It was proved by Grant, that one-fifth of the people died of the
plague, but A.D. 1665 there died of the plague near 98,000 persons,
the quintuple whereof is 490,000 as the number of people in the year
1665, whereunto adding above one-third, as the increase between 1665
and 1686, the total is 653,000, agreeing well enough with the other
two computations above mentioned.

Wherefore let the proportion of 1 to 30 continue till a better be
put in its place.

Memorandum. That two or three hundred new houses would make a
contiguity of two or three other great parishes, with the 134
already mentioned in the bills of mortality: and that an oval wall
of about twenty miles in compass would enclose the same, and all the
shipping at Deptford and Blackwall, and would also fence in 20,000
acres of land, and lay the foundation or designation of several vast
advantages to the owners, and inhabitants of that ground, as also to
the whole nation and government.



THE FOURTH ESSAY.



Concerning the proportions of People in the eight eminent Cities of
Christendom undernamed, viz.:-