fourteen out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey, contiguous to the
former, all which, 133 parishes, are comprehended within the weekly
bills of mortality.

The growth of this city is measured. (1) By the quantity of ground,
or number of acres upon which it stands. (2) By the number of
houses, as the same appears by the hearth-books and late maps. (3)
By the cubical content of the said housing. (4) By the flooring of
the same. (5) By the number of days' work, or charge of building
the said houses. (6) By the value of the said houses, according to
their yearly rent, and number of years' purchase. (7) By the number
of inhabitants; according to which latter sense only we make our
computations in this essay.

Till a better rule can be obtained, we conceive that the proportion
of the people may be sufficiently measured by the proportion of the
burials in such years as were neither remarkable for extraordinary
healthfulness or sickliness.

That the city hath increased in this latter sense appears from the
bills of mortality represented in the two following tables, viz.,
one whereof is a continuation for eighteen years, ending 1682, of
that table which was published in the 117th page of the book of the
observations upon the London bills of mortality, printed in the year
1676. The other showeth what number of people died at a medium of
two years, indifferently taken, at about twenty years' distance from
each other.

The first of the said two tables.