Note 275 — HISTORY OF LYNN, PART II.

As a proof of the salubrity of Croyland, and the temperance of its monks in those days, it has been remarked, that when Turketul, who had been chancellor of England, and one of the greatest warriors and statesmen of his time, retired from the world, and became abbot of Croyland, he found five aged monks there, to whom he paid particular attention. The eldest of them died in 973, in his 169th year: the second died within the same year, at the age of 142: the third died the neat year, aged 115; the other two are thought to have been about the same age as the last. Their names were Clarenbald, Swarling, Turgar, Brune, and Ajo.—Croyland is not now remarkable for its salubrity, or the longevity of its inhabitants.