order to some great work, which he intended, if life had been spared, to have published."

He also had made several catalogues of MSS. in various libraries, and of printed books, in order, as it is supposed, for an universal catalogue in all kinds of learning.

It is said he took a great deal of pains in the continuation of Bryan Twyne's Apol. Antiq. Acad. Oxon. But this is denied upon the authority of Dr. Barlow and Dr. Lamplugh, who had his library after his death.

He was generally esteemed a good lawyer; and there is no doubt that he wrote so much of Arthur Duck's "De usu et authoritate juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Christianorum," lib. ii., Lond. 1653 and 1679, 8vo., Leyd. 1654, Lips. 1668, as to deserve the name of co-author.

In the midst of all this he did not forget the wants of his home wants probably he himself keenly felt. "The school at Barton (says Dr. Burn) was founded by Gerard Langbaine, D.D., Provost of Queen's College Oxon, a native of this parish, and the aforesaid Lancelot Dawes, in the year 1649*." This would be three or four years after he became Provost. How much it is to be regretted that College Principals of the present day do not pay more attention to village schools! There

* Burn, 406 (Barton).

is the root of good and evil; it is there where the foundations of knowledge are laid; it is there where the seeds of wisdom are sown, and not in the Universities according to the present regime. He gave to the school £.30, and purchased an estate at Culgaith, of the then value of £.20 a year, half to the use of the school and half thereof to bind out two parish apprentices; and thus

"Prov'd by the ends of being to have been*."

This good and learned man died on the 10th of February, 1657, at the early age of forty-nine.

He was succeeded in the Provostship by Barlow (afterwards Bishop of Carlisle), whose life will be found in a former page.

Dr. Langbaine was buried in Queen's College Chapel, where there is a monument with the

following

Juscription:

D. O. M.

S.

GERARDO LANG BAINIO, S.S.J., Professori,
Coll. Reg. per xii. annos Præposito
Viro antiquâ pietate, summâ integritate,
Ingenio literarum omnium capaci,
Omnibus supra fidem exculto.

* Dr. Dawes gave £.25 and also £.25 yearly to this school out of the tithes of the estate called Barton-Kirke. Dr. Adam Airay also gave to it the interest of £.100, and Dr. Lancaster gave an additional sum (how much does not appear) to augment the master's salary. The parishioners seem also to have subscribed something. See Burn (Barton).

Judicio acerrimo, industria animo pari,
Cui corpus (quamvis validum) impar:
Literis juvandis propagandisque nato,
Qui temporibus suis omnia,

Et naturam suam omnibus
Restituere poterat.

In quo nec collegium cui præfuit,
Nec Academia cui se impendit,

Vel fidem unquam desideravit vel successum, Qui sæculo difficillimo inter æstuantes rerum fluctus Clavum rectum tenuit

Vixit annos L.M. 1. D. VI.

Animam Deo reddidit A.D.

IV. Id. Febr. A.S. CIO. INCLVII.
H. M. P. conjux mæstissima.

End of Vol. I.