BIRCH, Thomas (ed.).

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A Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality, First collected edition of the bills of mortality for the City of London, first published in 1582, and on a regular basis from 1657 onwards.These regular publications are here collected together, alongside earlier statistics from 1593 onwards. The collection includes essays on population growth by William Petty, John Graunt, Corbyn Morris, and John Postlethwayt. The notes are especially valuable for their bibliographic references.

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