Parr

(Catherine), sixth queen to Henry VIII. was daughter of sir Thomas Parr, and widow of lord Latimer. She was «ell skilled in divinity, upon which she “frequently conversed with the king.. She laboured much for the establishment of the reformation, and her interference proved at one time so disagreeable to the monarch, that he permitted Gardiner to draw articles of impeachment against her, but her prudence restored her to the affection of the king. After Henry’s death she married sir Thomas Seymour, who treated her with great harshne , so that she died the next year in child-bed, mot without suspicion ef poison, 1548. Parr (Thomas), a peasant of Shropshire, who lived to the great age of 152 years and mine months. He performed penance in parish church at the age of 105 for a bastard child, and at 120 he married a second wife, by whom he had a child. He was in 1635 brought to London, and introduced to Charles T, but the change of situation, and particularly drinking wine, proved fatal to a constitution hitherto supported by more temperate and abstemious habits, and he died the same year. The following sammary of his life is copied from Oldys’s MS. notes on Fuller's Worthies: Old Parr was born 1483; lived at home until 1500, aged 17, when he went out to service; 1518, aged 35, returned home from his master 4522, aged 39, spent four years on the remainder of his father’s lease: 1543, aged 60, ended the first lease he renewed of Mr. Lewis Porter; 1563, aged 80, married Jane, daughter of John Taylor, a maiden; by whom he had a son and a daughter, who both died very young; 1564, aged 81, ended the second lease which he renewed of Mr. John Porter; 1585 aged 102, ended the third lease he had renewed of Mr. Hugh Porter; 1588, aged 105, did penance in Alderbury church, for lying with Katharine Milton, and getting her with child; 1595, aged 112, he buried his wife Jane, after they had. lived 32 years together; 1605, aged 122, having lived ten years a widower, he a married Jane, widow of Anthony Adda, daughter of John Lloyd of Gilsells, in Mont- -gomeryshire, who survived him; 1635, aged 152, he died; after they had lived together 30 bah and after 50 years po e ion of his last ease. See LONGEVITY. 106