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fuppofing the annual recruit from the country to be 
7000, the number of birth 3 times 7000 or 21,000, 
and the burials and migrations 28,000 (which feem to 
be all high fuppofitions), the number of inhabitants 
will be 224- multiplied by 28,000, or 630,000. 
I will juft mention here one other inftance of ex* 
aggeration on the prefent fubje6t. 
Mr, Corbyn Morris, in his Qbfervatiojis on the pajl. 
only I in 22|, including emigrants, to die in London annually,. 
———In 1631 the number of people in city and liberties oi 
London was taken, by order of the Privy Council, and found to 
be 130,178.“ — ■ — This account was taken five years after a 
plague that had fwept oft' near a quarter of the inhabitants ; and- 
when, therefore, the town being full of recruits in the vigour of 
life, the- medium of annual burials muft have been lower than 
ufual, and the births higher. Could-, therefore, the medium of 
annual burials at that time, within the walls and in the 16 pa- 
rifhes without the walls, be fettled, exclufive of thofe who -died 
jn fuch parts of the 16 parifhes without the walls, as are not in 
the liberties, the proportion dying annually obtained from hence 
might be depended on, as rather lefs than the common and juft 
proportion. But this medium cannot be difcovered with any 
accuracy. Graunt cftimates that two thirds of thefe 16 parifhes 
are within the liberties ; and, if this is right, the medium of an- 
nual burials in the city and liberties in 1631, was 5,500, and i- 
in 23I died annually j or, making a fmall allowance for defi- 
ciencies in the bills, i in 22. Mr, Maitland, in his Hiftory 
of London, vol. II. p. 744, by a laborious, but too unfatisfadlory, 
inveftigation, reduces this proportion to i in 24I ; and on the 
fuppofitions, that this is the true proportion dying annually, at 
all times, in London^ and that the deficiencies in the burials 
amount to 3,038 annually, he determines that the number of in- 
habitants within the bills was 725,903 in the year 1737. 
The number of burials not brought to account in the bills is, 
probably, now much greater than either Dr. Brakenridge or Mr. 
Maitland fuppofe it, I have reckoned it fo high as 6000, in order 
to include emigrants, and alfo to be more fure of not falling be- 
low the troth. 
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