A. D. 1738. 217 



vate exchequer, is an increafing fund, amounting at prefent to 

 about - - _ _ - - L35C0 



' Two {hillings fterling per hogfhead on tobacco exported (at 

 a medium of 32, coo hogflieads) per annum, - - 3200 



' Out of which (alfo increafing) tax, is paid the governor's fa- 

 lary of L2000 per annum. 



' One fliilling fterling per ton on 10,000 tons of fliipping 

 yearly, _ _ _ - 500 



' The eftablifhed fees for marriage licences, probates of wills, 

 and entering and clearing fhips (together with other legal per- 

 quifites belonging to the governor refiding there) is, per an- 

 num, _ - - - 5oo 



L7800 



It is more than probable that, fince that time, all thefe articles are 

 confiderably increafed. 



There were imported into the port of London, on the 23d of Octo- 

 ber 1738, 151,219 yards of linen, manufactured in Scotland, and alfo 

 3000 fpindles of linen yarn. Such large entries of the linen manufac- 

 ture, both from Scotland and Ireland, of late, every year increafing, 

 merit the higheft encouragement, as they do not only ulefully employ 

 our own people, and better enable them to pay taxes, excife, &c. and 

 to confume more of the produft of the country, but which is of very 

 great importance in the general balance of our commerce, as their li- 

 nen manufactures fiiall gradually increafe, the importation of foreign 

 linen mufl: neceflarily decreafe in a fimilar proportion. 



By the London bill of mortality for the year 1738, there were chrif- 

 tened 16,060; buried 25,825. Decreafed in the burials this year 

 1998. 



It is not fo eafy as fome have pretended to account for the large 

 mortality bills of London, in this, and fome preceding years, compared 

 with much later years, while no extraordinary ficknefs happened, and 

 while, at the fame time, great additions were confiantly making to the 

 buildings in its fuburbs. The beft realbns ufually given for the late de- 

 creafe of its mortality bills, are, ift, the many hofpitals fince eredted 

 for fick perfons, whereby, and by the fmall-pox hoi'pitals, many lives 

 are, probably, preferved, which, without them, would have been loll ; 

 adly, many private dwelling-houfes, in many parts within the city of 

 London, are, from the very vifible increafe of our commerce, pulled 

 down and turned into warehoufes for merchandize, whereby the num- 

 ber of houleholders is feulibly decreafed within the lord mayor's jurif- 

 diction ; but this, we doubt, will fcarcely be admitted as any good rea- 

 fon for the general decreafe of the burials, unlefs it appeared that ihofe 

 houleholders had removed from within the hmits of the general bills of 



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