out of 30.

6. Since the great Fire of London, A.D. 1666, about 7 parts of 15
of the present vast city hath been new built, and is with its people
increased near one half, and become equal to Paris and Rome put
together, the one being the seat of the great French Monarchy, and
the other of the Papacy.




FIVE ESSAYS IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC




I. Objections from the city of Ray in Persia, and from Monsier
Auzout, against two former essays, answered, and that London hath as
many people as Paris, Rome, and Rouen put together.

II. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars.

III. Proofs that at London, within its 134 parishes named in the
bills of mortality, there live about 696,000 people.

IV. An estimate of the people in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice,
Rome, Dublin, Bristol, and Rouen, with several observations upon the
same.

V. Concerning Holland and the rest of the Seven United Provinces.