An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale.
- George Chalmers
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 1^7 ] falfliood, not to fay frivolity of the notion, that if the inhabitants of towns are multiplied, it is by the depopulation of the country. That groundlefs pofition muft have originated from the fuppofal, that a nation, ora county, has in it at all times a flandard number of people j and confequently if one hundred fhould remove, there mud; be a hundred lefs than the flandard ; withont refledling on the command of nature to increafe and multiply, or on the fluctua- tion of human affairs, which do not admit of liability. From an examination of regiflers in the five fouth-weftern counties of Hampfhire, Wiltfliire, Devonfhire, Dorfet, and Cornwall, Mr. Howlet infers, that thefe counties have nearly doubled; though he admits, indeed, “ that the extradts are not fufliciently numerous to form a fatisfadtory average From an examination of regiflers, and a comparifon of firhilar evidence furnifhed by Mn Arthur Young and Mr, Wales, Mr. Howlet concludes, that Suffolk muft have ® Houfes in Hampfliire in 1690, according to the hearth-books and Davenant — — — — — D° — — in 1777, according to the return and Dr. Price 28,557 17^999 Pretended decreafe — — 10,558 Houfes in Wiltfliire in r690, according to the hearth-books and Davenant 27,418 D® — — in 1777, according to the return and Dr. Price — 22,134 Pretended decreafe — — 5,274 Houfes in Devonfhire in 1690, according to the hearth-books and Davenant 56,202 D® — — in 1777, according to the return and Dr. Price — 40,789 Pretended decreafe — — • 5)4*3 Houfes in Dorfet — in 1690, according to the hearth-hooks and Davenant 17,859 D® — — in 1777, according to the return and Dr. Price — 14,554 Pretended decreafe — — 3)3^5 Houfes in Cornwall in 1690, according to the hearth-books and Davenant 26,613 D° — in 1777, according to the return and Dr. Price •— 18,185 Pretended decreafe 8,428](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28757671_0181.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
