Note f — BOOK IV.

The Proportions which Marriages bear to Births, and Births to Burials, in divers Parts of Europe, may be seen at an easy View in this Table:

Names of the Places. Marriages to Births: As Births to Burials: as

England in general. 1 to 4.63 1.12 to 1

London. 1 to 4. 1 to 1.1

Hantshire, from 1569, to 1658. 1 to 4. 1.2 to 1

Tiverton in Devon, 1560, to 1649. 1 to 3.7 1.26 to 1

Cranbrook in Kent, 1560, to 1649. 1 to 3.9 1.6 to 1

Aynho in Northamptonshire for 118 Y. 1 to 6 1.6 to 1

Leeds in Yorkshire for 122 Years. 1 to 3.7 1.07 to 1

Harwood in Yorkshire 57 Years. 1 to 3.4 1.23 to 1

Upminster in Essex 100 Years. 1 to 4.6 1.08 to 1

Frankfort on the Main in 1695. 1 to 3.7 1.2 to 1

Old middle and lower Marck in 1698. 1 to 3.7 1.9 to 1

Domin. of the K. of Prussia in 1698. 1 to 3.7 1.5 to 1

Breslaw in Silesia from 1687 to 1691. 1.6 to 1

Paris in 1670, 1671, 1672. 1 to 4.7 1 to 1.6

Which Table I made from Major Graunt’s Observations on the Bills of Mortality; Mr. King’s Observations in the first of Dr. Davenant’s Essays; and what I find put together by my ingenious Friend Mr. Lowthorp, in his Abridgment, Vol. 3. p. 668. and my own Register of Upminster. That from Aynho Register in Northamptonshire, I had from the present Rector, the learned and ingenious Mr. Wasse: And I was promised some Accounts from the North, and divers others Parts of this Kingdom; but have not yet received them: Only those of Leeds and Harwood in Yorkshire, from my curious and ingenious friend Mr. Thoresby.