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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54629	Two essays in political arithmetick concerning the people, housing, hospitals, &c. of London and Paris / by Sir William Petty ...	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1687 (1687)	Wing P1942; ESTC R13444	4,419	28

WHITE-HALL Aug. 26th 1686. Let this Paper be printed Sunderland P. TWO ESSAYS IN Political Arithmetick Concerning the People Housing Hospitals c. OF LONDON and PARIS By Sir WILLIAM PETTY Fellow of the Royal Society Qui sciret Regibus uti Fastidiret olus LONDON Printed for I. Lloyd in the Middle Exchange next Salisbury-House in the Strand 1687. TO THE KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY I Do presume in a very small Paper to shew Your Majesty that Your City of London seems more considerable than the Two best Cities of the French Monarchy and for ought I can find greater than any other of the Universe which because I can say without flattery and by such Demonstration as Your Majesty can examine I humbly pray Your Majesty to accept from Your Majesty's Most Humble Loyal and Obedient Subject William Petty AN ESSAY IN Political Arithmetick BY Sir WILLIAM PETTY Tending to prove that London hath more People and Housing than the Cities of Paris and Rouen put together and is also more considerable in several other respects 1. THE Medium of the Burials at London in the three last years viz 1683 1684 and 1685 wherein there was no extraordinary Sickness and wherein the Christenings do correspond in their ordinary proportions with the Burials and Christenings of each year one with another was 22337 and the like Medium of Burials for the three last Paris Bills we could procure viz. for the years 1682 1683 and 1684 whereof the last as appears by the Christenings to have been very sickly is 19887. 2. The City of Bristol in England appears to be by good estimate of its Trade and Customes as great as Rouen in France and the City of Dublin in Ireland appears to have more Chimnies than Bristol and consequently more People and the Burials in Dublin were Anno 1682 being a sickly year but 2263. 3. Now the Burials of Paris being 19887 being added to the Burials of Dublin supposed more than at Rouen being 2263 makes but 22150 whereas the Burials of London were 187 more or 22337 or as about 6 to 7. 4. If those who die unnecessarily and by miscarriage in L'hostel Dieu in Paris being above 3000 as hath been elsewhere shewn or any part thereof should be subtracted out of the Paris Burials aforementioned then our assertion will be stronger and more proportionable to what follows concerning the Housing of those Cities viz. 5. There were burnt at London Anno 1666 above 13000 houses which being but a fifth part of the whole the whole number of houses in the said year were above 65000 and whereas the ordinary Burials of London have increased between the years 1666 and 1686 above one third the total of the houses at London Anno 1686 must be about 87000 which Anno 1682 appeared by accompt to have been 84000. 6. Monsieur Morery the great French Author of the late Geographical Dictionaries who makes Paris the greatest City in the World doth reckon but 50000 houses in the same and other Authors and knowing Men much less nor are there full 7000 houses in the City of Dublin so as if the 50000 houses of Paris and the 7000 houses in the City of Dublin were added together the total is but 57000 houses whereas those of London are 87000 as aforesaid or as 6 to 9. 7. As for the Shipping and foreign Commerce of London the common sense of all Men doth judge it to be far greater than that of Paris and Rouen put together 8. As to the Wealth and Gain accruing to the Inhabitants of London and Paris by Law-suits or La chicane lonely say that the Courts of London extend to all England and Wales and affect seven Millions of People whereas those of Paris do not extend near so far Moreover there is no palpable conspicuous argument at Paris for the Number and Wealth of Lawyers like the Buildings and Chambers in the Two Temples Lincoln's Inn Gray's Inn Doctors Commons and the seven other Inns in which are Chimnies which are to be seen at London besides many Lodgings Halls and Offices relating to the same 9. As to the plentifull and easie living of the People we say 1. That the People of Paris to those of London being as about 6 to 7 and the Housing of the same as about 6 to 9 we infer that the People do not live at London so close and crouded as at Paris but can afford themselves more room and liberty 2. That at London the Hospitals are better and more desirable than those of Paris for that in the best at Paris there die 2 out of 15 whereas at London there die out of the worst scarce 2 of 16 and yet but a fiftieth part of the whole die out of the Hospitals at London and â…– or 20 times that proportion die out of the Paris Hospitals which are of the same kind that is to say the number of those at London who chuse to lie sick in Hospitals rather than in their own Houses are to the like People of Paris as one to twenty which shews the greater Poverty or want of Means in the People of Paris than those of London 3. We infer from the premisses viz. the dying scarce 2 of 16 out of the London Hospitals and about 2 of 15 in the best of Paris to say nothing of L' hostel Dieu That either the Physicians and Chirurgeons of London are better than those of Paris or that the Air of London is more wholesome 10. As for the other great Cities of the World if Paris were the greatest we need say no more in behalf of London As for Pequin in China we have no account fit to reason upon nor is there any thing in the Description of the two late Voyages of the Chines's Emperour from that City into East and West Tartary in the years 1682 and 1683 which can make us recant what we have said concerning London As for Dely and Agra belonging to the Mogull we find nothing against our position but much to shew the vast numbers which attend that Emperour in his business and pleasures 11. We shall conclude with Constantinople and Gran Cairo as for Constantinople it hath been said by one who endeavour'd to shew the greatness of that City and the greatness of the Plague which reigned in it that there died 1500 per diem without other circumstances To which we answer that in the year 1665 there died in London 1200 per diem and it hath been well proved that the Plague of London never carried away above â…• of the People whereas it is commonly believed that in Constantinople and other Eastern Cities and even in Italy and Spain that the Plague takes away â…– one half or more wherefore where 1200 is but â…• of the People it is probable that the number was greater than where 1500 was â…– or one half c. 12. As for Gran Cairo it is reported that 73000 died in 10 weeks or 1000 per diem where note that at Gran