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A41827	Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city.	Graunt, John, 1620-1674.; Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1662 (1662)	Wing G1599; ESTC R13975	51,236	111

most men will laugh to hear us suppose That any able to work as indeed most Beggars are in one kind of measure or another should be kept without earning any thing But we Answer That if there be but a certain proportion of work to be done and that the same be already done by the not-Beggars then to employ the Beggars about it will but transfer the want from one hand to another nor can a Learner work so cheap as a skilfull practised Artist can As for example A practised Spinner shall spin a pound of Wool worth two shillings for six pence but a learner undertaking it for three pence shall make the Wool indeed into Yarn but not worth twelve pence 7. This little hint is the model of the greatest work in the World which is the making England as considerable for Trade as Holland for there is but a certain proportion of Trade in the world and Holland is prepossessed of the greater part of it and is thought to have more skill and experience to manage it wherefore to bring England into Holland's condition as to this particular is the same as to send all the Beggars about London into the West-Countrey to Spin where they shall onely spoil the Clothiers Wool and beggar the present Spinners at best but at worst put the whole Trade of the Countrey to a stand untill the Hollander being more ready for it have snapt that with the rest 8. My next Observation is That but few are Murthered viz. not above 86 of the 22950. which have died of other diseases and casualties whereas in Paris few nights scape without their Tragedie 9. The Reasons of this we conceive to be Two One is the Government and Guard of the City by Citizens themselves and that alternately No man settling into a Trade for that employment And the other is The natural and customary abhorrence of that in humane Crime and all Bloodshed by most Englishmen for of all that are Executed few are for Murther Besides the great and frequent Revolutions and Changes of Government since the year 1650 have been with little bloodshed the Vsurpers themselves having Executed few in comparison upon the Accompt of disturbing their Innovations 10. In brief when any dead Body is found in England no Algebraist or Vncipherer of Letters can use more subtile suppositions and varietie of conjectures to finde out the Demonstration or Cipher then every common unconcerned Person doth to finde out the Murtherers and that for ever untill it be done 11. The Lunaticks are also but few viz. 158 in 229250. though I fear many more then are set down in our Bills few being entred for such but those who die at Bedlam and there all seem to die of their Lunacie who died Lunaticks for there is much difference in computing the number of Lunaticks that die though of Fevers and all other Diseases unto which Lunacie is no Supersedeas and those that die by reason of their Madness 12. So that this Casualty being so uncertain I shall not force my self to make any inference from the numbers and proportions we finde in our Bills concerning it onely I dare ensure any man at this present well in his Wits for one in the thousand that he shall not die a Lunatick in Bedlam within these seven years because I finde not above one in about one thousand five hundred have done so 13. The like use may be made of the Accompts of men that made away themselves who are another sort of Mad-men that think to ease themselves of pain by leaping into Hell or else are yet more Mad so as to think there is no such place or that men may go to rest by death though they die in self-murther the greatest Sin 14. We shall say nothing of the numbers of those that have been Drowned Killed by falls from Scaffolds or by Carts running over them c. because the same depends upon the casual Trade and Employment of men and upon matters which are but circumstantial to the Seasons and Regions we live in and affords little of that Science and Certainty we aim at 15. We finde one Casualty in our Bills of which though there be daily talk there is little effect much like our abhorrence of Toads and Snakes as most poisonous Creatures whereas few men dare say upon their own knowledge they ever found harm by either and this Casualty is the French-Pox gotten for the most part not so much by the intemperate use of Venery which rather causeth the Gowt as of many common Women 16. I say the Bills of Mortality would take off these Bars which keep some men within bounds as to these extravagancies for in the afore-mentioned 229250 we finde not above 392 to haved died of the Pox. Now forasmuch as it is not good to let the World be lulled into a security and belief of Impunity by our Bills which we intend shall not be onely as Death's-heads to put men in minde of their Mortality but also as Mercurial Statues to point out the most dangerous ways that lead us into it and misery We shall therefore shew that the Pox is not as the Toads and Snakes afore-mentioned but of a quite contrary nature together with the reason why it appears otherwise 17. Forasmuch as by the ordinary discourse of the world it seems a great part of men have at one time or other had some species of this disease I wondering why so few died of it especially because I could not take that to be so harmless where of so many complained very fiercely upon inquiry I found that those who died of it out of the Hospitals especially that of King's-Land and the Lock in Southwark were returned of Vlcers and Sores And in brief I found that all mentioned to die of the French-Pox were retured by the Clerks of Saint Giles's and Saint Martin's in the Fields onely in which place I understood that most of the vilest and most miserable houses of uncleanness were from whence I concluded that onely hated persons and such whose very Noses were eaten of were reported by the Searchers to have died of this too frequent Maladie 18. In the next place it shall be examined under what name or Casualtie such as die of these diseases are brought in I say under the Consumption forasmuch as all dying thereof die so emaciated and lean their Vlcers disappearing upon Death that the Old-women Searchers after the mist of a Cup of Ale and the bribe of a two-groat fee instead of one given them cannot tell whether this emaciation or leanness were from a Phthisis or from an Hectick Fever Atrophy c. or from an Infection of the Spermatick parts which in length of time and in various disguises hath at last vitiated the habit of the Body and by disabling the parts to digest their nourishment brought them to the condition of Leanness above mentioned 19. My next Observation is that of the Rickets we finde no mention among the

how much Hay an Acre of every sort of Meadow will bear how many Cattel the same weight of each sort of Hay will feed and fatten what quantity of Grain and other Commodities the same Acre will bear in one three or seven years communibus Annis unto what use each soil is most proper All which particulars I call the intrinsick value for there is also another value meerly accidental or extrinsick consisting of the Causes why a parcel of Land lying near a good Market may be worth double to another parcel though but of the same intrinsick goodness which answers the Queries why Lands in the North of England are worth but sixteen years purchase and those of the West above eight and twenty It is no less necessary to know how many People there be of each Sex State Age Religion Trade Rank or Degree c. by the knowledg whereof Trade and Government may be made more certain and Regular for if men knew the People as aforesaid they might know the consumption they would make so as Trade might not be hoped for where it is impossible As for instance I have heard much complaint that Trade is not set up in some of the South-western and North-western Parts of Ireland there being so many excellent Harbours for that purpose whereas in several of those Places I have also heard that there are few other Inhabitants but such as live ex sponte creatis and are unfit Subjects of Trade as neither employing others nor working themselves Moreover if all these things were clearly and truly known which I have but guessed at it would appear how small a part of the People work upon necessary Labours and Callings viz. how many Women and Children do just nothing onely learning to spend what others get how many are meer Voluptuaries and as it were meer Gamesters by Trade how many live by puzling poor people with unintelligible Notions in Divinity and Philosophie how many by perswading credulous delicate and Litigious Persons that their Bodies or Estates are out of Tune and in danger how many by fighting as Souldiers how many by Ministeries of Vice and Sin how many by Trades of meer Pleasure or Ornaments and how many in a way of lazie attendance c. upon others And on the other side how few are employed in raising and working necessary food and covering and of the speculative men how few do truly studie Nature and Things The more ingenious not advancing much further then to write and speak wittily about these matters I conclude That a clear knowledge of all these particulars and many more whereat I have shot but at rovers is necessary in order to good certain and easie Government and even to balance Parties and factions both in Church and State But whether the knowledge thereof be necessary to many or fit for others then the Sovereign and his chief Ministers I leave to consideration THE TABLE OF CASVALTIES                                               1629 1633 1647 1651 1655 1629 In 20                                               1630 1634 1648 1652 1656 1649 Years                                               1631 1635 1649 1653 1657 1659   The Years of our Lord 1647 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1632 1636 1650 1654 1658     Abortive and stilborn 335 329 327 351 389 381 384 433 483 419 463 467 421 544 499 439 410 445 500 475 507 523 1793 2005 1342 1587 1832 1247 8559 Aged 916 835 889 696 780 834 864 974 743 892 869 1176 909 1095 579 712 661 671 704 623 794 714 2475 2814 3336 3452 3680 2377 15757 Ague and Fever 1260 884 751 970 1038 1212 1282 1371 689 875 999 1800 2303 2148 956 1091 1115 1108 953 1279 1622 2360 4418 6235 3865 4903 4363 4010 23784 Apoplex and sodainly 68 74 64 74 106 111 118 86 92 102 113 138 91 67 22 36   17 24 35 26   75 85 280 421 445 177 1306 Bleach     1 3 7 2       1                             4 9 1 1 15 Blasted 4 1     6 6     4   5 5 3 8 13 8 10 13 6 4   4 54 14 5 12 14 16 99 Bleeding 3 2 5 1 3 4 3 2 7 3 5 4 7 2 5 2 5 4 4 3     16 7 11 12 19 17 65 Bloudy Flux Scouring and Flux 155 176 802 289 833 762 200 386 168 368 362 233 346 251 449 438 352 348 278 512 346 330 1587 1466 1422 2181 1161 1597 7818 Brunt and Scalded 3 6 10 5 11 8 5 7 10 5 7 4 6 6 3 10 7 5 1 3 12 3 25 19 24 31 26 19 125 Calenture 1     1   2 1 1     3                   1 3   4 2 4 3   13 Cancer Gangrene and Fistula 26 29 31 19 31 53 36 37 73 31 24 35 63 52 20 14 23 28 27 30 24 30 85 112 105 157 150 114 609 Wolf       8                                       8         8 Canker Sore-mouth and Thrush 66 28 54 42 68 51 53 72 44 81 19 27 73 68 6 4 4 1     5 74 15 79 190 244 161 133 689 Childbed 161 106 114 117 206 213 158 192 177 201 236 225 226 194 150 157 112 171 132 143 163 230 590 668 498 769 839 490 3364 Chrisomes and Infants 1369 1254 1065 990 1237 1280 1050 1343 1089 1393 1162 1144 858 1123 2596 2378 2035 2268 2130 2315 2113 1895 9277 8453 4678 4910 4788 4519 32106 Colick and Wind 103 71 85 82 76 102 80 101 85 120 113 179 116 167 48 57         37 50 105 87 341 359 497 247 1389 Cold and Cough             41 36 21 58 30 31 33 24 10 58 51 55 45 54 50 57 174 207 00 77 140 43 598 Consumption and Cough 2423 2200 2388 1988 2350 2410 2286 2868 2606 3184 2757 3610 2982 3414 1827 1910 1713 1797 1754 1955 2080 2477 5157 8266 8999 9914 12157 7197 44487 Convulsion 684 491 530 493 569 653 606 828 702 1027 807 841 742 1031 52 87 18 241 221 386 418 709 498 1734 2198 2656 3377 1324 9073 Cramp     1                           1 0 0 0 0 0 01 00 01 0 0 1 2 Cut of the Stone   2