That there are but three parishes under any colour of this exception
which are scarce one-fifty-second part of the whole.

Upon the whole matter, upon sight of Monsieur Auzout's large letter,
dated the 19th of November, from Rome, I made remarks upon every
paragraph thereof, but suppressing it (because it looked like a war
against a worthy person with whom I intended none, whereas, in
truth, it was but a reconciling explication of some doubts) I have
chosen the shorter and softer way of answering Monsieur Auzout as
followeth, viz.:-

Concerning the number of people in London, as also in Paris, Rouen,
and Rome, viz.:-

Monsieur Auzout allegeth an authentic account that there are 23,223
houses in Paris, wherein do live about eighty thousand families, and
therefore supposing three and a half families to live in every of
the said houses, one with another, the number of families will be
81,280; and Monsier Auzout also allowing six heads to each family,
the utmost number of people in Paris, according to that opinion,
will be 487,680.

The medium of the Paris burials was not denied by Monsier Auzout to
be 19,887, nor that there died 3,506 unnecessarily out of the
L'Hotel Dieu; wherefore deducting the said last number out of the
former, the net standard for burials at Paris will be 16,381, so, as
the number of people there, allowing but one to die out of thirty
(which is more advantageous to Paris than Monsieur Auzout's opinion
of one to die out of twenty-five) the number of people at Paris will
be 491,430 more than by Monsier Auzout's own last-mentioned account