increase of People and Colonies.

The scope of this essay is concerning people and colonies, and to
make way for "Another Essay" concerning the growth of the city of
London. I desire in this first essay to give the world some light
concerning the numbers of people in England, with Wales, and in
Ireland; as also of the number of houses and families wherein they
live, and of acres they occupy.

2. How many live upon their lands, how many upon their personal
estates and commerce, and how many upon art, and labour; how many
upon alms, how many upon offices and public employments, and how
many as cheats and thieves; how many are impotents, children, and
decrepit old men.

3. How many upon the poll-taxes in England, do pay extraordinary
rates, and how many at the level.

4. How many men and women are prolific, and how many of each are
married or unmarried.

5. What the value of people are in England, and what in Ireland at
a medium, both as members of the Church or Commonwealth, or as
slaves and servants to one another; with a method how to estimate
the same, in any other country or colony.

6. How to compute the value of land in colonies, in comparison to
England and Ireland.

7. How 10,000 people in a colony may be planted to the best