"Dionora Salviati moglie di Bartolomeo dei Frascobaldi, fece 52 figli, e mai meno di tre per parto, come riferesce Gio. Schenzio nei libri delle osservazioni amirabili, cioe nel libro quarto de Parto a carta 144." BRAYBROOKE. Relative to extraordinary births, I may mention that within half a dozen miles of this city, and not more than six weeks since, a poor woman gave birth to four children, two of each sex, and all, with the mother, doing well. Some millions are born without such, as I may term it, a phenomenon. In a very late Brussells paper I find it stated, that in nine years the wife of a tradesman had twenty-four children, three on each delivery,--"chose désespérante (it is added) pour le mari, qui désirait transmettre son nom, car c'étaient toutes des filles." Mercier, in his _Tableau de Paris_ (1786) quotes _L'Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences_ of the preceding century for a similar fact, where it is asserted that a baker's wife had twenty-one children in seven years, three at each birth, and that he had again three children at a birth by a servant maid. J. R. (Cork) _Hog's Norton_ (Vol. v., p. 245.).--Your correspondent who writes from Ashby-de-la-Zouch will, it is probable, be surprised to find that _Hog's Norton_ is almost in his own immediate neighbourhood. In Curtis' _Topographical History of Leicestershire_ (printed, by-the-bye, at Ashby), he subjoins to the modern names of places the ancient names as found in _Domesday Book_, Inquisitiones post mortem, &c. It appears that _Norton juxta Twycross_ was in other days "Nortone, Hoggenortone, Hog's Norton." There is, then, no doubt as to which of the many Nortons in England is Hog's Norton: but whether there is now, or ever was, an organ in the church; or whether a Mr. Pigge, or any number of _pigs_, played on one there, I know not. S. S. S. _Cromwell's Skull_ (Vol. v., p. 275.).--Your correspondent J. P., who inquires in your last respecting the identity of a certain skull with that of Oliver Cromwell, will find valuable information on the subject in an article in the fifth volume of the _Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science_ (1848), entitled-- "Historical Notes concerning certain Illnesses, the Death, and Dis-interment of Oliver Cromwell, by W. White Cooper, F.R.C.S." This article is very ably written, and throws much light on a vexed question. ANTIQUARIUS. Athenæum.