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animal parent. And perhaps sometimes both these circumstances, and others 

 of the like nature, concur for their production. 



Account of a Book, viz. — Parochial Antiquities, attempted in the History of 

 Amhrosden, liurcester, and other adjacent Paris in the Counties of Oxford 

 and Bucks. By JVhite Kennet, Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxford, 1695, 4to, 

 N° 220, p. 259. 



This book is the first of the kind that has been published. The author has 

 pursued the following method. 



1. He has given an account of what traces he could discover of the several 

 inhabitants of this island, before the Norman conquest, within the bounds of 

 those parishes, which he proposed to treat of. As of the Britains, Romans, 

 garrisons, coins, highways, customs, Saxons, Danes, Saxons restored. 2. From 

 the Norman conquest, he has proceeded by way of annals, giving an exact ac- 

 count, under the several years, of the descent of families, the conveyance of 

 estate?, and other occurrences, which seemed material towards the full illustra- 

 tion of the history of those parts. 3. He has given the history of the Roman 

 city Alchester, near Bister, composed in the year 1622, by a learned antiquary, 

 who had both judgment and opportunities, to make proper observations on 

 these remains of antiquity. 4. We have the prospects of the most considerable 

 seats in those parts. 5. To these is added a general index of the names of 

 persons and places. 6. A glossary, explaining the obsolete words and phrases 

 which occur in the original charters and records, set down in their proper places ; 

 some hundreds of which were never mentioned in any glossary. 



This, in short, is the substance of the work ; which, upon reading of the 

 title page, seemed only to concern the inhabitants of the several parishes de- 

 scribed. But on a farther examination of the book, it is so managed by the 

 learned author, as to be of great use to the lovers of antiquity in general. 



On the great Age of Henry Jenkins ; in a Letter from Mrs. Ann Savile to 

 Dr. Tancred Robinson, F. R. S. with his Remarks on it. N° 22], p. 266. 



When I came first to live at Bolton, it was told me, there lived in that parish 

 a man near 150 years old ; that he had sworn as witness in a cause at York to 

 120 years, which the judge reproving him for, he said he was butler at that 

 time to Lord Conyers, and they told me, that it was reported his name was 

 found in some old register of the Lord Conyer's menial servants. Being one 

 day in my sister's kitchen, Henry Jenkins coming in to beg an alms, I had a 



