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Had raised concernsBoulton 1996, 279, table 1 . All suggest a high demand for housing and a flurry of building in the face of a links of london very tight housing market, but perhaps not the remarkable building rate-especially between 1651 and 1655-that population fluctuations suggest for that decade see table 1 . Conversely, if Sutherland's links of london earrings sale estimate of the number of people surging back is correct, and the industry was unable to respond quickly enough, then there should be numerous accounts of an extreme housing shortage and commensurate sharp increase in rents. Such outcries are not widely found, however.Reflecting on the Methodology Much of this assessment for building activity in the 1650s admittedly depends on assumptions about links of london rings sale size, building rates during the natural loss rates, and vacancy rates. Changes in any of these factors could conceivably reduce the amount of building required during the 1650s to catch up with demand, making Sutherland's 1972 estimates of population fluctuations more credible. Harding 1990 had raised concerns about the reliability of Sutherland's 1972 population estimates for his later periods, and I confess that my initial supposition was that Sutherland's discount links of london necklaces ibid. population swings were too extreme the result of switching his metric from fertility to mortality at this critical time and that the building industry could not have bounced back so rapidly. My initial estimates for table 2 quite clearly suggested that was true.
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