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[Nb: discussion re: thorn (þ). Yes ye has its origins in the thorn, but by this period it was written with a y.]

Sarahs and no other womans age recorded in Scripture. After ye childre[n] mockt Elizeus [crossed out: ane] for beinge Baldpate, he liued 60 yeares Comerus Venetus for the recou[er]y of his health tooke all his meate & drinke by waight keepinge afterward according to yt proportio[n] a constant diett and therby liued aboue a 100 yeares At a wake in Hereford shire, a daunce was performed by 8 men, whose age together amounted to 800 yeare, if som Lackt, other were ou[er] Bakers history of life and death supra [underlined]