delivered to successive knights; so that it is probable that George III., on becoming sovereign, kept in his own possession the badge he had originally received, and that this identical badge George IV. disposed of as he stated, whether to the Duke of Buckingham, or, as the impression on my memory still is, Lord Moira. C. _Traditions from Remote Periods._--From time to time notices have appeared in "N. & Q." of "remote events brought down to our own times through few links:" to these, if you should think it merits insertion, I beg to contribute the following Note from Chambers's _Life and Works of Burns_, vol. iii. p. 205. In the address to Mr. Maxwell, of Terraughty, on his birthday (p. 204.), Burns says, 7th line: "This day[4] thou metes threescore eleven," and Mr. Chambers remarks: "The person addressed in these verses, John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty and Munches, was a leading public man in the county of Dumfries. He was on several accounts very remarkable, but particularly for his birth, and the proximity into which his family history brings us with events comparatively remote; for Mr. Maxwell was grandson's grandson, and no more, to the gallant and faithful Lord Herries, who on bended knees entreated Queen Mary to prosecute Bothwell as the murderer of her husband, and who subsequently fought for her at Langside. One cannot learn without a pleasing kind of surprise, that a relation in the fifth degree of one who was _Warden of the West Marches in 1545_, should have lived to the close of the French Revolution wars, which was the case of Mr. Maxwell, for he died in _January 1814_." [Footnote 4: Middle of December, 1791.] C. D. LAMONT. Greenock. There is now living in the village of Headley, Hants, a man whose father was born in the time (though not in the reign) of James II.; viz. 1697. As a curious instance of the space of time included in the lives of a father and son (although there is nothing wonderful in the number of years attained by either separately), I have thought it worth recording in "N. & Q." I may add that the age of the man now living at Headley is eighty-three, and he was born when his father was seventy-two years old. L. G. TWENTY-SEVEN CHILDREN, AND MORE, OF ONE MOTHER. (Vol. v., p. 126.) Happening to have made notes from time to time of several such instances, I beg to present them to the readers of "N. & Q.":-- _Sixty-two Children_:--