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he said no, he was in France, and the Earl os Surrey was General. I askcdhim how Old he might be then, he said, I believe I might be between i oand 12 ; for, says he, I was sentto Northallerton wirb a Horse Load of Ar-rows, buc tbey scnt abigger Boy from thence to the Army wirb them. AUthis agreed with the History of that time; for Bows and Arrows were thenuled, thcEarlhe named was General, and King Henry VIII. was then atTournay. and yet it is obstrvable that this Jenkins could neither Write norRead. There were also 4 or £ in the fame Parilh that were reputed ali ofthtmtobean 100 YtatsOld, or within 2 or 3 Yearsof it, and they all saidhe was-an Eldtrly Man ever linee they Knew him; for he was Born in ano-ther Parilh, and beforeany Registers were in Churches, as it is said ; he toldme then too, that he was Butler to the Lord Conyers , and Rimembred theAbbot of Fountains-Abby very well, before the Diffiolution of the Mena-ßeries.

z. Hnry Jcnkms departed this Life Dec. 8 th. 1 670. at Ellcrtcn uponSivale in Ibrkjhtre ; the Battel of Flowden-fitld was fotight Sept. 9. 1513. Andhe was about 12 Years Old when Floovden seid was fought. So that thisHenry Jenkins Lived 169 Years, •viz,. 16 langer than Old Parre, and wasthe Oldest Man Born upon the Ruins of this Postdiluvian World.

In the last Century of bis Life, he was a Fiffierrmn, and used to wade inthe Streams; his Dict wasCoarsc and Sower; but towards the latter end ofhis Days he Begged up and down ; he bath Sworn in Chancery and otherCourts , to above 140 Years Memory, and was often at the Affiz.es atYork, whiihcr he generally went on Foot: And I have heard scme of theCountry Gentlemen aflirm, that he frequently Swum in the Rivers aftcr hewas past the Age of tooYearj.

3. In the King's Remembrancer s Office in the Exchequer , is a Record of aDeposiriun in a -Cause by Englilh Bill, between Ant. Clark and Smirkfon,taken April 1665, at Kettering in Torkßiire, where Henry Jenktns of Ellertonupon Swale Labourer, Aged 157 Years, was produced and Deposed as aWitnels. Divers very antient Wirnelsts Swore him to be a very Old Manwhen theyfirst knew him.

III. 1. Rob. Montgcmery now (in the Year 1670 ) living at Skjpicn in3. Craven, but born in Scotland, teils me that he is t26 Tears of Age ; the oldestin Skiptcn say, that they never knew him other than an old Man ; he is ex-ceedingly Decay’d of late, but yet goes about a Begging.

2. Mary Allism of Thorlby in the Parilh of Skiptcn Dyed 1668, Aged a-bout 108. She Spun a Webb of Linnen Cloath a Year or two before Hiedy’d.

3. J. Sagar of Eurnky in Lancaß.ire, about 1 o Miles off Skiptcn, Dyed a-bout the Year 1668, and was of the Age (as is reportedj of 112.

4. Tho, Wiggen of C arltcn in Craven Dyed 1670 at the Age of 108., andodd Mcnths : He went-about tillwhhin few Weeks of his last, and was arery fair Corps.

5", 6 . Franceslfoodworth of Carlton Dyed 1662. ofthe Age of 102, and

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