Of late years considerable interest has been added to the attraction of
records of Longevity, by showing through how few individuals may be
traced the evidence of far-distant events and incidents in our history.
Mr. Sidney Gibson, F.S.A., relates some curious instances of this class.
A person living in 1847, then aged about 61, was frequently assured by
his father that, in 1786, he repeatedly saw one Peter Garden, who died
in that year at the age of 127 years; and who, when a boy, heard Henry
Jenkins give evidence in a court of justice at York, to the effect that,
when a boy, he was employed in carrying arrows up the hill before the
battle of Flodden Field.