I know
they have declared." The date of the letter is October 5, N. S. 1683]

[Footnote 26: During the interval which has elapsed since this chapter
was written, England has continued to advance rapidly in material
prosperity, I have left my text nearly as it originally stood; but I
have added a few notes which may enable the reader to form some notion
of the progress which has been made during the last nine years; and,
in general, I would desire him to remember that there is scarcely a
district which is not more populous, or a source of wealth which is not
more productive, at present than in 1848. (1857.)]

[Footnote 27: Observations on the Bills of Mortality, by Captain John
Graunt (Sir William Petty), chap. xi.]

[Footnote 28:

"She doth comprehend
Full fifteen hundred thousand which do spend
Their days within."

--Great Britain's Beauty, 1671.]

[Footnote 29: Isaac Vossius, De Magnitudine Urbium Sinarum, 1685.
Vossius, as we learn from Saint Evremond, talked on this subject oftener
and longer than fashionable circles cared to listen.]

[Footnote 30: King's Natural and Political Observations, 1696 This
valuable treatise, which ought to be read as the author wrote it, and
not as garbled by Davenant, will be found in some editions of Chalmers's
Estimate.]

[Footnote 31: Dalrymple's Appendix to Part II. Book I, The practice of
reckoning the population by sects was long fashionable. Gulliver says
of the King of Brobdignag; "He laughed at my odd arithmetic, as he
was pleased to call it, in reckoning the numbers of our people by
a computation drawn from the several sects among us in religion and
politics."]

[Footnote 32: Preface to the Population Returns of 1831.]

[Footnote 33: Statutes 14 Car. II. c. 22.; 18 & 19 Car. II. c. 3., 29 &
30 Car. II. c. 2.]

[Footnote 34: Nicholson and Bourne, Discourse on the Ancient State of
the Border, 1777.]

[Footnote 35: Gray's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes, Oct. 3, 1769.]

[Footnote 36: North's Life of Guildford; Hutchinson's History of
Cumberland, Parish of Brampton.]

[Footnote 37: See Sir Walter Scott's Journal, Oct. 7, 1827, in his Life
by Mr. Lockhart.]

[Footnote 38: Dalrymple, Appendix to Part II. Book I. The returns of
the hearth money lead to nearly the same conclusion. The hearths in the
province of York were not a sixth of the hearths of England.]

[Footnote 39: I do not, of course, pretend to strict accuracy here; but
I believe th