 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 450 pages
...follows : 1. There lies a woman buried in the church at Dunflable, who, as her epitaph tcftiries, boreal three several times three children at a birth, and ^five at a birth two other times. 2. Eleonora Salviata, the wife of Bartholomew Frescobald, a citizen of Florence, was delivered of fifty-two... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - England - 1811 - 656 pages
...misconception of the epitaph, reports to have had " nineteen children at five births,. viz. three sever" al times three children at a birth, and five at a " birth, two other times7." BESIDES the religious house, was one of friars preachers, who settled here about 1259. It... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...367 children lawfully descended from her; and by that of a woman in Dunstable Church, ' who bore at three several times three children at a birth, and five at a birth two other times.' But his moral philosophy lllrti. -.'MTU-, ! uirs i< >OM 11;; sirmasu ' ii|i:mi:ii- |»irsrm i.ue 01 at... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 442 pages
...367 children lawfully descended from her; and by that of a woman in Dunstable Church ' who bore at three several times three children at ' a birth, and five at a birth two other times.' But his moral philosophy is of a higher strain, and may command our respect both for its truth, and for... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 626 pages
...name I cannot recover, lived, died, and is buried at Dunstable in this county. It appeareth by her epitaph* in the church, that she had nineteen children...children at a birth, and five at a birth two other times. How many of them survived to man's estate is xmknown.f Here I must dissent from • HakewiU's Apology,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1845 - 806 pages
...epitaph ill the church, that she had nineteen children at five birtht ; viz. three several times Mree children at a birth, and five at a birth two other...Bedfordshire Collections, p. 174, we are assured that binos tponau* was the correct reading, and, if <o, hec must have been the word in the preceding line, and... | |
 | English essays - 1845 - 758 pages
...bytheepitaph in the church, that she had nineteen children at Jfa births ; viz. three several times thrtt children at a birth, and five at a birth two other...Bedfordshire Collections, p. 174, we are assured that binn.i spmtta was the correct reading, and, if so, htc must hare been the word in the preceding lino,... | |
 | John Gough Nichols - Genealogy - 1846 - 622 pages
...Apology, p. 253, says, " It appeareth by the epitaph in the church, that she had nineteen children at fire births ; viz. three several times three children at a birth, and five at a birth two other times." The meaning evidently was that the husband had nineteen children bjtwo wives, or the wife nineteen... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...Southey quotes HakewiUs 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. AC Milkmaids (Vol. iii., p. 367.). — " May 1. — I was looking out of the parlour window this morning,... | |
 | Charles Lamborn - 1859 - 300 pages
...parallel to that of a woman buried in the church of Dunstaple, who as her epitaph testifies, bore at three several times three children at a birth, and five at a birth two other times." Fuller in his " Worthies of Bedfordshire," mentions this, but in a note says, " that it was not correct,... | |
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... the proportion of three to one. And he proves that the human race was not less prolific in his age than in elder times, by the epitaph of Dame Honeywood, of Charing in Kent, who had, at her decease. 367 children lawfully descended from her; and by... 
