_Large Families_ (Vol. v., pp. 204. 357.).--In a MS. commonplace-book of
the year 1787 _et seq._, I find two notes which may be added to your
curious collection of large families.
"In the church of Abberconway is a stone with this inscription: 'Here
lyeth the body of Nich^{las} Hooker, who was the one and fortieth child
of his father by Alice his only wife, and the father of seven and
twenty children by one wife. He died the 20^{th} of March, 1637.'"