At a Medium The husbands 43 years 17¼ per cent., 742 years. are aged apiece, which, makes at The wives 40 17¼ 690 The widowers 56 1½ 84 The widows 60 4½ 270 The children 12 45 540 The servants 27 10½ 284 The sojourners 35 4 140 At a medium 27½ 100 2,750 _Vide_ Scheme D. Mr. King’s modesty has been so far overruled as to suffer us to communicate these his excellent computations, which we can the more safely commend, having examined them very carefully, tried them by some little operations of our own upon the same subject, and compared them with the schemes of other persons, who take pleasure in the like studies. What he says concerning the number of the people to be 5,500,000 is no positive assertion, nor shall we pretend anywhere to determine in that matter; what he lays down is by way of hypothesis, that supposing the inhabitants of England to have been, A.D. 1300, 2,860,000 heads, by the orderly series of increase allowed of by all writers they may probably be about A.D. 1700, 5,500,000 heads; but if they were A.D. 1300 either less or more, the case must proportionably alter; for as to his allowances for plagues, great mortalities, civil wars, the sea, and the plantations, they seem very reasonable, and not well to be controverted. Upon these schemes of Mr. King we shall make several remarks, though the text deserves much a better comment. SCHEME D.—A SCHEME OF THE INCOME AND EXPENSE OF THE SEVERAL FAMILIES OF ENGLAND, CALCULATED FOR THE YEAR 1688. {148}