138 Mr. Wimpey on (Economical Regijlers. 
might be obtained with as little trouble, as the 
numbers in each clafs, and the fum total, could 
be obtained by the officers of any refpedive 
parifti. 
If fuch lifts were correctly taken every two, 
three, four, or five years, the ftate of increafe, 
or decreafe, might be precifely known, with little 
or no expence to any body. Of fuch lifts, might 
be formed a kind of General Diredory; containing 
the names, addition, number, ages, and fex, of 
all the families in Great Britain. Thus, in Man- 
chefter, 
N. R. Hatter, V> tV 3 males, 4 females, 
that is, four under twelve, and three above ; three 
of them males, four females. Let any one carry 
his ideas through the ftreet he lives in, or is 
familiarly acquainted with, and he will fee, with 
how much eale he may acquire a knowledge of 
all thefe particulars, refpeding every family in 
it; and, by a fimilar pradice, on a general plan, 
a precife knowledge may be obtained of every 
family in the nation. 
Perhaps it would be too adventurous, to at¬ 
tempt to recommend a knowledge thus acquired 
to fome pradical ufes, to which it feems capable 
of being applied, with a profped of the moft 
beneficial effeds. 
A very great part of thofe, who have no other 
means of fubfiftence, but the fpoils and depra- 
dations committed upon the public, are, in their 
manner 
