He remembered the battle of Flodden Field in 1513, at which time he was twelve years old.
It was proved from the registers of the Chancery and other courts that he had appeared in evidence one hundred and forty years before his death and had had an oath administered to him.

In the office of the King's Remembrancer is a record of a deposition in which he appears as a witness at one hundred and fifty-seven.

When above one hundred he was able to swim a rapid stream.
Thomas Parr (or Parre), among Englishmen known as "old Parr," was a poor farmer's servant, born in 1483.

He remained single until eighty.
His first wife lived thirty-two years, and eight years after her death, at the age of one hundred and twenty, he married again.

Until his one hundred and thirtieth year he performed his ordinary duties, and at this age was even accustomed to thresh.