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402 {| style="margin: 0 auto 0 auto;"
 * rowspan=11 | Anno
 * 1622
 * rowspan=11 |
 * | 4141
 * 1623
 * | 5929
 * 1624
 * | 11795
 * 1625
 * | 6781
 * 1626
 * | 4425
 * 1627
 * | 3976
 * 1628
 * | 4497
 * 1636
 * | 17193
 * 1655
 * | 16727
 * 1663
 * | 9752
 * 1664
 * | 24148
 * }
 * 1655
 * | 16727
 * 1663
 * | 9752
 * 1664
 * | 24148
 * }
 * 1664
 * | 24148
 * }

2. That there are eleven burying-places, besides the Hospital and Pest-house, 257 Streets and Lanes, with 43 Burgwalls and Grachts in that City.

3. That in seven years, beginning from the 15 of August 1617 to the same day 1624, there were Christned in the reformed Churches of Amsterdam 52537, and that there died in the same time 32532. So as there were 20005 more born than buried, besides those that were Christned in other Congregations. And in the same time were 16430 publisht Marriages.

4. That in the first week of September 1664 there died 1041, and in eighteen weeks before the Burials increased from 331 up to the said number of 1041, |108| and in twelve weeks after decreased back to the like number of 330.

5. In February following there died but 118 a week, and the ordinary number of weekly Burials is about 100, so as London seems to be three times as big as Amsterdam.

6. I have likewise hapned on some other Accompts, relating to Mortalities of some great Cities of the World, of what Authority I know not, but as printed at Amsterdam 1664, ''viz. Anno 1619 there died in Grand Cairo'' in ten weeks 73500, without any visible diminution of the people.

7. Anno 1625 there died in Leyden 9597. Anno 1635 there died in the same City of Leyden from the 14 of July, to the 29 of December 14381, the greatest week of mortality being the latter end of October was 1452. This Plague in