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Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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eturn of haptisms and burials, in Drakes History,to have been about 13,000 in 1730. Exeter had only 17,000 inhabitants in 1801. The popula-tion of Worcester was numbered just before the siege in 1646. See Nashs History of Worcester-shire. I have made allowance for the increase which must be supposed to have taken place inforty years. In 1740, the population of Nottingham was found, by enumeration, to be just10,000. See Derings History. The population of Gloucester may readily be inferred from thenumber of houses which King found in the returns of hearth money, and from the number ofbirths and burials which is given in Atkynss History. The population of Derby was 4000 in1712. See Wolleys MS. History, quoted in Lysons Magna Britannia. The population ofShrewsbury was ascertained, in 1695, by actual enumeration. As to the gaieties of Shrewsbury,see Farquhars Recruiting Officer. Farquhars description is borne out by a ballad in thePepysian Library, of which the burden is Shrewsbury for me.
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CO HD O pa< Xu p< fao HPi«! Pi to C 3 a. o 3 328 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, m The population of every one of these places has, since the Revolu-tion, much more than doubled. The population of some has multipliedsevenfold. The streets have been almost entirely rebuilt. Slate hassucceeded to thatch, and brick to timber. The pavements and thelamps, the display of wealth in the principal shops, and the luxuriousneatness of the dwellings occupied by the gentry would, in the seven-teenth century, have seemed miraculous. Yet is the relative importanceof the old capitals of counties by no means what it was. Youngertowns, towns which are rarely or never mentioned in our early historyand which sent no representatives to our early Parliaments, have, withinthe memory of persons still living, grown to a greatness which thisgeneration contemplates with wonder and pride, not unaccompanied byawe and anxiety. The most eminent of these towns were indeed known in the seven-teenth cent

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