Collectanea Topog. et Geneal. vol. iv. p. 53. from MS. Harl. 980. f. 74.
Thirty-nine Children:—
"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.
Thirty-five Children:—
"A woman in Vere Street of the 35th child by one husband."—Gentleman's Magazine, 1736, p. 683.
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.