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LONGEVITY.
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Hen. Lywarch—150, a Welsh Bard ■, contemporary with
King Arthur, who died in the year 500. He had twenty-
four sons, who all fell resisting the Saxons. His elegy on
old age, with their deaths, is still remaining.
Christian Jacobson Drackenburg—146, of Aarhus,
in Denmark; a celebrated and well known character, born
November 11,1626, died October 9, 1772.
Thomas Winslow, Esq.—146, of the county of Tippe-
rary in Ireland. He was a colonel in the army. He held the
rank of captain in the reign of King Charles 1st, and ac-
companied Oliver Cromwell into Ireland. Died August,
1766.
Ann Wignell—146, a free black woman, died at Jamaica
in February 1812, at the advanced age of 146 years. She
was imported from Africa when 12 years of age, and about
14 years previous to the destruction of Port Royal by the
great earthquake in 1692. She had been bed-ridden some
time before her decease, but retained her senses until the
last.
The Countess of Desmond—145.
She was the daughter of the Fitzgeralds of Drumana, in
the county of Waterford; and married in the reign of King
Edward the Fourth, James, the fourth Earl of Desmond;
she wras in England the same reign, and danced at court
with his brother Richard, then Duke of Gloucester. She
was then a widow ; for Sir Walter Raleigh says, they held
her jointure from all the Earls of Desmond since that time,.
It appears that she retained her full vigour in a very ad-
vanced time of life; for the ruin of the house of Desmond
reduced her to poverty, and obliged her to take a journey
from Bristol to London, to solicit relief from the Court, at a
time she was a hundred and forty. She twice or thrice re-
newed her teeth, casting her old ones and getting others
in their place. She died in the reign of James 1st, in the
year 1612.
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97
Hen. Lywarch—150, a Welsh Bard ■, contemporary with
King Arthur, who died in the year 500. He had twenty-
four sons, who all fell resisting the Saxons. His elegy on
old age, with their deaths, is still remaining.
Christian Jacobson Drackenburg—146, of Aarhus,
in Denmark; a celebrated and well known character, born
November 11,1626, died October 9, 1772.
Thomas Winslow, Esq.—146, of the county of Tippe-
rary in Ireland. He was a colonel in the army. He held the
rank of captain in the reign of King Charles 1st, and ac-
companied Oliver Cromwell into Ireland. Died August,
1766.
Ann Wignell—146, a free black woman, died at Jamaica
in February 1812, at the advanced age of 146 years. She
was imported from Africa when 12 years of age, and about
14 years previous to the destruction of Port Royal by the
great earthquake in 1692. She had been bed-ridden some
time before her decease, but retained her senses until the
last.
The Countess of Desmond—145.
She was the daughter of the Fitzgeralds of Drumana, in
the county of Waterford; and married in the reign of King
Edward the Fourth, James, the fourth Earl of Desmond;
she wras in England the same reign, and danced at court
with his brother Richard, then Duke of Gloucester. She
was then a widow ; for Sir Walter Raleigh says, they held
her jointure from all the Earls of Desmond since that time,.
It appears that she retained her full vigour in a very ad-
vanced time of life; for the ruin of the house of Desmond
reduced her to poverty, and obliged her to take a journey
from Bristol to London, to solicit relief from the Court, at a
time she was a hundred and forty. She twice or thrice re-
newed her teeth, casting her old ones and getting others
in their place. She died in the reign of James 1st, in the
year 1612.
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