M I D 



Middle***. Money expended in the maintenance of the poor . 

 m ( '' Money expended in suits of law, removals, &c. . 

 Money expended for militia purposes . . 



.Money expended for church-rates, county-rates, &c. 

 Total money expended . . . 



Number of poor supported out of workhouses . 



Number of poor supported in workhouses . 



Number occasionally in and out of workhouses 



Total 



Members of friendly [societies . . 



Amouut of charitable donations for parish Schools 

 Amount of charitable donations for other purposes, 

 Total 



236 



IV! I D 



505,601 



24,099 



10,258 



153,396 



18,241 

 16,030 

 83.9S8 



118,855 



67,186 



6,251 



17,447 



23,698 



On an average of three years, viz. 1813, 1814, and 

 1815, it appears that out of 207 parishes or places, 

 1 77 maintained the greater part of their poor in work- 

 houses; that 12 in every 100 of the population were 

 relieved; that the rate amounted to 13s. lid. per 

 head; and that the average expence of keeping each 

 pauper amounted to 4, 9s. 5d. annually ; that T !j tn 

 of the money raised is expended in rents of land 

 TT d for the militia; the total, independent of the poor, 

 between T d and ^th ; and that yd in every hundred 

 were members of friendly societies. The following 

 comparative details are also important : 



Parochial Rates. Expended For Poor. 



In 1776, . . 89,108 79,090 



Average of 1783-4-5, . 102,87* 89,383 



In 1803, . . . 490,144 349,200 



Average of 1813-14-15, . 663,103 517,300 



The members of friendly societies in 1803, were 

 more numerous than in 1815; in the former year 

 there having been 72,741, whereas in the latter there 

 were only 67,186. 



Population. The following are the results of the last returns re- 

 specting the population. In the year 1700, there were 

 624,200; in 1750, there were 641,500; in the year 

 1801, 845,400; and in the year 1811, 953,276, or 

 3380 persons in a square mile. There is one baptism 

 to 40 persons ; one burial to 36 ; and one marriage to 

 94. The following table exhibits the baptisms, burials, 

 and marriages, from 1801 to 1810 inclusive. 



Baptisms. Burials. Marriages. 



Males . 115,237 105,195 



Females . 114,174 101,609 100774 



Total 



229,411 



Houses inhabited in 1811 



Families occupying them 



Houses building . . 



Houses uninhabited 



Families employed in agriculture 



Families in trade 



All others 



Males 



Females .. . 



Total 



In 1801 



206,80* 



100,771 

 130,613 

 222,010 



2811 



4326 



9038 



135,398 



77,524 



434,633 



518,643 



953,276 

 845.400 



Increase . . . 107,876 



See Middleton's Survey of Middlesex; Lyson's En- 

 virons of London, (w. s.) 



MIDDLETON, CONYERS, an eminent English di- 

 vine, was born at York, in the year 1683. His father, 

 the Rev. William Middleton, rector of Hinderwell, near 

 Whitby, gave him a liberal education, and at the age 

 of seventeen, he was admitted a pensioner of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, and two years after he was chosen 

 a scholar on the foundation. He took his degree of 

 A. B. in 1702, and officiated as curate of Trumping- 

 ton, near Cambridge. In 1706, he was elected a fel- 

 low of his college, and next year he became A. M. 

 About two years afterwards, he married Mrs. Drake, 

 a widow of ample fortune ; and, after his marriage, he 

 took a small rectory in the Isle of Ely, which he re 



signed, however, in little more than a year, on ac- Middlesex, 

 count of its unhealthy situation. MioMleton, 



When George I. visited the university of Cambridge, ^ "\ 

 in the month of October 1717, Middleton, along with """"*"^ 

 several others, was created a doctor of divinity by man- 

 date ; and he took an active part in the famous pro- 

 ceeding against Dr. Bentley, which for some time oc- 

 cupied much attention. In that controversy, in the 

 course of the year 1719, he published the following 

 four pieces: 1. " A full and impartial Account of the late 

 Proceedings in the University of Cambridge against 

 Dr. Bentley," &c. 2. ' A Second Part of the full and 

 impartial Account," &c. 3. Some Remarks upon a 

 Pamphlet, entitled, the Case of Dr. Bentley farther 

 stated and vindicated," &c. 4. " A true Account of 

 the present State of Trinity College, in Cambridge, 

 under the oppressive government of their master, Ri- 

 chard Bentley, D. D." 



When, in 1720, Dr. Bentley published his " Pro- 

 posals for a new Edition of the Greek Testament, and 

 Latin version," Middleton, the following year, publish- 

 ed " Remarks, paragraph by paragraph, upon the Pro- 

 posals," &c. Bentley defended his Proposals against 

 these Remarks, which, however, he did not ascribe to 

 Middleton, but to Dr. Colbatch, a learned fellow 

 of his college, and casuistical professor of divinity in 

 the university, for the double purpose, it is supposed, 

 of giving him an opportunity of abusing Colbatch, 

 and of shewing his contempt of Middleton. At a 

 meeting in February 1721, the vice-chancellor and 

 heads of the university pronounced Bentley's book to 

 be a most scandalous and malicious libel ; and they 

 resolved to inflict a proper censure upon the author, as 

 soon as he should be discovered. Middleton then pub- 

 lished, with his name, an answer to Bentley's defence, 

 entitled, " Some farther Remarks, paragraph by para- 

 graph," &c. These two pieces against Bentley are writ- 

 ten with great acuteness and learning. 



Upon the great enlargement of the public library at 

 Cambridge, the office of principal librarian was conferred 

 upon Dr. Middleton, who, to shew himself worthy of 

 it, published, in 1723, a small piece with the title, Bib. 

 liolhecce Canlabrigiensis ordinandce quadam, quam do- 

 mino procancellario senatuique academico considerandam 

 et perficitndam, officii et pielatis ergo proponit. In the 

 dedication of this tract to the vice-chancellor, in which 

 he alluded to the contest between the University and 

 Dr. Bentley, he made use of some incautious expressions 

 against the jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench, 

 for which he was prosecuted, but dismissed with an 

 easy fine. 



Soon after this publication, he had the misfortune to 

 lose his wife, and having fallen himself into bad health, 

 he undertook a journey through France and Italy, along 

 with Lord Coleraine, and arrived at Rome early in 1 724. 

 He was at Paris towards the end of the year 1725, and 

 arrived at Cambridge before Christmas. Shortly after, 

 he published a tract, entitled, De medicorum apud ve- 

 teres Romanes degentiitm conditions dissertalio; qua con- 

 tra viros celeberrimos Jacobum Sponium el Richardum. 

 Meadium, servilem atque ignobilem eamfuisse ostendilur'; 

 which drew upon him the displeasure of the whole me- 

 dical faculty, particularly of Dr. Mead. Middleton de- 

 fended his dissertation against various attacks in a new 

 publication, entitled, Dissertalioitis, 8,-c. contra anony- 

 mos quosdam notarum brevium, responsionis, alque ani- 

 madversionis auc'.ores, defensio, Pars prima, 1727. Mead 

 and Middleton afterwards became very good friends. A 

 parssecuada, however, was actually written, and printed 

 for private circulation, after Middleton's death, by Dr. 

 Hcberden, in 1761, 4to. 



