This is a book about the population of London during the early
modern period and a detailed book about the population of a
European metropolitan city at that time. Much is now known about
the historical demography of rural England, but very little is
understood about the larger towns and cities. Roger Finlay applies
new techniques in historical demography, principally family
reconstitution and aggregative analysis of parish registers, to
study the growth of population in London. He shows that parish
registers are as reliable for the analysis of population trends in
London as in rural England. The death rate was much higher in
London than in the countryside, and this difference was not offset
by a markedly higher birth rate, so the population would have
declined but for migration. There were striking variations in both
fertility and mortality between contrasting social areas of London.
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