2. That any three of the best cities of France, any two of all
Christendom, or any one of the world, hath the same, or better
housing, and more foreign trade than London, even in the year that
King James the Second came to the empire thereof.
OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
Founded upon the Calculations of Gregory King, Lancaster Herald, and
forming part of "An Essay upon the Probable Methods of making a
People gainers in the Balance of Trade." Published in 1699.
The writer of these papers has seen the natural and political
observations and conclusions upon the state and condition of England
by Gregory King, Esq., Lancaster Herald, in manuscript. The
calculations therein contained are very accurate, and more perhaps
to be relied upon than anything that has been ever done of the like
kind. This skilful and laborious gentleman has taken the right
course to form his several schemes about the numbers of the people,
for besides many different ways of working, he has very carefully
inspected the poll-books, and the distinctions made by those acts,
and the produce in many of the respective polls, going everywhere by
reasonable and discreet mediums: besides which pains, he has made
observations of the very facts in particular towns and places, from
which he has been able to judge and conclude more safely of others,
so that he seems to have looked further into this mystery than any
other person.
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