This case was most celebrated and was much quoted, several British journals extracting it.
Watering of Maregnac speaks of the simultaneous birth of 8 children at one time.

When several months pregnant the woman was seized with colicky pains and thought them a call of nature.

She went into a vineyard to answer it, and there, to her great astonishment, gave birth to 8 fetuses.

Watering found them enclosed in a sac, and thought they probably had died from mutual pressure during growth.

The mother made a good recovery.
In 1755 Seignette of Dijon reports the simultaneous birth of nine children.