Henry Jenkins, aged 169. Coloured mezzotint after R. Walker.

[London] (Serjean's Inn Fleet Street) : ...bt. Sayer

1 print : mezzotint, coloured with gouache

Henry Jenkins who liv'd to the surprizing age of 169. ... The lettering continues: "He departed this life Decr. 1670 at Ellerton upon Swale in Yorkshire; was about 12 years old when the Battle of Flowdenfield was fought, which was in Septr 1513; so that he lived 169 years i.e. 16 longer than old Parr, and was the oldest man born since the Deluge. In the last century of his life he was a fisherman & used to trade in the Streams, his diet was coarse & sour, but towards the latter end of his day's he begg'd up & down it. He hath sworn in Chancery & other courts to avow 140 years memory & was often at the assizes at York, when he went on foot. Several gentlemn. who know him affirm that he frequently swam in the rivers, after he was past the age of 100 yrs. In the King's Remembrancer's Office in the Exchecquer is a record of a deposition in a ca...y Athy. Clerk & Smir...son, taken 1665, at Kettering Yorkshre. where he was produced & depos'd as a witness.nglish Bi... Anth. Bears number "72" bottom right

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