Sunday, October 01, 2006

The memory of Parr kept alive by almenacs

The seventeenth-century almanac writer Jonathan Dove three times mentions Thomas Parr's death in his 'Memorable Accidents; or A Chronologicall description of many things worthy of memory'. Parr's death is in esteemed company with such events as
-Constantine procuring peace for Christians,
-the Turks taking Jerusalem from the Sarazens, and
-Cambridge University being founded.

See Jonathan Dove, Speculum anni partu Virginis MDCXLIII, or, An Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1643 and subsequent editions in 1647 and 1649.