The exact figures in the London Remembrancer are 3,151.
Pepys, Diary, 6 and 20 Sept.
Repertory 70, fo. 153b.
Journal 46, fo. 97b.
Pepys, Diary, 6 Aug., 1666.
The number of inhabitants of the city and its liberties in the reign of Elizabeth has been estimated at 150,000 (Motley, "United Netherlands," i, 306). As the suburbs grew the population of the city would become less. Hence, in 1682, the city's Recorder, speaking on the Quo Warranto case, mentions the number of inhabitants for whom the municipal authorities had to supply markets as a little over 50,000 (Journal 50, fo. 41).
Journal 46, fo. 99; Letter Book WW, fo. 78; Pepys, Diary, 10 and 21 June, 1666.
Repertory 71, fo. 172b.
Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 303.
Charles II is said to have been the last English sovereign to occupy rooms in the Tower of London, as he did on the night previous to his coronation.