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but a sender en af JOUT. Mnet has ever been moderice for was I ever cenatomed to feasting and tipping de Notes ma uertes. May, 1953. 54 Was in early lie a servant in the Royal Family of France; received from them a mail pension, which she mjoyed nearly 10 years, and until 10 years since raveilei înce every year over the mountains on foot to receive it; she was slightly deaf, but ail her other senses inimpaired when seen in 1-33. de Nores må Queries,' April,

1832.

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29 Followed his occupation until within a few weeks of his death. Tide News,' Feb. 16th, 1806.

30 Tide News,' 1807.

31 Had a new set of teeth 20 years before he died, which remained sound; retained all his senses, except smell; was only once ill; walked four miles a few days before his death. Vide newspaper.

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2 Fade Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World,” p. 166. Fuller's Worthies,” p. 140.

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‘Annual Register and Rees's Cyclopædia."

3. Senses unimpaired. Tide Rees's “Cyclopædia.”

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10 Senses unimpaired; hunted and killed a deer a few days before his desit.

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Church register at Leighton, near Chester, and tomistone at same place: the age is cut nies, and verified by the signatures of the Ticar and Church vardens.

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3 Vide Philosophical Transactions,' No. 221.

5-6 Were married 148 years; had two sons and two daughters,

the youngest 116 years old.

9 Vide newspaper.

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13 Vide tombstone, Bridling Church, near Bristol.

14 parish register, Glamorganshire.

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parish register of Eveoreach, Somersetshire: "Buried December 20, 1588, Jane Britten, a maiden, as she affirmeth, at the age of 200."

17 Vide Rees's 'Cyclopædia.'

TABLE VII.

1 In the last few years cut five teeth, three of which remain ; has had twelve children; her eldest son, aged 82, is strong and hale. Vide 'Morning Chronicle,' Nov. 24th, 1809.

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8 In good health, and retaining all her faculties; living in a cellar, in Kent Street, Liverpool, where she has resided

50 years.

9 Vide 'Star,' Oct. 22, 1804.

10-11 Married at Dublin, June 1772, P. Storms, 109, to Mrs. Bury, 102. Vide newspaper.

12 In good health; was a slave 70 years. Vide New York

paper.

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13 Sight and hearing particularly good; reaped in the fields

every year.

16 Retains his faculties.

17 Retains her faculties; her father lived to be 107, her sister 104, and several relatives to 90 and upwards. Vide newspaper.

18-19-20-21 All children of Edw. Legge, who had nine other children, many of whom attained to a very old age. Vide newspaper, also 'Notes and Queries,' March, 1852.

22 Vide newspaper.

23 Ibid.

24 An itinerant bookseller; pursues his trade, and can make a circuit of 20 miles in a day. Ibid.

25 Has left Scotland to sail for Jamaica, to visit his sons. Vide Sunday Review,' Aug. 4th, 1805.

26 Joined other women in shearing oats, and performed her work well. Vide News,' Sept. 8th, 1805.

27 A gardener; attends market daily, and walks as well as most men in their prime. Ibid., Oct. 1806.

28 Lives entirely by himself; cultivates his garden; milks his cows; makes his butter, which he carries on foot to market; his cottage is noted for its extreme cleanliness. Vide newspaper, 1806.

29 In good health; faculties unimpaired. Vide News,' 1807. 30 In St. George's Workhouse; has in the last three months cut four teeth.

33 Carpenter; works at his trade, and can ascend the roof of a house as well as ever. Vide 'Oracle,' July, 1801. 34 Faculties unimpaired; walked two miles to dine with a friend.

35 Carries home his work, and can walk 14 miles a day. 36 Retains her faculties, and will walk a mile or two to take tea. 37 Vide Morning Chronicle,' Sept. 21st, 1802.

38 At the age of 86 fought at the battle of Pultowa under Gustavus Adolphus; married at 93; he has 186 descendants-two grandchildren above 100; now enjoys

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