The average, 4,100,000, is probably nearly correct, of which about a tenth in Wales.

England had grown considerably during the century, this increase being especially remarkable in the large towns.
Whereas, in 1534, 150,000 quarters of wheat were consumed in London annually, the figure for 1605 is 500,000.

The population in the same time had probably increased from 60,000 to 225,000.

No figures worth anything can be given for Ireland, and for Scotland it is only safe to say {454} that in 1500 the population was about 500,000 and in 1600 about 700,000.
[Sidenote: The Netherlands] Enumerations of hearths and of communicants give good bases for reckoning the population of the Netherlands.

Holland, the largest of the Northern provinces, had about 200,000 people in 1514; Brabant the greatest of the Southern, in 1526 had 500,000.