Children at a Birth (Vol. iii., p. 347.).
—See Quarterly Review, No. xxix. vol. xv. p. 187., where Southey quotes Hakewill's Apology as authority for an epitaph in Dunstable Church to a woman who had, at three several times, three children at a birth; and five at a birth two other times.
A. C.
Milkmaids (Vol. iii., p. 367.).—
"May 1.—I was looking out of the parlour window this morning, and receiving the honours which Margery, the milkmaid to our lane, was doing me, by dancing before my door with the plate of half her customers on her head."—Tatler for May 2, 1710.
R. J. R.
"Heu quanto minus," &c. (Vol. iv., p. 21.).—
"Heu quanto minus est cum aliis versari quam tui meminisse,"
is the end of an inscription at the Leasowes "to Miss Dolman, a beautiful and amiable relation of Mr. Shenstone's, who died of the small-pox, about twenty-one years of age," in the following words. On one side:
"Peramabili suæ consobrinæ