She was (as by report it doth appeare)

Of Gillsel's parish, in Montgom'ry-shiere,

The daughter of John Lloyde (corruptly Flood)
Of ancient house, and gentle Cambrian blood.)”

Of Parr's issue, Taylor Taylor says in plain prose, "Hee hath had two children by his first wife, a son and a daughter: the boyes name was John, and lived but ten weekes, the girl was named Joan, and she lived but three weekes."

A story of an illicit amour Old Thomas was punished for, is thus versified by Taylor.

Hee frayly, foully, fell into a crime,

Which richer, poorer, older men,

and younger,

More base, more noble, weaker men, and stronger
Have falne into.

For from the Emp'rour to the russet clown,

All states, each sex, from cottage to the Crowne,
Have in all ages since the first creation,

Bin foyld, and overthrown with love's temptation:
So was Old Thomas, for he chanc'd to spy
A beauty, and love entred at his eye;
Whose pow'rfull motion drew on sweet consent,
Consent drew action; action drew content;
But when the period of those joys were past,
Those sweet delights were sourly sauc'd at last.
Faire Katherin Milton was this beauty bright,
(Faire like an angell, but in weight too light)
Whose fervent feature did inflame so far,

he ardent fervour of Old Thomas Parr,

That for lawes satisfaction, 'twas thought meet,
Hee should be purg'd, by standing in a sheet;
Which aged (He) one hundred and five yeare,
In Alberbury's Parish Church did weare.
Should all that so offend such pennaunce doe,
Oh, what a price would linnen rise unto :

All would be turn'd to sheets, our shirts and smocks,
Our table linen, very porters frocks

Would hardly 'scape transforming."

Mr. Granger, in his Biographical History of England, says, that

"At an hundred and twenty he married Catharine Milton, his second wife, whom he got with child; and was, after that era of his life, employed in threshing, and other husbandry work. When he was about an hundred and fifty-two years of age, he was brought up to London, by Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and carried to court. The king [Charles I.] said to him, " you have lived longer than other men, what have you done more than other men?" 'He replied, "I did pennance when I was an hundred years old."

Taylor thus describes him in the last stage of life:

His limbs their strength have left,

His teeth all gone, (but one) his sight bereft,

His sinews shrunk, his blood most chill and cold,
Small solace, imperfections manifold:
Yet still his sp❜rits possesse his mortall trunk,
Nor are his senses in his ruines shrunk ;
But that his hearing's quicke, his stomacke good,
Hee'll feed well, sleep well, well digest his food.
Hee will speak heartily, laugh and be merry;
Drink ale, and now and then a cup of sherry;
Loves company, and understanding talke,
And (on both sides held up) will sometimes walk.
And, though old age his face with wrinckles fill,
Hee hath been handsome, and is comely still;
Well fac'd; and though his beard not oft corrected,
Yet neat it growes, not like a beard neglected.
From head to heele, his body hath all over
A quick-set, thick-set, natʼrall hairy cover.”

Taylor concludes his prose account of this phoenomenon, by saying, "that it appeares hee hath out-lived the most part of the people near there, [Alberbury] three times over."

Granger says he died November, 1635.

YOUNG PARR.

YOUNG PARR, falsely supposed by some to be the son of Thomas Parr, who lived to the age of 152, could at most but have been a relation to him. He obtained the name of Young Parr, although upwards of fourscore years of age, as living at the same time with the very old man. Taylor, as we have seen, in his "Life of Old Parr," says, "He hath had two children by his first wife, a son and a daughter: the boy's name was John, and lived but ten weeks; the girl was named Joan, and she lived but three weeks." And Turner, in his "Wonders of Nature," sub

joined to his " History of Remarkable Provi

dences," tells us that Old Parr married his first wife at eighty years of age, and in the space of thirty-two years he had but two children by her, who died young; that at an hundred and twenty "he fell in love with Katherine Milton, and got her with child."

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