1641 and 1642 . . . 11,883. C.
1661 and 1662 . . . 15,148. D.
1681 and 1682 . . . 22,331. E.


Wherein observe, that the number C is double to A and 806 over.
That D is double to B within 1,906. That C and D is double to A and
B within 293. That E is double to C within 1,435. That D and E is
double to B and C within 3,341; and that C and D and E are double to
A and B and C within 1,736; and that E is above quadruple to A. All
which differences (every way considered) do allow the doubling of
the people of London in 40 years to be a sufficient estimate thereof
in round numbers, and without the trouble of fractions. We also say
that 669,930 is near the number of people now in London, because the
burials are 22,331, which, multiplied by 30 (one dying yearly out of
30, as appears in the 94th page of the aforementioned observations),
maketh the said number; and because there are 84,000 tenanted houses
(as we are credibly informed), which, at 8 in each, makes 672,000
souls; the said two accounts differing inconsiderably from each
other.

We have thus pretty well found out in what number of years (viz., in
about 40) that the city of London hath doubled, and the present
number of inhabitants to be about 670,000. We must now also
endeavour the same for the whole territory of England and Wales. In
order whereunto, we first say that the assessment of London is about
an eleventh part of the whole territory, and, therefore, that the
people of the whole may well be eleven times that of London, viz.,
about 7,369,000 souls; with which account that of the poll-money,
hearth-money, and the bishop's late numbering of the communicants,