Natural and Political Observations… Made Upon the Bills of Mortality

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Natural and Political Observations… Made Upon the Bills of Mortality

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…he was inspired to write Natural and Political Observations . . . Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662). He produced four editions of this work; the third (1665) was published by the Royal Society, of which Graunt was a charter member.
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