Notes and Queries, Vol 11 A Medium of InterCommunication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc JanuaryJune, 1855 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 11: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.; January-June, 1855

Inthhonecolumnwehsvet'romthreeeomces, bh three difl'erent correspondents, evi denceofw ichneitherthreenorthreehundred such statements can prove to the satisfaction of those incredulous matter-ofofact people, who will be satisfiedwith nothingshortot'baptismalre andwhichtheycalllegalproot'. Inthe 'thereforeofsavrugtimeandyourspace, allow me to remind your correspondents, that morethan halfacenturysinceasknownto every bookseller, and testified b every bookostall in the kingdom, there was pubhshed, by an ingenious gentleman of the name of Boston, a substantial octave volume of three hundred pages, con the name, place ofresidence, and year the decease washwho attainprooed a cen or upw y ere is as good mythatcanbefoundinthewasteleafot'an oldmagasine (we, p. Proofs which, name and place of residence being given, your sceptics are bound monally to ingzire into before they presumeto 'tadoubt. Easton,ashehim self tells us, was over-scrupulous; and yet it' appears from his preface (p. Xvi), that more than one-sixth of the 1712 were between 110 and 120 when the died; and three were between 170 and 185! Mi. Easton refused admittance to every account of the authenticity of which he had the smallest met. Ind therefore, th the fact was vouc for y two respectabe authors, and confirmed bya third, whowas historiogra pher royal, he did not include in his list one man whedied at the age of870years; but recordedthefact in hisprefacethatthereader might form his own Opinion respecting it.

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