In the _London Medical Journal_, vol. x. for the year 1789, art. vi., "A remarkable case of numerous births, with observations by Maxwell Garthmore, M.D., F.R.S. & S.A.: in a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., P.R.S.," Dr. G. mentions an account given formerly in the _Journal des Sçavans_, by M. Seignette, physician at Rochelle, of a woman of Saintonge who was at one birth delivered of nine well-formed children so far advanced that their sexes could be discovered. In the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lii. p. 376., is a curious legend of a woman giving birth to 365 children at once: all the males were baptised and named John, and all the females Elizabeth. The mother and 365 children died the same day. In the _Morning Advertiser_ for Dec. 1, 1851, is an account of a woman at Ballygunge, near Calcutta, being delivered of twenty-one children at once, all boys. Nov. 14th, 1736. A woman in Vere Street, of her thirty-fifth child, by one husband. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. vi. p. 683.) July 31st, 1781. At Kirton-le-Moor, in Cumberland, a man and his wife, and thirty children, the youngest of whom was between two and three years old, lately walked to church to the christening of the thirty-first child. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. li. p. 388.) Died at Grantham, Mrs. Lelly, a widow lady of that town. She was twice mother of twenty-two children. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lii. p. 309.) Eighty-seven children by two wives: sixty-nine by first, eighteen by second. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. liii. p. 753.) Seventy-two children by two wives, and a mother of thirty-two children. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lix. pp. 733-4.) To which is appended the following note by the editor: "The following epitaph, commemorating an instance of remarkable fecundity, is inserted by Mr. Pennant in his _Journey to Snowdon_: 'Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Hookes, of Conway, Gent., who was the forty-first child of his father, William Hookes, Esq., by Alice his wife, and the father of twenty-seven children, who died the 20th day of March, 1637.'" PANTAGRUEL. PEDIGREE OF RICHARD EARL OF CHEPSTOW. (Vol. v., p. 126.)