Volume 2

The eccentric mirror: reflecting a faithful and interesting delineation of male and female characters, ancient and modern, who have been particularly distinguished by extraordinary qualificatons, talents, and propensities, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes.

  • Wilson, G. H.
Date:
1806-1807
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Credit: The eccentric mirror: reflecting a faithful and interesting delineation of male and female characters, ancient and modern, who have been particularly distinguished by extraordinary qualificatons, talents, and propensities, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man, and used to trade in the streams: his diet ^vas coarse and soms and towards the latter end of his days he begged up and down. He has &«'orn in Chancery, and other courts, to above ^ 140 years memory, and was otteivat the assizes at York, whither he generally went on foot; and I have heard some ofhthe country gentlemen af- firm, that he frequently swam in the rivers alter he was past the age of 100 years. ' In the king’s remembrancer’s office in the Exchequer, is a re- cord of a deposition'in a cause by English bill, between Anthony Clark and Smirkson, taken 1660, at Kettering in Y orkshire, v\diere Henry .lenkins, of Ellerton upon Swale, labourer aged 157 years, was produced and deposed as a wit- ness.” About seventy years after his death a monn^ mentwas erected at Bolton, by a subscription of the parishioners to ])erpetuate the memory of this remarkable man. Upon it was engraved this inscription : Blush not marble to rescue from oblivion the memory of Henry Jenkins, a person of obscure birth, but of a life truly memorable : for he was enriched with the goods of nature, if not of for- tune, and happy in the duration, if not variety of his enjoyments: and though the partial world despised and disregarded his low and humble state, the eijual eye of Providence beheld and Blessed it with a r)atriarch’s health and len- th of days, to teach mistaken jnan these blessings arb entailed on temperance, a life of laboui, and a A 'S