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(without reporting their Chriftenings to the new-ap- 
pointed Members of the Company of Parifh- Clerks) 
occafion’d a very great Defeft in the Account of 
Chriftenings annually publifh'd by the laid Parifh- 
Clerks. 
From this Epocha , is to be dated the Majority of the 
Burials in the Bill of Mortality over the Chriftenings 
of London : And though the Church of England 
was foon after re-eftablifh’d, yet the numerous Dif- 
fenters of all Denominations, perfevering in their 
Separation, continued to baptize within themfelves, 
without fending in Accounts of their Chriftenings to 
the reftor'd Members of the Company of Parifh- 
Clerks 5 and the Schifm ftill continuing, the Ac- 
counts of the Chriftenings and Burials of this City 
remain upon the ancient Foot of Divifion and Impet- 
"fe&ion. 
Add to this, that not only all the foreign Churches 
in London chriften within themfelves, but likewife 
many Churches and Chapels of the Church of Eng- 
land, that fend not in their Accounts to the Com- 
pany of Parifh- Clerks, which, together with thole of 
the Diflenters and Foreigners of all Denominations, 
amount to no lefs a Number than one hundred and 
eighty-one Congregations, whole Acounts of Chrift- 
enings are not publifh’d : By which it is evident, that 
the vaft Difparity between the Chriftenings and Bu- 
rials of this City, is not owing, as Mr. Kerjfeboom 
vainly imagines *, to the Refidence of the Court, Con- 
vention of Parliament, and great Refort of People 
from all Parts, but in Fa£t to the great Defeft above- 
men tion'd. 
Gg g 2 How- 
* Kerjfehom’s Verhandel. f>, 25. 
