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The Conclusion.
IT may be now asked, to what purpose tends all this laborious buzzling, and groping? To know,
- 1. The number of the People?
- 2. How many Males, and Females?
- 3. How many Married, and single?
- 4. How many Teeming Women?
- 5. How many of every Septenary, or Decad of years in age?
- 6. How many Fighting Men?
- 7. How much London is, and by what steps it hath increased?
- 8. In what time the housing is replenished after a Plague?
- 9. What proportion die of each general and per∣ticular Casualties?
- 10. What years are Fruitfull, and Mortal, and in what Spaces, and Intervals, they follow each other?
- 11. In what proportion Men neglect the Orders of the Church, and Sects have increased?
- 12. The disproportion of Parishes?
- 13. Why the Burials in London exceed the Christ∣nings, when the contrary is visible in the Coun∣try?
To this I might answer in general by saying, that those, who cannot apprehend the reason of these En∣quiries, are unfit to trouble themselves to ask them.