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old he was ? "He paused and said, u about 162 or 

 163," I asked what was the first public transaction 

 he remembered ? He said, a the battle of Fiowden- 

 field, being then 11 or 12 years old." 



For many years he was a fisherman, and used to 

 wade in the streams. After he was a hundred years 

 old, he frequently swam in the rivers. The latter 

 part of his life, he was obliged to beg. He died at 

 Ellerton upon Swale, in Yorkshire, Dvic. 8, 1670 : 

 having lived (supposing him to have been 12 years 

 old, at the battle of Flowden. field, which was fought 

 Sept. the 9th, 1513) a hundred and sixty. nine years 

 that is sixteen longer than Thomas Parre, 



