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VIII. An Account of the Death and Dijfectmi of John 
Bayles, of Northampton, reputed to have been 
130 years old. I By Dr James Keill. 
T Ohn Bayles, the old Button- maker of Northampton, is 
J commonly reputed to have been 130 years of age 
when he dyed. There is no Kegifter To old in the Parifh 
where he was Chriftened 5 but the oldeft people, of 
which fome are 100, others 90, and others above 80 years, 
remember him to have been old when they were young. 
Their accounts indeed differ much from one another, but 
all agree that he was at lead 120 years. He himfelf did 
always affirm that he was at Tilbury Camp, and told fe- 
veral particulars about it 5 and if we allow him to have 
been but 12 years old then, he muft have been 130 when 
he dyed. 
He ufed conftantly to walk to the Neighbouring 
Markets with his Buttons within thefe 12 years, but 
of late he has been decrepid, and carryed abroad,, 
His Dyet was any thing he could get. I never heard he 
was more fond of one fort of Food than another, un- 
lefs it was that about half a year before he dyed he 
longed for fome Venifon Pafty, but bad it not. He dyed 
the 4th of April 170 6. He lived in a Centuries. . and in 
7 Reigns. ' T . . : 
His Body was extremely emaciated, and his Flefh feel- 
ling hard, the ftwpe of all the External Mufcles was plain- 
ly to be feen through the Skin, 
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