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 Rh This Kingdom is o exceeding populous, that I having lived there two and twenty years, was in no lee amazement at my coming away, than I was in the beginning, at the multitude of the people: certainly, the truth exceedeth all Hyperboles; not onely in the Cities, Townes, and publick places, (in ome of which one cannot walk without great violence of thruting and crowding;) but alo in the High-wayes, there is as great a concoure, as is uually in Europe at ome great feativall, or publick meeting. And if we will referre our elves to the generall regiter book, wherein only the common men are enrolled and matriculated, leaving our women, children, eunuchs, profeours of armes and letters, (almot an infinite number) there are reckoned of them to be fifty eight millions, and fifty five thouand, one hundred and fourecore.

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