Mr. Meredith Lloyd hath seen at Dolkelly, a great parish
in Merionithshire, an hundred or more of poore people at eighty yeares
of age at church in a morning, who came thither bare-foot and
bare-legged a good way.
In the chancell of Winterborn Basset lies interred Mr. Ambrose Brown,
who died 166-,aged 103 yeares. Old goodwife Dew of Broad Chalke died
about 1649, aged 103. She told me she was, I thinke, sixteen yeares
old when King Edward the sixth was in this countrie, and that he lost
his courtiers, or his courtiers him, a hunting, and found him again in
Falston-lane. In the parish of Stanton St. Quintin are but twenty-
three houses, and when Mr. Byron was inducted, 167-, here were eight
persons of 80 yeares of age. Mr. Thorn. Lyte of Easton-Piers, my
mother's grand- father, died 1626, aged 96; and about 1674 died there
old William Kington, a tenant of mine, about 90 yeares of age. A poore
woman of Chippenham died about 1684, aged 108 yeares.
Part of an Epitaph at Colinbourne-Kinston in Wiltshire, communicated
to the Philosophicall Conventus at the Mus?um at Oxford, by Mr.
Arthur Charlett, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford:- "Pray for the
soule of Constantine Darrel, Esq. who died Anno Dni. 1400, and.......
his wife, who died A°. Dni. 1495." See it. I doe believe the dates in
the inscription are in numerical letters. [In this case the former
date was probably left unfinished, when the husband placed the
inscription to his wife, and after his death it was neglected to be
filled up, as in many other instances.
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