Advertisements for the better understanding
of the several Tables: videlicet,
Concerning the Table of Casualties consisting of thirty Columns.
THE first Column[1] contains all the Casualties hapning within the 22 single years mentioned in this Bill.
The 14 next Columns contain two of the last Septenaries of years, which being the latest are first set down.
The 8 next Columns represent the 8 first years, wherein the Casualties were taken notice of.
- Memorandum, That the 10 years between 1636 and 1647 are omitted as containing nothing Extraordinary, and as not consistent with the Incapacity of a Sheet[2]. |148|
The 5 next Columns are the 8 years from 1629 to 1636 brought into 2 Quaternions, and the 12 of the 14 last years brought into three more; that Comparison might be made between each 4 years taken together, as well as each single year apart.
The next Column contains three years together, taken at 10 years distance from each other; that the distant years, as
- ↑ In fact the first column was omitted from the table in the fourth and fifth editions, leaving but twenty-nine.
- ↑ "One could wish that the worthy citizen had made no difficulty about the size of his paper. The omitted years are not only those of great political revolution, which may have had an effect upon the public health, but they are of special interest for the beginning of that great period of fever and smallpox in London which continued all through the 18th century." Creighton, i. 532.
