Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The magnet of the metropolis
- 2 The accuracy of the London parish registers
- 3 The general growth of population in London
- 4 London social structure in 1638
- 5 The measurement of mortality rates
- 6 The effect of plague on mortality experience
- 7 Marriage and fertility
- 8 Population and metropolis
- Appendix 1 The London bills of mortality
- Appendix 2 Baptisms and burials in sample London parishes
- Appendix 3 Details from the 1638 listing and administrative divisions of London
- Appendix 4 London population in 1631 and houses in 1638 by wards
- References
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The magnet of the metropolis
- 2 The accuracy of the London parish registers
- 3 The general growth of population in London
- 4 London social structure in 1638
- 5 The measurement of mortality rates
- 6 The effect of plague on mortality experience
- 7 Marriage and fertility
- 8 Population and metropolis
- Appendix 1 The London bills of mortality
- Appendix 2 Baptisms and burials in sample London parishes
- Appendix 3 Details from the 1638 listing and administrative divisions of London
- Appendix 4 London population in 1631 and houses in 1638 by wards
- References
- Index
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- Population and MetropolisThe Demography of London 1580–1650, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981