Kilkenny.
_Twenty-seven Children._--In Colonel James Turner's defence (_English
Causes Célèbres_, vol. i. p. 111.) he says, speaking of his wife, who
was then also on trial for her life:
"She sat down, being somewhat fat and weary, poor heart! I have
had twenty-seven children by her; fifteen sons and twelve
daughters."
Is there any well authenticated instance of woman having had more than
twenty-five children?