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be that more people were then married, and that 
from that time there was a greater confluence of 
Grangers : for there certainly were more Diflenters at 
that time than ever after. 
It is farther to be obferved, that in the bills from 
the year 1704 to the year 172S, without the city, 
both the number of chriftenings and burials conti- 
nually increafed; and that from that time to 1743, 
they continued nearly the fame ; but that after 1743 
they gradually decreafed till this time ; which plainly 
fhews, that the inhabitants were increaflng till about 
the year 1728; and that from thence to 1743, they 
remained in the fame ftate nearly ; but that after- 
wards, during the laft ten years, till 1753, they were 
conftantly diminifhing. For it is evident, that the 
number of inhabitants inufl: always be in proportion, 
to the number of births, and burials confidered to- 
gether. And hence it appears, that the cities of Lon- 
don and Weftminfter, were in the moft flourifhing 
ftate, with regard to numbers, from 172810 1743, 
and that they are now paft their height, and in the 
fame ftate they were in the year 1708 ; and the firfl; 
decreafe feeins to have been at the beginning of the 
laft French war, which was in 1744. Within the 
citv walls the number of the inhabitants do not 
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feem to fluctuate, in the fame periods of time, as 
without ; for the moft numerous ftate of the city, 
appears to have been from the year 1718, to the year 
1728, and then after that they have been continu- 
ally decreafing : fo that when they were moft nu- 
merous within the walls, they were not then arrived 
at the height without ; and when they were in the 
higheft date without, they were diminifhing in the 
city. 
