Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London 1580–1650

Roger Finlay

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511735325

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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Frontmatter
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1 - Introduction: The magnet of the metropolis
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2 - The accuracy of the London parish registers
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3 - The general growth of population in London
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4 - London social structure in 1638
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5 - The measurement of mortality rates
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6 - The effect of plague on mortality experience
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7 - Marriage and fertility
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8 - Population and metropolis
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Appendix 1 - The London bills of mortality
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Appendix 2 - Baptisms and burials in sample London parishes
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Appendix 3 - Details from the 1638 listing and administrative divisions of London
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Appendix 4 - London population in 1631 and houses in 1638 by wards
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of tables
pp vi-viii

List of figures
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction: The magnet of the metropolis
pp 1-19

2 - The accuracy of the London parish registers
pp 20-50

3 - The general growth of population in London
pp 51-69

4 - London social structure in 1638
pp 70-82

5 - The measurement of mortality rates
pp 83-110

6 - The effect of plague on mortality experience
pp 111-132

7 - Marriage and fertility
pp 133-150

8 - Population and metropolis
pp 151-154

Appendix 1 - The London bills of mortality
pp 155-157

Appendix 2 - Baptisms and burials in sample London parishes
pp 158-167

Appendix 3 - Details from the 1638 listing and administrative divisions of London
pp 168-172

Appendix 4 - London population in 1631 and houses in 1638 by wards
pp 173-174

References
pp 175-184

Index
pp 185-188

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