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not been mifapplied ; but if I have been millaken, 
your ufual goodnefs will, I trull, forgive 
Your moll affectionate 
and faithful fervant, 
Win, Brakenridge. 
P. S. Since the above was written, I have been cer- 
tainly informed, that from the furvey lately made 
of the window lights, after the year 175-0, there 
are about 600,000 houfes charged to that Tax in 
England and Wales, befides cottages that pay 
nothing. And though the number of cottages is 
not accurately known, it appears from the ac- 
counts given in, that they cannot amount to above 
200,000. And therefore there are not in Eng- 
land and Wales more than 85)0,000 houfes, or 
5,340,000 people, allowing fix to a houfe ; which 
well agrees with what I have laid in this and my 
former letter, and corroborates the whole of my 
reafoning. For if the furvey made before the 
year 1710 was near the truth, from which it ap- 
peared, that there was not above 729,048 houfes, 
befides cottages, or 929,048 houfes in the whole; 
which will make about 5:. 570,000 people; then, 
there mult have been no increment lince that 
time, but rather a decreafe, notwithllanding the 
continual fupplies from Scotland and Ireland, and 
from Foreigners. 
I beg leave like wife to mention, that I find 
fome people have objected to the Bills of Mor- 
j U 2 tality. 
Sior. Colit ge, 
Nov. 25, 1756. 
