None the less there is still a very rapid wheeled ship at Zandvoort.
But the record of Howell's other wonder is visible still.

He continues: "That wonder of _Nature_ is a Church-monument, where an Earl and a Lady are engraven with 365 children about them, which were all delivered at one birth; they were half male, half female; the two Basons in which they were Christened hang still in the Church, and the Bishop's Name who did it; and the story of this Miracle, with the year and the day of the month mentioned, which is not yet 200 years ago; and the story is this: That the Countess walking about her door after dinner, there came a Begger-woman with two Children upon her back to beg alms, the Countess asking whether those children were her own, she answer'd, she had them both at one birth, and by one Father, who was her husband.

The Countess would not only not give her any alms, but reviled her bitterly, saying, it was impossible for one man to get two children at once.

The Begger-woman being thus provok'd with ill words, and without alms, fell to imprecations, that it should please God to show His judgment upon her, and that she might bear at one birth as many children as there be days in the year, which she did before the same year's end, having never born child before." The legend was naturally popular in a land of large families, and it was certainly credited without any reservation for many years.

In England the rabbit-breeding woman of Dorking had her adherents too.