The husbands are aged 43 years apiece, which, at 17.25% makes 742
years.
The wives 40 17.25% 690
The widowers 56 1.5% 84
The widows 60 4.5% 270
The children 12 45% 540
The servants 27 10.5% 284
The sojourners 35 4% 140
At a medium 27.5 100 2,750



Vide Scheme D.


Mr. King's modesty has been so far overruled as to suffer us to
communicate these his excellent computations, which we can the more
safely commend, having examined them very carefully, tried them by
some little operations of our own upon the same subject, and
compared them with the schemes of other persons, who take pleasure
in the like studies.

What he says concerning the number of the people to be 5,500,000 is
no positive assertion, nor shall we pretend anywhere to determine in
that matter; what he lays down is by way of hypothesis, that
supposing the inhabitants of England to have been, A.D. 1300,
2,860,000 heads, by the orderly series of increase allowed of by all
writers they may probably be about A.D. 1700, 5,500,000 heads; but
if they were A.D. 1300 either less or more, the case must