LANGLEY. 289 of four eminent presbyterian ministers, giving their attestation to the truth of the narrative.* A late popular writer observes, that, if ever mortal lived the life of an angel while' upon the earth, Mr. Janeway seems to haVe been the man. And he adds,- " that his death-bed scene, above all others I have either read or seen, appears to have had in it the largest share of divine communications."+ Wood denominates Mr. Jane: way a zealous- presbyterian.t His three brothers, William, James, and Abraham, were all ejected nonconformists in 166'24 Jo IN LANGLEY, A. M.-This celebrated scholar was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire, and educated in Mag- dalen-hall, Oxford. Afterwards he was prebenriary of Gloucester, where he was master of the college school about twenty years ; and, in the year 1640, he succeeded Dr. Gill as chief master of St. Paul's school, London. In both these situations many persons were trained up under his tuition, who became eminently distinguished characters in church and state. Among the number of his learned pupils was Mr. Richard Cumberland, afterwards bishop of Peter- borough.ii He was a judicious divine a universal scholar, and so celebrated an antiquarian, that his delight in, and ac quaintance with,antiquities deserves the highest commendation that can be given.t He was highly esteemed by men cele- _ brated for literature, but little regarded by the clergy, because he was a puritan, and a witness against Archbishop Laud at his trial... Mr. Langley was indeed called as witness against the archbishop ; when he deposed, that, in the year 1616, his lordship, then dean of Gloucester, came down to the cathe- dral of that place, intending to turn the communion-table into an altar, and to place it altar-wise at the east end of thechoir, removing it from its former situation 111 the midst of the church. Dr. Smith, bishop of Gloucester, 'opposed ' the innovation, and warmly protested to the dean and the pre- bends, that if the communion-table should be removed, or Janeway's Life of Mr. John Janeway. Edit. 1673.-Clark's Lives, last vol. p.'60-81. Simpson's Plea for Religion, p. 308, 510. Edit. 1810. Athense Oxon. vol. ii. p. 385. Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. ii. p. 308. iii. 311, 313: I Biog. Britan. vol. iv. p. 558. Edit. 1778. S Reynolds's Fun. Ser. for Mr: Langley. Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 135. TOL. III.
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