_Numerous Progeny._--The _London Journal_ of Oct. 26, 1734, contains the
following paragraph:
"Letters from Holderness, in Yorkshire, mention the following
remarkable inscription on a tombstone newly erected in the churchyard
of Heydon, viz. 'Here lieth the body of William Strutton, of
Padrington, buried the 18th of May, 1734, aged 97, who had by his first
wife 28 children, and by a second wife 17; own father to 45,
grandfather to 86, great-grandfather to 97, and great-great-grandfather
to 23; in all 251.'"