register alleged by Petty, making 105,315 houses to be in London,
with a tenth part of the same to be of families more than houses;
and probably will except against the register of 1,163 houses to be
in all England, that number giving, at six and one-third heads to
each family, about 7,000,000 people, upon all which we remark as
follows, viz.:-

1. That if Paris doth contain but 488,000 souls, that then all
Holland containeth but the double of that number, or 976,000,
wherefore London, containing 696,000 souls, hath above two-thirds of
all Holland by 46,000.

2. If Paris containeth half as many people as there are in all
England, it must contain 3,500,000 souls, or above seven times
488,000; and because there do not die 20,000 per annum out of Paris,
there must die but one out of 175; whereas Monsieur Auzout thinks
that there dies one out of 25, and there must live 149 heads in
every house of Paris mentioned in the register, but there must be
scarce two heads in every house of England, all which we think fit
to be reconsidered.

I must, as an Englishman, take notice of one point more, which is,
that these assertions do reflect upon the empire of England, for
that it is said that England hath but 2,000,000 inhabitants, and it
might as well have been added, that Scotland and Ireland, with the
Islands of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, have but two-fifths of the
same number, or 800,000 more, or that all the King of England's
subjects in Europe are but 2,800,000 souls, whereas he saith that
the subjects of the seven united provinces are 4,000,000. To which
we answer that the subjects of the said seven provinces are, by this