay longer voluntarily. 5* That many Sea-men of London leave 
their Wives behind them, who arc more fub- 
jeft to die in the abfence of their Husbands, 
than to breed either without men, or with the 
ufe of many promifcuoufly* 
6. As for unhealthinefs,ir may well be fup- 
pofed, that although feafoned Bodies may, 
and do live near as long in London, as elfe- 
where, yet new-comers and Children do not: 
for the Smoaks,Stinks, and clofe dir, are lefs 
healthful than that of the Country ; other- 
wife why do fickly Perfons remove into the 
Countiry-Air ? And why arc there more old 
men in Countries than in London, for rata? 
And although the difference in Hackney and 
Newington, above-mentioned, be not very 
notorious, yet the reafon may be their vici- 
nity to London, and that the Inhabitants are 
moft fuch, whofe Bodies have firft been im- 
paired with the London-Air , before they 
withdraw thither. 
7. As to the caufes of Barrennefs in Lon- 
don , I fay, that although there fliould be 
none extraordinary in the Native Air of the 
place; yet the intemperance in feeding, and 
efpccially the Adulteries and Fornications, 
fuppofed more frequent in London than elfe- 
where, do certainly hinder Breeding. For 
a Woman, admitting fen Men, is fo far from having ten times as many Children, that flie 
hath none at all. 
8. Add to this, that the minds of men in 
London are more thoughtful, and full of bufi- 
nefs, than in the Country, where their work 
is corporal Labour and Exercifes ; All which 
promote Breeding, whereas Anxieties of the 
mind hinder it. 
CHAP. VIII. 
Of tit difference between the numbers 
of Males and Females. 
TH E next Obfervation is, That there 
be more Males r han Females. 
i. There have been Buried from the year 
1628, to the year 1662, exclufive, 209436 
Males,and but 190474 Females: but it will 
be That in London it may be indeed 
fo , though otherwife elfewhere ; becaufe 
London is the great Stage and Shop of bufinefs, 
wherein the Mafcnline Sex bears the greateft 
part. Fut we Anfwer, That there have been 
alfo Cbrijlened within the fame time 139782 
Males, and but 130866 Females, and that the Country* Accounts are coofonant enough 
to thofe of London upon this matter. 
2- What theCaufes hereof are, we (hall 
not trouble our felves to conjecture, as in o- 
therCafes: only we fhall defire, that Tra- 
vellers would enquire, whether it be the fame 
in other Countries* 
3. We fihould have given an Account, how 
in every Age thefe proportions change here, 
but that we have Bills of diftinCtion but for 
32 years, fo that we fhall pafs from hence to 
fome Inferences from this Conclufion *, as 
firft, 
I. That Chrijlian Religion , prohibiting 
Polygamy, is more agreeable to the Law of 
Nature, that is, the Law of God, thanikfo- 
humetifm, and others, that allow it: for one 
Man his having many Women, or Wives, by 
Law, fignifies nothing, unlefs there were ma- 
ny Women to one Man in Nature alfo. 
II. The obvious Objection hereunto is, 
That one Uorfe, Bull, or Ram, having each 
of them many Females, do promote increafe. 
To which I Anfwer, That although perhaps 
there be naturally, even of thefefpecies, more 
Males than Females, yet artificially, that is, 
by making Geldings, Oxen, and Weathers, 
lhere are fewer. From whence it will follow, 
That when by experience it is found how ma- ny Ews (fuppofe twenty ) one Rant will 
ferve , we may know what proportion of 
male-Lambs to caftrate or geld, ‘z/j.s.nmeteen, 
or thereabouts: for if you emafculate fewer, 
viz. but ten, you fhall, by promifcuous co- 
pulation ofeachofthofeten with two Females, 
hinder the increafe, fo far as the admittance 
of two Males will doit: but, ifyoucaftrate 
none at all, it is highly probable, that,every 
of the twenty stales copulating with every 
of the twenty Females, there will belittle 
or no conception in any of them all. 
III. And this I take to be the rrueft Reafon, 
why Foxes, Wolves, and other Vermin Jni- 
mats, that are not gelt,increafe not fafter than 
Sheep, when as fo many thoufands ofthefe are 
daily Butchered,and very few of the other die 
otherwife than of themfelvts* 
4- We have hitherto faid, There are more 
Males than Females ; we fay next, 'That the 
one exceed the other by about a thirteenth 
part. So thatalthoughmoreMendieviolenC 
deaths than Women, that is, morearejlain in 
Wars, killed by eJ‘Miftbance, drowned at Sea, 
and die by the Hand of JuJlice *, moreover, 
more Men go to Colonies, and travel into For- 
ein parts, than Women ; and laftly, more 
remain unmarried than of Women, as Fellows 
of Colleges, and apprentices above eighteen, &c. yet the faid thirteenth part difference 
bringeth the bufinefsbuc tofucbapafs, that 
every Woman may have an Husband, without 
lhe allowance of Polygamy. 
5* Moreover, although a Man be Prolifick 
fourty years, and a Woman but five and twen- 
ty, which makes the Males to be as $60 to 
325 Females, yet the caufes above-named* 
and the later marriage of the Men* reduce all 
*o an equality, 
6. It appearing, that there were fourteen 
Men to thirteen Women, and that they die in 
the fame proportion alfo *, yet I have heard 
Fhyficians fay, that they have two Women Pa- 
tients to one Man, which Affertion feems ve- 
ry likely 5 for that Women have either the 
Qreenftcknefs, or other like Diftempers, are 
hck of Breedings, Abortions, Child-bearing.> 
Sere-br e afts, Whites, Obftrutf ions, pits of the 
Mother, and the like, 
7. Now, from this it fbould follow, that 
tiiore Women fliould die than Men, if the num- 
ber of Burials anfwered in proportion to that 
Sicknefles : buc this muft be falved,either 
ky the alleging, that the Phyfictans cure thofe 
fo as few more die than if none 
fick 5 orelfe that Men, being more in* 
eniperate than Women, die as much by rea- 
°n of their Vices,- as Women do by the Infir- miry of their Sex and confequently, more 
zJWales being born than Females, more alfo 
die. 
8. In the year 1642 many Males went ouc 
of London into the Wars then beginning, in- 
fomuch as I expedied in the fucceeding year 
1643 to have found the Burials of Females to 
have exceeded thofe of Males, but no altera' 
tion appeared *, forafmuch , as 1 fuppofe* 
Trading continuing the fame in London, all 
thofe, who loft their apprentices, had others 
out of the Country 5 and if any lefc their 
Trades and Shops , that others forthwith 
fucceeded them : for, if employment for 
hands remain the fame, no doubt but the num' 
berof them could not long continue in dif 
proportion. 
9. Another pregnant Argument to the fatttf 
purpofe *Cwhich hath already been touched 
on) is, That although in the very year of 
Blague the Chrifienings decreafed , by tltf 
dying and flying ot Teeming-Women, yet 
very next year after they increafed fomewhat> 
but the fecond after to as full a number as if1 
the fecond year before the fa id Plague \ for 1 
fay again, if there be encouragement foraH 
hundred in London, that is, a Way how a11 
hundred may live better than in the Country’ 
and if there be void Homing there to recei^ them, the evacuating of a fourth or third part 
of that number mult foon be fupplied out of 
the Country ■; fo as the great jPlague doth not 
leffen the Inhabitants of the City, but of the 
Country, who in a fhort time remove them- 
felves from thence hither, fo long, until the 
City,for want of receipt and encouragement, 
regurgitates and fends them back. 
io. From the difference between Males 
and Females, we fee the reafon of making £»- 
*uehs in thofe places where Polygamy is allow- 
ed, the later being ufelefs as to multiplication, 
without the former, as was fiid before in cafe 
of Sheep and other Animals ufually gelt in 
thefe Countries, 
if. By confequence, this practice of Ca- 
stration ferves as well to promote increafe, as 
meliorate the Flefhof thofe Beafis that fuf- 
fer it. For that Operation is equally pradi- 
ted upon Horfes, which are notufed for food, 
as upon thofe that are. 
12. In Popijh Countries where Polygamy 
is forbidden, if a greater number of Males 
°blige themfelves to Calibate3 than the natu- 
ral over-plus, or difference between them and 
females amounts unto; ihen multiplication 
hindred : for if there be eight Men ro ten 
all of which eight Men are married 
c° eight of the ten Women, then the other two bear no Children, as either admit ting no Man 
at all, or elfe admitting Men as Whores (that 
is, more than one;) which commonly procre- 
ates no more than if none at all had been ufed: 
or elfe fuch unlawful Copulations beget Con- 
ceptions, buc to fruftrate them by procured 
Abortions, or fecret Murthers all which 
returns to the fame reckoning. Now, if the 
fame proportion of Women oblige themfdves 
to a Tingle life likewife, then fuch obliga- 
tion makes no change in this matter of m- 
creafe. 
13. From what hath been faid appears the 
reafon, why the Law is and ought to be fo 
ftrift againft Fornications and Adulteries: for, 
if there were univerfal liberty, the Increafe 
of Mankind would be but like that of Foxes 
at befr. 
14. Now forafmucb as Princes are not only 
Powerful, but Rich, according to the num' 
her of their People (Hands being the Father, 
as Lands are the Mother and Womb of Wealth) 
it is no wonder why States, by encouraging 
Marriage, and hindering Licentioufnefs, ad' 
vance their own Iotereft, as well as 
the Laws of God from contempt and viola' 
tion. 
15. It is a Blefllng to Mankind, that by 
this over-plus of there is this nature Bar to Polygamy: for in fach a Bate Women 
could not live in that parity and equality of 
expenfe with their Husbands, as now, and 
here they do. 
16. The reafon whereof is, not, that the 
Husband cannot maintain as fplendidly three, 
as one 5 for he might, having three Wives, 
livehimfelf upon a quarter of his Income,that 
is, in a parity with all three, as Well as, ha- 
ving but one, live in the fame parity at half 
with her alone: but rather, becaufe that to 
keep them all quiet with each other,and him- 
felf, he muft keep them all in greater aw, and 
lefs fplendour; which power he having, he 
will probably ufe it to keep them all as low as 
he pleafes, and at no more coft than makes 
for his own pleafurej the pooreft Sub;e#s, 
(fuch as this plurality of Wives muft be) be- 
ing mofteafily governed. CHAP. IX. 
Of the growth of the Cityt 
i, TN the year 1593 there died in the nine- 
ty ty feven Parifhes within the walls,and 
the fixteen withoat the walls ( befides 421 of 
the And the next year 3478., 
beiides 29 of the Plague: in both years 6986. 
Twenty years after there died in the fame 
ninety feven, and fixteen Parifhes, 12110, 
viz,. Anno 1614, 5873 5 and Anno 1615, 
6237 : fo as the fa id Pari flics are increafed, 
in the faid rime, from feven to twelve, or 
very near thereabouts. 
2. Moreover, the Burials within the like 
fpace of the next twenty years, viz. Anno 
i634andi635, were 15625, viz. asabout 
twenty four to thirty one: the which laft of 
the three numbers, 15625, is much more 
thandoubie to thefirft 6986 ; viz• the faid 
Panflies have in fourty years increafed from 
twenty three to fifty two. 
3. Where is to be noted, That although 
we were neceflifated to compound the faid ninety feven with the fixteen Parifhes, yet 
the fixteen Parifhes have increafed fatter than 
the ninety feven. For, in the year 1620, 
there died within the walls 2726,and in 1660 
there died but 3098 ( both years being clear 
of the Plague :) fo as in this fourty years the 
faid ninety feven Parifhes have increafed but 
from nine to ten, or thereabouts, becaufe the 
Honfing of the faid ninety feven Parifhes 
could be no other wife increaled , than by 
turning great Houfes into Tenements, and 
building upon a few Gardens. 
4. In the year 1604 there died in the ninety 
feven Parifhes 1 518, and of the Plague 280. 
And in the year 1660,3098, and none of the 
Plague; fo as in fifty fix years the faid Pa- 
rifhes have doubled. Thatfor- 
afinuch as the faid year 1604 was the very 
next year after the great Plague 1603 (when 
the City was not yet re-peopled) we (hall ra- 
ther make the comparifon between 2014, 
which died Anno i6o<?,and 3431 Anno 16595 
choofmg rather from hence to afferr, That the 
faid ninety feven and fixteen Parifhes increai- 
ed from twenty to thirty four, or from ten 
tofeventeen in fifty four years, than from one 
to two in fifty fix, as in the Iatt aforegoing 
Paragraph is fet down* 5. Anno 160$ there died in the fixteen 
Out-Parifhes 2974, aRd s/nno 1659, 69 8S : 
fo as in the fifty four years the faid Parishes 
have increafed from three to feven, 
6. jdnno 1605 there died in the eight Out- 
Parifties96o, Anno 1659 there died in the 
fame fcope of Ground, although called now 
ten Parifhes (the Savoy and Covent’Garden 
being added) 4301: fo as the faid Parifhes 
have increafed , within the faid fifty four 
years, more than from one to four. 
7. Moreover, there were Buried in all, 
Anno 1605, 5948, and Anno 1659, 14720, 
viz,, about two to five. 
S. Having fet down the proportions , 
wherein we find the faid three great'Divifions 
of the whole Pyle, called London, to have 
increafed; we come next to fhew what parti- 
cular Parifhes have had the inoft remarkable 
fhare in thefe Augmentations. Viz. of the 
ninety feven Parifhes within the Walls the in- 
creafeis not difcernible, but where great 
Houfes, formerly belonging to Noblemen, 
before they built others near White hall, have 
been turned into Tenements; upon which 
Account Alhallorvs upon the Wall is increafed 
by the converfion of the Marquefs of Witt* 
thefteSs Honfe, lately the Spanijb EmbafTa- 
dour’s, into a new Street; the like of Alder- man Freemans, and La Mettes near the Ex- 
change j the like of the Earl of Arundel7s in 
Loth bury, the like of the Bifhopof Lon- 
don’s Palace, the DeanofiW’s,and rhe Lord 
River’s Houfe now in hand; asalfoof the 
Dukes-PUce, and others heretofore. 
9. Of the fixteen Parishes, next without 
the Walls, Saint Giles Cr iff legate hath been 
moft en!arged,next tothatSaim Olaves South- 
wark, then Saint Andrew’s Holborn, then 
White-Chappel, the difference in the reft not 
being considerable. 
10. Of theOut-Parifhes, now called ten, 
formerly nine, and before that eight, Saint 
Giles7s and Saint in the Fields are 
moft increafed, notwithftanding Saint Paul's 
Covent-Garden was taken out of them 
both. 
n* The general Obfervation, which ari- 
fes from hence, is, That the City of London 
gradually removes Wejhcvard, and did not the 
Royal Exchange and London-Bridg ftay the 
Trade , it would remove much fafter: for 
Leaden-Hall-Jlreet, Bifhop’s-Gate, and part 
of Fen-Church Jlrect, have loft their Ancient 
Trade; Grace-Church fireet indeed keeping 
it felf yet entire, by reafon of its coojunfti- 
on with, and relation to London-Bridg. 12. Again, Canning-Jlreet and Watlin- 
Jlreet have loft their Trade of Woollen-Drape- 
ry to Paul’s Church Tard, Ludgate hill, and 
Fleet-Jlreet: the Mercery is gone from out of 
LumbardJlreet and Cheap-jide into Pater- 
Nojier-Rorv and Fleet-Jlreet. 
13. The reafons whereof are , That the 
King’s Court (in old times frequently kept 
in the City ) is now always at Wejlminjler. 
Secondly, the ufe of Coaches , whereunto 
die narrow Streets of the old City are unfit, 
hath caufed the building of thofe broader 
Streets in Covent-Garden, &c. 
14. Thirdly, where the Gonjumption of a 
Commodity is, viz., among the Gentry, 
the Venders of the fame muft feat them- 
felves. 
15. Fourthly, the cramming up of the void 
fpaces and Gardens within the Walls with 
Houfes, to the prejudice of Light and Air, 
have made men build new ones, where they 
lefs fear thofe inconveniencies. 
16. Conformity in Building to other civil 
Nations bath difpofed us to let our old Wood- 
en dark Houfes fall to decay, and to build 
new ones, whereby to anfwer all the ends 
above-mentioned. 
r 7» Where note, That when Lud-gate was 
the only Wejlern Gate of the City , little Building was Wejhvard thereof: but, when 
Holborn began to increafe , Newgate Was 
made. But now both tbefe Gates are not fuf- 
ficient for the Communication between the 
Walled City, and its enlarged Wefiern Sub- 
urbs , as daily appears by the intolerable 
flops and embaraffes of Coaches near both 
thefe Gates, efpecially hud-gate. 
CHAP. X. 
Of the Inequality cf Purifies. 
i. TT)Efore we pafsfrom hence, we fiball 
jj offer to consideration the Inequality 
of Pariflies in and about London, evident in 
the proportion of their refpe&ive Burials; 
for in the fame year were Buried in Cripple- 
gat e-Parijh 1191, that but twelve died in 
'trinity Minor its. Saint Saviours Southwark, 
and Betolptf s Bijhops-gate, being of the mid- 
dle fize, as burying five and 600 per Annum z 
fo that Cripple gate is an hundred times as big 
as the and 200 times as big as Saint 
John the Evangelift’s , Mary-Coal-Church, 
Bennt Cs-Grace- Church , Matthew Friday- jlrcety and fome others within the City. 
2. Hence may arife this Queftion, Where- 
fore fhould this Inequality be continued > If 
it be Anfwered, Becaufe that Pajlours of all 
forts, and fizes of Abilities, may have Bene- 
fices, each man according to his merit: we 
Anfwer, That a two hundredth part of the 
belt Parfon's learning is fcarce enough for a 
Sexto#. But befides, there feems no reafon 
of any difference at all, it being as much 
Science to fave one fingieSoul, as one thou- 
fand. 
3. We incline therefore to think the Pa- 
rifhes fliould be equal, or near, becaufe, in 
the Reformed Religions, the principal ufe of 
Churches is to Preach in: now the bignefs of 
fuch a Church ought to be no greater, than that 
unto which the voice of a Preacher of mid- 
dling Lungs will eafily extend 5 I fay eafily, 
becaufe they fpeak an hour or more toge- 
ther. 
4. The ufe of fuch large Churches, as Paul’s, 
is now wholly loft, we having no need of fay- 
ing perhaps fifty piaffes all ac one time , nor 
of making thofe grand Procefjions frequent in 
the Romijb Church; nor is the fbapeof our 
Cathedral proper at all for our Preaching Au- 
ditories, but rather the Figure of an Amphi- 
Theater with Galleries, gradually over-look- ing each other: for unto this Condition the 
Parifh-Churehes of London are driving apace, 
as appears by the many Galleries everyday 
built in them. 
5. Moreover, if Parifhes were brought to 
thefizeof Coalman-fir eet, Alhallovos-Barking, 
Chrifi-Cburch , Black-Friers , &c. in each 
whereof die between 100 and r 5 oper Annum, 
then an hundred Pariflies would be a fit and 
equal Divifion of this great charge, and all 
the Mtnifiers (Tome whereof have now fcarce 
fourty pounds per jinnum ) might obtain a 
fubfiftence. 
6. And laftly, The Church-Wardens and 
Over Jeers of the Poor might find itpoffible 
to difeharge their Duties, whereas now in the 
greater Out-Parilhes many of the poorer Pa- 
rilhioners through negleft do perilh, and 
many vicious perfons get liberty to live as 
they pleafe, for want of fome heedful Eye to 
overlook them. CHAP. xi. 
Of the number of Inhabitants, 
I Have been feveral times in company with 
men of great experience in this City, and 
have heard them talk feldom under Millions 
of People to be in London : all which I was 
apt enough to believe, until, on a certain 
day, one of eminent Reputation was upon 
occafion afTe.rting, That there was in the year 
i66r two Millions of People more than An- 
no 1625 before the great Plague. I muft con- 
fefs, that, until this provocation , I had 
been frighted, with that mif-underftood Ex- 
ample of David, from attempting any com- 
putation of the People of this populous place; 
but hereupon I both examined the lawfulnefs 
of making fuch Enquiries, and, being fatif- 
ficd thereof went about the work it felf in 
this manner: viz. 
2. Firft, I imagined, That, if the Con- 
jefture of the worthy Perfon afore-mentioned 
had any truth in it, there muft needs be about 
fix or fevcn Millions of People in London now; but, repairing to my Bills, I found, 
chat not above 15000 per Jinnum were buri- 
ed ; and confequently, that not above one 
in four hundred mufi: die per Annum, if the 
Total were but fix Millions. 
3. Next confidering, That it is efteemed 
an even lay, whether any man lives ten years 
longer, I fuppofed it was the fame, that one 
of any ten might die within one year. But 
when I confidered, that of the 15000 afore- 
mentioned about 5000 were Abortive and 
Still- boror died of Teeth, Convuljion, Rick- 
ets, or as Infants, and Chryfonts, and Aged 5 
l concluded, that of Men and Women, be- 
tween ten and fixty, there fcarce died 10000 
per Annum in which number being 
multiplied by 10, there muft be but r0000 
in all, that is not the £ part of what the AU 
derman imagined. Thefe were but fudden 
thoughts on both fides 5 and both far from 
truth, I thereupon endeavoured to get a little 
Hearer, thus: viz,, 
4. I confidered, that the number of Child• 
hearing Women might be about double to the 
Births: forafnmch asfuch Women, one with 
another, have fcarce more than one Child in 
two years. The number of Births I found, 
by thofe years wherein the Regijlries were 
'veil kept, to have been Tome what lefs than the Burials. The Burials in thefe late years 
at a Medium are about 13000, and confe- 
quently the Chrijlenings not above r 2000. I 
therefore efteemed the number of 'leemtng• 
Women to be 24000 : then I imagined, that 
there might be twice as many Families, as of 
fuch Women ; for that there roighc be twice 
as many Women Aged between 16 and 76, as 
between 16 and 40, or between 20 and 44 ; 
and that there were about eight Perfons in a 
Family, one with another, vi%. the Man and 
his Wife, three Children and three Servants 
or Lodgers : now S times 48000 makes 
384000- 
5. Secondly, I find, by telling the num- 
ber of Families in fome Pariflies within the 
Walls, that 3 out of r 1 Families per annum 
have died : wherefore, 13000 having died 
in the v hole, it fliould follow, there were 
48000 Families according to the lad-menti- 
oned Account. 
6. Thirdly, the Account, which I made 
of the Trained- Bands and Auxiliary Souldiers 
doth enough juftifie this Account. 
7. Andlaftly, I took the Map of Londort 
fet out in the year <658 by Richard New- 
court, drawn by a Scale of Yards. Now f 
gheflfed that in roo Yards fquare there mighc 
be about 54 Families, fuppofing every Hcuie to be 20 Foot in the front i for on two fidcs 
of the faid fquare there will be ioo Yards of 
Houfing in each, and in the two other fides 
80 each 5 in all 360 Yards: that is, 5 4 Fa- 
milies in each fquare, of which there are 220 
within the Walls, making in all 11880 Fa- 
milies within the Walls. But forafinuch as 
there die within the Walls about 3200 per 
Annum, and in the whole 13000 \ it follows, 
that the Houfing within the Walls is + part of 
the whole, and confequently, that there are 
47520 Families in and about which 
agrees well enough with all my former com- 
purations: the word whereof doth fufficient- 
Jy demonftrate, that there are two Millions 
ot People in London , which neverthelefs 
moft men do believe, as they do, that there 
be three Women for one Man, whereas there 
are fourteen Men for thirteen Women, aselfe- 
where hath been faid. 
8. We have (though perhaps too much at 
Random} determined the number of the In- 
habitants of London to be about 384000 : 
the which being granted , we afiert , that 
199 r r 2 are Males, and 184886 Females 
9. Whereas we have found, that of 100 
quick Conceptions about 36 of them die be- 
fore they be fix years old, and that perhaps 
but one furvivetb76; we having feven Pr- cads between fix and 76, we fought fix mean 
proportional numbers between 64, the re- 
mainder , living at fix years , and the one, 
which furvives76, and find, that the num- 
bers following are pra&ically near enough 
to the truth; for men do not die in exaft Pro- 
portions, nor in Fradti©ns, from whence 
arifies this Table following. 
Viz,. Of an hundred there die within the 
firft fix years 3 £6 
The next ten years, or Decad 24 
The fecond Decad 15 
The third Decad 9 
The fourth 6 
The next 4 
The next 3 
The next 2 
The next 1 
10. From whence it follows, that of the 
faid 100 conceived, there remain alive at fix 
years end 64. 
At fixcecn years end 40 
At twenty fix . 25 
At thirty fix 16 
At fourty fix 10 
At fifty fix 6 
At fixty 3 
At fevenry fix I 
At eighty o 11. It follows alfo, That of all which have 
been conceived, there are now alive 40 per 
Cent, above fixteen years old , 25 above 
twenty fix years old, drjic deinceps, as in the 
abovc-Table. There are therefore of Aged 
between 16and 56 thenumberof 40, lefsby 
fix, viz. 3 4. ; of between 26 and 66 the num- 
ber of 25, lefsby three, viz. 22 : &ficdc~ 
ineeps. 
Wherefore 3 fijppofing there be 199112 
Males, and the number between 16 and 5 6 
being 34 5 it follows, there are 34 per Cent» 
of all thofeMales fighting Men in London, 
that is 67694, viz. near 70000 ; the truth 
whereof I leave to examination , only the 
7 of 67694, viz. 13539, is to be added for 
Weftminfter, stepney, Lambeth, and the o- 
ther diftant Parifhesj making in all 81233 
fighting Men. 
12* The next enquiry will be, In how long 
time the City of London {hall, by the ordina- 
ry proportion of Breeding and dying, dou- 
ble its breeding Feople ? I anfwer, In about 
feven years, and (Plagues confidered) eight. 
Wherefore , fince there be 24000 pair of 
Breeders, that is i of the whole, it follow0, 
that in eight times eight years the whole Peo- 
ple of the City (hall double, without the ac- 
cefi> of Forreiners: the which concraditfs not our Account of its growing from two to five 
in 56 years with fuch accefies. 
13. According to this proportion, one 
couple , viz. Jdam and Eve , doubling 
themfelves every 64 years of the 5610 years, 
which is the Age of the World according to 
the Scriptures, Ihall produce far more People 
than are now in it. Wherefore the World is 
not above ro© thoufand years older, as fome 
vainly imagine, nor above what the Scripture 
makes ir. 
CHAP. XII. 
Of the Country-Bills. 
WE have, for the prefent, done with 
our Obfervat ions upon the Accounts 
of Burials and Chriftenwgs in and about Lon- 
don ; we fhallnexc prefent the Accounts of 
both Burials yChriJlenings ,and alfo of Weddings 
in the Country, having to that purpofein- 
ferred Tables of 90 years for a certain Parifii 
in Hantjhire, being a place neither famous 
for Longevity and Healthfulnefs, nor for the 
contrary. Upon which Tables wo obferve. 1. That every Wedding,one with another, 
produces four Children, and confequently 
that that is the proportion of Children which 
any Marriageable Man or Woman may be pre- 
fumed fhall have. For, though a man may 
be Married more than once, yet, being once 
Married , he may die without any Iffue at 
alb 
2. That in this Parifli there were born 15 
Females for 16 Males, whereas in London 
there were 13 for 14, which fhews, that 
London is foinewhat more apt to produce 
Males than the Country. And it is poffibJe, 
that in fomc other places there are moref>* 
wales born than Males: which, upon this 
variation of proportion, I again recommend 
to the examination of the curious. 
3. That in thefaid whole 9© years the#»« 
rials of the Males and Females were exaftly 
equal, and that in feveral Decads they differ- 
ed not r~ part; That in one of the two De- 
cads, wherein the difference was very noto- 
rious, there were Buried of Males 337, and 
of Females bur 284, viz. 53 difference, and 
in the other there died contrariwife 338 
Males, and 386 Females, differing 46. 
4. There are aifo Decads, where the Birth 
of and Females differ very much, viz* 
about 60. That in the faid 90 years there have 
been born more than buried in the faid Pa- 
rish (the which, both 90 years ago, and alfo 
now, confided of about 2700 Souls) but 
1059 , viz,, not 12 per Annum, one year 
with another. 
6. That thefe 1059 have in all probability 
contributed to the increafe of London $ fmee, 
as was faid even now, it neither appears by 
the Burials, Cbrijlenings, or by the built of 
nevv houfing, that the faid Parifh is more po- 
pulous now, than 90 years ago, by above 
two or 300 Souls. Now, if all other places 
fend about ~ of their increafe, viz. about one 
out of 900 of their Inhabitants Annually to 
London, and that there be 14 times as many 
People in England as there be in London (for 
which we have given fome Reafons ) then 
London increafesby fuch Advent every year 
above 6oco: the which will make the Ac- 
count of Burials to fwell about 200 per An' 
num,, and will anfwer the increafes we ob- 
ferve. . It is clear, that the faid Parifh is tn- 
creafed about goo, and it is probable that 
three or four hundred more went to London ; 
and it is known, That about 400 went to 
New-England, the Cartbc-IJlands , and Nav- 
found'Land, within thefe lift fourty years. 7. According to the Medium of the faid 
whole 90 years, there have been five Chrtftetf 
ings for four Burials, although in fome fingle 
Tears and Decads there have been three to 
two, although fometimes (though more rare- 
ly) the Burials have exceeded the Births, as 
in the cafe of Epidemical Difeafes* 
8. Our former Obfervation, That health- 
ful years are alfo the moft fruitful, is much 
confirmed by our Country Accounts ; for, 
70 being our Standard for Births, and58for 
Burials, you fhali find, that where fewer than 
58 died, more than 70 were born. Having 
given you a few infiances thereof, I fhali re- 
mit you to the Tables for the general proof 
of this Aflertion : Vizk Anno 1633 , when 
103 were born, there died but 29. Now, 
in none of the whole 90 years, more were 
born than 103, and but in one fewer than 29 
died , viz,. 28 Anno 1658. Again Anno 
1568, when 93 were born, but 42 died. 
Anno 1584, when 90 were born, but 41 di- 
ed. jinno 1650, when 86 were born, but 
52 died. So that by how much more are 
born, by fo much (as it were) the fewer die. 
For when 103 were born, but 29 died : but 
when but 86 were born, then 52 died. 
On the other fide, Anno 163%, when 156 
died per Annum, which was thegrearefi year of Mortality, then lefs than the meer Standard 
70, viz. but 66, were born. Again Anna 
1644, when 137 died, but 59 were born. 
Amo 1597, when 117 died, but 48 were 
born. And Anno 1583, when 87 died, but 
59 wete born. 
A little Irregularity may be found herein, 
as thatAnno 1612, when 116 died ( viz, a 
number double to our Standard 58, yet) 87 
(viz» 17 above the Standard 79) wereborn* 
And that when 89 died, 7 5w'ereborn: but 
thefe differences are not fo great, nor fo often, 
as to evert ourRule,which,befides the Autho- 
rity of thefe Accounts5is probable in it felf. 
9. Of all the faid 9© years the year 163S 
was the mod Mortal; I therefore enquired, 
whether the Plague was then in that Parifli, 
and having good fatisfa&ion that it w’as not, 
(which I the rather believe, becaufe that the 
Plague was not then confiderable at London) 
but that it was a Malignant Fever, raging fo 
fiercely about Harvefl, that there appeared 
fcarce hands enough to take in the Corn : 
which argues, confidcring there w*ere 2700 
Parifhioners, that feven might be Tick for one 
that died ; whereas of the Plague more die 
than recover. Laftly, thefe People lay long- 
er fick than is ufual in tbe Plague, nor was 
there any mention of Sores, Swellings, P,leve- Tokens, &c. among them. It follows, that 
the proportion between the greattfl and the 
leaft Mortalities in the Country are far great- 
er than at London : Forafmuch as the greateft 
156 is above quintuple unto 28 the leaft, 
whereas in London (the Blague excepted, as 
here it hath been) the number of Burials up- 
on other Accounts within no Decad of years 
hath been double, whereas in the Country it 
bath been quintuple,not only within the whole 
ninety years, butaifo within the fame Decad: 
for Anno 1633 there died but 29, and Anno 
1638 the above-mentioned number of 156. 
Moreover, as in London, in no Decad, the 
Burials of one year are double to thofe of a- 
nother; fo in the Country they are feldom 
trot more than fo ■ as by this Table appears. 
greatefi: 
leaf? 
Dead 
number 
0/ Burials 
i 
66 
34 
2 
37 
39 
3 
1 r 7 
3S 
, 4 
53 
30 
5 
116 
5* 
6 
39 
5° 
7 
156 
35 
3 
137 
46 ' 
9 
80 
28 Which fhews, that the opener and freer 
Airs Site moft fubjed both to the good and 
bad Impreflions, and that thc Fumes, Steams 
and Stenches of London do fo medicate and 
impregnate the Air about it, that it becomes 
capable of little more, as if the faid Fumes 
rifing out of London met with, oppofed and 
jufbed backwards the Influences falling from 
above, or refilled the Incurfionof the Coun- 
try- Airs. 
io. In the laft Paragraph we faid, that the 
Burials in the Country were fomedme quintu- 
ple to one another, but of theChriftenings 
we affirm, that within the fame Decad they 
are feldom double, as appears by this Table, 
*vtz,. 
Dec ad 
greateft 
number 
leaft 
<?/ JBirffo 
i 
7o 
50 
2 
90 
45 
3 
7i 
52 
4 
93 
60 
5 
87 
61 
6 
85 
6? 
7 
103 
66 
8 
S7 
62 
9 
86 
52 Now , although the difproportions of 
Births be not fo great as that of BurUls, yet 
thefe difproportions are far greater than at 
London: for let it be fliewn in any of the 
London Bills, that within two years the chri- 
flenings have decreafed i, or inereafed doa- 
ble, as they did Anno 1584, when 90 were 
born, and Anno 1586, wherein were but 45 : 
or to rife from 52, 1593, toyr, as 
in the next year 1594. Now thefe difpro- 
portions both in Births and Burials confirm 
what hath been before afferted, That Health- 
fulnrfs and Fruitfulnefs go together, as they 
would not, were there not difproportions 
in both, although proportional. 
11. By the Standard of Burials in this Pa- 
rifh I thought to have computed the number of 
Inhabitants in it, viz. by multiplying 58 by 
4, which made the Lroducl 232, the number 
of Families. Hereupon I wondred , that a 
Parifli containing a large Market-Town, and 
12 Milescompafs, fliould have but 232 Hou- 
fes; I then multiplyed 232 by 8, the JPro- 
dutf whereof was 1856, thereby hoping ro 
have had the number of the inhabitants, as I 
had for London; but when upon enquiry, J 
found t here had been 2100 Communicants in 
that Parifli, in the rime of a Mimjler who 
forced too many into that Ordinance, and that 1500 was the ordinary number of Com- 
municants in all times 3 I found alfo, that 
forafmuch as there were near as many under 
16 years old, as there are above, viz,. Com- 
municants, I concluded, that there muft be 
about 2700 or 2800 Souls in that Parifh: 
from whence it follows, that little more than 
one of 50 dies in the Country, whereas in 
London it feems manifeft, that about one in 
32 dies, over and above what dies of the 
Plague. 
12. It follows therefore from hence, what 
I more faintly aliened in the former Chap- 
ter, That the Country is more healthful than 
the City ; that is to fay, although men die 
more regularly, and lefsper faltum in London, 
than in the Country, yer, upon the whole 
matter, there die fewer per rata \ fo as the 
Fumes, Steams, and Stenches above-mention- 
ed, although they make the Air of London 
more equal, yet not more Healthful. 
13. When I confider, That in the Country 
fevency are Born for fifty eight Buried, and 
that before the year 1600 the like happened 
in London, Iconfidered, whether a City, as 
it becomes more populom, doth nor, for that 
very caufe, become more unhealthful: and 
inclined to believe, that London now is more 
unhealthful than heretofore ; partly for that it is more populous, but chiefly becaule I 
have heard, that fixty years ago few Sea Coals 
were burnt in which are now uni ver- 
fally ufed. For I have heard, that NevecaftU 
is more unhealthful than other places, and that 
many People cannot at all endure the finoak 
of London* not only for its unpleafantnefs, 
but for the fuffocations which it caufes* 
14. Suppofe, that Anno 1569 there were 
2400 Souls in that Pariih, and that they in- 
creafed by the Births 70, exceeding the Bu- 
rials 58, it will follow, that the faid 2400 
cannot double under 200. Now, if London 
be lefs healthful than the Country, as cer- 
tainly it is, the Blague being reckoned in, it 
follows, that London muft be doubling it felf 
by generation in much above 200 ; but if ic 
hath increafed from 2 to 5 in 54, asaforefaid, 
the fame muft be by reafon of tranfplantati- 
on out of the Country. The ConcluftoTU 
IT may be now asked, To what purpofe 
tends all this laborious buttling and gro- 
ping ? To know, 
i« The number of the People ? 
2. How many Males and Females? 
3. How many Married and Single ? 
4» How many Teeming Women ? 
5. How many of every Septenary, or De- 
cad, of years in age ? 
6. How many Fighting Men ? 
y# How much L0W00 is, and by whatfteps 
it hath, increafed } 
8. In what time the Houttng is replenifhed 
after a Plague i 
9. What proportion die of each general 
and particular Casualties ? 
io* What Years are Fruitful and Mortal, 
and in what Spaces and Intervals they 
follow each other? 
ii. In what proportion Men negledt the 
Orders of the Church, and Setts have 
increafed ? 12. The difproporcion of Pariflies? • 
13* Why the Burials in London exceed the 
Chriflenings, when the contrary is via- 
ble in the Country? 
To this I might anfwer in general, by fay- 
ing, that thofe, who cannot apprehend the 
teafon of thefe Enquiries, are unfit to trouble 
thcmfelves to ask them. ; 
2. I might anfwer by asking, Why fa ma- 
ny have fpent their times and Eftates about 
the Art of making Gold ? which, if it were 
ttmch known, would only exalt Silver into 
the place which Gold now pofiefietb 5 and if 
it were known but to fome one Perfon, the 
fame fingle Adeptus could not, nay, durft 
not enjoy it, but muff be either a Prifoner to 
fome Prince, and Slave to fome Voluptuary, 
nr elfe skulk obfeurely up and down for his 
privacy and concealment. 
3* I might anfwer , That there is much 
Pleafure in deducing fo many abftrufeand un- 
inferences out of thefe poor defpi- 
fed Bills of Mortality; and in building upon 
that ground, which hath lain wafte thefe eigh- 
ty years. And there is pleafure in doing 
fouiething new, though never fo little, wUh* 
°Ut peftering the World with voluminous 4. Butl anfwer more ferioufly, by com- 
plaining, That whereas the Art of Governing, 
and the trut Politicks, is how to preferve the 
Subject in Peace and Plenty 5 that men ftudy 
only that part of it which teacheth how to 
fupplant and over-reach one another, and 
how, not by fair out-running, but by trip- 
ping up each others heels, to win the 
Prize; ; . . • 
Now, the Foundation or Elements of this 
honeft-harmlefs Policy is to underftand the 
Land, and the hands of the Territory, to be 
governed according to all their intrinlick and 
accidental differences: As for example • It 
were good to know the Geometrical Content, 
Figure, and Situation of all the Lands of 
Kingdom, efpecially according toitsmoftna- 
tural, permanent, and confpicuous Bounds* 
It were good to know how much Hay an Acre 
of every fort of Meadow will bear ; hoW 
many Cattel ch^fame. weight of each fort of 
Hay will feed and fatten what quantity of 
Grain and other Commodities the fame Acre 
will bear in one, three,-or’feven years, corn' 
multibus-Ann is ; unto what ufe each foil is 
mod proper. All which particulars I call 
the intrinfick value : for there is alfo another 
value meerly accidental, or extrinfick, con' 
filling of the Caufes why a parcel of Land, lying near a good Market, may be worth 
double to another parcel, though but of the 
lame intrinfick goodnefs , which anfwers the 
Queries, why Lands in x\\g JSforth oi England 
are worth but fixteen years purchafe, and 
thofe of rhe Weft above eight and twenty. 
It is no lefs neceffary to know how many 
People there be of each Sex , State, Age, 
Religion, Trade, Rank , or Degree, &c. 
by the knowledge whereof, Trade and Go- 
vernment may be made more certain and Re- 
gular ; for , if men knew the People , as 
aforefaid, they might know the confumption 
they would make, fo as Trade might not be 
hoped for where it is impolfible. As for in- 
ftance, I have heard much complaint, that 
Trade is not fet in fome of the South-weftern 
and North weftern Parts of Ireland, there be- 
ing fo many excellent Harbours for that pur- 
pofe 5 whereas in feveral of thofe places I 
have alfo heard, that there are few other In- 
habitants, but fuch as live ex fponte create, 
and are unfit Subjefts of Trade, as neither 
employing others , nor working them- 
felves. 
Moreover, if all thefe things were clearly 
and truly known ( which I have but ghefled 
at) it would appear, how fmall a part of 
she People work upon neceflary Labours and Callings, viz. how many Women and Chil- 
dren do juft nothing, only learning tofpend 
what others get; how many are nicer Volup- 
tuaries, and as it were meer Camefters by 
Trade; how many live by puzling poor peo- 
ple with unintelligible Notions in Divinity 
and Philofophy ; how many by perfwading 
credulous, delicate, and litigious Perfons, 
that their Bodies or Eftates are out of Tune, 
and in danger; how many by fighting as Soul- 
diers$ how many by Miniftries of Vice and 
Sin; how many by Trades of meer Pleafure, 
or Ornaments; and how many in a way of lazy 
attendance, upon others : And on the 
other fide, how few are employed in railing 
and working neceftary Food and Covering; 
and of the fpeculative men, how few do ftu- 
dy Nature and 'things! The more ingenious 
not advancing much further than to write and 
fpeak wittily about thele matters. 
I conclude, That a clear knowledge of all 
thefe particulars, and many more, whereat I 
have fhoc but at rovers, is neceftary, in or- 
der to good, certain, and eafie Government, 
and even to balance Parties and Faflions 
both in Church and State. But whether the 
knowledge thereof be neceftary to many,or fir 
for others than the Sovereign and his chief Mi- 
ni fters. I leave to confideration. APPENDIX' 
FOrafmuch as a long and ferious perufal 
of all the Bills of Mortality , which 
this great City hath afforded for almoft 
fourfeore years, hath advanced but the few 
Obfervations comprifed in the fore-going 
Treatife$ I hope very little will be expeft- 
ed from the few fcattered Papers that have 
come to my hands fince the publiftnng there- 
of , efpecially from one that hath learned 
from the Royal Society, how many Obfervati- 
ons go to the making up of one Tbeoreme, 
which (like Oaks and other Trees fit for du- 
rable Building ) rauft be of many years 
growths 
The Accounts which follow, I reckon but 
as Timber and Stones; and the beft Inferen- 
ces I can make, are but as hewing them to a 
Square : as for compofing a beautiful aod firm Strufture out of them,I leave it to theAr- 
chitedlureofthefaid«SVr/#y,underwhomltbink 
it honour enough to work as a Labourer* 
My firft Obfervation (hall be , That at 
Dublin the Number of Weekly Burials being 
about 20, and thofe of London about 300, 
as alfo the Number of People reckoned to 
be within the Limits of the Bills of Mortality 
at London to be 460000 $ ic will follow, that 
the Number of Inhabitants of Dublin be 
about 30000, viz. about one fifteenth part 
of thofe in and about London, which agrees 
with that Number which I have heard the 
Books of Poll-Money, raifed but little be- 
fore the time of this Bill, have exhibited as 
the Number of Inhabitants of that City : 
So as al though I do not think one fingle Week- 
ly Bill isfufficient to ground fiich a Conclufi- 
on upon, yet 1 think that feveral yearly Bills 
are the beft of the eafie ways from which to 
colleft the Number of the People. 
Secondly, Although I take ic for granted, 
that in Dublin there be more Born than Buri- 
ed, becaufe the fame hath appeared to be fa 
in London by the Bills of Mortality before 
the year 1641, when the Civil Wars began, 
and much more eminently in Amfierdam, as 
' fhall be hereafter fhewn $ yet there are but 14 
let down as Chriftned; which fhews, aC the defeft there is much the fame as at Lon- 
don, whether the caufe thereof be negligence 
in the Regifter, or non-conformity to Pub- 
lick Order, or both, I leave to the curious. 
I believe the caufe is alfo the fame, foraf1 
much as I heard it to be a Maxim at Dublin-, 
to follow, if not forerun, all that is, or as 
they underftand will be, pra&ifed in London ; 
and that in all particulars incident to humane 
affairs. 
I have here inferted two other Country: 
Rills, the one of Cranbrook in Kent, the other 
of Tiverton in Devonfhm?, which with that 
of Hantjhire , lying about the midway be- 
twec n them, give us a view of the moft Eafter- 
ly, Southerly, and Wefterly parts of Eng- 
land : I have endeavoured to procure the like 
account from Northumberland, Chejhire, Nor- 
folk and Nottinghamfhire ; Thereby to have 
a view of feven Counties moft differently fi- 
tuated, from w hence I am forry to obferve 
that my Southern friends have been hitherto 
more curious and diligent than tbofe of the 
North. The full obfervation from thefe Bills 
is, that all thefe three Country Bills agree, 
that each Wedding produces four Children, 
which is likewife confirmed from the Bills 
of Amfterdam. Secondly , they all agree 
that there be more Males born than Females, but in different proportions, for at Cranbrook 
there be 20 Males for 19 Females, in Bant' 
foire, 16 for 15, in London 14 for 13, and 
at Tiverton, 12 for 11. Thirdly, I have in- 
ferred the Bills themfelves, to the end that 
whoever pleafes may examin, by ail three to- 
gether, the Obfervations I raifed from the 
HantfiireKiW alone; conceiving it will be 
more pleafure and fatisfaftion to do it them- 
felves, than to receive it from another hand. 
Only I fhail add, as a new Obfervation from 
them all, that in the years 164S and 1649* 
being the time when the people of England 
did mo/l refenc the horrid Parricide of his 
late Sacred Majefty, that there were but nine 
weddings in that year in the fame places, 
when there were ordinarily between 30 and 
40 per Annum and but 16, when there were 
ordinarily at other times between 50 and 60. 
And it may be alfo obferved that fomething 
of this black murder appeared in the years 
1643 and 1644, w^en the Civil war was at 
the higheft , but the contrary in the years 
1654, 1655, &c. to prevent the new way 
of Marriage then impofed upon the peo- 
ple. 
I have aifo fupplied the Tables from the 
ihree general Bills for the years 1662, 1663, 
and 1664, which you will find to juftifie the former Obfervations. But moft eminent- 
Jy that which I take to be of moft concern- 
ment , namely , of the difference between 
the numbers of Males and Females. 
In the former Obfervations I did endea- 
vour to deduce the number of the Inhabitants 
about the City of London, from the Bills of 
Mortality , concluding them to be about 
460000, and did likewife fet forth by what 
Heps the people of the faid City have in- 
creafed from two to five fince the year 
1600. 
And particularly in what proportions the 
City increafed in its feveral parts from time 
to time: I have row procured an Account of 
the Men , Women , and Children, which 
were jinno 1631. found within the Liberties 
of London , which are circumfcribed by 
Temple'Bar, Bolborn-Bars , SmtthfieldBars, 
Shoreditch-Bart, White-chafpcl-Bars, and to 
the Tower Liberties , and Meal-market in 
Southwark; by which Account I hope it will 
appear, that I computed too many rather 
than too few, although the moft part of men 
have thought otherwife. Nor do 1 wonder 
at it, fince I never obferved more enormous 
miftakes in any matter than concerning the 
number of people , Ale-houfes , Coaches, 
Ships, Sea-men , Water-men, and feveral other Tradefmen, &c♦ The proportions of 
all which I have always thought is neceffary 
to be known, in order to an exaft Symmetry 
of the feveral members of a Common-wealth. 
I fay, that the whole number of Inhabitants 
exceeds not 460000. 
1. The number of Men , Women , and 
Children, found in the City and Liberties 
1631, was 130178. 
2. The Liberties of the City of London 
confift of the 97 Parities within the Walls, 
and ©f f of the 16 Parishes next without them, 
which eftimate of mine, neverthelefij I leave 
to examination. 
The Liberties of London from the year 
1631 to the year 166 r increafed from 8 to 11, 
as may appear by the Tables,and confequent- 
ly thefaid 130000 found in the year 1631, 
were increafed to 179000, in Anno 1661. 
Laftly, the Libertiesof London in the year 
1661 were in proportion to the whole, as 4 
to 9, andconfequently if there were 179000 
fouls, in the faid Liberties, there was not 
above 403000 in the whole number of Pat idl- 
es then comprehended intheBillsofMortaity. 
The fubftance of the Amfierdm Bills of 
Mortality is, viz. 
1. That there died in the feveral years of 
the Plague, as followeth ? Anna 1622 4*41 
1623 5929 
1624 11795 
1625 6781 
1626 4425 
1627 3976 
1628 4497 
1636 17193 
1655 16727 
1663 9752 
1664 24148 
2. That there are eleven burying* places, 
befides the Hofpital and Peft-houle, 257 
Streets and Lanes, with 43 Burgwalls and 
Grachts in that City. 
3* That in feven years, beginning from the 
15 of Augufi 1617 to the fame day 1624, 
there were Chriftned in the reformed Church- 
es of Amjlerdant 52537, and that there died 
in the fame time 32532. So as there were 
2oco 5 more born than buried, befides thole 
that were Chriftned in other Congregations. 
And in the fame time were 16430 publilht 
Marriages. 
4. That in the firft week of September 
1664 there died 1041 , and in eigh- 
teen weeks before the Burials increafed 
from 331 up to the faid number of 1041, and in twelve weeks after decreafed back to 
the likenumberof 330. 
5* In February following there died but 
118 a week, and the ordinary number of 
weekly Burials is about 100, fo as London 
leems to be three times as big as Amjler- 
dam. 
I have likewife hapned on fome other 
Accompfs, relating to Mortalities of fome 
great Cities of the World, of what Authori- 
ty I know not, but as printed at Amjlerdam 
1664, viz. jdnno 1619 there died in Grand 
Cairo in ten weeks without any vi- 
able diminution of the people. 
■7. Anno 1625 there died in Leyden 9597. 
Anno 1635 there died in the fame City of 
Leyden from the 14 of July, to the 29 of 
December 14381, the greateft week of mor- 
tality being the latter end of October was 
1452. This Plague in 15 weeks increafed 
from 96, to the faid number of 1452, and 
in ten weeks after deereafed to 107. An- 
fwerable to the time of Increafe and Decreafe 
afore*mentiofled in Amjlerdam, Anno 1 
there died in 21 weeks from July to Novem- 
ber 13287, the greateft week being Seftemb. 
25. when died 896. 
S. At Harlem there died in the fame year, 
in the months of Augujl, September, October 
and November 5723. 9. Anno 1637, in Conjlantinople there di- 
ed 1500 per diem, but how long this Piagiie 
lafted, appeareth not. 
re. The fame year died in Prague 20000 
Chriftians, and 10000 Jews* 
ir. Anno 1652 there died in Cracevia 
17000 Chriftians, and 2ooco Jews. 
12. Anno 1653 there died in in 
the laft week of September 640, and in Cerb 
ningsburg 490. 
13. 1654 there died in Copenhagen for fe- 
ver a 1 weeks 700 per week. 
14. Anno 1655 there died at Amsterdam 
and Leyden , as above-mentioned 3 and at 
Deventer 70, 80, and 90 per diem. 
15. Ac Leeuwardeen 5 6per diem. 
16. Anno 1656 there was lb fweeping a 
Plague at Naples, that there died of it at the 
latter end of May 1300, or 1400 per dtem. 
The fixth of June there were 80000 fick, 
that the well were not able to help, or bury 
the dead ; prefently after there died 5000 in 
three days 3 in it began toceafe, after 
it had deftroyed 300000 people. 
17. The Town of Scala in Italy was quite 
difpeopled , and at tMinory there fcaped 
but 22. At Rome there died in the fame 
year about 100 per diem for a great while 
together. 18. 1657 There died at Genoa in Mid- 
fummer week 1200 , afterwards there died 
1600per diem \ infomuch that in the begin- 
Ding of Augufi they burnt the dead Corps for 
want of hands to bury them , which great 
Mortality decreafed to five or fixper diem be- 
fore September was out. The total fum of 
all that died was about 70000. 
19. Ac Bergen in Norway , Anno 1618 
the Plague is reprefented to have been very 
terrible, by faying that there died 50 or 60 
per diem,and that the whole City was in tears, 
that the Coffimmakers refuted to make Cof- 
fins, that parents carried their children, and 
children their parents to the grave. But for- 
afinuch as it was not mentioned how populous 
this place was, nor for how many days the 
Mortality continued, I can make but little 
eftimate of this Plague, by what is above re- 
lated. 
20; The general Obfervations arifing from 
the above-mentioned particulars, are as fol- 
lowed]: 
Firft, That Northern, as well as Southern 
Countries are infefted with great Plagues; 
although in the Southern Countries they are 
more vehement, and do both begin and end 
morefuddenly. 
2i« Secondly , from the year 1652 the Plague was at Cracow, 16 5 3 at Dantzick and 
Comngsburg, 1654 at Copenhagen, 1655 at 
Leyden and Amfterdam, and other Towns in 
the Netherlands, 1656 at Naples and Rome, 
16 57 at Genoa;So as it well deferves enquiry, 
whether the Plague in all thefe places were a 
ficknefs of the fame kind,and did fucceflively 
perambulate the feveral Countries above- 
mentioned 3 or whether it were a feveral di« 
feafe in each place. 
2 2» Thirdly 5that the Plague is longer in ri- 
ling to its heighth, than in decreafing to the 
fame pitch;and the proportion thereof,infuch 
cafes where it hath moft plainly appeared, is 
about three to two 3 for at yimfterdam it was 
eighteen weeks rifing, and twelve decreafing ; 
and at Leyden fifteen upon theincreafe, and 
ten decreafing. 
It further obferved,that in the four 
feveral times of great Mortality, the height 
was not always in the fame month; for Anno 
1592 it was the fecond week in dugujt, when 
there died 1550 of all difeafes; in the year 
16© 3 the height was the fecond week of Sep- 
tember, when there died 3129 of all difea- 
fes ; in 1625 the extremity was in the third 
week in Augufi, when there died 5205. Anno 
1636 the like extremity was in the firft 
week of October, there then dying 4005 of all difeafcs. In this place I think fit to 
intimate , that confidering the prefenc 
increafe of the City from Anno 1625 to this 
time, which is from eight to thirteen, that 
until the Burials exceed S400 per week, the 
Mortality will not exceed that of 1625. 
Which God for ever averr. 
Ic may be further obferved, that the time 
of the Plagues continuance at the height was 
of feveral durations, for Anne 1592 it con- 
tinued from the firfi: week in July to the fe- 
condof September9 without increafing or de- 
creating above iooin 16005 whereas in 1603 
it remain’d but three weeks at the ftate, de- 
creafing \ the next week after the height* 
Anno 16x5 it remain’d not three weeks at a 
ftay,/increafing £ part the next week before 
the height, and decreafing as much the next 
week after* Anno 1636 it flood five weeks 
without increafing or decreafing above £ part 
afore-mentioned. 
Concerning the difeafe of the Plague, 
jinno 1592 it increafed to ~ of the greateft 
number that died in twenty weeks ; Anno 
1603, it did thefame in eleven *, Annum* 
in nine weeks* Anno 1636, as it was not fo 
fierce as in the other years, fo it was of long- 
er continuance , as hath been elfe-whetc 
noted. The laft thing I (hall obferve is, that in all 
the four great years of mortality above-men- 
tioned, I do not find that any week the Plague 
increafed to the double of the precedent week 
above five times. 
Anno 1631. Ann.j. Carolil. 
TH E number of Men , Women , and 
Children , in the feveral Wards of 
London,and Liberties: taken in Auguft 1631, 
by fpecial command from the Right Honoura- 
ble the Lords of His Majeftics Privy Council, 
"Algate Ward 04763 
Bifliopfgate 077 88 
Baflifhaw 01006 
Bread ft reec 02568 
Bridg-ward within 02392 
Bridg- ward without 18660 
Billingfgare ©2597 
Broadftreet 03 503 
Co!emanftreec 02634 
Cornhil 01439 
Cripplegate without 06445 
Cripplegate within 04231 
Farrington without 20846 
Farrington within 08770 
Cordwainer 02238 
89880 Alderfgate ©3594 
Limeftreet ©1107 
Queenhith ©335s 
Vintry 02742 
Tower-ward 04248 
Dowgate 03516 
Langbourn 03168 
Portfoken-ward 05703 
Cheap-ward 02500 
Wallbrook 02069 
Candle week-ward 01696 
Caftlc-Baynard 04791 
Bartholomew the great o r 3§f 
Bartholomew the lefs 00506 
38404 
89880 
130178 The Table of Burials, and Chriflnings, 
in London. 
Anno 
91 
16 
Out- 
Buried 
Btftdes 
Chrift- 
Dom. 
Pari- 
Pari- 
Pari* 
in all 
of the 
\ ned 
{his. : 
[his. 
jhes. 
Plague 
1*04 
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from the of July to the 2d of 
Augufi 1662. 
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The Total baptized 14. 
Total Buried 20. 
Jacob Tbring, Reg. Some further 
OBSERVATIONS 
O F 
Major John Graunt. 
WHereas in the Month of Decem- 
ber , in the Year 1672 , there 
were Chriften’d in the fevera! 
Pariftes of the City and Suburbs of Paris 
1366, and Weddings 68, and Buried 1153, 
yet of the Reformed Religion, in the fame 
fpace of Time and Place , there were 
Chriften'd but 27 , and Buried but 14. 
Ac a medium being compared to thegrofs 
fum , the Pro tenants in Paris are but as 
one to 65. 
A further Obfervation may be made ; 
That whereas in the whole Year of 1672, 
there were Buried 17584 , and the Chri- 
ftenings then were 18427, which difference between Chriftening and Burials was very 
agreeable with the difference formerly in the 
City of London , before Pbanaticifm and 
the Anabaptifts were known in thofeParts: 
But in the fame Year of 1672 in the City of 
London and Places adjacent, the Burials were 
18230 , and the Chriftenings but 12563* 
By which it plainly appears that 5 of the In- 
habitants of the Places aforefaid, are fuch as 
do not conform to the Do&rine and Difci- 
pline of the Church of England. 
As concerning the common Queflion , 
Whether Paris or London hath moft Inhabi- 
tants, my Anfwer muft be fram'd after this 
manner, upon fome Obfervations made Upon 
the numbers of Burials of each City. 
I find that in the City and Suburbs of PA' 
ris in the Years 1670, 1671, and 1672, the 
total number of the Burials was 56443, and 
in the Years aforefaid in the City of London*, 
Suburbs, and Places adjacent ( as appear? 
by the Annual Bills of Mortality) was Buri' 
ed 54r 57* 
But fince that Hackney, Lambeth, NeW' 
ington , IJlington , Rot her it h , Stepney and 
Wejlminfter, although put into the Bills °\ 
Mortality, they cannot properly be 
as parts of the City of London (Wejlminp[ 
being a diftin&City of it felf, and the othe*5 above-named Country Villages) and there 
having been Buried in the Places laft named in 
the three Years aforefaid (as appears by the 
faid Annual Bills) r ©boo, which being de- 
duced out of the number aforefaid, the re- 
maining number is 44157 , upon which I 
think the Comparifon muft be made. 
By which it appears that Farit hath ex- 
ceeded the City of London in the number of 
Burials 12286, which number is between a 
fourth and a fifth ofthe faid number of 56443, 
which is the Proportion of the difference in 
the number of Inhabitants; the City of Pa- 
rti having more than a fifth, and yet not a 
fourth more than the City of London. Cbrijteningr, Marriages , and 
Burials in the City of Pa- 
ris, 1670. 
l< 
>hrtftenings. 
Carriages.'‘Burials. 
3Anu try. 
1596 
353 
2350 
February. 
1712 
5*9 
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March. 
166 i 
048 
2033 
Ayril. 
1351 
267 
1882 
May. 
1342 
874 
17 !4 
Jme. 
1222 
354 
1644 
July. 
1348 
420 
154° 
Auzu/t, 
1420 
13'4 
2162 
Sep ember. 
140S 
343 
1845 
October* 
1312 
313 
1502 
November* 
1324 
479 
1290 
December. 
1120 
I076 
1340 
Total (16810 
3930 
21461 Chrijlenings, Marriages, and 
Burials in the City of Pa- 
ris, 1671. 
iCliriftenings. 
Marriages. Burials. 
January. A 
1675 
548 ‘ 
1150 
February. 
165 6 
489 
1 068 
March. 1 
i860 
56 
1218 
April. | 
159 5 
447 
1350 
May. 
1478 
324 
1431 
June. 
1331 
334 
1219 
1424 
337 
1358 
jiHgufb. 
1606 
324 
1502 
'September. 
1507 
327 
1897 
October♦ 
1 November\ 
1587 
1560 
321 
437 
1753 
2709 
'December. 
1253 
42 
1743 
j Total) 18532 
13986117998 Cbrijlenings, Marriages, and 
Burials in the City of Pa- 
ris, 1672. 
. u 
Chriftenings. 
Marriages.' 
Burials. 
January. 
1837 
325 
193° 
February. 
IS 20 
625 
1554 
March. 
1636 
108 
2008 
April. 
1572 
I 30 
1664 
May. 
1528 
332 
X55I 
June. 
1859 
349 
1602 
July. 
1414 
334 
1323 
Au^uft. 
1498 
271 
1407 
September. 
1379 
278 
1216 
October* 
148 r 
309 
1119 
November. 
*437 
433 
1057 
December. 
1366 
068 
'xx53 
Total 
1 184z7I , 3562! 17584 A 1 able /hewing how many died weekly, as well of all Difeafes, as of the Plague, in the Years 
1592,1603,1625,1630,1636; and this pre/ent Year 1665. 
Buried of all Difeafts i„ 
fnP Ypoi* i 
Buried of all Difeafes in 
Juried of all Difeafes in Buried of all Difeafes 
in 
Buried of all Difeafes 
in 
Buried of all Difeafes in 
the Year 1603. 
the Year 1625. 
the Year 1630. 
the Year 1636. 
the Year 166*. 
March 17 
March 24 
March 3 1 
April 7 
April 14 
April 21 
April 28 
Total 
Fla. 
total 
Flag. 
March 17 
'1 
rotal 
lag. 
4] 
Tot. 
PI. 
Total 
Via. 
Total 
Flag. 
230 
3 
Harch 17 
108 
3 
262 
une 24 
205 
19 
April 7 
lip 
2 
December 27 
2pi 
35i 
3i 
24 
60 
2 
24 
22 6 
8!July I 
2 Op 
25 
14 
205 
4 
January 3 
349 
2 ip 
3°7 
29 
27 
3i 
Vpril 7 
78 
66 
6 
4 
A . 31 
April 7 
2 43 
239 
I I 
IO 
8 
15 
217 
250 
43 
5° 
T/j« theft Ta- 
rifbet were added : 
S. M*rg. VVeflrain- 
10 
11 
394 
4i5 
203 
2 po 
33 
37 
14 
2t 
19 
p8 
4 
8 
H 
21 
256 
230 
24 
25 
22 
2p 
2 2p 
279 
40 
77 
Jttr,Lambeth Parifh, 
S. Miry Newing- 
ton, Tari[h, 
24 
31 
474 
4°p 
May 3 
May 12 
310 
4i 
28 
icp 
10 
M 28 
305 
26 
Auguft 5 
250 
5* 
S■ Mary Iflmgton, 
February 7 
393 
350 
0 r' 
2p 
5 
po 
U 
Mjy 
2p2 
3° 
12 
246 
*5 
Stepney and Hack: 
ney Tari/h*S. 
H 
461 
1 
May jp 
May 2 6 
June 2 
069 
38 
12 
i r 2 
18 
12 
232 
45 
l9 
2 6p 
54 
April 21 
285 
14 
21 
393 
300 
42 
*9 
12 2 
22 
i? 
379 
7i 
26 
270 
61 
28 
259 
17 
28 
3p6 
450 
58 
2 <5 
122 
3 2 
2 <s 
June 2 
401 
78 
September 2 
230 
66 
May 5 
251 
10 
March 7 
441 
Tune 0 
410 
62 j 
une 2 
1 r4 
30 
395 
69 
9 
2 59 
63 
12 
308 
55 
14 
43 3 
June i<5 
441 
81 
9 
131 
43 
9 
434 
91 
16 
264 
68 
19 
299 
35 
2 1 
365 
June 23 
June 30 
7 
July h 
July 21 
July 28 
Auguft 4 
Auguft 11 
399 
99 
16 
144 
5 9 
16 
510 
161 
23 
274 
57 
26 
330 
62 
28 
353 
401 
850 
108 
118 
23 
30 
182 
267 
72 
158 
23 
July |° 
<640 
942 
2 39 
390 
30 
Odober 7 
26p 
236 
56 
66 
June 2 
9 
339 
345 
77 
87 
April 4 
1 r 
344 
382 
M4c< 
7 July 7 
445 
26} 
1222 
593 
*4 
261 
73 
16 
381 
103 
18 
344 
1510 
'93! 
6 12 
424 
H 
1781 
1004 
21 
248 
60 
23 
2 04 
79 
v, 25 
39° 
2 
H9i 
1507 
1503. 
-58! 
S52I 
583 
r/;, Oct-Far fits 
thi* fVeek «>')'< 
with ‘he 
oty 
2r 
A, 28 
Auguft 4 
2850 
3583 
4517 
i8ip 
2471 
3^59 
28 
November 4 
11 
2 14 
242 
215 
34 
29 
29 
30 
July 7 
14 - 
3 5 2 104 
215 81 
372 104 
May 2 
9 
16 
388 
347 
3J3 
9 
3 
1550 
797 
July 21 
11 8<5 
017 
11 
4855 
4115 
18 
200 
.8 
21 
365 120 
23 - 
.’85 
H 
Auguft 18 
Auguii 25. 
September 1 
September 8 
September i5 
September 22 
September 2p 
Odober 6 
Odober 13 
'Odober 20 
!Odober 27 
[November 3 
•November ic 
November 17 
November 24 
■December 1 
| December 8 
•'December 15 
j December 22 
The Total ota 
been buried 
Whereof ot t! 
i5i>2( 
1508 
145)0 
1210 
651 
449 
507 
563 
28 
Auguii 4 
\ *8 
1728 i3P<5 
2256 1 p 2 2 
'2077 1745 
18 
j^Ptember 
1 
Q 
5205 
4841 
38*7 
4463 
4218 
3344 
25 
December 2 
9 
226 
221 
Ip8 
7 
20 
19 
28 
Auguft 4 
11 
423 151 
4pi 206 
S38282 
30 
June 6 
13 
399 
4C5 
55* 
’7 
43 
M2 
<52 I 
<52p 
45c 
408 
422 
330 
32c 
3 IC 
3 op 
301 
221 
3« 
O O F 
52 ‘ 
32c 
386 
11 that 
is 2 
le Pi3 
1 
451 
349 
33c 
327 
323 
308 
302 
301 
2 op 
107 
93 
9* 
U 
7 
hav 
5 8 8< 
gue 
150 
25 
September 1 
8 
*5 
22 
Odober 5 
;3o 
1 27 
Number ' 
?o 
’7 
?iDccember 
8 
5 *5 
22 
5 f Total of 
whc»eofofthe 
2s53 
3385 
3078 
3l2p 
2456 
Ip6i 
1831 
1312 
166 
62 3 
737 
545 
384 
ip8 
223 
163 
200 
168 
dl is 
Plag.j 
27'3 
2 559 
3035 
2724 
2818 
2lp5 
1732 
1641 
u4p 
642 
508 
594 
442 
25i 
i°5 
102 
55 
96 
74 
172p4 
I0561 
15 
22 
2 9 
Odober <5 
13 
20 
27 
November 3 
10 
*7 
24 
December 1 
8 
15 
22 
The Total of a 
Whereof cf 
I S'/ 
2148 
T994 
236 
833 
815 
d5i 
375 
357 
319 
274 
231 
ipo 
181 
168 
< J57 
11 is 5 
the PJ 
3 
2SSO 
1672 
1551 
852 
538 
5I1 
331 
i34 
89 
92 
48 
27 
15 
i5 
6 
l 
•1578 
ague 
5403 
16 
B«ied in the 
rl*hes with 
Walls 
Whereof of th 
Buried in the 
riftes witht 
Walls 
Whereof of tb< 
Buried in the 
Parilhes in M 
and Surrey at 
¥eft,koufe 
Whereof of th< 
Buried in j 
Whereofofth< 
TheTofal ofa 
rials this time 
Whereof of the 
212 
97 
in 
2C 
ePla 
i 
16 
3 Ut 
. 4* 
iVlc 
ip C 
'iddli 
id at 
3< 
sP].< 
Vejln 
a PI/ 
I the 
IO« 
Pl.i: 
s 
Pa- 
the 
5p6 
gue 
p° 
Pa- 
the 
h3 
>03 
ut- 
’fex 
the 
345 
P4 
tin- 
\66 
3i 
Bu- 
ns 
U7 
18 
0 25 
September 1 
8 
15 
22 
2p 
Odober 6 
. *3 
20 
27 
November 3 
10 
17 
24 
December 1 
9 
15 
Phe Total s t 
this year is, 
Whereof of the 
63S 
787 
1011 
io6p 
1306 
12 2p 
r4°3 
1405 
1302 
1002 
pOC 
130c 
IIO^ 
P5c 
857 
614 
459 
385 
heBu 
23 
Phic 
*32 1 
r42p 
638 
6 50 
8 6k 
{775 
P2 8 
92 1 
J792 
555 
458 
838 
■7r5 
573 
;476 
32I 
I67 
8S 
rials 
3 59 
40c 
20 
27 
July 4 
11 
18 
25 
Auguft 1 
8 ! 
’{ i 
22 1 
29 ! 
September $ 
12 
19 
26 
Odober 3 
10 
J7 
24 
3i 
November 7 
M 
2] 
2S 
December 5 
611 
684 
1006 
1268 
176; 
2 7X5 
>014 
4030 
53'9 
5568 
7496 
8252 
76po 
8297 
6460 
5720 
5068 
3 2 ip 
1806 
1388 
1787 
j359 
P°5 
5 44 
421 
168 
267^ 
j 47o/ 
1 ~27l 
UrJ 
*843 
2010 
2817 
3880 
4237 
6102 
6p88 
6544 
7165 
5 533 
4p2p 
4327 
2665 
1421 
103! 
1414 
1050 
652 
333 
2 FO 
12 
44; 
243 
19 
52s 
28f 
The Total of the Burials 
this year is 
9730* 
Place this Table at page 
x47- 
Whereof of the PI, 68 5P Advertifements for the better 
underftanding of the feverdl 
Tables: videlicet, 
Concerning the Table cf Cafualties con• 
fijling of thirty Columns, 
TH E firft Column contains all theCa* 
faalties hapning within the 22 fingle 
years mentioned in this Bill. 
The 14 next Columns conrain two of the 
laft Septenaries of years, which being the la- 
teft are firft fet down. 
The 8 next Columns reprefent the 8 firft 
years, wherein the Cafualties were taken no- 
tice of* 
Memorandum, That the jo years between 
1636 and 1647 are emitted as containing 
?iothing Extraordinary, and as not confi- 
(lent vpith the Incapacity of a Sheet* The 5 next Columns are the 8 years from 
1629 to 1636 brought; into 2 Quaternions, 
and the 12 of the i4laft years brought into 
three more; that Comparifon might be made 
between each 4 years taken together, as well 
as each fingle year apart* 
The next Column contains three years to- 
gether, taken at 10 years d fiance from each 
other 3 that the diftant years , as well as 
confequent , might be compared with the 
whole 20, each of the 5 Quaternions , and 
each of the 2 2 fingle years. 
The laft Column contains the total of all 
the 15 Quaternions, or 25 years. 
The Number 2 2 9 2 5 o is the total of all the 
Burials in the faid 20 years, as 34190 is of 
the Burials in the faid three diftanc years. 
Where note, that the \ of the latter total is 
11396, and the ;o of the former is 11462 ; 
differing but 66 from each other in fo great a 
fum, videlicet fcarce \l0Q part. TheTable of Burials andCbrifi- 
nings ,confifting of 7 Columns. 
IT is to be noted, that in all the feveral Co- 
lumns of the Burials thofe dying of the 
plague are left out, being reckoned all toge- 
ther in the (ixth Column: whereas in the ori- 
ginal Bills, the Blague and all other difeafes 
are reckoned together , with mention how 
many of the refpe&ive totals are of the 
Blague. 
Secondly, From the year 1642 forwards, 
the accompt of the Chriftnings is not to be 
trafted, the negledls of the fame beginning 
about that year: for in 1642 there are fee 
down 10370, and about the fame number fe- 
veral years before, after which time the laid 
Chriftnings decreafed to between 5000 and 
6000, by omifTion of the greater part. 
Thirdly, The feveral Numbers are caft up 
into Qclonaries , that Comparifon may be 
made of them as well as of fingle years. The Table of Males and Fe- 
males, containing 5 Columns. 
Firfr, The Numbers are caft up for 12 
years ; videlicet from 1629, when the di- 
ftinftion between Males and Females firft be- 
gan, until i(s\o inclusive, when the exa&nefs 
in that Accompt ceafed. 
Secondly, From 164010 1660 the Num- 
bers are caft up into another total, which 
feemsas good for comparing the Number of 
Males with Females, thenegleft beinginboth 
Sexes alike* and proportionable. 
The Tables concerning the Country Parijb, 
the former of Decads beginning at 1569, and 
continuing until 1658, and the later being 
forfinglc j«ars, being for the fame time, are 
fo plain, that ihey require no further Expla- 
nation than the bare reading the Chapter rela- 
ting to them, &c. 
FINIS.