1824.] 



Aecount of a Centenarian at Penrith. 



I'listniul Gulenbcig, mention is made of 

 an Henry KeiFcr, as a workman, in 

 <J«tenberg's ofiice; in all likelilioncl, this 

 was the same person. 



Anthony Kobcrgcr, of Nurembtrg, 

 was, doubtless, one of (he most cele- 

 brated piinteis of ibat city. Badins 

 Ascensins extols him, wiUi high enco- 

 miums, in' a letter phiced at the head of 

 the 'EpistohR ill. Yiroium,' 1499: 

 ' Siqnidem cnra sis Librariorum facile 

 J'rinceps,' &c. ' In the piinting of 

 books, alt allow you to be pre eminent 

 in jour profession, and not the least or 

 lowest in the line of honest and honour- 

 able tradesmen, (uiercatoruni.) Learn- 

 ing and (ho learned find in you a patron 

 and foster-father; and nothing can 

 exceed your care and vigilance in 

 procuring elegant and faitht'nl impres- 

 sions, free from typographical errala.' 



We have a great number of intcr- 

 fsting works, printed by Koberger 

 at Nuremberg, from 1473 to the be- 

 ginning of (he sixteenth century. 



John Mulkr, of Koningsburg (in 

 Latin, Regiornontanus, vel de Monte 

 llegio.) 1'his was a celebrated astro- 

 nomer, who came to Nuremberg about 

 the middle of the jear 1471; and, 

 assisted by Bernard Walther, set up a 

 printing-office, where a number of edi- 

 tions appearetl ; and, among others, the 

 ' Manilii Astronomicon,' without a 

 date, in 41o. It passes for the first edi- 

 tion of that work, a:;d is thought to be 

 of the year 1472. In 1475 he removed 

 to Rome, on the invitation of Po|)e 

 Sexlus IV. to correct the Calendar. He 

 died there, July 6, 1476, having been 

 previously nominated to the archbish- 

 oprick of Barcelona. 



Andreas Frisner, of Burisidel, printed, 

 in partnership with Sensenschmidt, 

 several works, whereof he was the cor- 

 rector, from 1474 to 1478. He re- 

 moved to Leipsick, and there occupied 

 the chair of professor in theology. 



Some impressions arc still to be 

 found, executed at Nuremberg by the 

 religious of the order of St. Augustin. 

 Probably, they were Fratres Communis 

 Vitae, whose principal occupation, agree- 

 ably to the Statutes of their order, was 

 to copy the works of the fathers and cc- 

 clesiaslies from the best maimscripts. 



Conrad Zcningcr; we iiave some of 

 hi.s im|)ressions, in 14S0, Ul,and 82. 



Peter Wagner (Currifex); we have 

 some of his, from 1483 to 1498. 



George Sliichs, of Sulybach, printed 

 in 1484; Mark Agier, in 1487 and 

 1488; Peter VLsclicr, in 1487; John 

 HolI'mann, in 1490; Caspar Ilochfcdcr, 



103 



from 1491 to 1498; several of his im- 

 pressions remain ; and John Mayr, in 

 1493 and 1498, 



We have one impression of 1498, l)y 

 Albert Uurer, a celebrated pointer and 

 engraver in wood. 



Jerome Hoeltzel printed in 149G and 

 1500. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



ACCOUNT of MARY NoliLE, o/" PENU[TH, 



in the I07th YI5AR of her AGE; by 

 TKOMAS BARNES, M.D., lately read 

 before the wernerian natural his- 

 tory S0C(ETY. 



MARY Noble was born at Hares- 

 lieugh, in Cumberland. Her pa- 

 rents were poor labouring people, and 

 were chiefly employed in agriculture. 

 Both of them lived to be very old, and 

 had (en children ; several of whom, also, 

 reached a very advanced age. She was 

 brought up with plain and simple food; 

 and was accustomed, from her youth, to 

 industry and hard labour. At thirty 

 years of age she married to William 

 Noble, a miller, by whom she had three 

 ciiildren ; all of whom died of acute dis- 

 eases, in their infancy. Mary Noble is 

 a very short and small woman ; and, at 

 present, would not weigh more than be- 

 tween four and five stone. 



Old age is strongly marked in lier 

 countenance and general appearance. 

 Her forehead and face are much 

 wrinkled; her eyes are clear, but her 

 eyelids are partially everted and affected 

 with lipi)i(udc ; she has had no teeth 

 these twenty years, but her gums are so 

 firm, that she can masticate a |)iece of 

 hard bread with comparative ease; her 

 hearing began to fail about three 3 ears 

 ago, and has since gradually declined; 

 for the last three months she has been 

 very deaf, and at present can scarcely 

 hear any thing; her sight is still good; 

 three years ago it was so good, that she 

 had no occasion for glasses, and could 

 thread a small needle; her hair, which is 

 flaxen, of a leaden cast, is thick and 

 long, and has undergone very little 

 change ; it has been a source of profit to 

 her, as she has frequently sold a crop of 

 it for 10s., 15*., and even 20*. She had 

 always a retentive memory ; when lOG 

 years old, it was perfect, and she used to 

 relate an account of the second rebellion ; 

 she said she remembered it well ; at that 

 time she resided at Stockbridge as a 

 servant, and saw .some of the rebels 

 hung on Penrith Fell. Mary Noble can 

 read a little, and occasionally reads her 

 Bible, For the last four or live years 

 she has used a stick in walking ; but 



walks 



