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LONGEVITY.
93
diet was coarse and sour. In the King’s Remembrancer Of-
fice, in the Exchequer, there is a record of a deposition in
a cause, by English Bill, between Anthony Clark and Smirk-
son, taken, April 1665, at Kettering, Yorkshire, where
Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton-upon-Swale, labourer, aged 157
years, was produced, and deposed as a witness. He de-
parted this life, December 6,16/0, at Ellerton-upon-Swale,
and was buried at Bolton, in Yorkshire. In 1/43, a mo-
nument was erected at Bolton, to his memory, by subscrip-
tion, with the following epitaph :
“ Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory
of Henry Jenkins; a person obscure in birth, but of a life
truly memorable ; for he was enriched with the goods of na-
ture, if not of fortune, and happy in the duration, if not va-
riety, of his enjoyments ; and though the partial world de-
spised and disregarded his low and humble state, the eye of
Providence beheld and blessed it with a patriarch’s health
and length of days, to teach mistaken men, these blessings
are entailed on temperance, a life of labour, and a mind at
ease. He lived to the amazing age of 169; was interred
here, December 6, 1670, and had this justice done to his
memory, 1743.”
A Russian—163.
Dr. Petri, in his work on Esthonia, published at Gotha,
(1802) relates, that not far from Polozk, on the frontiers of
Livonia, there was still living, in 1796, a Russian, who had
served in the thirty years war, and recollected the death of
Gustavus Adolphus. He was born under the grandfather
of Peter the Great, and had lived during the reigns of eleven
sovereigns of Russia. At the battle of Pultowa he was 86
years old. In his 93rd year, he married a third wife, who
had a family by him, and their youngest child was 62 years
old in 1796. He lived happily with her 50 years. The fa-
mily of this patriarch consisted, in the last mentioned year,
93
diet was coarse and sour. In the King’s Remembrancer Of-
fice, in the Exchequer, there is a record of a deposition in
a cause, by English Bill, between Anthony Clark and Smirk-
son, taken, April 1665, at Kettering, Yorkshire, where
Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton-upon-Swale, labourer, aged 157
years, was produced, and deposed as a witness. He de-
parted this life, December 6,16/0, at Ellerton-upon-Swale,
and was buried at Bolton, in Yorkshire. In 1/43, a mo-
nument was erected at Bolton, to his memory, by subscrip-
tion, with the following epitaph :
“ Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory
of Henry Jenkins; a person obscure in birth, but of a life
truly memorable ; for he was enriched with the goods of na-
ture, if not of fortune, and happy in the duration, if not va-
riety, of his enjoyments ; and though the partial world de-
spised and disregarded his low and humble state, the eye of
Providence beheld and blessed it with a patriarch’s health
and length of days, to teach mistaken men, these blessings
are entailed on temperance, a life of labour, and a mind at
ease. He lived to the amazing age of 169; was interred
here, December 6, 1670, and had this justice done to his
memory, 1743.”
A Russian—163.
Dr. Petri, in his work on Esthonia, published at Gotha,
(1802) relates, that not far from Polozk, on the frontiers of
Livonia, there was still living, in 1796, a Russian, who had
served in the thirty years war, and recollected the death of
Gustavus Adolphus. He was born under the grandfather
of Peter the Great, and had lived during the reigns of eleven
sovereigns of Russia. At the battle of Pultowa he was 86
years old. In his 93rd year, he married a third wife, who
had a family by him, and their youngest child was 62 years
old in 1796. He lived happily with her 50 years. The fa-
mily of this patriarch consisted, in the last mentioned year,