small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the publick charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink what ever they can get, without relish