The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-06-12
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Literary Notes.

| SIR JOHN PEYTON-A REMARKABLE M
STANCE OF LONGEvITY.-s:sTewa writ
ing to s'Notes and Queries, IA leading Lon
don literary weekly, points out remarkable
example of how few living iaks are absolute
ly necessary to- bridge over long period OF
time. Sir John Peyton of Doddingtou, who
was Lieutenant of the Tower at the time OF
when Henry VIII. died, and he survived his
nineteenth birthday, SO that his great grand
daughter, Dorothy Chester, who was born in
his house at Doddington on May 10, 1923,
was five years and half old when Sir john
died in November, 1880. Dorothy Chester
married eventually Col. John Fisher, a cav
aileI, whose estate was sequestered BY the
Parliament in 1915. She died in the full
possession OF her senses and faculties at the
age of ninety-one, on Febru Try 10, l7l7, at
Methley Hall in Yorkshire, the seat OF her
grandson MI John Shan. Mrs. Fishers
favorite great grandson, John Shan, was
seventeen years old at the time OF her death
He died Vicar of Chlcheley at the age of 80
daughter, Miss Anne Cape, was about five
years old when her grandfather died, aud
remembered him distinctly. She was con-
slant visitor at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
and was as active and sprightly as II she had
been 50 instead of73 years. She died on
Aug. II, 1859, at the age Of 81, and hal all
her faculties to the last. We have here a
proved instance Of lady who remembered
her grandfather, who was intimately ac-
quainted with his great grandmother, who
remembered her great grandfather, who was
born in the reign of Henry VIII. There
were, therefore, only two living links be-
tween Miss Cape, who died in 1859, and Sir
John Peyton, who was born in 154l. The
intervening period of 3lS years was bridged
over by the lives OF four persons, each of
whom remembered bis predecessor.
This date is erroneous. Sir John Peyton
must have been born in 1926 il the fnscrip-
ton upon the tomb of his grand daughter
Alice is to be taken as correct A recent
American tourist in England copied and has
furnished us the following inscription FROM
the tomb in Christ Church Cathedral, Ok
ford, OF Mrs. Alice Love, granddaughter of
Sir John Peyton, of Isleham. 1t runs thus:
Mere THIS place
Lyes buried the body Of Mrs. Alice Lore,
Wife of Ed. Loue, Of Salisbury, IN the Co.
of WiHs, Gent. Master Of the CAoris-
tiers and Organist of this Church,
BIZ svAom he had 9 children, boys and 2
girls. schereof lye buried By
her, ye other surviue.
She dyed IN child bed Of her. 7th son. the
18th Of March, 1878. ye AZ gear Of
her age and 18th since her
marriage:
She acas the daughter of SIR John .Peuton,
ye younger Of Doddiagton, in the Isle
Of Ely, s. Go. of Cambridge, and
Knight, being ye first made By
King James, at Edin6rougA,
aferhis being proclaim
ed By him King Of
England.
His grandfather, Sir John Peyton, acas
Knigated By Queen Elizabeth, for has
services in ye field IN Ireland, and
made her Treasurer for that
Kingdom after that Lieu
tenant Of the Toner (of
Observation-Disclosures
of30 gears
Then Governor Of Jersey above 30 gears
more, and dyed ye los gear of his
age. ye 4th Of Nou'r, 1880.
Her grandfather by her mother aoas Sir John
Peyton, Of Islehana, IN the Co,lntye of
Cambridge. Baronet.
ANTIQUARIUS.