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it fo, fweetheart ?” replied tlie king ; “then we are friends 
again !” He embraced her with great affeftion, and fent 
her away with a (Turances of his proteftion and kindnefs. 
The time being now' come when the was to be fent to 
the Tower, the king, walking in the garden, fent for 
the queen, and met her with great good humour; when, 
lo, the chancellor, with forty of the guards, approached. 
He fell upon his knees, and fpoke foftly with the king, 
who called him “knave, arrant knave, heart, fool,” and 
commanded him inftantly to depart. Henry then re¬ 
turned to the queen, who ventured to intercede for the 
chancellor: ,£ Ah poor foul,” faid the king, “thou little 
knoweft how evil he deferveth this grace at thy hands. 
Of my word, fweetheart, he hath been toward thee an 
arrant knave: and fo let him go.” Thefe particulars 
are but flightly hinted at under the article England, 
vol. vi. p. 640, 1. The king died in January 1547, juft 
three years and a half after his marriage with this lecond 
Catharine : who in a fhort time was again efpoufed to Sir 
Thomas Seymour, lord-admiral of England; and in Sep¬ 
tember 1548 (lie died in childbed. The hiftorians of this 
period generally iniinuate that (he was poifoned by her 
luilband, to make way for a projefted marriage with the 
lady (afterwards queen) Elizabeth. 
That Catharine Parr was beautiful is beyond a doubt: 
that (he was pious and learned is evident from her wri¬ 
tings: and that her prudence and fagacity were not in¬ 
ferior to her other accompliftiments, may be concluded 
from her holding up the paflion of a capricious tyrant 
as a ftiield againft her enemies; and that at the latter end 
of his days, when his paftions were enfeebled by age, 
and his peevifh aufterity increafed by difeafe. She wrote, 
1. Queen Catharine Parr’s Lamentations of a Sinner, be¬ 
wailing the ignorance of her blind life ; Lond. 8 vo. 1548, 
1563. 2. Prayers or Meditations, wherein the mynd is 
ftirred patiently to fuff re all afflictions here, to fet at 
nought the vaine profperitee of this worlde, and always 
to long for the everlaftynge felicitee. Collected out of 
holy workes, by the molt virtuous and gracious princefte 
Katherine, Queen of Englande, France, and Irelande. 
Printed by John Wayland, 1545, 4to. 1561, nmo. 3. 
Other Meditations, Prayers, Letters, &c. unpubliflied. 
PARR (Thomas), or Old Parr, a remarkable Eng- 
liftiman, who lived in the reigns of ten kings and queens ; 
married a fecond wife when he was 120, and had a child 
by her. He was the fon of John Parr, a hufbandman, of 
Winnington, in the parifti of Alderbury, in the county 
of Salop, where he was born in the year 1483. Though 
he lived tathe vaft age of upwards of 132 years, yet the 
tenor of his life admitted but of little variety; nor can 
the detail of it be confidered of importance, further than 
what will a rife from the gratification of that curiofity 
which naturally inquires after the mode of living which 
could lengthen life to fuch extreme old age. Following 
the profeffion of his father, he laboured hard, and lived 
on coarfe fare. Taylor the water-poet fays of him : 
Good wholefome labour was his exercife 5 
Down with the lamb, and with the lark would rife; 
la mire and toiling fweat he fpent the day, 
And to his team he wbiftled time away : 
The cock his night-clock ; and, till day was done, 
His watch and chief fun-dial was the fun. 
He was of old Pythagoras’ opinion, 
That green cheefe was moft wholefome with an onion ; 
Coarfe meflin-bread ; and, for his daily fwig, 
Milk, butter-milk, and water, whey and whig: 
Sometimes metheglin ; and, by fortune happy. 
He fometimes fipp’d a cup of ale moft nappy ; 
Cyder or perry, when he did repair 
T’a Whitfun-ale, wake, wedding, or a fair. 
Or when in Chriftmas-time he was a gueft 
At his good landlord’s houfe among the reft; 
Elfe he had little leifure time to wafte, 
Or at the aie-houfe huff-cap ale to tafte* 
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Nor did he ever hunt a tavern-fox; 
Ne’er knew a coach, tobacco, or the ——. 
His phyfic was good butter, which the foil 
Of Salop yields, more fweet than Candy oil; 
And garlic he efteem’d above the rate 
Of Venice treacle, or bell mithridate. 
He entertained no gout, no ache he felt: 
The air was good and temperate where he dwelt; 
While maviffes and fweet-tongu’d nightingales 
Did chant him roundelays and madrigals. 
Thus living within bounds of Nature’s laws. 
Of his long lading life may be fome caufe. 
And the fame writer defcribes him in the two following 
lines: 
From head to heel, his body had all over 
A quick-fet thick-fet natural hairy cover. 
The manner of his being conduced to London is alfo 
noticed in the following terms: “The right honourable 
Thomas earl of Arundel and Surrey, earl marlhal of 
England, on being lately in Shropfliire to vilit fome lands 
and manors which his lord (hip holds in that county, or 
for fome other occafions, the report of this aged man 
was fignified to his honour, who hearing of fo remarkable 
a piece of antiquity, his lordftiip was pleafed to fee him; 
and in his innate, noble, and Chriftian, piety, he took 
him into his charitable tuition and protection, command¬ 
ing a litter and two horfes (for the more eafy carriage 
of a man fo feeble and worn with age) to be provided for 
him ; alfo, that a daughter of his, named Lucy, ftiould 
likewife attend him, and have a horfe for her own riding 
with him : and, to cheer up the old man, and make 
him merry, there was an antique-faced fellow, with 
a high and mighty no-beard, that had alfo a horfe for his 
carriage. Thefe were all to be brought out of the country 
to London by eafy journeys, the charge being allowed by 
his lordftiip ; likewife one of his lordfhip’s own fervants, 
named Bryan Kelly, to ride on horfeback with them, 
and to attend and defray all manner of reckonings and 
expences. All which was done accordingly as follows : 
Winnington is a parirti of Alderbury, near a place called 
the Welch Pool, eight miles from Shrewfbury; from 
whence he was carried to Wem, a town of the earl afore- 
faid; and the next day to Shift’nall, a manor-houfe of his 
lordfhip’s, where they likewife itayed one night: from 
Shiffnall they came to Wolverhampton, and the next day 
to Birmingham, and from thence to Coventry. The 
next day they parted to Daintree, to Stony Stratford, to 
Radburne, and fo to London ; -where he was well enter¬ 
tained and accommodated with all things, having all the 
aforefaid attendance at the foie charge and colt of his 
lordfhip.” When brought before the king, his majefty, 
with more acutenefs than good manners, faid to him, 
“ You have lived longer than other men, what have you 
done more than other men?” He anfwered, “I did pe¬ 
nance when I was a hundred years old.” 
This journey, however, proved fatal to him ; owing 
to the alteration in his diet, to the change of the air, 
and his general mode of life, he lived but a very fliort 
time, dying the 5th of November 1635, and was buried in 
Weftminfter Abbey. After his death, his body was 
opened ; and an account was drawn up by the celebrated 
Dr. Harvey, part of which we (hall lay before our readers. 
“ He bad a large bread; lungs not fungous, but (licking 
to his ribs, and diftended with blood; a lividnefs in his 
face, as he had a difficulty of breathing a little before his 
death, and a long lading warmth in his armpits and bread 
after it; which fign, together with others, were fo evi¬ 
dent in his body as they life to be on thofe that die by 
fuffocation. His heart was great, thick, fibrous, and 
fat. The blood in the heart blackifh and diluted. The 
cartilages of the fternum not more bony than in others, 
but flexile and foft. His vifcera were found and llrong, 
efpecialiy the ftomach ; and it was obferved of him, that 
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