_The Young Pretender_ (Vol. ix., pp. 177. 231.)--The wife of the Young Pretender was Louisa Maximiliene, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, Prince of Scholberg, who was born in 1752, and married in 1772. As a widow, she lived in Paris as the Countess of Albany, but in her drawing-room called herself Queen of Great Britain. She was alive at the time of the death of the Princess Charlotte (Nov. 1817). See Fisher's _Companion and Key to History of England_, p. 333. O. S. _Dobney's Bowling-green; Wildman; Sampson_, (Vol. ix., p. 375.).--Dobney's, or, more correctly, _D'Aubigney's_ Bowling-green, ceased to be a place of public amusement about the year 1810. It is now occupied by a group of houses called _Dobney's Place_, near the bottom of Penton Street. The late Mr. Upcott had a drawing of Prospect House (as the building was called), taken about 1780. A hand-bill of the year 1772 (in a volume formerly belonging to Lysons) thus describes the nature of Wildman's performance: "_The Bees on Horseback._--Daniel Wildman rides, standing upright, one foot on the saddle, and the other on the horse's neck, with a curious mask of bees on his face. He also rides standing upright on the saddle, with the bridle in his mouth, and, by firing a pistol, makes one part of the bees march over a table, and the other part swarm in the air, and return to their proper places again." Sampson, Price, Johnson, and Coningham were celebrated equestrian performers towards the close of the last century. Astley was the pupil of Sampson, and his successor in agility. Bromley, in his _Catalogue of Engraved Portraits_, mentions a folio engraving of Sampson, without date or engraver's name. It is hardly likely that any life of him was published. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. _Palæologus_ (Vol. ix., p. 312.).--Your readers will find, in Oldmixon's _West Indies_, a later notice of the strange descent and fortunes of this once illustrious family. From Cornwall they appear to have settled in Barbadoes, where it is very possible that with mutilated name the family may yet be found among the "poor whites" (many among them of ancient lineage) of that island. B. _Children by one Mother._--In Vol. ix., p. 186., I. R. R., in reply to a Query in Vol. v., p. 126.--"If there be any well-authenticated instance of a woman having had more than twenty-five children?"--sends an account of a case, which he "firmly believes" to be authenticated, of a farmer's wife who had thirty. I now send you a much better authenticated case of _polyprogenitiveness_, which utterly throws the farmer's wife into the shade.