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in the County of MeatB^ his Father, tho a proper man, 
no way remarkable for his height, but his Mother was 
of a more than ordinary low ftature : When he ftood 
on the bare ground with hisftioes off, hemeafured full 
feven foot feven inches in height, that is, above two 
foot taller thaii a man of a common fize, 
Walter Parfo^s^ King James the firft s Porter, born in 
Stafford/hire^ was much of the fame ftature ^ and I find 
feveral other men born in England have arrived to 
about this height : and 'tis not improbable that thofe 
of the very talleft Growth in thefe our Brittijh Ijles 
have not much furpaffed this pitch, where the common 
ftandard of height in Humane Bodies, feems confidera* 
bly (horter than in fome of the Neighbouring Countries 
on the Continent. 
For in Flanders and Germany ^ where men are ufually 
of a larger fize, and their Bodies of agroflermake than 
with us, we meet with Examples that have been much 
taller, nay^ that have exceeded this ftature feveral feetw 
Ishand Diemerhroeck in his Anatomy^ Chap, the firft. 
Book the firft, tells us, that he faw himfelf at Utrecht^ 
in the year 1665, a man eight foot and a half higb^ 
all his Limbs well ft)aped, and his ftrength proportio- 
nable to his lieighth, he was born at Schoonhoven in 
Holland^ of Patents of an ordinary ftature. 
Mr Ray in his Travels, page the fixth, mentions 
this very man, aud that he faw him in Bruges in Flan-- 
ders, ^ 
But that Eminent Phyfician and Learned Antiquary 
ot the laft age, Johannes Goropius Becanm^ who lived 
in Flanders^ has left recorded feveral Inftanccs of this 
kind yet more remarkable, and that were of his own 
knowledge too 5 for he fays he faw himfelf a Youth 
almoft nine foot high, a man near ten foot, and a Wo- 
man that was quite ten foot in height. Becaufe his 
Writings are not common. Til fet down his own words, 
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