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Rh According to which latter Table, there dyed as followeth. |9|

Wherein Observe, That the Number C. is double to A. and 806 over. That D. is double to B. within 1906. That C. and D. is double to A. B. within 293. That E. is double to C. within 1435. That D. and E. is double to B. and C. within 3341. And that C. and D. and E. are double to A. and B. and C. within 1736. And that E. is above Quadruple to A. All which differences (every way considered) do allow the doubling of the People of London in forty Years, to be a sufficient estimate thereof in round |10| Numbers, and without the trouble of Fractions. We also say, That 669930 is near the Number of People now in London, because the Burials are 22331. which Multiplyed by 30, (one dying Yearly out of 30, as appears in the 94 pag. of the afore-mentioned Observations maketh the said Number; and because there are 84 Thousand Tenanted Houses (as we are Credibly Informed ) which, at 8 in each, makes 672 Thousand Souls; the said two Accounts differing inconsiderably from each other.