_Collectanea Topog. et Geneal._ vol. iv. p. 53. from MS. Harl. 980. f. 74.
"In the year 1698, when Thomas Greenhill, surgeon to Henry Duke of Norfolk (son of William Greenhill of Greenhill in Middx. by Elizabeth, daughter of John Jones of London) petitioned the Earl Marshal as follows: 'That in consideration of your petitioner being the 7th son & 39th child of one father & mother, your Grace would be pleased to signalise it by some particular remark or augmentation in his coat of Arms, to transmit to posterity so uncommon a thing.' The confirmation of the arms contains no reference to the fact."
_Collectanea Topogr. et Genealogica_, vol. iv. p. 53.
"A woman in Vere Street of the 35th child by one husband."
_Thirty Children._--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for Feb. 1743, is recorded the death of Mrs. Agnes Milbourne, who was aged 106, and had thirty children.
_Twenty-nine Children._--In that for 1738:--
"Nov. 15. Mr. Thomas Rogers, a 'Change-Broker, who had by his wife 29 children, born and christen'd."
_Twenty-seven Children._--Mr. Richetts, father of the present Earl St. Vincent, was the twenty-third of twenty-seven children by the same mother.
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.)