HENRY JENKINS, 
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are given in our Chronologies and Cyclopaedias, Henry Jenkins is 
generally introduced to grace the list. In the Philosophical Trans- 
actions, number 221, we have an account of his death, which is said 
to have taken place on the eighth of December, 1670. The follow- 
ing particulars of this wonderful man were drawn up by Mrs. Anne 
Seville, to whom Henry Jenkins was personally known. 
“When I came first to live at Bolton, (says this lady,) I was toki 
several particulars of the great age of Henry Jenkins, but I believed 
little of the story for many years, till one day he coming to beg an 
alms, 1 desired him to tell me truly how old he was. He paused a 
little, and then said, that, to the best of his remembrance, he was 
about 162 or 3. 1 then asked what kings he remembered 'i He said, 
Henry the Eighth. I asked what public thing he could longest 
remember? He said Flowden Field. I asked whether the 
king was there ? He said, no, he w'as in France, and the earl of 
Surry was general. I asked him how old he might be then ? He 
said, I believe I might be between 10 and 12 ; for, says he, I w as sent 
to Northallerton with a horse-load of arrows, but they sent a bigger 
hoy from thence to the army with them. All this agreed with the 
history at that time, for bows and arrows were then used ; the earl 
he named w'as general, and king Henry the Eighth was then at 
Tournay. It is observable that Jenkins could neither write nor 
read. There were also four or five in the same parish, that were 
reputed all of them to be 100 years old, or within two or three years 
of it, and they all said he was an elderly man ever since they knew 
him, for he was born in another parish, and before any registers were 
kept in churches, as it is said. He told me then, too, that he was butler 
to the lord Conyers, and remembered the Abbot of Fountain's Abbey 
very well, before the dissolution of the monasteries. * Henry Jenkins 
departed this life Dec. 1670, at Ellerton upon Swale, in Yorkshire. 
“ The battle of Flowden Field was fought Sept. 9, 1513, and he 
was about 12 years old when Flowden Field was fought. So that 
