The Arkansas banner., 1847-04-07
BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY JENKINS.

BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY JENKINS. HssRY JesKfss, of the parish of Bolton, in Yorkshire, being produced as a witness at the sssizes there .o prove right of way over mans ground, he swore 10 nearly l50 yeats memory; for at that iime,, he said, he we'll remembered a way over the ground. And being cautioned by the judge to beware wha. he swore, because there were two men in court of above 80 years of age each, who had sworn they remembered no such Vay, he replied, s'That those men were boysXo him. Upon which the judge asked ,he men how old they took Jenkins to be : who an- swered, they knew him 'very well, but no. his age. and that he was very old man when they were boys. Dr. Tancred Robin son, fellow of the college of Physicians, adds further, concerning this Henry Jenkins that upon his coming into his sisters kitchen to beg alms, he asked him how old he was' who, after little paasing. said he was about hundred and six.y-lwo or three. The Dr. asked him what kings he remembered : he said. Henry VIII. What public event he could longest remember? He said the tigh, Of FIodden-feld. Whether the king was theres He said no, he was in France, and the Earl O. SuTy was general. How old he vas then! He said he was about twelve years old. The Doctor looked into an old chronicle that was in the house, and found that the FIodden-Field was l52 year. be- fore; that the Earl he named was general, sud that Henry WILL was al Tournav. Jen- kins was poor man, and could neither read NOT write. There were also four or five in the same parish, repuled to be 100 year old, og near IL, who all said he was all elderly man ever since they knew him. This remarkable man died on ihe Sth of December, 1870, al Eilsrton-upon-swale, a, the amazing age of l69 years.
 What multitude ol events, says an iuge- nious author, have crowded into tire period of this mans lfei He was born when the Eoman Catholic religion was established ov law; he saw the supremacy of the Pope overturned; the dissolution of the monasle- rics; popery established again; and al last, the Protestan. religion securely fixed on rock of adamant In his time the nriacibie .drmGda was destroyed; he republic of ilol- iand formed three queens beheaded. Anne Boieyn, Catharine Howard and Mary Queen of Scolis; king of Spain seated upon the throne of England; king ol Scotland crown cd king of England at Westminster, and his scu beheaded before his own palace, hls family being prescribed as traitors, and, last of all, the great fire in London, which hap pened in l666, toward the close of his won derful life.
 He was buried in Bolton church-yard near CatieFick and Richmond. Tn orkshire where small pillar was erected 10 hls memory, on which is the following epiiaph by Dr. Thos. Chapman, Master of MagdaIen College, Cam bridge, from l746 to l760:
 Blush not marble.
 To rescue from oblivion
 the memory of HENRY JENKINS
 person obscure in birth,
 but of a life truly memorable:
 for
 he was enriched with the goods of nAturc
 if not of Fortune
 and happy in the duration
 6 bot the variety of his enloyments;
 and though the partial world despised and
 di9egaTded his low and humble state,
 the equal eye of Providence beheid
 and blessed it
 with Pat iois health
 and length fdays;
 to teach mistaken man
 those blessings are eRiailed OF
 temperance,
 . life Of labolF, and mind at eaSs
 He lived to the amazing age of I69,