704 



A. D. 1781. 



only 952,734; and the chargeable houfes in Scotland, the cottages 

 being entirely omitted, to be only 17,734. 



The following comparative enumeration of the chargeable inhabited 

 houfes in the principal cities, towns, and villages, is taken from the fame 

 accounts ; and as the fubjedts of it lie in a narrower compafs, we may 

 fuppofe it more corredt than that of the counties, 



London, city 



Westminster ancMlberty 17,013 



Marylebone 



Chelsea 



Kensington 



Pancras 



Islington 



Hackney 



Soutliwark. 



Deptford 



Greenwich 



• 



Bristol - 3947 



S'. Philip and Jacob 555 



Liverpool f 



Plymouth - 1510 



Stoke Damerel 1151 



Manchester f 



Oxford and University 



Norwich • 



Birmingham 



York 



Newcastle upon Tine 



Sheffield 



Bath - 1173 



Walcotand suburbs 786 



Cambridge and University 1,925 



Leicester 



Nottingham 



Leeds 



Exeter 



Hull and county 



Derby 



Whitehaven 



Chester 



Ipswich 



Dover 



Lincoln 



Shrewsbury 



Coven tiy 



* Much more might be comprehended under the general appellation of London '.n the largeil extent 

 of the narr.e : bui it is iir.pcfiible to draw the line, where the towr, ends and the country begins. In- 

 deed, the villages, and even the roads, for ten miles in every direction, may almoft be conCdered as parts 

 of the town, being filled and iupporttd by the overflowing opulence of the capical. 



f f The whole houfes in Liverpool were reckoned iii 1773 - 5,928, and in 1783 - 6,819 



and in Manchefter witii Salford - - 4,268 6,178 



Thefe numbers prove the truth of the obfeivation upon the incrcafed numbers of Lancafliire. [6'« 

 CLilmtrs's EJl'wmts,p. 2 1 8, cd. 1794.] 



4: So long ago as 1722 there were 5,975 families within the city of Edinburgh ; and in 1791, when 

 many had removed to the fubuihs (or the lake of more room, there were 6,434 families within the 

 city, and 12,220 in the iuburbs, being in all 18,654 families, txclulive of the luhabitaiits of the caiUc 

 and of the hofpitals. {Sinclair's Slatylkalnrcovvt of Scothr.d, V. vi, ^. 560.] 



^ By an enumeration in 1785 the inhabited houl'es in Glafgow, excliilive of the fubuibs, were 

 found to be 9,102. By anotiier (numeration in 1791, which is believed to have been very accurate, 

 they were incrtafed to 10,291. [^Sinclair, V. v,/>. 510.J 3 



