HENRY JENKINS. 
793 
this Heni’y Jenkins lived one hundred and sixty-nine years, viz. six- 
teen longer than Old Parr. In the last century of his life he was a 
fisherman, and used to wade in the streams: his diet was coarse 
and sour, but towards the latter end of his days he begged up and 
down. He hath sworn in Chancery, and other courts, to above 
one hundred and forty years’ memory, and was often at the assizes at 
York, where he generally went on foot ; and I have heard some of 
the country gentlemen affirm, that he frequently swam in the rivers 
after he was past the age of one hundred years. 
“ In the king’s remembrancer’s office in the exchequer, is a record 
of a deposition in a cause by English bill, between Anthony Clark 
and Smirkson, taken 1635, at Kettering, in Yorkshire, where Henry 
Jenkins, of Elierton upon Swale, labourer, aged one hundred and 
fifty-seven years, was produced, and deposed as a witness.” 
To preserve the name and age of this venerable man, the following 
epitaph was engraven on a monutnent erected to his memory, by sub- 
scription, at Bolton, in Yorkshire, 
Blush not, marble. 
To rescue from oblivion 
The Memory of 
Henry Jenkins. 
A person obscure in birth. 
But of a life truly memorable: 
For 
He was enriched 
With the goods of nature. 
If not of fortune. 
And happy 
In the duration. 
If not variety. 
Of his enjoyments ; 
And 
Tho’ the partial world 
Despised and disregarded 
His low and humble state. 
The equal eye of Providence 
Beheld and blessed it 
With a Patriarch’s health and length of days ; 
To teach mistaken man. 
These blessings are entailed on temperance, 
A life of labour, and a mind at ease. 
He lived to the amazing age of 
169, 
Was interr’d here, December — 
1670, 
And had this justice done to his memory, 
1743. 
