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kirby’s wgnbereul museum.
died with dried sticks. His wife is sitting on a fragment
of the ruin ; on her head is a kind of coloured cap ; and her
gown or mantle, which reaches down to her feet, is coloured
likewise: she stoops very much ; her right elbow rests on
her knee, and her hand is rather extended, to receive the
corn from her husband, on which, however, she is by no
means intent, as the attention of them both appears to be oc-
cupied by some other object: her left hand crosses her right
arm, near the elbow, both of which are uncovered, as are
also her feet, which, with her face, are very much wrinkled;
and her neck and bosom particularly, discover the ruinous
effects of time; and, in short, in her whole figure, there is
the appearance of the extremity of old age ; near her feet
is a very handsome tortoiseshell cat, sitting on the ground,
who also appears very old ; she is on the left, and her hus-
band on the right hand side of the picture.”
A Mulatto Man—-180, who died at Frederick-town,
North America, in 1797-
Henry Jenkins—169,
of Ellerton-upon-Swale, Yorkshire. He remembered the
battle of Flodden-field, which was fought September 9,
1513, when he was about twelve years old. He was then
sent fo Northallerton with a cart-load of arrows, but an el-
der boy was sent to the army with them, bows and arrows'
being then in use. At this time, King Henry VIII. was at
Tournay in France. At Ellerton, there was also living, at
the same time, four or five old men; and they observed,
that Jenkins was an elderly man when they first knew him,
for he was born in another parish, and before church regis-
ters were in use. Jenkins was once butler to Lord Conyers;
he perfectly well remembered the Abbot of Fountain’s Abbey,
before the dissolution of the monasteries. In the last century
of his life, he was a fisherman, and often swam in the rivers,
after he had attained the age of one hundred years. His
kirby’s wgnbereul museum.
died with dried sticks. His wife is sitting on a fragment
of the ruin ; on her head is a kind of coloured cap ; and her
gown or mantle, which reaches down to her feet, is coloured
likewise: she stoops very much ; her right elbow rests on
her knee, and her hand is rather extended, to receive the
corn from her husband, on which, however, she is by no
means intent, as the attention of them both appears to be oc-
cupied by some other object: her left hand crosses her right
arm, near the elbow, both of which are uncovered, as are
also her feet, which, with her face, are very much wrinkled;
and her neck and bosom particularly, discover the ruinous
effects of time; and, in short, in her whole figure, there is
the appearance of the extremity of old age ; near her feet
is a very handsome tortoiseshell cat, sitting on the ground,
who also appears very old ; she is on the left, and her hus-
band on the right hand side of the picture.”
A Mulatto Man—-180, who died at Frederick-town,
North America, in 1797-
Henry Jenkins—169,
of Ellerton-upon-Swale, Yorkshire. He remembered the
battle of Flodden-field, which was fought September 9,
1513, when he was about twelve years old. He was then
sent fo Northallerton with a cart-load of arrows, but an el-
der boy was sent to the army with them, bows and arrows'
being then in use. At this time, King Henry VIII. was at
Tournay in France. At Ellerton, there was also living, at
the same time, four or five old men; and they observed,
that Jenkins was an elderly man when they first knew him,
for he was born in another parish, and before church regis-
ters were in use. Jenkins was once butler to Lord Conyers;
he perfectly well remembered the Abbot of Fountain’s Abbey,
before the dissolution of the monasteries. In the last century
of his life, he was a fisherman, and often swam in the rivers,
after he had attained the age of one hundred years. His