The only genuine and authentic account of the life and memoirs of ... H. Jenkins ... who lived to the ... age of 169 years ... / [Henry Jenkins].

  • Jenkins, Henry, approximately 1501-1670.
Date:
1829
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Credit: The only genuine and authentic account of the life and memoirs of ... H. Jenkins ... who lived to the ... age of 169 years ... / [Henry Jenkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE LIFE AND MEMOIRS OF THAT SURPRISING AND WONDERFUL MAN P?airjj COMMONLY CALLED OLD JENKINS, OF ELLERTON UPON SWALE, IN YORK- SHIRE; WHO LIVED TO THE AMAZING AGE OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE YEARS AND UPWARDS, WHICH IS SEVEN- TEEN YEARS LONGER TUAN OLD PARR, AND THE OLDEST MAN TO BE MET WITH IN THE ANNALS OF ENGLAND. THE SIXTH EDITION, Revised, Enlarged, and Improved, written from his own Dictation, at tlie Age of One Hundred and Sixty Three. BY THE HON. MRS. ANN SAVILLE, OF BOLTON, IN YORKSHIRE; Uha-c n Monument is erected to his Memory hy a Public Subscription, an Abstract of which was published in the third Volume of the Philosophical Transactions, and is likewise under his Print by Worledge. LONDON: PRINTEDi.FOR THE EDITOR, BY R. GILBERT, .ST.'jOlhl’k-SQUARE, CLERKENWELL 1S;29.