William Evans, who served Charles I, was nearly 8 feet; he carried a dwarf in his pocket.
In the seventeenth century, in order to gratify the Empress of Austria, Guy-Patin made a congress of all the giants and dwarfs in the Germanic Empire.

A peculiarity of this congress was that the giants complained to the authorities that the dwarfs teased them in such a manner as to make their lives miserable.
Plater speaks of a girl in Basle, Switzerland, five years old, whose body was as large as that of a full-grown woman and who weighed when a year old as much as a bushel of wheat.

He also mentions a man living in 1613, 9 feet high, whose hand was 1 foot 6 inches long.

Peter van den Broecke speaks of a Congo negro in 1640 who was 8 feet high.

Daniel, the porter of Cromwell, was 7 feet 6 inches high; he became a lunatic.
Frazier speaks of Chilian giants 9 feet tall.