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³ For adult males 20 and up, the period CDR was 32.6 per thousand per year in peerage families around 1670 and 35.0 per thousand around 1700. For adult males 25 and up, the period CDR was 35.9 per thousand around 1670 and 38.1 per thousand around 1700. These rates are calculated from Hollingsworth, T. H., “Mortality in the British Peerage Families since 1600,” Population, special issue (1977), Tables 1 and 2.Google Scholar

⁴ Hollingsworth's data imply a rate for males 25–49 of 24.9 per thousand in peerage families around 1670, and 25.4 per thousand around 1700.Google Scholar