Part 8 (2/2)

1300 2,800,000 1400 3,300,000 440,000.

1500 3,840,000 540,000.

1600 4,620,000 780,000.

1700 5,500,000 880,000.

1800 6,420,000 920,000.

1900 7,350,000 930,000.

2000 8,280,000 930,000.

2100 9,205,000 925,000.

2200 10,115,000 910,000.

2300 11,000,000 885,000.

Whereby it may appear that the increase of the kingdom being 880,000 people in the last hundred years, and 920,000 in the next succeeding hundred years, the annual increase at this time may be about 9,000 souls per annum.

But whereas the yearly births of the kingdom are about 1 in 28.95, or 190,000 souls.

And the yearly burials 1 in 32.35 or 170,000 souls.

Whereby the yearly increase would be 20,000 souls.

It is to be noted-- Per ann.

1. That the allowance for plagues and great mortalities may come to at a medium 4,000 2. Foreign or civil wars at a medium 3,500 3. The sea constantly employing 11,000 per annum.

about 40,000, may precipitate 2,500 the death of about 4. The plantations (over and above the accession of foreigners) 1,000 may carry away Whereby the net annual increase may be but 9,000 souls.

That of these 20,000 souls, which would be the annual increase of the kingdom by procreation, were it not for the before-mentioned abatements.

The country increases annually by procreation 20,000 souls.

The cities and towns, exclusive of London, by procreation 2,000 souls.

But London and the bills of mortality decrease annually 2,000 souls.

So that London requires a supply of 2,000 souls per annum to keep it from decreasing, besides a further supply of about 3,000 per annum for its increase at this time. In all 5,000, or above a half of the kingdom's net increase.

Mr. King further observes that by the a.s.sessments on marriages, births, and burials, and the collectors' returns thereupon, and by the parish registers, it appears that the proportions of marriages, births, and burials are according to the following scheme

Vide Scheme A.

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