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A30977	The genuine remains of that learned prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln containing divers discourses theological, philosophical, historical, &c., in letters to several persons of honour and quality : to which is added the resolution of many abstruse points published from Dr. Barlow's original papers.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1693 (1693)	Wing B832; ESTC R3532	293,515	707

People of the other Tribes no Authors he had read had made any exact Calculations And as for example that the Author of the Present State of England had quoted Selden about the large Revenue of the Levites and their being not the fourth part of the Twelve Tribes and that the History of the Council of Trent mentions the Fathers of that Council as saying that tho' God gave the Tenth to the Levites they were but the thirteenth part of the Jews he knowing Bishop Barlow to be both an excellent Text-man in the Scriptures and a good Arithmetician he applied to the Bishop to send him his Judgment in writing about the Levitical Revenue and the Proportion of their Number with the People of the other Tribes and his Lordship sent him in a Letter the following Paper viz. Numb 1.46 The Number of the Twelve Tribes reckoning Manasseh and Ephraim for two the Levites left out from twenty years and upwards was 603550. 1 That is of the Tribe of Reuben 46500 verse 21. Another numbring Numb 26. verse 7.       verse   verse 1 Of Reuben 43730.   2 Of Simeon 22200. 14. 2 Simeon 59300. 23. 3 Gad 40500. 18. 3 Gad 45650. 25. 4 Judath 76500. 22. 4 Judah 74600. 27. 5 Issacar 64300. 25. 5 Issacar 54400. 29. 6 Zebulon 60500. 27. 6 Zebulon 57400. 31. 7 Ephraim 32500. 37. 7 Ephraim 40500. 33. 8 Manasseth 52700. 34. 8 Manasseth 32200. 35. 9 Benjamin 45600. 41. 9 Benjamin 35400. 37. 10 Dan 64400. 43. 10 Dan 62700. 39. 11 Asher 53400. 47. 11 Asher 41500. 41. 12 Napthali 45400. 50. 12 Napthali 53400. 43. Summa totalis 601730 less than the former number 603550. by 1820. All the former number were dead save Caleb and Joshua verse 64 65. In all 603550. The Levites were number'd from a Month old and upwards Numb 3.39 and their number was 22000. So that the Levites numbred from a Month old and upward were not a Twenty seventh part of the Israelites tho' number'd only from 20 years old and upward whose number contain'd the number of the Levites 27. times and 9550 over And although the Levites were so far from being a tenth that they were not the 27th part of Israel yet they had 1. A ten th of the whole Land c. 2. And very many other things more A Catalog ue of them we have particularly Numb 18.8 9 10. c. 3. They had 48. Cities with their Suburbs Numb 35.7 Josh 21.41 more Cities than any Tribe had save the Royal Tribe of Judah Sir P.P. having receiv'd from the Bishop the above account of this matter so elaborately drawn and withal so satisfactorily to demonstrate that the Levites were not the 27th part of Israel he having been much Conversant with the Calculations of the Curious Observator of the Bills of Mortality as the Lord Chief Justice Hales in his Origination of Mankind calls him he return'd the Bishop another Paper about that Subject after having first shewn it to Dr. Robert Wood an acute Mathematician and found his approbation thereof that so he might have the Bishops further and final thoughts of the whole matter And that Paper is as followeth viz. The Number of the Israelites from 20 Years old and upwards the Levites being left out Numb c. 1.       c. 26. v. 21. 46500. Reuben 43730. v. 7. 23. 59300. Simeon 22200. 14. 25. 45650. Gad 40500. 18. 27. 74600. Judah 76500. 22. 29. 54400. Issachar 64300. 25. 31. 57400. Zebulon 60500. 27. 33. 40500. Ephraim 32500. 37. 35. 32200. Manasseth 52700. 34. 37. 35400. Benjamin 45600. 41. 39. 62700. Dan 64400. 43. 41. 41500. Asher 53400. 47. 43. 53400. Napthali 45400. 50. 46. 603550. Summe 601730. 51. c. 3. 39. 22000. Levites 23000. 62.   From a Month old and upwards   But the Number of the People of any Nation from a Month Old and upwards is more than double their Number from 20 Years Old and upwards Wherefore divide the number of the Israelites from 20. Years old and upwards by half the number of the Levites from a month Old and upwards And it will appear by any reckoning that the Levites were not 1 52th part of the number of the other Tribes perhaps not 1 60th that is to say The number of the other Tribes contain'd the number of the Levites 52. times perhaps 60. times And yet the Levites had 1. The tenth or tithe of the whole Land together with its Culture c. 2. Many other profits and advantages enumerated Numb 18. v. 8 9 10. c. 3. They had 48 Cities with their Suburbs or Territory for their Cattle Numb 3● 7 Josh 21.4 viz. more than any Tribe save the Royal Tribe of Judah Be pleas'd to take notice that the Levites not being a 52. part of the number of the other Tribes is certain And their not being a 60th part is Conjectural because 16 is the middle Year of the number of the living that is to say there are as many under the Age of 16. as above it And consequently there are more under 20. than above it because some dye between 16 and 20. So much as to the notion of the Israelites being reckon'd from 20. years old and upwards and the Levites from a month old and upwards Now as to the Levites having the Tenth or Tithe of the whole Land together with its Culture that may very rationally be judged to be as much more In Ireland the charge of the Culture is four times at least as much as the Rent of the Land In the best parts of England as Essex c. Near London the Culture is about double the Rent of the Land as suppose arable at a medium in Essex 10 Shillings an Acre the charge of the Culture is at least as much Communibus Annis So that then the Levites had a double tenth that is they had a fifth and yet perhaps were but the 60. part of the People And they having a fifth and there being twelve times five in sixty therefore every Levite at a medium or one with another had twelve times as much as other People one with another had There are in England 10000 Parishes and every Parish may be supposed to have a Curate beside the Minister If it be said that some Parishes reverâ have not Curates I answer that the Supernumerary expectant Clergy may ballance that It may further be rationally supposed that each of our 10000. Ministers hath a Wife and four Children it having been made out by the Observations on the Bills of Mortality that one Marriage with another first and second produceth four Children it appearing out of those Bills that there are four Christenings for one Marriage Thus then at this rate we may suppose 10000. times six of the Tribe of Levi in England that is 60000. In Henry the VIII ' s. time the Church had a third of the Revenue of the Kingdom A fourth of this third or a twelfth of the whole supposing the whole were a

Shilling the third must be a Groat and a fourth of that three pence namely the groat must be a penny which is the twelfth of a Shilling was in Abby Lands suppress'd And consequently the unsuppressed Abby Lands are a fourth of the whole by the former Computation that is to say three pence in the Shilling which according to Sir William Pettys Calculation is t●o Millions per Annum the whole Revenue of the Land being reckon'd by him to be per Annum 8 Millions The Number now of the English Levites i. e. our Levites and their Wises and Children being 60000. and the People of England being according to his Calculation six Millions they are but the one hundredth part of the whole People so then a hundredth part of the People hath a fourth And then every one with another may seem to have the twenty fifth i. e. twenty five times one with another as much as the Laity have one with another That is to say more than double what they had in Israel But then if we consider the forty eight Cities the Israelitish Levites had with other Emoluments the ballance between their Levites and ours may perhaps be equal If Popery were here in England the Levites would be but 10000. as being hinder'd from Marrying which Ministers now generally do And supposing they had none of the Abby Lands back again the 10000 would have to live upon now what now maintains 60000. and consequently one Priest would have as much as 150. now have The Kings 10ths here would then be 200000l a year Pondere Mensurâ Numero Deus omnia fecit Mensuram pondus numeres numero omnia fecit Facile est inventis addere The Bishop being not more ready to teach than to receive information in any thing and being satisfied with the measures of Calculation taken in this Paper was willing that the World abroad as well as here at home should be illuminated in this matter And thereupon sent to Sir P. P. his final thoughts drawn up in Latine the which so accurately setting forth what proportion the number of the Levites held with the number of all the People of the other Tribes are as followeth viz. 1. Numerus Populi Israelitici ab Anno aetatis 20 Juxta Mosis Computum Num. 1.20.46 erat 603550 2. Numerus Levitaruus a primo aetatis Ménse per Mosem computatus Numb 3.39 erat 22000 3. Numero primo per secundum Diviso quotus erit 27 9550 22000 4. Ex hoc igitur Calculo Evidentèr Constat numerum Populi Israelitici licet ab Anno aetatis 20. computatio instituatur continere numerum Levitarum licet a primo aetatis mense numerentur 27 9550 22000 5. Sed supposito quod numerus populi annum 20. nondum assecuti aequalis sit numero populi post dictum Annum superstitis Quaeritur quae sit proportio inter Levitas a primo aetatis mense numeratas populum ab eodom Termino numeratum Hoc ut Constet 1. Datus populi numerus 603550. est duplicandus eritique numerus 1207100 2. Dividatur dictus numerus per numerum Levitarum 22000 eritque quotus 54 22000 19100 3. Sed si dictus numerus 603550. per dimidum numeri Levitarum 11000. dividatur tum quotus erit 54 11000 9550 4. Hinc Constat quotum in utraque Divisione non esse eundem quantum ad numerum reliquum divisore minorem quia 1. In priori Divisione est 19100 2 In secundâ 9550 3. Est Ideo prior numerus posteriori duplo major bis enem continet 9550 4 Numeris enim duobus postremis additis oritur numerus Ex Tribus ultimis primus 19100 If the Reader hath the curiosity further to entertain his thoughts about this subject he may consult Sir Peter Pets Happy future State of England Printed for William Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstans-Church in Fleet-Street Where he will find the Number of the Levites thus adjusted in page 93. The Index before the Book will direct any Reader to more Calculations about the Clerical Revenue than he will perhaps find from all other Authors And this Author doth particularly deserve the thanks of our English Clergy for his Animadversions on the most subtile ingenious Book that ever was writ against them in p 160. 161. c. And where to p. 167. he demonstrates the present Clerical Revenue of England to be reasonable and necessary and very far from excess in its proportion And all future assertors of the same may usefully crave aid from his Calculations in that Book about it A Letter to Mr. R. T. Concerning the Confirmation of the Order of the Jesuites the Numbers of that Order c. FOR the Jesuites their Order was first confirm'd Anno 1540. and the worst Weeds and Vermin multiply most they were grown so numerous that in the Quarrel between the Pope and the Venetians Claudius Aquivina General of the Jesuites offer'd to assist the Pope with 40000 of his own Society on this Condition That all those of his Society who were slain in that quarrel should be Canoniz'd Since they are vastly multiply'd to a prodigious number of Persons some Clergy and in Orders some Laiques of both Sexes and Colleges and a vast Revenue so that they neither want Men nor Mony to do mischief That which is most mischievous to England is the Colleges they have the Government of them for Eng●ish Fugitives and training up the Sons of our Popish Nobility and Gentry which have been constantly sent thither and infected with impious Principles destructive to our Church and State and then sent over hither to practise them For their Colleges they have one at (a) Vid. Camdens Elizab. English pag. 216 c. Doway Founded Anno. 1568. Eliz. 10. by Card. Allen's means to which the Pope allow'd a yearly Pension Another at Rome founded by Gregory XIII Another at Rheimes Another at Validolid in Spain and if I forget not another at Salamanca They take an * Camden ibi pag. 577. vid. Bullarium Romanum Romae 638. Tom. 2. pag. 219 220. vid. ibi Bullam institutionis Collegii Anglici in Vrbe lib. 4. dictae Bullae 16. 17. de Juramento c. Oath when they are admitted into those Colleges to come into England when their Superiours send them to promote quantum in se est the Catholick Cause that is in plain English Rebellion and Heresie which they have industriously and impiously done especially since the (b) Camden ●b pag. 217. Jesuites first came into England which was Anno 1580. Eliz. 22. How they got Money to defray the Charges of their Missions and their Persons imploy'd in mischief you may be sure they will not tell us in Print but the World knows they have and give great Summs to such purposes Holt a Jesuite offer'd one (c) Camden ●b pag. 440. Edward York 40000 Duckats to kill Q. Elizabeth and before (d) Idem ibid. ●ag 430. that 50000 Duckats