.. ~S0'2 'The HISTORy of the PuRITANS. Vat. n~ Oliver cc them on occafions. -- Their meetings were as frequent as their ocProteClor. cc fi Id 't h · d' 1657 . c~ 10n~ wou . ~erm1 ; t e1r procee .mgs were upon fame particular ·.~" tnals m Chymijtry or Mechamcs, which they communicated to each " other. They continued without any great interruption till the death of ·. cc the proteCl:or, when their meetings were transferred toLondon." Here they began to enlarge their deiign, and formed the platform of a phi– lofophical college, to enquire into the works of nature: They fet up a correfpondence with learned foreigners, and admitted fuch into their numbers without dif1:inCl:ion of names or parties in religion; and were at lengt~ incorporated by royal patent or charter, in the year 1663. tD eath of llfr This year died Mr. John Langley, the noted mafter of St. Paul's Lang.ley. ·fchool London ; he .was born near Banbury in Oxfordjhire, and became a commoner or brother of Magdalen Hall about 1612 ; was alfo prebend– ary of Gloucejter, where he kept a fchool for twenty years. In the year 1640 he fucceeded Dr. Gill, chief matlrr of St. Pau/'sfchool, where he educated many who were afterwards eminent in church and fiate. He was an univerfal fcholar, an excellent lingui£1:, grammarian, hif1:oriao, cofmographer, a mofl: judicious divine, and fo great an antiquarian (fays the Oxford hiftorian), that his delight and acquaintance in antiquity, de– ferves greater commendation than can be given in a few lines. He was .ef1:eemed by learned men, and pmicularly by Mr. Selden; but was not regarded by the clergy becaufe he was a puritan, and a witnefs againfl: archbifhop Laud at his trial. He was a member of the affembly of di– ·vines, and died at his houfe next adjoining to St. Paul's fchool Sept. 13, 1657· Dr. Reynolds preached his funeral fermon, and gave him a very high encomium. 'Of Mr SedgMr. Obadiah Sedgwick was born at Mar/borough in the year I 6oo, and ,wick. educated in Magdalen College Oxford, where he took the degrees in arts, and was afterwards chaplain· to Sir Horatio Vere, with whom he travelled ·into the Lo~v Countries. After his return he became reader of the fenten– ces I 629, and was afterwards chofen preacher to the inhabitants of St. Mildred Bread-flriet London; but being .driven from thenc~ by the feverity of the governors of the church, he retired to Coggefballm E/fex, where ·he contiued till the breaking out of the civil wars. In 1643 he was cho– fen a member of the affembly of divines. In 1646 he became preacher at St. Paul's Covent-Garden: He often preached before the parliament, and was efleemed an orthodox, as well as an admired preacher. In the year I 653 he was appointed one of the trifrs, and the year after, one of the commiffioners for ejec1ing fcandalous miniflers; but finding his health declining he reiigned his preferments, and retired to his native town of Mar/borough, where he died the beginning of Ja12uary 1657·
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