Parson, the Staffordshire Giant

Harwood, in a note to his edition of Erdeswick's *Staffordshire*, p. 289., says,— "This place [Westbromwich] gave birth to *William* Parsons, [query Walter,] the gigantic porter of King James I., *whose picture was at Whitehall*; and a bas-relief of him, with Jeffry Hudson the dwarf, was fixed in the front of a house near the end of a bagnio court, Newgate-street, probably as a sign." Plot, in his *Natural History of Staffordshire*, gives some instances of the great strength of Parsons. I shall feel much obliged if you or your readers will inform me, 1. Whether there is any mention of Parsons…