Note 345 — SUPPOSITITIOUS CHILDREN.
Reading edition
See Zacchii Questions Med. Leg. lib. 1. tit. 5. De similitudine et dissimilitudine Natorum.
Dr. Gregory, the late distinguished Professor of Edinburgh, used to relate to his class, in order to convince them of the resemblance which so generally exists between parents and children, that having been once called to a distant part of Scotland, to visit a rich nobleman, he discovered in the configuration of his nose, an exact resemblance to that of the Grand Chancellor of Scotland, in the reign of Charles the First, as represented in his portraits. On taking a walk through the village after dinner, the Doctor recognised the same form of nose in several individuals among the country people; and the nobleman’s steward, who accompanied him, informed him that all the persons he had seen were descended from the bastards of the Grand Chancellor.