Law of Population was a treatise written  as a response to works on population growth by an English cleric and what?
Thomas Robert Malthus Thomas Robert Malthus ( ; 13 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name, Robert.
An Analysis of the Laws of England An Analysis of the Laws of England is a legal treatise by British legal professor William Blackstone. It was first published by the Clarendon Press in 1756. A Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, and a lecturer there, on 3 July 1753 Blackstone announced his intentions to give a set of lectures on the common law — the first lectures of that sort in the world. A prospectus was issued on 23 June 1753, and with a class of approximately 20 students, the first lecture series was completed by July 1754. Despite Blackstone's limited oratory skills and a speaking style described by Jeremy Bentham as "formal, precise and affected", Blackstone's lectures were warmly appreciated. The second and third series were far more popular, partially due to his then unusual use of printed handouts and lists of suggested reading. These show Blackstone's attempts to reduce English law to a logical system, with the division of subjects later being the basis for his "Commentaries". The lecture series brought him £116, £226 and £111 a year respectively from 1753 to 1755 — a total of £ in 2017 terms. Seeing the success of this publication, Blackstone was induced to write "An Analysis of the Laws of England", a 200-page introduction to English law, which was first published in 1756 by the Clarendon Press.