Buffon describes a man who lived to be one hundred and sixty-five.

Martin mentions a man of one hundred and eighty.

There was a Polish peasant who reached one hundred and fifty-seven and had constantly labored up to his one hundred and forty-fifth year, always clad lightly, even in cold weather.

Voigt admits the extreme age of one hundred and sixty.
There was a woman living in Moscow in 1848 who was said to be one hundred and sixty-eight; she had been married five times and was one hundred and twenty-one at her last wedding.

D'Azara records the age of one hundred and eighty, and Roequefort speaks of two cases at one hundred and fifty.
There are stories of an Englishman who lived in the sixteenth century to be two hundred and seven, and there is a parallel case cited.
Van Owen tabulates 331 cases of deaths between 110 and 120, 91 between 120 and 130, 37 between 130 and 140, 11 at 150, and 17 beyond this age.
While not vouching for the authenticity in each case, he has always given the sources of information.
Quite celebrated in English history by Raleigh and Bacon was the venerable Countess Desmond, who appeared at Court in 1614, being one hundred and forty years old and in full possession of all her powers, mental and physical.