A Century of Christian Progress Showing Also the Increase of Protestantism And
A Century of Christian Progress Showing Also the Increase of Protestantism And
James Johnstoun
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Every neglect therein being penal. " It was thoroughly looked into in the first year of the reign of Edward VI. ^ Malthus, in his extensive travels over nearly all Europe, seems to have had no difficulty in examining these important registers. It is only toward the end of the eighteenth century that we find any- 1 Quoted in Census Returns of iSll. NATIONALITIES OF EUROPE. 69 tiling like an extensive or scientific use made of tlie rate of births over deaths, recorded in these registers, as a mea...ns of ascertaining tlie increase or diminution of the population ; and to Malthus is rightly due the honour of making the most laborious and accurate comparison of the rate in the different countries of Europe. In the seventeenth century Edward Chamberlayne adopted a simpler, easier method. In his " Anglise Notitia, or Present State of England, "— a work which went through twenty editions in his lifetime, and which he, in doubt of the conservative power of the press, ordered to be covered with wax and buried along with his other writings in his tomb — made the following calcu- lations : "England contains 9725 parishes; now, allowing to each parish one with another 80 families, there will be 778, 000 families, and to each family 7 persons, there will be found in all :;, 446, 000 souls, and amongst them one million of fighting men, " an estimate perhaps not far from the mark in 1668.
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