Longevity. The following have exceeded a hundred years:—
Thomas Cam (207!!), according to the parish register of St. Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch, died January 22, 1588, aged 207 years. If so, he was born 1381, in 4th Richard II., and died 13th Elizabeth.
Thomas Parr (152), born 1483, died 1635.
Henry Jenkins (169), born 1591, died 1760.
Catharine, countess of Desmond (140), fifteenth century.
Henry Hastings (102), forester to Charles I. (1537-1639).
Henry Evans (129), a Welshman (1642-1771).
Jane Scrimshaw (127), lived in the reigns of eight sovereigns (1584-1711).
Alice, of Philadelphia (116), born 1686, died 1802.
Thomas Laugher, of Markley, Worcesshire (107), born 1700, died 1807. His mother died at the age of 108.